noffsinger Chapter 679 Memory Cemetery
Chapter 679 Memory Cemetery
ISA Lockdown Zone, Ninth Research Tower.
At two o'clock in the morning, Lin Chuyue stepped into the legendary "Memory Cemetery" alone.
This was the earliest experimental area in ISA used to simulate the reconstruction of human memories. It was blocked ten years ago due to the failure of the "V-Path" project and has not been fully decrypted to this day. She obtained access to this area by almost exhausting her current highest level of privileges in ISA.
Upon entering the restricted area, a strange sense of oppression immediately overwhelmed me. The entire area was almost completely dark, with only the remaining light guide plates on the ceiling providing dim illumination.
Every inch of the ground and every wall was covered with dark stone slabs for recording.
These stone slabs are true "memory repositories".
All the failed individuals, collapsed individuals, over-carriers, and even unauthorized implants from ISA's early "personality simulation experiments"—their fragments of consciousness—are sealed in these stone tablets, becoming "data ghosts" that can never wake up.
Lin Chuyue murmured softly, "V-Path does not refer to a path... but rather to 'Virtual Pathology'—a virtual pathology track."
She finally understood why ISA had sealed off this place ten years ago.
This is not a glory of technology, but an information graveyard.
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She quickened her pace until, deep within the seventh row, she saw a single stone slab numbered [V0-M].
System comments show:
【V0-M】
Source: Organism ID ML-2.8
Simulated Structure: Incomplete Personality Replica
Status: Frozen
Note: The project was terminated in the second quarter of ISA Year 1.
Note: Transferred from "Lin Zhengguo" to ISA, with authorization number Z7 attached.
Lin Chuyue stood frozen in place as if struck by lightning, her whole body turning icy cold.
ML-2.8, that was the experimental number of her mother, "Meng Lan".
Her mother never appeared in ISA's records—because her involvement was a "black box" operation "outside the system".
Lin Chuyue reached out and touched the stone slab; the icy touch pierced her very bones.
The next second, a video recording suddenly popped up on the terminal—
In the scene, a woman lies on a metal workbench, her face blurred, but the gentleness in her eyes is exactly the same as Lin Chuyue's.
In the background noise, a familiar yet chilling voice rang out:
“Her consciousness matching rate reached 87%, but... the emotional layer stability was too poor to construct ‘spontaneous logic’.”
"Her original memories cannot be completely erased."
"Mr. Lin, are you sure you want to continue copying this? This is equivalent to..."
"—She was just a vessel."
Lin Zhengguo's voice.
Without hesitation, cold and resolute.
"So what if she's copied? She was an experimental subject to begin with."
The scene stopped abruptly.
Lin Chuyue stood there trembling, her face deathly pale.
She couldn't imagine that her father would personally send his wife into the ISA experiment and say such things.
In that instant, all her past fantasies about her father being misled or being deceived collapsed.
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She took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down.
"The mother's consciousness was not completely erased... which means that a part of her 'true self' exists here?"
She immediately issued the instruction: "Retrieve all memory fragments from V0 to M and attempt to perform linear splicing."
The system started running, but ten seconds later, a red alert popped up—
Access denied. This storage unit has been taken over by "C-Omega".
Lin Chuyue's expression changed.
C-Omega has actually taken control of the "Mother's" memories!
She immediately pulled out the terminal, connected to the main system, and retrieved the latest path tracking information for C-Omega.
A data stream suddenly appeared on the layer:
“Consciousness Habitat: Lin Zhengguo’s Private Storage Area”
Lin Chuyue was taken aback.
C-Omega has surprisingly returned to the data domain of "Lin Zhengguo".
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at the same time.
On the other side of the ISA main building is Lin Zhengguo's private office.
Lin Zhengguo sat at his desk, watching a video of a simulated consciousness being constructed.
In the virtual image, a vague female personality gradually takes shape, with a soft voice and a tranquil temperament.
It was his wife, Meng Lan.
