Delusion Master

At nine o'clock in the morning on Sunday, Bai Yuan and Wei Lin drove to the embankment of the riverside.It is close to the outskirts of the city, in a remote location, and there are few vehicles on the road.Across a large semi-primitive green belt, the riverside full of beaches and rocks is even more empty.

After parking the car and walking for tens of meters, they saw Wu Jinghan's figure.

Director Wu pressed his arms on the rusty railing, facing the river, his motionless back looked extraordinarily dignified.

Maybe he was missing Li Minxing, and fell in love with the scene at a place similar to the embankment where the other party fell into the water, Wei Lin thought with some compassion.

They went forward.Wu Jinghan heard footsteps, put down his arms, turned around and said, "You guys are here."

Wei Lin nodded kindly at him: "I haven't seen you for a few days, you have lost a lot of weight, thanks for your hard work."

Wu Jinghan smiled bleakly: "It's okay. I just hope that I don't disappoint Min Xing's last wish."

Wei Lin: "You asked us out, because you have made significant progress in decrypting that flash memory chip?"

Wu Jinghan: "Part of it has been unraveled. What is certain is that since 20 years ago, this mysterious organization - I don't know if they are a standardized organization or institution, but this scale and depth The research is obviously not something that individuals can afford, so let’s call it an organization for the time being—they began to conduct human experiments, and the research direction is indeed brain control technology. It can be seen that their thinking was relatively conservative at the time, and they wanted to use neural chips. Implants, to control a person's brain. I found the blueprints for these neurochips."

Wei Lin: "Is it the circuit diagrams that look like electronic components that Li Minxing said?"

Wu Jinghan: "Yes. They use a special protein in the brain to connect living brain cells and silicon circuits, turning the human brain into an organic computer. As long as instructions are given to the neural chip, it can be stimulated by electricity. The brain nerves control the implanter's thinking. But this brutal method is equivalent to turning a person into a 'half human, half machine', which will do a lot of damage to the brain."

Wei Lin couldn't help but look at Bai Yuan: Isn't this the "Cloud Pillar" neural chip that appeared in Li Minxing's "Absolute Domain"?

Wei Lin asked a question that had puzzled him for a long time: "Bai Yuan, how did you materialize the 'Cloud Pillar'? Do you understand its principle and structure?"

Bai Yuan said: "I don't know much about it, but Li Minxing understands it. I once said that the first principle of the ability to 'realize' is not to exceed the level of technology in the current world. If the 'creator' cannot understand the existence of this thing , then the rules of the world will reject it. On the other hand, even if I don't know much about this thing, I just have an impression or idea, and if I get out its shell, the 'creator' can help me fill it up with its own knowledge , to make it come true. Of course, as an ability user, my consciousness is also very important, the more I believe that it can come true, the higher its effectiveness will be."

Wei Lin nodded: "That is to say, Li Minxing was actually the one who made the 'Cloud Pillar' chip come true? Did he also think about this way before, and found that the limitations were too great, so he turned to remote brain control technology, writing Create a brain wave decoding program."

Wu Jinghan was not clear about the meaning of words such as "realization" and "creator" in their dialogue, but "Cloud Pillar" has already had a theoretical concept in reality, so the general meaning can still be understood, so he added: "I Using the source code left by Minxing, he has studied his program. According to his original plan, the next step is to develop an electronic decoder to receive and decode brain waves, and then send the re-edited waves back to the brain to achieve remote control. Effect.

"Minxing thought that the other party's research on brain control technology was 20 years earlier than him, but in fact, his direction is more advanced."

Wei Lin sighed: "Perhaps it is for this reason that the other party keeps chasing him to death. I think that after he is caught, if he is willing to serve them, he may not die. But after experiencing the 'absolute field' Everything in it, he realized the danger of this technology, and refused to give in, so he was silenced..."

Wu Jinghan turned his face away, not wanting the two of them to see his expression at this time.After a while, he seemed to control his emotions, took out a sealed paper bag from his pocket, and handed it to Wei Lin: "I haven't found the name, members and location of this organization, but I have extracted most of the data reports from human experiments. Since 20 years ago, there are a total of 8 batches, here are the personal information of some experimenters, you can see if the information is useful."

Wei Lin opened the bag, took out a stack of white paper with densely printed handwriting, and quickly glanced at it.When his eyes glanced over one of the lines, he froze suddenly, as if his thinking had broken down at this moment.

He repeatedly looked at the name and the personal information below in disbelief, age, physical signs, family situation, growth experience...all matched.

