The woman walked slowly forward, a strange smile playing on her lips:

"Has my sister forgotten you? No, I just took a short nap."

"Now I'm back."

"It's time to continue the game."

He gently raised one hand, and a strange and ancient memory symbol appeared in the air, as if an ancient seal was awakening.

The whole world suddenly spun around!

[New Identity Confirmed: B-07 Experimental Vector Activation Completed]

[Permissions update complete - Reboot command ready]

Su Ting suddenly stepped forward, gritting his teeth and hissing, "Who...are you?"

The girl looked at them all with a smile, her tone sweet yet carrying an overwhelming danger:

"Who I am is not important. What is important is that after this restart, I will personally retrieve that 'memory that does not belong to you'."

“After all,” he gently raised his eyes and whispered to the sky, “I also want to see… why my sister chose to erase everything back then.”

Su Ting clenched his fists, his eyes darkening. "What exactly do you want?"

The girl tilted her head, her smile deepening: "I want you all... to start over."

The gray sparrow exclaimed in surprise, "But you said you would help us find the truth!"

“My dear Grey Sparrow.” The other person reached out and stroked his cheek, their voice gentle, “There is only one truth, but it must be obtained through sacrifice.”

The moment his fingertips touched Gray Sparrow's cheek, a bone-chilling cold spread along his skin, as if an ice pick had pierced the depths of his soul. Gray Sparrow shuddered, took a step back, and his lips turned pale: "You're not... that you."

"Of course I am." The girl's smile remained unchanged, but her eyes held no warmth. "It's just that I can finally stop hiding. What 'older sister' covered for you was the original sin of this system—and also my true home."

Who wrote Chapter 979?

Su Ting suddenly raised his hand, and the terminal on his wrist lit up with a protective barrier, isolating the girl three meters away.

Su Ting's eyes were icy cold as a blade. He slowly stepped in front of Su Ting, blocking him between the mysterious girl and Su Ting. "Who gave you the authority to contact him?"

"Heh." The girl chuckled softly. "Who do you think wrote this program? Who do you think silently waits outside the cracks in memory in every 'start-over' cycle?"

Cheng Yuan's expression changed slightly, and he muttered under his breath, "Something's not right, something's really not right..."

Suddenly, faint red light patterns appeared in the air, and a phantom slowly rose from the ground. It was a long-sealed fragment of the system, seemingly loosened by the girl's earlier awakening. His face was blurred, with only a pair of empty yet familiar eyes silently staring at everyone.

Su Ting's breath hitched, and he almost bit his lip until it bled.

He recognized the face—it was Leah.

Or rather, the face of their shared mother.

"You..." Su Ting's throat bobbed, his voice low and hoarse, "You are another version of him?"

“No, he is a remnant of an older consciousness.” The girl tilted her head. “I told you, I’m just waking up, not appearing for the first time. Now, let’s reset the script.”

He suddenly opened his palm, and a complex symbolic pattern appeared in the air, like some kind of ancient ritual mark.

Space shook violently, the timeline began to distort, and the world seemed to fall into a chaotic rewind mode!

Qin Ran's eyes flashed with killing intent, and lightning energy leaped out from his palm: "Damn it, if you want to fight, then don't blame me for being merciless!"

He transformed into a bolt of black lightning and charged straight towards the girl's location!

"Watch out!" the gray sparrow shouted.

However, just as the lightning was about to strike the girl, an irresistible force fell from the sky, deflecting the entire bolt of lightning. Qin Ran groaned and was slammed into the wall!

Amidst the swirling dust, only the faint throbbing of electricity in his chest spoke of the astonishing force of the collision.

Everyone was stunned.

The other person simply stood still, without even changing their posture.

But the phantom behind him had begun to merge with him, and a strange frequency fluctuation permeated the air.

Leah's voice came from both of their mouths at the same time:

"Let's start over... This time, let me end it all with my own hands."

