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USED TO WiTH NO
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MAKE IT
INSIDE?
 THE
DOOR WAS
ALREADY
OPEN WHEN
160T
HERE.

ANYWAY,
WE
SHOULD
GO IN,
TOO.
 ABOUT ALL T COULD
UNDERSTAND OF WHAT
THE ADMINISTRATION WAS
SAVING WAS THAT THE
BACKUP WORLDS AND
THE NETSPHERE ARE IN
SEPARATE REALINS,

THEY DIDN'T
REALLY TELL
ME ANYTHING
ABOUT THE
NET TERMINAL
GENE.
SOM
 MAYBE THE REMEMBER WHAT
NETSPHERE THE ADMIN WAS
ITSELE CAN'T Bi SAVING BEFORE?
INTERFERE THEY CAN'T
WITH TOHA COME INSIDE
HEAVY HIS CYLINDER
INDUSTRIES THEMSELVES,
AT ALL.

SAFEGUARD
Just NOW
COULDN'T
GET INSIDE,
EITHER.
 11's NO
USE, THAT
SAFEGUARD
MIGHT'VE
DONE
SOMETHING
TOIT.
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 TOHA HEAVY INDUSTRIES

ao os
 BUT THE THE ORDERS
MOMENT T FROM THE
WAS INSIDE SAFEGUARDS
TOHA HEAVY GREW MORE
INDUSTRIES, INTENSE AS
SANAKAN'S. WE GOT
CONSCIOUSNESS CLOSER TO
THE MnEGA-
STRUCTURE.
 TOHA HEAVY
INDUSTRIES 1S SOME
KIND OF SPECIAL 6"
STRUCTURE WHERE a*
NEITHER THE
SURE
ADININISTRATION ole
NOR THE
SAFEGUARDS.
CAN ACT.

we mei
WE MIGHT
DEFINITELY
THE NET SOmMeEn
THeING
TERMINAL HERE...
GENE.
RIGHT,
KYRIIZ
IT WOULD
BE NICE IF
THERE WAS
A MAP
 THIS LOOKS
LIKE WHAT
THE DIGITAL
FISHERMEN

size, KyRi. |
/
 TIVE BEEN THINKING THAT IF
TOHA HEAVY INDUSTRIES IS ONE
INDEPENDENT STRUCTURE,
THERE MUST BE SOME KIND
OF INFORMATION PROCESSING
MECHANISM GOVERNING IT.
T'M ALL RIGHT...
IT TRIED TO
INFILTRATE
 TOHA HEAVY
INDUSTRIES! .
INCORMATION ro
PROCESSOR iV \ THs.
IS AN AT.., ‘ e
ONE WITH A
PERSONALITY.

THAT'S A VERY
DANGEROUS
GAME, GIVING
CONTROL SYSTEMS
INTELLIGENCE AND
) PERSONALITY. |

IT TRIED
ALREADY HAVE TO KILL.
elereltc
SOME KIND OF : hme gust
PSYCHOSIS.
 Twas
ONLY ONLINE
FOR A SECOND, LEARNING
BUT I DID GET HOW TO USE
TO DOWNLOAD THIS BODY,
A MAP OF BIT BY BIT.
THIS AREA.
 THAT'S AN
EMERGENCY PARTITION,
REASON THEY T THINK, WE LSED
HAD TO SEAL SOMETHING SIMILAR
iN AT BIO-ELECTRIC.
 SAFEGUARD
WEAPONS
DON'T WORK
INSIDE TOHA
HEAVY
INDUSTRIES.
 KYRII,
WASN'T
WE'RE IT2 IT's
SILICON LIFE. geen a
DO You WHILE.
REMEMBER
us?

T
HEAR YOU
DID SOME
HORRIBLE
THINGS TO
OUR PEOPLE
SINCE WE
LAST MET,.

AND WE'RE BUT WE HAVE

GOING TO A GRUDGE
SETTLE IT AGAINST
| RIGHT HERE, YOU THAT
STRETCHES
BACK EONS,
THEY'RE
COMING
W
 MENSAB, THE
ANIMUS OF
TOHA HEAVY
INDUSTRIES,
AND THE
“By REPRESENTA-
 WE HAVE
REFUSED AID
FROM THE
SAFEGUARDS
h COUNTLESS
TIMES,
 UNDER THE
PACT WITH THE
ADMINISTRATION,
INTERFERENCE
\S FORBIPPEN
 WHAT DO
YOU MEAN2
 MENSAB...
ISN'T IT
TIME YOU
STOPPED
1, RESISTING2
A
‘ibs Kj

ELIMINATE
THE
INTRUDERS.
y Ss= S S
HOLD UP
THAT
PART
HIGHER!
 DON'T
WORRY.
THEY
Won'T
FOLLOW
US.
 HURRY
uP AND
KILL HIM,
Ivy.

