The Debtor System: Starting with a debt of 1 billion

Chapter 28: The Memory Puzzle?

In the hospital's intensive care unit, the deathly silence was broken by the rhythmic ticking of medical equipment.

B-02 lay on the pristine white hospital bed, his eyes staring blankly at the ceiling. Although his physical wounds were healing, his gaze remained stagnant, unfocused. The doctor explained that this was selective amnesia caused by a severe concussion and psychological trauma; aside from the occasional glimpse of the white walls and the pungent smell of disinfectant, his mind was a complete blank.

"Brother, would you like some fruit?" Suya sat on the edge of the bed, carefully peeling an apple, her eyes full of worry.

B-02 did not respond, not even blinking.

Lin Yu stood by the window, his brows furrowed. He knew that ordinary medical treatments couldn't save B-02, because the root of his illness wasn't in his body, but in the control system forcibly implanted by the "Phoenix" organization.

"Let me try." Lin Yu walked to the bedside, took a deep breath, and his right pupil instantly contracted, with pale golden patterns flowing in the depths of his eye—"Emperor's Eye" activated at full power.

"Mr. Lin, this is too dangerous!" Acha tried to stop him. "Forcibly spying on brainwaves could cause both of them to suffer a mental breakdown!"

"This is the only way." Lin Yu didn't turn around. He reached out and gently pressed his hand on B-02's forehead.

The high-frequency brainwaves released by the "Emperor's Eye" are like a precise scalpel, slowly piercing into B-02's mental world.

The field of vision shifted instantly.

Lin Yu felt as if he were in a dark data space, surrounded by countless broken mirrors, each flashing with bloody images: children covered in tubes, expressionless white coats, cold gun training...

"B-02, or... should I call you Lin Mo?" Lin Yu shouted into the void, "I know you're in there, don't hide!"

After a piercing crackling sound of electricity, a distorted figure gradually materialized in the void. It was a teenage version of B-02, but one of his eyes was blood red, black data chains were wrapped around his body, and a cruel smile played on his lips.

"Intruder...die..." the boy roared inhumanly and lunged at Lin Yu.

Lin Yu dodged to the side, grabbed the boy's wrist, and forcefully injected his own consciousness into the boy's body: "Wake up! That's all fake! You're Su Ya's brother, you're here to protect her!"

"Protect... Sister?" The boy's movements paused slightly, and the red light in his eyes flickered uncertainly.

Just then, Lin Yu's "Emperor's Eye" caught sight of the thickest black chain behind the boy, with a line of small characters engraved on it: [Ultimate Command - Annihilate all sources of threat].

"So this is the 'Killing Program'..." Lin Yu was shocked. This was not just a memory, but a deeply buried time bomb. Once B-02 encountered an extreme crisis, or received a specific trigger signal, this program would take over his body and turn him into an emotionless killing machine.

At this moment, due to Lin Yu's forceful intervention, the chain actually began to break!

boom!

In the real world, B-02, lying on the hospital bed, suddenly sprang to his feet, his eyes instantly turning crimson, and veins bulging on his previously pale face. He grabbed Lin Yu by the neck, forcefully lifting the powerful man into the air, his knuckles turning white from the force.

"Brother! What's wrong with you? Let go!" Suya was so frightened that she dropped the apple and cried as she grabbed his arm.

But B-02 couldn't hear anything at this moment. His pupils had disappeared, replaced by two constantly spinning red codes—[Kill Program Activated].

"Cough... Suya... step back..." Lin Yu was choked and had difficulty breathing, but he did not fight back. Instead, he struggled to take out a microchip from his pocket, which was the jammer he had previously seized from Maosuo.

"Since you can't get in, then we'll force you out!"

Lin Yu suddenly pressed the chip onto B-02's arm, and at the same time, his right eye burst out with an unprecedentedly strong light, directly piercing into B-02's optic nerve.

"what!"

B-02 let out a piercing scream, clutching his head and collapsing to his knees. Red light flashed wildly in his eyes, clashing violently with Lin Yu's golden light.

On the battlefield of the mental world, Lin Yu held firmly down the berserk "killing personality," shouting sternly, "Your mission is not to kill! Your mission is to protect! If you kill me now, who will protect Suya? Who will destroy that damned laboratory?!"

These words were like a thunderclap, cleaving through the red fog.

The boy clutched his head and screamed in agony as the black chains binding him snapped one by one. The flood of memories finally broke through the blockage—he remembered the rainy night when he was pushed into the ventilation duct, and the vow he made to protect his sister for life.

In the real world, the red light in B-02's eyes suddenly went out.

He gasped for breath, his eyes gradually clearing. Looking at Lin Yu, whose neck he had choked red, and then at Su Ya, who was trembling with fear, he froze.

"I..." He raised his hands, trembling, looking at his palms. "What did I do?"

Lin Yu slumped to the ground, rubbing his neck and coughing a few times, but a relieved smile appeared on his face: "You're awake, Lin Mo. Welcome back."

B-02—no, Lin Mo—clung to his head in anguish, tears mingling with cold sweat. Those sealed memories surged back like a tidal wave: he was the perfect creation in the laboratory, codenamed B-02; a living weapon implanted with a killing program; and, more importantly, the brother who risked his life to push his sister towards survival in the inferno.

"I...I am a monster..." he choked out, filled with fear and self-blame.

Suya rushed over, hugged his trembling body tightly, and cried, "No, you're not a monster. You're my brother, my only family."

Lin Yu stood up, walked to the two of them, and patted Lin Mo on the shoulder: "You're right, you really are a 'monster.' But in this cannibalistic world, we need you, this 'monster,' to protect us."

Outside the window, the rain has stopped.

A ray of dawn pierced through the clouds, illuminating Lin Mo's tear-streaked yet resolute face. Although the shadow of the "Killing Program" still lurked within him, at this moment, he had finally rediscovered a power stronger than the program itself: the will to "protect."