Chapter 17: Chapter 17 : The truth behind
The long hallway was lit with white lights, and walking in it was like walking in a white halo that led to other worlds. This is the top floor of "Shirley Technologies".
Merry couldn't say not to anything about her mother, but she also vividly remembered how her mother looked as she lay quietly in her coffin, which, later her father's men carried the coffin away, and someone in the crowd burst into heartbreaking sobs. Merry was clutched like a chicken in the hands of a relative she didn't know very well, she looked back to see who was crying in the crowd, and the hand gripped harder as some sort of inappropriate comfort.
Unbeknownst to her, Merry felt nothing at that moment, just as she felt no pain after being hit on the head, and the pain only became more and more obvious later.
She made an exchange with her father under the condition of getting the Newton safely out of Avalon.
Surprisingly, Merry's father just nodded, as if he really just wanted to fulfill Merry's mother's wish to see Merry one last time, and with a wave of his hand, the robots around him all retreated.
At the end of the hallway, a door finally revealed, which was also hidden in the white light and hard to spot.
Her father looked back at Merry, spoke no word, his gaze was mixed with indescribable, tremendous and complicated emotions.
Merry remained confused, her body, which had just been drenched in cold air while standing at the mouth of the blizzard, turned into a kind of numbness when she was suddenly in the midst of warmth.
Merry watched her father open the door, and in that moment, fatalism and despair came over her.
Behind the door was a small space, furnished with what looked like a laboratory.
In the middle of the lab stood a huge egg-shaped device, with countless tiny wires extending from the sides, connected to the instruments next to it. It was unable to see what it was.
Her father remained silent, simply operating the complicated buttons on the table.
"Dad, what is this..."
Just when Merry couldn't resist asking questions, the egg-shaped device suddenly began to run. It first rotated to the right angle, then opened a crack from the middle, and the egg shell on the front receded to the two sides - the whole device was opened up in front of Merry's eyes.
"Mom!" Merry's eyes burst into tears, for in the middle of the egg-shaped device lay none other than her own mother. She lay there quietly, as if she were asleep, as if her faint breath could be seen, but it looked so unreal.
"What the hell is going on here?" Merry questioned her father with what little sense he had left.
"Your mother can't just die, she can't just leave us like this!" There was a certain paranoia in her father's gritted reply.
"Are you saying that Mom is still alive?" Merry asked.
"Not yet, but the Treeman may be our last chance." Her father said with his eyes turning red, "Merry, save your Mom! Let them send Dao back, we can get your Mom back."
"What do you mean by not yet." Merry didn't reply to his request.
"I used the most advanced technology to connect the computer system to various key neurons of Shirley's body and brain, and maintain them in a 'living' state through the computer system."
"Are you saying that Mom can feel us?" Merry asked as she looked at her mother whom the eyes were closed.
"Yes, she can even hear us." Her father replied.
"You've had her trapped here for over a decade, she was like a shell, unable to speak, unable to move, just lie there quietly." Merry understood the suffocating feeling of being in control, not to mention the fact that her mother was now completely immobile, her mind was still there, but trapped in the prison of this body, in this egg-shaped device. "You really are crazy!" Merry couldn't take it anymore and yelled at her father.
Bang, there was a loud slap on Merry's face.
"She can't just leave us like that! She can't just leave us like that!" Her father shouted, almost out of control.
Right at the moment, her mother, who was lying in the device, quietly shed a tear, which the two in the argument did not see, and no one was able to decipher the meaning of it.
"Dad, please let Mom go." Merry begged with a sobbing voice. She couldn't imagine what it was like to be imprisoned here with a living mind for over a decade.
"No, listen to me, Merry, as long as you bring back the Treeman, extract its sap, purify it and infuse it into your Mom's body, she will come back to life! Trust me." Her father had lost his mind.
"Dad, you've seen Dao's test report, it's just a tree! It's just like any other tree!" Merry tried to wake up her father from his stubbornness.
"Just a tree? Just a talking tree? You don't understand, there must be something in it, something our science can't define, I've read in confidential scientific research in other Western cities, using its sap to purify and it could save your Mom!"
"..." Merry shook her head.
"Call him back." Her father ordered, "or I'll go and bring him back myself."
