Zhang Yian's Mutation and the Last Trace of AutonomyNovember 2024 · The Resistance of What Remains141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf21w3WOUgN
Tuesday, November 5th141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDNV5qq9ITl
He returned to the precinct.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn0PyHA1hLV
No one had called him.No one expected him.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6bs5aVa6Nq
He simply walked in—uniform crisp, steps practiced, voice steady.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX5YPce8abI
As though nothing had happened.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp9oKfIOuAg
Someone whispered:141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0VRbxaLyKR
"Weren't you still on medical—?"141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoZfM7eD9C2
He smiled.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJFXTnEBdym
His tone, clean and sharp:141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJgzqMxLgFA
"The system said I'm on duty today. So I came."141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk8FVYrgbeJ
Everything he did that day was flawless.Precise. Composed.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfXBUxCXL4o
Except—he no longer signed documents "Yu Yong'an."141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaK2CvGN6m8
He left them blank.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW3toZNTM94
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16:23.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhHf1ArJHl0
He requested the past three months of duty logs.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Kg5vxvKsk
"I need to verify how many days I was absent."141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlUgtDgP3xJ
The systems officer scanned the screen, troubled:141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi1LDnhKwKD
"You've been here almost every week.At most, one missing day.Location logs, footage, signatures… it's all there.You've been working."141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuhj5KS8XEU
He went quiet.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdKfxX4plLw
Then, softly:141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEYUYQxDzmE
"…That wasn't me."141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9HFfP9Gk4v
That night, in his notebook:141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRLnWfQeM4V
[2024.11.05｜Tuesday]I used to believe I was Zhang Yian, slowly being replaced.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEIcrYdMpXn
But now I see—I was the backup,discarded outside the timeline.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHRjMU2o2OY
I only thought I was the original.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2hAoMiIZIA
I was never meant to appear.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJkV2luAq8m
I'm the one interfering with his integration.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡolrmLxcSGw
That was the last time he could write in full sentences.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsPpb0V40sE
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Friday, November 8th141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRWEW5APMnx
He locked himself in an unused office.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjCMEirLVR2
No lights. No movement.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlDYFjlqaKG
When found hours later,he sat in a chair, whispering over and over:141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnzgRhw4OHf
"The cross within the cross…it's more than memory."141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeBz3XEG5lt
His notebook lay open.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO8rcfTW2BI
Taped to the page—a drawing of the triple cross,and at its center: a number.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVUnBfqzTwV
12.17141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu6A5mD4Xyc
It was as if he had foreseen a moment of closure.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEewTbUlFzF
The AI mistook his murmuring loopas a language attack protocol gone wrong.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpgw8aVMNkO
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Tuesday, November 19th141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡebepTS0nlb
He could no longer write.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJdJgKVHfui
The pen trembled in his grip,but no marks came.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUN0TZIdAfl
Only circles, and cross after cross—drawn endlessly.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWDAs2X3Cfj
In one surveillance clip, he appeared before a glass wall,scribbling what looked like a conversation:141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5bM86c6TK1
Him: Are you still here?Reflection: I've been waiting for you to leave.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1sdzjokevD
Him: Can I walk out of here alive?Reflection: No. But you'll stay—just in another form.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqh4gBd2gHd
The glass showed no writing.But when rewound in the footage,his words appeared—then vanished one by one.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB6fZgUiHxG
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Friday, November 22nd141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGN4YduM6pu
He attended the full-staff meeting.Silent. Sitting in the corner.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxgnrvCrnh4
After the session,every attendee found the same handwritten line in their notes:141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxszgOrdEAw
"For December 17th, all members will review the Longjing migrant case.Prepare contingencies.Subject continuity terminates on that date—integration will begin."141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTSVSEEUfKl
No one remembered hearing it.No recordings contained it.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ02oQT3SxnM
But the handwriting—identical in every journal.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxGvwBhkhNe
Zhang Yian never claimed authorship.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZRGOfozPWr
After that day, he stopped responding.No words.No blinking.Only presence.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxLwUOhvW72
Like a letter sealed in time—waiting to be delivered.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5vjI5RNngY