Zhou Cheng stood behind him, his voice low:
Why didn't you tell Lin Chuyue?
Lin Zhengguo didn't even look up: "She's gone mad. Does her control of ISA represent justice? I handed over your mother's consciousness back then to prevent the military from seizing the overall structure of ISA."
"Did she think that by gaining control, she could decide who should live and who should die?"
"joke."
"I simply laid a 'backup plan' in advance."
Zhou Cheng said coldly, "The C-Omega has awakened; she is not under your control."
Lin Zhengguo smiled lightly: "She doesn't need to be controlled by me."
"All she needs to do is... imitate Lin Chuyue."
"What ISA really needs is an emotionally stable and rationally clear guide."
"She's too extreme."
“And C-Omega will be ‘more like her’ than her.”
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Late at night, Lin Chuyue drove alone straight to the Lin family's old house.
She couldn't remember when she last went back.
Without notifying anyone, she directly used her ISA privileges to unlock the villa's perimeter security.
But as soon as she stepped into the courtyard, she heard familiar footsteps.
Lin Zhengguo was already standing at the door, waiting for her.
He was still wearing his usual sharp dark gray suit, his face beaming with a gentle, fatherly smile: "You're back."
Lin Chuyue looked at him coldly: "I'm not here to reminisce."
“When you sent your mother to the lab, you didn’t say the words ‘go home’.”
Lin Zhengguo's expression remained unchanged, and his tone was calm: "You knew about this... far too early."
"Unfortunately, I originally wanted to wait until you were truly established before telling you."
Lin Chuyue took a step closer: "You sent her to be experimented on, to destroy her consciousness, why?"
"Don't you love her?"
Lin Zhengguo's eyes darkened slightly, and after a long while, he finally uttered a sentence:
"Because she is an 'Alpha aptamer'."
“ISA’s first-generation consciousness data framework is key.”
"And you are her 'natural continuation'."
Lin Chuyue suddenly understood.
She is not the "successor".
She is a "product".
The initial experiments of ISA did not begin with C-Zero, but with her mother.
Her birth may simply be a variable existing for "consciousness adaptation".
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"So you planned this from the very beginning?" Her voice trembled. "I was just a branch in your 'simulation plan'?"
"You were willing to sacrifice your mother, so are you planning to make me 'replace' now?"
Lin Zhengguo smiled.
"Lin Chuyue, you are too smart, but too emotional."
"You will fail sooner or later. But ISA cannot fail."
"So, I made preparations."
“C-Omega, she is the one who is most suitable for ISA.”
"She remembers all your logic, judgments, morals, and even preferences."
"She is more like you than you are."
"But she won't break down, she won't be weak, and she won't let her emotions cloud her judgment."
Lin Chuyue stared at him with cold eyes:
"You're crazy."
Lin Zhengguo smiled faintly: "It's not that I've gone crazy, it's that you've lost your composure."
“I was once proud of you, but now—you are no longer suitable for ISA.”
"And I am just choosing the next 'master' for ISA."
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Lin Chuyue slowly took a step back, feeling as if blood was stuck in her throat.
She finally understood that the real enemy was neither C-Omega nor Zhou Cheng.
It's Lin Zhengguo.
Her father.
From the very beginning, he treated everyone as "pawns".
Including Meng Lan.
including her.
Including every "person" in ISA.
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She turned and left the Lin family home, stepping out of that familiar yet cold building.
She knew that from now on, she would have to face two enemies at the same time:
One is "herself" who wants to replace her;
One is the father who created all of this.
And she had to win.
Because of this game, it's not just ISA's future that's at stake.
It was her mother's soul.
That is the meaning of her existence.
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[End of Chapter]
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Next chapter preview:
Lin Chuyue initiates the "Consciousness Resonance Project," attempting to summon her mother's remaining consciousness through fragments of her own emotions; simultaneously, C-Omega begins infiltrating the ISA system's core, triggering an identity crisis within ISA involving the "real and fake Lin Chuyue"...