Chapter 356 Breaking Through Illusion

In the early spring afternoon, the wind on the lakeside blew gently, blowing away the mist on the lake, rippling the water surface, and dispersing the sunlight into thousands of brilliant colors.

Su Mo sat alone by the lake, gazing at the sparkling beauty in front of him.

The lake water gently slapped the rocks on the shore, bringing pleasant sounds. The lake surface reflected the leisurely clouds in the sky and the reflections of the surrounding trees. The fragrance of flowers was filled with cool breeze, as if it could wash away the dust of the soul and make people feel relaxed and happy.

During this period, as his condition gradually improved, Su Mo's life has returned to normal track, and the "eraser" in his mind has wiped away all kinds of false memories.

Accompanied by his parents and friends, he lived a normal life, and everything that happened in the hallucinations became a forgotten dream.

No more medicine, no more hospitalization, no more sadness for parents, all troubles and troubles disappeared, leaving only the calmness like water.

The sun gradually set, and it was dusk. It was time to go back and have dinner with my parents.

Before Su Mo stood up, a crisp voice suddenly came from behind: "Sit for a while."

Su Mo looked back and saw a silver-haired girl with a pair of clear and bright amber eyes. Her naturally upturned smiling lips made her face look gentle and peaceful, and her beauty seemed a little unreal.

Su Mo blinked: "Who are you?"

"Hush" Qi Ling sat next to Su Mo and gently leaned her little head on his shoulder. She didn't say anything, but just stared at the lake with him at sunset.

The afterglow fell on the sparkling lake, reflecting an orange-red light, and the sound of waves hitting the shore seemed to be singing the song of the sunset.

Qi Ling's eyes were calm and blurred, as if immersed in this beautiful scenery. The breeze gently brushed her hair, and some of them gently fell on Su Mo's face, bringing a tickling touch.

Who is this.

Why did you come up and lean on my shoulder.

The sudden appearance of the girl made Su Mo very confused. He was sure that he didn't know her.

But suddenly, Su Mo felt that the girl gave him a sense of familiarity, as if he had seen her somewhere before.

Why did he have such a completely contradictory feeling?

Without any sign, an indescribable pain came from deep inside his skull, as if hundreds of needles were piercing his brain. Su Mo grabbed his hair with both hands tightly, and a painful groan came from his mouth. Fine beads of sweat also oozed from his forehead.

But no matter how hard he tried, he could not relieve the unbearable pain. The severe headache made his mind chaotic.

In the depths of his consciousness, some vague images began to emerge. He saw strange faces and strange places.

He tried to capture these pictures, but the harder he tried, the more severe the pain became. All the pictures were fleeting, broken and chaotic, leaving no impression.

Qi Ling was not panicked by Su Mo's change, but just held his arm tightly, still looking at the lake calmly, and said in a low and soft voice: "Mo Mo, this place does not belong to you, you should wake up."

The pain in the head gradually spread to the whole body. Su Mo's breathing was rapid and irregular, and he was trembling every time he inhaled and exhaled. Those broken memories kept emerging in his mind, and were constantly erased silently by some force.

The boundary between reality and illusion became blurred, and he seemed to be trapped in a bottomless abyss, unable to escape or get rid of it.

Just as Su Mo was struggling in pain, a scream suddenly sounded behind him: "Who are you?!"

Perhaps because they had not waited for their son to come home, Su Xun and Li Huishu came to the lake to look for someone. When they saw Su Mo holding his head and shaking, they rushed over anxiously.

"What are you doing! Let go of my son! Can't you see that he is very uncomfortable? Let him go!"

Su Xun and Li Huishu, the couple, grabbed Qi Ling's hair, trying to pull her away from Su Mo, and the other kicked and beat her hard.

"Bang, bang, bang--" Qi Ling was hit hard, and several punches hit her head directly, causing blood to flow out of her nose.

But she still held Su Mo's arm tightly, and did not let go no matter how Su Xun and Li Huishu fought. Blood kept dripping down her chin, staining the front of her clothes red.

Underground laboratory on the edge.

Qi Ling was connected to the terminal brain device at this time, and was using it to convert her consciousness into wave signals, projecting them to Su Mo through the ground-based spacecraft, in order to affect the content of his hallucinations and try to help him break free from them.

