Bruce had proven to himself that his guess was right. He knew why Jared had disappeared, yet they could detect his consciousness. He also understood why the doctors could not find any problem with Zoey, but she constantly suffered from agonizing pain.
The two were actually related.
It was true that Jared had died. His physical body was totally destroyed during the experiment, and the body made of pure energy had also disintegrated, so there was no hope of reviving him.
The reason they could detect his consciousness was that part of his consciousness had been embedded in Zoey’s mind.
His consciousness was like data, and some of the data had been transferred into Zoey’s brain.
The experiment Jared did before the particle collision was to embed his own consciousness into Zoey. It was his attempt to control her mind and make her his puppet. Unfortunately, that attempt failed at the final critical moment.
Although it had failed, a big part of his consciousness was already transferred into Zoey, so there were two consciousness overlapping in her mind.
It was a crazy experiment and the cause of Zoey’s debilitating migraine attacks.
That was also the reason why Zoey had impressions of the different laboratories in Gamma Tech training base, even though she had never set foot in them before. They were the remnants of Jared’s memory.
The experiment also led to constant agonizing migraine for Zoey. It was caused by Jared’s consciousness stimulating her brain.
Bruce’s men were able to receive intermittent signals from their search as there was a constant clash between Zoey and Jared’s consciousness, resulting in an unstable emission of his consciousness. And whenever Zoey fainted from the pain, they would totally lose all signals.
Jared’s consciousness would overstimulate the nerve cells in her brain, leading to a migraine attack. The constant clash of the two consciousness and overstimulation caused Zoey to act weird at times, behaving like a totally different person.
Bruce made that discovery by chance, and he was the only one who knew it at that moment.
Jared was dead, and only his consciousness survived in Zoey’s brain. Bruce figured the only way to revive Jared would be to let him take over her brain.
Obviously, that would be a difficult feat to achieve. He would have a better chance of success if he had Zoey with him in Zarain. That way, he would be able to take his time to analyze and experiment on her.
Unfortunately, Wynona refused to let Zoey go with him, so he could only go with the next risky bet.
He planned to stimulate Zoey’s brain as much as he could, in the hope it would help Jared’s consciousness win over Zoey’s. The other possible outcome would be Zoey’s mind became totally messed up, which he couldn’t care less about.
The greater the stimulation, the more pain Zoey was in. She was like a restrained beast that had gone crazy.
Rumble, rumble, rumble…
The ground was shaking, throwing everyone off-balance.
Bruce was beginning to have a bad premonition, and fear prompted him to secretly put on his invisible protective armor.
“Maximum!” he ordered.
The machine was turned to maximum strength, working Zoey’s brain into a frenzy.
Wynona wanted to put a stop to it, as she could see Zoey was being pushed to her limits and suffering immensely.
However, Bruce stopped everyone by yelling out loud, “Don’t give up! We are at the brink of success!”
Everyone could only stand by and watch as the stimulation went into overdrive.
Wynona watched with a sense of foreboding, unable to conclude if that was the right thing to do.
“Now is the moment!” Bruce howled.
“Arhhh…!”
Zoey let out an utter shrill as the stimulation went to the maximum level.
Boom…!
Crack!
