According to Lori, this time-in fact, this became the last eleventh exploration team-their psychologists implanted "the essence of monitoring and memory function" in their minds, which was like a miniature of the silver egg at headquarters that was screened out from Lori’s deformed claws. They made this person lose himself and you cooperated to keep your job and continue to hold on to what is important to you.

Twelve months later, the last phase 11 exploration team came back, behaving like a zombie, and the memory was even more vague than that of the drunken veterans in the Yue Planet Pavilion lounge. Ten months later, they all died of cancer. Lori talked about "an phase 11 exploration team" and "improving our procedures". You realized that you had to make changes again, except for putting a gun to Lori’s head and pulling the trigger. Various factors such as personnel allocation may be nothing, but you have to try, because you don’t want to see that kind of blank and numb face again, and you don’t want to see someone deprived of important personality and French language
After the last eleventh exploration team returned, the morale of the South Border Bureau was even lower and soon entered a stage. Who knows what numbness it was? After so many crises, the mood must be exhausted.
Excerpt from the record document "This is a beautiful day", "The exploration process is safe" and "There is no problem in completion"
What do they see? But they never answered this question. Grace remembered them in a pious tone as if they had become saints’ buildings. Cheney became more and more silent in the science department. This has been going on for a long time. He used to talk like a color TV, but now it seems to be changed to black and white, and the image of a channel is blurred and useless. Pitman called from headquarters to express his condolences obliquely. He deliberately maintained an indifferent tone as if he was misled.
But you have seen with your own eyes that Lori’s erosion method is like a curled worm-the result of your negotiation with him is that he can intervene and control at will, which is not worth it.
To make matters worse, Jackie Severance will visit the headquarters regularly from now on. She seems to be very worried about her. Instead of sitting quietly in your office, you are pacing back and forth while talking. Besides Lori, you have to deal with the special envoy of the headquarters face to face.
"She’s my parole officer," you said to Grace.
"What is Lori?"
"Lori is a parole officer and partner? Boss? Employees? " Because you don’t know
"Puzzle" Grace said, "Do you know what her father Jack Severance wants?"
"I don’t know what it is?"
"That’s great." Grace is still struggling to move forward.
When Severance visited, he had the feeling of checking the risk of investment evaluation.
"Do you never feel uneasy?" Severance has asked you more than once, but you are quite sure that she just has nothing to talk about.
"No," you lied, and then you replied in the same way, "That’s what we have to do."
You used to like her when she was working in the Southern Bureau-smart and charming, always solving problems personally, which improved the logistics a lot. But now she is tied up with Lori, and you dare not take risks. She may be Lori. You and Grace share brandy "like a live wire-you can’t get her out of the ceiling compartment". The magic fades. Sometimes you think that Severance looks like a tired and depressed clerk behind the makeup counter of a department store.
Severance sits with you and watches the returnees through closed-circuit cameras for a long time. She checks her mobile phone every few minutes with coffee in her hand. She often stops talking about some irrelevant items and then goes back to the topic to ask questions.
"Are you sure they are not infected?"
"When will an exploration team be sent in?" "What do you think of the Lori indicator?"
"What would you do if you had more budget?"
"Do you know what to look for?"
No, you don’t know her. You don’t know what’s going on in front of you. These people are getting haggard like walking skeletons and getting worse. Psychologists may be more sluggish than others, just like warning you as if this is the back of his professional encounter area. However, if you look at the history carefully, you find that Lori may be the most dependent on him and his career should make him stronger than the rest. Psychological adjustment-if you know these tricks in advance, the psychologist can obviously cope with them, but he can’t bear it. They know that the "barbed weapon" in his mind has no effect on the regional roots.
"There are some things you will definitely do differently every time," Severance said.
You fudged a fake note and scribbled it. Maybe it’s a shopping list. A circle can represent the border or a plant at headquarters pops up from your mobile phone. Maybe you should just write "Fuck you" and tear off Lori’s trap.
One day after the death of the last member of the 11th exploration team, you asked for black paint and a thick-headed marker from the maintenance department to hit the white wall with no way to face inside-you wrote words from abnormal terrain at the expense of the clumsy corridor reconstruction. You believe these words must have been written by the lighthouse keeper (it was an epiphany at a regular meeting, so you asked to further investigate Saul’s background).
You also drew a map, including all landmarks in the area. Lighthouses should represent security, but the reality is often the opposite, and it has become a burial log. The abnormal terrain is a hole in the ground that attracts people to take the initiative to explore, but the result is confusing and lost. You also drew the island, and finally the southern border is like the last line of defense against the enemy and the enemy outpost.
In the third year after you were hired, Lori went to the farewell party at the headquarters. He drank himself unconscious and said, "Damn it, it’s too much talking. If they win, it’s really fucking talking if we have to live in that world." It seems that all the evidence is contrary. It seems that talking is the worst thing in this world. As Viterbi said when discussing parallel universes, it is necessary to ensure that "every moment" has a certain meaning, so that the mind will not be filled with emptiness, and it will not split and proliferate without taking more conversations.
However, a few years later, another employee expressed the same suspicion and was discouraged. Grace also refuted it, but now she seems to answer Lori, "I’m still here because of my family, and I won’t give up on them or you because of the director." However, she can’t tell her family about the situation in the south, and Lori cynically calls her your "right hand man". When your idea seems too unrealistic, she is a realistic rational voice.
Halfway through the map, you feel a pair of eyes looking at yourself. Grace is holding her arms and looking at you questioningly. She continues to look at you while she is at the office door.
"Is there anything I can do?" You asked with a paint can in one hand and a brush in the other.
"You can comfort me by saying that everything is all right." For the first time, you noticed that her doubts were not differences, but doubts. Considering how much Nanjingju relied on letters recently, it worried you.