Chapter 205 Secret
Su Wanqing stayed in the main control room for a while with her personal instruments and the prepared list, then quickly walked towards the medical area.
There were less than ten hours left before she had to go down the shaft, and she felt uneasy at all.
Lin Che was still not fully awake, but the health monitoring on the main control screen showed that various values had gradually stabilized. However, there was still one piece of data flashing a warning - the brain wave image was highly abnormal and the activity was somewhat beyond common sense.
She pushed open the half-closed door of the medical cabin and walked to the bed. The medical staff was quietly tidying up the equipment and said with their heads down: "There is no major problem with the physical indicators now, but the brain activity is too intense, and it has always been in the high frequency band. We are helpless and dare not add any more medicine."
Su Wanqing nodded, didn't ask any more questions, and walked over to look at the display screen.
The EEG images were almost filled with high-density oscillations, as if someone was having a heated debate in his mind.
She put down the first aid kit she carried with her, adjusted her breathing, reached out to turn down the volume of the instrument, and listened carefully to Lin Che's movements.
The person on the bed still had his eyes closed. His complexion looked much better than in the past few days, but there was a hint of sweat on his forehead.
The corners of his lips trembled slightly, and he made small sounds intermittently.
Su Wanqing leaned over and heard a sentence: "...Why don't you say it?"
Then, the voice changed again, becoming much deeper and revealing a different human flavor: "It won't make any sense to her if I say it now."
Su Wanqing held her breath. Two very different tones rang out from Lin Che's mouth alternately.
One of the voices was clear and rapid, it was Lin Che's own voice, with a hint of stubbornness and impatience; the other was thick and sharp, with a sense of condescending distance, and each paragraph was accompanied by a sharp pause.
"I have the right to know." Lin Che smacked his lips a few times, his voice was weak, but he asked one sentence at a time, "Ye, what are you?"
The deep voice soon sounded again, "I am not your shadow, nor am I a parasite of your personality."
After a two-second pause, the other party seemed to be thinking, but immediately followed up with a sentence, "You and I are both tied to the experimental plan - your body is just a carrier, and it originally belonged to someone else."
Lin Che's voice suddenly became angry, "You're lying! My memories from childhood to adulthood are all... where did the other people come from?"
Ye's voice was so low that it almost touched Su Wanqing's ear, and he sneered: "Do you think those memories are all yours? They have been reshaped since you were born. The so-called Lin Che is just the most suitable match. The experiment requires a person whose spirit can completely cross the boundary. Those with weak wills would have collapsed early. You can survive because our consciousness has merged the best - not the first, and definitely not the only case."
Lin Che's breathing quickened. "Are you delaying on purpose? Every time there's something crucial you say you'll wait until the right time. I've had enough, I want the truth!"
The voices in the night group paused for a moment, then slowly rose, "The so-called 'waiting for the opportunity' is actually a desperate struggle. You asked the same question in the last round, and what was the result? The experimental plan failed in every round because-"
At this moment, Lin Che took a deep breath, but the voice continued, "-Every time someone concealed the truth, trying to keep a little hope. But every time you collapsed, she collapsed too. In seven reincarnations, the first six times, none of them succeeded."
Su Wanqing stood outside the cabin, listening quietly. Although she didn't understand all the technical details, the words "reincarnation", "fusion", and "seal" made her feel nervous.
Lin Che suddenly asked in an almost pleading tone, "What is reincarnation... Ye, are you a living person or a ghost? You keep talking about experiments... Between you and me, who is real?"
Ye's voice interrupted coldly, "Neither you nor I are complete individuals, we can only be considered living specimens. In the seven experiments, the main system of Orion was restarted six times, and each time the main control tried to piece together the adapter with different personality fragments. You and I are just the most suitable pieces of the puzzle that have been cut out - the dislocation you can feel is the remnant of old memories."
Lin Che twitched twice with excitement, and her voice suddenly became louder: "Are you scared? Or are you afraid of telling Su Wanqing?"
