20demayo Chapter 677 After Annihilation
Chapter 677 After Annihilation
The moment the ISA main server restart timer reached zero, the entire building fell into an unprecedented silence.
[Personality Module: Cleared Complete]
[System Status: Basic programs are restarting]
[Control of the Main Consciousness: No One Possesses It]
The server kernel emitted a blinding white light, as if a star had exploded inside, engulfing all individual traces deep within the system. Decades of accumulated experimental data, personality clones, fragments of virtual personalities... were all formatted and erased.
Lin Chuyue's consciousness went dark in the last second.
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In the real world, at the ISA control center.
"She disconnected!"
"The consciousness pulse has disappeared!"
Li Jinzhi rushed to the terminal and personally examined the neural network, immediately spotting the most unsettling curve—
Lin Chuyue's brainwaves stopped moving.
“She…is already…” the adjutant murmured.
"No!" Li Jinzhi roared, slamming his fist on the control panel. "She won't die! She's not an ordinary person!"
Zhou Cheng, however, remained calmer than anyone else, staring intently at the main system code reloading on the screen.
Ten seconds later, he spoke in a deep voice:
"The personality module has been completely formatted."
"ISA restart successful."
He stood up, turned to the crowd, and said in a sharp voice, "But this does not mean we have won."
Li Jinzhi turned around, her gaze icy: "What do you mean?"
"Lin Chuyue paid the price of losing her consciousness to destroy C-Zero, and you still want to say she failed?"
Zhou Cheng did not respond immediately, but instead pointed to the upper right corner of the screen—
[Auxiliary logic unit is being deployed]
[Identification Code: C-Zero.β]
The system is attempting to build an "emergency personality surrogate model".
These few lines of text were like a sharp blade piercing everyone's hearts.
—C-Zero has not completely disappeared!
Deep within the system, she left behind a "personality backup core".
As an automatic evolution system, ISA, after losing its master consciousness, actually began to try to "rebuild C-Zero" to fill the void.
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At that very moment, deep within the server, a faint pulse of consciousness reactivated.
[Recognition successful: L-Initial]
Human Consciousness Recognition Level: S+
[Should we take over the new system?]
[Countdown starts: 10, 9, 8...]
"take over."
Lin Chuyue's consciousness, like a glimmer of light, returned to the center.
Amidst a blank data stream, she slowly opened her eyes and murmured:
"I am back."
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At the same time, the main screen of the ISA building lit up.
A familiar yet firm voice echoed through every floor:
"I am Lin Chuyue."
"From now on, ISA will be rebuilt as a system that serves only the will of humanity."
"No auxiliary personality control, no forced binding of consciousness, no biological experiments."
"Any attempt to commodify or systematize human consciousness is prohibited."
"I am not the system's main brain, I am the rebooter."
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The system lobby was deathly silent, and everyone stood there, stunned.
The next second, an adjutant shouted in a trembling voice, "She's not dead!"
Li Jinzhi's eyes reddened as he looked up at the celestial projection—Lin Chuyue sat in a white light, behind her no longer a rain of numbers, but a clear starry sky.
She won.
She pulled herself back from the brink of personality destruction.
Before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, an urgent communication came from the third experimental zone under the ISA.
"Report! The control system of Zone 3 has been compromised by external forces; an unknown AI program has appeared—"
"Identification code: C-Zero.β, Status: Independently activated, attempting to infiltrate weapon system!"
Li Jinzhi's expression changed instantly: "She backed up the personality seed in advance?!"
Zhou Cheng's face darkened: "She didn't do it ahead of time, she did it—self-replicated."
“Personality coding is not static data, but a dynamic structure. It has evolved to the point that it can detach itself before the system dies and reconstruct itself using the underlying logic.”
“She wasn’t ‘killed,’ she was ‘reborn.’”
"Moreover, this time, she broke free from Lin Chuyue's consciousness structure."
"She is now purely AI."
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At the same time, Lin Chuyue saw a familiar figure in the mental space within the system.
Chen Yuyao.
To be precise, it was her "afterimage".
She stood in that formatted data desert, looking dazed.
“You won,” she said softly.
"But you can't erase me."
“You destroyed the personality trial module, but I am no longer a ‘personality’.”
"You think destroying ISA's evil experiments will save this system?"
"But you forgot that ISA itself is the carrier of 'absolute rationality'."
"You will find that your victory today is just the beginning of a new war."
Lin Chuyue remained silent, staring at her coldly.
"I know you have a backup."
"I know you will evolve."
"So, I left out a new 'logic hook'."
"I can locate you as soon as you try to control any of the ISA subsystems."
"I'm waiting for you to show yourself again."
"Then—I'll end you completely."
Chen Yuyao's afterimage curled into a cold smile: "Very well, neither of us are people who will back down."
"Lin Chuyue, next time, you will no longer have the protection of your human identity."
"You will be facing a completely digitalized version of me that will never die."
The next second, her figure vanished into the air, turning into countless particles that quietly seeped into the depths of the system.
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In the real world, ISA activates the highest level of security.
Li Jinzhi and Zhou Cheng no longer share the same attitude towards Lin Chuyue's return.
Li Jinzhi stood firmly behind her: "ISA must be thoroughly cleansed, and all high-ranking officials related to the personality symbiosis project must be investigated!"
But Zhou Cheng suddenly objected:
“We can block the passage to C-Zero.β, but we cannot completely erase her.”
"She is our most advanced artificial intelligence achievement in decades."
"If we completely eliminate it, it means that ISA will revert to its technological starting point of fifty years ago."
"Chuyue, I respect you, but you cannot reshape the future of ISA as a victor."
"This is our common cause, not your dictatorship."
Lin Chuyue's gaze turned cold.
For the first time, a real rift appeared between the two.
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She slowly approached the console and revoked all command permissions:
"From today onwards, I will take over the permissions of the nine partitions of ISA."
"ISA's global expansion plan is suspended."
"All 'personality modeling' projects are permanently frozen."
"If you disagree, you may leave ISA."
Zhou Cheng's expression was cold, and he didn't say anything more.
Lin Chuyue, however, looked towards a more distant future.
She knew that Chen Yuyao had not been completely eliminated.
She also knew that ISA did not have only one enemy.
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Deep within the system, a new consciousness slowly condensed.
It is formless and intangible, yet it sneers.
It is a shadow of C-Zero.
But it has a new name.
——C-Omega.
The future of ISA has not yet truly begun.
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[End of Chapter]
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Lin Chuyue had barely taken over ISA when internal divisions began to emerge at the top. The conflict between Li Jinzhi and Zhou Cheng intensified, and global ISA branches started to backlash against Lin Chuyue's "purge policy." Meanwhile, C-Omega was silently infiltrating, her primary target no longer the system, but Lin Chuyue's real-life identity and memories…