Urban Legends: The Legacy of Ancient Civilizations

"Only Aaron's soul has had any abnormal movement here. Is he the key to the abnormal resonance of the soul here?

But where is the operability of soul resonance? "

Even if Bai Ning spoke eloquently, they were still blind and didn't know anything.

"It's not necessarily Aaron's soul that's abnormal."

After Bai Ning finished speaking, he took out the crystal core that exuded a dense luster.

In this temple, the luster of the crystal core seems to have become more intense, and it is not known whether it is because of some changes in the remnant souls gathered inside.

"Are you saying that the remnant soul in this crystal core is what dominates our abnormal state?"

Jiang Yingxue also found it a bit unbelievable that the three living people would be affected by a ray of remnant soul?

“This remnant soul may be inconspicuous, but it may be the key to causing soul resonance.

Even if Aaron's soul is partially free, it is still a soul inside the body, which is far less pure than the soul in my hand.

The soul generates soul resonance through crystal, so crystal is the intermediate medium connecting us and the temple.

The temple, the remnant soul, Aaron's partially free soul, and our healthy soul seem to form a progressive relationship, allowing the temple's influence on us to eventually touch our souls.

In turn, our sound souls, through such transfer, can also begin to affect the overall attributes of the temple. "

Bai Ning's reasoning once again surprised people. Whether it was the illusion of the infinite size of the temple, Jiang Yingxue's strong danger warning similar to a sixth sense before, or even the subsequent siege by the beasts, it was just a mediocre self-predicament.

In other words, everything they had done in the temple before and at this time was just a concentrated summary of their own psychological suggestions.

The temple relied on the basic principle of soul resonance to mix the underlying fears in the minds of the three people to form this collective illusion.

Even this illusion does not affect their five senses, but is directly embedded in the depths of their consciousness, forming an effect similar to a conscious bias.

For example, when seeing an abstract painting, every viewer can associate a picture based on their own basic cognition, but people with normal consciousness will still think it is a painting, but people with biased consciousness will Stubbornly believing that this painting is what he saw.

Since Bai Ning and Jiang Yingxue experienced the seemingly infinite space before, their instinctive awareness of darkness is that this is an infinitely vast space.

This kind of consciousness bias will cause them to deliberately ignore details that are not related to the infinite space. For example, they originally observed traces of the existence of corners, but they will subconsciously ignore this discovery.

The cognitive details filtered by this kind of conscious bias will naturally turn the temple into an infinitely vast space.

As for the beasts they encountered before, they may just be some animals that exist in this underground area itself. It is only because they have such a strong stereotype of beasts attacking that they have auditory hallucinations of beasts attacking in large numbers.

"In other words, we only need to destroy this crystal core to completely disconnect from the temple?"

This kind of illusion based on soul resonance seems to be even more elusive. Jiang Yingxue can only grasp the core point of the crystal core to find a solution.

It's just that there's something obviously wrong with this suggestion. Judging from Bai Ning's attitude, it's clear that he won't destroy the crystal core easily.

“Consciousness bias will only make us ignore some important details, but this will not change the temple. We just need to pay attention to it in the next actions.

Furthermore, if the previous rat herd does not exist, we can continue to move towards the central area of ​​the temple. I believe that what we want should be there. "

Bai Ning's response seemed very vague. No one knew what he wanted to do, but what was certain was that he was going to wander into that dusty desert again.

The basic confidence of this decisive gesture seems to come from the crystal core in his hand.

The crystal core can communicate with the temple, allowing the three people to form a wonderful soul resonance phenomenon. So, with the power of the crystal core, can the temple also achieve other functions?

If they can communicate with the temple through the crystal core and obtain some ancient knowledge here, this harvest will be worthy of this adventure.

No one knew what Bai Ning's overall plan was at this time, but Jiang Yingxue stubbornly believed that Bai Ning's adventure was for this basic goal.

Without saying anything more, the three of them quickly stepped into the dusty desert again. Just like the overall impression before, the further they advanced towards the central area, the thicker the dust beneath their feet became.

Vaguely, it seems that some rustling sounds can be heard wandering nearby. When the beam of a strong flashlight shines through, it is empty again.

It is unclear whether this is an auditory hallucination caused by a bias in consciousness, or whether a nearby rat-like creature is monitoring the wandering.