Ye's voice seemed to sink to the bottom of the water. "You think too highly of me. I just don't want to repeat the same mistakes again and again. In the first six rounds, no matter how hard we tried, she couldn't hold on in the end. Once the seal collapses, all memories will be overwritten by the main system and returned to zero."
The pace of their conversation was sometimes fast and sometimes slow, but there was a stalemate that was difficult to resolve.
Lin Che gritted his teeth and cursed, "Then I am also a pawn? What do you want to do?"
Ye's voice slowed down a bit, and he said in a low voice, "You and I are just pawns, Lin Che. This is already the seventh reincarnation. We lost the first six times because she couldn't maintain herself while finding all the cores. If she fails again this time, the seal of Orion will completely collapse, and everything will start over again, but no one will remember."
As soon as Lin Che said this, his whole body twitched and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
The EEG data on the monitor suddenly climbed up, almost reaching the maximum threshold, and then the curve dropped sharply.
The breathing monitor slowed down, and the sound coming out of Lin Che's mouth completely stopped.
Su Wanqing held her breath until the monitoring parameters slowly stabilized. The nurse on night watch at the medical station quickly came back to check the situation. Seeing that the values were still stable, she only muttered, "It's that kind of high-frequency remodeling again."
Su Wanqing waved her hand, indicating that she should not be disturbed.
She stared at Lin Che, thinking about the words "seal", "reincarnation" and "fusion", with confusion and anxiety in her heart.
She tried to memorize the entire process word for word in her mind, preparing to check the data with Lu Zhao later.
At the same time, Xiao Ran was borrowing supplies in the equipment room, checking spare equipment and debugging the communication signal generator.
He plugged the handheld device into the fortress's temporary communication network, and an unknown signal suddenly popped up on the screen.
Xiao Ran frowned and adjusted the signal strength to the highest setting. He scanned a few lines of parameters and found that the unauthorized data transmission lasted only a few seconds. The source was located in the abandoned storage room in the west area.
The medical staff in the preparation area looked up and saw it, but didn't ask any more questions. Xiao Ran turned off the equipment, walked briskly to the west area, and took out the portable monitor from the tool box.
At the door of the storage room, he did not rush in rashly, but scanned it with a detector first.
After a few seconds, he caught a very faint sign. He raised his hand and knocked on the door, only to see dust falling down.
Under the dim light, there were empty tool boxes and some disassembled instruments. Under one of the open boxes, a palm-sized piece of black metal was exposed.
He took out the metal piece and found that it was a transmitter with a miniature transmitting device - it was not a military standard, but it had its own data shielding and directional antenna.
Xiao Ran removed the storage chip of the transmitter. The remaining data on it was very concise: several highly compressed and encrypted data packets containing a schedule, a resource list, and several lines of energy change records at specific frequencies.
He put the chip into a special bag and slowly thought about the information conveyed by it.
The words mentioned above such as "core recovery" and "underground exploration" made Xiao Ran no longer hesitate.
He immediately sent out a warning using an encrypted terminal, asking everyone to increase their security level.
In the medical area, Su Wanqing was still staring at Lin Che, and took out the instrument to take another snapshot on the EEG monitor.
She stored this fragment in the jade bracelet. The signal light of the main control outside flickered, and no one spoke.
Just as she was thinking, there were two soft sounds outside the sliding door, and the nurse handed in a vital sign analysis form.
Su Wanqing nodded, took the form, turned around and prepared to return to the main control area.
Xiao Ran just arrived at the main control and uploaded the records of the storage room. He checked the equipment and calmly recorded the abnormal conditions of the detector signal into the entry and exit log.
Lin Che was sleeping soundly on the medical table, not making any more noise.
The signal light in front of the control desk slowly slowed down. Su Wanqing looked back at Lin Che, holding her breath, and felt that everything had become more troublesome tonight.
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