In a daze, Xiu Yinan felt the world torn apart into scattered pixels again and combined in a strange and chaotic way. This time, it was a room he knew too well.
In the quiet room, he could even hear his eyelids bouncing rapidly. Darkness, breathing, tinnitus, and neural disorders caused a sense of fatigue to rush towards him.
He tried his best to wake up from this state, whether entering the virtual world from reality or reality from the virtual world, the human brain always needed to activate its memory search mechanism to explain everything in the new world.
Past, present, and future, overlapping strings of sound created an annoying noise, and the incoherence of memory triggered the brain's "restrained release" mechanism, trying to reasonably deduce all of this by reshaping the memory.
"What profession is this time? ... "
"Biological system engineer! Last time? Was it an energy security engineer? A graphics engine programmer? ..."
The brain was forced with so much knowledge and needed a lot of time to adapt. Xiu thought that even though the objects in the room gradually became concrete in front of him, he still couldn't bear the high intensity pain in his brain. The memory of his profession during his last awakening was like a vague cloud that could be blown away by the dark clouds that shrouded his mind center.
"Your memory initialization project will be completed in 30 seconds. At that time, you can take off your helmet and preemptively remove yourself from being exiled to the 'outer space', where you cannot return to the original world due to an incomplete mission. Please be cautious!"
"Memory initialization completed!"
"........."
"Although I have already disconnected from the memories of the previous world, I still dare not take off this damn helmet in advance..." Xiu muttered. The term 'outer world' was both familiar and strange, but the fear from the depths of his memory made him gasp for breath.
Tasks depended on knowledge, and knowledge came from memory. Where did memory come from? Xiu stared numbly at the helmet reflecting the moonlight in front of him, and in front of the goggles was his expressionless self.
He lost his mind.
Xiu's mouth suddenly paused slightly, then hummed for a long time. He then threw the helmet aside and shrugged, blurting out, "What task?"
Shaking his head, Xiu got up and found a leather jacket in his most familiar place by muscle memory. The residual warmth and smell on the leather jacket made him uncomfortable, but it fit him as if it was tailored for him in a tailor shop.
The implanted memory chip was now pouring a series of knowledge into Xiu's brain center, causing his hippocampus to malfunction. All other necessary activities in the brain had to give way to the forced input operation of the memory chip. This caused Xiu's perception, touch, and smell to experience sensory degradation, but he was completely unaware.
As he got up, Xiu's eyes received a forced modification of the visual center by the memory chip to the cortical visual center in an instant.
24:00:00
23:59:59...
Almost in an instant, dazzling letters suddenly flickered in front of him, reminding him that time was passing second by second, and with it, a list of tasks penetrated his mind.
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「Go to the 'Z2' biological laboratory, test the combination of Type I and Type II Elyan brain tissue placed in the refrigerator at low temperatures, accelerate the fusion process with a breeding stimulant, record the brain tissue reaction, and upload the corresponding biological parameters.」
「Implement the gas-liquid filling of the new generation of biological nutrient solution.」
「Sever the connection between the 'Ideation wanderers' who experienced neural withdrawal reactions in the previous period and the implanted memory, and retrieve the memory chip.」
「Use 'in vivo breeding' to extract Type II Elyan active brain tissue for activity screening, and separate Type I Elyan active brain tissue in the 'wandererer's' brain for activity screening.」
Thousands of pieces of knowledge flowed into the brain at lightning speed through dendritic and axonal connections, circulating electrical signals between the huge neural networks. All the biomedical knowledge stored in the Ante Company's memory bank had now invaded Xiu's brain.
The heaviness in his mind made him kneel down involuntarily, gasping for breath, his eyes white beyond the pupils. He shivered and wanted to shout, but kept muttering in his mouth:
"Don't forget."
"Don't forget...what?!"
A girl's figure suddenly appeared in Xiu's pupils, blurry but vivid, echoing in his mind. She lightly touched her chin and shouted with one hand cupped around her mouth, waving with the other hand as if saying goodbye.
"Brother Yinan, wait for me, I will come to see you again after a year!"
Reality pulled him and her further and further apart until he completely detached from what was called reality. The memory of the girl was so distorted that only her clear voice remained intact.
Xiu stared at everything blankly. His instincts told him that he could meet that girl again as long as he completed the task as soon as possible. However, buried deep in his brain, his consciousness told him not to complete the task too early. Why?
Ante Corporation and the towering twin towers have too many secrets waiting for him to uncover.
When he became slightly conscious, he struggled to stand up and awkwardly returned to his original room. The layout of the room was also so familiar to him. The coffee-colored D-shaped guitar, the Tu Babbit wardrobe, the AR neural stereoscopic glasses he made and played with in high school, the small wooden pine tree on the desk in front of the window, and the neatly stacked rows of scientific books.
Xiu watered the pine tree, and in this place without sunlight, its shape grew increasingly strange.
He went to the bathroom, and the blood that flowed down from his face burned his memory as it flowed down his cheek to his neck.
In the foyer, countless versions of his past self were projected onto the mirror opposite him, merging and separating, with reality and illusion blurred. He was sore all over in front of the mirror one moment, and the next moment, his face was submerged in the flowing river of time, and he felt comfortable all over. Until his 15-year-old self shouted anxiously to him:
"Who are you!"
This shout brought him back to reality. Yes, who was he? At this moment, his memories of his background were already blurry. Who would have thought that he was the computer and biological engineering genius who became famous at a young age in New Bridge High School and was admitted to the Orphidell Polytechnic Institute early?
At that time, Xiu and other outstanding people on Earth were trapped on the edge of reality and virtuality, secretly completing the research on Ante Corporation's new generation of ideation separation technology without knowing it. He's memory was eroded bit by bit by the memory he developed by himself back then, reshaped over and over again, and instilled with the knowledge from all mankind uploaded in the knowledge base of the Cloud Metalas system.
Numbness, confusion, and all the expressions that should not have appeared on the face of this 18-year-old genius were hidden behind the handsome face covered by blood stains.
After a brief wash, Xiu walked out of the room again. With his intuition, the memory body allowed him to shuttle back and forth in the 'U'-shaped Ante Twin Towers building. The concentration of the biological nutrient solution in the air slowly decreased, and he became increasingly hungry.
Oubel City and its Twins tower [https://i.pinimg.com/originals/42/d5/32/42d532339896929c89bae0a68040d623.jpg]
This building, standing at the very center of Oubel City, has countless 'ideation wanderers' like him. They mechanically complete their tasks like puppets designed with predetermined routes, just to return to the initial sleep state-the sweet dream. But the area where the 'ideation wanderers' perform their tasks is designed by Ante Corporation to never meet, after all, an isolated system is the most stable and controllable.
Oubel City, which has never been named on Earth, was secretly built by the Ante Corporation in an unknown desert area of the Kusy continent. It is like a huge dream net, devouring the memories of 'ideation wanderers' and nurturing the enormous ambition of the Ante Corporation.