My years as a boss

It is rare for a building to be so lively.

The prison guards who came and went were fully armed inside and outside room 1-003, collecting clues left at the scene, and the white coats, who stood out among a group of dark uniforms, stood beside the corpse to conduct in-depth investigation and research on the cause of the professor's death.

The gatekeeper stood at the door, watching 1-002 silently, rather than thinking about something, it was more like being alert to the doctor who might appear at any time.

The magician didn't stand outside, he was squatting next to the medical team leader—a small coincidence, the medical team leader on the fifth floor was also nicknamed a doctor, which was impossible at first glance, but when you think about it carefully. A matter of course.

After all, no one can predict that there will be a second doctor coming to the fifth floor, so bumping into nicknames is inevitable.

But under normal circumstances, if there are two people with the same nickname, one of them will be changed to another nickname naturally.

But the question now is... who dares to change their nicknames for them?

Calling the doctor by the wrong nickname, I'm afraid you want to die?

So, for the time being, this little coincidence is still subtly brewing and has no bigger impact.

The magician stared at the medical team leader's unhurried dissection of the corpse for a while, and didn't ask until the other party stopped and announced the end, "How is it, doctor?"

The medical team leader stood up and glanced behind him.

Another white coat quickly handed over a ball of cleaning agent, while other white coats swarmed up and moved the corpse to a stretcher, and quickly evacuated it from a building with it—further testing needs to be carried out with the assistance of instruments, and the medical team After the long dissection is done, there is no need for them to stop here.

What's more, a building itself is a high-risk area, a place they would never set foot in.

As soon as the white coats left, the scene became much emptier in an instant, leaving only the medical team leader and another doctor with a public face behind him.

The cleaning agent was swirling in the hands of the medical team leader. He was not in a hurry to answer the magician's question. He stood up and looked at 1-002, which the gatekeeper was staring at.

"It's suicide. With the determination to die, the way of death without leaving any room for death is very similar to an autopsy report I read before."

The gatekeeper turned to look at the medical team leader.

The medical team leader wiped his hands with a little force, and the detergent was crushed in his hands. After being crushed, the complete spherical shape quickly changed from a colloidal state to a gaseous state, and disappeared in the air without leaving any traces.

"The other party also committed suicide with an amazing determination to die."

"Lone wolf?" The magician continued, "In other words, the two deceased are indeed related to the doctor..."

The medical team leader turned to look at him.

The magician changed his words: "I have had contact with Jiang Yiyi, and it can even be said that the last person they saw was Jiang Yiyi." He consulted the medical team leader: "Doctor, do you think this may be caused by psychological hints? ?"

"Under normal circumstances, I will tell you that psychological hints are absolutely impossible to achieve this level." The medical team leader looked at the closed room 1-003, showing unconcealable interest: "But given the existence of capable people, in the other party's Before his ability is clarified, I don't deny the possibility."

He turned his gaze and landed on the gatekeeper: "Gatekeeper, did you make a mistake in your judgment?"

"You gave him the privilege..." The medical team leader narrowed his eyes and looked at the gatekeeper: "Given that Jiang Yiyi's danger is so high, I have the right to suspect that you don't have the right to make this decision."

"Before continuing to discuss these, why don't we change the place first?" The magician interrupted before the atmosphere became stalemate: "After all, this place belongs to the same building."

Not only the god of death knows that the sound insulation effect of a building is of no use to them, but the magicians also know this-any conversation in the corridor of a building is not confidential, because the residents of a building can clearly heard.

The crowd quickly evacuated 1-003, and the building regained its previous calm.

But under the calm abyss, those extremely weak fluctuations may never be known to people—only the existence living in it will know how many turbulent currents are surging under that calmness.

The death of the professor is of great importance to both the Star Prison and the ability users.

In fact, a series of reactions triggered by his death are brewing, just waiting for a suitable opportunity to emerge in front of people.

While not outspoken, the ordering of the rooms in a building somehow proves their danger.

But now, the professor in room 1-003 quietly chose to commit suicide.

"It's going to drive them crazy."

Speaking of this, in the small space, the magician couldn't help raising his voice, and said to the expressionless gatekeeper and medical team leader: "Without the professor's safety lock, how restrained they were before, how crazy they will be later .”

"The spring theory, the deeper it is pressed, the greater the force when it rebounds." The magician spoke quickly: "Next, the situation in a building will further get out of control."

