403. The Brain-Computer World is Completely Clear...
"Let's go." Yi Linghe kept the same mouth shape, and what he originally said to Pei Shu now seemed to be said to Zhu Ning.
Zhu Ning immediately understood why Pei Shu was able to survive. In such extreme grief, he needed an instruction, and Yi Linghe gave it to him.
"Let's go." Yi Linghe said these two words silently, and there was a kind of blessing in his eyes.
The comfort Yi Linghe gave to Pei Shu at that time transcended time and space, and now he is also comforting Zhu Ning.
Zhu Ning really wanted to turn around and leave, just as Lin Xiaofeng said, give up revenge, leave the Far North and have a chance to live his own life.
She can't do it.
It was only at this moment that I realized I had no choice but to move forward.
She had no chance. If she turned away and gave up immediately, she would sooner or later set foot on this land again.
"Let's go." Yi Linghe's corpse said, like advice from an elder to a younger generation.
Zhu Ning's mind was full of these two words, but her body was moving in the opposite direction. Her hands were shaking as she held down the gun handle. The inexplicable sadness was about to drag her down, and she was about to give up.
She wanted to scream and vent her pent-up pain, she wanted to stab herself twice right now to get the satisfaction, she wanted to shoot herself in the head right now.
Her hand had unconsciously opened the safety catch, as if she was standing on the edge of a cliff ready to pull the trigger at any moment. She would soon lose control and be unable to digest the sadness.
Zhu Ning tried to take a step with her left foot, then her right foot, alternating between the two. She moved forward with great difficulty, narrowly avoiding Yi Linghe's death.
"Let's go." Yi Linghe said.
Zhu Ning completely passed by Yi Linghe's body, but the two words kept ringing in his mind: Let's go.
As Zhu Ning walked, she slowly raised her right hand, with the muzzle of the gun against her temples. She was very familiar with how to shoot. In her past and present lives combined, she had relied on shooting to survive.
In her memory, she had killed Zhu Yao, and the first generation Zhu Ning had killed herself. She didn't expect that she would kill herself again.
She had no way out. She had tried her best, but she couldn't hold on any longer.
If death is the only way to be liberated, then it is better to be truly liberated.
Her soul hummed like an old machine, her fingertips gradually increasing pressure, shooting, shooting now.
Bang--!
Like a desperate ship crashing into land, Zhu Ning's body collided with something and the action of pulling the trigger stopped.
Zhu Ning was stunned, tears still streaming when she raised her face. She bumped into a huge ice tree, with cold icicles hanging on the crown, flashing dazzling light.
Crash——
The branches unfurl like the routes of a neural network, and the icicles sway with a melodious melody.
She didn't know why a tree appeared here. She sorted out her experiences along the way, entering the north and experiencing the polar night, losing her hearing and vision, losing the white clarity, losing her sense of touch, and losing her sense of smell.
Finally, you lose your five senses and your existence.
She entered the Far North and met Pei Shu's former captain Yi Linghe, who let her go.
So Zhu Ning walked in the opposite direction, getting farther and farther away from his body, and came across a huge tree.
The trees stood tall and straight, and were obviously huge. In the normal world, they could be seen even from thousands of miles away, but Zhu Ning seemed to have discovered them suddenly.
The cold muzzle of the gun was pressed against her temples. She kept this position, with boundless sadness in her eyes.
But she saw a symbol on the tree trunk: a snake wrapped around a torch. Zhu Ning struggled to extract the information from her confused mind. She had seen this symbol a long time ago.
Those were the equipment sent by Prometheus. The weapons and medical supplies were all covered with this totem, but Zhu Ning never expected to see it in a place like the Far North.
The totems are densely packed, as if they were carved on the surface of the ice tree with a knife, covering the entire trunk and extending upward.
Zhu Ning covered the trunk with his left palm. The moment he touched it, black substance precipitated from the trunk. For a moment, the grooves of the torch krait pattern were filled with black.
And Zhu Ning's brain seemed to be resonating with it.
…
"Are you still alive?"
That was the Huo family. Although Huo Jinsheng did not admit that this was house arrest, Huo Wenxi had been living in the Huo family's main residence since the conversation that day.
She was in grief for a long time and was unable to personally collect the bodies of Zhuang Lin and his teammates, so Huo Wenxi held funerals for them over and over again in her heart.
Her long hair was loose without braids, and she was not dressed neatly like before. She was only wearing a gray cardigan and not even an eye mask.
Huo Wenxi had never been so depressed in his life. This once favored child of destiny had reached his lowest point.
Now she was very surprised that the first person to contact her after she was placed under house arrest was Xuan Qing.
Huo Wenxi's secondary brain is turned off. If you want to contact Huo Wenxi privately, you need connections, resources, and means. Xuanqing is quite powerful.
In District 103, they used to not get along very well, but in the end they somehow became friends.
Huo Wenxi disappeared, Zhuang Lin died, and the abnormal event investigation team suffered heavy losses. Xuan Qing had no choice but to take over this part of the work.
Xuan Qing's hair has been turning gray lately. Sitting behind a pile of documents on his desk, he asked Huo Wenxi, "Are you still alive? I thought you were dead."
