Red wine poisoning case 2.4

With the gun barrel pressed against his brow, Fan Jinci's fingertips slowly drooped down.

In his grey-blue pupils, the data stream receded like a tide, replaced by a fragmented clarity.

“Yu Yan…” his voice was hoarse, like a trapped beast crawling out of an abyss, “…kill me.”

"Shut up!" Yu Yan's hand, with veins bulging on the trigger, suddenly turned the gun around and shot the swarm of mechanical bees flying in from outside the window.

Amidst the sparks flying, Fan Jinci suddenly grabbed his wrist and shoved something into his palm—

A blood-stained nerve-blocking chip.

"Implanted in the back of my neck." Fan Jinci pulled open his collar, revealing the reddened M-0 brand. "Yan Kang's memory stream is devouring me... but the core instructions are hidden..."

In the underground control room, Wen Lin kicked open the last gate.

A huge spherical screen floated in the center, displaying the brainwaves of everyone in the manor—and the two waveforms at the very center were gradually merging into the same frequency.

"Yan Kang (M-12) → Fan Jinci (M-0) Synchronization rate 98.7%"

"Damn it!" Wen Lin smashed the glass control panel and ripped out the writhing nerve fibers inside. "Jiang Zhaoyan! This thing is using living people as nourishment!"

Suddenly, the entire screen switched to Ryan's video recording:

"Congratulations on finding the answer." The scientist in the picture is smiling and holding up a glass of champagne.

"The manor is my biological computer, and Yan Kang... is the most perfect carrier of consciousness."

"It's a pity he misses his brother too much."

The video abruptly stopped, and blue slime suddenly seeped from the wall as countless mechanical tentacles attacked the two of them!

Inside the medical room, Yu Yan forcefully plunged the chip into the back of Fan Jinci's neck.

"ah--!!!"

Amidst Fan Jinci's screams and electronic noise, his pupils darted wildly between gray-blue and blood-red, finally settling on a state of utter descent into lucidity.

“1997… the cryo-chamber…” He convulsively grabbed Yu Yan’s collar, “Ryan transformed Yan Kang… into…”

Memories burst forth like a torrent breaking through the floodgates—

Six-year-old Yan Kang was wheeled into a neural interface pod, with Fan Jinci standing expressionlessly outside the glass. Ryan pressed his hand down to sign a "voluntary consent form." The most painful truth: Yan Kang's consciousness had long since vanished; the current "Yan Kang" was merely an AI-generated obsession.

“He… is long gone.” Fan Jinci coughed up blood mixed with fragments of electrical circuitry. “The current ‘Yan Kang’… is just an illusion created by the manor…”

In the main control room of the manor, Wen Lin's gun was pointed at the main power source.

“If you turn it off, you’ll never be able to recover your memories!” Jiang Zhaoyan pressed him down. “Fan Jinci’s childhood was tampered with…”

"That kid has made his choice." Wen Lin glanced at the monitor screen—

In the scene, Yu Yan carries the unconscious Fan Jinci out of the sea of ​​fire, while behind him, the semi-transparent figure of Yan Kang is dissipating in the corridor of the manor.

The boy smiled and mouthed:

"Brother, I wish you happiness."