Welcome to the Versailes

Following the girl entering the Control Tower, Yung Jae stepped on the great marble floor, and the magnificent interior stunned him. Everything was glistening from the clean, glassless ceiling.

Inside, everything was made of marble, and the first thing he found was a Terrish Goddess statue standing graciously between grand curved stairs. Her top almost hit the ceiling on the second floor. With fingers on shields that covered her legs, she smiled at anyone who entered the building.

Captivating, the shield had the same symbol as Kaeya. Yung Jae wondered what the symbol meant and why there was much of it, even on Princess Earring.

The girl in a white scientist cloak tugged the document while turning around and craning her hand. With a smile adoring her sensual lips, she asked for a handshake from Yung Jae.

"Canis, Canaris Cidney. You?"

"Yung Jae."

However, as soon as she grabbed his hand, Canis pulled Yung Jae's sleeves and smirked. "Clean as pudding. Are you sure you are part of the team?"

Glared at Yung Jae, two men in white coats came closer. Probably, they were after him.

"What team?" Yung Jae took a slip in her wrist beneath long coat sleeves. A tattoo of a red rose. "I… Mr. Yukata ordered me to watch Chae Wo secretly…for her safety. She is my responsibility. I have no tattoo like the others because he ordered me to act as a hidden eye."

"Wait." She ordered two men to hold while she checked something on the document. After a minute of waiting, she scowled. "There is no Yung Jae."

Two men grabbed Yung Jae and twisted his arms at the back. He struggled, but no use. Both men, with strong arms, dominated him. Besides, both caught him off guard.

Canis said, "Kicked him out."

"I'm serious," Yung Jae said. "Mr Yukata sent me to keep an eye on Miss Chae Wo. Unfortunately, while I entered the game, we got separated."

Yung Jae stared directly into her eyes. He knew that if his eyes moved even slightly, it would show if he had lied. People who lie tend to be too scared to gaze directly into someone's eyes.

He knew it, learned it, and used it.

No word came out from her plump pink lips.

"Let him in." Another man in a scientist's coat came. "Takeda wants him."

"What?" Canis furrowed. "We didn't know who he is—"

"Takeda wants him." The man swung his head. "Hurry up, he is waiting in the main building."

Exhaling, Canis swung her finger, ordering two men to bring Yung Jae to follow her. She strode away and slipped between the statue and grand stairs.

There, a wooden door behind the statue blocked their way. It was different from other doors. When every door was made from mahogany and decorated with beautiful sculptures, this one had nothing, just a simple wooden door with the signboard 'warehouse' hanging on it.

Tall, thick, and old, there was no dust or anything on the door.

Cain twisted her look enough to tell him to look somewhere else. He followed her order.

A strange beeping noise came from the door. In a second, the door opened.

"Follow me," she stepped down the stairs.

As they ventured deeper on spiral stairs, the air thickened and pigpen. Moss colonized the dark wall, and the lights outside were gone, leaving a tiny floor lamp sculpted on the floor to do the light job.

He can't hold his silence anymore. "Where are we going?"

"Control Tower."

"But, we… we dive in, not go up."

"Not every tower challenges the sky," Canis answered. "We challenge the ground."

Sighing, he pressed the wall as the floor beneath him lurched. "Just say bunker instead of tower."

"Because it is not a bunker." She glared from her shoulder. "It is a tower, just upside down."

A chatter came from the arrow-slit hole in the wall. Peeked out, Yung Jae stopped and forgot how to blink.

Thousands of torches lightened the entire cavern. At the center, three Greek temple-like buildings were surrounded by small bungalows. It looked like a village inside the cavern.

"Whoah, amazing."

"Hah, funny," She said. "I had the same reaction the first time I came here a year ago. I needed ten minutes for me to regain control of my legs."

Following her, Yung Jae can't keep his eyes from outside. He always kept an eye on any slit-hole on the wall. "You guys created these palaces?"

"No, I don't know for sure. When I came, everything had been set up. But, my senior said, before it became our base, it submerged under the water. Then, we pop the water out and regain control of everything. Sadly, those Terrinian in the dark about all of this."

Yung Jae slowed his pace as he did not want to hit their destination soon. "You guys program everything, right?"

"Hurry up, I hate this tower. The first time I was here, I slipped and rolled down until I hit the door."

They came to the same wooden door as before. Outside, The girl guided Yung Jae to the main building, a Greek temple architecture with many pillars surrounding it.

"Be careful," Canis kept striding while peeking back from her shoulder. "There are many doors that we can't open yet and many passages that lead nowhere."

Inside the temple, thousands of monitors and supercomputer CPUs lean on the wall.

"Watch your step," Canis said.

Yung Jae slowly put his feet on the dark marble floor as there were hundreds of cables. It was like a noodle with many colors, connecting a supercomputer to the monitor.

Many people were buried with a thin, wide monitor on the desk lined up in several rows.

"There, you could move there yourself. Sorry, I have business in another building. If you need anything, find me there." Her black eyes locked on another temple, but more humble than the main temple. "If you dare try something funny, I will ensure you are caged in a tiny cage for the rest of your life. Welcome to the Control Tower. Have fun."

"Stop it, we decide to call it Versailles. So, use it." The man's voice came from a shadow on the edge of the room.