I created a foundation

Nanami Aoyama whispered softly, as if stating a fact, or as if giving herself a final confirmation.

Her eyes swept back and forth across the screen, passing over the red trajectory representing death, passing over the cold and desperate data, and finally, stopped at the description of the target's behavior pattern in the survivor's report.

[In passive mode, the target is harmless and will not attack actively.]

[When triggered, i.e., when the face is observed directly or indirectly in any way, the target will enter an invincible rampage mode, pursuing the target until all observers are killed.]

"Passive... Rampage..."

"A spear that cannot be harmed, and a hunting rule that cannot be stopped..."

In Aoyama Nanami's eyes, the pure blue seemed to turn into a deep starry sky, with countless data and logics flowing, colliding, and reorganizing rapidly in it.

"Why should we... stop it?"

A voice that seemed to come from another dimension sounded softly.

Kasumigaoka Utaha suddenly looked up and looked at Aoyama Nanami, her eyes full of disbelief.

"Nanaha, what are you talking about?"

Nanami Aoyama slowly stood up from the main control seat, turned around, and looked directly at Kasumigaoka Utaha and Shinomiya Kaguya for the first time.

Her face no longer had the usual shyness and timidity, replaced by an almost divine, absolute rationality and calmness.

"Shiyu-senpai, Kaguya-san."

"We have been thinking about how to stop and destroy this indestructible spear. But its rules dictate that this is an impossible task."

Her voice was clear and steady, with a strange persuasiveness that instantly attracted the attention of everyone around her.

"Since we can't stop the spear's attack..."

The corners of Aoyama Nanami's mouth curled up slightly, but it was enough to overturn everything.

"Then why not prepare a shield for it that it cannot resist and can never penetrate?"

"Shield?" Kaguya Shinomiya frowned. She quickly understood the metaphor of the words, but could not imagine the specific implementation plan.

"Yes, Shield."

Nanami Aoyama stretched out her finger and drew an invisible frame in the air.

"We abandon any form of interdiction and containment outside. That would only result in the sacrifice of our personnel and would be meaningless."

"In turn, we have to take advantage of its rules."

"Use it to follow the absolute rule that once you're observed, you'll be hunted down to the bitter end!"

Her words were powerful, and each word was like a bolt of lightning, splitting the fog of fear in everyone's mind.

Kasumigaoka Utaha's pupils suddenly contracted, her brain worked frantically, and she instantly understood the outline of Aoyama Nanami's plan. An indescribable shudder ran up her spine to her scalp.

This idea... is too bold! Too crazy!

"We just need to prepare a cage for it that it can't escape from at the Foundation headquarters, the place we are most familiar with and the one with the strongest defenses."

"Then..." Aoyama Nanami's gaze swept across everyone present, and her voice became extremely clear.

"Find another person, stay in that cage, and look at its face."

"In this way, this monster that we cannot touch from the outside will become the most accurate, persistent, and automatically tracking living courier."

"It will mobilize all its strength, travel thousands of miles, ignore all obstacles, and willingly deliver itself... to the containment unit we've tailored for it!"

As soon as the words fell, the entire command hall fell into silence.

You can hear a pin drop.

Everyone seemed to be under a spell, looking at Aoyama Nanami as if she were a monster.

Transform the enemy's must-kill rule into the driving force for self-containment.

This reverse thinking concept, like a perfect work of art, sparkled with a radiance of genius and madness, making all the elites present feel dazzled.

"I understand……"

Kasumigaoka Utaha let out a long breath, her chest heaving violently, her eyes filled with shock and fanaticism.

"Utilization rules, containment rules... this is the real containment plan."

"Theoretically, it's feasible." Kaguya Shinomiya's glasses reflected a cold light as she began to evaluate the plan from a practical perspective. "The Pure Land Project Team is a top-level containment unit designed to handle extreme situations like this. As long as we have sufficient resources, we can complete the final assembly and activation within forty minutes."

"Then execute it!"

"Pass on my order! All engineering departments, immediately and with the highest priority, execute the final plan for the Pure Land of Bliss!"

"All logistics departments, mobilize all resources and cooperate fully!"

"let's move!"

What is ignited is not just hope.

It is also a kind of pride and fanaticism of human rationality that faces a god-like disaster and plays with it at one's fingertips.

