dognovel Chapter 686 Mirror Pavilion Dream
Chapter 686 Mirror Pavilion Dream
At midnight, Lin Chuyue arrived at Mirror Pavilion alone.
This is a restricted area located in a deserted mountain forest in the southwestern border region, untouched by human hands for many years. But in satellite images, the building, seemingly vanished from the world, is hidden within with its cold and precise geometric form, like a mirrored dream.
She stood before the gate, the metal hatch slowly opening. There were no security personnel, but a very familiar electronic voice rang out:
"Lin Chuyue, welcome home."
Her expression froze.
This is an old voice template in the ISA system that was destroyed back in Shen Fang's time—that is, her mother's voice backup in ISA.
She walked step by step into the Mirror Pavilion, her feet treading on a passageway made of mirrored material. The walls, ceiling, and floor all reflected her image.
It felt as if with every step he took, countless "shes" were staring at him.
**
Mirror Pavilion Core Laboratory.
Inside the transparent glass, dozens of incubation chambers contain countless replicas of "Lin Chuyue"—some with youthful faces, some already formed, and some being implanted with neural synchronization chips.
"You finally came."
A familiar yet unfamiliar voice came from the darkness.
A figure walked out slowly, wearing an old version of the ISA research uniform, with a gentle smile on his face.
“Father.” Lin Chuyue’s eyes were icy.
Lin Zhengguo.
Her biological father.
He should have been reported as "retired and returned home" during the ISA personnel purge two years ago, but unexpectedly he turned out to be the mastermind behind Mirror Pavilion.
"Why are you still alive?"
“Because I must live.” He said calmly, “Chuyue, I never intended to hurt you.”
"You think you still have the right to explain?" Lin Chuyue said, word by word, "You colluded with Shen Fang to create the personality template project, making my mother one of the test subjects, and now... you plan to replicate my personality into a tool?"
Lin Zhengguo remained silent for a few seconds, then sighed.
"Your mother's death was beyond my control."
“But you’ve controlled me.” Lin Chuyue’s voice suddenly rose.
“You made me believe that I had a choice, but in reality, from the moment I was born, I was a candidate for your experiment, a ‘test-tube person’ that you personally sent into ISA!”
She closed in step by step: "You traded me for honors, power, and resources, and in the end... you even want to clone me again!"
"Chuyue!" Lin Zhengguo suddenly raised his voice, "You think this is for me? I'm doing this for you! It's for the ultimate plan of 'the continuation of human consciousness'!"
"Every day you live proves that you are the most successful one!"
Lin Chuyue gave a cold laugh.
"So you can decide who should live and who should be deleted as a backup?"
Anger flashed in Lin Zhengguo's eyes, but he quickly suppressed it: "If you can calm down and listen to me finish, you will know that these clones are not 'you,' but the one in my plan... to take a bullet for you."
“Your mother already knew.”
These words made Lin Chuyue's pupils dilate.
Lin Zhengguo's gaze was deep: "Before your mother passed away, she uploaded a part of her consciousness and left it in this system. She knew that you were born fragile and had a high rate of genetic collapse, and that you would be exposed once you entered a high-frequency combat environment."
"You cannot withstand extreme neural synchronization stress."
"So she chose to sacrifice herself to preserve your 'original'."
"And all I did was continue this path of survival."
Lin Chuyue murmured, "Are you saying... I wasn't created by you, but rather 'preserved' by her?"
“Of course you are my child,” Lin Zhengguo said, his expression unusually pained, “but I can’t just stand by and watch you go down the same path as her.”
"So I created L4."
“I’m trying to show you what a truly ‘out-of-control’ personality copy looks like.”
"And you—are always unique."
Lin Chuyue's eyes flickered, torn between reason and emotion.
Just then, a burst of noise came from behind.
Lin Chuyue turned her head sharply, and at the door—Li Zhanchuan and Zhou Cheng led the ISA task force and burst in!
"Lin Chuyue, leave quickly—the Mirror Pavilion system has initiated self-destruction!" Zhou Cheng shouted.
"How did you find this place?" she asked in surprise.
Li Zhanchuan's gaze sharpened: "Gu Yanchuan leaked the information. He put the coordinates of the Mirror Pavilion into the ISA headquarters system. Now, not only are we here, but the Foundation... has also discovered it."
"Is he crazy?" Lin Chuyue's heart sank.
Li Zhanchuan did not answer, but quickly walked to her side and protected her.
"We must evacuate. If this system collapses, the entire mountain will crumble!"
But Lin Zhengguo shouted loudly at this moment:
"You can't leave, Chuyue! You must stay—take your mother's core consciousness with you!"
He suddenly pressed a button.
The next second, the screen above my head turned on, and a archived video slowly played.
The image shows a young woman with gentle features and a clear expression—Zhou Wan, Lin Chuyue's mother.
Before her was a cold, sterile laboratory table, and she was voluntarily injecting a transparent liquid, her expression as calm as still water.
"I am willing to use all my memories, personality, and emotional data as a backup of Lin Chuyue's system."
"I hope... she has the opportunity to choose the life she wants to live."
The video has stopped.
Lin Chuyue's eyes were red, and she couldn't speak for a long time.
“You can take her away,” Lin Zhengguo said in a low voice. “That was your mother’s last wish.”
"But—you have to stay."
His gaze was deep: "You must continue this plan and truly take ISA out of control. You are not an ordinary person; you are her child—you must shoulder the responsibility for what she did not finish."
Lin Chuyue looked at her father and said, word by word:
"You are not fulfilling her last wish."
"You are using her name to continue controlling me."
Lin Zhengguo's expression froze.
And she slowly walked towards the core of consciousness.
boom--!
The underground laboratory began to shake; the self-destruct system had been triggered.
Lin Chuyue stored her mother's consciousness core into an encrypted device. When she turned around, she found Lin Zhengguo still standing there, as if he had already decided not to leave.
"You...aren't you leaving?" she asked in a low voice.
Lin Zhengguo gave a bitter smile: "I have already lost your mother, I can't drag you into the abyss as well."
He waved his hand at her, his voice slow but firm:
"Chuyue, let's go. You are her only continuation."
Lin Chuyue looked at him with an extremely complicated expression.
In the end, she never looked back.
**
Three hours later, at the ISA temporary command center.
Lin Chuyue connected her mother's consciousness core to the ISA main system, and Zhou Wan's voice rang out again:
"Chuyue, you are finally... free."
On the screen, a gentle smile appeared, as if she had truly "come alive".
Just as everyone fell into a brief silence, the internal alarms of ISA sounded again:
System intrusion!
Gu Yanchuan's name jumped onto the red wanted list.
He disappeared.
Where will he go in the next chapter? Was his "true identity" already foreshadowed?
How will Lin Chuyue face the next, even bigger storm?
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End of this chapter
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Gu Yanchuan disappeared from ISA headquarters, and the foundation behind Mirror Pavilion was fully exposed. A shocking truth is about to be revealed—Gu Yanchuan may no longer be "Gu Yanchuan".