BUT
LADY
fi)|mensag!
I CAN
pe STILL—

Dial

108
 YUP. OUR
VOICE BOXES Ae YOURE
SPEAKING.
HUMANS Tt EAR, WITH RADIO
SO WE CAI WAVES.
COMMUNICATE
VIA VOICE.

HOLD ON...
T'S ALL RIGHT.
T.CAN WALK
BY MYSELF,

THEN
WE'LL
EXPLAIN.
WE WANT
YOU TO DO
SOMETHING
ABOUT
MENSAB.

MENSAB..,
THE ONE
WHO CALLED
HERSELF THE
ANIMLUS OF
TOHA HEAVY
“DA INDUSTRIES?

TOKILL THEY
Tye POISONED
HUMANS. THIS
"PLACE.
 HID THEM?
$O JUST WHAT
IS MENSAB?
 walt,
HOW MANY
CAVES ARE
THERE IN
TOHA HEAVY
INDUSTRIES
2

DOES THAT
0 NOW WE MEAN
canT even | THERE ARE
CONTACT THE CAVE
OTHER CAVES. A , FROM THE 13 AIS...
: OTHERS. THIRTEEN
CONTROL
SYSTEMS?

BUT YOU'RE
MESSENGERS, SILICON LIFE
50 YOU CAN, INFILTRATE
RIGHT? THE OTHER
CAVES?

KYRIL.. IF WE CAN
MAKE CONTACT
WITH AN AL THAT'S
FUNCTIONING NORMALLY,
WE MIGHT BE ABLE
TO FIND HUMANS
WHO HAVE THE NET
TERMINAL GENE.
 50 THIS IS
WHERE T
PUT IN THE
REQUEST?
 WHAT
THE HECK
DID YOU
MAKE...21

MATERIALS
AND
NUTRIENTS
THAT THIS
BODY CAN
ABSORB
EASILY.

UNTIL WE CAME HERE,

TWAS SUSTAINING
MYSELF WITH REPEATED:
POWERFUL ELEMENTAL
CONVERSION. TT WAS
MAKING ME WEAK.
> BUT NOW T’m
 SEU
GOT HURT.
SHE'S GOING
TO HAVE
4) HIM FIXED
 4
ARE
THERE ANY
PASSAGEWAYS
OR SOMETHING
TO ANOTHER
ZA CAVE NEARBY?

THERE'S AN
ELEVATOR,
BUT THAT'S
28 w
28
g
eEO
 THE
ELEVATOR
1S TAKING
US TO THE
SEVENTH
CAVE NOW.
 WE'RE
Is SHE PAST
TRYING TO wHeRe we
SEND US GOT ON.
some-
WHERE?!
 PROBABLY
BECALISE
We've GONE
BEYOND THE
BOUNDARIES

GET THEM BACK

TO THE EIGHTH
CAVE QUICKLY,
\\ THEY'LL REALLY
LOG. 2U:-eno
 BEVOND
DANGEROUS, c THIS POINT,
WE'D BETTER THE AXIS OF
USE THE Sipe | A GRAVITY IS
PASSAGES, GOING TO
\ de CHANGE.
 MISS CIBO,
YOU'RE WHAT
NORMAL. IS THIS!
WHAT'S
GOING

147
 we
CAME
BUT WERE Out

THEEIGHTH Caye,
J\ CAVE now.