Su Ting's pupils contracted, and he shouted urgently, "This isn't him! He's usurping authority! Disrupt the restart sequence immediately!"

Cheng Yuan quickly opened the terminal panel: "It's too late! The loop mechanism has been activated. Unless we simultaneously sever the data link to the mother core, the entire reality model will be rewritten."

"How do we do it?!" the gray sparrow asked anxiously.

“Find and lock onto the ‘key anchors’.” Cheng Yuan tapped rapidly on the screen. “But the problem is… the key anchors are different every time; they could be a location, an object, or even… a person.”

Su Ting suddenly turned his head and looked at the girl who was slowly sinking into the system's resonance.

His tone was icy:

"It's you."

As soon as she finished speaking, the girl chuckled, "You guessed right."

In an instant, his body was enveloped by countless runes, and huge cracks appeared in the surrounding space.

[Ultimate Loop Start-up]

[The countdown to the chaotic choice has begun: 10...9...8…]

The gray sparrow ran over, trying to grab his arm: "Please, stop! We can figure something out together... We don't need to reboot, and we don't need to destroy—"

Chapter 980 initiated an order.

The girl gently shook her head, a soft emotion that had never appeared before flashing in her eyes.

"I'm sorry, dear Grey Sparrow... but this time, the choice must be made by him and me."

He reached out and gently touched his cheek; in that instant, everyone's consciousness was pulled into an unknown memory—

The scene depicts a research hall engulfed in flames, with shattered glass scattered everywhere and blood staining the control panel. Standing in the center are the young Su Ting and Su Ting, and beside them stands a figure in a white lab coat—a young Leah, her face streaked with tears, her fingers trembling as she initiates a command.

He looked at the two boys and said softly:

"I'm sorry... If we can meet again, please be sure to find out the truth."

The screen suddenly collapsed.

The countdown continues: [4…3…]

“He is one of the variables left behind from that incident.” Su Ting’s eyes were red. “He is another timeline personality fragment left behind by our sister, Leah!”

"But now he's going to become... the new system core?!"

Qin Ran struggled to his feet and roared, "The person I risked my life to save has become the biggest villain?!"

“He just realized reality a little earlier than all of us,” Cheng Yuan sighed. “Maybe there are no winners at all, only repeated cycles of fate.”

【2...1...】

The moment the light engulfed everyone's vision, the girl raised her eyes and smiled gently.

"Are you ready, brothers? The game is about to begin."

As the last clear outline of the world was torn apart, a familiar yet eerily resonant voice rang out:

"You've finally decided to come."

The gray sparrow suddenly opened its eyes.

The scene before him was completely unfamiliar: he was lying on a metal platform covered with vines and gears, surrounded by translucent blue screens with densely packed, flashing data like heartbeats.

"This is where?"

He struggled to his feet and discovered a blue energy conduit, resembling a nerve thread, wrapped around his wrist, humming slightly with his movements. At the same time, a familiar yet chilling voice echoed deep within his mind:

[Welcome back to your original position, main personality 01-B—Leah, the next generation core.]

He was shocked.

This wasn't his voice—yet it sounded like an echo of himself, resonating in his chest.

"Let me out!" he screamed. "What do you want to do to him?!"

The screen flickered a few times, and then a reflection appeared.

That was—the face of a young girl.

But at this moment, his eyes were completely black as an abyss, yet his lips still held a faint smile.

"Do you think you're just an observer?" the voice asked softly. "Do you think you're the chosen exception?"

He gently raised his hand, and the distant wall slid open like liquid, revealing the outside world—a ring city floating in the sky, with an endless, dark, churning sea of ​​data beneath the ground.

Su Ting's eyes widened.

There... there were countless versions of him running, shouting, and crying.

Some of them were wearing school uniforms, standing in the rain with a letter in their hands;

Some of them knelt on the ground, holding their lifeless friends in their arms;

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