Did the world end today?

Chapter 176 Bedtime Story

Chapter 176 Bedtime Story
Tens of millions of tons of steel have forged China's strongest defense line.

After Qin Feng relayed these words, Lin Xu was completely relieved.

From now on, you can go ahead and do whatever you want!

Now, from these clues, he has glimpsed the framework of the Lanshi Project.

But this does not mean that the threat posed by this plan has completely disappeared.

Lin Xu still didn't know what role the Western Alliance played in this plan, or what preparations they made.

Without this intelligence, Lin Xu would be unable to acquire enough leverage to negotiate with the Western Alliance.

Of course, it would also be difficult to fundamentally destroy Zhou Yue's arrangements in other worlds.

Therefore, Ayana remains important.

All the information she possesses must be decoded!
After obtaining the method to "summon the original personality," the "research," or rather "psychoanalysis," on her was quickly launched.

Lin Xu has not left Meiji Island yet.

After dinner, Ayana had already woken up.

The psychoanalyst conducted the first round of professional-level communication with the 8-year-old girl, and the results of the communication were already received when Lin Xu returned to her residence.

Lin Xu stared in disbelief at the compiled report.

"So you mean that Ayana has a total of 36 different personalities residing within her?!"

The psychoanalyst He Ming on the other end nodded and replied:
"This is a rough deduction based on Aishwarya's communication results."

"But in reality, this number may not be the true total number."

"Her dissociative identity disorder is different from that of other patients with dissociative identity disorder."

"For other patients, the split personalities are 'permanent'. Although they cannot take control of the body most of the time, those personalities still exist, only they have entered a dormant state."

“But Ayana is different.”

“We have clear evidence that her personality exhibits a unique dynamic of ‘rotation and extinction’.”

"For example, a certain personality may be completely erased for a period of time, but it will reappear after a period of time."

How can this be?

Lin Xu frowned deeply.

Although he did not understand psychoanalysis, his knowledge of these neurological fields was only superficial.

But if we compare personality to an executable program in a computer, what Ayana is doing is completely deleting a program and then finding it again from the void.

What does that mean? She can also obtain passive information?
Lin Xu looked at He Ming opposite him, who also looked puzzled.

After a slight pause, he began to speak:
"To be honest, this is the first time I've encountered this situation in my career."

"If I had to explain it, I could only say that a new 'functional area' has appeared in her brain that is different from that of ordinary people."

"For example, to explain it in more familiar terms, is it similar to a recycle bin?"

"Recycling station?"

Lin Xu seemed to be deep in thought.

That's easy to understand.

but
It doesn't really matter what we do next.

After thinking for a moment, he spoke:
"I won't participate in the discussion and research of these technical matters."

"Now I have a question."

"If we want to decipher her 36 personalities, or simply destroy or transfer the memories of these personalities, do we have any good methods?"

"Yes, but it's difficult to achieve."

He Ming replied:
"Dissociative identity disorder—or, more professionally, dissociative identity disorder, DID."

"Modern medicine generally uses an integrative treatment approach to address this symptom."

"This is not only based on medical ethics considerations, but more importantly, it is the most effective method we can find in modern psychoanalytic theory."

"But actually, that doesn't mean we don't have simpler and more direct methods."

"Two methods."

"First, memory consolidation intervention. This technique is strongly related to the Mnemosyne technique. It requires the complete decoding of memory-related neurons in Ayana's brain, and then intervention through sparse coding to achieve the effect of destroying personality and transferring memories."

"Second, find the mechanism by which each personality was formed—for example, we can now determine that the first non-original personality that Aishwarya split off from 'Ayana' was caused by an act of revenge against her father."

“After witnessing her father kill her mother, Aishwarya killed her father in a similar way one night. However, the satisfaction of revenge and the intense guilt of the murder created a serious conflict. With the intervention of her self-defense system, she split off another ‘guilty’ personality.”

"This personality is Ayana."

“We have identified a method to destroy this personality—the principle is simple: just give her an investigation report from Mauritius.”

"As long as the righteousness of the murder against her father can be proven, this Ayana—it's too convoluted, let's just code her according to the time of her personality appearance."

"This second personality will naturally disappear, and its memories will be merged into the original personality."

"clear."

Lin Xu nodded.

But then he asked again:
"Even if we could obtain such an official document, its legitimacy would still be questionable, wouldn't it?"

"Could it be that seeing the document will trigger an even stronger clash with her values, leading to the emergence of a new split personality?"

He Ming shook his head.

"I don't think so."

“Under any legal system, her father would have met the criteria for the death penalty—in fact, he was already under investigation when she killed him.”

"That's why his death didn't cause much of a stir in the end."

"clear."

Lin Xu nodded again.

“Let’s do it this way—we’ll take it one step at a time. First, we’ll get the memories of Personality 2, and then we’ll decode them step by step based on those memories.”

There is no way around it.

Lin Xu himself could not obtain Ayana's "personality file." Even in the Starship Era 20 years later, this information was locked up with the highest level of secrecy, and it was impossible to obtain it in just one hour.

Instead of wasting the number of times the bracelet can be used, it would be better to promote it directly in the real world.

The discussion was basically over, and He Ming stood up to say goodbye to Lin Xu.

But before leaving, he suddenly spoke again:
"Sir, there is one more thing I need to do."

"Now, we have mastered the method to awaken Aishwarya."

"However, communication with her was not smooth."

"This personality is just an 8-year-old child, and because she has been inactive for a long time, she has hardly grown."

