Those words bore down on the atmosphere heavily. The cavity in Mother Maeria's trunk was illuminated by bioluminescent flowers that spread a warm glow across the task force headquarters, while the odor of wood sap hung in the air.
Rui's attention remained focused on the whole slew of data that they had collected in the past five years. Mother Maeria, along with the other means of data collection that they had diversified, had collected a whole slew of data that had been fed into the Ieyasu machine.
The machine itself had improved and had been upgraded many times since its original conception as they managed to create a perfect reality simulator for a man who was reduced to a brain, not even merely a head. Rui could see the pitch-black head, courtesy of the gu, that served as a shell for the brain that Rui protected with his own Anthean cells.
