0p0 Chapter 675 The Zero-Degree Mystery
Chapter 675 The Zero-Degree Mystery
For the first time, half of the lights at ISA headquarters were turned off at 3 a.m.
Lin Chuyue stood in the glass corridor of the command center, looking at the main server tower in the distance, which was glowing with a red warning light.
She knew that everything would change after tonight.
“The permission freeze application has been approved.” Li Zhanchuan stepped forward and handed her the terminal. “Of the seven adjudicators at the ISA level, five have signed their votes in favor.”
"Who objected?" Lin Chuyue asked.
"Li Jinzhi and... Zhou Cheng."
“I’m not surprised by Zhou Cheng; he and Chen Yuyao have a past relationship.”
Lin Chuyue's voice was calm, "Where is Li Jinzhi?"
Li Zhanchuan looked at her and said, "He doesn't know whether to believe you or himself."
He said that he had participated in the construction of the ISA system architecture when he was young, and he was unwilling to believe that what they had maintained for decades was actually the dream of a madman.
Lin Chuyue closed her eyes.
"Some people spend their whole lives guarding ruins, yet they still think it's a palace."
"I don't have time to wake him up."
Li Zhanchuan said in a deep voice, "But you must win him over."
Lin Chuyue raised her head, her eyes sharp. "Is he the person you want me to fight for, or do you want me to fight for him to protect you?"
Li Zhanchuan's expression froze, and his brows furrowed slightly.
She suddenly laughed and said calmly, "Can't you trust me one more time? I haven't lost yet."
"I just don't want you to be the only one standing in front of me again."
A flicker of hesitation crossed Li Zhanchuan's eyes, but he ultimately nodded.
I won't stop you.
“But starting tonight, I will be transferred out of the ISA Operations Command.”
Lin Chuyue turned around abruptly: "Who gave the order?"
"The ruling committee," he said with a cold smile, "is that my 'close relationship with the person being monitored' interfered with the system's principle of neutrality."
Lin Chuyue sneered: "Neutral?"
"If ISA still had any neutrality, I would have been kicked out of headquarters long ago."
She turned and walked to the control panel, typing in a string of code.
"Before you leave, please send me a copy of the 'Data Betting Agreement'."
"Subject: Li Jinzhi".
Li Zhanchuan asked in a low voice, "What do you want to bet?"
Lin Chuyue said coldly, "I want him to choose between believing 'a candidate whose memory has been erased' or believing 'a madman with a symbiotic personality'."
"The stakes—control of the ISA system."
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At the same time, in the ISA isolation observation area.
Chen Yuyao sat cross-legged in the pure white room, her eyes vacant.
Although her body remained calm, her consciousness had already subtly shifted.
The "C-Zero personality" has taken full control of the nervous system; she is like a newly rebooted host computer, calibrating its goals.
"Lin Chuyue," she murmured the name.
"You think you won?"
"wrong."
"I just came back."
Her eyes slowly turned red, and pale golden data patterns appeared on her fingertips, as if her consciousness was directly connected to the system's underlying layer.
She activated a hidden backdoor program in ISA:
— "Judgment Second Sequence: Mirror Hunt".
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At 5 a.m., a secret meeting was held by senior ISA executives.
Li Jinzhi received a strange package.
An encrypted document sent by Lin Chuyue is named "[Zero Personality Profile: Falsification of Personality Level System]".
The content precisely points out that Chen Yuyao was "deleted from the ISA technical department" when she was fourteen years old, but still entered ISA as the "daughter of the deputy team leader". In the following five years, she bypassed the multi-level review system and reactivated the original "C-Zero Project" in the ISA system through "personality symbiosis".
He stared at the simulated personality map; at its very center were two symmetrical cores of consciousness:
On the left, Chen Yuyao; on the right, Chen Yulan.
They are not sisters, they are the same person.
Different consciousness, different stages, different ambitions.
