Chapter 199 Holographic Electronic Rose (End) Close your eyes
The order was given, and Yan Ze's eyes were focused directly on 07. He attacked without any weapon, so fast that only the afterimage could be seen. 07 turned back, barely avoiding the vital points. The sound of his fist hitting the flesh was dull and real, and there was no sign of holding back.
Yan Ze approached too quickly, leaving no time for him to distance himself and take out the tranquilizer gun. Yan Ze's expression remained calm and cold, his black eyes seemed to be looking at the other person but also seemed to have already drifted away.
It fought very fast, and soon it flashed behind 07. 07 immediately turned back to block and counterattack, but soon he felt a lightness on his waist, and when he came to his senses, he found that the gun on his waist had been thrown to the ground.
But it was also at this time that 07 discovered the plug-in equipped on the connector behind Yanze's ear, and the faint blue breathing light was flashing regularly.
07 While dealing with Yan Ze's attack, he was thinking about a solution. This situation had not been something he had not thought about before. Yan Ze just smiled and said, "I'm just afraid that they don't know how to do this to me. The more they hack into my brain to find the key, the easier it will be for me to tamper with their program."
The system program of the Pro Research Center is completely independent. Even if Yan Ze has the key, it is difficult to find the person who has been sending them messages without contact. But as long as there is contact, Yan Ze can implant the program and send it back.
07 ducked to avoid the sharp blade that Yanze casually pulled out, he let out a deep breath and stood firm. Yanze swung the flower knife back and glanced at the profile of 07, then raised the knife again. 07's eyebrows moved slightly and he almost touched the profile subconsciously.
07 This time he didn't dodge in time, the dagger went straight into his chest, and his hand tightly grasped the plug behind it. Yan Ze lowered his eyelashes and turned his head slightly as if he felt something.
The two of them were almost in an embrace, Hader's hearty laughter and applause rang out, Yanze drew his knife expressionlessly, and blood spurted out, staining his fingers red.
The plug-in dropped to the ground with a crisp sound, and the breathing light finally turned off. 07 covered his wound and took two steps back to look at Yan Ze, but found that he was still calm and numb, without any change.
Yanze crushed the plug-in that fell on the ground, walked towards 07 step by step with a knife in hand, reached out and grabbed his hair to make him tilt his head back and expose his neck.
The blade was icy cold, and beneath the tip was a pulsating blue artery. With a little force, the spurting blood would completely dye Yan Ze's white clothes red.
"Okay, stop it." The electronic voice sounded in time, and Yan Ze put away the knife without any emotion. 07 subconsciously touched his neck and felt blood. The shallow blood line on his neck felt painful like burning fire.
"Child, please forgive us for doing this. I know you have a lot of little plans, but we always need you to understand the situation so that we can talk to you calmly and frankly."
Yan Ze put away his knife, moved a chair over with an expressionless face, and stood quietly beside him. He couldn't be more obedient.
"Let's be frank. What do you mean? From the death of my parents, or the subsequent massacre at the child factory?"
"In fact, we have always known about your existence, but we have lived in peace for so many years, and there is no need for us to kill you. After all, your parents are indeed very good employees."
There was only one line flickering on the screen, but as 07 listened, he had a strong sense of familiarity, this hypocritical tone, the tone that liked to put oneself in the position of a tolerant philanthropist.
"But I was careless and let her disturb you."
07 remained calm, but moved his fingers slightly, and turned to look at Yan Ze with a cold expression. "It's not too much of a bother, didn't you give it to me? I like it very much."
"Haha, BF7912 is indeed lovable. Since we have this fate, I can give it to you. It will be more obedient and like you more. As long as you can get out of here smoothly."
"What do you need me to do? You Pro don't need me to work for you, do you?"
"Let's not try any further. Please return the chip to us."
07 didn't show any change in expression, nor did he reply immediately. After Yan Ze read all the contents of the chip, they destroyed the entity. If they had completely controlled Yan Ze, they should have obtained the contents of the chip and even the key.
But their attitude is obviously that he used Yan Ze for revenge and dominated this series of events, so naturally the chip will also be in the hands of him as the mastermind.
It seemed like he was taking the blame for Yan Ze, but it also saved his life in disguise, allowing him to still sit here alive.
"I have a question. Answer me first and I'll see your sincerity." 07 relaxed his back and even put his arm around Yan Ze's waist, pressing it to sit on his lap.
Yanze didn't react or struggle at all. He turned his head to the side and looked at 07 with empty eyes.
"Are you and Ms. Bev sharing this console, Mr. Pro?"
07 After he finished speaking, Hader, who was standing beside him, accidentally spilled the red wine and couldn't help but ask, "How did you know that?"
The electronic sound was silent for a moment, and then joyful laughter echoed.
"Guessed." This was the truth. After Yan Ze confessed it to him that day, he had been thinking about a possibility.
