01x03 - Episode 3

[bunniefuu]

Might as well take out the trash.

This place...

is really suffocating.

BUG Being.

Where are you?

Nothing special about it.

Rather...

for these two people to reach this point

is too natural.

Everyone writes stories like this.

There's nothing worth writing anymore.

I want something more expl*sive.

Your radio station
should also screen them.

Some submissions are just boring.

This is Life Radio.

Never Alone Through the Night.

Share your story.

We accept all types of story submissions.

Please move on to the next submission.

Next up is

a submission from "Swordsman 43".

You're the most amazing person I know,

because your world

is unbreakable.

A friend told me that 10 years ago.

Though I still don't understand

why "unbreakable" is used
to describe a person.

But being praised like that

does make me happy.



overnight

you could find anyone to chat with.

Anyway,

add anyone you met,

once added, you'd talk,

talk about anything,

all night long.

I thought it was more fun than gaming.

It felt like everyone

had something in common,

everyone could get along.

Every message sent

felt like it would be answered.

Then he said,

if everything could be explained

in just a few sentences,
that would be great.

But don't worry.

People only really care about themselves.

As for who you are,

or what you think,

others aren't interested at all.

Never Alone Through the Night.

Share your story.

The submission says:

In my last rental,

there was a locked storage room.

The landlord wouldn't let us open it.

The next day,

there was news of a body

found under a bed in a rental room.

So until I left that apartment,

I kept wondering

whether there was another tenant

hidden in that room.

Yeah, same here.

Every time I pass the
hallway power box at night,

I feel like

someone with a knife might jump out.

Fang Tang,

where's that intern?

He's not here.

Huh?

When is he coming back?

I have something for him.

That halo...

I don't actually hate work.

It lets me maintain

a positive attitude in life.

Keep my social ties alive,

and constantly feel needed.

Achieving countless waiting goals.

Imagining myself as a
protagonist ready to rise.

Sitting at the desk numb is fine.

What's scary is

when after work,

life is still full of trivial things.

Paying bills, cleaning, moving,

scrolling on the phone when free,

laundry, fixing appliances,
social obligations.

And then,

the next morning arrives again.

Dear listeners,

do you know how often you should replace

the light bulbs in your home?

How often do you replace your car tires?

By the time you replace your fridge

for the 7th or 8th time

you'll be dead.

Your waking life is 40 years.

And are you really going to

spend 1/6 of your life commuting

just to make sure

you can replace that damn fridge?

No!

No way!

Close to work,

easy commute,

on call anytime,

invest in your life.

Stone Statue Real Estate.

Call now.

Bu Fu wants you

to take over the Sea of Bitterness, right?

But supervisors like you, Fang Tang,

can't leave their jurisdiction.

It's not for me.

Once you succeed the supervisor,

you should be able to open the Cat Cage

with your own power,

just like Bu Fu did back then.

Isn't that what you want?

Will Bai Zhong take over your job too,

Fang Tang?

Will that intern get that halo

because he's replacing someone else's job?

Bai Zhong won't become a second me.

As for Guan Chao,

you care that much about
that glass above his head?

Everyone says

that's the most unbreakable
thing in the Bureau.

Then why don't you go see it yourself?

Anyway, to open the Cat Cage,

you'll keep wandering on.

Right?

Of course.

Commuting

is actually the most relaxing time

of my day.

Sometimes,

I also want my own place.

So I don't have to worry
about not being able to

take my things with me when I move out.

Then I feel I'm being too
realistic for nothing.

I've started feeling sleepy a lot.

I didn't know what I was doing,

or where

I should go.

[Sigh]

Is this

the BUG Being on this layer?

But it's big.

No way it's quick.

Easy target!

I have a new strategy.

You should stop talking.

Run!

We're in the memory layer, right?

Yeah!

The memory's owner created the BUG Being?

Yeah!

They're the BUG Source.

Then just go beat the BUG Source!

No no no.

That would make things worse.

Then how do we fight it?

Just brute force it?

Just do it like this!

Dudu dudu dududu!

Dudu dudu dudu dudu!

Bang!

Didn't Old Man teach you everything?

Use your halo, Guan Chao!

I...

I wish I could...

Excuse me.

Who are you?

This is for you.

What is this?

Salvaged from the Sea of Bitterness.

Sea of Bitterness?

A very precious memory object.

Memory object?

Bu Fu asked me to give it to you.

Bu Fu?

It was originally for Fang Tang,

but she asked me to pass it to you.

Too complicated!

Anyway, delivery done.

As payment,

let me borrow that big guy for a bit.

Maybe...

I'll borrow your halo too.

Huh?

What's going on?

Delivered a memory object.

Where did it end up?

It's wrapped so tightly.

What is it?

Why does it look like

a wooden stick?

But since it's here,

it can't be an ordinary stick.

"The halo is your life.

And life is meant to be used!"

Is that Ran Deng's move?

Give it a try.

What am I even expecting?

Qian Jun!

Did it...

finish?

Guan Chao!

Catch!

What's going on?

It's not what we said!

Nothing to do with the Bureau.

This is my personal action!

The inside of the Cat
Cage is very unstable.

It should be open soon.

Guan Chao!

Use that move again!

What move?

That was just a fluke...

Focus!

Think about your goal!

Think about what you want to do!

I want to...

go back...

No.

I want to leave.

I want to leave

all of this behind.

Anywhere is fine.

Here.

I don't need it anymore.

I remember now.

I originally wanted to escape reality.

If so,

staying here is fine.

As long as I can escape my reality.

I had no goal.

There's nothing I can do.

Originally,

I couldn't do anything.

So you backed off.

Standing there and
getting smashed to death

might've been better.

It's not that easy to smash you to death.

This is?

If you had stayed still just now,

it might've opened by now.

But now it has stabilized inside.

Guan Chao,

you're not someone who can do nothing.

You say that because you

still have something
you want to do, right?

Someone who can go anywhere

would never appear in the
Memory Administration Bureau.

Go faster!

Stop dragging your feet.

Why are you even here in slippers?

Guan Chao,

take that container properly.

Don't throw it around like that stick.

No one'll pick it up for you next time.