Urban Legends: The Legacy of Ancient Civilizations

"I've walked for so long and still haven't seen any corners. Is there another illusionary maze in the temple?"

After taking a few mouthfuls of convenience food in silence, Jiang Yingxue suddenly brought up this topic. This seemed to be the best explanation for the current strange phenomenon.

Aaron's mental state improved again after returning to the temple, but he remained silent because he had no say in these topics.

"As for the explanation of the current phenomenon, the phenomenon of space and time is an explanation, and the illusion labyrinth is also an explanation. Who is right and who is wrong between the two conjectures? It is easy to give a conclusion, but it is difficult to evaluate the conclusion.

Even further expanding on the possibilities, it might just be a mausoleum full of personal bad taste.

Whether it is the seemingly infinite space inside the mausoleum or the infinite dust accumulated in it, these may be just some of the basic anti-theft measures.

Guessing, reasoning based on known past experiences, has never been of any use in new and unknown areas. "

As if to verify something, Bai Ning took out the few remaining flares and fired one into the temple. The hot white light quickly rose into the sky, bringing a long-lost large area of ​​light to the area.

The seemingly endless walls beside him were exposed in a large area, and the dusty ground like a desert sand sea was also exposed in a large area. The light illuminated was still boundless and despairing.

Outside the temple, a bright flashlight can reach the top, but inside the temple, even a more powerful flare is just like a firefly flying into the infinitely deep void.

Beyond the light was still endless darkness, and the stone wall with a limited height beside him seemed to have turned into an insurmountable cliff, extending upward infinitely until it merged with nothingness.

"What's the difference between this and the fantasy maze?"

The current scene has completely surpassed the common sense of physics. If the theory of space and time is not used as an explanation, then it can only be self-consistent through the familiar illusion maze.

It is precisely because they are in a fantasy maze with its own operating rules, and the previous herd offensive is just a product of their imagination, so their previous encounters were more than thrilling but not dangerous enough.

This conclusion seems to be ready to be drawn, but Bai Ning still cannot agree with it.

In the previous experience of the illusory maze, the consciousness and the body were completely separated, and the consciousness completely existed in a virtual space. There was also great movement after leaving the illusory maze.

However, they entered and exited this temple several times, and their bodies and minds did not feel any separation. Even due to some crisis events, there was no problem at all with the reduction of their belongings.

The overall feeling is that they are wandering around the temple in a physical state.

However, Jiang Yingxue's insistence was not unreasonable. The size of the inner and outer spaces of this temple was out of balance, and it was so vast that no attempt at the physical level could peer into the end of this alien space.

Even the simplest elimination method, after denying the spatial attributes, can only identify it as an illusion.

Even continuing to follow the clue of the illusion, this place is like a naked-eye 3D area, and the result perceived by the human eye through light is false.

The reason why this special fantasy space was created for this area is to make this temple more mysterious and easier for outsiders to worship.

However, because the temple was later destroyed, the remaining mechanism could only realize the vast attributes here, and even exaggerated some of the shallow dust layers on the ground into a dusty desert.

No matter how self-consistent this logical approach was, Bai Ning still couldn't believe the correctness of this reasoning.

"The fantasy maze is a closure and reconstruction of our five senses. The presentation mechanism here is obviously different from that of the fantasy maze.

We have experienced various interferences from the sensory level to the conscious level before, such as the maze of illusions, mental pollution, and emotional interference. Compared with the impact on the soul level, these things are likely to be one level different.

After Aaron entered the temple, he was able to wake up from his slumber, which shows that the mechanism in the temple can directly affect our souls.

We have had many guesses about this temple before, either limited to its nature of worship, or guessing that it was a mausoleum, but it may also be a purely spiritual symbol.

The study of the soul is blasphemous, so does the person who can control the soul already be the god himself?

These speculations all use humans as the subject, or use an objective third party as the basis for the worship of gods. But what if the soul is the subject?

If this temple does not worship good gods or evil gods, nor falsely proclaims itself a god, then the only thing that can be worshiped is the soul itself.

What exactly is the soul, what it can do, what its origin is, and what it will eventually be annihilated into? These are all questions that need to be solved, and they are also questions that can trap researchers for a lifetime.

In this kind of continuous research, if the answer cannot be found in the end and can only talk about its magic, will the researcher sanctify the soul problem if the worship of gods is the forerunner?

It is said that the end of science is metaphysics, so when the existence of the soul itself has surpassed the height that humans can understand, then it seems that it can only be worshiped as a kind of god. "

Bai Ning talked a lot, while Jiang Yingxue and Aaron were silent the whole time. The unique brain circuits of some mad scientists were indeed not something ordinary people could understand.

To interpret Bai Ning's statement, one can only re-interpret the specific concept of gods.

What is God.

Why are there gods in this world?