Tr's ALL
RIGHT. WE
MUST BE BACK
IN MENSAB'S
DOMAIN

SILICON
LIFE,
 rs
OKAY. He's
COMPLETELY

INFORMA-
TION ABOUT
SILICON
LIFE,

THEY'RE A
DIEFERENT RACE,
THOUGH,
$0 Tim NOT
SURE IF THE
LANGUAGE
MATRIX FORMATS
, WILL MATCH
UP...
 THis THERE'S
KIND OF SOMETHING LANGUAGE
MODIFICATION LIKE AN (MATRIX IS VERY
ISCLOSETO — AUXILIARY G.056 TO
WHAT HUMANS BRAIN... THAT OF THE
USE... SAFEGUARDS

153
 I've
TLL HOOK a FOUND ITS
YOU UP, TOO. (
LEND me YOUR
CONNECTOR.

WHY DID WHAT sig

YOU COME FA ARE YOU
Z=| AND YOUR ee
 AND
WHAT
WILL THAT
ACCOMPLISH
? |
FROM
RESTORING
THE NET-
SPHERE

—cHAOS
IN THE NET...
THE NET..
Is ESSENTI
70.

PLEASE...
VvT—

SO YOU'RE
THE ONES WHO
WE WERE HAVE BEEN
NOT... DRIVING THE
THE NET AND THE
RISE... ONES...
10... CITY OUT OF
CONTROL...?
 WERE THERE
4 ANY HUMANS
WITH THE NET
TERMINAL
GENE IN
TOHA HEAVY
INDUSTRIES?

BEFORE WE
VT 00...
DISPOSE BOTHER NOT...
OF. TO...
HUMANS. FIND
our...

IF THERE IS
SILICON
LIFE HERE,
DOES THAT
MEAN THERE
ARE STILL
HUMANS LIVING
HERE, TOO?
 SOON...
THEY WILL...
FIND OUT
WHERE...
SHE...
HID THEM.
 Vaah]

)
M
\
!
 MR. KYRII!
YOU'LL GET
SUCKED INTO
THE FOR-
WARDINGI!
$:L0G.26::
THE UNSTABLE CAVE
FINALLY,
ALIVING
HUMAN.
y
yt / TSENSED
THAT A STRONG
SILICON LIFE S22) DISRUPTION
IN
Just NOW THE ELECTRO-
MUST HAVE MAGNETIC
BEEN FIELD, SO.
THINKING ICAMETO J+.
THE SAME. CHECK IT
out, /*

I'M CiBO.
NICE TO
WHAT'S MEET
YOUR you,
GET OUT
OF HERE,
Kyril!
 DOES THIS
MEAN THERE
ARE MULTIPLE
CBOs AT
BIO-ELECTRIC?

THERE'S
JUST ME.
you KNOW
BIO-ELECTRIC
2

IDON'T KNOW. 2!
SHE WAS WITH wWHAT YEAH,
ME RIGHT UP ARE YOU THAT'S WHERE
UNTIL I GOT TALKING I MET CIBO.
FLUNG OVER ABOUT? SHE CAME HERE
HERE. WITH Mme.
 TM PRETTY
SURE YOU
AND T HAVE
NEVER MET
BEFORE,
BUT...

TIME AND TT HASN'T

SPACE BEEN ALL
CHANGE BUT ALL THAT LONG
LIKE THE METHODS OF SINCE T CAME
WEATHER. MEASUREMENT TO THIS PLACE
MYSELF.
MEANINGLESS
HERE.

our
WORLD-LINES
MIGHT HAVE
DEVIATED A
 IS THAT A HOW DID
YOU GET
YOU SAID
YOU WERE
GRAVITON THROUGH
THE MEGA- —
AT BIO-
ELECTRIC,
BEAM STRUCTURE TOO,
2 RIGHT2
EMITTER

YEAH, BUT
I CAN'T
USE IT
Now.
 THE
Let's GO MATTER HAS
SOMEWHERE STARTED
MORE TO WARP.
STABLE,
 we
MIGHT FIND
SOMETHING
IN THERE.
Ler’s Go
TAKE A
 STILL INSIDE
TOHA HEAVY
INDUSTRIES.

SOMEONE
WROTE
SOMETHING
ON THIS.
 Last THING
LDISPLAYED was
mam A SET OF
 TLL
CONCEN-
TRATE ON
FLYING.
 BUT IF WE
DON'T HURRY, ICAN PINPOINT
THE CURRENT
THE LAY OF
THE LAND WILL POSITION OF
CHANGE, AND THOSE
COORDINATES
WE'LL NEVER BE
ABLE TO FIND WITH my
THE PLACE SENSORY
 LOCATION
BY THE CO-
ORDINATES 15
THROUGH
‘THERE!
T STILL
CAN'T
USE IT,
 BUT
You'LL HAVE
TO LOWER
THE OLITPLIT
SETTING.
 He's
BUYING
TIME, TO
REPAIR
HIMSELF.

