"...Cecina United News reports for you. It is reported that after the premiere of the famous movie star Mary Ellis last night, the self-driving vehicle she was riding in ran over and injured a man. Mary Ellis got out of the car to check the other person's injuriesAfterwards, she re-boarded the car and escaped, and it seemed that Cesina's current mayor, Robert Dillane, was leaving in the same car.

"The reporter went to the municipal center to confirm the matter. As of the time of the news release, Mayor Dylan still avoided seeing her. Mary Ellis is currently missing. The reporter checked every registered hospital in Cesina, and no injured man was found.medical records.

"This accident seems to be full of doubts. The mayor himself is unwilling to give a reasonable explanation, which also makes the public have doubts. The reporter randomly interviewed some people through street research.Become the focus of people's hot discussion..."

When the scene cut back to the mayor's office, Deng Huailing and Rosie saw this scene: Robert grabbed the folder at hand and angrily threw it at the wall display, snow-white papers flew all over the sky.Although paperless offices have become popular in the past few years, and electronic documents can be retrieved, government officials are still accustomed to printing important documents on paper for backup, like an ancient form of insurance.

Fortunately, the stack of documents was not something hard, and the display screen was intact.The door of the office opened, and a young man with an Asian face and wearing a research uniform happened to walk in. He looked down at the documents scattered all over the floor, picked them up one by one, arranged them in order, put the edges on the table and tapped them.Knock it and hand it back to the mayor.

When he raised his head, the two people watching Mary Ellis' memory couldn't help being surprised—that person was Dr. Chen.The timeline has advanced to five years ago, so to be precise, that is the 21-year-old Chen Wei.

Even though he was just in his early twenties, he had begun to have a calm temperament.Robert motioned for him to sit down, and Chen Wei did as he did, without further words, just nodded and said, "Mayor."

"Have you read the news?" Robert crossed his fingers on the table, not seeing the rage when he threw out the folder just now, "You have been in charge of monitoring Mary for a long time, so you should know about what happened last night."

"I understand what you're referring to. Mary Ellis didn't follow your advice and got out of the car without authorization, causing the news to spread wildly. The election is coming soon, and the minority party must be ready to attack you." Chen Wei said fluently, he has already done relevant research.

"So what do you think I asked you to do?" Robert laughed.

"That man's name is Jason Ellis, Mary's current administrator. It's no wonder that Mary is worried about his safety." Chen Wei said, "You want me to override Jason's administrator privileges so that Mary can't get along with him.There's more to it, but unfortunately, it's not the way to go."

His words were impeccable, but Rosie and Deng Huailing looked at each other in a place where they couldn't see in the office, and they both saw through Chen Wei's lies.The current administrator of Mary Ellis is not Jason, but the killer. It is impossible for a meticulous person like Chen Wei to mistake who Mary Ellis' administrator is.

There is only one explanation, Dr. Chen has reservations about the mayor.This reservation even started many years ago, confusing the mayor.

"Why doesn't it work?"

"Because Mary's situation is quite special, sometimes even modifying the administrator's privileges can't change her behavior. Mayor, you are also very familiar with bionic technology, so I won't go into details. A very strong consciousness activity can be observed on her body."——In short, she is too similar to a human being, and the method against bionics has little effect on her." Chen Wei said firmly.

"It turned out that it was just a gadget given to me by an official," Robert snorted, as if a little disdainful, "I modified a bionic person who looks like Rose with the Mary-03 generation, and it actually has self-awareness."

"We don't know much about the consciousness domain of bionics, and there is only one case of Mary Ellis at present, and the randomness is quite high." Chen Wei pondered for a while, "If the mayor still doesn't want to give up on her, I canTry to control her mind and make her forget about Jason."

Robert laughed loudly: "Do it, Dr. Chen, I admire your ability. Looking at the entire R&D center, I probably can't find a second expert who has made achievements in both brain science and bionic human applications."

He paused, and then admitted frankly, "Indeed, I don't want Mary Ellis to be scrapped. It is impossible for ordinary humans to be so similar to Rose. No matter the appearance or personality, there is no other substitute for it."

Chen Wei nodded and said: "I understand, Mayor. I will try my best, but I cannot guarantee the long-term control effect. Mary is already very close to a human being, and her consciousness will definitely break through the control, unless..."

"Unless you find the 'brain lock' left by Cecina, that algorithm can even be manipulated by humans." Robert glanced at him and said clearly, "We have talked many times before, what you want to say is this?"

Chen Wei replied: "Yes. All existing control technologies are poor speculation and imitation of the 'brain lock', just like the proof of Feynman's last theorem. We still don't know what Feynman did in the 17th century.What is the kind of "wonderful demonstration method" referred to? I can only read hundreds of pages of obscure papers from later generations. Obviously, it is not the most concise and beautiful demonstration method.

"The research in the field of brain science is the same. Even with all the wisdom of everyone in the R&D center, we can barely control Mary Ellis, and there is a risk of losing control, let alone manipulating the human brain. But if we can find the 'brainThe Lock of the Door, we shall master that beautiful and powerful method."

"Dr. Chen, I have to declare that it's not that I don't pay attention to your proposal." Robert signaled Chen Wei to open the document that he had just finished, "Actually, I came to you today to explain this matter to you——About the treasure left by scientist Cecina."

The mayor went on to say, "I sent someone to rummage through Cesina von Richthofen's sea of memories to find the 'brain lock', but found nothing. However, data anomalies were found at these coordinates,Although it seems useless, I still think it should be handed over to you."

Chen Wei took the file and flipped through it roughly.There are tens of pages of complicated data, and there are some text interpretation reports. Deng Huailing is having a hard time how to record it. Rosie suddenly stepped forward, scanned all the data into the memory center, and then raised her eyes and smiled: "Remember it, Mr. Deng."

