139: Chapter 140 The baby can't say its name, the whole city answers for them.

"Children who cannot state their names are the purest Divine Seatss."

As Gu Xinghe's voice faded, the national awakening network instantly switched screens.

Schools. Orphanages. Children's hospitals. Neonatal intensive care units. Thousands of black dots lit up simultaneously.

The one closest to them was at Jiangcheng First Hospital.

[Newborns without completed name registration: Nine]

[Degree of independent personality formation: Low]

[Occupational pollution residue: None]

[Divine Seats vessel compatibility: Extremely high]

Lin Jin's expression changed abruptly.

"Go to The Hospital!"

Chen Ye had just put Thirteen down, but he hoisted his shield up again.

"I knew those chairs had no bottom line."

"It's not that they don't have a bottom line."

Thirteen wiped the blood from his forehead and struggled to stand up.

"They don't even know what a bottom line is."

The group rushed out of the awakening hall.

Processing Bureau vehicles were already blocking the entrance; although Gu Changye was still trapped at headquarters by the [Recycle] seat, he had remotely opened the entire medical thoroughfare.

"The First Hospital neonatal center has lost contact."

"All electronic identity wristbands have simultaneously turned blank."

"The Hospital sent people to try and transfer the infants, but the elevators, access control, and incubators have all entered occupational lockdown."

"How much time left?"

"Six minutes before the black dots land."

Zhou Heng drove the Thunder Spear directly into the spirit energy port at the rear of the vehicle.

Violet lightning erupted with a roar.

The vehicle was pushed forward as if by an invisible giant hand.

Shen Tingxue continuously condensed brief patches of ice in front of the wheels, allowing the vehicle to make continuous turns at a speed that was nearly out of control.

Chen Ye gripped the car door, his face turning green.

"Slow down!"

Zhou Heng said coldly:

"Aren't you afraid of death?"

"I'm not afraid of death, but that doesn't mean I don't get carsick!"

Looking at the black light dots flashing past the car window, Thirteen suddenly said in a low voice:

"These children are more dangerous than me."

Lin Jin looked at him.

"Dangerous how?"

"At least I know I'm being imprisoned."

Thirteen's fingers slowly tightened.

"They won't even know that something is growing up for them."

Four minutes later.

The vehicle crashed through the electronic barrier outside the First Hospital.

The entire inpatient building had not turned off its lights.

Instead, it was blindingly bright.

Behind every window on every floor stood figures in white hospital gowns.

Doctors stood in operating rooms.

Nurses stood in hallways.

Family members kept watch by hospital beds.

Yet, everyone remained motionless.

The occupational emblems on their chests were startlingly bright.

Yet, there was no expression on their faces.

[Physicians shall remain at their treatment stations]

[Nurses shall maintain order in the ward]

[Family members do not belong to the medical occupational system, please remain quiet]

Chen Ye jumped out of the car, raised his shield, and smashed the front door.

"People are about to be gone, what order are you maintaining!"

Glass shattered.

The figures in the lobby turned their heads simultaneously.

A Nurse mechanically blocked the group's path.

"The neonatal center is conducting high-level vessel screening."

"Non-relevant professions are not permitted to enter."

Shen Tingxue raised her hand and pressed it against the Nurse's brow.

A layer of frost swept over.

The pure black in the Nurse's eyes froze for half a second.

Her lips trembled violently, and she finally squeezed out a sentence that belonged to her.

"Fifth floor..."

"Hurry..."

The black color quickly covered her eyes again.

She raised surgical scissors and stabbed at Shen Tingxue's throat.

Shen Tingxue sidestepped, did not counterattack, and only used an Ice Line to seal her wrists to the wall.

"They are also being controlled by their positions."

Lin Jin looked toward the emergency exit.

"Take the stairs."

The group rushed to the fifth floor.

Everywhere in the stairwell were identity wristbands that had been torn off.

The name fields were all blank.

The birth time remained.

The blood type remained.

The weight remained.

Even the future occupational tendency prediction had already been generated.

Only the names had been wiped clean.

Behind the fire door on the fifth floor, the cries of infants rose and fell.

The crying grew weaker and weaker.

It was as if someone were draining the reason for crying from their bodies.