Because the terminal brain device is not yet mature in terms of technology, it will be a great burden when used forcibly, and ordinary people can't bear it at all.

But Qi Ling is different. As an artificial receptor born in a laboratory, she has a special physique. When she was a child, she suffered the impact of super brain experiments for a long time in the Morning Star Eden Garden, and her tolerance is far beyond that of ordinary people.

Moreover, according to the data, the burden of using the terminal brain equipment is similar to the overload mode of the super brain experiment, which is still within the range that Qi Ling can bear. As long as the output power is controlled and it is not overclocked or timed out, it will be fine.

Considering this point, the future can only agree to let Qi Ling connect to the terminal brain equipment. After all, there is no other way to wake up Su Mo.

To be on the safe side, Weilai set a program safety lock in the control system to monitor the data fed back in real time. If Qi Ling's body could not bear it, she could cut off the terminal brain device at any time.

At this time, the terminal brain device had been running for a while. Weilai looked at the various data on the screen, frowned and muttered: "No, even if the power is pulled to such a high level and the safety limit is reached, the situation has not improved significantly."

Just when Weilai was in trouble, the data on the screen suddenly fluctuated, and the power curve of the terminal brain device rose a bit, and its peak value had exceeded the safety red line.

Her face suddenly changed: "What's going on, isn't there a safety lock?"

She called up the source code and was shocked to find that the underlying system had been modified at some point, and the originally set safety lock was gone.

The current system operation logic is that as long as Su Mo's vital signs data has not returned to normal, the output power of the terminal brain device will increase step by step, completely ignoring the user's life signal until Su Mo wakes up.

There is only one possibility for this crazy and logical modification method.

Weilai looked at Qi Ling lying in the terminal brain device and screamed: "You changed my underlying code? Are you crazy??!!"

Qi Ling's consciousness had already entered Su Mo's illusion through the terminal brain device, and it was impossible for her to respond to Weilai. Only the pre-set program took over everything.

When she saw Qi Ling's vital signs data on the screen, Weilai was sweating and shouted: "Central Control! Adjust the output power of the terminal brain device to 30% of the original!"

The steady voice of the central control sounded: "Sorry, your authority level is not enough, and the adjustment request has been rejected."

Weilai's eyes were out of focus, and she said in a daze: "You will die if you continue like this."

"Cough!" As soon as she finished speaking, there was a violent cough behind her.

Weilai looked back, and the scene in front of her made her heart cold.

Qi Ling in the terminal brain device kept trembling, spitting blood, and the scarlet liquid completely stained the collar red.

Su Mo felt that two forces were tearing at each other in his consciousness, as if two huge hands were sawing back and forth, fighting for him at the border between illusion and reality.

"Who are you? Who are you?"

Those vague and broken memories tried to break free, but every collision brought more intense pain. Su Mo felt that his head was about to explode, and he kept wailing.

"Son, don't be afraid! With your parents here, don't think about anything!" Su Xun and Li Huishu kept beating Qi Ling, and angry roars came from their mouths, "Get out! Stay away from my son! Get out!!!"

Li Huishu grabbed Qi Ling's hair and slapped her face with all her strength. With a loud "snap", a red mark appeared on her beautiful face, and blood flowed from the corner of her mouth and dripped on her collar.

Su Xun even picked up a stone and smashed it hard on her arms and shoulders. Every time he smashed it, it would leave purple bruises. When it hit the hand, the wound was even deep enough to see the bone. At first, it was a white mark, and then blood flowed.

Su Mo covered his head with his hands, looking blankly at the girl beside him who could not be driven away no matter how hard he tried.

His subconscious told him that he must have seen this girl somewhere before.

But the broken memories were always like fog, seemingly a thin layer, but it was impossible to penetrate it.

Qi Ling's face and body were covered with blood, but there was no pain in her expression. She just looked at the lake view in a daze, gazing at the beautiful scenery of late spring on the shore.

"Momo, do you know? I don't like spring. This season is full of grass and birds, and the rhythm of life is everywhere. It is completely opposite to my previous life."

"I don't like summer either. The sun is bright during the day, and you can always hear cicadas chirping. At night, people go out to enjoy the cool, eat watermelon and look up at the stars. That kind of comfort is something I never experienced in my childhood, and it only makes me jealous and hateful."