If this is a coincidence, then there are really two identical leaves in this world.

Bai Yuan held his shoulder and asked with concern: "What's wrong? What did you see?"

Wei Lin's trembling fingers lingered on the name:

His lips also trembled slightly, and he said slowly: "Gan Yicheng."

Bai Yuan asked, "Do you know each other?"

Wei Lin raised his face and looked at him almost at a loss: "This is my biological father's name..."

Bai Yuan was stunned, and then reacted: "Your father, participated in this human experiment 20 years ago? Are you sure it's not the same name and surname? After all, you said that your mother never wanted to mention him."

"That's right, but Xu Mu mentioned him! Not only that, Xu Mu always talked about him, when he was talking to himself, when he was drunk...he said he was sorry, so he would take good care of his son." Wei Lin fell into the long memories, pieced together little by little details that he didn't realize or didn't understand at the time.

"Xu Mu may just be an alias. He is skilled and vigilant, and seems to be always on guard for something. He dragged me into hiding, and moved four times in three years, each time in a small remote place. mountain village.

"He wanted to imbue me with all kinds of fighting skills, but unfortunately I was just a sieve, and I learned nothing, which made him very disappointed. Once drunk, he said, 'You can't even compare with half of your father. Come on.' But after sobering up, he coaxed me forcefully and roasted a lotus leaf chicken for me.

"Even before he died...he was hurt like that, and he was holding my hand and saying, 'I'm sorry I got you...'

"He left me a diary. After I read it, I realized that he didn't want to appear in front of me, he just wanted to help me financially, but because I was too rebellious at that time, he was afraid that I would go astray, so he just I have to raise me personally - if I was stronger and more competitive when I was 12 years old, he might still be alive in a corner of this world. Bai Yuan, you said, all this is caused by me, right? ?”

Wei Lin's face was pale and sharp, his eyes were trembling like burning dark fire, Bai Yuan had never seen such an expression of emotion that was so strong that it was almost out of control.

Even the blood had faded from his lips.

Bai Yuan was so distressed that he couldn't help but hugged him, unable to say a word of comfort, he just hugged him tightly.

Wei Lin calmed down slowly in his arms, and his tone was exhausted after over-excitement: "There are no ifs in this world, I know."

"But with me, I will always be by your side." Bai Yuan whispered.

"I know." Wei Lin said, responding to the hug.

Wu Jinghan leaned on the railing of the river embankment, thinking silently, without making any noise during the whole process.When the two hugging people finally separated, he picked up the previous topic: "Assuming that your father was indeed a member of the experimenters 20 years ago, it means that this organization is farther away from us than we imagined." Get closer."

"It also means that my father's death back then, and Xu Mu's death, all had dark inside stories like Li Minxing." Wei Lin closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, calmness and determination had completely returned to his eyes. "And we'll uncover it, we will."

"Unfortunately, this is the only information I have at the moment, and I will continue to decipher the rest, hoping to find this organization as soon as possible." Wu Jinghan stepped forward and clicked on a few lines of text on the page , "Pay attention here, there is a name that may not be the real name, and it appears in the column of the person in charge of the experiment."

"'LadyGaia'? 'Ms. Gaia', I seem to have seen this name somewhere..." Wei Lin immediately remembered, "In that old diary left by Xu Mu!"

He immediately turned and walked to the car: "I'm going to go back and read that diary again."

Wu Jinghan turned to his back and said: "Contact by phone. I will leave City F tonight. The next time we meet, I will decrypt all the information in the flash memory chip. I hope it won't be too long."

Wei Lin waved his hands without looking back, and left Jiangbin together with Bai Yuan.

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Along the way, Bai Yuan was paying attention to Wei Lin, but obviously, the other party had completely returned to normal, suppressed those real and intense emotions back to the deepest part of his heart, and changed into the brisk aura of the sky falling down as a quilt.

But Bai Yuan knows that those things really exist, in the memory that is too clear, in the cover of the noise and the solitude of being alone, cruelly and bloody, like a saw that has been cutting for many years, never stops tortured him.

His Wei Lin, the Wei Lin who was laughing, making noise, playing both ways, and running the train with his mouth full, never really relaxed.

Bai Yuan couldn't help stretching out his hand, and touched the soft short hair of the man beside him.

Wei Lin looked at him with a smile, grabbed that hand and put it on the steering wheel: "Drive well."

At this moment, Bai Yuan wished that he would grow on him, so that when he lowered his head, he could rub against the other party.