FROM A
DIFFERENT
WORLD-
LINE THAN
YOURS.
ANYWAY, WE i sureose
HAVE
DOWNTO THE
SHUT THAT ISN'T
GRAWTY ALL THAT
“ STRANGE,
REACTOR. : IN THIS
SPACE.

ANOMALIES
OF THIS SPACE
ARE DUE TO
GOING
HAYWIRE.

- \\\) Te it Keeps
wuicu WEAN AI) OPERATING IN
WILL TRAP
nieaene | MN | THAT stATE,
| THIS SPACE
FOREVER. \ a) ITSELE WILL
n\ 1 HI COLLAPSE,
b>
WHILE T WAS STRANDED
HERE FOR TEN YEARS,
T TRIED TO GET BACK
TO NORMAL SOMEHOW,
BUT T DIDN'T HAVE
SUFFICIENT ESSENTIAL
MATERIALS.
 ae THAT'S THE
NO TYPE main BODY
[OF maATTER OF THE GRAVITY
| CAN REACTOR.
INTERFERE THE IMPELLER
WITH IT IS MADE OF
AT ALL. GRAVITONS,

EXCEPT
FOR ONE
THING—
A GRAVITON
BEAM
EMITTER.

Ie WE CAN °
AND THEN IT'LL BLAST AHOLE \
BE POSSIBLE IN THE wnpeller, |
TO GET TO ee
ANOTHER OPERATING,
CAVE, RIGHT? TEMPORARILY.

APTER
AN INTERVAL
THE HOLE WILL.
SEAL UP, BUT
WHILE IT'S OPEN,
THE ANOMALIES
SHOULD STOP.
A
ANYWHERE
SHOULD
WORK, KYRII.
JUST SHOOT
A HOLE
IN THE
IMPELLER.
Now, WE'LL ,
H TETO
BEREACABLE POSITION
NEXT CAVE
THROUGH
 THE
| woLe is
STARTING
247
249
LOG.27:::eno 250
 06.2811.
VERSION
g . 4
 MENSAB...
ISN'T
IT
TIME YOU
STOPPED
RESISTING?
 WE WERE
SUCKED
WNTO
MmensaB's
FORWARD-
INel!
THIS I$ THE
LOG.28:::eno
+ LOG.29::
THE THIRTEENTH CAVE
 TKNOW
THAT LAM
LACKING
SOMETHING.
 SILICON | |
LIFE ARE OUR "| MEssenGers
ENEMIES, FROM THE
b \ NETSPHERE.

we've ONLY
COME HERE IN
SEARCH OF THE
NET TERMINAL
 WHERE
ARE THE
RESIDENTS
OF THE
EIGHTH
CAVE?

THERE ARE
NO HUMANS FORWARDED
IN THIS CAVE THEM TO THE
Now, SAVE THIRTEENTH
FOR SEU. CAVE,

Io iT TO But
PROTECT THEM FORWARDING
FROM CONTA-
MMINATION BY
THE SILICON
ure,
 THE THIRTEENTH CAVE SILICON LIFE
WAS INVADED AS WELL, INVADED ALL
BUT AS IT WAS OF THE CAVES
UNINHABITED, IT WAS SIMULTANE-
LEFT UININFECTED.

ONLY THIS
CAVE WAS
SUCCESSFUL IN
EVACUATING
ITs
RESIDENTS,

CENTRAL DENIED SOME OTHER

THEM NATURAL- PEOPLE ENTERED
IZATION, BUT TOHA HEAVY
T FORWARDED INDUSTRIES
THEM TO THE BEFORE LIS...
THIRTEENTH WHAT ABOLIT
CAVE. THEM?
 Irs
ALL RIGHT,
SEU. LET'S
60.

THE SILICON
LIFE'S POISON
Do THIS TO

T'LL NEVER
FORGIVE THEM...
AND T'LL NEVER
FORGIVE CENTRAL
FOR BLOCKING
YOUR PERSON-
ALITY REGEN-
ERATION!
 WE'LL
DIE IF WE
LEAVE THE
EIGHTH

THANKS
FOR ALL
YOUR
HELP,
 we
THIS LOOKS \« f EROMLY
TOTALLY
SO WE DID DIFFERENT FROM i
GET FLUNG THE PLACE if
SOMEWHERE WHERE WE FIRST ‘A
ELSE...

