The next morning as Lain get up the first thing she did is to take a shower but feels what happened to be bruises on her back while washing and when she's done she wraps herself tightly with it towel why she doesn't want anyone to see them.
Once she got dressed with the clothes she plans on wearing today she opens her laptop see if anything's new in the inbox.
Lain:Hmm a new one.
To: ********
From:**********
My hometown finish me yesterday for not deciding to return home for finding a better place near the campus,what is wrong with them!?
Reply
You came from Witchhunter and I come from Marines on my dad size to be precise and he's a real butthead.
Send.
Lain: Now where to start?
Then Lain open the map to plan her next move.
Lain: the school could be the best place to start with it being within walking distance don't know if what well fine will be easier like the last one.
When Lain got to the ground floor the receptionist at the desk gave her what seems to be a little black book of coat of sorts when she opened it.
Lain: Was someone here before I came down?
The receptionist: it was on the desk when I came in for note that said it's appointed to you.
With no comment Lain leaves for the school and she pulls up the hood of her raincoat in case it's rains and the walk was long then she realized but managed to get there before running out of air.
Lain: should have friends of the bike on the way here at least I'm here now and even I know getting around in that place won't be easy with whatever debris that could be in the way.
Once Lain got into the Place does look run down as what seems to be a two floor School building the only question that's in her mind is where can she start on the main floor that is.
The High school
As Lain enter the high school first floor hallway the place is very decent overall and all three hallways seems to be clear but that's only the front entryway.
Lain: guess I have to start with the hallway on my right to see what leads I can find and in theory find the computer lab that have the wired chair.
East front hallway
As Lain take the east hallway she sees some photo frames to be very dirty with a photos two faces who is who, try to classroom door if one on each side of her and see which of the two is locked with one on her left being a single number lock for some reason the classroom window is too sick to see through so she tries the are the door and handle was broken off and despite the judgment Lain went into what seem to be a standard classroom.
Lain: Should I really do something that low?
Reluctant on morals of what she's going to do Lain started looking into the student desks and open them one by one and only found what seems to be the map to the first floor in the center's desk.
A map of the High school's first floor that seen to have some rooms with missing numbers.
Lain: At least I have something to help me get around and what rooms that could have number code locks but does the elevator have them?
Then Lain pull out the little black code book to see if the number lock door she found is in it but the first few pages are missing.
Lain: Why am I not surprised.
Then Lain see pages of those that are there have what she thinks to be the rooms number part with the numbers to open them with what looks like routes to get the second floor to be precise.
Lain: guess their debris on the next floor and I'm really going to to file a teacher desk to find out more.
As Lain spot the teacher's desk she also sees what's on the chalkboard that seems to have what looks very disturbing.
Lain: was this a religious school that thinks the wired is a "devil playground?"
When Lain got behind a desk so you sits down and looks through the desk drawers it's time for the top right.
Top right desk drawer
Item found
- journal page
- a custodial all access key.
Lain: At least I foun something to get around with and a entry of the journal.
Page 3
The local school security fees just came online so the office can keep a better eye on the Upper Floor due to past extreme incidents of physical Outburst by both the teachers and students that are having perceptive visions of what they see as speed y furballs when they are on the wired from the computer labs although the brown ones are harmless unless provoked and they seem to like being on camera but they're black counterparts who have red eyes will attack the cameras if it's on and don't seem to see eye to eye with its cousins.
Lain: at least I know where to find the wire chair in this place and may have an idea on what day unlocked rooms could be other than simply the principal office which has a security room.
Then Lain millerite drawer butts locked try the bottom drawer and it's open.
Bottom right drawer
- phone book
When Lain open the phone book and found a circled phone number.
Rugby's electronic specialties•••••••• (515) 751-0043
Lain: Look like it not far from here.
Then Lain try for the drawer but it's locked and so are all the left drawers.
Lain: oh well hope I don't have to backtrack here if I do find the key to go with this desk model.
Then Lain leave the room for the principal office with the other rooms on on the way the entry she can see inside then sees the office door and use the access key to get in.
The principal office
When Lain got in the front office looks a bit Dusty with what seems to be the storage room in the back is door open then takes a look at the secretaries desk and found what looks like a binder in open desk drawer which happened to be a faculty complaint report when she pulled it out it seems to be more on the issues on the second floor.
Complaint report one: the number of Dunes on the Upper Floor becoming more difficult to keep things in order and there's more fights in the hallway then we can isolate from the public that can hurt the schools reputation and it's budget.
