Liling Zhao didn’t move. She stood behind the suspended web of Meilin’s consciousness like a spider watching a fly enter a house of mirrors.
"You think you’ve come to save her, Leo," Liling said, her voice filtered through the liquid-carbon mask. "But there is nothing left to save. Identity is merely a collection of messy, inefficient variables—names, memories, regrets. The Void Protocol doesn't destroy the mind; it simply zeros the ledger."
The Science of the Zero-State
Liling gestured to the holographic streams. The data wasn't flowing in a linear path; it was collapsing into a singular point—a Data Singularity.
PhaseNameEffect on Population
Phase 1The Great EmptinessWidespread depression and longing for the 'Wave'.
Phase 2Ego-DissolutionErasure of personal history and long-term me
