Chapter 95

The memories receded with the waves, and only the damp saltiness of the sea breeze remained in the space.

"It was supposed to be that time."

[Ikekawa Na] reached out and tapped his temple, and shook his head with a smile, "It seems that I don't have this fragment in my remaining memories." ”

After saying that, [he] looked down and saw that the person sleeping on his lap had slightly loosened his eyebrows, which had been tightened, and continued to fall asleep with the heavy spray.

In front of him, the figure of the boy from just now appeared again. Obviously, [he] was going to use this doppelganger, who was stuck at the age of ten, to participate in the rest of the conversation.

"Alright, now we have enough time to talk." The boy tilted his head and took the place of the man behind him, "Before Bourbon comes back." ”

"You stopped Bourbon outside."

Okiya touched his chin.

After the building began to crumble, the annex and the church overlapped.

Although there were phantoms caused by spatial instability all the way when he ran just now, after he entered the basement, the phantoms disappeared, and it seemed that the space was merged into one and stabilized.

In this way, he and Amuro were standing in the same space, but they never saw each other find the basement.

"I don't have the ability to maintain the stability of this space, but it's more than enough to stop one person." The boy spread his hands and affirmed the conclusion.

"After all, I don't know much about him compared to you. It's good to be cautious, and it's better to talk to one person than to deal with two people at the same time. ”

"It looks like I'm being put in the range where I can talk." Okiya raised one side of her eyebrows, feeling that the personality of [Ikekawa Na] in front of her seemed to be different from before, "Also, you seem to be happy to talk to others." ”

It's a little far from the dull and taciturn image when I got along before.

"After all, I've been here for a long time. If you've been stuck in one place for years, you'll want to talk to someone. ”

He skimmed over the topic lightly.

"You'd better speed up the conversation, I shouldn't be able to stop Bourbon for long."

The other party obviously didn't want to talk about topics related to him anymore, but Okiya thought for a moment and said, "The first question, what exactly are you?" ”

"Me? I'm just a memory turned into data, or a virus. ”

The boy didn't know where to conjure a chair, sat down, and looked up at the person asking the question.

"For some reason, some people don't want some memories to stay in Columbai's brain, so the experimenter extracts these memories and places them in a mechanical container, so this memory forms an 'I' in the electron."

When he explained, his expression was flat and changed what he had just said to Ikekawa Na, turning 'active extraction and memory placement' into a passive act.

"As for the virus. If a person's memory stays in the simulated brain for a long time, it will be alienated into a virus. In this space where data is everywhere, the larger proportion of emotions is infinitely amplified and swallows up everything else. ”

"If it's a year or two later, then I won't be sober enough to talk to you, but will attack as soon as someone steps into the space."

"Extract the memories and place them in the instrument." Okiya frowned, "The experiments of the organization have developed to this extent......"

No matter how you look at it, it's unbelievable, like a plot that can only appear in science fiction movies.

"From Karasuma Renya to the current reign, the organization has carried out a large number of sophisticated experiments at their request. The FBI should have been aware of this for a long time. ”

"Organizing intelligence about the lab isn't a strict defense." I didn't expect to be so open and honest at this moment, and Okiya's eyes fell behind the boy.

Looking at Anxin holding the body of the unconscious Ikekawa Na, he reluctantly suppressed the ensuing sense of separation.

If this memory can be regarded as 'Ikekawa Na', then there are three in front of him now, 10 years old, 22 years old, and 24 years old.

It's a feeling that is worthy of ...... Subtle.

Temporarily suppressing the idea of running away, the man continued the topic cautiously, "I have paid attention to a lot of information in this area before, and the organization has put a lot of energy and money into it.

But in our opinion, those new drugs and devices that come out can't cost so much at all. ”

"I'm afraid the rest will be put into secret biological experiments, the organization should have no intention of destroying the world, and will not focus on researching chemical weapons, then the ultimate goal is only ......"

"Eternal life."

There was no ripple in the boy's voice.

As the conversation progressed slowly, he finally showed the side of the data, his tone cold, truly like a fictional entity without any human emotions.

Even those heterochromatic eyes emitted inhuman fluorescence in the virtual space.

"You lack a bit of imagination, though."

Voices came from behind.

In an instant that is imperceptible to the human eye, the boy in front of Okiya teleported behind him.

"People always want to achieve their goals by changing their □□, and immortality has always represented the immortality of □□."

He walked back slowly from behind him, standing in front of the man, his eyes glowing even more.

"But now, there is another way to immortality."

Okiya looked at the boy, as if a lightning bolt struck his brain: "Data." ”

He understood in an instant.

With the rapid development of technology, it is clear that the path of transforming □□ to achieve immortality can be replaced by another method.

In today's world, data systems are immortal and omnipotent.

A more convenient way than □□ immortality is enough to turn the big men who yearn for immortality into immortal electronic ghosts.

"How long is it until success." The man's voice was dry.

"It's been a success."

If it's cold, drop a huge bomb in space.

The boy looked up and looked at him expressionlessly, "As early as when Karasuma Renya wasn't pulled off the horse by today's one, everything was already successful. ”

Okiya felt her heart beating rapidly,

When did Ikekawa find out all this? His instincts made him more inclined to set this point in time before the age of 17.

The gentleman who is now in power could not have imagined that the lamb with the trembling chain in his eyes would have thoroughly probed all the secrets hidden under the sludge when he was imprisoned in a cage.

This incident only made him more certain of a guess.

When she was 17 years old, Ikekawa Nai's long-planned escape plan was definitely not to escape.

He was afraid that he had made countless hints, even explicits, before escaping, expressing his desire to go out, but all of them failed.

