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Route 1, Chapter 18: Tief Blau
Previously: Coco started coughing up blood.
Sora seems to know something about this condition!
We have more important things to worry about, though, like how COCO'S LIFE IS IN DANGER HERE.
Like hell you are!
Get on my back, we're going TO THE INFIRMARY
Despite our hurry, we must be careful!
Sora guides us down the shortest path through the emergency corridors to the infirmary.
1:50 PM
Projected time to collapse: 14 hours, 40 minutes
ON THE TABLE
From here, Sora can use a ton of handy scanning equipment!
WHAT'S THE DAMAGE, DOC
The answer is Tief Blau.
What is Tief Blau?
It's a disease.
Coco's been infected with something that will likely kill her.
Kid is flipping the fuck out!
We need a plan. None of us are doctors.
The only one with the know-how to help us here is...
Sora! She thinks that treatment might be possible.
First off, We need a specific serum.
You starts tearing through the medicine supplies here in the infirmary, but Sora rejects them one after another...
...wait!
THE DOG FOUND IT
LET'S GO
A few minutes after injection, Coco starts to slip back into healthy status.
The crisis is over for now...
1:58 PM
Projected time to collapse: 14 hours, 32 minutes
So!
What is Tief Blau, and why does Coco have it.
Sora admits what Tsugumi had suspected: There is more below LeMU. At the ocean floor, a facility called IBF.
That is where Tief Blau was developed.
The company that built LeMU, Lieblich Pharmaceutical, also owns IBF. It's built on thermal vents, 357* feet below LeMU, to study rare microbes.
LeMU is both a front for IBF and a funding trap - if LeMU succeeds, Lieblich can research viruses and bacteria to their hearts' content.
All this is, of course, extremely confidential. Not even Sora has much information about it.
More pertinent info! IBF has a superior medical center to LeMU.
Kid still wants to know how the fuck Coco got Tief Blau in the first place!
Tusugmi says, and we generally agree, that we can worry about that once Coco is safe. We're going to IBF.
However! We don't have access to IBF, because Sora can't open HIMMEL.
WHATEVER MAN, WE'LL FIGURE THAT SHIT OUT WHEN WE GET THERE
Every second we waste puts Coco in further danger!
Here we are!
Let's consult the expert.
Ask Sora.
Sora doesn't have access to the unlocking information.
Which means it is time to HACK LIKE A BOSS.
HIMMEL is fighting back! Sparks fly, Sora's image wavers.
This is Hollywood Hacking at its most awesome.
Unfortunately, Sora couldn't get in.
Next!
>Ask Tsugumi.
Tsugumi starts with questions about the door's physical logistics!
It is a hell of a door. No brute forcing this thing open.
OR IS THERE?
PHYSICAL SABOTAGE GO
Tsugumi's plan is another failure.
Damn it, we don't have time for this shit! Coco's getting worse!
What?
This is a new voice.
Someone's internally accessing HIMMEL!
This means that there's someone still down in IBF.
And whoever they are, they're giving us access.
GO GO GO
It's some kind of white room!
Let's get our bearings.
There's someone in here! An older guy, in a lab coat. Is he who let us in?
He looks to have Tief Blau.
He's still alive! But dying quickly.
Shortly after meeting us, he loses consciousness.
Hey, we're heading down for a cure for Tief Blau!
We'll take this guy along, too.
Now, there's one problem.
You know how LeMU was supposed to be 6atm of pressure? IBF is 12.5.
The pressurization process will take about one hour. This is our last chance to turn back for anything.
...No, we already know what's here for us.
Nothing.
>All right, we're going!
I don't like the idea of waiting another hour right now!
But the alternative is going into an atmosphere ten times heavier than our current one. Even if we might be able to endure, Coco and the researcher would surely die within minutes, if not seconds.
Hang on, Sora.
Why are you still out there?
When Sora tries to cross over, she gets shocked by a barrier! What the hell?
LeMMIH doesn't have any access to IBF.
In other words, Sora can't follow us from here on.
3:32 PM
Projected time to collapse: 12 hours, 58 minutes
Compression complete. The lift to IBF is now available...
To be continued!
*21 x 17.
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