Chen Ye smashed the door open with his shield.

At the end of the corridor, nine neonatal incubators were arranged in a circle.

Six shrunk black chairs hovered in the air.

Black threads hung down from the chair legs, piercing into the infants' wristbands.

[Name unconfirmed]

[Social relations unstable]

[Self-awareness unable to be expressed]

[Judgment: Blank vessel]

A female doctor with messy hair knelt in the center of the incubators.

Her occupational emblem was already shattered, yet she still used her body to protect one of the infants.

Black threads pierced through her shoulder.

She did not let go.

"She is not blank..."

"Her mother is still in the operating room..."

"She just hasn't had time to be named yet..."

The black chairs did not respond.

In the central incubator, a baby girl had stopped crying.

Black patterns grew along her chest.

The first Divine Seats emblem was forming above her heart.

[continuity seat compatibility: 96%]

Thirteen was the first to rush over.

The six black chairs did not stop him.

Unregistered life.

Individual without a profession.

In their eyes, Thirteen was the same as the infants in the incubators—both were blanks that had not yet been written into the system.

Thirteen pressed his hand against the incubator door.

"What is her name?"

The female doctor's face was deathly pale.

"She doesn't have a name yet."

"The mother suffered a major hemorrhage; before falling into a coma, she only said... wait until she wakes up to choose it herself."

The black threads lit up immediately.

[No name]

[No personal confirmation]

[Vessel purity increasing]

"Shut up!"

Thirteen suddenly looked up and roared at the black chairs.

"Not having a name doesn't mean there's no person!"

The black patterns continued to spread.

The Divine Seats did not understand this sentence.

To the system, things that cannot be registered simply do not exist.

Lin Jin rushed to the side of the incubator without using the rule correction wrench, which was already nearing a state of being out of control.

"Check everything she has left behind since she was born."

The female doctor was stunned.

"What?"

"Not her occupational file."

Lin Jin pointed at the infant.

"Since she came into this world, what has she actually left behind?"

Shen Tingxue immediately froze the electronic system to prevent the data from being tampered with further.

Zhou Heng pried open the wall wiring with his spear, switching the monitoring equipment to offline mode.

The female doctor threw herself in front of the console, her hands trembling as she searched.

"Birth time, 3:17 AM."

"Weight, 3,060 grams."

"The first heartbeat record is still there."

"When her mother was 28 weeks pregnant, she recorded a sound clip for her."

"There is a unique ID number on the umbilical cord clamp."

Lin Jin shook his head.

"An ID number is not her."

"What else?"

The female doctor was stunned for a few seconds, then suddenly looked at the inside of the incubator.

On the transparent wall of the incubator, there was a very faint handprint.

After the baby girl was born, before she was sent into the incubator, she had instinctively grabbed her mother's finger.

The Nurse hadn't wiped it off.

"She grabbed her mother."

The female doctor's voice trembled.

"After she heard her mother's heartbeat, her crying would get quieter."

"She didn't like the right side when feeding."

"Ten minutes after she was born, she kicked off her blanket once."

One by one, extremely small things were recounted.

No level.

No profession.

No great significance.

But they were all proof that this child had already lived.

Thirteen looked at the baby girl in the incubator, his eyes turning red bit by bit.

"Did you hear that?"

"You are not blank."

"You just don't need to answer who you are right now."

Lin Jin grabbed the mechanical switch of the monitor and replayed that birth heartbeat recording.

Thump.

Thump.

Thump.

Weak.

Rapid.

The heartbeat belonging to the baby girl herself rang out in the corridor.

Immediately after, the female doctor found the voice message left by the mother.

A weak woman's voice came out from the old recording.

"Baby."

"Don't rush to name you."

"Wait until Mommy sees you, then I'll choose a good one."

"No matter what you are called, you are the person Mommy has waited a long time for."

The baby girl's fingers in the incubator moved slightly.

The Divine Seats emblem, already half-formed on her chest, stopped abruptly.

[Continuous life trajectory detected]

[Pregnancy relationship detected]

[Independent behavioral differences detected]

[Definition of "Blank vessel" has a conflict]

Lin Jin pressed the rusty wrench against the edge of the incubator.

