Chapter Five: The Nameless Ward

Sunlight entered. The nurses removed their masks, revealing people whose medical data Ascension had used anonymously. 【Trial 04 cleared.】 【Ability acquired—Designation Exchange: Once daily, exchange two rule-recognized designations for ten seconds.】 【Uncontrollable entity “The Nameless” released.】 Back in reality, hospital records returned as loved ones' descriptions. Gu froze at one entry for a child declared dead twenty years ago: 【Little Qing, who always dismantles radios.】 “That's me. I don't remember this hospital.” White Crow touched the display. A deleted record showed that seven-year-old Gu had undergone consciousness sampling, followed by a memory rollback. “Layer Zero was there from the project's beginning,” Lin said.