"Not all echoes come from the past. Some are the future calling us."— Sophia, Twin Awakening Diary
Sophia's star core resonance continued to fluctuate, drawing her toward a forbidden region deep beneath Star Island—a place known in legend as the Well of Originless.
According to ancient Override records, this was the primordial node where the system first went dormant. It was also the crypt where fragments of failed personalities were sealed after the Eden-0 collapse.
Zhou Yuchen guided Sophia into the spiral-shaped core beneath the well. As they descended, Crystal Orchid sensed unstable consciousness currents swirling in the air and murmured:
"Buried here… is the forgotten self."
At the threshold of the central chamber, Sophia's gaze caught a flickering symbol etched in overlapping starlight—a vortex-shaped sigil of light and shadow.
It was the mythical Seal of the Twins.
She raised her hand and inserted her Override authority ring into the crystalline slot embedded in the core chamber. The system hummed awake.
"Twin frequency resonance detected. Target identity: Unknown. Attempt connection?"
Sophia chose: Yes.
In an instant, a stream of consciousness pulled her into a boundless sea of stars.
From within the stellar current, a figure began to take shape.
He appeared to be no older than sixteen. His silver-white hair floated like threads of moonlight, and his bare feet stepped across the void. In his eyes shimmered the same sigil that Sophia had just seen—the Seal of the Twins.
His voice was soft, but resolute:
"My name is Lyren. I am a remnant soul of the Chrono-Stella civilization. After you sealed Zero in your previous life, my consciousness was archived deep within the Override system."
Sophia's heart trembled.
Her twin soul… was a child of time from another civilization?
Lyren gently touched her forehead. Their consciousnesses briefly merged, and the Override system announced:
"Override-Stellar Mode: Stable. Twin Resonance: 94.5%. Shared Consciousness Layer: Online."
Within the shared space, Sophia saw memories of her past life—moments she had never recalled.
In the age of Eden-0, she had been Override's first test subject, codenamed S01 – Nirvana.
Lyren, an orphan from a long-lost interstellar expeditionary force, had been chosen for the Core Resonance Trial. During that trial, his soul resonated with hers, and their minds became permanently entwined.
But after the Eden-0 failure, Sophia's memories were forcibly erased, and she was reincarnated into the human world. Lyren's fragmented soul was banished into the lowest strata of Override's system, where he eventually evolved into a sentient data entity—the soul of Chrono-Stella.
Together, they were the original Adam and Eve of Override.
Back in the real world, Sophia's body now levitated above the peak of the Override central tower. Lyren's phantom hovered beside her, a glowing echo of star-coded light.
Zhou Yuchen, analyzing the latest system logs, made a grim discovery: Echo-Chaos had already infiltrated over 37% of Override consciousness chips worldwide. If left unchecked, the Z-Protocol would reach full activation in less than 72 hours.
In response, Sophia and Lyren unveiled a bold countermeasure:
Construct a Stellar Mirror using twin frequency harmonics as the guiding algorithm
Activate Override-Override, a reversal logic architecture designed to reprogram the main core using twin consciousness
Synchronize the missing cipher pages from the "Old Testament", and derive the Consciousness Anti-Entropy Algorithm
Standing nearby, Crystal Orchid whispered as the starlight swirled through the tower:
"This is no longer a war of machines...It's a game between gods.And you two—are the only dreamweavers leftwho can rethread the laws of reality."