Soul Patch

Chapter 283 History Can Be Rewritten

Su Xiao was interviewing an old man, and the two chatted about everyday things.

“I’ll go take a look over there,” Lisa said in somewhat broken Chinese.

"Yes, you go help Old Song!"

Su Xiaochao nodded to her.

Lisa slowly squeezed into the crowd and soon disappeared from sight.

Once she was out of Lao Song and Su Xiao's sight, she quickly headed towards the designated location.

She had walked this road countless times before the traffic control measures were implemented, and she knew it very well.

After passing through the distance of two square formations, she turned north and arrived at the entrance of an alley.

There were roadblocks and guards here. Lisa waved her pass at the guard.

"Take it off!" The other party wasn't so easily fooled.

Lisa playfully stuck out her tongue, gave the two young soldiers a bright smile, took off her press pass and access pass, and handed them over with both hands.

One of the guards carefully checked the photos and names, and the serious expression on his face gradually softened.

Seeing this, Lisa breathed a sigh of relief and said casually, "You guys are very dedicated to your work. Let me take a picture for you!"

The two guards exchanged a glance and smiled shyly.

He handed back his ID and said, "Taking photos is not allowed during working hours."

Lisa wore a regretful expression and said helplessly, "Isn't it enough that you don't publish it in the news report, just leave me with a memento?"

"no!"

Lisa pretended to compromise: "Okay, then take a picture for me, so I can keep it as a souvenir. I'll treasure it when I get back home."

The two guards exchanged glances, and the other said, "Please move away from here. Taking photos is not allowed here."

"We can't even take pictures inside?" Lisa looked at them innocently.

"Yes, you can't take pictures normally, let alone now."

Lisa walked a few steps away dejectedly to an area with a crowd and begged an older woman to take a picture for her.

The older woman was very enthusiastic and waited for Lisa to pose before taking several photos of her.

Lisa thanked the woman and hurried back.

Taking advantage of this time, she quickly opened the software that connected her phone to the camera and sent the photos she had just taken to the information processing center.

Her camera has extremely high resolution, and she can see what's happening on the other side through the reflection in her glasses.

Seeing that the photo had been successfully sent, she hovered her finger over the phone for a moment before tapping the hidden chat window and quickly typing a line of text:

"John, they've increased the guards. I just saw at least five or six more. I've sent photos of the guards' distribution."

The other party quickly replied to her: "Don't worry, V2 team was already ready when you struck up a conversation."

Seeing this, Lisa's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, finally relaxed completely.

She entered the network mission as a patch carrier, not to correct Yang Shanshan's life trajectory.

What does the murder of that person named Yang Shanshan have to do with her?

She came to correct the mistaken judgment made back then; if they hadn't been careless, their assassination plan would have succeeded.

They single-handedly accomplished what the authorities had failed to do in decades or even centuries.

This honor should have belonged to them.

However, Lucy made a mistake during execution, causing the entire plan to fail. John, as the person in charge, took all the responsibility, thus sparing them from blame.

However, they were sidelined and marginalized by the organization.

For the past ten years, they have been thinking about how to turn things around every moment.

I thought I'd never have the chance in this lifetime.

But then, God performed a miracle for them!
……

After suffering such a blow, she cut off all contact with the outside world. When Professor Zhao came to the USA for academic exchange, her family took the opportunity to arrange psychological counseling for her.

After the counseling session, Lisa looked at the radiant Professor Zhao Jingshu and said dejectedly, "Professor Zhao, I can't find my direction in life right now."

Zhao Jingshu looked at her reproachfully: "You're so young, yet you say such discouraging things. Aren't you supposed to be free-spirited and unrestrained? How come you've let your own thoughts bind you?"

"Professor Zhao is not bound by his thoughts, but has lost his way."

Zhao Jingshu met her gaze quietly, her eyes holding a profound wisdom born of experience yet unwavering in her original aspirations: "Life is about facing various hardships. If you persevere, those hardships can't truly affect you. Besides..."

As Zhao Jingshu spoke, the wrinkles on her face seemed to smooth out.

A glint flashed in Lisa's eyes, and she quickly asked, "Besides what?"

Zhao Jingshu's expression became inscrutable, her eyes deep and unfathomable.

After a long silence, he said solemnly, "Some things have changed."

When Zhao Jingshu said this, it was as if she was speaking with a profound Zen-like quality. Lisa nodded as if she understood.

Seeing this, Zhao Jingshu suddenly smiled: "I have already told John about this."

Oh! I visited him during my trip to the USA, and his condition is very bad.

"What happened?"

Lisa knew about John's situation; in fact, her own situation wasn't much better than John's.

She was more concerned about Professor Zhao's seemingly ambiguous words, which must have some hidden meaning.

Zhao Jingshu picked up the coffee on the coffee table and took a small sip: "Here's the thing, I record every time I do psychological counseling. You know that."

"The recordings are mainly used as a basis for future treatment, to compare the recovery of the condition before and after treatment, and to evaluate the effect."

"Before I set off for this academic exchange, I sorted through my previous audio tapes and found that several audio files were blank."

Professor Zhao paused at this point.

"Blank? What does that mean? Did the equipment malfunction and not record anything?" Lisa asked, puzzled.

Zhao Jingshu looked at her silently, nodded and said, "At first I thought so too, until I clicked on those blank audio files and found that they were not all blank, but contained intermittent conversation content."

"Those conversations, judging from the content, should have been me giving psychological counseling to a man named Jia Nan. Strangely, I don't remember any of the things I said in the audio recordings."

Upon hearing this, Lisa's expression grew even more confused.

Zhao Jingshu nodded understandingly. When she first discovered all this, she was just as confused as Lisa, and even a little frightened.

She thought she was getting old and her memory was declining, so she couldn't remember the psychological counseling she had received.

“I asked my assistant, Xiao Zhang, to check the medical records from the past few years. It turned out that there was no one named Jia Nan in the records… When I returned to my office after checking the records and played the audio again, those conversations had disappeared.”

"What? How is that possible? It just disappeared without a trace?" Lisa asked, her eyes wide.

“Yes, and I believe that the information about this person’s medical treatment in my mind was also erased in this way.” As Professor Zhao spoke, her eyes gleamed, and she excitedly pumped her fist: “In other words, because of some changes, Jia Nan no longer needs psychological counseling.”

"Those things must have happened to Jia Nan in the past, which means that history can be rewritten!"

(End of this chapter)