Urban Legends: The Legacy of Ancient Civilizations

"Bai Ning, are you awake?

You obviously didn't go far this time, so why did you fall into a coma? "

Jiang Yingxue's questioning voice came to my ears. It was very familiar, and it didn't seem like the content of a fantasy.

After hearing this, Bai Ning tried hard to open his eyes. Although his thinking was still clear, the feeling of weakness and fatigue all over his body made Bai Ning's limbs completely uncontrollable.

If you compare this feeling, it is like the feeling of a ghost pressing down on the bed.

In orthodox scientific explanations, ghost sleep is understood to mean that the brain has partially awakened, but the body has not yet awakened from sleep, so that the brain cannot control the normal activities of the body.

It is precisely because of this explanation that ghost sleep is also defined as sleep paralysis.

By extension, Bai Ning's current state can also be understood as the fact that the connection between the body and the brain has not been fully coupled after breaking away from the illusion.

In other words, when a person falls into the maze of illusion, the illusion core will forcibly disconnect the human brain and body.

This feeling is like a brain in a vat in an out-of-body state. The feedback from the five senses is completely received by the core of the illusion, and the memory range of the human brain is peered into. Naturally, the illusion can be shared, and people can follow the different doubts in their hearts. Produce different illusions.

Based on this, there is indeed a certain interactivity at the core of the environment.

This interactivity is the key to unlocking the maze of illusions.

At this time, let’s think about the hint given by Gogol before: Bai Ning’s ability to remember the illusion is the key to unlocking the illusion.

This tip can also be slightly expanded, that is, Bai Ning must use his own memory and critical thinking skills to infer some basic functions of the core of the environment.

Then based on such functional characteristics, try to close the core of the fantasy, or directly rely on the understanding of the core of the fantasy to finally succeed in breaking through.

“The level of fantasy is far from being as simple as imagined. There is an essential difference between experiencing a fantasy briefly and experiencing it many times.

Replay the video just now for me. "

Bai Ning turned slightly weakly and glanced at Gogol not far away, and found that he was looking here with a half-smile, as if waiting for something expected to happen.

Gogol has fallen into illusions more times than anyone else. He has also led a large number of explorers to experience illusions and knows the overall behavior of different groups of people after experiencing illusions.

Bai Ning is certainly not unique in his ability to remember the contents of the fantasy. Gogol knows the development trend of subsequent expeditions. He is just waiting for the result he wants to wait for.

Putting aside his speculations about Gogol's behavior, Bai Ning focused all his attention on the previous adventure videos.

There was nothing special about the process. Bai Ning did arrive at the second corner and also explored the subsequent areas to a certain extent.

However, judging from the content of the video, the expressions of the five people at that time were a bit unnatural, but there was not much doubt. The reason why the safety rope was pulled was mainly because Bai Ning did not give safety feedback within the prescribed time. .

This phenomenon shows that Bai Ning has entered the illusion before reaching the second corner. This seems to be related to Bai Ning's attempt to connect with the core of the illusion.

Just as Bai Ning imagined, when the human body falls into the maze of illusion, the brain and the body's five senses have been completely separated.

The human nervous system can still receive information from the five senses, but the human consciousness can no longer process this information independently.

It's as if the illusion core has separated Bai Ning's consciousness and stored it in a carefully created virtual illusion. The illusion core can also independently mobilize the memory information in the human brain to create a more realistic experience. virtual fantasy.

Nervous system, consciousness, soul, these previously hypothesized contents are now verified by the core of the illusion. It seems that the three of them do coexist with each other and are independent of each other.

Faced with this ancient technology full of incredible properties, Bai Ning also had more daydreams about the splendid civilization of Atlantis.

In the five human civilization systems, the concept of gods has appeared many times. Now it seems that the concept of gods is likely to be another level of scientific concept, an independent concept that is beyond the current scientific system.

Humanity's current scientific civilization is only limited to the material level. Although we know the relationship between matter and energy and have listed the mass-energy equation, the research on energy states is still blank.

If matter is an aggregation of energy, then is the tiniest particle that makes up matter, a particle structure even tinier than quarks, an aggregated energy field?

If the soul is just another level of energy aggregation, and consciousness is just the central hub connecting the material body and the special energy field, perhaps the control of the consciousness level by the illusion core can be easily understood.

