Mass selection. Rattus went dead silent after hearing those words. He knew to himself that he, among all the others in cafe, knew that the term meant. It bought out old, horrifying memories of a past that everyone knew, but he himself experienced so heavily.<br/><br/>It reminded him of barbed wire fences, cattle cars, identification patches and serial numbers for people. It reminded him of all the times he just stood at a specific corner diligently, watching as the new arrivals get sorted into groups. He remembers himself just looking at this whole process and watching silently. He was not actively involved with the processing of the so-called inmates of the facility. After all, he knew that his main task is to lead the men who were assigned to guard a specific sub-camp for these inmates. Whatever happened to these inmates, he did not have any participation in it. He tried to be detached to the whole situation, even if he was aware of what really happened in the whole camp. And so, he did nothing.<br/><br/>Yet, the more he knew that he had no active participation, the more he felt dizzy, agitated and generally unwell. It was only by his perhaps inhuman will to power that he maintained his composure and not falter while he was talking with Glitch in front of the laptop. But he knew why he felt sick by that time. Because he did nothing. At all. And that, he knew, was the greatest sin he did in his whole life.<br/><br/>Rattus took out his hip flask and drank to calm his nerves. He typed again on the chat.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">"I can confirm that my familiarity regarding the term is present and sufficient. However, it will be more realized if you could elaborate about what the qualifications of this selection are requiring. Because, going by the manner you speak of such, it looks like it has highly demanding specifications compared to the average citizen. And that is a red flag already, at this point.<br/><br/>And of course, we are very aware about possibly heavy level of security this autonomous region will employ, and it will be proactively applied to visitors, especially in our case. As such, we are taking tactically extensive measures to counter-act this kind of potential focus against temporary residents. <br/><br/>But speaking of sporadic and impromptu evaluations between our parties, I request that we have one of those later this day, ASAP. After all, we did make reservations in a grand hotel's highest elevation living quarters. Refrain from having thoughts of the Order availing this kind of commodity solely for conspicuous consumption. Higher elevations, after all, are a vantage point for reconnaissance and general observation. And, since you have actively demonstrated higher mastery of general modern computer science and networking, it is very urgent that we must be in contact today, especially when you referred to surveillance that this city uses. You do know how to stay unremarkable, it seems, so we want to personally contact you. Don't ask why, just remember: We're going to sweep and clear some undesirable insects in our hotel room. I don't trust the hotel staff to do that efficiently and sufficiently."</span>