"Don't be so excited," the medical team leader said slowly: "This is not the focus of our discussion today..."

The magician was choked by him, but since the authority of the other party was higher than his, he chose to keep his mouth shut and looked at the gatekeeper.

The gatekeeper remained expressionless: "Then doctor, tell me your judgment."

Well, the gatekeeper didn't mean to stand on his side either, the magician pulled back the chair that he had just kicked off in a fit of excitement, and sat back down again.

The medical team leader didn't get up, and said in a sitting posture: "Judging from the fatal injuries of the deceased, there is no doubt that he committed suicide. As for whether the reason why he chose to commit suicide is related to other people..."

He dragged his voice out: "That requires me to have further contact with the suspect to confirm the ability of the suspect before I can make a judgment."

"No." The gatekeeper directly rejected him: "Have you not received the notification of the latest regulations?"

"Except for me and the magician, any prison guard is not allowed to have any meaningful contact with the doctor without permission - including eye contact."

The head of the medical team said "oh", not surprised by his stubbornness - the doorkeeper has always been like this.

"This time, if it wasn't for the human body state monitoring equipment installed in a building to detect high-risk changes in vital signs in 1-003..."

The medical team leader glanced at the gatekeeper and stopped talking: "In this case, then I have nothing to say. His will to commit suicide is very firm, and he didn't hesitate at all when he did it. No second person intervened in the whole process... "The medical team leader said slowly: "Exclude the factor of ability, and the case can be closed now."

The gatekeeper was not surprised by his judgment. He looked at the magician and signaled him to explain something useful to the medical team leader.

"The ability of the doctor..." The magician seemed a little hesitant: "The current judgment based on the data is that it is suspected to have the possibility of psychological manipulation and hypnosis."

"But the step of further confirmation has not yet begun..." The magician frowned slightly: "The containment process is stuck at the first step, and the step of confirming the doctor's code of conduct has never been progressed."

"Before the doctor's bottom line is determined, any specific behavior that further tests the other party's ability may cause the doctor to lose control."

The magician frowned completely: "Although the doctor is most famous for manipulating the enemy to commit suicide, according to our judgment, this is not the scariest part of the doctor."

He took out three documents from the thick stack of documents and pushed them in front of the medical team leader.

"Crazy, Lin Yi, Jian Si." He called the names of these three people one by one: "Their abnormal loyalty to the doctor is the focus of our attention."

The medical team leader twitched his eyebrows slightly, and reached out to take the documents.

"If the result of the out-of-control temptation is death, then we will not stop there." The magician's tone became less exaggerated and became extremely cautious: "But we suspect that what doctors are really good at is not manipulating death."

After reading the materials, the medical team leader pondered: "Abnormal loyalty?"

"To be precise, it is loyalty beyond imagination."

The magician corrected: "It is enough for Lin Yi, who is a spy, to betray the organization that cultivated him, and to stand firmly beside the doctor's loyalty; enough for a lunatic from the Starship Army to not show any unusual loyalty; enough for an ordinary person Jian Si is facing the loyalty that can crush his existence without flinching."

"But judging whether this unimaginable loyalty is due to the doctor's ability, or because of their spontaneous choice..." The medical team leader stopped talking and thought for a few seconds: "It's not easy."

"In fact, it is very difficult." The magician agreed with him: "Given that the doctor has a personality beyond imagination."

"I have already understood the difficulty of containing doctors." The medical team leader glanced at the gatekeeper: "So, the question now is, what are you going to do next?"

He leaned forward, showing a bit of aggression: "What did the Star Warden say?"

The gatekeeper's expression remained motionless: "The star warden led a team to search for the ability user, but there is no news yet."

The medical team leader smiled inexplicably, leaned back, leaned on the chair and said slowly: "Guardian, how long have we been partners?"

The gatekeeper did not answer his question.

"How can I say it has been ten years?" He snorted twice: "If there is no permission from the star warden, you dare to let Jiang Yiyi contact other capable people?"

The gatekeeper kept a straight face and didn't answer.

"Okay, as long as your managers are loyal to the warden of the star, those of us in the medical team are all enemies, okay?"

"I didn't say that." The gatekeeper only said this, and then changed the topic: "As for the doctor's next arrangement, we need to be more aggressive."

The magician immediately sat upright, staring at the gatekeeper with piercing eyes.

The medical team leader raised his brows slightly: "Be more aggressive? Are you going to skip the steps? Just test Jiang Yiyi's ability?"

