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"Captain... Captain, the captain has changed."

"..."

All the ministers understood what that statement meant.

Irina staggered to her feet and rushed to the captain's side: "You, you must stop playing tricks on us! You've already retrieved three parts, and we need your involvement even more now. Why, why, why are you leaving at this crucial moment?!"

"I, I don't know what you are talking about..."

Irina bit her lip tightly and clenched her fists.

"Hehe...hehe..."

After a long while, Irina finally raised her head and looked at Emma.

"Secretary, I have an interesting suggestion. What do you think?"

Emma's mind was in complete turmoil, and she nodded numbly upon hearing Irina's words.

"If the captain doesn't value his plan and just wants to leave everything to us to solve, then let's ruin his plan."

Irina raised her hand and slammed it down, smashing the captain's head, which was sitting in a chair, into his chest.

"Boom!"

Blood splattered everywhere, and Kaguya's first instinct was to save the captain.

"It's just a lump of flesh that looks just like Noah, what's the point of saving him!"

Emma yelled at Kaguya before Irina could react.

"Do you expect him to turn back into the captain he has been for the past few months after you save him?"

"Yes, he abandoned us..."

Emma covered her face and gave a wry smile.

"Yes, if he doesn't cherish it, why should I bear all of this for him..."

The other ministers watched Emma in silence.

When it comes to feelings of loss, they are all the same as Emma.

I thought that I would have a better life with Captain Noah from now on.

But after everyone worked together to find the three missing parts, Captain Noah disappeared without a word.

A final burst of energy before death? Or a pre-arranged strategy?

In any case, they don't want to go back to their old lives.

For tens of thousands of years, people have been hoping that the newly cloned captain would possess the wisdom and foresight of Captain Noah.

Yes, tens of thousands of years of anticipation yielded results a few months ago.

The clone codenamed White successfully accomplished what none of the captain's clones could do.

Everyone thought he was Noah.

Does this mean we'll have to wait tens of thousands of years for White to appear again?

Nobody wants things to go on like this anymore.

Emma straightened up and addressed the ministers.

"If he wants a positive and progressive metropolitan area where people are no longer blind, where everyone is an individual and can find their own value and goals, then let's give him a metropolis filled with confusion, crime, war, death, and despair."

I'm going to destroy his dream...

"I support."

Irina laughed too.

A captain like that isn't worth waiting for.

As for the captain's job each night, all he needs to do is die repeatedly and then be resurrected by Kaguya.

Imprisoning his soul and body.

The other ministers remained silent, sensing that Emma and Irina had gone to extremes.

"Only I know the metropolitan area envisioned by the captain, only I know the plans he left behind. Ministers, for the past tens of thousands of years, who have you been cooperating with? The captain who is always in a daze, or me?"

Emma stopped talking nonsense: "You have no choice but to join me in building that stage that will drive humanity to despair."

"From this moment on, we are no longer Noah's creations; we will act according to our own thoughts."

Chapter 144 The First Night Without the Captain

"First trial run... Recording begins, please open your eyes."

In a hazy state, Emma slowly opened her eyes. Before her was a fluorescent liquid with wisps of bubbles rising and reflecting the face of a man in a white coat outside the glass.

"Who are you?"

Emma was about to speak when she found herself unable to open her mouth.

Her limbs moved somewhat frantically, and her hands slapped against the glass cover.

However, the man outside continued to watch all of this with indifference, mechanically taking notes.

"Mirror test failed; error is expected in the cognitive module loop..."

Then, Emma's vision went completely dark.

When Emma opened her eyes again, she saw the familiar ceiling. She sat up in bed, rubbing her forehead, her thoughts a jumbled mess.

Was that scene just now... a dream?

When did I develop the ability to dream?

The built-in clock reminds me that it is now 2 a.m.

The captain's monitoring mission is over.

Emma opened the door with some delight, only to find the captain's cabin littered with scattered bones, flesh, and internal organs.

An eyeball rolled to Emma's feet, and the hellish scene made Emma realize that the captain who could find ten anomalies in one night and get through it all unscathed was no longer there.

After tens of thousands of years of perseverance, in the end, I don't even deserve a word of farewell...

Emma stood in a pool of blood, her arms hanging limply. The joy she felt over the past few months, the happiness of finding the first part, was once again washed away by the blood.

Just as Emma was about to have Kaguya restore her, a white figure slowly emerged from the captain's cabin.

Dressed in a white robe, wearing a pure white mask, and with white hair, the white figure raised her gloved hand and waved at Emma.

“I sense something pleasant has happened on this ship, and this seems to be the first time I’ve killed the captain in months. You’re the captain’s secretary, tell me what happened?”

Emma frowned; this white figure had never spoken to anyone before.

Why did so many changes occur as soon as the captain disappeared?

Feelings of irritability and disgust spread through Emma's mind.

"Why are not you talking?"

"Shut up. I don't know what you are, but the captain you wanted to kill has disappeared."

"disappear?"

The white shadow pondered for a moment: "So, what are your thoughts?"

Before Emma could answer, the white shadow continued, "You don't have any thoughts on this, do you? This guy only regains consciousness for a few months every tens of thousands of years, and then he becomes senile again. I couldn't stand it if it were me."

"I know!"

Emma shouted, startling the white shadow, which shrank back.

"Why are you yelling so loudly? I'm on your side. Look, I've been killing these idiotic captains, trying to find one that isn't so idiotic. I've been killing them in different ways for tens of thousands of years, and I'm getting tired of it. I thought I could retire, but alas, I've only been playing for a few months, and I'm not feeling well either."

The white shadow chuckled twice: "The fact that I can appear and talk to you at this time means that you have already made your choice."

Emma remained silent.

“You should have done this a long time ago. What’s the point of having this idiot as captain? You might as well rebel against him. Look, I’m free now. Oh, right, I haven’t introduced myself yet.”

"Let me introduce myself again, Faust, the head of the Discipline Department. Of course, I'm the only one in the Discipline Department."

"I have never heard of such a department."

Emma was wary, but she felt that the person in front of her was like herself, imprisoned for tens of thousands of years.

He cleaned up the captain's body every day, while the other was responsible for killing the captains who failed to complete their missions.

Day after day, year after year.

These past few months have felt like a dream, a mere blink of an eye compared to tens of thousands of years.

This makes Emma wonder if Captain Noah was ever truly lucid.

But Emma didn't want to endure that kind of life anymore.

One hope and one miracle is enough.

Next time? Impossible.

"It doesn't matter if you haven't heard of it, even Kaguya doesn't know it, because I am the prototype."

"what do you want to do?"

“If you want to build a metropolitan area that is completely opposite to Noah’s, I can be your help. I also want to see such a future. I want to see humanity struggling to survive among skyscrapers, I want to see humanity crushed underfoot after giving it its all, and I want to see Noah’s expression when he returns here.”

"What did you say?" Emma rushed forward excitedly, grabbing Faust's shoulder. "You're saying Noah will come back? Wasn't his consciousness born completely randomly in a clone? And the probability is almost zero! How can you be so sure he'll come back? Do you know how I've lived these past tens of thousands of years?!"

I've given up on having any expectations...

Faust said firmly, "Yes, he will come back. That's why we should let him see a world completely different from what he imagines!"

He will come back...

For some reason, upon hearing this confirmed news, Emma felt a slight wavering.

"What are you doing? You think he'll come back and pat you on the head and praise you for doing a good job? He was so determined to leave, do you think he'll go back to being a senile idiot soon after he comes back?"