Chapter 182 The Girl
After turning it over in his mind again and again,
Jiang Ran came to only one possible conclusion about the identity of Resident No. 001 in the virtual world—[Cheng Mengxue].
The moment his childhood sweetheart’s name surfaced in his thoughts, his heart couldn’t help but race.
Because in this matter, the logic was painfully clear.
By now, it was basically certain that Mister Puppe was none other than Puppet, one of the members of Prodigy’s Playground.
And from Li Yini’s diary, they had already learned that as early as 2023, Puppet had extracted Cheng Mengxue’s memories through the consciousness-upload surgery.
Yan Chonghan had also told them before that the consciousness-upload procedure was fatal. Once the surgery was completed and memory and consciousness were digitized, the original body would die immediately.
In other words, it was either digital life or physical survival. Those two states were mutually exclusive. Only one could exist; they could never coexist at the same time.
Since Puppe had still undeniably been alive in 2028, personally overseeing humanity’s mass digitization—