The entire underground base, this huge war machine, once again began to operate with far greater efficiency than before, for the same crazy and great goal.

The countdown ticked relentlessly across the home screen.

48: 56.

48: 55.

In the midst of the tense and orderly busyness, Kasumigaoka Utaha walked to the side of Aoyama Nanami. Her voice was very low, but with an unconcealable solemnity.

"Nanami, this plan is perfect."

"But there is still one most critical and fatal problem."

She took a deep breath and asked the question that everyone thought of but dared not say out loud.

"Who will be the bait?"

"Who goes to that cage that is destined to be locked up to see that face?"

In an instant, the noise around seemed to disappear.

Everyone's movements slowed down a bit, and they glanced at the girl who proposed the plan out of the corner of their eyes.

Nanami Aoyama turned her head and looked calmly into Kasumigaoka Utaha's worried eyes.

There was no fear, no hesitation, or even the slightest emotion on her face.

"The initiator of the containment plan should bear the highest risk."

She spoke softly, in a matter-of-fact tone, as if she were explaining the laws of physics.

"I'll do it."

Chapter 161: Dual-Line Operation, "Express Delivery" from Hell

silence.

Deathly silence.

Kasumigaoka Utaha's question was like a stone thrown into a deep pool, but the ripples it caused were instantly smoothed out by an invisible force.

Everyone's eyes were focused on the girl who came up with a brilliant plan and put herself in danger.

Nanami Aoyama did not avoid any gaze.

Her eyes were clear and calm, reflecting the cold data stream on the main screen, as if everything in the world was just a set of calculable parameters in her eyes.

"I come."

Two words, understated, yet weighty.

There is no tragedy, no determination, it is a kind of rationality that is pure to the extreme, a kind of indifference that a programmer feels when pressing the "execute" key when writing the last line of code.

"turn down."

An equally cold voice, yet one that carried unquestionable authority, came from the side.

Kaguya Shinomiya pushed up her glasses on the bridge of her nose. The lenses reflected the light from the command hall, making it difficult to see her eyes.

She didn't even look at Nanami Aoyama, her eyes were always fixed on the main screen, on the red trajectory line representing death.

"The initiator of the containment plan is the Foundation's most valuable asset. Using the best asset to bear the highest risk is the most foolish decision."

Her voice was not loud, but it was clearly heard throughout the hall, making the atmosphere, which had just become stagnant due to Nanami Aoyama's self-sacrifice, flow again.

"I approve this plan."

"From now on, Ms. Nanami Aoyama, codenamed Programmer, is granted the highest temporary command authority for this Weeping Man containment operation."

"All departments and personnel of the Foundation must unconditionally follow all instructions of the programmers."

"Now, Ms. Programmer, please give your first command."

Kaguya Shinomiya's gaze finally moved away from the screen and fell on Nanami Aoyama.

It is an absolute trust and also a silent pressure.

Nanami Aoyama was silent for a moment. She looked deeply at Kaguya Shinomiya, and then looked at Kasumigaoka Utaha who was standing next to her with a worried look on her face.

She nodded slowly, as if she had unloaded something, but also as if she had taken on more.

She turned around and faced the console again. At that moment, her entire demeanor changed completely.

She is no longer the timid working girl, but a commander who plans strategies.

"Engineering Department," her voice echoed through the microphone throughout the underground base. "Implement the final plan for the Pure Land Containment Unit. I need an absolutely airtight compartment located five kilometers underground, constructed from a five-meter-thick composite tungsten-steel alloy, with an interior volume of five cubic meters, equipped with an independent life support system and energy supply. The energy standard must be able to withstand the full force of a peak-level Ghost-level anomaly for seventy-two consecutive hours. The deadline for completion is thirty minutes."

"Yes!"

"Human Resources Department, screening D-Class personnel, mission level S, requiring a strong-willed and mentally competent volunteer to perform the observer role. Time limit: five minutes."

"Yes!"

"Field Service, Nagano Mountain Division," she turned her gaze to another screen, which displayed a live feed from Busujima Saeko. "Ms. Saeko, Ms. Miko, I need you to confirm the exact location of the weeping person and establish an absolute isolation zone three hundred meters around them to ensure no living organisms stray into the area. Also, prepare a D-class personnel to serve as photographer."

Hundreds of kilometers away in the mountains, Busujima Saeko responded in a deep voice into the tactical headset.

"receive."