The void world, colorless, tasteless, lacking perception, like drifting in a cosmic emptiness where everything is nonexistent, or perhaps falling toward an endless abyss, unable to differentiate between north, south, east, west, up, down, left, or right, not even knowing whether one is static or moving in a direction.

"Is this... alright?"

The sudden sound of a strange yet familiar voice caused Lin Miao's consciousness to be somewhat disoriented.

Who is speaking?

Where am I?

With the appearance of the voice, the void and emptiness around started to solidify, as if adjusting a focused lens, but still only able to increase from 1 bit of information to 1KB, everything around remained so vague, nothing could be seen clearly, and nothing could be done.

Endless fatigue made his eyelids heavy as metal, and sleepiness like a tsunami came crashing, Lin Miao could only use all his strength to prevent his consciousness from sinking, trying with the little remaining rationality to observe everything around.

Although still unclear, he could barely discern that it was two entities exchanging, the sound was intermittent.

"You did so much, and now you want to erase everything, hand over the power to choose and leave, is it worth it?"

"Ha... For me, it's not necessarily a bad thing, after all, all human suffering comes from his memory, forgetting memory also means forgetting pain, many people pray for such a thing in vain."

"But the pain and hardships, laughter and happiness, joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure... all that a person experiences shape this person, forgetting everything is equivalent to killing oneself, isn't it?"

"Everyone dies, why can't that person be me? Death is not scary, the scary part is not knowing why you die."

"I've gone through too much now to be a sufficiently rational observer; it's unfair to both sides, so let's start over from zero, leave the choice to the past and future, whatever the end, for me now, it's worth it."

"Ahh....."

A long sigh, like an indescribable endless helplessness, echoed in the mind for a long time unable to quieten.

"Ah——"

Lin Miao suddenly opened his eyes, sitting up from the bed and gasping for breath, his whole body soaked with sweat, he wiped the corner of his eyes and looked at the wet fingertips.

Is it sweat?

Or tears?

His abrupt movement also woke Lucy who was sleeping beside him, she opened her eyes, seeing such a bewildered expression on the face of the person beside her for the first time, she quickly got up and asked with concern

"What's wrong with you? Is there something sudden happening?"

"I...."

Lin Miao touched his face, the bewilderment gradually faded away, trying hard to recall everything he had seen and heard before, yet unable to remember anything, like a black and white photo slowly fading and deteriorating.

"I seem to have had a very long dream, but.... I can't remember any of it."

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Tibetan Buddhism, or lama teaching....

Could it be a coincidence? 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

Brother Ni held a damaged chip in his hand, the market price of this chip was extremely expensive, just to obtain it, its owner paid over a million Orokin, and spent as long as 2 years cooperating with Huang Ban's experiment staff to create it.

But the chip's value is limited to stakeholders, meaningless to other strangers; no one would buy it.

Because the name of this chip is relic, it is Huang Ban's top-notch custom service for the world's elite, and also the pinnacle of cyber technology.

It is said that it can completely copy human consciousness onto a chip, as long as you access this chip, he can continue to exist in your consciousness, and his personality, speech, habits are exactly the same as when alive.

Some customize it for themselves, hoping to use it for immortality, others for loved ones, wanting to retain their soon-to-pass loved ones with it.

This is one of the trophies players acquired in Dog Town, initially placed in a corner of a smuggling warehouse gathering dust, no one knew what it was, until later when the scenario enthusiasts discovered it during their search, only to find the circuits already damaged and it had become scrap, eventually falling into the hands of New Dynasty Elegance.

And upon learning that Brother Ni was seeking traces of cults, New Dynasty Elegance then transferred the chip to Brother Ni

New Dynasty Elegance: "Cyber-psychology, deep behavior chips, this relic chip, and our previous discovery with the Human Brain Array.... I think these things should have some connection with that group of lamas, they may not be the masterminds, but they surely know many things."

New Dynasty Elegance felt his hypothesis was somewhat arbitrary, but reasoning usually requires bold assumptions.

"How so."

Brother Ni was not familiar with the aspect, so he wanted New Dynasty Elegance to continue speaking.

"You... have heard of split personality, haven't you?" New Dynasty Elegance attempted to explain using something the other could understand.

"I've heard of it, I watched 'Detective' played by Liu Qingyun, the protagonist's mind split into multiple different personalities and they solved the case together."

"That's about right, I asked Resident for some reports on cyber-psychology, among them there's a type of cyber psychology, during their episodes their personality changes greatly, like becoming a different person, this type of personality usually has characteristics like cold-bloodedness, strong desire to kill, clear goals, but when the episode ends, they can't remember anything that happened during that time, and some deep behavior chips exhibit similar symptoms, sex dolls also won't remember the occurrences while their chip services are activated, everything is controlled by the chip program."