Raindrops wound down the glass dome of the memorial hall like rivers. Lin Mo's fingertips hovered over the terminal screen; the mixed recording of an infant's laughter and a heartbeat still trembled slightly in the air. Su Yuqing's mechanical right arm reflected the cold light as the liquid metal slowly transformed from the shape of a scalpel back into human fingers.
"Are you sure you want to launch the excavation project now?" Her voice carried a slightly more metallic texture than it had three months ago. "Father just froze all our permissions within the Su Group."
Lin Mo turned off the holographic projection. Through the curtain of rain, Chen Rui was being helped into an ambulance by medical personnel, the diamond-shaped scar on the back of his neck left by the removed system still oozing blood. "The purification pulse released by the Whale Song Pod cleared out all the corrupted sub-systems, but Mother-in-law's laboratory data..." He turned toward the basement of the memorial hall. "Those family secrets that were deliberately buried are our only chance now."
Chapter 201