Chapter 1081: Ryan Noble
Chapter 1081: Ryan Noble
Editor: Henyee Translations
Ji Minghui sat in front of the mirror, silently studying the face he had known for nearly three years.
After the failure of the light cone experiment five years ago, they had brought Wuyang back to the Utopia Base in a vegetative state, hoping to awaken her, but their efforts were in vain.
Eventually, he investigated Wuyang’s identity and discovered that her name was not Gu Yang, but Bai Yueshuang. After she had wandered away at the age of seven, her personality changed dramatically; it was as if she had forgotten everything from her life before that age, including her name and identity.
As for Wuyang, who had become a shell of her former self, the detector indicated that her mental strength had vanished, and her consciousness could not be detected. In layman’s terms, she was a soulless vessel.
Three years ago, they received information from the Francis family regarding an incident involving Tongwan’s plane. They learned that the UO in a sleep state was a projection of a Klein bottle in the three-dimensional world—the very bottle they had seen when searching online.
The real Klein bottle does not exist in our three-dimensional realm. However, when the UO is activated, it takes the person bound to it through a space-time transition.
The UO traversed time and space, carrying the bound individual along the fourth-dimensional timeline.
Every time the UO is activated, it changes its state and binds itself to a new object.
More than five years ago, the UO found on Gu Yang’s body at Cloud Rising Orphanage existed in the form of a Möbius ring.
In other words, the UO carried by Tong Wan 19 years ago had been activated.
The UO can only bind to one person at a time. It disappears only after that person dies, at which point a new destined individual randomly appears.
Nineteen years ago, the number of people on Tong Wan’s plane could be counted on one hand, and the only survivor was Tong Wan.
However, five years ago, when the UO was activated for the second time at Cloud Rising Orphanage, Tong Wan remained in a vegetative state and had not died. From this, they concluded that the individual bound to the UO during the crash was not Tong Wan.
Tragically, everyone else on the plane had perished.
This led them to consider the child Tong Wan had aborted during the plane crash.
Physicists within the organization speculated that the person bound to the UO might be Tong Wan’s daughter, Xiao Yang.
Moreover, Bai Yueshuang, who had changed her personality at the age of seven and adopted the name “Gu Yang,” might also be Tong Wan’s daughter.
To prove their hypothesis, they sought to find Xiao Yang.
In pursuit of the Xiao family’s daughter, Ryan infiltrated the Ji family and killed Family Head Ji’s only brother, Ji Minghui.
During this time, a small accident occurred. Ji Minghui’s son, Ji Linbai, witnessed him kill someone. Realizing that eliminating Ji Linbai would raise suspicions within the Ji family, he hypnotized Ji Linbai to erase the memory.
The Ji family was a prominent medical family in China, with generations dedicated to medicine. Nearly 70% of hospitals in the country have descendants of the Ji family, who operate facilities across various cities.
Utilizing the Ji family’s hospital connections would facilitate the investigation into the whereabouts of the Xiao family’s daughter.
Ryan chose to target Ji Minghui instead of Family Head Ji because Ji Minghui had more freedom than Ji Mingyuan. Additionally, his obsession with academia meant he rarely returned home, making it difficult for the Ji family to notice any changes.
As the only younger brother of the Family Head, Ji Minghui held significant authority over the Ji Family Hospital, which made his tasks easier.
After learning from the hospital that the Xiao family’s daughter was the fake daughter of the Gu family in Jin City—Gu Yang—Ryan’s suspicions were confirmed. He then traveled to Jin City, posing as Ji Minghui.
Once there, he found Gu Yang and attempted to hypnotize her. To his surprise, he succeeded but made an unexpected discovery: this was not the Gu Yang he was seeking.
Under hypnosis, Gu Yang identified herself as “Bai Yueshuang” and even spoke of her rebirth.
Ryan was uncertain if Bai Yueshuang’s claims of rebirth were genuine or not, but he concluded that Gu Yang and Bai Yueshuang had swapped bodies, with the UO bound to the real Gu Yang.
Both the crash and the UO found in the orphanage shared a commonality: they both contained Gu Yang’s consciousness (soul).
This meant that the UO was indeed bound to Gu Yang’s soul.
Bai Yueshuang lacked a soul in her body; Gu Yang’s soul was missing, while Bai Yueshuang’s soul resided in Gu Yang’s body. Consequently, it was clear that finding the UO would be impossible.