It’s just an information interaction process based on a new energy field.

"How are the other four personnel? Can they be awakened based on previous experience?"

After watching the video information, Bai Ning turned around and asked about the situation of the four control groups, but saw Jiang Yingxue's expression showing a little silence.

“Everything that can be done has been done, but they have no intention of waking up.

Judging from their overall appearance, they seem to have fallen into a coma, not a state of deep sleep. "

Jiang Yingxue really felt very embarrassed. Facing this weird maze of illusions, past successful experiences were like useless waste paper.

If it is just because of the different lengths of time spent deep into the illusory maze, different personnel will have different coma characteristics, which means that it is impossible for them to completely understand this illusory maze.

The variability is perhaps the most terrifying aspect of this environmental maze.

Such an answer also made Bai Ning very entangled. He originally thought that he could quickly solve the illusion maze through a certain sum of experience, but he didn't expect it to be so complicated.

“It depends on people.

The contents of the fantasy maze are indeed constantly changing, and the types of fantasy inside are also showing different attributes of despair.

Even if it is really a supernatural thing, it will comply with certain natural laws and cannot be infinitely random, otherwise it would have been made into a weapon long ago. "

After a little comfort, Bai Ning quickly came to the vicinity of the four unconscious people. It could be seen from their dilated pupils like dead fish eyes that they were indeed in a coma.

This seems very strange. Obviously in the previous illusion, they could still share the panic and mood swings. How could they be in a coma?

Furthermore, the video just now also showed that the four desperadoes had been following Bai Ning normally and did not faint directly.

Could it be that the core of the illusion can continue to take over the body when the human brain is in a coma, allowing people to move freely in the real space?

The body can move in the real space, and the consciousness can change at will in the illusion maze. This is more like a VR game in a simulated state.

To use a slight analogy, Environmental Maze is not only a VR game that can entertain the spirit, but can even subconsciously exercise the body simultaneously.

VR games with this design concept exist in real life, but they have not yet implemented a brain-computer interface and can autonomously take over various reactions of the body.

According to the current way of understanding the fantasy maze, it seems that the main body of the fantasy content will be set according to the user's subjective choice, and the overall background details will be completed using the memory content in the user's mind.

Based on this assumption, once you are trapped in the maze of fantasy and do not know the overall mechanism, the more memories and random thoughts you have, the more real the subsequent fantasy content will be.

And as the trapped person gradually falls deeper into the maze of illusion, his subjective will to break through the illusion will make his speculativeness and willingness to prove or deny the strongest.

Under this extreme need for verification, not only will the content in the fantasy become more and more real, but the details will also become increasingly difficult to detect inconsistencies.

As a result, on the one hand, the simulation scenes become more and more sophisticated, and on the other hand, the trapped people become more and more suspicious. In this almost endless torture, madness is bound to happen sooner or later.

Once the trapped person begins to go to extremes, the method of proving or denying will begin to develop viciously in the direction of murder and suicide.

This is also the extreme situation mentioned by Gogol: once many trapped people become crazy in the real world, they will start to indiscriminately slaughter their companions around them, or even commit suicide.

It is just a simple self-interaction system, but because of the infinite speculation of the self, it becomes a murderous weapon.

It is they who drive the trapped people crazy. To speed up the progress of the trapped people's madness, they only need to complicate simple questions, repeat complex questions, and invalidate the uniqueness of the answers.

After all, humans are animals of meaning. Under a system of rules that cannot be understood, and in an almost infinite endless cycle of left-right and left-right struggles, it is perfectly normal for people to collapse mentally and become insane.

What's more, the core of this illusion can also allow the trapped people to interact and share the illusions they generated respectively, which makes the originally difficult-to-understand rules even more difficult to understand.

Furthermore, when it comes to unknown things and things with ancient mysteries, human beings either label them as gods and ghosts to understand them in general, or they make them mystified, infinitely overestimating the difficulty of analyzing this unknown system.

The fear of difficulties will cause people to completely lose confidence in solving problems, which is also the beginning of rapid collapse.

"Let them lie quietly for a while, they are probably in a coma due to a mental breakdown. This is a self-protection mechanism of the brain.

In this situation, we can only wait for them to wake up on their own. "

These four desperadoes may have fallen into a coma due to brain overload. Forcibly waking them up may cause them to fall into a negative state of malignant neurasthenia.