WE KILLED MIND THAT.

SOMETHING 4 WE HAVE
THAT LOOKS ENEMIES
LIKE A SAFE— HERE.
 THOSE ARE
THE ARROWS

IT'S THOSE
FOLK THAT
RETURNED
FROM
OUTSIDE,
ep Ma cee ay
aR
 THIS IS — e
NOT PART inganne
OFDOMAIN.
YOUR —mensag?
OF THIS,

TAM
SHOULD BE GOING TO
POSSIBLE REGENERATE
WITH THE SEU'S
FACILITIES
HERE.
 Iwas you've BEEN \=
THE ONLY STRIPPED
ONE WHO orvour |” AFRAID
SUCCEEDED IN STATUS AS A
RESCUING my SHIPBOARD
RESIDENTS!!

ONCE THEY WE HAVE SAFELY

ARRIVE SECURELY HARBORED
IN THE NEW THE RESIDENTS
WORLD, THEY OF THE EIGHTH
WILL LIKELY CAVE THAT
AWAKEN. YOU SENT US.

WHAT
ARE YOU
TALKING
ABOLIT2
 THE TOHA HEAVY
NORMALIZATION INDUSTRIES
OF THE WILL DEPART
GRAVITY ONCE
REACTOR IS
COMPLETE.

Seu,so D sent
LET US alien70
Your OWN CAVE,
|
OR MEET YOUR
END HERE,
 T WONDER
IE 2uRU AND
THE OTHERS
ARE REALLY
IN THE
THIRTEENTH /
\ CAVE...

ALL RIGHT,
_\we'p BETTER
FIND THEM,
FAST.
 MOMENTS AGO, I THOUGHT
TOHA HEAVY vou COULDN'T
INDUSTRIES INTRUDE IN
UNILATERALLY TOHA HEAVY
TERMINATED OUR ® INDUSTRIES! F)
AGREEMENT.

IGNORING ALL
THIS INANE OF OUR WARNINGS,
EXPERIMENT CENTRAL AT Is
ATTEMPTING TO
CARRIES ENORMOUS & FORWARP TOHA
SECONDARY RISKS, HEAVY INDUSTRIES
AND IT IS CERTAIN ITSELE AWAY FROM,
TO FAIL. ITS CURRENT
POSITION.

322
 THEY THERE IS NO TIME
INTEND TO LEFT. THE SAFEGUARDS
SUSPEND HAVE ALREADY
BEGIN TO INFILTRATE
THE INTERIOR OF
TOHA HEAVY
INDUSTRIES.

you WILL IF YOU DO

NOT EVEN BE NOT MAKE
ABLE TO VERIFY CONTACT WITH
THE EXISTENCE CENTRAL AL
OF THE NET 4 ae BEFORE THE
TERMINAL - ¢ i SAFEGUARDS
 THIS
ENDS OUR
Communi
CATION.

SHE WON'T DON'T WORRY.

come OuT TWAS ABLE TO SEAL
WHILE T'mn AWAY SANAKAN'S:
AWAKE AND CONSCIOUSNESS
COHERENT. DURING mY TEN
YEARS IN THE
FOURTH CAVE.
THEY'RE
EVERY-
WHERE!
 WE'VE GOT
TO CONVINCE
CENTRAL AL TO
ABIDE BY THE
AGREEMENT
AGAIN,

OR THOSE
SAFEGUARDS
WILL FIND
ZURU AND
THE
 — fy :
ay
po
a
oe
SHE SEEMS TO YES. WE FOUND
HER PARTIALLY FUSED
BE LIKE US, INTO THE WALL OF
SILICON-BASED. Fam ‘THE INFRASTRUCTURE
BUT WE DON'T SECTOR OF THE
Quite KNOW THIRTEENTH CAVE.
ver.
 SHE WAS NEARLY
DEAD WHEN We
FOUND HER. BUT SHE
IS REGENERATING,
BIT BY BIT, CONVERTING
THE SURROUNDING
MATERIALS INTO.
NECESSARY
ELEMENTS.

Bo NOT
HAVE THAT

THE BRAIN
ARRAYS AND
LANGUAGE
MATRIX ARE
THE SAME,
 ~

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an
ean
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