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Complaint report two: The company that are providing security camera with no strings attached but that but that's only to have those wire chairs in the computer lab so they can also give them head covering so they won't get stuck electricity and when they are pulled into it and that demand are more difficult to keep up with.
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Complaint report three: the main Center hallways starting to weaken due to the students hanging out on the second floor if this keeps up someone's going to fall through and harm themselves.
P.S the head covering doesn't work with the stack electricity thing.
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Complaint report four: Having the security room in the main floor just sounds too unfortunate even if there's a number locked keep the students from getting in with with another for the principal office but will make him even more paranoid?
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Complaint report five: The camera feeds got mixed up with a wired system in the security room and it shows what looks like big brown fur balls with a big eye staring at the camera like I can see you and it's unnerving.
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Complaint report six: The company gave us Lv one and two antivirus items even though they don't mean any harm but they still and inconvenience to whoever's in the wired and will only attack when provoked and where in the school in the Wired is constructing depending on the feeds routes.
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Complaint report seven: the combine pressure of all those brown things in one place resulted in them falling through the main Central second floor with only one camera on and will laugh the hole in the center and the best way they can come up with our police tape.
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Complaint report eight: The are shutting down the music and the art program and it's sad because of budget cuts and the wired lab is what they are still keeping in that there are more dead zones where black ones are taking up and will attack any camera that's on and whoever invades the space when they are in The wired.
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Complaint report nine: The Stairway to the second floor is locked until for the nose and all we know we have to share the same elevator or others have to take that ladder up through that hole it's ridiculous and it is unsafe.
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Complaint report ten: the principal got more from the company than what we have made in the fundraiser it's enough to reinstate the music in art program but like they want the kids to learn more on Tech than art which I do love to teach.
I quit.
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Lain: That just sad even for me but I have to know the truth in this town and I may have seen the rest of the first floor before I go up, in a safe way to be exact.
The next place you looked is the actual principal office it does have a fee the complaint reports were talking about with one having the furball on one of the modest like it's waiting for someone to come in and then it blinks.
Lain: that unsettling like those old Japanese horror movies.
Then Lain spots in the drill page that seems to be on what seems to be on the screen if it's opposite on the other page.
Name: Wigeye
Type: Squatch
Weak point: the eye.
Wigeye's are just gout to where they can find a safe place to stay or high they won't talk unless someone invades their space but will withdrawal if outmatched the only way to avoid them as if there's a camera on.
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Name: Black wig
Type:squatch
Weak point: the eye
Unlike their brown hair counterpart black wigs resides in dead zones and we'll talk anyone that gets in their way and can set ambushes in groups.
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Lain: At least have confirmation on what I'm going to be up against.
Then Lain check the desk drawers and found the elevator access keys and seems to be more passcode pages but not for the one she knows then the idea of more than one security room pops into her head.
Lain: But which one?
Upon closer look the passcodes may need a key card to go with it.
Lain: good thing there are no need for print scans and you know how picky those things are.
Once Lain leave the office and tries the keys to the nearby stairs but it doesn't work but then she sees the magnet lock which made her let out of the big side of grief.
Lain: I should have known.
As Lain seize the other hallway on her left don't seem to have anything on the way of each from where she seen them from Ann made it to the elevator door and use the access card to go right on in but seems to the basement button and needs a key to for hitting the second floor button.
F2
When the door open and she got to the second floor Lain see while getting out of the elevator that the hallway where she's standing that on her left is too difficult to go through so she takes the other hallway and found the map on her left wall that looks similar to the previous floor and sees a classroom that doesn't have a door.
As Lain pokes her head into the room and sees only the disc in chalkboard that reads the clothes the world open the next as she enters a room and sticks closely to the wall with no additional settings is never good sign as she walks slowly towards the desk and when she got there one of the desks drawers was open and inside it is a passcode page it's the file kept it with the room numbers that could hold the key card to go with it and another journal page.
Page 4
The companies besides to make the newer Cyberia locations with any buildings to have full surveillance systems for those that have connections into the wired will be safe from those of the wild wired.
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Page 5
They say wild wired and whatever's out there is a threat to everyone's "safety" so the solution is the silly grid wire system they obviously want to use closer TV to control complexes they own and control.
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Lain: At least that seemly all the no internal pages in the school and will read more when I get back.
Once Leave the room she had to the room that has the key card and did the Bray was kind of difficult to get around on the way to what happens to be the teacher now but man should get there and find it to be very dirty from the tables that she entered the place and has a bit of a twitch on the nose from the dust in the air.
The Teachers Lounge
Lain:Ok they should have walked on their cleaning budget here.
