Chapter 238 Awakening of Memory

The warning of "Night" hovered in the corner of the B7 bunker like a ghost. Lu Zhao's hand holding the tool stopped in mid-air, his mind in a mess.

That familiar feeling of regret made him wonder whether to trust his own design intuition or the disastrous consequences described by the mysterious man in front of him.

He shook his head, trying to shake off the inexplicable emotion, and immersed himself in the final debugging work of the "Core Resonance Amplifier".

Lin Che's eyes were drawn to the device. Not to its overall structure, but to the silver metal fragments that Lu Zhao had just embedded in it, which he had brought back from the ruins.

An indescribable impulse, like a thirsty man seeing a source of water, drove him to move forward step by step.

He reached out and tried to touch one of the fragments that was flashing a faint arc of electricity.

"Be careful," Su Wanqing warned, "We don't know what impact those things will have."

Lin Che nodded to her, indicating that he had heard her, but the hand did not stop.

His inner desire overwhelmed his reason, and he had to touch it. The moment his fingertips touched the cold surface of the fragment, a dazzling blue light suddenly jumped out from the fragment. It did not attack anyone, but accurately penetrated into Lin Che's arm, instantly lighting up all the Orion sequence patterns hidden under his skin.

Lin Che's entire body seemed to be struck by high voltage electricity. He bounced back violently and fell heavily to the ground.

He curled up, holding his head tightly with both hands, and squeezed out an uncontrollable groan of pain from his throat: "I... remember... everything..."

The silver lines under his skin flashed wildly, the light flickering, as if liquid metal was surging and colliding in his blood vessels, reshaping every inch of his nerves.

After a few seconds, the moaning stopped. Lin Che slowly loosened his hands and raised his head.

His eyes had completely changed. No longer the confusion and struggle from before, but filled with deep pain and ancient memories that seemed to transcend time.

He looked at Su Wanqing, his voice hoarse, each word carrying a heavy weight: "I am not... a complete human being. I am a failure... that they discarded."

Everyone around was stunned, and Xiao Ran, Lieutenant Cui and others looked surprised and suspicious.

Lin Che ignored the gazes of others. He struggled to stand up and continued, "The Weavers have been paying attention to Earth for a long time. They did not come immediately, but included humans... us, in a long "racial evolutionary adaptability experiment."

They want to test what evolutionary direction humans will choose and what coping abilities they will demonstrate when faced with different types of doomsday disasters. "

He smiled bitterly and looked around the narrow underground bunker. "The virus that once spread across the world, the extreme winter that lasted for decades, the permanent torrential rain that submerged the continent... those were not natural phenomena. They were all experimental conditions that they carefully set up."

He raised his hands and looked at the lines on them that were slowly calming down, "And I... I am the product of their early experiments.

At that time, they tried to integrate an alien gene called the 'Orion sequence' into human DNA to see if they could create a hybrid species that could better adapt to extreme environments. "

He walked towards Su Wanqing step by step, tears welling up in his eyes. That was not weakness, but an uncontrollable torrent of emotions after his memories were unlocked.

"I existed in the last reincarnation... Not only am I a product of an experiment, but because of the sequence in my body, I was chosen by Dr. Morris to assist him in researching the Weaver's technology."

He covered his chest with his hands in pain, as if an old wound was tearing apart there. "I... loved you in my last life, too. Until the very end, I died to protect you and the doctor's data... Part of my consciousness and memory was stored by the doctor's system, and then reactivated in this reincarnation.

But... in order to reduce interference, the system did not return my memory completely to me, and only kept the most core part... which is my... feelings for you."

At this moment, countless fragmented and inexplicable fragments suddenly pieced together in Su Wanqing's mind.

The inexplicable familiarity she had with Lin Che, the moments of tacit understanding that seemed familiar in times of crisis, the affection and sadness that occasionally appeared in his eyes when he looked at her, which did not belong to this young body... Everything now had an explanation.

Lin Che's memory awakened, and also revealed more about the enemy.

"The Weavers, they are not evil, at least not by human standards.

They are just cold scientists. To them, the demise of a civilization only means the end of an experiment... unless this civilization shows something that surprises them and has special research value. "

His eyes turned to Xiao Ling who was held in Xiao Ran's arms. "Xiao Ling is the most special existence in the previous reincarnation. Her genes, without any external interference, spontaneously produced mutations that can resist and even neutralize the energy of the Weaver.

