Inside the experimental system cabin.
The hatch closed, and her vision went completely white. A control panel floated in mid-air. Because of V's departure, the entire system was now replaced by the initial system, which was a female system.
"Hello, welcome to the experimental systems module, B-0. Would you like to begin a new journey or seek other services?"
Xia Yixin ignored the warning and directly searched for the history on the semi-transparent control panel. Sure enough, she found the encrypted file she was looking for in an inconspicuous file. However, to her surprise, she heard a system notification sound as soon as her fingertip touched the file.
"Ding, congratulations on successful unlocking."
She didn't need to think much to guess that V's initial inability to enter was actually intentional.
Why is V going to such lengths to prevent her from seeing the contents of this encrypted file?
The file contained a total of 102 videos. She hesitated for a moment, then clicked on the first video. Instantly, the white space around her transformed, and the three-dimensional projection made her feel as if she were inside the video.
The video was filmed in the very room of RSM that she knew all too well—the room where she first woke up. What shocked her wasn't the location, but the person in the video.
It was herself.
In the video, she is wearing a white uniform, but her face is covered with scars, and she is still trembling in front of the camera.
She opened her mouth, but before she could speak, she ran out of the hatch again. The system cabin camera showed her frantically moving everything that could block the doorway to it, her face full of panic, as if she were hiding from someone.
After doing all this, she returned to the system cabin and suddenly lunged in front of the camera.
Xia Yixin felt as if there was less than a centimeter between herself and the other person, and she heard her own familiar yet unfamiliar voice in her ear.
"Xia Yixin, listen carefully, don't trust anyone! Don't trust anyone!"
With a loud bang, the screen went completely black.
The surrounding space returned to white, and Xia Yixin was so shocked that she couldn't recover for a long time.
She was certain that she had no memory of such a record, so what exactly did this video mean?
She quickly reviewed the other 11 videos and was shocked to find that she was the protagonist in every single one of them, but the recording times varied, with the earliest being three days ago and the latest being twenty years later.
There are others who share the same fear, confusion, and despair, and some who even suffered brain damage when leaving the system and occasionally lost control and went berserk during recording.
The stories told in these videos are completely different, almost like... parallel worlds.
When the concept of "parallel worlds" came to her mind, the events in these 12 videos became much easier to explain.
The experiences described intermittently in the three videos before were very similar.
They all awakened because of Moss, but at different times. Some may have been themselves for ten years in the post-apocalyptic world, while others arrived here shortly after the Dawn Base was established.
However, she always "awakens" three years after her current time. At that time, Qian Dahai and Lu Yuan had already started a full-scale war, and Lu Yuan had already been defeated when she woke up.
Lu Yuan was defeated and killed. Her only remaining value was to successfully research the "key" from the experimental system. Qian Dahai's purpose was certainly not to use the third type of emotion to increase the birth rate. On the contrary, after reversing the program, the researched drug could eliminate the "love" component in human genes, turning them into machines with only duty and obedience.
Just like her current self in the first three videos, she only wanted to leave this "false world." In order to return to the experimental system, she accepted Qian Dahai's deal. However, when she learned Qian Dahai's true purpose, all the members of Laboratory 09 were shot and killed. As an experimental subject, she was drained of her last bit of value and even brainwashed into becoming the first "perfect" person.
"Xia Yixin, you must not trust anyone. Think of Lu Yan, think of everything you've been through." At the end of the video, she kept repeating this sentence, but the fact that the video ended meant that she had failed.
The fourth video proved her suspicions.
Xia Yixin awakened slightly earlier than expected. At that time, the war between Qian Dahai and Lu Yuan was still undecided. She used her influence to help Lu Yuan win the war and regain the right to use the experimental system. She discovered the encrypted data in the experimental system and studied it for a long time.
The last scene in the video shows Xia Yixin excitedly and expectantly saying, "After two years of research, I have finally found an opportunity to influence parallel worlds. By forcibly entering the experimental system, although it will cause brain damage, I have the opportunity to cross parallel worlds and influence that 'avatar' in the post-apocalyptic world. I hope this is the last video. I can stay in the post-apocalyptic world. As long as I don't touch Moss, I definitely can!"
At this moment, Xia Yixin understood the logic behind her thinking: she had completely given up the possibility of returning to Lu Yan's side, and instead hoped to change everything by changing her choices in the apocalyptic world.
However, the outcome was not as she had hoped.
The following four videos are the consequences of her trying to choose this path. Some of them might have been able to stay in the post-apocalyptic world for ten or twenty years, but in the end, they still came here after the world ended, saw these videos, and broke down, and were reminded again to avoid the trend.
However, no matter how she controlled "Xia Yixin" in the apocalyptic world to prevent her from finding the truth, or even killed Moss, the result was not much different. In fact, after collecting the "things from beyond the world", she not only failed to enter the new world after the two merged, but also became a cripple with no mobility in her lower body due to brain damage.
She tried eight times, all of which failed. The only point she could prove was that the earlier she "awakened," the more time and energy she would have to study these things when Lu Yuan won the war against Qian Dahai; otherwise, she would only be used.
Until the 12th video.
The Xia Yixin in the video was both familiar and unfamiliar. It was her from twenty years in the future. She looked to be over forty years old, with an elegant and noble temperament. Her eyes showed a calmness after experiencing storms. Through the holographic display, Xia Yixin seemed to be in an even more unfamiliar laboratory twenty years in the future.
She unconsciously reached out to touch the person opposite her, but her fingertips passed right through the projection.
The middle-aged woman seemed to have anticipated this meeting and spoke calmly.
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