[Code Tampering]!
As Gu Ya called out in his heart,
In the pitch-black vision, a glowing tunnel suddenly appeared, and Gu Ya was rapidly traversing through it.
Light and shadow flickered,
Gu Ya looked closely. The fleeting lights were Hong Fei's memories.
Soon, the light tunnel disappeared, and Gu Ya appeared in a city as if teleported.
He stood in the middle of the street, surveying his surroundings.
"This is..."
The android behind him smiled and said, "Welcome to Blue Crevice City! Blue Crevice City is one of the most important cities in the western part of Xian Xia!"
"Blue Crevice City."
"Mechs cannot be summoned here, otherwise, mechs will also be summoned in the real world."
"The laboratory will be destroyed then."
When Gu Ya entered Xu Jie's consciousness, he summoned his exoskeleton armor, and the exoskeleton was also summoned in reality.
"Stage one experiment successful. I can indeed enter the subject's consciousness through instruments."
"Now, I'll take a stroll around and look for those unpleasant memories."
As Gu Ya took a step, the shops and buildings on both sides of the street rapidly retreated.
With just one step, Gu Ya had traveled several hundred meters.
Suddenly, everything on both sides of the street stopped moving, as if time had frozen.
The rapidly flying hovercars were stationary in mid-air, with afterimages still trailing behind them.
"Hmm, the visual effects are also frozen," Gu Ya said calmly.
"This is Hong Fei's consciousness. After I invaded it, it's bound to affect her."
At this moment, a red oval balloon floated out from a street corner.
The entire world was still, only the red balloon was moving, which was very bizarre.
The balloon stopped not far in front of Gu Ya, then floated forward.
"It seems to be guiding me," Gu Ya murmured and followed.
Gu Ya's step covered hundreds of meters,
But no matter how he chased, he couldn't catch up to the red balloon.
Gradually, the balloon disappeared at the end of the street.
"What's going on?" Gu Ya said, puzzled.
When he reached the end of the street, a huge rift appeared ahead.
This rift was about three hundred meters wide, bottomless, and extended to places his eyes couldn't see.
"The Abyss of Consciousness. Once you fall in, you can never get out," Gu Ya murmured.
Even a normal person's mind has an Abyss of Consciousness.
It seems the human brain is truly mysterious.
"Exoskeleton armor!" Gu Ya shouted softly, intending to fly over the rift, but then stopped.
"If I activate my flames, flames will also be activated in reality, and the laboratory will be destroyed."
"Why don't I go back first and prepare the experimental site before coming again?"
Just as Gu Ya was about to leave, the red balloon appeared out of thin air in front of him.
The thin string trailing from its tail hovered near Gu Ya's hand.
"This... I see now," Gu Ya understood.
This red balloon was Hong Fei's self-awareness.
She was intentionally guiding Gu Ya somewhere.
"Hong Fei..." Gu Ya called out softly.
The red balloon seemed to understand and bobbed up and down.
Gu Ya no longer hesitated. He grabbed the thin string and suddenly felt his body become light.
The balloon carried Gu Ya into the sky, slowly flying over the rift.
Gu Ya's heart was always tense, ready to leave at any moment.
If Hong Fei's consciousness resisted at this moment, he would fall into the abyss, and he had to be vigilant.
Fortunately, Hong Fei's self-awareness was very strong, and the thin string, which was not even as thick as a pinky finger, was very sturdy.
Gu Ya's feet finally landed on the other side of the rift.
Suddenly, the cityscape turned into a wilderness.
Then, the light dimmed, and the blue sky became a huge rock cave.
Gu Ya turned around again, and the rift behind him had disappeared, replaced by a cave wall.
This was a cave.
Gu Ya found it somewhat familiar. It was from this cave that he had rescued Hong Fei and Shang Lian.
"So, this is..."
Suddenly, noisy laughter came from the cave entrance, accompanied by the screams of two women, gradually approaching.
"Oh no," Gu Ya suddenly realized he had nowhere to go.
The noise grew louder.
Gu Ya hid near the cave entrance, pressing himself against the wall. It was darker here, and they wouldn't find him if he stayed silent.
As the chaotic noises grew closer, a firelight gradually intensified,
Growing closer and closer, the mixed figures also appeared on the ground.
Gu Ya adjusted his breathing, ready to act at any moment.
Two women in mech pilot suits were pushed into the cave, and they quickly got up and rushed towards the entrance.
But they were pushed back in.
Then, more than a dozen men in dirty, tattered clothes entered, shouting and yelling, spewing vile words.
Gu Ya narrowed his eyes, watching their every move.
The faces of everyone here were blurred, as if pixelated.
Several men eagerly rushed forward, pouncing on the two women and violently tearing their clothes.
The two women struggled fiercely, but this only invited more punches and kicks.
Gradually, the women were beaten into submission, allowing the men to do as they pleased.
Just then, one man turned and spotted Gu Ya.
Immediately, everyone stopped moving, including the two women who turned to look at Gu Ya.
Gu Ya couldn't see their faces clearly, but he could clearly sense that they were waiting.
The red balloon reappeared, floating between Gu Ya and the crowd.
"What should I do?" Gu Ya asked himself.