The Unified Self141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTtSLyGjBW3
Zhang Yian's Final Mutation and Threshold of CompletionDecember 2024 · Terminal Shift and Conscious Integration141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFXmH7KCuWg
Tuesday, December 3rd141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa2RHrnZiYr
He arrived at the outskirts of the Longjing migrant factory.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq1OyB3TcEc
No orders.No entry on the duty roster.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC72TiMJgpf
Still, he wore his uniform.Badge straight. Movements precise.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5GSdRkxydI
He was meant to be there.The reason—unspeakable.His body, already obedient.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8z7TZsPce4
CCTV caught him standing by a weathered wall, waiting.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvSae1nlEab
Then, his hand touched the surface—and the footage glitched.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ0KHP1Fc0g
Static. Dropped frames.Then recovery.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrUTAagCMAf
The wall now bore a carved outline:141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIPbC53Tvkq
A cross.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoMIed1qLlh
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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:141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ziQ6PTEn3
[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.]141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8NiU1b5mhv
[December 17th is not the end.It's the day you become him.And he becomes you.]141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrr6bSHYpaW
That night, he did not return.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoS1XNI31dh
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Friday, December 6th141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ8hyAgQ8dH
He was seen in the corridor,speaking to a reflective glass:141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKOJdfVnzYe
"After Anqing died…he sealed away every version.Left only the weakest one to keep living…"141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsujFCa6Ugq
In his hand—141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7kPzh4hYig
The triple cross.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRIKWQjkApB
Its first real manifestation.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiasdzY8C0Y
Metal. Glass. Unknown circuits.At its core: an untranslatable script.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu31y2NjMbz
They said he left it in the archives that night.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgj4evN0Knx
By morning—it was gone.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUCaxIKigTA
Only one system note remained:141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFQWMnGgNWA
[Object tag: 'Return to origin.'][No ID. No login trace.]141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWPpXvkwKWL
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Tuesday, December 13th141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1tTBVxPgeL
He sat at the riverbank bench in Xinan.Eyes closed.A faint smile.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTzGKFBMkqF
He wasn't unraveling—he was letting go.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOmqPvJ1WzM
A witness said:141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyqdNNd4od6
"He looked like he was listening to music.But his earphones weren't connected."141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmtYgvqTmfx
He nodded with the silence.Mouthed words to the wind:141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsC2fC8RrW2
"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."141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOSNgMXEj7g
Words he had never said.Not Zhang's language.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm42tUUiZ2t
They were Yu Yong'an's.Or perhaps—both of theirs, finally merged into one voice.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVfoZcWTfIa
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Tuesday, December 17th141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxTMaNiUnw9
That day, duty records glitched.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlLcvUe3EPL
Every staff log had an extra handwritten line:141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq7NGWVnnCN
"AAN.112. Integration."141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Ftu512ren
No one wrote it.No one remembered it.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4nE8sgzPgO
But the handwriting—identical across the precinct.As if one mind had moved through dozens of hands.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOQzxM7UpWd
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19:04.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjColaOLlAe
CCTV showed him standing outside the precinct's front gate.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnvPoJEQ7AZ
He had stood there for a long time.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡykBvPLd4iK
Waiting.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFaJC8TOFqz
Then he smiled.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLiBB7E1y2a
"I'm here."141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwO2hEW587q
And disappeared.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbJEQxOFC9z
Not walking away.Not stepping out of frame.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9kID085GuJ
Just—gone, frame by frame.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnx1Ir3qlzj
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Final Note｜2024.12.17｜Tuesday141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkeHN9APtMZ
Zhang / Yu: Integration complete141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY0VFEXBChe
→ No one is a substitute.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYUfdbP8s5x
→ We were always here.Just out of order.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT0SdMvXQcr
→ The cross has returned.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiUomt2kBqU
→ The world finally let us see each other.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡilzSIHm3PF
But we will never meet.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXVeOBOZZRT
Because that—was our promise.
