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Chapter 205 Secret
Su Wanqing lingered briefly in the control room with her personal equipment and a prepared list before quickly heading towards the medical area.

With less than ten hours until she was to go down the shaft, she felt uneasy.

Lin Che is still not fully awake, but the health monitoring on the main control screen shows that various values ​​have gradually stabilized. However, one data point is constantly flashing a warning – the electroencephalogram (EEG) image is highly abnormal and is unusually active.

She pushed open the half-closed door of the medical pod and walked to the bedside. The medical staff were quietly tidying up the equipment, only saying with their heads down, "The patient's vital signs are fine now, but the brain activity is too intense, always at a high frequency. We are at a loss, and we dare not increase the medication."

Su Wanqing nodded, didn't ask any more questions, and went over to look at the display screen.

The EEG image was almost entirely filled with high-density oscillations, as if someone was having a heated debate in their mind.

She put down her first-aid kit, adjusted her breathing, turned down the volume of the equipment, and listened carefully to Lin Che's movements.

The person on the bed still had their eyes closed, and their complexion was much better than a few days ago, but there was a faint sheen of sweat on their forehead.

His lips trembled slightly, and he made a soft, intermittent sound.

Su Wanqing leaned closer and heard a voice say, "...Why won't you tell me?"

Then, his voice changed again, becoming much lower and revealing a different human quality: "It's meaningless for her to say it now."

Su Wanqing held her breath. Lin Che spoke in two very different tones, alternating between them.

One voice was clear and rapid, Lin Che's own voice, with a hint of stubbornness and impatience; the other was deep and sharp, with a sense of superiority and distance, and each utterance was accompanied by a sharp pause.

"I have the right to know." Lin Che smacked his lips a few times, his voice barely audible, yet he asked, one question after another, "Night, what exactly are you?"

The deep voice quickly returned, "I am neither your shadow nor some kind of parasitic personality."

After a two-second pause, as if thinking, the other person immediately added, "You and I are both bound to the experimental plan—your body is just a vessel, originally belonging to someone else."

Lin Che's voice suddenly turned angry, "You're lying! All my memories from childhood to adulthood... Where did this other person come from?"

The night's voice was so low it almost brushed against Su Wanqing's ear, tinged with a cold laugh: "Do you think all those memories are yours? They were reshaped from the moment you were born. The so-called Lin Che was merely the most suitable match; the experiment required someone whose spirit could completely cross boundaries. Those with weak wills collapsed long ago. You survived because our consciousnesses merged best—not the first, and certainly not the only one."

Lin Che's breathing quickened. "Are you deliberately stalling? Every time there's something crucial, you say you'll wait until the time is right. I've had enough! I want the truth!"

The voices from the night group paused for a moment, then slowly rose in pitch, "The so-called 'waiting for the right opportunity' is actually just a cornered beast fighting back. You asked the same question in the last round, and what was the result? The experimental plan failed in every round because—"

Just then, Lin Che gasped for breath, but the voice continued, "—Every time, someone hides the truth, trying to hold onto a sliver of hope. But every round you break down, and she breaks down too. Seven cycles, the first six, none of them succeeded."

Su Wanqing stood outside the cabin, listening quietly. Although she didn't understand all the technical details, the words "reincarnation," "fusion," and "seal" made her heart tighten.

Lin Che suddenly asked, almost pleadingly, "What is reincarnation... Night, are you alive or a ghost? You keep talking about experiments... Between you and me, who is the real one?"

The night's voice coldly interrupted, "Neither you nor I are complete individuals; we are merely living samples. In seven experiments, Orion's main system was restarted six times, each time with the controller attempting to piece together a suitable individual from different personality fragments. You and I are simply the most suitable pieces of a jigsaw puzzle—the misalignment you can feel is due to lingering old memories."

Lin Che twitched twice in excitement, his voice suddenly rising: "Are you scared? Or are you afraid to tell Su Wanqing?"

