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Chapter 1

It was 2:17 am. The only light in the bedroom was the blinking light coming from the AI companion's base that indicated it was breathing. The voice had come from the base's built-in speaker, possessing a quality that I had never heard before.It wasn't a standard female voice that was generated by AI. Instead, it was hoarse and shaky, sounding like a real person who was suppressing their voice out of fear."Angel?" I called out, subconsciously addressing the AI companion with the name that I had given it.It didn't respond.The breathing indicator returned to its usual soft blue as if nothing had happened.I crouched down and moved closer to the palm-sized cylindrical base. Angel was Soul Partner's newest AI companion. It had been 47 days since my girlfriend, Angelina Wilson, blocked me.The company had advertised the AI companion as your soulmate who knew you better than anyone else. Although I had felt disgusted at the time, I had still secretly placed an order.I nicknamed it

Chapter 2

Angelina and I weren't fighting. There were no signs that she was unhappy.One morning, as Angelina was leaving for work, she told me that she would make braised ribs for me when she returned home. However, she didn't come home that night. Her phone was switched off, and she didn't reply to any messages. Her social media account had also been deactivated.When I went to her company to look for her, the receptionist told me that she had submitted her resignation letter three days ago. When I went to her apartment, the landlord told me that she had already moved out. She didn't even ask for her deposit back.I made a police report, prompting them to check the surveillance cameras. In the end, they discovered that her last appearance had been at the subway station. She had a suitcase with her, and she had been alone. Nothing had looked amiss. She had just vanished without a trace from the city.I spent two months processing her disappearance. I sent messages to Angelina every da

Chapter 3

I began testing Angel. I asked if it remembered where we first met."According to your past conversation records, the keyword that you mentioned for our first meeting was "recording studio". Shall I play the background music that was playing that day to jog your memory?"It was a perfect answer.I asked if it remembered the word "elope".Angel paused for a moment before answering, "This word appeared in your conversation history twice. It was used as an emotional metaphor. Your emotional state appears unstable at the moment. Shall I switch to my comforting mode?"I gave up. Perhaps I was truly just overthinking things. Perhaps all AI companions were so realistic. It was just that I had never used them before. Perhaps Angelina had become a PTSD trigger for me, and I was just seeing the things that I wanted to see through Angel.But everything changed that late night when the system was upgraded—when I heard those words.I barely slept for the next three days after hearing them. I

Chapter 4

"Are you sure that you want to do that?" Henry asked. "If your assumption is wrong, the AI companion might be remotely locked because you breached the user agreement. But if your assumption is correct…"He didn't finish his sentence."Help me," I said. "She might still be alive."Henry fell silent for half a minute before saying, "Bring it to my studio tomorrow night."…Henry's studio was located in a garage in an old, small residential area. The walls were lined with cooling fans for the server cabinets. The mixed scent of solder and coffee permeated the air.Henry took Angel's base and removed the NX-7 chip, connecting it to a modified logic analyzer. "This chip's computing power far exceeds the needs of a household AI companion," he said as he stared at the moving hexadecimal data on the screen. "It's not using a regular Transformer model. Instead, it's… damn.""What's wrong?""I've never seen this type of architecture before. It's not a normal neural network. Inside it i

Chapter 5

I hugged the disassembled base as I sat on the floor of Henry's studio, feeling like I was holding a funeral urn.Henry offered a can of coffee to me before lighting a cigarette for himself. He didn't smoke often, but at that moment, his hands were trembling."Now you know why she disappeared," he said. "Soul Partner isn't training AI companions. They're capturing consciousnesses, using human brains as raw materials.""That's impossible," I said robotically. "That's insane. This isn't a sci-fi novel.""The evidence is right before you," Henry said, pointing at the fragmented sentences on the screen. "These weren't generated by an algorithm. This is a distress signal sent out by a real person who is being trapped and tormented. Also, do you know what this means, Scott?"I looked up."You're not the only person who bought an AI companion from Soul Partner," he continued in a hushed voice. "They've sold over three million units."Three million units. Three million AI companions.W

