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"… uh… … uh?"

Slowly, Mirii's eyes opened: her feet and hands were suspended into thin air, as her eyes were seeing the darkness. Her limbs were stretching downwards.

"… where am I?" Her head turned left, seeing dark. "… what's this faintly red tone I'm seeing?"

She turned to her right, seeing a door-shaped hole with a clean floor and a narrow hallway.

"… that hallway… I have already seen that before?" Her eyes blinked. "… of course I do!" Her eyes grew. "It's the same hallway where I completed that beam challenge!"

Her head rose, watching something faintly white above her head.

"… the parachute popped out by accident. That must be the reason why I'm hanging into thin air…" Her head turned towards the floor. "I'm proceeding without the use of rational thought… this stupidity from my part shall never be revealed to the public… never."

The girl snorted, while frowning.

"… the parachute seems to hold my weight, since I'm not feeling any sense of descending… but I can't wait for help." Her head rose. "I can't jump over there with my shoulders attached to the bag straps… I'm forced to hold those with my hands…"

Her right shoulder began moving around, slowly scrolling the bag strap out. Immediately she tilted downwards, as her right hand grabbed the right bag strap. She took a deep breath, as her eyes closed. Her left shoulder began shaking, scrolling out the next strap. Her left hand grabbed the left strap, as her legs were both stretching downwards.

"… I don't feel the sensation of descending…" She smiled a bit. "My parachute is indeed strong enough to hold me… but I must reach the floor, before the problem gets worse."

Her eyes blinked, as her eyebrows went a bit down. She tilted forward, swinging back and returning forward: gradually the speed and the tilt increased. Her eyebrows went even more down, as she began snorting and groaning.

"One more… it should be enough…!" Her teeth showed a bit.

Her hands opened, as her arms immediately stretched towards the edge. Her hands grabbed it, as her eyes expanded and her irises shrunk. Her arms pulled her upwards, as her right leg rose and her right feet stood on the floor.

Slowly, the girl stands up as she walked away from the edge, while her right hand was shaking off dust from her clothing.

"… perfect." She smiled, as her eyes closed. "It's all thanks to my agility trainings… courses I should definitively teach to Hunley." She blushes a bit. "He would complete all those courses flawlessly… he would be as good as I am at it."

Her eyes opened, as her mouth downturned a bit.

"… I hope that Hunley is alright… … maybe I should talk with him, through my phone." Her right hand picked up her smartphone. "I installed a strong signal chip inside my smartphone… I should be able to phone everyone, even when I'm surrounded by this greenish liquid!"

Her head lowered, watching the smartphone's screen.

"Perhaps, I should go behind that wall and wait for a response…" She walked towards the wall on the right, while pressing . "I don't have the need of moving there… but I can't underestimate the situation." She frowned a bit. "I will never underestimate any situation!"

Tuuuu…

Mirii's right hand lowered her smartphone.

"Luckily I managed to connect my smartphone with those earpieces… now I just have to"

Tu-tu-tu-tu-tu…

"RIDICULOUS!" Mirii's back rested on the wall, as her eyes expanded. "My phone was supposed to receive and make calls even in the most difficult situations!"

She frowned a lot, as her right hand grasped her smartphone tightly.

"Hmpf!" Her eyes closed. "I have to make some revisions later on… such mistake shall never happen again for my later performances."

Her eyes opened, as she sighed and rose her eyebrows. Slowly, she walked away from the wall.

"… my stomach hurts a bit… … I can't possibly have the Inkopus Bacteria." She walked towards the hallway. "I feel tired, though… and a bit weak."

Her eyebrows rose a bit more.

"… if only Hunley was with me, right now… I think I could find some interest in such"

Her eyes grew: her head shook violently, as she frowned.

"Enough with that nonsense!" She snorted. "I must be closer to the secret Project Neo Lab… I'll finally be able to know more about their mischievous activities!"

Her pace increased, as she reached the end of the hallway. She stopped, as she turned her shoulders left and right: her eyes rested on a door-shaped hole, with a desk and a computer in the distance.

"That was the room where we were trapped…" Her head rose. "They haven't installed a new door yet? I wonder why…"

Mirii proceeded forward, watching the numerous paintings resting on both sides of the wall. A security camera was still, pointing its lens towards the ground.

"… if the lab's entrance is hidden, I should definitively use that application…" Her right hand rose a bit, as her head lowered and stared back at the smartphone. "The newer one in my arsenal: the Locato-Door!"

Her right thumb pushed on several numbers appearing each in an empty circle, inside the screen: several squares showed up.

"The application will reveal me any room whose entrance is hidden behind a door or some kind… walls included." She smiled, as her right thumb kept swiping on the screen and pressing on specific points. "All I have to do is to point my smartphone over the walls…"

Mirii's feet were stepping on circular steps, walking down…

"… before I proceed, I want to eat a candy…" Her mouth flattened a bit. "I can't increase my hunger, if I'm about to face down the lab… I will not let anything ruin my focus!"

Her left hand went inside her left pocket: her eyes grew.

"I forgot to bring the candies!" Mirii snorted, as her eyelids lowered to the middle. "… if I don't find something to eat, I'm afraid my concentration will be affected… … maybe the reception has a bowl of candies!"

She smiled a bit, as she increased her pace and stepping out from the stairs. Her head turned to her left, watching a reception counter in the distance: it had a vase with a small plant coming from the top and a bowl of differently colored candies inside it.

"I knew it!" Mirii smiled, as she bended forward.

The girl dashed, as her left fist clenched and leaving a small giggle. She stopped in front of the bowl, putting her smartphone on the counter: her right hand grabbed three candies wrapped in a clear plastic wrapper, putting those on the right side of the bowl. Her right hand picked up a red candy, unwrapping it with both her thumbs and forefingers.

Her right hand held the red candy, bringing it into her opened mouth. Her mouth and eyes closed. She kept munching silently.

"Strawberry flavored… a joy for my palate…" Her eyes opened. "… now the hunger will never affect the current performance… but I should still carry a few of those."

Her right hand grabbed the two candies, putting them inside her right pocket. Her hand went over the bowl, grabbing another candy and putting it inside the previous pocket. Her right hand grabbed her smartphone, as the girl turned behind.

"Now I'm truly ready for the incoming lab…" She began walking forward.