ENCRYPTED DATA DRIVE
W-Y_INTERNAL_UPS
SOURCE : UNREGISTERED PERSONAL SERVER
ENCRYPTION : OMEGA-LEVEL // "BABEL" PROTOCOL
AUTHOR : CHIEF SCIENTIST [KRONOS NULL] - ALIAS: "DOKTOR"
LOG ENTRY: 0.48205
DATE : 2159.05.24
STATUS : [SANITY: LOW]
Audio captures the sound of a kettle whistling. The sound is shrill and piercing. It continues for ten seconds before the user speaks.
DOKTOR: “I am pouring boiling water directly into my mouth. Just… instant noodles and hot water. No bowl. It is efficient. It is painful. It reminds me that I am currently alive in this timeline.”
A loud slurp, followed by a hiss of pain. He crunches on dry noodles.
The Company doctors call it ‘
[REDACTED]’ They say the atmospheric pressure on LV-426 causes hallucinations in high-IQ individuals. They offered me pills. I fed the pills to the ventilation rat. The rat is now solving calculus equations in the ductwork.They are wrong. It is not ‘
[REDACTED]’. It is a… calculation error.My mind does not see the present. It processes the possibilities. It is like a combat simulation that never ends. Every generic miner, every security guard… I see their death flags.
Example: This morning, a technician dropped a wrench on Level 4.
Path A: I say nothing. He picks it up. Three years from now, a valve he tightened with that damaged wrench fails. The cooling unit explodes. We all die screaming.
Path B: I yell at him. He gets startled. He drops the wrench into the primary gear. The processor jams today. We evacuate. We live, but I am fired.
Path C: I kick the wrench away. He punches me. I lost a tooth. The timeline stabilizes.“I chose Path C. My jaw hurts. But the cooling unit is safe.”
“This is the burden of the Tactician. I am playing a game of chess against a ghost, and I am running out of pawns. While I have the Queen, she is a Queen piece stuck in the corner.”
“I need a Knight. A piece that moves in ways the enemy cannot predict … or maybe a something else … Hm … Decisions … Decisions …”
The sound of a Souto can cracking open.
“Sanity is a currency, and I am currently bankrupt.”
[SYSTEM ALERT : USER 'KRONOS NULL' HAS PAUSED THE RECORDING.]
[EST. RECORDING TIME: 200 SECONDS ]