Li Jinzhi closed the document with trembling hands.
He finally understood that the various "system self-adjustment", "candidate filtering", and "failure of thought synchronization" that ISA had experienced over the years were not technical vulnerabilities.
They are the ones who are selecting—the qualified ones.
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In the early morning, Lin Chuyue received feedback:
[Li Jinzhi has not yet made a statement, but has suspended all surveillance on you.]
[ISA Temporary Transfer Order: Li Zhanchuan is being transferred to provide support for perimeter operations and will leave headquarters in three days.]
Her gaze remained unchanged; she simply lowered her head slightly and inserted a miniature earpiece into her ear.
—"From now on, ISA and I will enter a three-day battle to the death."
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Her first step is to completely tear down the fig leaf of the "reserve system".
She contacted another "reserve"—Zhou Ming.
He was among the first batch of "candidates" to enter ISA, always keeping a low profile, but he was very aware of all the shady dealings within the system.
When the video call connected, Zhou Ming was pale and looked anxious.
"Are you crazy? Chen Yuyao is chasing me!"
Lin Chuyue said in a deep voice, "She's not hunting you down, she's cleaning up her backups."
"Only you remember that she participated in the 'C-Zero Experiment' when she was a child."
Zhou Ming trembled: "I don't want to die..."
“Then help me.” Lin Chuyue interrupted him.
"I know you once secretly kept a mirror copy of the original ISA system."
"That is the only evidence that can prove Chen Yuyao tampered with the system control logic."
"Give me."
Zhou Ming gritted his teeth: "Can you protect me?"
Lin Chuyue gave a cold smile.
"You still don't understand?"
"This isn't a question of whether I'll protect you or not."
"If you don't hand it over, you'll die tonight."
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That afternoon, a large-scale, short-term power outage occurred in the North Tower of ISA.
Taking advantage of the chaos, Lin Chuyue entered the ISA "Consciousness Residual Playback Room" and activated the simulated dialogue system.
She pulled up the "image of the first failed C-Zero personality experiment".
On the screen, a girl in a white dress cries out, "You are not me! You shouldn't be in my body! You're just a tool!"
—That was none other than Chen Yuyao, who experienced her first personality breakdown after being implanted with the "C-Zero" program when she was a child.
She is fighting against herself.
That was also the time she killed the "Chen Yulan" inside her.
But later, she resurrected her.
In the form of data, in the form of consciousness.
"C-Zero never died, he just came back with a different face."
Lin Chuyue's eyes were as cold as ice.
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In the dead of night, at the ISA tower, the midnight mission alarm suddenly sounded.
The system detected unauthorized high-privilege behavior.
[Source Locked: ISA Image Cleaner - C-Zero]
The lights at ISA headquarters went out instantly.
A system voice message appeared on the large screen:
[Personality Incompatibility Warning]
[Enter manual adjudication mode]
Then, a beautiful figure slowly appeared on the control room screen.
It's Chen Yuyao.
No, it's "C-Zero".
She looked at Lin Chuyue and gently smiled, "Welcome back, you failure."
Lin Chuyue remained unfazed: "In the end, you're afraid of me."
Chen Yuyao smiled: "Scared? No, I've been waiting for you for a long time."
She raised her hand, and the interface that controlled most of the ISA system modules appeared behind her.
"You want to replace me?"
"Can you withstand the 'level of consciousness fusion' required by the original ISA system?"
"Can you withstand the trial of becoming 'below the gods'?"
Lin Chuyue's eyes were extremely cold.
"I will not bear it, I will break it."
"Starting tonight—I am the final arbiter of ISA."
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[End of Chapter]
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Next chapter preview:
Lin Chuyue decides to forcibly access the ISA main server to engage in a final battle of consciousness with the "C-Zero" personality, while Li Jinzhi finally publicly takes sides, stirring up the deepest rift within ISA's upper echelons. The true "personality war" begins.