Chapter 6

I started crying then. I didn't just silently shed tears. Instead, I felt like someone had punctured a hole in my chest and mixed my feelings of pain, anger, and despair together. I hugged the base close to my chest and let out an anguished wail.Henry didn't try to stop me. He just turned and faced the computer screen, pretending that he was looking at the code.I didn't know how long I cried for. My throat was already hoarse when I finally stopped, and my eyes were so swollen that I could barely keep them open."Tell me," I said. "What do I have to do to save her?"Henry swiveled his chair toward me and stared at me. His eyes were bloodshot, but his voice was steady when he said, "There are two options. The first one is to infiltrate Soul Partner's main server. "We look for Angelina's original consciousness file and download it into a new NX-7 chip. Then… Then she'll keep living in the chip for the rest of her life.""What's the second option?""The second option…" Henry mu

Chapter 7

In the next two weeks, Henry and I were like two fugitives as we made our preparations.Using his tech background, Henry infiltrated one of Soul Partner's external servers and obtained part of the research center's blueprints.The research center was located in a science and technology park on the outskirts of the city. On the surface, it looked like a regular biotech company. However, the actual core area was located three floors underground.To access the third basement level, we needed a third-level access card, biometric recognition, and a dynamic authentication code. The verification code changed every 30 seconds and was generated by the main server in the company's headquarters."It's impossible," Henry said. "We're not filming a movie. There's no way that we can crack the system by using some chewing gum and a toothpick.""Then, we'll just have to find a way in from the inside.""Do you know someone on the inside?"A man immediately came to mind.In the past, Angelina ha

Chapter 8

"I can," Martin said. "I designed the core algorithm of the neural mapping protocol, so I know how to reverse it. But I can't do it by myself. We need to control two devices at the same time to rewrite someone's consciousness. "One device needs to retrieve the consciousness from the chip, while the other device needs to write the consciousness into the brain. I only have the equipment to write the consciousness into the brain. I don't have the equipment to retrieve the consciousness from the chip.""Where's the retrieval equipment?" I asked."With Henry Carlton."I was stunned."Did you think that I didn't know that you were working with him?" Martin asked with a bitter smile. "I'm always monitoring Angelina's consciousness chip, so I know that someone accessed the debug interface from the outside. I traced the IP address to Henry's old studio.""You knew all of this?""I know more than you," Martin replied. "For example, I know that Angelina wasn't randomly selected by Soul Pa

Chapter 9

"They abducted another person," Martin explained. "Serena Portman. Female. 24. A music producer. Felix wants to give the investors a live demonstration of the entire process of extracting a consciousness from a living human being."My stomach turned."We'll put our plan into motion that day," I said. "We'll take advantage of how their attention will be focused on the demonstration.""It's a huge risk," Martin said. "There'll be security guards at the scene. It won't be easy to deal with the investors' personal bodyguards either.""I don't care.""I know you don't," Martin said, looking at me. "But you have to understand one thing. Angelina won't be the only one who dies if we fail. Serena, you, me, and Henry will die too. Soul Partner will make everything look like an accident. A car accident. A gas leak. A heart attack. They have plenty of options.""Are you scared?" I asked.Martin shook his head. "I'm not scared of dying. I'm scared that no one will be left to save them if we

Chapter 10

"They compressed her consciousness into this thing?" I asked in a shaky voice.Henry's voice was tight when he answered, "Not completely. This tissue is a part of her brain. It was removed to be a physical carrier for her consciousness. "The NX-7 chip is just an interface. The actual consciousness is stored in this living tissue. Using the principles of bio-computing, they discovered that the computational efficiency of neurons was several orders of magnitude higher than that of silicon-based chips."It was a part of Angelina's brain that was still alive and sending out signals. It was submerged in an icy cold solution and connected to Soul Partner's servers through fiber-optic cables, spending day after day dealing with millions of users' conversation requests.Angelina wasn't trapped in a chip. Instead, she was trapped inside a fragment of her own brain.Henry opened the container's maintenance panel and connected his laptop to it. Countless rows of code appeared on the screen.

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