I'm not Yingjie

The sanatorium on Dusk Street is a completely different landscape from this chaotic street.

When most people mention Twilight Street, they think of three "nothings": no government, no order, and no economy. It is a hotbed of crime created by history and residents, no less evil than Kosmo's hometown.

But only those who have a clear understanding of themselves and Dusk Street know that there is actually warmth in Dusk Street like the stars in the dark night.

Padu only had two impressions of the sanatorium: first, the people there were good people. Second, the sanatorium was quite spacious for sheltering from the rain...

"There are more people here than the last time I came." Padu sneaked into the sanatorium quietly. She strolled leisurely on the beams, looking down like a real cat, counting on her fingers, "Why not just bring him here..."

Most of the patients were elderly and children, and most of those Paduo saw were patients who could not take care of themselves. She thought that the elderly and children had weaker resistance, so they were more likely to get sick.

As she wandered around, Paduo came to a place she had never been to before. Thinking that she should try it out as much as possible, Paduo pushed open the half-open door and slipped in.

"..."

As soon as she entered, Paddo was struck by the atmosphere of the room.

Under the colorful windows, the setting sun at seventeen o'clock opens its arms to embrace the tiny world. Quiet dust drifts to the ground in the light and shadow. Four wine-red sandalwood pillars stand solemnly at the four corners of the room. The semi-circular room structure is majestic and sacred, like the whisper of a god.

The neatly arranged seats were empty. A person was kneeling in the middle of the room with his hands clasped in front of his chest. Colorful light fell on the nun's headdress, making her close her eyes and pray more devoutly.

Just looking at her from the back can make people feel her holiness.

Is this the prayer room?

Padu had some knowledge in this area. The kneeling person was probably the nun of this sanatorium.

Although she didn't understand why they had to kneel down to pray, Paddo thought the scene was beautiful and made people feel happy.

Now that we have explored the road, let’s go.

"Click."

"Hey, Aponya, come here."

A man held the door handle and shouted at the nun in a rude voice without any respect.

But the nun quietly opened her eyes, without showing any anger of being offended. After she stood up and dusted off the dust from her skirt, she spoke in a hollow voice, "Qianjie, what's the matter?"

"Humph, there's someone else..."

The nun followed the man out of the room, and after the door closed, there was no one in the room.

Padu held her breath and carefully closed the window. After making sure that no one saw her, she turned around and left quickly.

……

Memory is the foundation of shaping a person, and past experiences can often determine future life.

The memories hidden in the deepest part of his life affect his decisions even if he can no longer recall them.

The reason why this memory was hidden might be because of a shock, or maybe... it was man-made.

Lin opened his eyes in this twisted space. He couldn't remember when he last came here, but he did leave his traces here so that he could find the right path later.

"Honey, look at our child. He doesn't cry or make a fuss."

"Yes, we are in love! His eyes are bright and clear, and his appearance, even if he is just born, is so gentle and perfect!"

"Give him a name."

Lin stood next to the couple. He couldn’t remember what they looked like. In the fragmented space, all he could see was the “father” picking up the silent baby and looking at his child with the eyes of… looking at some kind of work of art.

They were excited, but that excitement was not for the birth of a young life, or even for the birth of their own offspring.

"Your hometown is Shenzhou, so I will give him a Shenzhou-style name... Okay, you can be called..." Under Lin's gaze, the "father" raised the corners of his mouth and smiled at the child who knew nothing yet, "'Zero', how about it? A name full of symbolic meaning, a name that conforms to intuitive thinking."

"You are the new beginning of mankind. This name will surely be a great name recorded in history."

At this time, "Zero" didn't know what his father meant, but when he saw the person holding him was smiling, he laughed too.

However, his innocent smile shocked the man.

"Why...are you laughing?"

After a brief moment of surprise, the man was then disappointed and angry.

"How can you laugh! You are a [Zi——]! How can you laugh at me, like those ordinary people!"

"Honey!"

Lin looked at the "mother" coldly as she stopped the "father" from throwing the baby to the ground, but it was not out of maternal love, as she earnestly told the men about their hardships and assured them that Zero would meet their expectations in the future.

But Lin couldn't understand those words.

Lin understood the meaning of each word, but when they were combined, he could only hear the extremely rational terminology of the researchers.

So Ling was born into this family, and the first thing his "father" taught him was not to call mother or father, but to not show any expression from then on.

Any expression similar to that of an ordinary person would be a blasphemy to that perfect face.

An atheist treats his children as gods and is crazy about them.

As Ling grew up day by day, he showed extraordinary learning ability, which made the couple ecstatic. The way they looked at the child became more and more gentle, more and more joyful, and more and more... respectful.

Until one day, the man woke up from his sleep, and then came to the sleeping Zero like a zombie, staring at him with bloodshot eyes.

"What's wrong, dear?" the woman asked after waking up and seeing the man standing there blankly.

The man turned around and said in an unspeakable tone:

"When this child grows up...will he love humans?"

He murmured, like a madman shouting: "What if he hates humans? What if he hurts the humans we love? Wouldn't we have created a monster?"

"He is different from ordinary people. He will definitely look down on ordinary humans. Rather than let that happen, I should..."

The woman yelled in fear, "No!"

The scream woke Ling up. He sat on the bed and followed his father's instructions very well without showing any expression.

Delicate, indifferent, rational, like an inorganic object.

The woman gave the man a trembling smile and stood in front of the child: "No, dear, our child will not do that kind of thing..."