Gods are great power, gods are beliefs, and gods may just be a way of life.

If the soul is the foundation of divinity, then there seems to be no problem with directly enshrining the soul.

“You said that the souls enshrined in this temple are obviously souls, but it is obvious that they cannot be ordinary souls.

Since it is a god, it must be something infinitely abstract, a philosophical description of the soul.

As in most religions, the highest form of belief does not have any image, whether it is God or Buddha, worship in the form of statues is rejected by the core teachings.

If there is no real soul here, it is just a mass of nothingness, then how can we explain the spatial anomalies here?

It can't be said that there is a conceptual god named soul here, or a conceptual law named soul, which makes the inner area of ​​this temple present a strange scene, right? "

Jiang Yingxue used other forms of religion to compare the situation here, which may sound absurd, but there is nothing wrong with its overall core.

If the members of the ancient ruins have advanced the research on the soul to unprecedented heights, and the research on the soul has made it appear sacred and inviolable, perhaps because of the obsession in their hearts, they have worshiped the soul that has become as perfect as the truth. This makes sense.

"The so-called concept god is not without this possibility.

When we humans apply science and technology, don’t we also use various concepts in an outline and specific manner?

It's just that we don't know much about the concept of soul, so that the material phenomena extended by it can make us confused.

If we don't know the corrosion principle of acid, then the phenomenon of objects being instantly dissolved in super acid will be regarded as a magical disappearance event. "

Bai Ning echoed Jiang Yingxue's point of view, which surprised her. She didn't expect that a random topic could basically match Bai Ning's thoughts.

"In other words, is some mechanism related to the soul in this temple distorting our senses?

In fact, the previous flares have reflected the overall outline of the temple, but our eyes are selectively invisible and mislead us that what they observe is an endless space.

We seemed to be trekking for eternity near a seemingly endless wall, but in fact we had already circled the entire temple countless times.

However, even if our current abnormality comes from the soul, isn't this just another form of illusion maze? "

In Jiang Yingxue's view, whether it is an illusion based on the consciousness level or an illusion based on the soul level, they are essentially hallucinations, that is, they are all illusion mazes.

After all, it all ended up being the same illusory phenomenon, and Jiang Yingxue was a little unclear as to what Bai Ning was obsessed with.

"Use fire to boil water, use electricity to boil water, both can get a pot of boiling water, but are the essences of the two the same?"

Bai Ning's response at this time seemed like a sophistry, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that he could get some enlightenment from it.

However, does this kind of exploration of the underlying logic really mean anything?

They are just experiencers of the illusion labyrinth, and want to study the differences carefully. What is the difference between this and directly exploring the secrets of the soul.

The soul itself is an unknown thing to them. Is there really any meaning in delving into this kind of thing?

After another thought, Jiang Yingxue couldn't help but be shocked. It seemed that she finally realized the root cause of Bai Ning's in-depth investigation of the soul.

"You mean that the entire temple is actually a mutation caused by the turmoil of our own souls.

The changes in the temple are subjective at the soul level. Is this completely different from the way we passively endured the illusory maze before? "

Jiang Yingxue seemed to have grasped the fundamental differences of this temple, but she was in a daze for a moment and could not fully understand the differences.

“The illusion labyrinth of the consciousness category has its own operating rules, and the illusion labyrinth of the soul category also has its own unique attributes.

The illusion labyrinth we experienced in the outpost research base before had certain external mandatory attributes. All of us were collectively pulled into the illusion labyrinth built by the illusion core.

But in this temple, our material body is obviously not separated from our consciousness. We are more interacting with the temple.

Based on this, it seems that a bold assumption can be made:

Consciousness can be manipulated externally, but the soul can only produce collective hallucinations through resonance.

Do you still remember the details about soul resonance that Ivan confessed before?

Special souls can also produce magical soul resonance phenomena through crystals. Souls in a resonance state are more likely to be contained by crystals and easier to transfer between different bodies.

If soul resonance is not a special case, but the universality of souls, then this principle can be used to unify the crowd at the soul level.

This sense of collective worship that seems to come from the depths of the soul is of certain benefit to maintaining the sanctity of the temple.

In other words, we are influencing each other in the temple, not because the temple is influencing us.

The underlying logic of this mutual influence is that our souls resonate through some special soul mechanism that exists here. "

Jiang Yingxue was a little stunned by Bai Ning's bold hypothesis. Jiang Yingxue found it difficult to accept such purely personal reasoning.

But based on her trust in Bai Ning, she had to forcefully accept this possibility.

It's easy to believe Bai Ning, but how to verify Bai Ning's words?

What on earth do they need to do to realize this so-called soul resonance phenomenon?

Jiang Yingxue glanced at Aaron next to her subconsciously. The only one whose soul had been manipulated here was Aaron. Could it be that his soul was unstable and triggered certain mechanisms of the temple?