Chapter 39: Mental Purgatory Gu Yifeng pulled out his gun and pointed it at his own...
In the underground interrogation room, a pale ceiling light hung high in the sky. Gu Yifeng's bloodshot eyes kept shrinking in the strong light, as if his retina was being cut back and forth by a blunt knife.
He couldn't remember how many times he had been interrogated since waking up. After being deprived of sleep for a long time, he was distracted and began to lose his perception of the outside world.
The Bureau's specially made restraint chair firmly fixed the joints of his limbs, forcing his spine to maintain a straight sitting posture. The cold metal bracket clamped Gu Yifeng's cheekbones, and the eyelid splinter did not allow him to close his eyes. The retinal projection screen was only a few centimeters away from his iris. He was forced to watch fragmented images at 60 frames per second, day and night.
"Mr. Gu, do you still insist that Wen Yi has nothing to do with the three bombings you are investigating?" The expressionless interrogators took turns conducting exhausting interrogations, and voices came from all directions.
This is a professional interrogation technique that hides the real source of the sound and creates a sense of spatial confusion.
Hearing the familiar name, Gu Yifeng's fixed eyelids suddenly trembled, but he couldn't close his eyes, and his tear glands secreted saline solution uncontrollably.
He bit his tongue again; it was his only way to stay awake. His mouth hadn't been able to produce saliva for a long time, and the taste of rust filled it.
He swallowed the sweet, fishy foam and said, "There's not enough evidence... to show she's involved in the case."
"Then what about the criminal fact that Wen Yi sneaked into the seventh laboratory, lost control of her abilities, caused the laboratory to collapse, and seriously injured several researchers?" The interrogator suddenly paused the video, and a video of Wen Yi in the laboratory appeared on the screen.
"She was forced to go to the lab..." As Gu Yifeng spoke, the interrogator adjusted the neural synchronization rate to 80%, and his optic nerve endings began to receive the simulated tingling sensation of electric current. Enduring the excruciating pain, Gu Yifeng gritted his teeth and insisted, "She was doing it to protect herself. Aren't you the ones who are guilty...?"
The helpless experimenter continued to play the video. "Very good. Let's see how long you can hold on."
Outside the laboratory, the experimenter reported to his superiors tremblingly: "His consciousness... is completely impossible to rewrite."
"Give him XN-7 neuromodulator." The person in charge gave the order.
Medical staff entered the interrogation room and inserted a needle into Gu Yifeng's body. Severe pain climbed up his spine, veins bulged on his forehead, his muscles spasmed instantly, and the restraints dug deep into his flesh. People present heard his bones creaking.
Under the influence of the drug, Gu Yifeng's consciousness began to blur. A cold voice came from his ears, piercing into the depths of his consciousness like a venomous snake.
"Don't you understand yet?" The interrogator's voice was bewitching. "Wen Yi has never loved you."
He suddenly opened his eyes and saw Wen Yi standing in front of him with cold eyes and the gun in her hand pointed at his heart.
"Bang--"
The pain of the bullet piercing my chest was so real it was suffocating.
But the next second, the picture suddenly shattered, and memories flowed back like a tide.
"Throw away the gun!" Wen Yi threw Guo Qingyu away and rushed towards him desperately, catching the shrapnel flying towards him with her bare hands.
Her palm was cut into a bloody mess, and blood was dripping down her wrist, but she hugged his waist tightly and buried her face in his arms:
"I'm sorry," she clutched his shirt with her fingertips, "...but it's my instinct to protect you."
Gu Yifeng's heart seemed to be gripped tightly. He struggled violently, and the restraints cut into his flesh.
The interrogator's expression suddenly changed, and he shouted sternly, "Increase the dosage!"
The injection was pushed into Gu Yifeng's body again, and the interrogator continued to tamper with his memory with words: "Gu Yifeng, the person you love is not Wen Yi, she is just a substitute, right?"
The scene in front of him switched again, and he saw Wen Yi looking up with red eyes:
"Who is Yiyi?" The broken voice was filled with despair. "Yiyi... is the person you have been waiting for fifteen years?"
Gu Yifeng's breathing stopped.
No, you misunderstood.
Why didn't you explain to her? Why did you let her misunderstand? Gu Yifeng, you deserve to die.
"Since we met, you've never said 'I love you'."
His heart felt like it had been cut by a knife. Only now, amidst the torment of the past, did he realize how wrong he had been.
He stared at Wen Yi who was in hallucination, and said solemnly word by word: You are my destined love.
But her heart-piercing words continued: "Maybe... I don't like you that much..."
No... Even if you don't love me, or use me, it doesn't matter, just don't abandon me...
The drug boiled in his blood, and Gu Yifeng suddenly began to struggle violently, with blood sliding down the corners of his lips.
The ECG monitor alarm suddenly sounded, and the medical team rushed in and untied the restraints on his limbs.
A medical staff member, while checking the monitoring data, shouted: "Ventricular tachycardia! Prepare epinephrine!"
"Inject!" With the command, the emergency personnel slowly injected epinephrine through the intravenous needle.
The experimenter reported to the person in charge: "Leader, if this continues, his brain may suffer irreversible damage from the prolonged high-voltage stimulation, and his mental state may completely collapse...even endangering his life."
The person in charge stared at the surveillance screen with a gloomy expression: "Is there any other way?"
"How about we try a neural simulation experiment?"