“She has a very low sense of security—to put it bluntly, she only trusts you now.”

"During our conversation just now, she kept asking you where you went."

"What I mean is, if you have the time, or if circumstances allow, could you go see her before going to bed?"

"This could be a great help to our work."

"no problem."

Lin Xu nodded decisively.

He Ming's face showed gratitude—and it wasn't an act.

After all, in his view, the problems he faced were actually caused by his own lack of work ability and technical skills.

Now that the leader is willing to help you solve this, you should be secretly happy.
Thinking of this, he quickly said:

"I'll take you there!"

Ten minutes later, inside the makeshift "detention room".

When Aishwarya saw Lin Xu enter the room, she practically jumped off the bed.

"You're here!"

Her face showed a mixture of fear and delight, as if she wanted to get closer to Lin Xu and take his hand, but then she shrank back in fear.

To be honest, Lin Xu still doesn't know how to get along with this "Aishwarya".

Treat her like a child, but her body is that of a woman in her twenties.

Treat her like an adult, but her mind is still that of a child.

Embarrassed.

Therefore, Lin Xu could only maintain a "polite" distance and ask her with a smile:

"Did you sleep well? I heard you chatted a lot with the other uncles?"

"Yeah yeah!"

Aishwarya nodded repeatedly.

"It's strange today, those people didn't bother us!" "They seem to have hidden themselves!"

"They are not afraid of me, but they are afraid of you!"

Are you afraid of us?
indeed.

If the other personalities within Ayana dared to reveal themselves in front of He Ming, He Ming might just call for Xu Quanyou's support and launch a precise attack.

This is probably why Aishwarya, the original personality, was able to maintain stable control over the body for a long time.

Thinking of this, Lin Xu spoke up:
"Yes, they are afraid of us."

"So you don't need to worry, we will protect you."

"I know!"

Aishwarya giggled and bounced back onto the bed.

She probably thought she was still a child, and her actions were reckless.

But in reality, she weighed at least 90 pounds, and the bed, which wasn't very sturdy, creaked under her weight.

"I thought you wouldn't come back, I thought you... Never mind!"

Aishwarya blinked.

Can we be friends?

"of course."

Lin Xu sat down next to her.

"I ate your birthday cake, so we're friends now."

"That's right! That's right!"

Aishwarya jumped around excitedly on the bed, and Lin Xu was afraid she would break it.

"You should go to sleep."

He opened his mouth and said:
"You must get enough sleep, otherwise you won't have the strength to deal with those bad guys."

"it is good!"

Aishwarya immediately lay down on the bed.

"You should go to sleep too."

"But would you like to hear a bedtime story?"

"I can tell you a story, and then you can go to sleep."

bed time story?

Isn't this something adults tell children?

It feels like the roles have been reversed between Aishwarya and the other person.

But Lin Xu did not refute her.

He simply answered:

"Okay."

"Was it a story your mother told you?"

"No."

Aishwarya shook her head repeatedly.

"It's a story I made up myself."

"Do you want to listen?"

Lin Xu's expression changed instantly.

"Let's listen and see."

Aishwarya lowered her voice.

Then she began to speak:
Once upon a time, there was a bee.

"It flew in a huge, enormous garden."

"In the garden, a butterfly painter is painting."

"The butterfly used the pollen on its legs to draw a beautiful picture, but the bee didn't like it."

"It hides quietly behind the butterfly, and after the butterfly flies away, it uses the stinger on its rear end to ruin the painting that the butterfly painter has made."

"The bee is a big bad guy, but it flies so fast that the butterfly can't catch it."

"The butterfly's painting is always being altered and redrawn; it can never paint the picture it wants."

"The butterfly was very angry, and one day it finally caught the bee."

"It fought with the bees and finally defeated them."

"But the bee said, even if you defeat me, you still won't be able to paint well."

"Because I have destroyed all the pollen you need, and even the flower has withered."

"Unless you draw according to my requirements, neither of us will draw."

"The butterfly had no choice but to let the bee go."

"The painting is finished, but it's not the painting the butterfly wanted to paint."

"Okay, that's the end of the story."

This is truly a sad story.

Lin Xu looked at Aishwarya with a complex mix of emotions in his eyes.

At this moment, he even doubted whether the person in front of him was Aishwarya or a "special personality" within Ayana that he had not yet discovered.

Because this story is really
That's very special.

Without a doubt, the bees are killer bees.

And painting is the world that I, as a butterfly, depict.

No.

To be precise, it is a "bracelet world" of the future that I depicted by writing in the real world!
Now, in Aishwarya's story, this "future world" is destined to be unable to be drawn the way she wants.

The reason is "lack of pollen".

A lack of pollen is equivalent to a "lack of nodes".

I've always believed that the factors propelling the world of smartwatches into the next critical stage are the three key elements: nuclear fusion, gravity detection, and quantum computing.

Going a step further, it might also include aerospace technology and large-scale quantum collider technology.

But now it seems.
It doesn't seem enough!
There is still one more crucial node missing.

According to Aishwarya, this is the point.
It's already been destroyed by killer bees!
Lin Xu took a deep breath.

Do you know what this flower is called?

Aishwarya shook her head.

"I don't know. I just made up this story."

“I overheard it from them.”

"I'm sorry, I didn't hear what the flower's name was."

"It's ok."

Lin Xu reached out and patted Aishwarya's head.

"You've done a great job."

"Don't worry, we will find that flower."