"I hate autumn too. I hate the fiery red maple leaves, the crisp autumn wind, the swaying golden wheat ears in the fields, and the good times everywhere. I hate all the beauty that I don't deserve."

"Shut up! Shut up!!!" Su Xun and Li Huishu's eyes were as red as blood, and the roars from their mouths began to deform and twist inexplicably, like the roar of some monster, and the strength of their attacks became heavier than ever before.

Qi Ling let those blows fall on her and continued to mutter.

"I like winter. I like the season when everything withers and everything is dead and silent. I have had a wish since I was very young. I want to die in winter."

She held Su Mo's arm tightly, as if she was leading a lost child, and her smile melted into a gentleness like water.

"But after knowing you, I just want to live and watch more snow with you."

Suddenly, Su Mo's consciousness seemed to be hit by something, and various images emerged in his mind, and they were no longer blurred, but all became clear.

Sweet and pleasant laughter.

The throbbing when staring into each other's eyes.

A warm hug in the cold winter.

The past scenes unfolded slowly like old movie shots, just like waking up from a long dream, and the broken fragments of memory gradually gathered.

At this moment, Su Xun and Li Huishu were also extremely manic. They let out twisted screams and picked up stones to smash Qi Ling's head.

"Bang!" With a heavy muffled sound, Qi Ling's head was hit hard. The violent impact made blood flow out of her mouth and nose like a spring, dyeing the smile even more sad and beautiful.

Qi Ling stretched out her hand, held Su Mo's face with her last strength, and then kissed it gently.

The blood-stained lips brought a subtle touch, and the throbbing that surged into the heart like a surging wave remained unchanged.

In the deep kiss with Qi Ling, Su Mo's eyes became clearer and clearer. The fog that shrouded his consciousness finally broke through, and the erased memories continued to emerge like a tide.

".Qi Ling?"

Qi Ling's blood-stained little hand gently stroked Su Mo's face, and the sunset glow shone in the amber eyes, reflecting the gentle smile.

"Mo Mo, it's time to go home. Everyone is waiting for you."

The moment Qi Ling finished speaking, Su Mo suddenly felt his arms empty. The person in front of him quietly disintegrated, turned into flying spots of light, and disappeared on the sparkling lake.

Almost at the same time, Su Mo's vision began to shake.

That was not the shaking from the ground.

The ground, the lake, the sunset, the sky, and the shouting parents behind him. Everything began to distort in the increasingly violent shaking, as if the whole world was collapsing.

"Hiss--" When Su Mo opened his eyes again, what was reflected in his eyes was the familiar structure building and the pale crystal floating in the air.

As his thoughts changed, he suddenly came back to his senses and shouted to the communicator: "Future?"

Future's choked voice came from the other end of the communicator: "Boss, you finally woke up. In order to wake you up from the hallucination, Qi Ling directly connected to the terminal brain and adjusted the power to a high level. She just vomited a lot of blood."

Su Mo's heart tightened immediately: "Where is she? How is she?!"

Future's sobbing was intermittent: "Sent to the medical area. The medical staff just contacted me and said that they are still giving first aid, but the situation is very bad. Let us. Let us."

At this moment, her crying voice was extremely strong: "Let us prepare for the worst"

Unprecedented mania swept through his heart, and Su Mo unconsciously clenched his teeth, squeezing so hard that his gums were bleeding.

Time cannot be reversed, things have already happened, he can only force himself to stay calm, and asked in a deep voice: "Did Qi Ling leave a message on the Black Zetsu virus side, saying what to do?"

Future sobbed and said: "She left me a message. She said that the Black Zetsu virus in the device on you has been switched to automatic mode. As long as you get close enough to the communication port, it will automatically operate."

Su Mo subconsciously touched his chest.

The invasion device loaded with the Black Zetsu virus is still there. There are no physical enemies here, so it has not been destroyed.

Su Mo supported his long-term coma and exhausted body, staggered to the control core, and said heavily: "Future, there is nothing I need you to do here, you go to help rescue Qi Ling, and save her no matter what."

"Leave the last thing here to me, I will end it all!" (End of this chapter)