"It doesn't matter whether the professor's death has anything to do with the doctor." The gatekeeper thought for a while and corrected: "To be precise, the two must be related."

"Just treat it as an out-of-control injury."

The magician leaned forward a few degrees: "What do you mean?"

"Send it to the North District until it is determined that the out-of-control state has recovered."

The magician leaned forward again, and the table made a dragging sound as it moved on the ground under his unconscious movements.

"Isn't it a bit too radical? You also know the situation in the North District."

The magician had a preliminary judgment on Jiang Yiyi, so he became more and more worried: "I'm not worried about the doctor, but mainly about other people."

"Those guys are all out of control." The magician said earnestly: "It's impossible to restrain myself, coupled with the special layout of the North District, and Jiang Yiyi's ability, I'm afraid..."

The magician showed a toothache expression: "When the time comes, the development will exceed our imagination."

The medical team leader also disagreed with the gatekeeper's proposal: "It's too radical, Jiang Yiyi's ability is so special, if he died in the North District, the loss would be too great."

Died in the North...

The magician paused and reminded the medical team leader: "The doctor lives in 1-002."

"I object."

The medical team leader did not give the magician any line of sight, stared at the gatekeeper and said: "Since the value of Jiang Yiyi's "normal life" is much higher than other states, I suggest that he be tentatively contained."

"I object."

The magician immediately said: "In view of the particularity of the doctor's ability and the lack of basic information, I suggest that the targeted containment be carried out after the basic information is improved."

In other words, he also disapproved of the gatekeeper's proposal to send Jiang Yiyi to the North District.

"The objection is invalid." The gatekeeper calmly overruled their objection: "In view of the death of the professor, the tentative containment of Jiang Yiyi is too dangerous and not feasible."

"And I don't think that tentative containment can get effective results."

The gatekeeper's eyes flicked between the magician and the medical team leader: "Since you are aware of the special nature of doctors, you should be clear that it is a wrong choice to treat doctors in the same way as those with incomplete evolution. .”

"He has no thought pathology, no gaps that can be intervened, and no flaws that can be exploited." The gatekeeper said calmly: "He has no weaknesses, no preferences, and no shortcomings. Under normal conditions, the behavior of trying to contain doctors , will only lead to containment failure."

"So, we have to create an abnormal state?" The magician reacted quickly: "To get a chance?"

"Even if it is a professor, he still has flaws caused by thinking disorders."

The gatekeeper didn't move his brows, and continued: "His desire and pursuit of danger surpassed everything else, so even though the containment failed at the beginning, we finally succeeded in reaching a containment agreement with the professor."

"We provide the professor with opportunities to get in touch with people with different abilities, and the professor helps us stabilize the state of those with abilities." The gatekeeper said calmly: "On this basis, he will cooperate with us in the research and testing of their abilities. "

"A not-so-successful containment." The medical team leader commented: "But for the professor, it is already an unexpected gain, especially after he became a "safety lock", which reduced the chance of the ability user losing control. frequency."

"The doctor can become the next professor." The gatekeeper: "Or, he is far better than the professor."

"Professors are good at psychology, but doctors are good at psychology."

"If a containment agreement can be reached, it is of course the best choice." The medical team leader reminded the gatekeeper: "But the problem is that doctors are far more uncontrollable than professors."

The magician interjected: "Based on my observation, I have a preliminary judgment..."

He hesitated for a few seconds, and glanced at the other two people present - this preliminary judgment needs further testing, at least after getting more than two identical verifications from Jiang Yiyi, it can be judged to be true.

But the problem is that Jiang Yiyi won't give them this chance—before, every time Star Prison made euphemistic or even imperceptible verifications on Jiang Yiyi, they got different answers.

From the second floor to the fourth floor, they once fell into a constant cycle of drawing a judgment on Jiang Yiyi-conducting a test-the test result contradicts the judgment-re-judgment-testing again-contradicting again.

The gatekeeper waited for two seconds and asked, "Conclusion?"

"Extremely cautious, this is a verified judgment."

"What I want to emphasize is the benchmark for everything that a doctor does."

The gatekeeper leaned forward a few degrees.

"In view of the doctor's series of actions and the words he once said..."

The magician pulled out a few documents—if Jiang Yiyi was lucky enough to meet him, he would find that these documents almost recorded all his actions and conversations after he was imprisoned.

"I've marked a few important points." The magician handed a page of red-marked information to the gatekeeper: "[Let's cheer for my noble moral standards.]"