Hader can be resurrected, but what about Pro and Bev? Can they not be resurrected? If cyber resurrection can be achieved through brain-computer interaction, then in addition to having a physical body, can consciousness also be uploaded?
Break away from the fragile body and become a kind of electronic ghost.
If they can achieve this, then many of their previous doubts can be resolved.
The degree of damage to Hader's body should be relatively low, and he was most likely "resurrected" while still alive, so he achieved resurrection using a new body with only half of his brain intact.
Pro and Bev were reactivated after death, and they could not bear the process of changing carriers. Of course, they did not "resurrect" Bev to save her. 07 boldly guessed that they might just want to activate her thinking and knowledge at the beginning.
To make a bolder guess, Pro may have merged with Bev in order to possess her "wisdom" and "memory".
Judging from the results, they really thought of consciousness too simply, thinking of consciousness as a computer processor that only needs to save appropriate folders and simply transfer them to the new processor for reading.
"I can guess that. Now I really wish you were my biological son."
07 laughed a rare laugh: "It's disgusting, forget it." 07 looked straight at the camera on the screen: "So what are you now? A half-dead ghost, a prisoner in an electric signal? You are also quite pitiful. It's a pity that Ms. Bev has to suffer this with you."
"I thought you would rather see the great vision behind this." The electronic sound changed to Puro's voice, and then it turned into a familiar female voice: "We have found the ultimate evolutionary direction for all mankind."
07 lazily raised his hands and clapped them twice, then asked with a smile: "You are so satisfied, why are you in such a hurry to get the chip back? Why are you in such a hurry to take Yan Ze back for research? With two consciousnesses mixed in your brain, I'm afraid you won't be able to stay awake for long, right?"
At this point, 07 roughly understood Pro's current situation. He had merged a part of Bev's consciousness, but he didn't expect that he could not control Bev's consciousness at all.
He is now confused, and because there is no precedent and they dare not bet on how long he can exist, they turn their attention to the subject of bionic human consciousness. When Yan Ze blew up the children's factory, they should have understood that Yan Ze really had human-like autonomous consciousness, and his chip was running well.
So they want to recover Yan Ze's chip and replicate Bev's success, starting with studying its consciousness. They want to find a technology that gets rid of traditional brain-computer activation and separate Puro's consciousness from the host to have a perfect carrier.
Ah, maybe more than that, they probably also want Yan Ze's ability to access the Internet and hack into the backend of the prosthesis. Otherwise, there would be no need for them to hold on to Yan Ze.
"Why do you need to know so much? These are not what you should consider..."
"Alright." 07 suddenly stood up and interrupted Pro, changing his weak appearance. "I understand the situation, I don't need to listen anymore."
As he spoke, 07 pulled out a gun and fired several shots at the isolation glass on one side. The modified bullets had great lethality and destroyed half of the reinforced glass.
Hader's face darkened, he dodged backwards and shouted, "7912, kill him."
Yanze moved, and quickly took the gun that 07 had unloaded from the ground. 07 did not even turn his head and took out the security guards around Hader. Yanze moved quickly, and finally kicked the glass open with his foot and aimed the gun.
Hader smiled, but the next second he saw Yanze smiling back at him, and then he faced the black muzzle of the gun and heard him reply, "Yes, sir."
Bang, a gunshot rang out, and Hader fell limp without any blood flowing out. Yanze was about to leave when he turned back and emptied the magazine, aiming his gun at Hader's head.
"Lest you have something left that comes back to life."
07 dealt with the remaining security guards and said nothing when he saw him empty the magazine, just handed him the new bullets.
"You're scared, right?" Yanze loaded the bullets and reached out to bend 07's waist. 07 laughed, stretched out his hand to pull off the collar on his neck, and quickly separated the weapons, saying calmly: "I was pretending from the beginning. You noticed it when you looked at my profile."
Yan Ze exclaimed twice in a polite manner: "How clever! Has the clever mercenary installed the bomb?"
07 was crouching under the mainframe gluing explosives together, ignoring its trash talk. The entire building had entered a level one alert state, it would soon be unsafe here, they had to hurry.
"It's useless." The screen went dark just now. They ignored the zombie and planned to blow up the console to send him to death. But then the screen lit up again, and the same voice sounded. Yan Ze inexplicably felt that something was different.
"It's useless to blow up this host. He is transferring data. Even if the entire Pro Building is blown up, he will still exist."
"The only way is to hack into this host and execute the destruction program."
07 then stopped and looked at the screen: "You are the one who commissioned me? How do you prove that you are not Pro in disguise? What reason do we have to believe you?"
Yanze stopped 07 and asked, "Mom, did I play the piano piece correctly?"
The electronic voice paused for a long time, and finally answered: "After going through so much, I think you should have your own answer. Right or wrong is not important, what matters is what you choose."
Yanze turned to look at 07: "She is Bev, not Pro." 07 took a deep breath: "Even if she is, does that mean she is right? She is pushing you to death."
