nycdaug Chapter 840 Retrieval
Chapter 840 Retrieval
This undercurrent of power struggle was far more dangerous than he had imagined. But he had already put his life and death aside. For the sake of the late emperor's instructions and the young emperor's kingdom, he would find out the mastermind behind this even if he died.
The electronic clock on the bedside table glowed with a faint blue light. It was 3:17 in the morning. Outside the window, a neon whale projected by a holographic advertisement was flying through the clouds. Its huge tail fin swept across his retina, causing him to blink. This was the third time he had the same nightmare this week. In his dream, he was in a laboratory full of precision instruments, and a man with a similar face to his was lying on a metal table. A man in a white coat whispered in his ear, but his voice was unclear, and he could only catch words like "memory transplant" and "key" intermittently. Every time he woke up from a dream, his temples would throb, as if countless tiny electric currents were running around in his brain. "Are you having a nightmare again?" A gentle female voice came from beside him. His girlfriend Su Qing turned over and faced him, her eyes full of concern, and she reached out to gently smooth his frown. Cao Huan forced a smile and nodded, "It's an old problem. You can continue to sleep." Su Qing obviously didn't believe it. She sat up and turned on the bedside lamp. The warm yellow light dispelled some of the chill in the room. "Do you want me to chat with you for a while?" Cao Huan shook his head, "No, you have to get up early to go to work tomorrow. I'll go to the kitchen to get a glass of water and come back in a while." He stood up, put on his coat, and walked to the kitchen. He opened the refrigerator door and the cold air hit him. He took out a bottle of mineral water and took a big gulp. The cold liquid slid down his throat, but it couldn't extinguish the uneasiness in his heart. In the company's tea room, Cao Huan stared at the coffee cup in his hand in a daze. As the chief algorithm engineer of "Intelligent Brain Technology", he has always been known for his calmness and concentration, but the frequent anomalies recently made it difficult for him to concentrate. Last week, when he was debugging the newly developed memory storage chip, a strange picture suddenly flashed in front of his eyes: a research institute hidden in the mountains, surrounded by strict security, and armed guards patrolling back and forth. The picture was so real, as if he had experienced it personally. "Engineer Cao, Mr. Wang wants to see you." The voice of intern Xiao Li interrupted his thoughts. Cao Huan came back to his senses, put down his coffee cup, straightened his collar, and walked towards Mr. Wang's office. The door of Mr. Wang's office was ajar. Cao Huan raised his hand and knocked on the door. After getting permission, he pushed the door open and entered. Mr. Wang sat behind the large desk with a professional smile on his face, "Xiao Cao, come and sit down." Cao Huan sat down on the chair opposite, feeling a little uneasy. "Is your work going well recently?" Mr. Wang asked. "Not bad. The research and development of memory storage chips is progressing smoothly. It is expected to enter the clinical trial stage next month." Cao Huan replied. Mr. Wang nodded, his eyes became meaningful, "I heard that you haven't been sleeping well recently? If you have a lot of work pressure, take more rest and don't tire yourself out." Cao Huan was shocked, but he remained calm on the surface, "Thank you Mr. Wang for your concern, I just have some insomnia recently, it's okay." Coming out of Mr. Wang's office, Cao Huan felt even more depressed. How did Mr. Wang know that he had insomnia? Was his every move being monitored? The more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong, and he decided to investigate the research and development data of the memory chip in depth. Late at night, the company building was silent. Cao Huan sat in front of his workstation, his fingers tapping quickly on the keyboard, bypassing layers of firewalls and entering the core database of the memory chip. As the data was constantly retrieved, his face became paler and paler. It turned out that the memory storage chip developed by the company was not only used in the medical field, but was secretly conducting memory transplant experiments, and had conducted many human trials, in which many subjects suffered serious mental breakdowns. What shocked him even more was that he found his name in an experimental record. The record showed that he had been one of the experimental subjects, and the man with a similar face to him was the control group of the experiment. Cao Huan's mind was blank, and his hands began to tremble uncontrollably. He finally understood that those strange dreams and memory flashbacks were caused by the transplanted memories. At this moment, footsteps suddenly came from behind. Cao Huan quickly turned off the computer and turned around to see that it was Su Qing. "Why are you here?" Cao Huan asked in surprise. Su Qing's expression was a little unnatural, "I... I saw that you haven't returned home so late, I was worried, so I came to see you." Cao Huan stared into her eyes, and a strange feeling surged in his heart. Su Qing avoided his gaze, "Let's go home." On the way home, Cao Huan remained silent. He always felt that something was wrong with Su Qing, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. Until he got home, he found a miniature recording device in Su Qing's bag, and the doubts in his heart instantly turned into fear. "Why?" Cao Huan held the recording device and his voice was cold. Su Qing's face turned pale, "Cao Huan, I... I was also forced." It turned out that Su Qing was the spy planted by President Wang next to him, responsible for monitoring his every move. President Wang had long noticed his suspicion of the research and development of memory chips, and was worried that the secret would be leaked, so he asked Su Qing to keep a close eye on his movements. Cao Huan felt desperate. The person he trusted most actually betrayed him. He turned around and wanted to leave, but was stopped by Su Qing, "Cao Huan, I'm sorry, I really don't want this. Mr. Wang threatened me that if I didn't cooperate, he would hurt my family." Cao Huan shook off her hand, "Get out of the way!" Just then, there was a burst of hurried footsteps outside the door. Cao Huan realized that the situation was not good, and pulled Su Qing into the storage room. Through the crack in the door, he saw several people in black clothes breaking into the room and rummaging around. The leader was Mr. Wang's bodyguard. Cao Huan knew that he had no way out. He had to find a way to escape from here and expose the conspiracy of Zhinao Technology. He was looking for available tools in the storage room and suddenly touched a hard object. When he took it out, it was a USB flash drive with the words "Memory Key" engraved on it. He carefully inserted the USB flash drive into the computer, which contained a complete memory chip research and development data and human test report, as well as an encrypted video. Cao Huan entered various passwords to try to decrypt, and finally after trying more than a dozen times, the video was opened. In the video, a masked man is introducing the military use of memory chips to a group of people in suits. "With this technology, we can transplant the memories of top agents into ordinary people and instantly train countless elite fighters." Cao Huan watched the video in shock. It turned out that there was a bigger force behind Mr. Wang supporting this evil plan. He decided to make the information public so that everyone would know what Zhinao Technology did. He copied the information to multiple cloud storages and sent it to several well-known media.