The night's voice seemed to sink to the bottom of the water, "You overestimate me. I just don't want to repeat the same mistakes time and time again. In the first six rounds, no matter how hard we tried, she couldn't hold on in the end. Once the seal breaks, all her memories will be overwritten by the main system and returned to zero."

The pace of their conversation fluctuated, yet it was fraught with an intractable stalemate.

Lin Che gritted his teeth and cursed under his breath, "So I'm a pawn too? What exactly do you want?"

The night's voice softened, becoming low and menacing: "You and I are merely pawns, Lin Che. This is the seventh cycle. We lost the first six times because she couldn't maintain her own identity while finding all the cores. If we fail again this time, Orion's seal will completely collapse, and everything will start over, but no one will remember." Upon hearing this last sentence, Lin Che convulsed, cold sweat beading on his forehead.

The EEG data on the monitor suddenly spiked, almost reaching the maximum threshold, and then the curve dropped sharply.

The breathing monitoring slowed down, and Lin Che's voice stopped completely.

Su Wanqing held her breath until the monitoring parameters slowly stabilized. The nurse on night duty at the medical station rushed back to check the situation. Seeing that the values ​​were relatively stable, she muttered, "It's that high-frequency remodeling again."

Su Wanqing waved her hand, indicating that they should not disturb her for now.

She stared at Lin Che, thinking about those words "seal," "reincarnation," and "fusion," her heart filled with doubt and anxiety.

She tried her best to memorize the entire process word for word, preparing to check the data with Lu Zhao later.

Meanwhile, Xiao Ran was in the equipment room, taking advantage of the supply replenishment to check the spare equipment and debug the communication signal generator.

He plugged his handheld device into the fortress's makeshift communications network, and suddenly an unidentified signal popped up on the screen.

Xiao Ran frowned and turned the signal strength to the highest level. After scanning a few lines of parameters, the unauthorized data transmission only lasted for a few seconds, and the source was located in the abandoned storage room in the West District.

The medical staff in the preparation area glanced up and saw this, but didn't ask any questions. Xiao Ran turned off the equipment, walked decisively to the west area, and took out a personal monitoring device from the toolbox.

At the entrance to the storage room, he did not rush in but first scanned it with a detector.

A few seconds later, he caught a very faint sign, raised his hand and knocked on the door, only to see dust falling down.

Under the dim light, there were empty toolboxes and some disassembled instruments. Underneath one of the open boxes, a black metal sheet about the size of a palm was exposed.

He took out the metal piece and found that it was a transmitter with a miniature transmitter—not a military standard, but it had its own data shielding and directional antenna.

Xiao Ran removed the transmitter's storage chip, and the remaining data on it was very concise: several data packets that had been highly compressed and encrypted, containing a schedule, a resource list, and several lines of energy change records at specific frequencies.

He put the chip into a special bag and slowly thought about the information it was transmitting.

The words "core recovery" and "underground exploration" mentioned above made Xiao Ran no longer hesitate.

He immediately issued a warning using an encrypted terminal, instructing everyone to increase their security level.

In the medical area, Su Wanqing was still staring at Lin Che when she took out her device and took another snapshot on the EEG monitor.

She stored this fragment in the jade bracelet. The signal light from the main control outside flickered, but no one spoke.

Just as she was pondering, two soft sounds came from outside the sliding door, and a nurse brought in a vital signs analysis form.

Su Wanqing nodded, accepted the form, and turned to return to the main control area.

As soon as Xiao Ran arrived at the main control room, he simultaneously uploaded the storage room's records. He inspected the equipment and calmly recorded any abnormalities in the detector signals into the entry and exit logs.

Lin Che slept soundly on the medical table and made no further noise.

The indicator lights on the control panel slowly dimmed. Su Wanqing glanced back at Lin Che, held her breath, and felt that everything was going to become even more troublesome tonight.