Urban Legends: The Legacy of Ancient Civilizations

This kind of deliberate misleading may be a trick of Gogol's falsehood, or it is very likely to be another, more terrifying situation.

That is, Gogol also went deep into the illusion. Although he successfully escaped by relying on his strong mental power, it also caused his spirit to completely collapse.

Arrogant, powerful, controlling, and extremely disgusted with stupidity, these extreme emotions are concentrated in Gogol. They are not caused by his long-term obsession, but the sequelae of overcoming the illusion.

Think about it, only people with extreme self-esteem, only people with extreme belief in self-judgment, or even more directly, only extremely selfish people can get out of the oppression of many illusions.

Following this line of reasoning, the reason why Gogol backstabbed all the previous expedition teams was entirely to protect himself.

It is precisely because Gogol, who is trapped in the illusion, no longer trusts anyone, that others can become his victims and be cruelly abandoned under these ruins.

He raised his head and glanced at Gogol. Gogol seemed to be the only one here who didn't care about Bai Ning's hallucinations.

This extremely indifferent behavior seems to further verify Bai Ning's conjecture - Gogol has indeed been deeply trapped in a hallucination. Will his twisted mentality be reawakened because he is on the verge of a hallucination? He can only retaliate for this. With a great fear of the unknown.

"Gogol, what do you think of the situation just now?"

Bai Ning took the initiative to launch an offensive. Gogol, who had heard the translation, slowly raised his eyes and looked over with a look of fear in his eyes.

It was as if Gogol was sizing up a terrifying ancient beast that could actually threaten Gogol's existence.

"Do you think you have come out of the illusion now?"

It made people's hearts skip a beat. They never expected that the first words Gogol spoke would be this. He seemed a little clueless in the horror.

Like a temptation, like a warning, more like a mean taunt.

Bai Ning's heart was shaken. There were thousands of thoughts in his mind. At this moment, he seemed to be thinking about ten thousand possibilities. He even fantasized about the possibility of going dark and returning to the underground level.

However, everything around him was so real, and the feelings everyone gave him were real, without any possibility of being false.

What can't be believed?

"Probably, he has already walked out."

Bai Ning responded with a smile, the expression on his face was very relaxed, which made Gogol across from him smile very disdainfully.

"It seems that you haven't gone very far into the illusion.

People like you have taken the initiative to enter before. After they came out, they were driven crazy by the question I asked.

Either shouting hysterically, or suddenly becoming panicked and overwhelmed, or starting to frantically attack everything they can see around them.

The boundary between reality and illusion begins to become blurred, which is the most terrifying part of this fantasy maze. "

Gogol continued to respond, completely as a bystander, and it was temporarily impossible to analyze whether he had entered the illusion maze.

But this answer worried Bai Ning even more, because Gogol described the risks in the outpost research base too harshly.

Before, Gogol was still half-covered, and at critical moments he would interrupt the rhythm of the conversation by remaining silent.

Now he is so unscrupulous. Is it because Bai Ning's personal experience made him feel threatened, so that he wanted to exclude Bai Ning from the subsequent exploration process?

But even so, the impact of Gogol's conversation on the desperadoes cannot be ignored.

Bai Ning had reminded him countless times before that an environment that was too dangerous would cause the outlaws to lose the courage to fight in an instant.

The madness that does not matter life or death will always belong to a few people and has nothing to do with the desperadoes in ordinary scenes.

"What? Falling too deeply into the illusion can lead to the relevant personnel not being able to distinguish the difference between reality and illusion?

Regardless of my question, what will happen to the four comatose people in the future? They can't just become crazy, right? "

These words were clearly meant for Ivan and his men. Bai Ning only hoped that Gogol would not lose his morale in a daze and continue to worsen the current situation.

“The depth of falling into an illusion is related to the time a person falls into the illusion, and is also related to a person’s ability to think.

In fact, the explanation of this kind of thing is very simple. The longer you stay in the illusion, or the faster your thinking speed, the more times you will circle around in the illusion.

When people fall into an illusion, they will instinctively desire to escape from the illusion. However, if the result of escaping from the illusion is false, this kind of illusion that begins to cycle will make people begin to doubt the authenticity of reality.

In this way, with constant repetition and constant failure, people's mentality will completely collapse, and the boundary between reality and illusion will be completely blurred.

At some point, when you are actually rescued from the illusion by others, you will also doubt the authenticity of this situation.

As for the subsequent collapse and madness, they are just your usual means of protecting yourself in the endless broken illusion.

Killing one's companions, or even oneself, to verify authenticity is a common behavior of humans in extreme environments. "

What Gogol said at this time can be regarded as a purely speculative summary of experience, or you can regard it as an effective summary of your own experience.

According to Gogol's characteristic of backstabbing other people, verifying the authenticity of illusions by killing other people must be his common method.

Furthermore, the kind of hallucination sequelae mentioned by Gogol is actually not something very new.

VR technology, which focuses on immersion and interactivity, can still only achieve naked-eye 3D special effects with vision as the main carrier. This so-called virtual reality technology is not enough to make people unclear about the difference between reality and games.

Among various games and urban legends, there is a brain-computer interface virtual reality technology that allows people to immerse themselves into the game world while sleeping.

If a unique wake-up mechanism is not set up in this level of virtual reality technology, so that players cannot clearly distinguish the moment when they are out of the game, then during repeated game immersion, players will gradually lose themselves in the game world. among.

Eventually, these lost people will move the behavior in the game into reality, and start killing and robbing at will, doing whatever they want.

As for the idea of ​​immortality in dreams of the Night Demon Society, it is actually somewhat similar to this. They are all sinking into an illusory world forever, but the members of the Night Devil Society actively sink into it.