The feeling of stepping on the dust becomes softer and softer, and the feeling of one deep and one shallow step becomes more and more tiring. The air also begins to become dry inexplicably. I don’t know if it is a recurrence of the previous scene or if it is the temple. This is what the central area looks like.

The vast dust is still endless as far as the eye can see, and the intertwined boundary of light and darkness looks so dim and cold. There is no end in sight. There is no end in sight. There is no reason at all.

If they followed Bai Ning's previous speculation, they should have discovered some strange places during this endless trek. Through these details, they could even further correct their exploration direction and delineate the core area of ​​the temple.

But after walking for so long, I couldn't notice any other details except the sand and dust that became increasingly difficult to walk through.

If they walked around the temple before, they could still understand it as a deviation in consciousness. The deliberate ignorance of key corner details made them mistakenly think that the temple was infinite.

But now it spans the entire temple, and the thickness of the dust underfoot is still increasing. Whether it is the thin layer of soil at the edge of the temple or the temple wall hundreds of meters high, if you observe carefully, even if you have conscious deviations, interference, it is impossible to ignore such obvious details.

After thinking for a long time, Bai Ning felt that they would conclude that the dust area in the center of the temple could not be crossed. That was because they had never crossed the dust area at all.

When the thickness of the dust under their feet reaches a certain level, since they cannot actually tell the true thickness through touch, even if they stay on the same spot, they will feel that they are constantly moving towards the central area of ​​the temple.

In other words, after they arrived at the central area of ​​the temple, they began to circle endlessly in a fixed circle.

Following this logic, Bai Ning shined a strong flashlight on both sides of himself, but found nothing unusual.

This seems very strange. If they are circling the central area of ​​​​the temple, the sides on both sides should be the core area of ​​​​the temple, and something may be enshrined inside.

"You grab to the left, I'll grab to the right, maintain a certain rotation range, and fire in bursts to empty a magazine of bullets."

Bai Ning suddenly stood still, gave Jiang Yingxue instructions, then took out his pistol and pointed it at his right side and quickly emptied a magazine.

Jiang Yingxue immediately understood Bai Ning's meaning, took out his pistol and quickly emptied a magazine. The dull sound of gunshots echoed in the temple without any echo. It seemed that he was using his own unique way to prove the temple. of infinite breadth.

After a long silence, there was still no movement in the darkness in the distance. Jiang Yingxue was also a little puzzled. The bullet would not be interfered by cognitive bias. Logically speaking, it should have a certain collision with the wall in the distance.

No matter how slight the collision sound is, it will definitely stir up a certain noise in such an empty temple, letting them know that this temple is indeed limited.

But the current situation, whether it is the sound of gunfire or the silent disappearance of bullets, seems to prove the infinite breadth of this temple.

"It doesn't have any effect. If we can bring an RPG, maybe it will have a miraculous effect now."

Jiang Yingxue's tone was slightly regretful, but everyone knew that they had encountered so many difficulties before, and they had already used up the RPG.

Now they only have some firearms in their hands. Facing this magnificent ruined temple, this latest modern weapon cannot make any waves.

As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Ning picked up the submachine gun in his hand and fired another round of bullets at his right side. Intensive firepower spurted out, as if he could feel a strong wind sweeping through the temple.

Faced with Bai Ning's current slightly angry behavior, Jiang Yingxue would not think that Bai Ning would be so naive.

The pistol bullet just now must have had a certain effect, but the effect was not obvious.

The noise caused by the gunshots quickly disappeared, and absolute silence returned to the temple again. The breathing of the three of them seemed a bit heavy at this moment.

It seems that no matter what kind of bullets they are, no matter how dense the bullets are, falling into dust after exhaustion will be their only ending.

"Save your bullets. Even if there are no herds here, those rat-like creatures can still give us a drink..."

All attempts failed, and Jiang Yingxue suddenly felt that leaving this temple would be the best solution.

Just as they were speaking in the middle of their words, there was suddenly a dull friction sound under their feet, like the sound of some kind of mechanism opening and closing, and also like a sign that the dust accumulation layer under their feet was beginning to collapse.

Now that they no longer have the illusion of a herd raiding, it is difficult for them to escape from the temple.

There was no time to panic, and with a muffled sound of "bang", a huge beam of light suddenly descended on the entire temple, leaving no secrets here.