As Lain looked around something reflective caught her eyes with what seems to be from The Faculty mail slots, when she cut close turns out to be what seems to be a Georgie for one of the lounge side tables there's only three she can find so far.
Lain: ones near the coffee machine and refrigerator one that has what looks like an old VCR don't have it still works and one on the side table next to what looks like a recliner and there's only one way to find out what each of them have.
Starting with the drawer closest to her here's what Lane had found in each of them.
The drawer next to the refrigerator with the coffee maker: what looks like a newsletter that has a list of schools that are sadly closing down.
Lain:Wow those are very nasty cuts only the universities I left standing.
The drawer next to the recliner: what looks like an invite to an inherited hearing.
Lain: okay that's been on a line of mystery than horror.
The drawer that have the VCR on it:What seem to be a promotion DVD of the company that seem to have made the wired and the key card.
Lain: At least I found one looking for now it's on to the file cabinet room.
Then Lain heads for the file cabinet room.
As Lain leave the teacher's lounge and takes more caution on the way over to the file cabinet due to holes on the floor and solid planks that she may have to keep her balance on even the caps are small enough to jump over but not enough space for a running start.
Lain: man that was heart racing on those planks but at least am here.
Then without delay Lain dentist the passcode for the number lock and the key card then unlocks no problem other than the fog have that room having less cabinets than she expected upon entering with only one file cabinet in the room.
The file cabinet room
Lain: Hope it worth that an easy walk on over the gaps never been fond of high open places.
When she got to the file cabinets she starts at the bottom phones are very interesting tape player about delay played it to see if there's anything on it.
Recorded voice:the basement is closed due to whatever reason the school doesn't want to make public the kids always do the newsletter things ours is not on the list, the only way to get down there is with the only elevator keys in security room that's next to the computer lab on the second floor but where it's being whole can only be unlocked in the wired in the path is depending on what's on the modifies and it's like trying to get them to connect from bottom left to top right and those wigs which we are calling them in general gets in the way and the budget is making dead zones.
Lain: never thought it would be that easy and is it the only tape?
Lain the next one and found what seems to be one of the schools psychological profile then she side out what she thinks is due to the wire withdrawals but it turns out to be something else that got her of interest for some reason.
Faculty profile report:Their been complaints about the parents on the teachers on his behavior and it's been rubbing off on a student like in a cult of some kind in the wired like there's a God it's other Madness I tell you.
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Principal solution:The the company has made some new wire chairs that have timers and will be set by the faculty on how long the students can be on the wired even if they can come out of it at will with the stopwatch that goes with it we'll be here in a few days.
[2/2]
Lain: escapism going to far?
Then Lain check the last drawer and found what looks like another passcode page with one side being the computer lab and the other the security room.
Lain:One more to go and I'll be out here as fast as I can.
Once Lain leave the file cabinet room what seems to be a shadow with claws had spotted her.
The security room
When Lain enter the security room place even if it's still dirty looks kind of decent and turns on security monitors and they seem to be very mixed up with the security feeds being on the far top right the and the computer lab on the bottom left while the rest are random.
Lain: This could be a little more complicated than I thought but I may have an idea how to work this.
Then she set up the hypothetical routes to the security room in the wired but the wig eyes are going to be like landmines if she's not careful with them appearing in more than two by vid fee and will attack anyone that gets in front of the camera even if they could hit one of the sets being the right one.
Lain:Guest that should do it.
Then Lain sees the lock box that has the elevator key that she read about with what looks like a note taped on the top and seems to be on how it works on time limits to get on the computer lab to the security room within less than 15 minutes.
Lain: guest I have to hand to the lab next door
Then without delay head to the computer lab as the timer set to 15 minutes good thing the lock to the computer lab is the same and found the wired chair that's a little more different than one she knows and about delay sits right into it and connects to the wired.
Wired serial experiment 002: controlled space.
Once Lain is in the wired that may look normal but clouds are still Gray but she has no time and she picks up the stopwatch that's still ticking on that 14 minutes in the hallway was set up by a security camera won't be easy to get through.
???: Oh goody a new plaything.
Then out of nowhere a strange humanoid lashed out at Lain with what looks like very long claws on both hands in seeing how shop they are she makes a run but the wig eyes are so not making it easy for her wow inadvertently breaking their gates at the camera and attacked by jumping and biting anyone that got in their way made some bites at Lain but they're not that painful.
Lain: man they don't like being interested from their viewing time do they.
Then a idea popped in her head and with some paracord footwork use the way guys to slow down her pursuer with over 10 minutes remaining.
