Kill the Sun

A group of around 20 people stood in front of the tall building that had once belonged to Cycle.

Almost all the employees of Dark Dream had gathered here.

Nick and Wyntor were at the front, and the four Zephyx Extractors, Jenny, Jonathan, Kiara, and Trevor, were behind them.

Behind the Zephyx Extractors were six guards, three of whom had worked for Dark Dream before, with the other three being new hires.

Since their new building was no longer as open as the warehouse, they needed more guards to patrol the individual corridors.

Behind the guards were six clerks and assistants whose job it was to receive guests and deal with all the day-to-day matters, like cleaning and sending messages.

Right now, all of these people looked at the tall building with wonder and excitement.

This was where they were going to work from now on!

Finally, they could get out of that shitty old warehouse!

Now, they felt like they were working for an actual Zephyx Manufacturer.

"Let's go inside," Wyntor said as he gestured for everyone to follow.

Nick nodded and looked with a threatening expression behind him.

At the Dreamer.

Naturally, the Specters had to move into the new building as well.

Luckily, since Dark Dream only had two Specters, they didn't need to put a lot of effort into moving.

The Screaming Coffin was being carried by Jonathan and Trevor, and the Dreamer was standing in the middle of all the Extractors.

The Screaming Coffin didn't care about anything and was simply lazing around, still busy digesting the fat man's corpse, and if the Dreamer decided to escape, it would get shut down by five Extractors.

Usually, moving Specters from one building into another was a huge act that required a long time, but since they only had two, it wasn't a big deal.

Fortunately, the people who sold the Containment Units also offered a moving service.

They would build a Containment Unit identical to the old one in the new building.

Then, the Zephyx Manufacturer would move the Specter from one Containment Unit into the other.

Lastly, the old Containment Unit would be taken away by the sellers.

This service cost around 10% of what the Containment Unit was worth.

This meant that there were already two fitting Containment Units for the Screaming Coffin and the Dreamer in the new building.

A moment later, the group of people walked into the building.

"Mind showing us around?" Wyntor asked as he looked at Kiara and Jonathan. After all, they had worked in this building just days ago.

"Of course!" Jonathan said with a smirk.

By now, Jonathan and Kiara had warmed up to their new colleagues, and Jonathan's confident attitude had returned.

"Hmph," Kiara uttered from the side. "Look at how cocky you sound. Hard to believe that you nearly shat your pants when you saw boss for the first time."

Some of the people chuckled, while Jonathan became red in the face.

"This is the main hall," Jonathan said like he hadn't just been humiliated. "There are several staircases on each side. In case one of them collapses, we can still use the other ones."

"The building has seven floors, and the middle five are for the Containment Units. The first floor is for entertaining guests, and it acts as a safe meeting place."

"The seventh floor was always reserved for the business end of things. The seventh floor has meeting rooms and offices. On top of that, the central controls for the building are also there."

"The Dung Heap is on the-"

"That's enough. Thank you, Jonathan," Wyntor said, interrupting him.

Jonathan realized that he had nearly unveiled the identities of all the Specters in front of the normal employees and became ashamed.

Luckily, everyone knew the Dung Heap already since it had been Cycle's main Specter.

On the side, Kiara smirked in Schadenfreude.

She had never truly been a fan of Jonathan, and after Jonathan had surrendered without even putting up a fight, she hated him even more.

"I'll leave you to look around the building," Wyntor said as he looked at the non-Extractors. "For now, nothing but the Containment Units are off limits since we haven't officially moved in yet. Get familiar with your new workplace for today. Starting tomorrow, you will officially resume working."

The employees nodded and thanked Wyntor.

Then, Wyntor turned to the Extractors. "Let's deal with the Specters," he said before walking towards one of the staircases on the right.

The normal employees understood that they were not supposed to follow Wyntor and the others right now and decided to remain in the main hall for now.

The stairway was pretty wide, with a big open area in the middle.

It was specifically designed like that so that Zephyx Extractors could quickly go from one floor to the other.

For example, Nick could climb onto the fortified railing and jump from the seventh floor to the third floor by jumping through the large empty area in the middle.

Wyntor and Nick walked at the front, and Nick kept looking at the Dreamer.

The Dreamer just looked forward with dead eyes.

Right now, the Dreamer was not restrained at all, even though Dark Dream could have done so.

The reason was to reward the Dreamer for being cooperative.

It was also a little show of trust, even though it essentially wasn't since it wouldn't be able to escape from five Extractors anyway.

Naturally, Dark Dream didn't trust the Dreamer at all.

All of this was just an empty expression to make it more comfortable for the Dreamer so that it didn't try to escape.

Well, obviously, the Dreamer would try to escape, but it wouldn't try with desperation as long as it was somewhat happy.

The group of people climbed all the way to the fifth floor and entered the main hallway again.

The fifth floor looked very different from the first one.

There was one hallway that went from left to right and three hallways that went from forward to backward.

One hallway went through the middle of the floor, and the two others went through the sides.

This essentially split the floor into two parts, and each part had space for two Containment Units.

The employee entrances of the Containment Units were in the middle hallway, and the entrances for the Specters were in the side hallways.

The group of people led the Dreamer down one of the side hallways.

A moment later, one of the walls split open after giving off a loud alarm.

Without being ordered, the Dreamer walked into the Containment Unit.

Then, the Containment Unit closed.

The Dreamer had moved into its new home.