Huo Wenxi didn't answer. Xuan Qing pointed at the document and asked, "Are you really on vacation?"
Huo Wenxi knew that this communication would not last long, so he asked in a low voice, "What's the matter?"
Xuan Qing tutted, "I'll motivate you."
Huo Wenxi said stiffly, "Don't worry, I'm still observing."
Tentacles rolled over in her sockets as she spoke, foreknowledge becoming her instinct, and she couldn't stop.
Xuan Qing knew that her family was full of fortune-tellers, so she asked, "Observe Zhu Ning?"
Huo Wenxi: "She entered the Far North."
She never gave up observing her teammates and always accompanied Zhu Ning in her own way.
Xuan Qing originally wanted to ask if this was a good direction, but he didn't ask because if Huo Wenxi didn't say anything about metaphysics, it would mean that it hadn't been decided yet. If he asked rashly at this time, he would feel that it was bad news.
Xuan Qing asked, "When will you come back?"
Huo Wenxi glanced out the window and replied ambiguously, "As soon as possible."
Xuan Qing didn't ask how quickly he meant, and said, "The resistance is looking for you."
On the eve of the destruction of District 103, they achieved temporary cooperation with this organization, but they never had a deep understanding of them. They came and went in a hurry, appearing when cooperation was needed and leaving after the end.
"They have something to tell you. I'm just a messenger." Xuan Qing knew time was urgent and didn't beat around the bush. "They've tried to assassinate Prometheus many times."
Huo Wenxi paused as she heard the inside story from their side for the first time. She used to only talk about cooperation and not history. She knew that this kind of civil resistance organization had been attacked by the federal government many times and was not actually strong. Talking more about history would be equivalent to exposing more weaknesses.
Why was he suddenly saying this now? Was he trying to give Huo Wenxi more confidence? Was Xuan Qing really here to encourage her? Or did he know that Zhu Ning had entered the Far North?
"I'm not that surprised." The sound of a chair being moved came from the other end of the line. Xuan Qing must have stood up. "Do you remember Zhu Ning's first mission at the cleaning center?"
Huo Wenxi was a little surprised. Why did Xuan Qing bring this up? She thought for a moment and said, "The first time I went on a mission, and the rating went wrong?"
Huo Wenxi hadn't noticed Zhu Ning at that time. This was the written material she read during her later investigation. Zhu Ning encountered an error in the pollution area rating, which was very dangerous for ordinary cleaners, but she was not ordinary.
"Yes," Xuan Qing said, "That's not the first time. Lu Qiqin and I know someone else."
Huo Wenxi hadn't heard the name Lu Qiqin for a long time and asked, "Who?"
"That person's information has been wiped clean, and I don't quite remember his name. When Lu Qiqin and I came in, I heard from the seniors. When they mentioned him, they only referred to him as that person."
How come it's getting more and more mysterious? Even Huo Wenxi, the witch, feels it's getting weird.
"And then?" Huo Wenxi didn't think Xuan Qing was telling him a story.
"That person's existence was erased. Many people say he went to the North to assassinate Prometheus."
"Dead?" Huo Wenxi asked.
"As expected of a witch," Xuan Qing said, "Yes, he died a long time ago."
Huo Wenxi knew whether a person was dead or not, but it took her some time to detect before. Now her reaction speed is faster. She guessed that her superpowers were growing significantly, which also meant that the side effects were increasing.
However, she did not dwell on the matter and asked, "Is this the one Prometheus once chose?"
Huo Wenxi could only think of this answer. If he had anything in common with Zhu Ning, it could only be this.
Xuan Qing: "He is also one of the founders of the resistance army."
No wonder its existence was completely erased, especially inside the cleaning center, no one should mention it without permission.
Huo Wenxi felt that there was a big problem with Prometheus's operating logic. When he chose the fire, he would often anger the other party.
"For eighty years, there have been resistance fighters trying to assassinate Prometheus," Xuan Qing said. "More than you think."
Xuan Qing walked to the floor-to-ceiling window. The sky dome was closed. In order to save energy, the sky wallpaper was not turned on. Area 103 seemed to have entered a state of polar night.
Xuan Qing continued, "The team that came closest to success last time was a team dispatched from the North. Their stated mission was to enter the Far North to investigate and gain the truth about the world. Their covert mission was to assassinate Prometheus."
Xuan Qing was telling the history. There were no specific names in it, but Huo Wenxi knew that there must have been countless deaths.
"Do I know him?" Huo Wenxi asked.
"I don't know, but you might have heard of her. The captain of the Beitiao Sand Crane Team," Xuan Qing said her name, "Yi Linghe."
Huo Wenxi was silent for a moment. He had never had direct contact with her, but before Zhu Ning had an affair, Huo Wenxi had carefully investigated her team member Pei Shu. Yi Linghe was Pei Shu's team leader.
She actually existed to assassinate Prometheus.
The Far North is filled with endless sorrow. Yi Linghe tried her best but failed, so her body remained in the bitter cold land forever, and few people knew of her existence.