"Because he can still change, a tiny bit."

She walked out the door and came back a short time later with something.

A medical electric saw.

"Children's memory and consciousness are very easy to change. We can use the method we are best at, which is to change the brain..."

The "mother" smiled gently, full of love for her child, and started the chainsaw.

Chapter 24 The Confusing Truth

"Surgery on the brain to modify consciousness?"

When Mebius heard what Klein said, he put down his work, turned his chair, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why are you interested in this?"

“Um, the latest paper…” Klein explained in her unique soft voice.

"Oh... So it's that." Mebius searched his memory and remembered that a scholar had talked about related research at an academic seminar. "To be honest, not many people pay attention to this technology. There are many methods that are more stable and convenient than this. There are often accidents when operating on the brain."

Modifying the human body itself is actually one of the most thankless techniques among many, and is usually accompanied by immeasurable side effects.

However, true technology often emerges from the most dangerous places.

The technology of fusing humans and Honkai beasts, named the Fusion Warrior Project, originated from human experiments.

"The complexity of the human brain is far beyond the reach of artificial intelligence. For example, Prometheus, created by Mei, seems to be no different from an ordinary person, but in fact, many aspects are just imitating Lin's way of thinking."

"To modify the brain, the conditions are not only high-precision instruments and technology, but also the age of the patient. The older the patient, the smaller the impact. After the brain matures, physical methods can only achieve the effect of removing some tissues to achieve destruction."

One of the most iconic brain surgeries is the prefrontal lobotomy, which received many honors before being banned from large-scale use as an inhumane neurosurgery.

"Why, do you want to try it?" Mebius licked the corner of his mouth. "Sure, in the next experiments, the transformation of the brain is also a topic that cannot be ignored."

Klein looked extremely panicked: "Um... can I, can I?"

"……never mind."

……

The operation was very successful. At least when Lin saw Ling's eyes had lost all their luster, he closed his eyes and exhaled, thinking that the operation was a success.

With the couple's abilities, it was easy for them not to leave many post-operative marks on Zero's head. Zero recovered in less than a month and "recovered" to his usual state.

At this moment, a sense of disobedience came over me.

This sense of disharmony comes from Lin's conflicting memories. His vague memories of childhood began one month after he was born. He remembered that his parents were supposed to have died in a shopping mall fire. According to Prometheus' records, the fire occurred half a year after he was born.

But in Ling's memory, his parents had been by his side for the past six months. When the fire broke out, they went to rescue people, but they did not die.

And then, all the memories were misplaced.

"Now everyone thinks we died in that fire."

"What about our research data?"

"Give it to them. Even if they use the data to conduct another experiment, it won't work. This is something only our genes can do."

"What we have to do next is to raise this child and he will understand what he should do."

"Mother" stroked the postoperative marks on Ling's head and nodded firmly to "Father".

Next, the two people who were hiding in the Far East watched Ling grow up day by day. Their identities became teachers and housewives. Everyone knew that they had a child, but no one had seen the child.

He grew up in a prison without bars.

Lin stood behind Ling and saw him learning the knowledge arranged by his parents, but surprisingly, that knowledge was not profound scientific theories, but just common sense that ordinary people learn in school.

They weren't going to let Zero walk in their way, or they were actually afraid.

Afraid that Zero's learning ability would allow his knowledge level to reach the same level as or even surpass theirs, and then he would understand what they had done to him.

Zero's ability to integrate and process information had already begun to emerge at that time. It only took him ten minutes to read a book, and he was able to extract a complete outline and key information and restore the story.

But Zero became more and more silent. He became less like a child and more like an adult with clear thinking and logic.

Of course, every story has an end, and this couple is no exception.

"Oh!"

A gunshot rang out, and the "father" fell in a pool of blood, next to the "mother".

Zero stood in the burning house that was once called "home", looking at the fire in silence.

Half of Lin's face was illuminated orange-red.

He and Zero looked at the "fire in memory" that burned away the past.

"who are you?"

A man came up behind him and asked.

Zero turned around and saw a pistol.

On it, there is a burning moth printed.

"...Zero." He said coldly in a childish voice.

……

"Alishia is missing too, are you kidding me?"

Hen didn't know whether he should smash the table with one fist or make a weird expression. The current situation made it impossible to guess how the situation would develop next.

A high-ranking member of the Fire Moth was assassinated. The body had just been cremated, and the headquarters had no time to mourn before they had to turn the entire base upside down to search for the murderer.

Before this, Lin, the captain of the seventh team, a disabled person with no ability to move, disappeared inexplicably from the headquarters ward, and now, even Alicia is missing.

There is only a record of Alicia leaving the headquarters, but where she went is an unsolved mystery.

Kevin shook his head at Hen and said, "She occasionally doesn't report her travels, but the current situation at the headquarters is special. If Alicia disappears at this time, she will be suspected of being related to the assassination."

“…I won’t believe it.”

"Me too." Kevin transferred a file to Hen, which contained encrypted pictures and texts that could only be shared by the captain. "I would rather believe that Alicia went to find Lin, but the problem is... Lin is also suspected of being the assassin."

"what is this?"

Hen saw that the document contained a weapon design drawing with a pair of strange giant claws. Just by looking at the three-dimensional model, Hen could feel a murderous aura coming towards him.

In addition to the model, the document also contains a text description. This is an encrypted file from the database of Delta, the former head of the R&D department. This weapon was originally planned to be...