"Not being able to state a name doesn't mean you don't have a self."

"A name can be chosen later."

"Life has already begun."

Snap!

The black thread piercing the wristband snapped.

The Divine Seats emblem on the baby girl's chest instantly crumbled.

She suddenly burst into loud crying.

The cry was sharp, loud, and completely inconsistent with the quiet and obedience required by the Divine Seats.

The female doctor hugged the incubator, tears falling instantly.

The eight infants nearby also seemed to be awakened, crying out one after another.

The entire floor was in chaos.

But Chen Ye laughed.

"Cry!"

"Cry as hard as you can!"

"It would be best to cry those six chairs deaf!"

The six black chairs vibrated simultaneously.

They abandoned the electronic wristbands and instead thrust black threads toward the maternity ward files.

[Guardian testimony contains subjectivity]

[Kinship may be interrupted]

[Recommendation: Search for children without relatives or records]

Thirteen's expression changed.

"Orphanages."

On the national map, a large number of black dots began to gather toward orphanages and abandoned infant rescue institutions.

No parents' recordings.

No complete birth records.

No one even knows their real birthdays.

The Six Seats determined that only there could be found a purer "blank."

"Connect to Gu Xinghe!"

Lin Jin said to the female doctor, "Upload the heartbeat, mother's recording, Nurse's testimony, and the infants' real reactions from just now!"

"Don't upload names."

"Upload a fact—a person can possess their own experiences before having a formal name!"

Gu Xinghe connected quickly.

His complexion was worse than before, and there were only five Divine Seats emblems left on his chest.

"The national network is intercepting."

"Saying that protection for the unnamed does not belong to the awakening program."

"Then don't use the awakening program."

The old calibrator's voice came from another line.

"Use the medical birth network."

Hospitals, maternity wards, child health services, vaccine registration.

These systems are not responsible for assigning professions.

Yet, they preserve the record of every child's first cry, first heartbeat, and first time being held after coming into the world.

Jiangcheng First Hospital uploaded first.

Immediately after, other hospitals began to respond.

For those with parents, the parents called out.

For those without parents, the delivery Nurses testified.

For those without birth records, the people caring for them described what they looked like when they first met.

An old orphanage director stood in front of the camera, holding a worn manual.

"This child doesn't know his birthday."

"But he came to the door in winter four years ago, missing a shoe on his left foot."

"He is afraid of thunder and likes to save the center of the steamed bun to eat last."

"You can say I don't know where he came from."

"But you cannot say that he left nothing behind after coming here."

The black dots across the nation began to flicker in patches.

The number of Divine Seats vessels decreased again.

[Children without social identity: Re-identifying]

[Care records exist]

[Individual behavioral differences exist]

[Blank judgment failed]

The second emblem on Gu Xinghe's chest crumbled.

He coughed up blood, but he laughed.

"It's working."

"The black dots are shrinking back."

Suppressed crying and cheers erupted in The Hospital corridor.

But Lin Jin did not relax.

He stared at the map.

The vast majority of black dots were fading.

Only in the northwest direction did a huge, previously unmarked blank area appear.

No hospitals.

No schools.

No orphanages.

On the real-world map, only four characters were written there.

[No. 9 Forbidden Zone]

The six black chairs turned toward that area simultaneously.

The national birth network automatically popped up a hidden statistic that had never been seen before.

[No name]

[No guardianship]

[No birth certificate]

[No real-life records]

[Only occupational embryo numbers retained]

[Quantity: 1204]

Gu Xinghe looked at that string of numbers, the color draining completely from his face.

"They have found the true blank."

On the map, 1,204 black dots lit up in sequence.

The number at the very front was not a digit.

It was a name that had been sealed for eighteen years.

[Embryo Prototype 01: Lin Jin]

Immediately after, a second line appeared.

[Embryo Prototype 02: Thirteen]

In The Hospital, Lin Jin and Thirteen both froze simultaneously.

And deep within No. 9 Forbidden Zone, 1,204 infant-like cries pierced through the national network at the same moment.

The system coldly announced:

[Divine Seats cultivation ground located.]

[No. 9 Forbidden Zone is not a graveyard for failed professions.]

[It is a maternity ward for manufacturing new professionals.]