"Well, yeah," Fang said, shrugging. They looked to Linos. "It's a hint, right? What that thing was originally for."
"You're well-read," Linos said, his expression twisting. "Yes. The truth is that many people in the Order came to believe that our best route towards dominating entropy was to-- To cause it harm, through the means we had cultivated. It became theorized that such a being, so divorced from mundane reality, was in fact potentially prone to submissiveness when exposed to negative stimuli, which is alien to it. An animal's response, more or less."
"What did you do?" Kam asked.
"There was... Internal disagreement," Linos said. "Between whether to act, or to pursue further research. But while this was taking place, things took a turn for the worse. The child learned of what some of us had planned from a sympathetic member of the Order. They..." He shook his head. "I suppose the specifics aren't that important. To say the least, we did something unforgivable. The child was-- They were killed." He bit tongue. "Well, in a manner of speaking."
Oh, I realized. I see where this is going.
“他们没有......去死吧，“他说。“不完全是。”
Kam嗤之以鼻。“噢，这太荒谬了——”
“我们以为他们已经死了。他们的生命体征已经停止了——没有呼吸，没有心跳。但他们的身体是......”他咽了口唾沫。“无论过去了多少时间，它都没有腐烂的迹象。甚至温度也保持静止，处于健康成年人的中位数，即使在观察了数周之后也是如此。即使他们在生活中没有任何这种能力，我们发现我们无法以任何方式损害身体。即使我们试图彻底处理它，甚至使用力量这样做......我们不能伤害它头上的一根头发。
“天神......”奥菲莉亚喃喃自语。
“如果这是真的，”冉说，听起来相当怀疑，“那么你说的是本质上几乎是超自然的东西。你怎么在这样的发现上坐了一百年？
利诺斯双臂交叉，看起来很不安。“我们确实试图进一步调查它，确定合理地发生了什么......”他说。“我们设计了几种潜在的理论;最有希望的是，阿佩加以一种我们无法理解的方式改变了构成身体的物质的更高平面特征。但在我们了解真相之前，仍然参与该项目的成员周围开始发生奇怪的事件。人们受伤，死亡-- ...好吧，现在没关系了。他摇了摇头。“重要的是它是如何结束的。我们决定将尸体密封在研究基地的保险库中。...我相信你现在已经多次看到它的大门了。
地板下的金属舱口。 那个看起来好像被撕裂了的那个——
“你告诉我们这导致了一个码头，”冉斩钉截铁地说。“那还不到两个小时。”
“恐怕这也是一个谎言，Hoa-Trinh小姐，”Linos遗憾地说。“我试图让每个人都保持冷静......不，我试图否认真相。他摇了摇头。“在整个磨难中，我们 - 我 - 一直试图驳回所有这些关于激发凶手行动的'判断'的建议，以及对命令进行惩罚的建议。但现在这已经发生了......”
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