Back at the villa, Wei Lin dug out a cardboard box from the back of the cabinet in the guest room, opened the lid, and took out an old notebook with yellowed corners.

"I carry this box with me everywhere, but I rarely open it." Wei Lin said, "Because every time I open it, I must accumulate enough courage to accept the torture of memories."

Bai Yuan picked up an old photo on the cover of the book, and looked at the serious man and the stubborn boy on it.The posture of the two standing side by side is a bit awkward. They are both alienated and have an inseparable bond.Bai Yuan noticed the man's hand on the young man's shoulder, seemingly inadvertently, but secretly made a V letter towards the camera, clumsily but with warmth implied.

"I took it when I was 15 years old. We just had a fight over whether to go to the city to study high school. In the end, I was crushed by his will." Wei Lin habitually touched Xu on the photo. wooden face.

He carefully clipped the photo into the title page of the diary, and then flipped through the pages: "I haven't finished reading this book, to be precise, I only flipped through a few pages, and I always feel like I'm spying on Xu Mu's personal privacy and emotional life. Embarrassed."

He turned to the page in his memory and carefully browsed the densely packed text on it.

Xu Mu's handwriting is not very good-looking, small and hard, and he doesn't pay attention to the neatness of the page, and there are supplementary notes and scribbles everywhere.

But Wei Lin quickly found the passage he wanted to read: "Here, 'LadyGaiya'—he even spelled Gaia wrong."

"...July 7th, it was hot as hell, and I was sweating after an hour of physical training, but I couldn't stop. Yicheng was already in the post-implantation recovery phase, and I hadn't passed the neurological test, although I didn't I don't think physical training will help the brain, but eating lecithin and meditation are useless."

Wei Lin stopped and explained to Bai Yuan: "Yicheng is Yi Cheng, Xu Mu calls him that." Bai Yuan nodded.

"Yicheng is recovering very well. It looks the same as before, except that there is an extra chip in the brain. He asked me to touch the almost invisible wound, and said with a smile that it will be a human-machine integration in the future. I am a little worried , but he said it’s okay, everyone is like this, this is an approved group experiment, and the technology is quite mature. I asked him where he heard it, and he said that it was from Ms. Gaia, the project leader, who gave all implanters I showed the approval document with the official seal. I haven't seen that woman, probably because I'm not yet a formal experimenter, so I don't have the qualifications. If I don't pass the nerve test, I will be eliminated.

"Yicheng hopes that I can also pass. If not, he will give me half of the money he got in the end. I will not accept it. Although this money will not be earned in a lifetime of work, it is his risk of exchanging his body. Come—don’t fucking tell me that the technology is mature, and there is no risk in doing experiments? Even if we ex-soldiers who are recruited can be paid half as much as ordinary people, it’s not worth it.

"I know that Yicheng is under a lot of pressure, not only financially, but also spiritually. My sister-in-law gave up her good life and insisted on marrying him, even breaking up with her family. Xiaolin is only five years old. Supplies, everything needs money, he wants to try his best to maintain the standard of living, so that his sister-in-law will not regret marrying him.

"As for me, I just want to be with him. Anyway, I haven't found any good job. We have been colleagues for seven years, and our blood has flowed into the same blood vessel and heart. We can't tell the difference in this life. Whose one drop belongs to.

"I really hope that tomorrow's test will pass. When I see that woman, I will ask her personally how much risk is there."

After reading this, Wei Lin took a deep breath and looked up at Bai Yuan.

Bai Yuan frowned slightly: "There is probably something wrong with this neural chip implantation experiment."

Wei Lin continued to flip through the diary at the back.Xu Mu still failed the test and was eliminated.He had to leave the experimental center just as he had come, anesthetized and sent out.Before leaving, he secretly said goodbye to Yicheng in violation of the regulations, and accidentally saw that Ms. Gaia.

"She is a 27-year-old beauty with short hair. She can't hide her good figure even in a professional suit, but her attitude is too cold and forceful, and she speaks like a machine. I don't like it. Some experimenters seem to have a crush on her, but no Yes, she is married and wears a diamond ring on her right ring finger. It is estimated that a diamond-shaped blue diamond the size of a finger is far better than the rewards paid to all the experimenters.

"I almost got killed by her bodyguards. Damn, bitch.

"Goodbye, Yicheng, I will wait for you outside."

"I think he didn't wait until '[-]%' came out." Wei Lin said sadly, "I haven't seen my father since I was five years old."