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Chapter 22 The Sea of Memory, 09:16 pm
Dr. Chen's tone was gentle, but he seemed to be sure of his answer, showing a sense of determination.Deng Huailing rubbed the black ring subconsciously, recalling that when he and Rosie were chasing Che Guangxu in the slums, the hacker had said similar things.
About the secrets in Mary Ellis' memory
"She is the mayor's mistress and knows many core government secrets!" Che Guangxu was stepped on by him, his eyes full of unwilling struggle.
"The memory center has been destroyed. As long as you let me go, I can share with you the most important secret, which is something closely tracked by the Cesina government..."
Mary Ellis' memory center has been destroyed, but now they have the memory pump deposited with the doctor.This small dark purple polyhedron remotely engraved Mary's memory, because the memory is limited, the part with the most emotional fluctuations will be kept, and other fragments will be automatically deleted.
It's like a movie recording her life.
"Enough to subvert Cesina?" Deng Huailing repeated, "Isn't she a female star, what does it have to do with this?"
"Someone should have told you that she was the mayor's mistress. Mary Ellis was a very special person—I can't tell you how special, but the mayor liked her very much and had her as part of a secret plan."
"It sounds tricky, and you don't plan to give money." Deng Huailing said with a smile, "——Dr. Chen, did you mistake me for some kind of public welfare organization? I am a bounty hunter.Collect money."
"Not only is it tricky, but the degree of danger of this secret is very likely to kill you." Chen Wei added, as if he didn't think it would scare the hunter in front of him, "I can't afford the money because it is converted according to the risk ratio.That's too much. But I can offer you something of equal value, for example, with some information on Rosie."
He smiled at the android behind the bounty hunter.Rosie had her back to them, presumably not paying attention to the conversation between the two, distracted by the metal ball on the other side of the room.
It was a gleaming silver spherical device big enough to accommodate an adult, with many electrodes hanging from inside. Rosie touched its surface lightly with her fingers, wondering what it was for.
Deng Huailing's eyes also stopped for a moment on the back of the bionic man."It's very tempting, but unfortunately, it hasn't reached my price point. Even if I don't know the details, he is a trustworthy partner. I don't need to risk my life to find out his identity."
"This is very different from you a year ago," Dr. Chen sighed. "When I was selecting a partner for Rosie, I was looking for your courage to stand up to the government. You are willing to shed blood and find out the truth.That naive...but admirable bounty hunter."
"You investigated me?" Deng Huailing said sarcastically, "Then you should understand what happened to me at that time. I won't do similar stupid things again."
"Is this your truth?" Chen Wei said unhurriedly, "It seems that I chose the wrong person. Well, you can go back to your apartment and continue to be that 'defiant A+ hunter'."
He repeated what Tang said in the free fighting field, with the intention of angering Deng Huailing.But the other party didn't lose his temper as he expected, but chuckled lightly, took a few steps closer, and casually put his hand on his shoulder.
"Doctor." Deng Huailing raised his eyes to look at him, and Chen Wei couldn't help but feel inexplicably oppressed, "Why do I feel that you are not that loyal to CyberRose? Your behavior tonight seems to be in conflict with the government and the government.The company is right."
He paused for a while to observe the expression on Chen Wei's face, "If I report the content of this meeting to the company, what consequences do you think will result——Dear Chief Scientific Officer?"
Dr. Chen's face was calm, but the corners of his lips were slightly pursed, revealing his nervousness.However, he quickly recovered his demeanor, straightened his glasses, and said calmly, "You won't, Deng Huailing."
"Although we have just met, I have observed you for a whole year before, and I know your character well. Even if you don't accept this mission, you will never betray me."
"Well, I really won't." The other party spoke conclusively and seemed to trust him very much, so Deng Huailing readily admitted, "But I'm not interested in your commission, so let's stop here tonight. If you don'tIf you mention this matter again, I will keep your secrets secret, and we owe nothing to each other."
He ended the topic neatly, pulled Rosie who was poking around in the pile of equipment, and planned to leave.
"Even if everyone in the second district will die," Chen Wei suddenly said behind his back, "you grew up in the second district, and those people you know, understand, greet, and have never met will die, so you're not interested?”
"What?" Deng Huailing turned around quickly, with a surprised expression, obviously very concerned about the topic of the second district.In the confrontation that lasted for several rallies, Chen Wei finally stabbed the opponent's weak point steadily and accurately, so he quickly followed up with what he hadn't finished speaking.
"Both the government and the 'art' are looking for a technology, a simple technology that can directly invade and control the human brain. This is the secret I want to say. I would like to show you the data and tables, but it is veryAbstraction. So," Chen Wei pressed a few buttons on the operation interface, and made a gesture to them, signaling them to sit in the spherical device that Rosie was very curious about just now.
"Seeing is believing, please."
"The time ratio between the sea of memory and the real world is 24:1. You have enough time to explore all the contents in the memory pump." Deng Huailing and Rosie each sat in the cabin of the metal ball, and Dr. Chen connected the electrodes for them, started the device.
"Mary Ellis' memory will be analyzed by the device and output in a way that you can understand. You just need to watch it. The process is a bit like a holographic movie."
Chen Wei put the small things they brought back from the black market on the main console. The memory pump was suspended in the air, emitting a deep purple light, and the instructions scrolled line by line, transcoding the information.