Besides Yi Linghe, what about them? Huo Wenxi speculated that there were more people whose names were recorded, perhaps only known to the rebels themselves.
"Their team was just one step away from success, but they didn't make it," Xuan Qing said.
Huo Wenxi took a breath of fresh air. The shock she felt from Xuan Qing hadn't ended yet. "Did you know that the world is the corpse of a giant?"
Huo Wenxi: "I just found out not long ago."
She did not explore the world directly. The deeper Zhu Ning's adventure went, the more she would receive. However, she had lost contact with Zhu Ning since the Flying Fish Line.
The sky is the brain, which is the final intersection of their information. Utopia is the womb. This news was learned from Huo Jinsheng. For this information, Zhuang Lin and fifteen investigators died.
The giantess's corpse formed the foundation of civilization. Did other giants exist? Why did the giantess die? These are unknown to them.
The only thing we know is that humans are trying to survive on the corpse of the giantess, clinging to the aftermath of death. By the time they figure out this reality, the decay of the world is already irresistible.
The choice before Huo Wenxi is whether to go along with the Kingdom of God?
Xuan Qing certainly knew this, so he needed to pull Huo Wenxi to this side in time.
"What do you think the Far North is?" Xuan Qing asked.
Following this line of thought, one can actually deduce that most of the world outside the wall is characterized by sadness. Huo Wenxi had heard of this before and quickly said, "Prefrontal lobe cortex?"
Xuan Qing: "It's possible."
What if I knew? Huo Wenxi felt that Xuanqing's story today was not focused and asked, "Is this all the information shared by the resistance?"
"Yes," Xuan Qing said, "They wanted to talk to you directly."
Huo Wenxi paused and asked, "Do they know what Prometheus is?"
Beyond the Far North is the Prometheus host. Zhu Ning knew the exact location and had intruded into the human-machine joint device, so he gave the coordinates directly.
If the rebels have never given up on assassinating Prometheus over the years, it proves that they knew the exact location of the coordinates very early.
If Yi Linghe's team can set off, we can't say that the entire system of investigators outside the wall supports killing Prometheus, but we can say that at least a certain force in the north is supporting them to go out of the wall.
Factional struggles have been very complicated over the years, and the factions that were supported back then may not exist anymore, but the impact continues.
"Your intuition is so accurate. I was shocked when I found out," Xuan Qing said. "Prometheus has existed for a long time. We didn't create him."
"In other words, he is a prehistoric civilization. He is the original body of the giantess's body and was born long before us."
Xuanqing's words were a bit complicated and contained a huge amount of information. Most people thought that Prometheus was an artificial AI, a combination of pollutants and machinery like Zhu Ning, and must be a product of high technology.
But the proclamation says that Prometheus is part of the Titaness? That's why the mainframe location can be set behind the Far North, because that's where it was born.
Before, they had speculated about what kind of powerful scientist could have written the Prometheus program and then placed it across the dangerous Far North. Now it seems that all their speculations were wrong.
What exactly is Prometheus? Nerves? Why is he in a mechanical state? Did he merge with the machines during the Great Pollution?
Huo Wenxi's heart skipped a beat and he asked, "Is he the brain machine of the female giant?"
"Yes." Xuan Qing said that Huo Wenxi didn't need to say more, her intuition would add to it.
Huo Wenxi took a deep breath to digest this reality. Prometheus is a brain-computer?
The concept of brain-computer interaction has existed for a long time and is not unique to the high-tech world. For example, this technology is also used to treat depression. Electrodes are implanted in specific areas, and machine stimulation is used to make patients feel happy and relaxed.
To put it in an analogy, it's like installing a pacemaker in the heart, except that the pacemaker is installed in the brain.
The brain is controlled by machines and unique emotions are stimulated by machines.
A blue halo appeared in Huo Wenxi's mind, and snow-white mycelium extended from behind him. It could penetrate into the human skin and control the human neural network.
Prometheus is indeed a "prehistoric product" and existed before the pollution outbreak. I don't know why the female giant needed to implant a brain-computer interface. It may be to treat mental illness, or it may be due to the explosion of technology. In that civilization, brain-computer interfaces were as simple as memory cards.
In short, there is such a machine inside the giantess's brain. As she dies and decays, the state of her brain machine after being polluted is Prometheus.
He found humans and protected them. In his concept, it was really protection, because the original intention of his birth was to protect humans.
However, with the development of technology, this kind of protection has been distorted. It only protects some people. In his eyes, most people are as simple as viruses and should be killed directly.
Only first-class citizens are the best.
Huo Wenxi stood up with a bang, the last circle in her mind closed, and the world became completely clear.
…
In the pure white world.
Zhu Ning touched the tall tree trunk, and the black lines stretched out. The liquid was so smooth, like some kind of primitive technological product.
The black system in Zhu Ning's brain was boiling. She had taken out the black fragment from Pei Shu's heart, which had been integrated into her body, but was now trembling.
Zhu Ning brought part of Pei Shu and arrived at the end of the far north.
There was a click, as if a key was inserted into a lock, the trees shook, and the land of the Far North began to tear apart.
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