Zhang Yian's Mutation and the Last Trace of AutonomyNovember 2024 · The Resistance of What Remains66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF8GHh26LNg
Tuesday, November 5th66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrvZX7rfr08
He returned to the precinct.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡleFXTwjFbW
No one had called him.No one expected him.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy7cchedmCo
He simply walked in—uniform crisp, steps practiced, voice steady.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSdwIOttil5
As though nothing had happened.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXq9MRaPrbw
Someone whispered:66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqogcV932pw
"Weren't you still on medical—?"66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeoQDdQK3g7
He smiled.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBd47Fjq7Oo
His tone, clean and sharp:66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo3UEognVUH
"The system said I'm on duty today. So I came."66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaf4cKlhkXT
Everything he did that day was flawless.Precise. Composed.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIqgA7urdl0
Except—he no longer signed documents "Yu Yong'an."66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJqbY7Edo0M
He left them blank.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ88fwEmF5zz
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16:23.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU6fqaQiEE7
He requested the past three months of duty logs.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNNAms31o2N
"I need to verify how many days I was absent."66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjkTMLlzdT4
The systems officer scanned the screen, troubled:66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsMj9uoc9e2
"You've been here almost every week.At most, one missing day.Location logs, footage, signatures… it's all there.You've been working."66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp6uzftlbRB
He went quiet.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwSbBBUHwpv
Then, softly:66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNkkgdJVaAP
"…That wasn't me."66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ94T5vLTJP
That night, in his notebook:66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnAj2EtOJpe
[2024.11.05｜Tuesday]I used to believe I was Zhang Yian, slowly being replaced.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuRKuBujYrR
But now I see—I was the backup,discarded outside the timeline.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡosjEm3xndc
I only thought I was the original.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk5MLjXQH0n
I was never meant to appear.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2sUE6suSgz
I'm the one interfering with his integration.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUTZhdt5uOs
That was the last time he could write in full sentences.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUSxgTeZXqm
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Friday, November 8th66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTvNG8tgQQ2
He locked himself in an unused office.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM9Q0tNjT6Z
No lights. No movement.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ09Hn2iEizB
When found hours later,he sat in a chair, whispering over and over:66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaoIY4d5RPy
"The cross within the cross…it's more than memory."66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNeeaq8cDu0
His notebook lay open.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx2ohqYpEGW
Taped to the page—a drawing of the triple cross,and at its center: a number.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhaQOpA1GsG
12.1766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ4VqQEYEpA
It was as if he had foreseen a moment of closure.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQD23bBZ1oQ
The AI mistook his murmuring loopas a language attack protocol gone wrong.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡumtwpyVX3j
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Tuesday, November 19th66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnTwNOHOePE
He could no longer write.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFKr2YlSmuR
The pen trembled in his grip,but no marks came.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIAIuywo2F5
Only circles, and cross after cross—drawn endlessly.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSzT4gQqznq
In one surveillance clip, he appeared before a glass wall,scribbling what looked like a conversation:66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtbwC085RJB
Him: Are you still here?Reflection: I've been waiting for you to leave.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHxGE3hmXTQ
Him: Can I walk out of here alive?Reflection: No. But you'll stay—just in another form.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi5mMXqzSWO
The glass showed no writing.But when rewound in the footage,his words appeared—then vanished one by one.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTUdag4V2Zm
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Friday, November 22nd66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVFWYzBX3AM
He attended the full-staff meeting.Silent. Sitting in the corner.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsuFzBfIlrq
After the session,every attendee found the same handwritten line in their notes:66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpcWo9O1bFx
"For December 17th, all members will review the Longjing migrant case.Prepare contingencies.Subject continuity terminates on that date—integration will begin."66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKiDSK2ukvy
No one remembered hearing it.No recordings contained it.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2CDLIJdgsH
But the handwriting—identical in every journal.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMmQzmud2VV
Zhang Yian never claimed authorship.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzAr4O02aIf
After that day, he stopped responding.No words.No blinking.Only presence.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMnfIoT2z7e
Like a letter sealed in time—waiting to be delivered.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF46uw8Tuow
The Unified Self66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwis1rJycuH
Zhang Yian's Final Mutation and Threshold of CompletionDecember 2024 · Terminal Shift and Conscious Integration66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHPFSrsgsKV
Tuesday, December 3rd66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDC9DPGu6qs
He arrived at the outskirts of the Longjing migrant factory.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpzd4forfgo
No orders.No entry on the duty roster.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3bkgdWYBs5
Still, he wore his uniform.Badge straight. Movements precise.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRPz5LsztTs
He was meant to be there.The reason—unspeakable.His body, already obedient.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhz1rrrfTmV
CCTV caught him standing by a weathered wall, waiting.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbGcBZN6ZKB
Then, his hand touched the surface—and the footage glitched.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXI4mSTbwnI
Static. Dropped frames.Then recovery.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvOHwqYWVa0
The wall now bore a carved outline:66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRSUgH7vNqd
A cross.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSsYa1JtVY1
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Anqing / Anting · Unspoken Dialogue in the Time Layer
It came not to him—but through him.
