Forces of Temptation

In a blink of an eye, the sound of the tide receded and the sunlight receded.

The three returned to the brain corridor.

Behind him is a door that can no longer be opened.

The numbness of the body disappeared, and all the remaining traces of water on Jiang Fang's disbanded silver hair dried up.

It was as if the entire ocean was under the bright sunlight, and all the past and memories were evaporated into foam.

The chewing noise in the corridor ceased.

What was left for them was a palpitating emptiness.

The undulating and wriggling speed of the medullary carpet proves that the brain is in an abnormally active state at the moment.

Everything is pointing to the destination they are going to.

——The sixth door, which could not be opened originally, has opened silently at this time.

The thick door quietly opened to the five people.

At the lock button, the gaps between the five notches and gullies are already filled with redness, like a bloodshot eyeball, staring at them from afar.

After using Li Yinhang's mobile phone for two consecutive days, the battery life was finally exhausted, the screen was turned off, and there was no way to turn it on again.

The only thing that can be illuminated in the corridor is the faint light from behind the door.

It seems to be a small lantern that the anglerfish use to catch their prey in the high-pressure deep sea that makes people panic.

Li Yinhang, who escaped from death just now, watched the indistinguishable light, swallowed unconsciously.

She looked at Nan Zhou and asked with her eyes: Are you going in now?

Nan Zhou stroked his lips, as if he was thinking about something seriously.

Li Yinhang looked at him eagerly, waiting for his reply.

After some careful deliberation, Nan Zhou spoke.

"You kissed me just now." Nan Zhou looked at Jiang Fang, "This is not quite the same as the kiss in the forest."

Li Yinhang: "..."

Jiang Fang: "..."

Li Yinhang immediately took a step across without looking sideways, and distanced himself from the two of them, pretending that he didn't hear anything.

Nanzhou cautiously verified: "In the forest, you kissed me because you were hungry. It was also for the mission just now. But my body will have different degrees of strange reactions every time. I am thinking, why—"

Jiang Fang firmly pressed Nan Zhou's head, and pressed down, so that he would have a chance to discover the slight redness on his face: "Let's go out and talk about it."

Nan Zhou was caught by Rua.

He thought for a while, and felt that what Jiang Fang said made sense, so he nodded, "Yeah."

Jiang Fang: "Yinhang, you go forward."

Li Yinhang was listening to the gossip with his ears pricked up, when Jiang Fang called his name suddenly, thinking he had been caught, he ran forward with hands and feet.

Seeing her walking a certain distance, Jiang Fang lowered his voice and said to Nan Zhou, "Don't say anything."

Nan Zhou was curious: "Why?"

Jiang Fang clamped his auricles with the knuckles of his index and middle fingers, and gently tugged: "Just tell me."

Nan Zhou let out an "oh", rubbed his heated ears, and walked towards the end of the journey together with the other two.

They can finally achieve the final "exploration".

Last time, when Nan Zhou came here, there was a rolling eye in the keyhole, which blocked his sight and prohibited him from peeking inside.

Of course, Nan Zhou also gave a proper gift in return.

—he poked its eyeball.

Now, Nan Zhou stepped in without fear of retaliation.

After the broken Jiang Fang stepped into it, the door slammed shut.

The first five doors are full of fairy tale scenes, gorgeous fantasy, and beautiful colors.

Even the dark wolf happy house endows them with illusory dreams.

But inside this door, there is another door oncoming.

It was pitch black all around.

Only a small lamp inlaid by the door, and the flashing blue light display screen on the door leaf provide light for the gap of less than a few square meters between the two doors.

...Suddenly technological.

For a while, everyone was a little at a loss.

It's like falling back to the cold reality from the utopian world full of warm colors and illusory colors.

After the detection sensed the existence of the three people, a burst of electric current flashed across the display screen.

Soon, a line of words flashed on the screen.

"Please select the room the inspector enters."

..."Inspector"?

Before Nanzhou could figure out the meaning of this generation, a cross-sectional view of the human brain appeared in front of them.

Obviously it was his choice.

Nanzhou tried to touch the screen, and found that the cross-sectional view of the brain was strictly and finely divided into 52 functional blocks.

The background color of the block is white.

Nan Zhou's fingertips slowly slid across the screen.

Wherever his fingertips reach, the blocks he touches will turn blue different from other white blocks.

The sixth door is not a fairy tale game.

It is a general examination room to check their previous knowledge of all levels.

If there is a person with a superior sense of space in the player team, even if they don't understand the structure of the brain, they can still map the winding corridors, and thus calculate which functional area of ​​the brain the level they entered belongs to.

And Nanzhou's computer memory helped them save this time-consuming and laborious step.

Nanzhou faced the cold display screen and clicked on the location of the first room they entered.

...the prefrontal lobe responsible for learning and movement.

Ever since they stepped into this deep, lightless brain corridor, Nan Zhou began to draw a picture in his mind.

He was thinking, what kind of person is the master of the brain.

At the beginning of entering the library checkpoint, Nan Zhou felt that this was a person who loved reading.

But when he really plunged into the maze-like collection of books, Nan Zhou was sure that such thousands of books should not be the amount of reading a normal person should have.

Even if you live for a full 100 years and read one book a day, regardless of the age of not being able to understand complex characters, and the time spent eating and sleeping, a person can only read more than [-] books in a lifetime.

The bookshelf that can form a large maze in front of you, there are so many volumes in it, more than a hundred thousand?

In addition to being able to see that the owner of this brain is particularly fond of chess books, the reading range of this brain is simply unbelievable.

After finishing the double game with the tin soldier and the chess player behind the door, they walked out of the library.

The master of the brain is still eating continuously, as if he doesn't worry about bursting his stomach at all.