They were shocked by this, so they did not directly collect the entire Earth, but extended the experimental period and started this reincarnation. "

He turned to Lu Zhao again: "And you... in your last reincarnation, you did create this device, and it did severely damage the Weaver's Forerunner in an instant.

But the price is that the massive energy it releases completely tears apart the fabric of reality."

Finally, Lin Che’s gaze fell on “Ye” in the corner.

"You are right, but not completely. At the end of the last reincarnation, at the moment of final choice, Su Wanqing did choose to save only me.

But it wasn't out of selfishness." Lin Che's voice became firm, "It was because my body was carrying the key data and sequence samples that Dr. Morris used to restart the entire reincarnation plan. She wanted to continue hope...but, we failed in the end."

While Lin Che was recounting all this, “Ye” maintained his signature indifferent expression.

But when Lin Che mentioned that "Dr. Morris sacrificed himself to protect humanity", his hands, which had been behind his back, unconsciously clenched into fists, and his knuckles turned white from the force.

He whispered to himself very softly, almost inaudibly: "He always chooses to sacrifice himself... and I, his most imperfect copy, have inherited all his knowledge, but not his..."

He didn't finish and stopped, as if he couldn't say the word.

This subtle reaction did not escape Su Wanqing's eyes. She slowly walked towards "Ye" and spoke in a low voice, like an awl, piercing his disguised shell: "What did you not inherit from him? Moral sense? Or...humanity?"

She looked directly into Night's inhuman eyes: "If you are really just a monitor of the Weaver, why did you tell us such crucial information as the 'blind spot'?

Why did you take out the quantum stabilizer to help Lu Zhao complete this device that could threaten you?"

Su Wanqing's questioning made "Ye" avoid her sight for the first time.

He was silent for a moment before he slowly spoke: “Maybe… I’m just tired of this eternal cycle.

For five reincarnations, I watched the same group of people make various choices, but the final result was always destruction..."

He raised his head, and in his eyes there flashed a trace of deep fatigue that only humans have.

"Maybe, I just want to see if you can really break this cycle this time."

The air in the B7 bunker seemed to freeze. After the tired words of "Ye" faded away, only silence and the huge shock brought by Lin Che's awakening memory were left.

Everyone is digesting this subversive truth in their own way - reincarnation, experiments, failures, and the cold logic hidden behind the enemy.

Xiao Ran's gaze moved back and forth between Lin Che and "Ye" in the corner, and finally landed on his sister Xiao Ling.

He wanted to say something to comfort her, but found his throat dry and he couldn't utter a word.

At this moment, Xiaoling, who had been watching her brother quietly, suddenly covered her head.

The lavender third eye on her forehead began to flash violently and uncontrollably, the light was blinding.

"Ugh..." She let out a painful low sob, her small body curled up, then her eyes rolled back and she fell straight backwards.

"Xiao Ling!" Xiao Ran was the first to react. He rushed over and hugged her in his arms before she landed.

He patted her face, his voice full of panic: "Xiaoling! Wake up! What's wrong with you!"

Lu Zhao also quickly squatted down, placed his fingers on Xiaoling's carotid artery, and looked at her flickering third eye again, frowning.

"Her vital signs are stable, and she is not in danger of death. But her energy fluctuations are... very abnormal, like... a mental overload."

Everyone in the bunker gathered around, worry written all over their faces.

Lieutenant Cui immediately shouted through the communicator: "Military doctor! Bring the medical equipment over!"

Soon, a military doctor arrived with a box and performed a series of tests with a portable device. In the end, he could only shake his head helplessly: "Report to the lieutenant, the heart rate and blood pressure are normal, and the brain wave... I have never seen the graph of the brain wave. Conventional methods can't determine her current condition at all."

About ten minutes later, when everyone was at a loss and the atmosphere was extremely depressing, the personal terminal interface on Su Wanqing's wrist suddenly lit up.

The Guardian's icon expands on its own, projecting a three-dimensional holographic image.

A more human-sounding synthesized voice sounded: "High-intensity resonance of historical memory fragments detected, high-level permissions activated."

Before he finished speaking, some blurry scenes began to play on the video.

In the first scene, a huge energy explosion spreads from the center of the city, and everything disappears in its path. In the end, the entire planet is completely enveloped and collected by the silver data stream.

In the second segment, a lone spaceship escapes from the Earth, while the blue planet behind them is quickly covered by ice and turned into a dead ball of ice.

The third video was the clearest. Su Wanqing saw herself, or rather her previous self, standing in the center of the energy field formed by the three cores.