"I always ignore that you are a bionic person." Deng Huailing patted the other party to show encouragement, "Good job."

"Actually, I've always wanted to ask." Rosie turned her head and looked around, and said worriedly, "This scene is Mary's memory, but... where is Mary?"

As if hearing his question, Chen Wei stood up: "I will bring these data back to the research center for analysis. Mayor, if there is no other instruction, I have to leave. The laboratory still has a lot of business."

"Don't worry." Robert said leisurely, "I told you about Mary Ellis just now, take her away."

Following his voice, the wall on the right side slowly moved away.Chen Wei raised his head in surprise, his stance was a little unsteady: "This..."

Mary was hung behind a dark wall with her head bowed and her wrists were shackled.Her blond hair was dry, her vitality was gradually draining, and her bare skin was covered with shocking scars.The sequined dress she wore last night was still covered in blue blood.

The wall behind her was splashed with dark blue blood, but beneath the blue blood was dried old red blood, definitely not Mary's.There must have been more than one person tied to this wall. While the mayor sat behind his desk doing business and talking with his subordinates, the person he was torturing was lingering through the wall.

Chen Wei subconsciously clenched the document in his hand, and then forced himself to loosen it."The mayor is interested, but it will be troublesome to repair these scars."

He didn't hide it very well, he still showed sympathy for Mary, Deng Huailing thought.This is a small test. If Chen Wei fails, it will definitely arouse the mayor's vigilance.

But ask yourself, if he is Chen Wei, he may not be able to do better than the other party on this occasion - as long as there is still empathy, it is impossible to turn a blind eye to Mary's tragedy.

"Go and reform her." Robert said, "There is no need to make her forget Jason. I hope the two of them...retaliate against each other."

Jason Ellis was sitting in one of the "feast" rooms. Through the open paper door, he could be seen uneasily wiping the sweat from his brow, looking out frequently, and finally standing up and pacing.

The holographic cherry blossoms fell lightly on the promenade, and when he stepped on them, they were broken into fine dust and disappeared invisible.He was waiting for Mary to arrive. Although the broken left leg was connected to a prosthetic limb, it was still not fully healed, but upon receiving Mary's invitation to meet, Jason rushed over without thinking.

I don't know how many times walked along the promenade, another footstep sounded on the teak floor.Jason turned his head happily, and Mary stood behind him, watching him blankly.

She gave people a very weird feeling today, as if her soul had been sucked out, her eyes were devoid of any look, and the corners of her mouth were pursed into a rigid straight line.Jason was startled when he saw her, then he limped and rushed over to hold her hand, still without any grievances:

"Mary, I was worried about you after that night, I've caused you trouble, but I haven't seen you, it scares me to the extreme. I know that no matter what you do, it's not your intention, it's the mayor who coerced you..."

"Shut up." Mary interrupted with a gloomy face, "put away your fantasies, there is no relationship between us anymore."

Jason's expression froze for a moment, and the hope in his eyes could not be put down, so he had to extinguish it.He stood there in confusion for a while, as if he felt that the person in front of him was not the Mary he was familiar with: "What did you say?"

"I hate you." Mary Ellis looked up suddenly, his eyes were like fire, burning his heart. "If anything, I hate you. I hate your poverty and hypocrisy, I hate you."Hate that you have nothing and are full of delusions, I hate your entanglement—"

"Is this your truth?" Jason's pride was stabbed. He stepped forward and grabbed Mary's shoulders, shaking her twice.He saw the cold and delicate face of the other party, smelled the light fragrance on her body, she was wearing the luxurious jewelry given by the mayor, and she was as far away from him as two worlds, "You used to say you love me."

His voice gradually became lower and smaller, and even he himself lost his confidence.

"No, I hate you," Mary said softly, clearly, "Don't forget who pushed me off the sidewalk, Jason Ellis. You've given me up since then, MayorI was born again, and the ring and necklace I have now are probably things you can’t afford even if you draw 10,000 pictures.”

"And you, you're just a whimsical pug who wants a piece of my popularity when I'm popular."

Mary put her index finger in front of his lips, shook her head slightly, her eyes were full of sarcasm.She pushed Jason away, took a step back, and turned gracefully away.

"That's not what you really think!" Jason yelled wildly, trying to catch up with her and grab her skirt, but he lost his hand and fell to the ground.His new bionic prosthetic is the cheapest one, which is extremely poorly compatible with the human body and does not allow strenuous activities.

Strands of blood seeped from the trousers to the floor, but Jason still put his hands on the ground and crawled forward with difficulty, leaving a trail of blood behind him.Mary stopped and looked at him condescendingly, and the holographic cherry blossoms rolled silently beside her feet.

She looked expressionless, but her hands were shaking as she held the handbag.Deng Huailing and Rosie stood in the courtyard, and suddenly heard her manic voice:

not like this!

Mary screamed hysterically in her mind—it wasn't like this!

She didn't want to do it at all, she didn't want to do Jason any harm, but the real Mary Ellis couldn't even make a sound: Damn, it shouldn't be like this!

The echoes filled the whole world, and the surrounding scene suddenly became blurred. The paper door, cherry blossoms, corridor...disintegrated in the turmoil.Accompanied by Mary's violent emotional fluctuations, the world shook, and the illusion shattered into shining dust. In the blink of an eye, Deng Huailing and the others were no longer in the courtyard, but returned to the magnificent sea.

The sea of memory is no longer as peaceful as when they came, the dark sky was illuminated by pale lightning, and there were huge waves everywhere, creating a doomsday-like scene.

Chen Wei's warning came true, Mary's emotions were too strong, and the sea of memory was really collapsing.If they can't enter the "corridor" in time, their consciousness will be buried here.

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