The image of the red balloon grew fainter and fainter, flickering as if about to disappear.
Cracks began to appear on the cave ceiling and rock walls,
The cracks grew larger, revealing the pure black Abyss of Consciousness.
The cracking rocks all fell into the abyss.
"This is bad, Hong Fei's consciousness is cracking."
Gu Ya realized the seriousness of the situation. If he didn't save her now and left her consciousness, Hong Fei would become a walking corpse.
If he didn't save her in time, he might fall into the abyss along with her.
"Hold on!" Gu Ya shouted, quickly moving forward, his exoskeleton armor emitting white steam.
Gu Ya grabbed one of the men by the neck and twisted it forcefully. The man, like a weathered sand sculpture, instantly turned into a pile of yellow soil and dissolved into the earth.
On the cave walls, the abyss cracks continued to widen, with more and more pure black appearing.
Gu Ya accelerated his pace, twisting the necks of the men one by one.
Finally, only the two women remained.
But the abyss did not heal. The entire cave was left with only the area where Gu Ya and the two women were not pure black.
A crack appeared at Gu Ya's heel,
Gravel fell into the abyss piece by piece.
"Hong Fei, if I kill them, you might experience consciousness disorders."
The red balloon appeared above one of the women's heads, becoming even more translucent and thin.
Gu Ya hardened his heart, grabbed both women by the neck, and twisted forcefully.
Suddenly, his foot slipped, and his hands grabbed at empty air!
The ground beneath him caved in, and the abyss appeared.
Gu Ya leaned back and fell into the abyss.
The firelit cave grew farther and smaller, the darkness grew thicker, and the surrounding air became colder.
At this moment, he couldn't deactivate [Code Tampering],
He couldn't even summon the flames from his feet.
"This is bad!"
No matter how Gu Ya grabbed or kicked, his descent speed increased.
The firelight was no longer visible,
It was pitch black all around, and the icy air hit him.
This abyss seemed to have no bottom.
Gu Ya's consciousness was also gradually eroded by the blackness,
His eyes became vacant, and he even began to hallucinate.
In the hallucinations, past events flashed by frame by frame, flying upwards rapidly.
"Memories are being erased..." Gu Ya tried hard to cling to those memories, but it was to no avail. Many things became blurred.
Gradually,
Gu Ya couldn't remember why he came here.
Then,
He couldn't even remember what happened in the past.
Those fleeting figures,
What were their names?
Who is Gu Ya?
Where am I...
Who am I...
Just then, a red light appeared and tightly wrapped around Gu Ya.
The feeling of descending suddenly turned into ascending.
The disappearing memories returned to Gu Ya's mind.
The red light gradually enveloped Gu Ya's entire body, illuminating the surroundings and warming his body.
Perhaps it was only a second, perhaps it was several minutes.
When Gu Ya opened his eyes again,
The darkness vanished, and the blue sky reappeared.
He was back in Blue Crevice City.
But now, Blue Crevice City was only filled with tall buildings, but no people.
The entire city was empty, dead, and lifeless.
"Hong Fei..." Gu Ya called out softly.
There was no response from the surroundings.
"This is bad, Hong Fei's consciousness..."
Just then, Gu Ya felt a burning sensation on his right palm.
He opened his hand and saw a red, irregular heart-shaped burn mark.
The entire Blue Crevice City instantly turned into yellow soil and dissipated into the sky and melted into the earth.
Gu Ya looked around. Giant skyscrapers rose from the ground, roads appeared at an incredible speed, and the vast upper city gradually unfolded.
In just a few seconds, Blue Crevice City had transformed into Wu He City.
The burning sensation on his palm gradually cooled, and a drop of blood fell from his palm, seeping into the ground.
Where the blood disappeared, a pink heart-shaped balloon emerged from the ground.
"This is Hong Fei's new consciousness..."
The pink heart-shaped balloon circled Gu Ya twice and flew into the sky.
"So, I succeeded."
"Code Tampering,解除!"
Gu Ya suddenly regained his senses. The light tunnel reappeared, and he leaned back with all his might.
When he opened his eyes again, he was sitting in the laboratory chair.
The gentle white light of the laboratory appeared.
Gu Ya couldn't care about anything else. He immediately got up, covered Hong Fei's shoulders with his hands, and softly called out, "Hong Fei!"
Hong Fei gradually opened her eyes and turned to look at Gu Ya.
Her eyes, which were initially vacant, gradually recovered, gaining a spark.
A smile appeared on her face.
It was a smile Gu Ya had never seen before, natural, sweet, and radiant, as if filled with soul.
"Benefactor... Gu Ya!"
Hong Fei exclaimed, tears rolling down her cheeks. She stood up and hugged Gu Ya tightly.
Gu Ya also breathed a sigh of relief. He opened his hand; the palm was intact, and the burning sensation remained.
"Alright... you succeeded. We succeeded."
"Thank you!" Hong Fei said with a smile, and kissed Gu Ya's cheek.
Gu Ya quickly pushed her away: "Don't! Don't tell Ye Ying..."
"Hahaha!" The surrounding scientists let out relieved laughter.
"Yes!" Gu Ya finally breathed a true sigh of relief and turned to face the scientists.
"You all did very well. Now, let's look at the experimental data."