Standing next to her was a figure, it was Lin Che who had just awakened his memory.

At the moment when the energy reached its peak, she hesitated in the image, and her hand reached out to Lin Che, not the core itself.

The next second, the energy field lost control and violently backfired, engulfing the two of them.

The Guardian’s voice sounded again, with an analytical tone: “The first round: a comprehensive confrontation strategy, resulting in total annihilation.

Second cycle: A partial escape strategy resulted in the destruction of the planet and the continued survival of civilization is unknown.

The third reincarnation: Tried the anchor strategy, but due to emotional conflicts at key nodes, the decision was wrong, the energy backfired, and the plan failed. "

The system image turned to Su Wanqing and said to her directly: "Last time, you chose Lin Che as the co-survivor instead of the best anchor candidate calculated by the system.

This is understandable human emotion, but in the face of the ultimate crisis, emotion interferes with the best logical judgment. This time, you must make a choice based on logic. "

Su Wanqing looked at those tragic endings and felt upset.

She whispered, "So... who is the best candidate for the anchor point?"

The system and the "night" in the corner fell silent at the same time.

Just when this question remained unresolved, Xiao Ling in Xiao Ran's arms suddenly opened her eyes.

But those eyes were no longer purple as before, but were glowing with a strange and calm golden light.

She gently pushed away the hands of her brother and the people around her who were supporting her and stood up on her own. Her movements were smooth and steady, and she did not look like a child who had just fainted.

She spoke, her voice mature and steady, with a detachment that did not belong to her age: "There is not enough time left, I must convey key information."

Xiao Ran looked at his sister in astonishment. For a moment, he was unable to connect the calm "little adult" in front of him with the Xiao Ling in his memory.

Lin Che took a step forward and asked cautiously, "Who are you?"

A faint smile appeared on Xiaoling's lips, and in that smile there was a wisdom that was not in keeping with a child.

“I am still Ling, but I also contain fragments of memories from my previous reincarnation.

The Weaver never completely erased me... a part of my consciousness always existed at the core."

She walked towards the center of the bunker, her golden eyes scanning everyone present, signaling them to listen.

"The final collection required the voluntary sacrifice of five key samples in exchange for a perfect and constant time anchor.

In the past several reincarnations, we always failed because we lacked the most critical element of "voluntary participation."

Her gaze fell on Lin Che, Su Wanqing, Lu Zhao, Xiao Ran, and finally on "Ye" in the corner.

"The retrograde, the container, the guide, the guardian... and the anchor. These five roles must exist at the same time, and everyone must voluntarily accept their own fate."

Her hand gently touched the "core resonance amplifier" that Lu Zhao placed aside.

"This is not only a weapon, but also a connector. It can concentrate the life energy and will of the five of us into one point, forming a special space-time structure that is powerful enough to counter the Weaver's collection field. However, the prerequisite for activating it is that the five key samples... completely sacrifice themselves."

"No!" Xiao Ran could no longer remain calm when he heard this. He rushed forward and hugged his sister tightly in his arms, as if he wanted to use his body to block out those terrible words.

"I will never let anything hurt you again! This is ridiculous!

Sacrifice? I don’t agree! ”

Xiao Ling raised her head in his arms, and a hint of human tenderness flashed in her golden eyes.

"Brother, you said the same thing last time."

These words were like an icy awl that pierced into Xiao Ran's heart, causing his entire body to tremble.

Xiao Ling's voice was as light as a sigh: "Then you died at the hands of the pioneer in order to protect me.

I survived and became their most important specimen." She continued, "I was partially 'collected' by them and experienced a state of...'semi-eternity'.

I can’t describe that feeling in words. My consciousness floated outside of time, and I saw countless possibilities of failure, but also the only way to victory. ”

She turned to look at Su Wanqing. "Last time, you chose the wrong anchor point.

It is not up to one person to decide who to sacrifice and who to protect. Instead, the five of us must jointly choose an anchor point and place all our hopes on that one point.

We must be voluntary, for only the purest sacrifice, born of free will, can generate the spiritual strength to resist the collection field."

Xiao Ran hugged his sister tighter, tears streaming down his cheeks.

"There must be another way... There must be... I can't lose you..."

Xiaoling stretched out her little hand and gently stroked her brother's cheek.

"Sometimes, brother," her voice regained a bit of the softness of a child, but the content of her words was extremely heavy, "the greatest love is to allow the other person to complete his or her mission."