Memory inheritor

Chapter 247 Unveiling the Secret (Part 2)

Shen Qing felt her heart pounding wildly, and her body trembling uncontrollably.

The hazy virtual scene before her eyes vanished, replaced by complete darkness. She knew the interaction of consciousness had ended, but the terrifying scene she had just experienced kept replaying in her mind.

Her breathing became increasingly rapid, and the lack of white noise and guidance prompts at the end made her feel intensely uneasy, and she was somewhat eager to get up.

"Don't move."

A gentle voice spoke from beside her. Shen Qing recognized the voice as Wei Hongsi's and quickly raised her arm towards the direction of the voice. She immediately felt her hand being grasped, and a warm sensation came through it. She held the other person's hand tightly, as if only in this way could she feel a little more at ease.

Wei Hongsi felt that Shen Qing's hands were very cold, her palms were sweaty, and she was trembling.

He knew that Shen Qing was experiencing retrospective fear, also known as lingering fear, so he held Shen Qing's hands in his own, hoping to offer her some comfort.

Wei Hongsi had a similar experience some time ago. The night he redeemed the whistle skill, he had a dream about regaining his memories. After waking up, he analyzed the dream and found it increasingly terrifying until he listened to Shen Qing's "The Brave" several times in a row, which calmed him down.

Thinking of this, he began to hum the song softly.

The melody of "The Brave" is not very predictable, making it a relatively difficult song to learn. However, Wei Hongsi has listened to it many times in recent days and is already very familiar with it.

Upon hearing Wei Hongsi's singing, Shen Qing's breathing gradually calmed down, and her body stopped trembling.

After a while, staff members came forward to remove the equipment that Shen Qing was wearing, which indicated that Shen Qing's physical condition had returned to normal.

Wei Hongsi stopped humming, and Shen Qing, whose hand he was holding, shook slightly. Wei Hongsi understood and continued singing. After finishing, he said, "Alright, you can get up now."

Shen Qing opened her eyes and saw Wei Hongsi standing by the bed, a smile appearing on her face.

She sat up and saw Liu Lu standing not far behind Wei Hongsi, as well as a few staff members a little further away. Thinking about what she had just done, she suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

Wei Hongsi helped Shen Qing off the bed: "Move around a bit."

Shen Qing raised her arm and twisted it from side to side a few times, saying, "I feel fine, there's nothing wrong with me."

With these few movements, she felt a coolness on her temples and cheeks. She raised her hand to wipe it, and her hand was wet, she couldn't tell if it was sweat or tears.

Liu Lu handed her a soft cotton towel, which Shen Qing took and used to wipe her face. She thanked Liu Lu and then asked Wei Hongsi, "What's next?"

Wei Hongsi said, "Come with me." He then led Shen Qing and Liu Lu to the office next to the monitoring room.

Zheng Han was already waiting there. Seeing them enter, she stepped forward and said, "Comrade Shen Qing, thank you for your hard work. Your performance was outstanding!"

Shen Qing said somewhat embarrassedly, "Teacher Zheng, I'm not sure if I've completed the task."

Zheng Han said, "We believe you will definitely gain a lot."

Wei Hongsi said, "No need to rush. Tell me what you've observed, and we'll analyze it together."

The complete dream interpretation results are not yet available, and they do not know what information Shen Qing obtained, but based on other corroborating evidence, it can be basically confirmed that this consciousness infiltration operation was effective.

The interaction between Shen Qing and Zhou Huai lasted for more than six minutes. If the monitoring system had not triggered an alarm and the interaction had not been interrupted, it would have lasted even longer.

Based on the keyword features provided by the partial real-time AI decoding semantic tag stream, and the feedback information given by Shen Qing through the beacon, it can be confirmed that the scene of her consciousness interaction with Zhou Huai is constantly changing, rather than remaining in one scene and getting stuck in a meaningless loop.

This means that Shen Qing has indeed observed a lot of things, but it is not yet possible to determine whether this information is valuable.

The four sat down, and Shen Qing began to tell her story.

She spoke at a moderate pace and with a very stable mood, recounting what she saw and heard, as well as her own feelings, and recounting the entire process of her interaction with Zhou Huai's consciousness.

Wei Hongsi couldn't help but sigh inwardly. She was clearly terrified just now, but she recovered so quickly. Her ability to reshape her emotions was truly extraordinary.

