It was extremely frightening upon reflection.
...
Luckily, according to the feedback from the Heart Domain, the night hadn't yet given birth to a truly independent consciousness.
It was still acting according to a set of fixed, mechanical thoughts.
In the beginning, Brian had thought this was a restraining measure put in place by Zero, fearful of these sub-bodies developing a sense of self.
That wasn't the case.
It was all coincidental.
After Brian inquired carefully,
apart from all information concerning Zero, the night didn't conceal anything else from Brian's other questions.
For example, the process by which it gave birth to a collective consciousness.
Initially, the night actually didn't have a self-awareness.
The scientific personnel involved in the Cylinder Brain project were some of the elite of the globe.