After hacking into Pro's host, even with the backdoor and Bev's help, Yan Ze would definitely be overloaded and the chip might be burned through on the spot.
Yanze didn't say anything, but turned to look at 07 and said softly: "Give it a try, it may not be that bad. Isn't every step we have taken to get here a gamble with our lives?"
07 suddenly grabbed Yan Ze's arm, his usually calm expression was broken, he could be said to be furious. "Do you know what you are saying?"
07 laughed, raised his eyes and looked straight at the camera on the screen and continued: "You call yourself its mother, but you step by step instigated it to sacrifice itself to make up for your mistakes, and now you are responsible for the possible bad future of mankind?"
07 looked down at Yan Ze and spoke word by word: "What's even more ridiculous is that you are not even human."
"So what if Puro died? Blue Lake City has never lacked people like Puro, and it won't become any better because of what we prevented today."
The green line on the screen paused for a long time, and finally a voice sounded: "You are right, so I respect any choice you make."
Yan Ze didn't expect 07 to react so violently. He didn't know yet that 07 had begun to doubt the reality of the entire world and arbitrarily defined Yan Ze as the only reality that did not need to be doubted.
He couldn't accept that Yan Ze gave his life for a fake world.
Yanze thought for a while and took 07 to disassemble the main unit, carefully checking the internal data flow. 07 did not do anything this time, but Yanze sat cross-legged on the ground and used the instrument. 07 silently put his arm around his waist from behind and rested his forehead on his shoulder.
The data stream jumping in front of him proved that Bev was not lying. Yanze could only unplug a few wires and write a program to block Pro for a while. I don't know why, the more I think about this moment, the more I feel that I should leave and die.
This feeling was very strange, very much like playing a similar game before, and the ending was always the same, so he just felt that he had come to this point again, and he would just finish this part...
What will happen... ?
Yanze was hugged by 07 from behind, and he suddenly realized that death means separation, permanent separation, and all possibilities will be reset to zero... He was reluctant, so reluctant that Yanze suddenly closed his eyes and let out a long breath, and then he realized belatedly that a sense of panic was surging.
Why does it have to come to this?
"If I say that I feel this world is not real, would you believe it?"
Yan Ze was silent. The broken glass let in a strong wind. He didn't know how to answer, because at this moment, a line of bold red warning popped up in front of his eyes.
[Please ask the tasker to reach the final death ending immediately! ! ! ]
Yan Ze laughed in silence: "I believe what you said." After saying that, 07 fell silent. The world in front of Yan Ze suddenly seemed to freeze. The neon signs in the distance were torn into pieces and suddenly disappeared.
Yanze turned to look at 07, and the light in his eyes gradually dimmed, as if someone had pressed the pause button. No matter how much it shouted or pushed, there was no movement.
[Please ask the tasker to reach the final death ending immediately! ! ! ]
The red warning in front of him was lingering, and Yanze had to look through the gaps between the words to see 07's face. Yanze smiled bitterly twice, walked towards the host while observing the collapsing world.
Sure enough, the collapsed and shattered image began to heal itself as it approached the host step by step.
Yanze disassembled the host until only the last piece of processor was left, and took out the link cable and connected it to the interface. Yanze looked at the data cable in his hand, his mind and heart were empty.
Will I die after reaching the death ending? Yanze did not have a vague premonition to comfort himself that there was luck, but he had a premonition that if this ending was not achieved, 07 would disappear with the collapse of this world.
Yanze closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and looked at 07 anxiously. What if it did the opposite? What if it didn't do this?
The light was mottled, and Yanze saw a drop of crystal reflection in the corner of 07's eye.
Yanze turned his eyes away and laughed: "Fuck the world."
It threw the data cable in its hand aside and pounced on 07, pressing his shoulders and almost biting his lips. It took only five seconds from no reaction to a passionate and ardent embrace. Yanze was stunned for a moment, and then the two of them were fully engaged. Outside of his peripheral vision, the world was withering like a mottled and fading oil paint.
Yan Ze looked into his dark blue eyes, clenched the gun in his hand and pointed it at his heart. With his other hand, he handed the data cable to 07 and asked word by word, "Do you want to die together?"
07 didn't answer him, but just stretched out his hands to hug it, their foreheads touching, neither of them closed their eyes. 07's hand slowly moved from the back of Yanze's neck upwards.
There is a chip written and made by 07 on the back of Yanze's neck, which they have not activated yet. Yanze felt 07 connect the data cable to the interface behind his ear, and then a hand tightly grasped the gun in its hand.
"Close your eyes."
Yanze closed his eyes, and the overload of fever did not come first. Instead, a bright and beautiful holographic rose appeared in his mind first.
Bang. A light but deep gunshot sounded. At the same time, the holographic rose shattered into a sea of fire.
[Congratulations to the host for completing the test world No. 07. Thank you for your contribution. The consciousness is being loaded...]
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