Zheng Han and Liu Lu admired Shen Qing even more. One of them, through equipment and the other through their own observation, knew that Shen Qing had experienced immense fear. It was truly remarkable that she was able to overcome such fear in such a short time.

After listening to Shen Qing's explanation, Zheng Han and Wei Hongsi began to discuss it.

In the first scene, Shen Qing's failure to hear Zhou Huai's speech was not her fault, but rather because Zhou Huai's speech itself contained no content.

During a consciousness infiltration operation at around 4 a.m. today, a similar scene appeared in Zhou Huai's personal dream, except that the location was not a classroom or auditorium, but a place similar to a party hall.

The dream interpretation report for this scene indicates that Zhou Huai did make the action of "speaking," but did not say anything.

This situation is of course impossible in reality, because the act of speaking and the content of speaking are integrated. If the brain issues a motor command to speak, it must be because there is a pre-set content to express.

Even if the information spoken is completely meaningless or invalid, or if the system responsible for language expression malfunctions and cannot effectively complete the brain's instructions, there will never be an information gap. This is a closed-loop control system.

However, in dreams, the act of speaking can operate independently of this closed-loop control system, resulting in a situation of "speaking without saying anything," which is also a manifestation of the essential difference between dream consciousness and waking consciousness.

This phenomenon can perhaps be likened to "daydreaming." A person fantasizes about making a lot of money through business. He thinks about how to spend the money, but he doesn't think about what kind of business to do, or even whether he can do business. He completely ignores the process of making money.

The decoding team's experts believe that this scene is a projection of Zhou Huai's behavior in developing peripheral members in the dream. In reality, his main methods are the implantation of "death commands" and control with "psychological viruses," which are not things that can be discussed.

However, the fact that this scene would reappear is very noteworthy, as it must have practical significance for Zhou Huai.

Wei Hongsi believes that this scenario could only occur if the subconscious firewall is bypassed, because no similar scenario had ever occurred during the multiple dream interpretations of Zhou Huai before the consciousness infiltration operation, which means that the relevant content involves important secrets of the Light Guide Society.

Zheng Han speculated that this scenario may have occurred in reality, and it was a situation where the Daoguang Society developed peripheral members or brainwashed believers, which indicates that the number of peripheral members of the Daoguang Society may be very large.

Liu Lu added a point: If the Guiding Light Society were to develop a large number of members in other organizational forms, given the situation in some regions abroad, it could completely control some relatively independent towns and cities, which would greatly increase the difficulty of tracking them down.

Wei Hongsi and Zheng Han both agreed with her viewpoint.

In the dream, Zhou Huai discovers Shen Qing and calls her an "outcast," which could refer to someone who is not a member of the organization, or it could be considered an unintegrated fragment of consciousness. In any case, she is a target that needs to be integrated or eliminated.

The second scenario that Shen Qing experienced was the powerful impact of the concrete consciousness anchor "Trinity," which was quite similar to the situation that Xiao Zhou encountered when interacting with consciousness, and there was nothing special about it.

Starting from the third scene, the dream is expanded under the guidance of Shen Qing.

The conversation between Shen Qing and Zhou Huai further confirmed that her acceptance of the role in The Amusement Park GG was part of the Guiding Light Society's plan, with the aim of ruining her acting career and forcing her to choose to study abroad.

Moreover, Zhou Huai had an alternative plan: to have Shen Qing write an unconventional song, which would lead to her being abandoned by fans. This was somewhat similar to Shen Qing's current situation, so Wei Hongsi couldn't help but glance at her a few more times when this was mentioned.

Shen Qing naturally knew Wei Hongsi's thoughts and said, "My idea of ​​creating a new style of song did indeed originate from Zhou Huai's suggestive suggestion, but the final choice and the selected style were my own ideas, so you don't need to worry."

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Wei Hongsi nodded and asked, "If Zhou Huai's plan succeeds, will you go to the school he recommended?"

Shen Qing pondered for a moment and said, "I'll most likely go. The Westringer School of Music is known as the highest institution of popular music and is also hailed as the world's premier center for jazz education. If my career suffers setbacks, when faced with such an opportunity, the only thing I might need to consider is my family's attitude."

Wei Hongsi's hypothesis comes with a prerequisite: Zhou Huai already knows that Shen Qing is unaffected by the "psychological virus."