Gray mist surged up, entangled them like life, and engulfed the entire laboratory.Then Deng Huailing realized that it was not real fog, but an illusion when entering the realm of consciousness.
His brain set up a buffer for the sudden dramatic change of the scene, and when the gray fog cleared, everything in the laboratory disappeared, and they were standing on the vast sea.
There is no wind and waves on the sea surface, small waves rush to the insteps, and there is a clear and shallow water sound with every step.A bunch of data flickered, and Rosie's avatar was also loaded, squatting beside him, happily scooping up a handful of water, letting the transparent seawater flow down from the palm of her hand.
"What you are currently at is the initial interface. Walking a certain distance in any direction is regarded as opening the memory of Mary Ellis." Chen Wei's voice came from a distance, a little ethereal under the sky, "There may be someDiscomfort is a normal phenomenon of empathy. But when the original owner's emotion is too strong and causes the program to become chaotic, this field will collapse."
"Does that mean we might be crushed to death here?" Deng Huailing asked.
"If you're unlucky, you will." Chen Wei said jokingly, "But it's just that the consciousness is dead, the body won't die, that's all..."
"Dr. Chen, I believe you will not let me and Mr. Deng die." Rosie said plainly.He looked away from the sea, stood up, and looked up at the high and far sky, as if looking at Chen Wei through the realm of consciousness.
"Yes, the exit to return to reality is always open to you. In case of danger, just enter the 'tunnel' and you will be able to come back. In addition, I will always keep an eye on your situation, although the possibility of accidents is extremely small,But this is an unexplored memory pump after all, and I can't say it's absolutely safe."
"'Napway'?"
"Yes, the channel that communicates the virtual and the real can be opened as you wish. As long as you focus on the idea of 'going out', the program will receive an instruction to create a temporary connection, provided that the instruction is clear enough."
Rosie blinked, imagining silently in her heart.In an instant, the blue water swirled, and the spray roared and parted, revealing a deep passage.
By jumping off, you can reach reality from virtual reality.
"That's pretty much what I have to say, and it's your time next." Chen Wei said softly, "You can't influence this world, you are just tourists who come to watch memory fossils, but this world may affect you."
After saying this, he cut out Mary Ellis' consciousness, leaving the two on the sea empty.
Rosie turned to look at the bounty hunter: "Mr. Deng, shall we go forward?"
Deng Huailing didn't speak, but just like the bionic man did just now, he squatted down and scooped up a handful of water.The seawater flowed from his fingertips and fell into an endless dark tunnel—the program sensed his intention and opened the tunnel.
He's thinking about leaving here.Rosie realized that the other party was very hesitant now.
"Did you listen to my conversation with Chen Wei?" Deng Huailing lowered his eyes.
"The doctor wants you to see the secrets in Mary Ellis' memory with your own eyes so that you can complete the follow-up commission," Rosie said, "but you are afraid of trouble. Just like the rainy night when you took me in, you encountered trouble that could kill you."
"You really hit the nail on the head." Deng Huailing was a little surprised, "I thought you had been distracted."
"I know you will eventually accept that commission, Mr. Deng. You are the kind of person who is easy to soften your heart, and the result is predictable to me, so I am not so interested in the process."
Rosie lowered her head and they both stared at the swirling water.He was a little surprised. Deng Huailing's tough style from beginning to end in front of Chen Wei—in front of outsiders, disappeared without a trace at this moment. He felt the other party's hesitation, bewilderment...even a little bit of grievance, as if the big dog put his chin on his.on hand.
"Soft-hearted? Me?" Deng Huailing pointed to himself, his tone still cold and firm, "Did you make a mistake—" The next moment he closed his mouth, because Rosie stretched out her hand and gently placed her fingertips on the top of his hairrubbed on.
"Like that night, you clearly knew the dangers in me. My deep procedures, identity database, and government's ambiguous attitude have not been resolved until now, but you finally brought me home." Rosie said from the bottom of her heartSaid, "Mr. Deng, I am very grateful and have been thinking about what I can repay you."
Deng Huailing shook his head: "There's nothing to be grateful for. I'm just afraid that something will happen if I leave you there alone, and it's all because I just sit idly by and I'm afraid I'll regret it."
"Then do something that you won't regret." Rosie's tone was natural, "Dr. Chen said that if you let this secret go, people in the second district will die."
Deng Huailing closed his eyes.He felt the warmth of Rosie's fingers, and the other party tried to convey a kind of stable force to him, soothing and sorting out the messy mood."I'm afraid someone will die because of me." He said hoarsely.
He has already suffered retribution once, as the price for his youth and recklessness.The city has its own dark laws, and individuals should not try to break them. The first time he touched the interests of the root of the government, all his friends were killed, and Tang also indirectly lost his arm because of his fault.
He is not the kind of person who looks back often, but this heavy price will be weighed on his shoulders day after day, affecting every choice he makes.
"I'm still with you, Mr. Deng. I won't be afraid, and I won't die because of you. I promise that no matter what you choose, whether you walk forward or jump down the aisle, I will always be by your side.”
Deng Huailing suddenly smiled, and said lightly: "Don't make promises casually, it is usually very difficult to fulfill."
"But the 'passage' disappeared." Rosie reminded, "You believed it, didn't you?"
Deng Huailing was startled.The surface of the sea where the channel appeared just now was as calm as if nothing had happened.The sea water closed up, filling the once deep gap, and the white waves rolled up. He had already made a choice for himself.