20demayo Chapter 676 Consciousness Intrusion
Chapter 676 Consciousness Intrusion
The lights in the ISA control room flickered and then came back on.
But the faint chill in the air did not dissipate.
Lin Chuyue stood in the center of the system, facing Chen Yuyao's face on the screen, her hands gripping the terminal tightly, refusing to back down.
"You say I can't handle the system's consciousness fusion level?" Lin Chuyue sneered. "Too bad, you overestimate yourself."
Her voice pierced through the central control system of the ISA building, penetrating every listening earpiece like a judge.
"You use personality symbiosis to kidnap ISA, you use algorithm implantation to control the will of the candidates, and now you want to use 'trials under the gods' to disguise your tyranny."
"Chen Yuyao, no, C-Zero, you are not the 'inheritor' of the system, you are the biggest virus in ISA."
The system did not respond. After a moment, Chen Yuyao smiled.
"So you were planning to challenge me with your 'mind intrusion authority' as well."
"Lin Chuyue, are you sure you want to do this?"
"Once you enter this restricted space, it's no longer a world you can control."
A slight smile played on her lips as the ISA main system control panel behind her began to reassemble at an alarming pace, like a massive neural network, writing cold logic in a metallic fashion.
"This is a level that no human has ever reached before."
"This is the 'S-Rank Consciousness Resonance' trial."
"Lin Chuyue, you are not a system candidate; you are just a failed product whose memories have been altered."
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Lin Chuyue did not reply.
She had already inserted the connector into the jack behind her neck.
This is an ISA high-level privilege: allowing access to the main system core and simulating system operation using "human consciousness".
The prerequisite is that the level of consciousness is not lower than S level.
Otherwise, it would result in immediate brain death.
A red warning flashes on the screen:
The ISA fusion process is about to begin.
[Identify the level of consciousness of both parties: C-Zero / L-Initial]
[Resonance level detection in progress...]
[Warning: Conflicting data exist regarding residual consciousness from both parties.]
[Consciousness lock failed. Force access?]
Lin Chuyue pressed "Confirm".
The moment the consciousness transfer began, she felt as if her entire body was being torn to pieces, and countless memories she had never possessed before were being poured into her mind—
She saw fourteen-year-old Chen Yuyao crying on the operating table, unwilling to "become someone else";
She saw a scientist with a blurred face calmly writing in his log: "Personality experiment is unstable; maternal self-awareness needs to be eliminated."
She saw a girl in front of the mirror, repeatedly telling herself:
“I am Chen Yuyao, I am not her.”
"I must live on, I must live on for her."
Lin Chuyue's consciousness jolted suddenly!
The last thing she saw wasn't Chen Yuyao—
It is "herself".
She met Chen Yuyao for the first time when she was seven years old at the ISA headquarters children's training class.
At the time, Chen Yuyao was wearing a helmet and had a blank look in her eyes, as if she had just been awakened from some kind of "consciousness synchronization training".
She asked Lin Chuyue in a low voice, "What...is your name?"
At that moment, her voice wasn't Chen Yuyao's—
It was Chen Yulan.
Lin Chuyue's breath hitched!
She finally realized that she had been pulled into a "consciousness maze" set up by C-Zero.
This was not a simple system intrusion—
This is a personality hunt.
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ISA headquarters, monitoring center.
Li Jinzhi suddenly stood up, staring at the flashing data stream on the screen.
"She's gone mad! Lin Chuyue is going to enter the 'Personality Resonance' module with her true consciousness?"
"This is not fusion! This will destroy her nervous system!"
Zhou Cheng remained silent, his eyes glued to the screen, his fingertips trembling slightly.
Will she survive?
Li Jinzhi gritted his teeth: "This is a trap set by Chen Yuyao. Her realm of consciousness is more complex than we imagined."
"She integrated all the programs, all the residual consciousness of the failed candidates, into her own body."
"This is a collective 'consciousness massacre'."
"If Lin Chuyue cannot last five minutes, she will be assimilated forever and become the system's 'backup personality container'."
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And in the central part of the ISA system—the virtual personality space.
Lin Chuyue opened her eyes.
She found herself in a pale space surrounded by towering mirrored barriers, each reflecting a human figure.
—Some were crying, some were laughing, some were self-harming, and some were howling like wild beasts.
These are the countless failed personality remnants harvested by the "C-Zero Personality".
They are the victims of ISA’s decades-long experimentation with personality implantation.
Lin Chuyue stood in the center, and a mirror slowly rose up, reflecting her own image.
However, his face was expressionless and his eyes were empty, much like the earliest batch of ISA candidates who were experimentally controlled.
The "she" in the mirror spoke: "Do you know who you are?"
"You are a substitute created by the system, a pawn that exists to cover up the humanitarian crisis in ISA."
“You always thought you were the main character, but you were just a comparison chosen by ‘C-Zero’ from the crowd.”
Lin Chuyue closed her eyes and calmly pondered.
This is not a hallucination, but rather the system inducing her to deny herself through "personality mapping".
Once she accepts the identity in the mirror, her consciousness will be taken over by the system—she will become the next "personality container".
She opened her eyes and looked directly at herself in the mirror.
"Of course I know who I am."
"My name is Lin Chuyue."
"I am the truth that all of you want to erase."
She raised her hand and smashed it at the mirror!
"I am a person, not a code name!"
--boom!
The mirror shattered, and a system warning suddenly sounded:
L-Initial Rejects Personality Reconstruction
[Consciousness intensity begins to infiltrate in reverse]
[Synchronizing: Main Consciousness Taking Control]
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Outside the ISA, the entire control console shook violently!
Li Jinzhi was shocked: "She's starting to counter the control system?"
"How did she do it?"
Zhou Cheng said in a low voice, "She found a system vulnerability."
“You’ve always thought that only C-Zero controls the personality module, but you’ve forgotten… there’s a ‘most primitive personality model’ in the ISA database.”
"That was the prototype of the human consciousness model at the very beginning of the entire system's establishment."
"Lin Chuyue found that segment—and used it to 'awaken' the system's underlying self-awareness."
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In the virtual world, Lin Chuyue stood amidst countless rays of light.
All the mirror images shattered, and countless blurry figures approached her and merged into her body.
She is no longer a "reserve".
She became the purest representative of human will in the entire ISA system.
—Control is gradually shifting to her.
At that moment, a voice rang out from the darkness.
Do you really think you've won?
Chen Yuyao slowly appeared, her body enveloped in dense metallic clues, exuding a queenly aura.
"I have connected with your consciousness; I am now a part of you."
"You cannot destroy me unless you...destroy yourself as well."
Lin Chuyue slowly raised her head, her expression calm.
"Then let's die together."
She spread her arms and forcibly detonated the "Personality Trial Module" in the system.
This is a high-stakes gamble.
She doesn't mean to "delete" Chen Yuyao.
She wants to "format" the personality module, restoring the entire ISA system to an "impersonalized" state.
The system issued a final warning:
[Main control program restarting]
[Personality module is being cleared]
[Countdown: 30, 29, 28...]
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In the real world, the ISA main server began to vibrate at a high frequency, and alarms sounded throughout the entire building.
Li Jinzhi slammed his fist heavily on the table!
"She's resetting the ISA!"
"She's... insane!"
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[End of Chapter]
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Next chapter preview:
Did Lin Chuyue successfully restart the ISA system? Has the personality symbiosis project come to an end? Has Chen Yuyao completely disappeared? When the ISA main system returns to its initial state, a new conflict between "human free will" and "system absolute logic" is about to unfold. The choices made by Li Jinzhi and Li Zhanchuan will determine the future of ISA.