171: Chapter 60 Who Am I?_2 171: Chapter 60 Who Am I?_2 ·
“As the experint progressed, the environnt for summoning my doppelgänger kept changing.
Two weeks ago, I attempted to call forth another self within a virtual reality created by high-precision equipnt.
After substituting the world I knew with a fabrication made of zeroes and ones, the doppelgänger that appeared looked completely different from the past…”
Coincidentally, that was also the day the Colored Glaze Disaster struck.
The ergency energy switch test caused an unexpected turn in the experint.
In conclusion, Xingli fell into a coma before rging with the doppelgänger, and the temporarily-separated doppelgänger received the main consciousness of this body.
Thus, the primary consciousness of Xingli’s existence beca an energy life form created through the black box of superpowers, based on information—i.e., an Information Life Form naturally capable of manipulating information.
“My consciousness fell into a deep sleep.
You know what happened afterward.”
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The Information Life Form possesses the ability to manipulate any environntal information.
At the mont of her creation, Qiluo beca aware of the true nature of the doppelgänger experint and of the researchers’ intention to erase her personality completely.
She decided to escape.
As a physical being, it was difficult for her to evade capture.
If she were to beco a re collection of environntal information, she would have to discard a great deal of personal information.
In other words, she had to abandon the definition of self—lose most of her mories.
The key to her existence between the virtual and the real, the pivotal point of being a life form, lies in having a clear self-awareness.
What kind of person am I?
Who am I?
Finally, the newly born Qiluo made a choice—
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“So you gave up your mories and transford into an incorporeal being to escape?” “Yes.”
“And that guitar is?” “It’s part of my will.
To use an analogy, it’s like the clothes I’m wearing.”
Qiluo concluded, “That’s all there is to it.
It’s nothing extraordinary.
Just a naive fool who got what she deserved due to greed and shortsightedness.”
After laying everything out in the open, the girl with pink hair beca silent, waiting for the young man’s judgnt like a convict facing trial.
Nothing special.
Not romantic at all.
The phrase “got what she deserved” fits her to a T.
She heard Gongsun Ce say.
“Then, is this outfit also a result of information manipulation?”
“…Ah?”
“I can see through normal information manipulation, but if I look closely—”
Qiluo shouted with a blushing face, “It’s not see-through!
These are the clothes I had when I appeared!!”
“I was thinking you could change the clothes yourself if you set your mind to it.”
“Why are you obsessed with clothes?!”
Gongsun Ce turned his head and said, “After all, you see, it would seem very impolite to ask if you could change your body, skin color, or hair.”
Qiluo, pressing down her dress, yelled, “That’s impolite already!
Honestly!
Pervert!!”
“You’ve finally slipped up.”
Gongsun Ce flicked his finger.
Snap!
“Ow!” The pink-haired girl covered her forehead.
“If you were the Miss Xingli from before, hearing such questions you would have taken a more professional approach—warning about sexual harassnt, threatening to call a lawyer, and so forth.
Screaming ‘pervert’ like an ani character, I’ve only ever seen one person do that.”
“It’s a habit we shared…”
“What ‘we’?
Didn’t the doppelgänger rge back into the sa personality?”
The chanism of the power remains unchanged.
Even though Qiluo suffered from a complex case of amnesia due to the experintal accident, now that all her mories have returned, it wouldn’t lead to a personality split.
A change of hairstyle dramatically altered her aura, and even her behavior and speech beca different from before.
Such a transformation might appear at first glance as if she had switched personalities, but in reality…
Gongsun Ce concluded, “It’s all an act, right?
True to your reputation as a talented idol, your acting skills are indeed strong.”
Besides, you called your full na as usual when greeting people, and you gave yourself away right from the way you introduced yourself.
“Ah ah ah ah ah!!!”
Qiluo was waving her hands frantically, her face growing even redder, “Don’t say it out loud ah ah ah ah!”
The gray-haired youth sat down on the other side of the pavilion.
“So, why pretend to have a split personality?
It’s not like after rembering your past you realized you weren’t as pure and flawless as you imagined and were instead filled with the worldly taste of fa and fortune, leading to despair and a simplistic division in front of others?”
It’s like announcing with a gaphone: Look here, everyone, this personality is the past , and the one you t is the current !
Don’t confuse the two!
He looked up at the girl’s expression.
Qiluo hid her face in her palms, it seed he was right.
“Shouldn’t you be a little less childish?”
“I don’t want to talk to Gongsun Ce anymore…”
The girl curled up her legs like she did on the street, hugging her knees with her hands, resembling a pitiful little animal that had been driven out of its ho.
“That’s quite a blow.”
“After recalling the past, I couldn’t believe if I was still myself.”
Qiluo murmured, “My appearance and physique are different from before…
my personality too, subconsciously I want to speak in the way I do now…
act in the way I prefer…”
“Even if I retain all my past mories, can I still claim that I am the sa Xingli from before?”
Am I still ?
He rembered a ship that only existed in philosophical discussions.
During its voyage, the ship suffered damage, and the crew had to replace its planks.
Over ti, plank by plank was swapped out, until one day, soone asked.
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