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Shen Qing's answer proves that changes in the external environment can also drive her onto the path predetermined by the light guide.

This inevitably reminded Wei Hongsi of the situation Shen Qing encountered when her new song was topping the charts.

Although "The Brave" is a non-traditional pop song, it's at most not easy for everyone to accept, but not to the point of being unpleasant to listen to. However, on music platforms, the song's reputation is ridiculously bad, and it's being attacked by a lot of people, which is very unusual. Even Feng Weixu suspected that it was the work of online trolls and wanted to investigate.

At the time, Wei Hongsi did not agree with Feng Weixu's idea because he felt that if it was a competitor smearing the game, there should be a limit. If the ranking of "The Brave" didn't improve after two days, the online trolls should stop. After all, the goal had been achieved, and hiring online trolls would cost money.

However, if the ranking results affect Shen Qing's choice to study abroad, then this matter cannot be viewed simply and may really be worth investigating.

He didn't voice this speculation, intending to discuss it with Liu Lu privately later.

Seeing that Wei Hongsi didn't ask any more questions, Zheng Han asked Shen Qing, "Have you heard of Professor Sterling?"

Shen Qing shook her head and said, "No. But if he's a teacher at the Xilinger Music Academy, even a visiting professor, shouldn't we be able to find his information?"

Wei Hongsi looked at Liu Lu: "Could you try to verify this?"

Liu Lu nodded, took out a tablet from her bag, and started using it on her lap.

This small tablet is a specially designed tool that can communicate with specific individuals through a dedicated encrypted channel and has some unique functions. With this tool, Liu Lu can securely synchronize information and transfer files remotely with the project team, saving her the time of traveling back and forth.

Zheng Han said, "Judging from the content of this consciousness interaction, Professor Sterling should have a very high status within the organization. If we can confirm his identity in reality, it will be a major breakthrough."

Wei Hongsi nodded in agreement.

The core members of the Light Guide Society likely lack a "circuit breaker" mechanism in their brains; they are adept at manipulating others and probably dislike being manipulated themselves. Capturing Professor Sterling would be crucial in dismantling this evil organization.

Professor Sterling should be in country A. Finding him and then dealing with him will probably not be easy, but that's not something Wei Hongsi needs to worry about.

Zheng Han added, "Of course, the most crucial thing is that we have basically figured out their purpose in targeting Shen Qing."

Shen Qing asked, "The trait Professor Sterling mentioned, does it refer to my abilities of 'cognitive reconstruction' and 'emotional reshaping'?"

Wei Hongsi said, "It should be. They're targeting you because they've discovered you're unaffected by this 'psychological virus.'"

Shen Qing asked again, "What kind of research does he want to do with me?"

Wei Hongsi said, "Their memory implantation technology is flawed. I estimate that after the extracted memories are integrated, the negative effects of the fragmented consciousness cannot be completely eliminated, which may trigger uncontrollable extreme emotions or dangerous behaviors. Your special talent may be able to help them make up for this deficiency."

To date, the task force has not obtained any definitive information about any high-ranking members of the Light Guide Association. Wei Hongsi's speculation is mainly based on the circumstances of Zhang Zishi and Han Tao's deaths, as well as the descriptions in "The Story of Time."

The limitations of the memory infusion technology mastered by the Light Guide Society may not be exactly the same as those of the "Morning Star," but there will always be some similarities.

If Shen Qing's special talent could be transplanted into the fusion memory, it would theoretically be possible to eliminate that defect. Even if the possibility is very low, those madmen would still try their best to do so.

In the final scenes Shen Qing described, she saw herself lying on a device like a vegetable. If this scene is realistic, it suggests that the Light Guide organization plans to use Shen Qing as a biological tool. In the eyes of the organization's higher-ups, everyone can be a tool.

Shen Qing nodded thoughtfully and said, "I think Professor Sterling who appeared in Zhou Huai's dream is a bit strange. When he first appeared, he was like a rigid robot, but when he became like a living person, Zhou Huai disappeared."

Zheng Han said, "That's because Professor Sterling came from Zhou Huai's imagination. At first, there was only the appearance, just like a photograph. Later, Zhou Huai gradually improved many details, and the photograph became a dynamic image, which made it vivid in your eyes."