"You promised to let them go." Merry questioned.
"The others can go, but not the Treeman." Her father's expression turned back to his usual fierce look.
After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave.
"What are you going to do?" Merry asked.
"You stay here with your Mom, I'll go get him." Her father spoke quietly, with a certain ruthlessness.
Merry wanted to stop him, but she was blocked by the robot at the door and could only watch her father leave.
Merry looked through the data reports in the lab, and it turned out that all the research his father had done on Dao over the years was for the purpose of resurrecting her mother, as he put it.
Merry looked at her mother lying quietly in the device and called out softly, "Mom."
Suddenly, an idea came to Merry's mind, she looked up at the countless dense wires connected to the computer behind her mother - since her mother was now connected to the computer by these wires, was it possible to log into the Attic World through the computer and rebuild an image with her mother's mind to communicate with her directly, just like Robo entering the Attic World through the built-in computer, or like Mimi completing the anthropomorphism to shape her own image through the help of electronic devices, allowing to communicate with people normally in the Attic World.
Merry immediately started to check it out, and after she searched it over, she found that one of the computers connected to her mother's brain was installed with the Attic World driver.
The back of her mother in the Attic World jumped into Merry's mind again.
"Mom, you can enter the Attic World, right?" Merry asked, "Mom, can you log in now? Is it okay if we meet at the square you've been to before?" Merry's nervous, panicked voice was tinged with sobs.
She clicked on the drive system in the computer, glanced at her mother, and then logged into her Attic World account.
Merry searched for her mother in the Attic World, but to no avail. Merry, lost beyond belief, sat with her face covered where she had met her mother earlier.
"Merry," a gentle voice sounded behind her.
Merry turned her head and saw her mother standing quietly in the square. "Merry," she called out again.
"Mom. Is it really you?" Perhaps because of the haste in shaping the image, her mother looked a little less than real in the Attic World.
"It's me." Mom replied.
"Was it you that I saw before?" Merry asked.
"Yes, that was the first time I tried to enter the Attic World through controlling the driver in the computer left by the staff, but I didn't see you at that time, because the computer would automatically refresh the program, so I was forced to go offline." Mom said, "My daughter, Mommy is sorry for you, I shouldn't have left you."
Mom, who was never calm and gentle, was also in tears at this moment.
"Dad, he..."
"I know, I know everything. Listen to me, Merry, your father's 'resurrection' will not work at all, I know my body, it is already a broken corpse, no power can bring me back to the human world. Bring your father here, I'll talk to him." Her Mom said, "I am very content to see you grow up and to be able to communicate with you like this."
"But, Mom, I want you back, too." Merry said.
"Sweetheart, Mommy has been lying in the dark for half of the past decade I was here, I was unable to sleep or move, and sometimes I can't even tell if I'm computer-driven or if I've become a robot with my original mind intact. It's good to see you. The matter of life and death is just all people have to face sooner or later. As long as you live a good life, I am already very happy." Her Mom paused and said, "You know that Mom does not want to live like a walking dead. Don't let your dad get your friend's life because of his obsession, I don't want to see you become alone."
Merry did not speak, with her pair of eyes full of hot tears, she nodded.
It did not take long for her father to bring Dao back.
And the Newton was also brought back together.
The two robots at the door took Merry to another lab. When Merry arrived, Dao was already strapped to a huge lab stand, which was obviously an apparatus built long ago specifically to extract the juices from Dao's body.
"Merry..." Dao looked at Merry with his red eyes.
The others on the Newton also looked over at Merry, who couldn't hear them as they were circled and trapped to the side.
"Merry, our family will soon be reunited." Father said.
"Dad, Dao really can't save Mom. Believe me." Merry said.
"As long as there is a sense of hope, we will have to try, if he can't make it, there is the next, whether it is a Treeman or a Stone Man, as long as it can save your Mom, I don't care!" Her father already looked mad, and his paranoia had swallowed all his reason.
Just when her father was about to start the machine.
"Dad! Mom wants to see you, she has something to say to you!" Merry shouted at her father.
"What did you say?"
"Mom can log on to the Attic World, her mind is still alive, she can talk to us through the Attic World." Merry said.
Her father's eyes instantly turned red.
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