0p0 Chapter 689 Forbidden Zone of Memory
Chapter 689 Forbidden Zone of Memory
ISA South Wing, Closed Experimental Area, 7th Floor.
This is the site of some of the earliest consciousness reconstruction equipment from ISA, now converted into a backup space, with only a small number of technicians maintaining the system. Access to this place is no longer permitted to those without top-secret clearance.
Now, this place has become the location where Gu Yanchuan is about to undergo memory reconstruction.
Inside the pristine white observation chamber, Gu Yanchuan lay flat in the temperature-controlled consciousness chamber, with three deep nerve guides connected to his forehead. His vital signs were stable but low.
The numbers jumping on the screen represent that his brain is preparing to enter the first stage: core memory extraction.
Neutral presiding officer Wen Baiyan stood in front of the control panel, his face serious: "Lin Yun, we will intervene according to the parent code you provided, but if any deviation occurs, we will stop immediately."
Lin Yun nodded, her smile fading: "I understand. I just want to give him back a complete version of himself."
No one noticed that her fingertips were slightly red—a signal to activate the "private key model," an uncertified consciousness intervention path that would only be used in "non-registered debugging."
At that moment, she had quietly redirected the system permissions to herself.
**
Meanwhile, Lin Chuyue hid in the cleaning and maintenance port of the ISA's ninth channel.
She was wearing a dark gray ISA operations uniform, her short hair tied up with a few stray strands sticking to her forehead, which was covered in beads of sweat. She had just bypassed four firewalls and infiltrated the ISA network hub without any authorization.
“Mirror Language, I need you to bypass the main system and open the secondary passage on the seventh floor of the South Wing Experimental Zone for me.”
The voice of Jingyu came through the communicator, low and tense: "Do you know what this means? The place you're about to enter—they've activated the Personality Judgment Protocol. Once you're discovered..."
“I know,” Lin Chuyue interrupted him, her tone icy, “but I can’t let her touch his brain.”
"That's not a place she should touch."
**
On the seventh floor of the South Wing Experimental Zone, consciousness intervention is about to begin.
"Deep memory retrieval initiated. Target: Gu Yanchuan, codename ARC-092."
A blue beam of light appeared on the holographic screen, and then Gu Yanchuan's core memories unfolded frame by frame:
When he was six years old, he stood in front of the porch of an old English house. It was a rainy night with a cold wind. His mother, wrapped in a cloak, knelt down and hugged him, whispering, "You are not their failure. You are the hope that your mother has given up to keep."
The camera then shifts to Gu Heng.
That year, Gu Heng first attempted to implant a "stabilization program" into Gu Yanchuan, but Gu Yanchuan unconsciously refused and escaped from the data capsule. He shouted, "I am not the tool they want!" His voice echoed like thunder in the consciousness channel.
Lin Yun's gaze was calm as she entered the "Memory Integration Protocol".
The access fragment she chose was not Gu Yanchuan's original memory, but rather a "cross-memory" that she and Gu Yanchuan had briefly shared, which is—
Using images of her mother as a template, she simulated a "pseudo-mother-son relationship" from the past.
Wen Baiyan frowned: "This part of yours... is not the original data."
Lin Yun said coldly, "It comes from Gu Yanchuan's mother's private records, but I am the one who is carrying them."
Wen Baiyan hesitated.
The system has automatically switched to "embedded state".
Gu Yanchuan's consciousness was pulled into a completely new scene:
On a sunny afternoon, a sea breeze blew through the courtyard. He sat on the swing, and Lin Yun, dressed in a white dress, whispered to him, "Yanchuan, don't be afraid anymore. I'm here."
The voice seemed to echo from childhood, yet it also carried an inexplicable eeriness.
Gu Yanchuan's body trembled slightly in the consciousness chamber, and his brainwave curve suddenly fluctuated briefly.
Lin Yun's pupils constricted; she knew something was wrong.
—He started to reject foreign things.
At the same time, Lin Chuyue finally entered the secondary passage.
She stopped in front of the observation window and saw Lin Yun standing in front of the control panel, while Gu Yanchuan's life curve began to fluctuate violently.
Without hesitation, she immediately activated the backup remote control.
"Mirror Language, connect me to the consciousness guide; I want to intervene."
"You're insane!" Jingyu roared. "Running two sets of consciousness inputs simultaneously will tear him apart!"
“I know him better than she does,” Lin Chuyue said, emphasizing each word. “I also know which part of him is his true self.”
Jingyu paused for a few seconds, then gritted his teeth and said, "Okay."
Lin Chuyue placed her hands over the remote control interface and closed her eyes—
The light screen flashed, and the connection was initiated.
**
Gu Yanchuan's consciousness space has begun to become chaotic at this moment.
The "fictional afternoon" scene implanted by Lin Yun shattered, and his core personality began to resist, but he was not completely awake, as if he was struggling to wake up from a dream.
Just then, a familiar female voice came from afar—
"Gu Yanchuan".
It was Lin Chuyue's voice.
Gu Yanchuan looked into the distance and saw Lin Chuyue standing on the stone steps, smiling against the light, wearing the same blue dress he remembered from his childhood.
"Do you remember this place? This is the place where you first sneaked out to see the stars."
Lin Yun's fictional narrative collapsed instantly.
"You're not her." Gu Yanchuan's voice trembled in his mind. "You're not my real mother...you're...wrong..."
Lin Yun's expression changed drastically.
"Gu Yanchuan!" she shouted, "I'm the one who understands you the most! She can't save you!"
Gu Yanchuan's body suddenly convulsed violently, and the screen of his consciousness began to tear in two.
Wen Baiyan shouted, "Stop! Stop interfering immediately!!"
"System crashing—"
"Two dominant personality sources have been identified. The system is automatically selecting the retention path..."
Just then, Lin Chuyue suddenly raised her hand and slowly spoke:
"Gu Yanchuan, who do you choose?"
Consciousness space is like time standing still.
A moment later, Gu Yanchuan opened his eyes, his gaze clear.
"I choose her."
As soon as the words were spoken, the entire system shook violently—
Lin Yun was forcibly ejected, resulting in a backlash of consciousness.
She staggered back two steps, blood trickling from the tip of her nose.
Gu Yanchuan finally opened his eyes in the consciousness pod.
The darkness of the abyss was gone from his eyes, leaving only a bottomless clarity.
He saw that familiar figure outside the observation window and said softly:
"You came."
**
That night, an emergency meeting of ISA was held.
Lin Yun was stripped of her privileges indefinitely and removed from ISA for "unauthorized alteration of her personality path in an attempt to control the core consciousness."
Lin Chuyue was regarded as the key driver of the "successful case of personality reconstruction" and regained her ISA experiment qualification, but Gu Heng did not say a word.
Because he knew that the situation had only just begun.
**
Foreshadowing at the end of the chapter:
After regaining consciousness, Gu Yanchuan secretly told Lin Chuyue, "Deep in my consciousness, I saw a shadow that looked exactly like me. It said, 'You can't save her; she will eventually leave you.'"
Lin Chuyue's heart suddenly turned cold: "What you saw... was not Lin Yun, but—the second personality."
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End of this chapter