It seemed that this man had four stomachs in his stomach to support his unrestrained overeating.

At that time, Nan Zhou felt a little weird, but he just wrote it down silently and didn't say anything.

Out of the frontal lobe, they go to the amygdala.

……

Facing the monitor, Nanzhou clicked on a small, almond-shaped pituitary gland.

……

The fairy tale of [Wild Swan] tests "fear".

Nan Zhou and Li Yinhang were taken as hostages and stayed with their stepmother who was disguised as Alisa.

Nanzhou, who had turned into a swan, was pecking at the door knocker, thinking about the weirdness of this level.

In "Xiao Ming's Daily Life", they experienced similar situations.

"Xiao Ming" turned his fear into the whole family and the ghosts in it.

In other words, if it is a level related to "fear", they are in other people's brains, and what they should experience is the master's fear, not their own fear.

But when "Alyssa" made a choice, she told them that anyone could go.

And Jiang Fang's experience after returning proved that Nan Zhou's conjecture was correct.

The [Wild Swan] level uses the player's own fear.

Jiang Fang is afraid of heights.

Therefore, what he faced was one mountain after another, which he had to climb.

This inevitably made Nanzhou even more confused.

Does the master of this brain have no fears of his own?

Could it be that his amygdala can only secrete substances representing "fear" emotions under the stimulation of outsiders like them?

After a good rest and unmasking their stepmother, they left the amygdala.

At that time, more than ten hours had passed since they entered the amygdala.

But the chewing sound in the brain corridor never stopped.

Creak, creak, creak, creak.

The master of the brain is feasting endlessly.

Such endless gluttonous behavior itself has an inexplicable sense of eerieness.

After the amygdala, they enter the hormone-filled pineal gland.

In that closed hut, Nan Zhou had a dream.

However, after waking up, there was only a large blank in his mind.

He doesn't even know how he got through.

He could only judge based on the content of Li Yinhang and Jiang Fang's dreams. In the dream, they were almost abducted by their once intimate partner, lured into a deep dream, and could never wake up again.

This level is as weird as [Wild Swan].

——The brain can only reproduce the love process based on the player's experience.

With their pineal adventure over, the three of them re-entered the hallway.

As a result, in the corridor, the sound of chewing food that had been resounding all the time suddenly disappeared, and there was only the strange sound of gurgling water.

Next, they entered the nucleus of the brainstem, which is filled with the vagus nerve.

In this game, they experienced unprecedented hunger.

... also experienced an unprecedented matryoshka game.

In this level, there are two fairy tales with the theme of hunger, "Candy House" and "The Girl Stepping on Bread".

Nan Zhou couldn't help but associate the disappearing chewing sound in the corridor with this level.

——When the brain stops eating, the owner will immediately enter a state of extreme hunger.

This is very different from what they encounter in the amygdala and pineal gland.

In the previous level, the game used their memory to affect them.

This time, the hunger that comes with the game has instead become a level that traps them and affects them.

When the thought advances to this step, Nan Zhou has probably pieced together a weird portrait of this "brain master".

And the level of [Little Mermaid] further verified Nan Zhou's conjecture.

The master of the brain has no memory at all.

He couldn't even understand what "memory" was.

The so-called "Ocean of Memory" can only judge whether the player's memory is true or not based on mechanical data standards, and constantly collect the player's memory and take it as his own.

……

After briefly reviewing their journey along the way, Nan Zhou lowered his hands.

Before his eyes, the five rooms they had walked through had condensed into five blue blocks on the display.

A prefrontal lobe that's stuffed with too much knowledge.

An amygdala that cannot generate fear on its own.

The pineal gland that cannot generate libido on its own.

The vagus nerve that sends hunger signals uncontrollably.

Can not understand what is the hippocampus of "memory".

...and, the indirect and constant chewing sound in the corridor.

After Nanzhou lit up the last seahorse-shaped block, the display screen turned gray.

A circle swirled in the center of the screen.

After a while, it jumped out of the gray words "Verification succeeded".

Such silent, depressing, and mechanical words made the atmosphere around me so heavy and sticky that I couldn't breathe.

Nan Zhou exhaled deeply the turbid air in his lungs.

The closed door in front of him slowly opened.

Nanzhou and the others gradually explored to the last layer of [Brain Invasion].

And here is the truth of [Brain Invasion].

——They entered the final room, the Vision Center.

A transparent glass room with a 360-degree panoramic view.

Li Yinhang couldn't help but block his eyes from the sudden bright lights around him.

When she regained the ability to see things again, she heard Nan Zhou let out a soft sigh: "It really looks like this."

She narrowed her eyes and looked carefully.

They seemed to be immersed in a light blue sea, like three divers who were put into a diving cage and sank to the bottom of the sea for exploration.

However, when she looked intently again, she was shocked to find——

What they were in was a cubic petri dish filled with light blue nutrient solution.

In a petri dish, nothing but brains.

...just milky white brains intact like giant walnuts.

Li Yinhang looked around tremblingly.

Outside the transparent glass, there are all such brains lined up in a row.

Farther away, there was a group of two-and-a-half-meter-tall monsters with slender hands and feet, walking and stopping beside the row of petri dishes, carefully selecting and screening them.

Li Yinhang was very familiar with their gazes.

The eyes of diners seem to be picking fat and thin fish and shrimp in the vegetable market.

What made her feel even more creepy was the label on the outside of the petri dish they were in.

Even though the label is reversed, she clearly makes out the font on it:

——"Name: Feed Box No. 1921".

—— "Specifications: 90cmX90cmX90cm standard feeding box"

—— "Level: Boutique Level"

- "Food Maturity: 80%"