As for the entry to security room is now in her sight with only under 7 minutes remaining there's more white eyes than she thought that I'm behind her and needs to go around behind your group as they're looking at their camera but then here's the claws of a Pursuit dragging on the wall as Lain only have three minutes left and he's learning from his past mistakes so thinking quickly she throws a random object at the camera she passed around is Central View hits it onto the pursuer and then the wig eyes looked at him and attacked without hesitation giving Lain the needed Dash into the room and, Made it!
Lain:Better unlock the thing first.
Then unlock the lockbox and came back and reality with her hair all staticky like last time.
Lain: that was exasperating and it may not be the last.
As she got up Lain spotted a Mainframe that seems to have another data log and it seems to be on the basement in question.
Data log 004: we man scared the very amounts to keep a lid on what happened in the basement and have the seller entry lock from the inside so no one can mess with the furnace.
Lain:Ok they are so hiding something down there and well bribing anyone and everyone to keep it buried.
When Lain got back into the in the security room the lockbox is open with the elevator keys inside with another job page and it's on what or who she had encountered in the wired.
Name: Krugerschach
Type: Unknown
Weak point: Unknown
This virus is immune to all are known antiviruses even imagine disable it the thing will get new abilities to counter whatever it's been disabled with the thing possibly being sentient and reading Minds with its Rorschach like skin to look and sound like who or whatever it wants to be.
Lain:Maybe it not a virus at all maybe it's an actual entity in The Wired, only time will tell.
Then once Lain got the I love you the keys she leaves the room and heads over there using the key then push the B1 in down she goes into the root part of the town's mystery.
B1
Once made it into the bottom of the school and open the door Lain enters an almost pitch black room could barely see a thing till she felt something like a pull cord.
Lain:Must be a gas generator.
Then with a few strong pulls the light came on.
Lain:Well that- oh my Lord!
When Lain turn around the basement looks like a mad ritual with a run corpse in the center that's on the top of the Insignia that she seen before.
Lain: what kind of Backwater town is this place to do such monstrous stuff like that!?
The basement looks like a seance gone wrong the corpse looking all foul in rotten with what looks like blood stains on the wall that man image what looks like a church but there's also for other buildings around it that are on the locations of the other Cybeia's.
Lain:What is in their if it more then the data?
As Lain look around you found that the school furnace exits is indeed locked like the note says and also a bike which is kind of strange for her to find in a place that no one wants in if there's a helmet on the handle 10 spots something reflective on one of the nearby tables and it seems to be the key that locks the holding the cellar door shut with what looks like page notes to what are they trying to do and she picks up the keys then he has something wrong and when she turns around the corpse getting up and about to lay I'll gain the bike she opens the Cellar Door and knowing mother you the same luck on its front door and then put on the helmet and cycle out of there as hard as she can pedal.
When she far enough from the school Lain take a breather it's process what she had saw even if it is the only one.
Lain: okay that was a zombie made from black magic gone awry in lack of a better explanation and the wired could be more than VR.
After a few moments Lain resumes and made it to the tech support building that seems to be know about the wired even if it's only on the surface with what they do is only maintenance with no other way to find out Lain put the bike on the bike rack with some improvisation to tied up with a random piece of ribbon and then went in.
Rugby's electrical specialties.
When Lain enter the electrical specialty office she sees the place still have power but no one seems to be home so she looks around to see if there's anything on what they know about the wire even if it could only be just on the surface at best the front desk is faking which without hesitation she went into the back room and the place seemed to be empty for some times so no one can find out who knows what and found a two-part data log on the companies motivations.
Data log 005: Rugby's if they do a good job on installing the wire chairs most all questioning the projects long-term goal and they are making the company uncomfortable.
So they are sending in " specialists" to answer all the questions they have to relieve their burdens.
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Data log 006: those have been questioning have been taken care of they may have hidden something if they are all not been persuaded to look the other way.
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Lain: Like a work Journal but where would one put it so no one can find it?
Lain take a look around and what seems to be a four panel underneath one of the desks and lift it and found what looks like some downward stairs and it gave more questions than answers As She Goes Down And stumbled on what looks like a conspiracy nuts layer with a case board and everything.
Lain: what kind of nut job is this place?
While she looking around Lain found the work Journal that she had in mind with the work blog on the cover and found what seems to be the conspiracy case Journal giving her such a headache.
Lain:... don't know why I'm taking both of them at that time to look around for some reason.
Once Lain take both Journal then she leaves a pace and gets back on the bike and blow out there and she was on the way to the next point to the map she stops at what looks like a decent Diner when her stomach started to growl and seems to spot Earl going into the place and plays a bite on the rack and get something to eat.