Soon, the teenager, who can be called smart in every way, realizes how much benefit he can bring to the organization, no matter how strong he is and how smart he is......

None of them will respond to his request to 'leave the villa'.

When a useful lamb obediently stays in the slaughterhouse and expresses his desire to go out, no butcher will respond to this sentence.

But what if you put on a different attitude?

'If you don't let me out, I'll run away, I'll even die, but you can't take that risk, because you need me.' ’

I'm afraid that even after being taken back to the villa, what will happen, Ikekawa Nai has thought about it for a long time.

Is BOSS's emphasis on Na Ikekawa also related to the content of 'data immortality'?

Okiya had a calm face, and he couldn't help but reach out and pinch his brow, which had been locked since just now.

If these guesses are correct...... Then he could hardly imagine how he felt when he walked towards the black car without looking back in the illusion he had just seen along the way.

"If Karasuma Renya had been in power, the experiment would have been successful." Okiya pondered, "Why don't they use it right away." ”

Judging from the information he found when he was undercover, Karasuma Renya also died a very strange death.

It is said that he died violently after an experiment, but with such a high degree of risk, how could he, a person who has spared his life until he has been conducting immortal research, let himself be used as an experiment.

It can only show that for him, this experiment is 100% safe, but someone has tampered with it in the process.

"Did the current boss do anything in that experiment?" The man was quick to suggest a possibility.

Opposite, the boy nodded.

Even if it's not as perfect as it is now, experiments can still be carried out.

Just like the virtual world game that is currently underway, the experimenter extracted all of his consciousness from Karasuma Renya's brain and put it into the developed instrument, allowing him to completely gain electronic immortality.

But the process was interrupted.

As a result, some of the spirits that have been put into it are trapped in the container, and a self with a clear mind cannot be formed.

Instead of becoming an all-controlling electronic ghost as he imagined, the □□ who lost most of his spirit became a vegetative person who was indistinguishable from death.

Since just now, Okiya's eyebrows have not been loosened.

This process is almost exactly the same as the process when [Ikekawa Na] just introduced how she came to be, the only difference is that Karasuma Renya fails, and the latter succeeds in creating 'herself' in the virtual space.

Faint footsteps came from behind.

"Looks like I can't stop him." The boy looked at the corridor behind him leading to the outside world, "You have one last bit of time. ”

There were so many doubts about this matter that Okiya paused for a moment before speaking, "Are you re-entering the memories you have mastered into Ikekawa Na's brain?" This was a reversible operation, and Karasuma Renya should still have the possibility of regaining consciousness at that time. ”

There are two answers to this question.

First, do you think the people who ruined the whole process of the experiment would let the researchers bring Karasuma back to life? As for the second reason, even if the experimenters were not controlled at the time, they could not complete this reversible process. ”

"I was able to be a conscious individual in space and talk to you because the input memory was tight enough, and I was projected as a complete memory.

Karasuma Renya is different, the consciousness he put into it is forced to be cut off, and the broken half will not form a whole in the space that can be taken out again and put elsewhere, but will become a virus. ”

Remembering that he said just now that if he stayed in the virtual space, he would also become a virus, and Okiya thought about it.

"It means that implanting alienated consciousness into people's brains can only bring mental harm, and cannot allow consciousness to be reintegrated and repaired."

The boy looked at him, "That's right. ”

"The worst outcome is brain death. But if that person has too much willpower, or is crazy himself, the virus will only make him a psychopath who can't control his emotions. He said this unceremoniously.

"Your questioning time is over, take him away."

The boy's figure disappeared into space.

In the back, [Ikekawa Na] closed her eyes, and her body looked a little transparent at first glance.

After putting all the memories and emotions used to construct himself into the other person's brain, he is not far from completely dissipating.

Ikekawa Na slept soundly, but in his sleep, he still felt someone gently open his broken hair with his hand, and then possessed it to his ear.

[Goodbye.] ]

The voice seemed to appear out of thin air in his mind and even in his current dream, and the voice that had been as cold as a machine suddenly softened, like suddenly melting ice.

It was his own voice, but there were some differences.

I heard my own voice suddenly become so ...... Gentle? Normally, it should feel weird, but Ikekawa Na can't feel anything else, on the contrary, he feels extra relieved.

In his sleep, his brow, which was still slightly furrowed, loosened, as if he had been soothed by someone who could not see.

[I wish you freedom and happiness.] ]

Thank you.

Okiya only saw [Ikekawa Na] possessing her, approached the other party and said something, and then hugged the sleeping person.

"Take him out."

The man took the person in the other person's arms, and the last words [he] said suddenly flashed in his mind, as well as a memory from a long time ago.

When he returned from the summer festival, he saw through the car window the pair of misty blue eyes that flashed madly.

“…… One last question. ”

Holding the person in his arms a little tighter, Okiya took a slow breath and looked up into [Ikekawa Na]'s eyes, "The boss has been implanted with this virus, right?" Someone wanted to stop his eternal life in this way. ”

But it failed. The virus didn't make him brain-dead, probably because he was a tenacious madman himself.

Who can do it to this extent, another person who peeks into this position? It shouldn't be, now that this boss himself came to power by killing Karasuma Renya, it is inevitable that he will not let this kind of person appear at his hands.

Then it can only be an experimenter.

[Ikekawa Na] didn't answer the question, he just stared at him silently for a while, and then the figure became transparent and disappeared directly into the space.

“…… Okiya Pleiades? ”

Toru Amuro's voice came from behind.

The blonde man who finally got out of the maze was a little out of breath, he frowned and looked at the person in front of him, not hiding his dissatisfaction, "Why are you here." ”

"The two spaces are merged, let's go out first."

With that, Okiya hugged the person in his arms tightly and walked towards the exit first.

(End of chapter)