"As long as you're willing to accept me."
No one moved.
Only Shen Zhixue took the first step gently.
Looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar face before me, tears streamed down my face.
"Sister, I'm back."
For the first time, the woman's gaze softened.
"Welcome back, sister."
At this very moment——
The door opened once again.
The moment the light shone in, the outline of a completely new space began to emerge.
Chu Mo looked at the endless darkness ahead and chuckled softly:
"Hey, are we heading to hell... or hope this time?"
"It's up to you to decide."
They said in unison.
The wind swept through the empty corridor, lifting the hems of everyone's clothes, as if fate were drawing back the curtain on a brand new chapter.
As darkness faded, they found themselves in a vast hall, with twinkling stars overhead, like a dome reflecting the universe. The walls were smooth as mirrors, but they reflected no human image.
An electronic voice suddenly rang out in the air:
Welcome to: The Final Sequence - The Realm of Chaos
Chu Mo narrowed his eyes, a cold smile spreading across his lips: "This name doesn't sound good."
“This is the deepest core area of the system,” Su Ting said calmly. “It is also… our final battlefield.”
Su Ting slowly walked to the center of the hall, a blue halo rising beneath her feet. Her voice was gentle yet undeniably authoritative:
"Here, everyone can access that long-sealed archive of memories—about the true beginning of the plan, about our birth, our death, and, the betrayal."
Chapter 1061 What will you two do?
Shen Zhixue followed closely behind, looking at her sister with a complicated expression, "Are you really planning to let everyone know? Even give them the choice?"
Su Ting nodded: "This world is not anyone's illusion. What we need to do is face reality together, instead of deceiving each other to survive."
"That sounds touching," Ji Yan said with a cold laugh, arms crossed. "But I have a question—what if they don't want to destroy this wretched world after seeing it? What will you two do then?"
“Then stay.” Su Ting said without hesitation, “We will no longer impose our will on anyone.”
Chu Mo shrugged. "Wow, isn't this typical idealism? It sounds noble, but who can actually believe it?"
Shen Zhixue glanced at him and asked softly, "You don't believe me, but you're still following us."
“Of course,” he scoffed. “I’m here to watch the show.”
At this moment, a control panel rose from the aperture, with seven cursors appearing on its surface.
An Ran stepped forward. "The only thing we can choose is that ultimate memory?"
“It’s the gateway to your destiny.” Shen Zhixue nodded. “Everyone will see different things. Remember, once you enter… you can no longer pretend you don’t know what’s happening.”
The atmosphere became so oppressive it was suffocating.
"So," Lin Su broke the silence, "who's the first to arrive?"
No one responded.
Suddenly, Shen Zhixue stepped forward and pressed the first cursor—"Su Ting".
The screen lit up instantly, a scene appeared, and everyone watched with bated breath—
That was a picture of Su Ting when he was young.
He was in a laboratory, sitting next to a white-haired young woman, and said gently:
"I know your fears, and I know your desires. If you're afraid to wake up, I can stay with you in your dreams forever..."
The image froze, and Su Ting's face turned deathly pale in an instant.
He murmured, as if in a dream: "So... I've always remembered."
Then he looked up at the two "sisters":
"You all really did this for her..."
Shen Zhixue sighed softly, "You've always been the key to getting everything started. Can you forgive me... for holding back from us?"
The hall fell silent once more.
After several seconds, An Ran couldn't help but ask, "So you were created by her? You two are actually... both revolving around someone who doesn't exist?!"
"Where she is, there is reality."
Su Ting answered quietly, her tone leaving no room for argument.
Just as everyone was still processing this shocking information, a red light suddenly flashed on the control panel, followed by a deafening alarm:
[Emergency Intrusion Signal Detection: External Host Imminent]
Xiao You's expression changed instantly: "Someone's here?!"
Lin Su calmly gripped his weapon: "It's not a person, it's... something more troublesome."
"Looks like our actions were too conspicuous." Chu Mo grinned, his eyes gleaming. "So, here's the question—"
He glanced around, his tone flippant yet dangerous:
"Should we continue to reminisce about the painful past, or... open the door and fight the enemy?"
Su Ting gazed at the flashing red warning light and slowly said:
"Welcome back, Father."
The alarm wailed piercingly, and red light, like drops of blood, fell on everyone's faces.
“Father…Master?” An Ran was stunned, her gaze quickly sweeping over the two sisters, Su Ting and Shen Zhixue.
“That’s right.” Su Ting slowly turned around, his silver hair moving without wind, his expression cold and resolute. “He’s here.”
Chapter 1062 Star Chart Distortion and Collapse
"You mean... the chief architect who spearheaded Project Dawn?!" Su Ting's voice was low, his eyes sharpening. "Wasn't he already dead in the massive explosion fifteen years ago?"
"Dead?" Chu Mo chuckled. "That sounds like something we characters often say. But you know—in this world, 'death' is just a variable."
The dome of the hall began to tremble, the star map twisted and shattered, turning into streams of data that tore at the spatial structure. The mirrored walls on the floor began to reflect images that did not belong to the current world: a ruined city, a collapsed research tower, a burning data core—and a familiar face.
It was a man's profile, aged yet still with sharp features, looking at the camera in the firelight.
Lin Su sneered: "Looks like our script will have to be rewritten again."
Xiaoyou stared nervously at the control panel, then suddenly screamed, "The intrusion signal didn't come from the external host; it was activated deep within the system!! It's an inside job! It's a backdoor remnant!!"
“No,” Shen Zhixue said in a low voice, “This is not the back door…this is the last line of defense left by our father.”
Her fingers traced a crack in the control panel as she whispered:
“He knew he would disappear, but he never gave up his desire for the ‘perfect model’.”
"So you're saying—he planned all of this from the very beginning?" Ji Yan narrowed his eyes. "In other words... no matter who you sisters are, everything about you is within his calculations?"
The hall shook violently, and then a deep, resonant voice, seemingly capable of isolating the entire universe, echoed through the space.
[Visitor identity confirmed: Observer No. 07, Su Ting – Master Booth Privilege Granted]
The visitor agreement has expired.
Welcome back, Master.
The instant a synthesized mechanical voice fell, several entrances to passageways slowly rose from the previously closed walls, each radiating a different color of light, like doors leading to different dimensions.
A string of text appeared on one of the golden doors:
[Primordial Archives - Reboot Sequence Countdown - 72 Hours]
Everyone's heartbeat unconsciously followed this number.
"Reboot?" An Ran murmured repeatedly, "Does it mean the entire world needs to be reshuffled? Is this really what we want?"
“You can choose to withdraw.” Su Ting looked around at everyone. “There is still a chance.”
But no one moved.
A moment later, Su Ting walked to her side. "You know perfectly well that no one wants to turn back now. You set this obstacle up so that we won't stop any longer."
Shen Zhixue sighed softly and suddenly turned to her sister, who had been silent all along: "Sister, do you think we can trust him again? Su Ting, he participated in that experiment... He is someone who knows everything but chooses not to say anything."
Su Ting looked at the two of them meeting eyes and finally gave a bitter smile: "I'm not trying to hide anything, I'm just waiting... waiting for her to wake up on her own."
Before the words were even finished, the golden door suddenly exploded open!
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