In the experimental chamber, Gu Yifeng was tightly tied to the bed, and electrodes of various sizes penetrated deeply into his cortex. The moment the retinal projector was turned on, the electronic instructions were converted into neural pulse signals, forcibly invading his consciousness.
Gu Yifeng opened his eyes and saw red leaves all over the sky above his head, just like before.
He sat up suddenly. The soil under his feet was slightly damp and felt like fine fallen leaves.
"Are you awake?" Wen Yi stood under the maple tree, looking at him against the light. "I've been waiting for you."
Gu Yifeng's throat tightened. He remembered what happened just now... No, he didn't want to recall those memories again.
He stood up, stumbled over, and hugged her in his arms.
She was so real, with a warm body and smiling eyes, he could even smell the faint fragrance in her hair.
"I thought you..." He touched his fingertips to her face and kissed her lips.
The person in my arms suddenly stiffened.
"Wen Yi?" He lowered his head in confusion.
Warm liquid flowed out from between the fingers, and the nightmare memory instantly shattered the illusion of happiness.
He stared down at his bloody palm. The person in his arms was like a fallen leaf withering on the ground. Blood was flowing from the wound, pupils were dilated, and the body was gradually losing temperature...
"No!!"
He knelt on the ground and let out a roar from his throat.
Fifteen years ago, he lost her soul here.
Fifteen years later, her body slowly died here...
Gu Yifeng's world collapsed at that moment. He pulled out his gun without hesitation and pointed it at his temple.
"Bang--"
Outside the experimental cabin, the supervisor recorded data with a stern face.
"The experiment failed. The suicidal behavior triggered the neural blockade, and the cycle continued."
*
Wen Yi fell into nothingness.
Where is this? This space is boundless, with only countless cones of light interweaving around it.
What time is it now? There's no sunrise or sunset. No beginning, no end. Time has lost its meaning here.
She was just a wisp of consciousness trapped in time and space. She couldn't even remember who she was and could only drift in this nothingness.
She didn't know how long she stayed there until, in the chaos, her consciousness was suddenly pulled by a force, traveling through endless time and space, and came to a bedroom.
She emerged from the shadows of the bookcase and spotted a young man bent over his desk, solving a puzzle late at night. His hair tumbled across his forehead, casting a fine shadow, and his slightly furrowed brow seemed familiar. She didn't recognize this boy, yet a strange sense of familiarity welled up inside her.
Those sharp eyes suddenly locked onto her position, then looked away, immersed in the world of solving the problem.
The boy was quiet and kept to himself. She had observed him curiously for two days, but she didn't know his name.
She gradually realized that she couldn't go anywhere except staying with the boy.
Day after day, she watched the boy walk alone across the campus, quietly reading "A Brief History of Time" under the wisteria trellis. He was always alone, wouldn't he be lonely?
She seemed to be the only "person" who was with him.
Should I say hello to him? But I'm afraid of scaring him.
She couldn't touch him, nor could she make a sound, so she could only accompany him silently until that day when the boy cried under the wisteria trellis.
At that moment, some memory broke free from its constraints, and she learned it by herself, pulling gravity to make the sound from higher dimensions of space and time resonate in his ears.
Don't cry
She saw the boy's body stiffen.
——Oh no, did I scare him?
He looked around blankly, as if looking for her.
【I am here】
"Who?" the boy asked.
——She didn't know how to answer because she didn't know who she was either.
The boy sneered and rushed into the rain.
——Don’t get wet in the rain, be careful not to catch a cold!
She hurriedly used gravity to stop the rain.
However, the boy seemed to be frightened and stood there motionless.
——It still scared him...
Don't be afraid...
——She comforted him gently, although it was obvious that her strength was almost exhausted.
"Father, is that you?" the young man asked into the void.
——No, no, don’t call me that. We are of different generations.
【No……】
She left her last word, finally lost consciousness, and returned to chaos.
When Wen Yi woke up again, she found herself back in that void, but her consciousness had become clearer, and she could use gravity more freely.
More importantly, she gradually remembered her name - Yiyi, as someone called her that in her memory.
When she returned to the boy's side again, she suddenly realized that several months had passed.
In the season when the parasol trees were falling, she floated on Gu Yifeng's shoulder and did math problems with him.
Staring at the trigonometric functions that looked like a heavenly book, Wen Yi had her own unique problem-solving technique - if there are three short and one long, choose the longest one, so choose B!
Gu Yifeng glanced at the test question casually and chose C.
Damn!
——Next question… If you don’t understand the question, always choose C when you are undecided!
Gu Yifeng just lightly hooked the number B with the tip of his pen.
Damn!!
Wen Yi completely gave up the idea of studying mathematics across dimensions and answered Gu Yifeng's questions lazily.
"How many years are there between us?"
——How should I tell him the truth?
【forever】
——Since it is impossible, don't let him have any illusions.
"May I have your name?"
【Yi】
"Which one?"
Gu Yifeng glanced at the math test paper, and the corners of his mouth rose unconsciously, "1 in 123?"
— Take him out! Take him out!
"Then I will call you Yi Yi from now on?" Gu Yifeng picked up the pen and wrote the two words "Yi Yi" on the paper.
The moment her eyes swept over him, memories surged in her mind. Scene after scene flashed through her mind: the man in white clothes, with a handsome face like jade, who stood stubbornly by her side.
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