REVENGEANCE - PART 1 (Patreon)

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Note: This story is intended for mature audiences (18+) and all characters depicted are 18 years of age or older.

Part 1: The Mad Scientist

“Skinsuit”, have you ever heard of this concept? In fact, the idea of it has been around for a long time, maybe in movies or novels, but it wasn't until 2230 that someone seriously experimented with it. The person we are talking about here is a genius scientist of the new era, Hale Hill. This is the story of his life. But, I need to warn you in advance, “the life of a genius” is not necessarily a good life!

Hale Hill lost his father very early. From the moment he became aware, Hale never had any memories of his father. These were all vague stories his respected mother had told him when he was a child.

Hale's mother loves him dearly. She gave her love to him to compensate for his father, so for Hale, his mother is the whole world. However, his “world” collapsed too soon! The day his mother died, Hale was a high school student who still did not know anything about the cruelty of life.

Having lost his father so early, Hale has no feelings about it, but when he lost his mother, he suffered a stress that lasted for many years! At the funeral to bring her soul to rest, Hale did not shed a tear! It was just… a sudden rain that made a raindrop stick in his eyes. The funeral was attended by many relatives, but Hale felt he was like a loner in the middle of life, because he knew that the link between him and them did not exist.

In country V in the year 202x, residents who have not reached the age of 18 are entitled to full protection from relatives and families. This ensures that students focus on their studies until they graduate from high school. However, Hale's relatives, none of them wanted to adopt another teenager, despite the fact that Hale was just over a year away from turning 18. “Not a strange thing!” - Hale thought. If they cared about his life, at least they would have supported him and his mother during the time of his father's death. In this case, it was not until his mother died that they regrouped and looked like they were very sorry.

Hale despises that fake relationship! Even at his mother's funeral, Hale loudly asserted that he did not need any of his relatives to care. On the surface, they appeared sad when they saw Hale's somewhat insolent actions, but in their hearts, everyone was laughing silently. They laugh because they don't have to shoulder another debt on them! So, on paper, Hale was adopted by a relative, but in reality, he lived alone from that time until the events in this story occurred.

From the time his mother died until the funeral was over, the sky was a murky color. The heavy rains continued for a long time. Standing in the rain, raising his face to the sky, Hale had a crazy intention, challenging the whole law of nature: “I want to resurrect the dead!”

Since that time, Hale has worked even harder. He tries to take care of his personal needs and studies fully. As a result, he received an excellent degree from the country's top prestigious university. However, no matter how highly educated, or how many books he read, how many documents he looked up, the intention of “reviving the dead” is still something too far-fetched!

Hale did not stop for that reason. He was stuck in the past a few years ago, when his favorite person left. He needs to fulfill his own will to be able to get out of it and continue living, living next to the person he loves the most!

After about ten more years of research, Hale still couldn't figure out how to resurrect the dead. However, a stupid conversation that he happened to participate in rekindled a small hope in him. In fact, the conversation between those scholars did not touch on the absurd topic of reviving the dead. What Hale is interested in is the theory of human memory. In particular, the old scholar at the time posed a question that perplexed everyone involved: “What is the true nature of man?”

According to him, memory is the true nature of man. That is to say, even if there were a completely different form, as long as the memory existed, it would still be that person. Of course, this is just a theory that scholars have discussed for fun, because there is no way that an ordinary person suddenly changes their appearance completely. As scientists, they don't believe in such a thing as “reincarnation” or “soul transfer”. However, during the conversation that day, Hale immersed himself in the thought of this.

Finally, he devised a direction for his research, which was to “preserve the memory” of a human being. If Hale could isolate information about his mother's memory from her dead body, he could send it to a machine or something like that. That meant his mother would be resurrected, but in a different form.

This experiment may sound crazy, but it was successful. The day he published his research, the whole world was in awe. Memory can be seen as a body of information, whose nature once formed cannot be lost, but only converted to another form of data. For example, when a writer creates a story, even though he has lost the original manuscript, the story is essentially born and exists as information. Therefore, this information disappears in the form of writing paper, but it can be converted into digital form or still exist somewhere in the minds of this author and those who have read that story.

Memory is the same, but a higher form. In a way, Hale was able to truly isolate his mother's memory and gradually translate it into another form of information. Although the information he recreates is not complete, Hale believes that bringing his mother back to life is only a matter of time.

As Hale's research is gradually entering orbit, his nostalgia for his mother increases his ambition. Without waiting for all the information about her mother's memories to be fully restored, Hale thought of restoring her former form. Recovering the memories of the dead was a challenge to the gods in itself, and now he wanted to go deeper into the forbidden area.

It took a long time, Hale has researched a method that can restore the humanoid of his mother, which is “skinsuit”. Essentially, a “skinsuit” is a skin that is completely real and can be worn by someone else. The person who wears “skinsuit” will possess the form of “the person who is transformed into skinsuit”.

That's right, you didn't get it wrong! This is a kind of inhumane experiment, aimed at turning another person's body into an inanimate skin. Combined with the success from memory resolution, it can be said that the wearer of a “skinsuit” will completely turn into a different person. At the same time, “the person who is transformed into skinsuit” would disappear from this world forever. This is a replacement, not a clone!

Of course, Hale's ultimate goal is to turn his mother's dead body (which is preserved intact) into a skin with memories and then he will let some kind of robotic frame or something wear it on. However, experimenting on the body of a dead person is extremely difficult, so Hale intends to test it on “the body of a living person”.

This crazy idea led the government to put Hale in the form of a “mental patient” because of the thought of harming others. Other scientists were so sympathetic to Hale's plight that they repeatedly pleaded with the government not to send a great scientist who had worked on the memory storage method to a mental hospital. However, despite the good intentions of his colleagues, Hale decided to take a step into hell.

Just when he was about to kidnap a girl for experimentation, the police team quickly rushed in to escort Hale. The captain of the police team who arrested Hale at that time was Harrison Ning, an excellent policeman who had noticed Hale from the beginning. He has repeatedly warned his superiors that Hale is a dangerous person because, according to him, all the strong effects on people are dangerous experiments. Everything happened as Harrison expected, Hale really went crazy and stepped on the criminal path.

When Hale was a genius scientist, everyone flattered him. And when he became a crazy criminal, everyone turned against him. Under booing and protest from the people, the authorities made the decision to cancel all of Hale's experimental projects, including the previous memory separation project. The responsibility of erasing everything was given to Harrison, the main factor in solving this scandal.

When Harrison erased the last memories of Hale's mother, Hale became angry and shouted loudly: “Bastard! You're the one who killed my mother!” Harrison replied sadly: “Your mother passed away a long time ago! Resurrecting a dead person is impossible. There is no guarantee that your experiment will succeed, and even if it does, the price will be too great, affecting too many innocent people!”

On the way to the prison, Hale laughed and cried loudly: “What do you know?! If one day I'm free, I'll tell you what it's like to lose the closest person in your life!” Harrison closed his eyes calmly. He thought that it was inherently impossible, because with the terrible intention that Hale recorded in his research manual, Hale would certainly be imprisoned for the rest of his life…

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