"And the recurring, [When presupposing my position, remember that I'm a good person.]"

"The benchmark I want to say is a good person with high moral standards." The magician knew that his words were absurd, so he sped up his speech: "Take away from the death related to the doctor, and focus on the facts that have happened."

"He never broke his promises - at least we have no evidence that he ever broke his promises."

"To some extent, he has saved madmen, Lin Yi, and Jian Si—of course, in the absence of evidence, we will not record the deaths of other people in the process of saving people in the doctor's account for the time being. body."

"In the end, he didn't kill anyone—at least we can confirm that he didn't do it himself. Suicide and homicide are temporarily ruled out."

The medical team leader tasted the conclusion that this paragraph excludes countless deaths related to doctors, and made an extremely objective evaluation: "You have excluded a lot of things."

"And you should be clear, these points can also be explained by your proven judgment at the beginning?"

The medical team leader said calmly: "Because he is extremely cautious, he will not leave any clues that can make his "so-called high moral standards" dusty, so you can conclude that his behavioral benchmark is a good person."

"So, while "good people" are the standard of behavior for doctors, I judge that this is the direction of doctors' thinking."

As soon as the magician's words fell, the gatekeeper and the medical team leader sat upright and re-read the information he handed over just now.

"That's a wild guess."

The medical team leader hastily glanced at the information and said: "Many people place their hopes on him being a "completely evolved new human being", hoping to use his existence to break through our current dilemma."

"Your judgment completely shatters this hope."

Jiang Yiyi has a mental disorder, which means that he is just an ability user who has failed to evolve. This is of no help to Star Prison, which already has so many ability users.

And if he didn't have a thought disorder, then the meaning to Star Prison would be completely different.

This means that the other party may be the existence they have been looking for for a long time-a fully evolved new human being with abilities beyond the limits of human beings and without any defects.

This is the direction that Star Prison has studied for hundreds of years, and it is also one of the reasons why Star Prison exists—to find the direction of human evolution, or in other words, lead humans into a new world.

The existence of capable people is the cornerstone of this reason. Since capable people can possess abilities beyond the limits of human beings, it means that all ordinary people have the possibility of possessing such abilities.

It's just that they still don't know what is making the selection, so that a small number of people have abilities beyond the limits of human beings, while more people remain ordinary.

In the earliest days, they conducted comprehensive tests on the ability users, intending to find out the reason that made them different—even if it was just a small cell mutation?

But until now, in the process of retreating step by step, from comprehensive testing to containment and observation, they still haven't found the reason for the emergence of capable people.

The brain is an area that has not been thoroughly studied so far, and most of the abilities of capable people come from this—in fact, although Jiang Yiyi and the others know nothing about it, as a side of Star Prison that has studied capable people for hundreds of years For example, they are very clear.

The abilities of all ability users are limited to the brain, or to be precise, they are all related to psychology, thinking, and spirit.

So far, none of the ability users have appeared. Superpowers in the physical sense-such as wall penetration, invisibility, and even invulnerability, none of the most common superpowers in science fiction settings have appeared.

And the thinking pathology accompanying the capable person also happens to be a disease of the mental state-this made Xingprio finally limit the reason for the appearance of the capable person to the three aspects of psychology, thinking, and spirit. The reason why the retreat finally converges into the current non-radical containment method.

The comprehensive inspection did not provide any effective progress. On the contrary, it also exacerbated the tense atmosphere between the star prison and the ability users, and even caused extremely serious consequences at one time.

The magician knew what he was talking about, and he also knew how many people his inference would disappoint—the doctor was the only existence that could be a "new human" in the past hundred years.

The power beyond ordinary ability, the normality without the slightest thought pathology, and the extreme caution——completely in line with their judgment of new humans.

"But the problem is, the new humans are just our imagination."

The magician said earnestly: "Maybe it's like that saying, "The emergence of capable people is just a small negligence of God when creating man, and has nothing to do with evolution."

"Everything we've studied has been useless to begin with."

The medical team leader turned his head and glanced at the silent gatekeeper: "Do you understand what he's thinking?"

The gatekeeper put down the information in his hand: "Always allow different voices to exist. Haven't you learned the lesson of only one voice?"

"You're protecting him." The medical team leader casually nodded and changed the subject: "Conjectures that cannot be verified are meaningless."

"We are not sitting here for the "new human" right now."