A flicker across the glass panel near the exit. A soft voice, not spoken aloud but resonating within the space behind his ears.
"You said… we'd see each other again, in a world without mirrors."
The voice was soft. Familiar. It did not belong to Zhang.
It belonged to someone who had once whispered to the wind beside the riverbank,and to another who had heard it—but in the wrong timeline.
The scene fractured.
Two girls stood beneath the fading light of a bus stop—their backs facing each other, yet somehow overlapping.
One held a folded piece of paper: a number sequence.The other, a piece of a poem—unfinished.
"If I forget you, do I forget the part of me that was most human?"
"No. You only forget the part that tried to survive."
Their words were not answers—but reflections. The kind time rarely returned.
Then—
A crack.
Reality restitched. Zhang's breath caught. He wasn't there.But they had been.And now, that echo lived in him too.
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Back at his desk, he found a note:66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiQCqRgit38
[You are about to recover everything.][Remember—it's not that you couldn't endure.It's that this world refused to let you remember.]66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHDnAsEjyS6
[December 17th is not the end.It's the day you become him.And he becomes you.]66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7pSdVLW7JS
That night, he did not return.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1BsUSS8l7S
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Friday, December 6th66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡopzmRp8U4E
He was seen in the corridor,speaking to a reflective glass:66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgUYZnDICVd
"After Anqing died…he sealed away every version.Left only the weakest one to keep living…"66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBNnXOF1zTL
In his hand—66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡET3WAxOrN3
The triple cross.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQyW5Z9AOML
Its first real manifestation.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxxtjFnaKJf
Metal. Glass. Unknown circuits.At its core: an untranslatable script.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9kD8apSNz6
They said he left it in the archives that night.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKYn8UHEyZZ
By morning—it was gone.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdZ3Fhd5rBh
Only one system note remained:66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNXNA1l96fx
[Object tag: 'Return to origin.'][No ID. No login trace.]66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLInGHdtBol
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Tuesday, December 13th66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWXYtjb4xK7
He sat at the riverbank bench in Xinan.Eyes closed.A faint smile.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF7BFOPAwnL
He wasn't unraveling—he was letting go.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡac1UT3j2qD
A witness said:66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTXH0lgbOLV
"He looked like he was listening to music.But his earphones weren't connected."66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3KpMHNv96V
He nodded with the silence.Mouthed words to the wind:66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfUVKTRjFh8
"Anting, I remember—your smile never showed your gums…""If the world gave us one more chance,I'd forget accounting.I'd be a poet."66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8XJxZY6DeW
Words he had never said.Not Zhang's language.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkWqNd7eZt3
They were Yu Yong'an's.Or perhaps—both of theirs, finally merged into one voice.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ZYoRPylkF
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Tuesday, December 17th66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf1YSOa0IHI
That day, duty records glitched.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfxWo6IyKYX
Every staff log had an extra handwritten line:66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ47K0IgC6PC
"AAN.112. Integration."66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkYrZ884AYc
No one wrote it.No one remembered it.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNXoSVbz0DM
But the handwriting—identical across the precinct.As if one mind had moved through dozens of hands.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx4t9XdXnVd
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19:04.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj7H0zBBC07
CCTV showed him standing outside the precinct's front gate.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxlQgA1GT8g
He had stood there for a long time.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhI1GbjPHD8
Waiting.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrYOgFRGp5B
Then he smiled.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsFb4GAi1yp
"I'm here."66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEH6sUkUWqd
And disappeared.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEmounFAc8g
Not walking away.Not stepping out of frame.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeCQaZIEXKZ
Just—gone, frame by frame.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsDtJKu6M1p
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Final Note｜2024.12.17｜Tuesday66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA3sWBsLk6L
Zhang / Yu: Integration complete66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDmID3QBW9P
→ No one is a substitute.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPkBczPaVC6
→ We were always here.Just out of order.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL9KQFCyH7O
→ The cross has returned.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlTmpmZt8kG
→ The world finally let us see each other.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYtmTytckyd
But we will never meet.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMOBlwLNWYf
Because that—was our promise.
