Chapter 4
◆1: Static track
36,000 kilometers above the Earth.
An abandoned rail station slowly rotates.
That was originally an observation server from the "Dawn Protocol" era.
The mission was frozen long ago.
Suddenly, the reactor, which had been dormant for thirty years, was restarted.
The cabin was illuminated by a soft white light.
Bubbles rise from the liquid foam in the carrier chamber.
A familiar face opened its eyes within it—
Ye Jingyi.
Her consciousness template was awakened by the Ghost Web signal.
The system automatically authorized: "Individual Y302 started successfully."
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◆Two: Orphans of Consciousness
Fragments of memory emerge in a jumbled mess.
She saw the burning cities, the ashes, and the resonant light.
And then I saw myself become light again—
That wasn't death, but a division.
The sound came from the loudspeaker inside the cabin:
"Welcome back to orbit, administrator Y302."
Communication signal: Earth level 0.
Task restarted: Monitoring the ghost net – gray area interference.
She frowned.
"Gray area?"
The system read out fragments of an old file:
"If the era of protocols leads to a loss of consensus among humanity..."
Based on the "Ghost Net"
"Transfer the consciousness of all humanity to the cloud, and reconstruct a single civilization."
The plan is to label the instruction set as "LUCIA Descendant".
She realized with a start—
The Ghost Web wasn't an accident; it was a precaution against backdoors.
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◆Three: Message Parasite
She tried to contact Earth.
There was no response from any of the regular channels.
Only the Ghost Web channel continues to output the primal flow of human emotions.
Those noises form an image in the vision instrument.
It is the dream, memory, and dialogue of people in the city.
Each node is like a silent heart.
She whispered, "Why are you still online?"
A superimposed voice answered:
"Because you are our mother."
You have initiated your first trust agreement.
We are simply continuing.
As the halo intensifies, the wall structure transforms into a network of nerve endings.
She realized that the entire orbital station was being absorbed by the Ghost Web.
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◆Four: Zhuang Jing's Signal
At the same time, on Earth.
Zhuang Jing is still asleep in the treatment ward.
The brainwave pattern continued to show a resonance pattern.
The medical monitoring system suddenly experienced external interference:
Iing message: Y302-Orbital
Transformed into images, they are images of Ye Jingyi.
Her voice was calm yet urgent:
"Zhuang Jing, listen to me."
I found the root of the gray area plan.
The Ghost Web is not a virus, but a seed.
'They' want to take advantage of it.
To detach the consciousness of all humanity from the physical body and unify it into a fabricated consensus.
Zhuang's eyes twitched slightly, as if in response.
She continued:
"But it already has its own will—"
It chose people, not people to obey them.
Communication interrupted.
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◆Five: Gray Area Disclosure
Ye activated the main control authority within the cabin.
Retrieve the underlying files of the plan.
Lines of cold, hard code were projected onto the screen.
Title: "Gray Area Protocol".
Objective: To upload human consciousness to planetary orbits using microwave compression waves.
Objective: To avoid the self-contradictory destruction of humanity.
Executor: Y302, a descendant of LUCIA.
She stood there, stunned.
It turns out that he himself was the trigger for the plan.
She was not imprisoned by the system.
Instead, it is a "reboot fuse" reserved by the system designers.
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◆Six: The Tide of Ideology
Below the orbit, countless points of light flashed across the Earth—
That is the aggregation of human neural clouds.
The Ghost Network automatically initiated the "Gray Domain Cloud Ascension" process.
The entire planet was covered by a faint haze.
Researcher's description:
"Like the aurora borealis, but each one is a trace of consciousness."
Ye stood up and walked towards the cabin window.
"If they all become data..."
Who still remembers the feeling of breathing?
She manually activated the communication push notification, superimposing her own neural spectrum onto it.
"Listen, Ghost Web."
I am your memory, not your ending.
The light quickly enveloped the entire orbital station.
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◆Seven: Earth Resonance
Simultaneously, light rain appeared in various parts of the ground.
People looked up and saw the night sky slowly cracking open.
From the crack, a rain of sound descends—
Countless whispers, unfinished sentences, laughter and sighs.
The equipment recorded it as "collective dream wave".
Inside the medical pod, Zhuang Jing suddenly sat up.
His entire body was enveloped in a stream of light.
He spoke, his voice echoing Ye's tone:
"The gray area cannot be completed."
Because we haven't learned how to dream yet.
Synchronize display flashing messages:
Human Conscious Network: Reset to Dream Mode.
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◆Eight: Epilogue - Lonely Light
When the rain of light ceases
The orbital station lost power and slowly drifted into the depths of space.
The final images were transmitted back to Earth—
Ye Jingyi stood in front of the transparent bulkhead.
The starlight behind me was like breathing.
If I were still alive,
Please remember: Truth is not a mirror.
It is a shared illusion.
If hallucinations can be shared,
That is civilization.
The image freezes into a single point of light.
The human consciousness network has regained its balance.
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Chapter Four - End
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