The medical team leader glanced at the magician: "Jiang Yiyi entered the Star Prison, half a year has passed, and the basic information is still not complete, and he can't even complete the first step of the containment process..."

"You don't have much time left."

The medical team leader's eyes fell on the gatekeeper: "The Star Prison won't allow people to enter the lowest level, and finally send people out in person?"

The gatekeeper remained motionless: "So, I am going to take drastic measures."

He paused, and his unchanging tone showed a bit of meaning: "In order to prevent us from becoming a joke."

The medical team leader twitched his brows slightly, but restrained himself again.

The gatekeeper looked directly at the magician: "Regarding the judgment you just said, write a report to me."

"You still insist on sending the doctor to the North District?" The magician once again expressed his disapproval: "Since we already have a reference behavioral benchmark and thinking direction, we can follow the normal process to treat the doctor." Contain."

The gatekeeper was unmoved: "The premise is that you can prove that what you said is correct."

The magician was silent for two seconds, then took a step back: "At least, give me a little more time?"

The gatekeeper stared at him: "You should know that you are the one among us who has the most contact with doctors?"

The so-called knowing the sound after hearing the string, the magician immediately knows the unfinished words in his words.

Anyone who comes into contact with Jiang Yiyi has the possibility of being influenced by the other party - in fact, it is not possible, but will definitely be influenced by the other party.

That takes away the credibility of the magician's rationale for blocking the gatekeeper.

The magician went back to his logic, but didn't notice any place that might be affected. He was sure that every word he said just now was based on his own judgment.

"But there is still no accurate conclusion on the ability of a doctor." The magician said after deliberating, "I'm not stopping you from the standpoint of a doctor. I'm stopping you because I have a clear conscience."

No shame, Star Prison's code of conduct.

"It is precisely because there is no definite conclusion on the doctor's ability so far, so no one can be sure how much his ability has surpassed the human limit."

The gatekeeper said calmly: "I didn't doubt you, but just reminded you that you must be extremely cautious when contacting doctors."

"Then..." Magician: "About the doctor going to the North District..."

"No further discussion." The gatekeeper ended the discussion: "After the review is passed, it will be implemented immediately."

Gatekeepers are rarely so arbitrary, especially when neither the medical chief nor the magician agree.

This made his anomaly at the moment all the more unusual.

The magician recalled the tutor's private conversation with the gatekeeper before leaving, and shut his mouth—he might question the judgment of the gatekeeper, but he would never question the judgment of the star warden.

The medical team leader's eyes wandered between the magician and the gatekeeper, and he looked back.

"In this case, let's wait for the supervisor to pass the review." He paused: "But since the star warden is not currently in the star prison, the review will theoretically fall into the hands of Cang Wendong..."

He frowned and worried for the gatekeeper: "Although it is said that Cang Wendong's attitude towards the prisoners is biased, he has always followed the rules set by the Star Warden. I am afraid that such a radical approach will not be passed."

The gatekeeper was unmoved by his probing.

The magician said in an exaggerated tone: "This is an internal matter of the supervisor. The doctor is worried about this. Isn't it a little bit out of bounds?"

The medical team leader nodded and said, "Indeed. But this is good news for you."

His tone was calm, as if he said casually: "Before the gatekeeper commits radical actions, you have time to implement your guess."

"Perhaps the doctor is a good man, as you say?"

The water in the star prison is not deep, but it is definitely not clear.

In Star Prison, once the rights are abused, it will cause extremely serious consequences—especially at the lowest level where there are capable people.

Therefore, in order to avoid the abuse of power and the loss of control of the prison guards, each floor of Star Prison not only has managers and medical team leaders who restrict each other, but also has external supervisors. The three different institutions have formed a stable mutual restriction result.

But precisely because of the task of monitoring and restricting the other party, it is doomed that they cannot completely trust the other party.

They must be vigilant enough to ensure that Star Prison will not fall into an irreparable situation due to personal desires.

The author has something to say: the word "containment" is a tribute to the scp foundation - the settings in the article basically have nothing to do with it (mainly because I don't know the scp foundation very well).

But the famous phrase "we contain, we protect, we fail, and we escape" has indeed been heard for a long time.

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This chapter completes the basic setting of Star Prison, about what they are doing, their attitude towards Jiang Yiyi, and the purpose of Star Prison.

And the importance of professors and the relationship between other capable users and Star Prison.

I tried my best to put all the information related to Star Prison in this chapter, so that everyone can have a basic idea of ​​these.