“The fantasy content here is actually not as dangerous as expected.

The illusion inside will not cause hallucination scenes beyond the logical level, but will only use the person's past experience as the main background of the illusion.

As for the repetition of the illusion, it is just a constant switch between the existing illusion scenes.

If the guess is bolder, the deeper the impression of a memory in the mind, the greater the possibility that it will become the background of the fantasy. "

Although Gogol once again exposed a large amount of valid information due to Bai Ning's personal visit to the illusion, but since these things are actually not very new, it is very likely that they are still Gogol's follow-up perfunctory.

Based on this speculation, Bai Ning boldly told about his fantasy experience. Such understanding and speculation will inevitably have a certain impact on Gogol.

If such external pressure can be used to deform Gogol's operations, this will be of great benefit to subsequent mutual games.

Facing Bai Ning's description, Gogol still looked calm, but it aroused more interest in Jiang Yingxue.

"So, do you still remember the content of the previous fantasy?"

Gogol stated before that only a minority of the population can remember the contents of the fantasy. Once an important being like Bai Ning possesses this special attribute, it will be of great significance to subsequent adventures.

Jiang Yingxue was a little embarrassed when asking, because the content of Bai Ning and Gogol's conversation just made her too depressed. The sudden release of her emotions gave her hope of continuing the adventure.

"I can probably remember a little bit."

Bai Ning was perfunctory and didn't pay attention to Jiang Yingxue's mood swings. He just stared at Gogol coldly, wanting to see his subsequent reaction.

Having experienced deep hallucinations and not having experienced deep hallucinations, Gogol poses a completely different threat to everyone.

“It is true that there are very few people who can remember the contents of illusions, but this statement is not comprehensive, it is just a special case.

Short-term fantasy experiences do not have a great impact on the human brain, so most people cannot remember the contents of the fantasy.

Once you are trapped in a fantasy for a long time, the constant repetition of the fantasy will tamper with the memory range of the human brain. No matter how stupid you are, you will still remember a large amount of the fantasy content.

This is why people who are deeply lost in illusions will eventually go crazy.

To a certain extent, fantasy can be seen as a certain obsession in a person's mind. At first it was just a fleeting thought in the cerebral cortex, but as it gradually grew stronger, it turned into an obsession. , then it will completely take over the entire brain.

At that time, you are not in an illusion in your mind, but in a boundary between reality and illusion.

At this time, the five senses have no meaning at all for the real senses, because in the eyes of your brain, the real five senses feedback is no different from false information feedback.

What you see is indistinguishable from reality, and what you hear is unclear between true and false. This state can be explained as being deeply trapped in an illusion, or it can also be explained that the person has fallen into madness. "

It is obvious that Gogol did not pay attention to Bai Ning's suggestion that he wanted to reduce the dangerous influence. This is an external manifestation of the complete breakdown of tacit understanding among the top management.

The game between Bai Ning and Gogol over dangerous influence has gone on for several rounds. Gogol may have been completely tired of Bai Ning's vacillation, or he just wanted to be in this new situation. Give Bai Ning more oppression.

After all, Bai Ning has personally experienced the intensity of the illusion, which is subversive to the game of the situation.

Gogol has completely abandoned the previous basic game plan and extended it to a wider uncontrollable area.

This brand new start was indeed more shocking, shocking the desperadoes not far away with cold sweat dripping from their backs.

They glanced at the four unlucky guys who were still unconscious on the ground, and they didn't know if they would really go completely crazy when they woke up.

This kind of commotion at the collective level cannot be silent, and has a tendency to become more and more intense. As long as we do not deliberately ignore it, we cannot ignore this kind of spark that may trigger group riots.

With the desperadoes fully awake, the situation on the field is no longer limited to high-level decision-making. The effective driving of the desperadoes will become a new gaming point for subsequent adventures.

Jiang Yingxue was also keenly aware of the sudden change in the situation in the field, and waved to Ivan, asking him to quickly suppress the restlessness of the desperadoes in the field. Unfortunately, Ivan's prestige in this special situation was no longer enough to convince the crowd. Only a few were suppressed, while others still went their own way.

This collective pressure move by the desperadoes was unconscious, and it was an instinctive desire for survival. They hoped to get a guarantee of survival from Jiang Yingxue.

The pressure Gogol put on Jiang Yingxue was already great, and now he was forced into the palace by a group of desperadoes. The anger in his heart flashed away, and then he gestured to Aaron again with his eyes.

"Bang!" A gunshot and the powerful blast of a large-caliber pistol made the entire underground cavity seem to vibrate. In an instant, the entire underground cavity was silent.

However, the sound of gunshots could suppress the noise, but it could not suppress the restlessness in the hearts of the desperadoes, and some of the desperadoes began to look unkindly.

As Bai Ning said before, working hard and dying are two different things. No one wants to be used as cannon fodder. Even if you really have such thoughts, you should express them in a more tactful way.

What's more, most of the heavy weapons are now in the hands of desperadoes, and they have the capital to use black guns to rebel.

The current situation was caused by Gogol.

Continuing to glance at Gogol, who looked indifferent, Bai Ning knew that this sudden pressure was obviously creating a sense of collective anxiety.

It will become more difficult to send people to explore the underground space in the future. This is enough to drive ordinary desperadoes, let alone let an absolute core like Gogol take risks easily.

This is an extremely risky identity binding that may cause the entire expedition plan to go bankrupt in an instant, but it will definitely ensure Gogol's safety during subsequent expeditions.

Even if we think more deeply, the three underground floors mentioned by Gogol as his responsibility are most likely just a stop-gap measure.

Perhaps the team led by Gogol has never broken through the illusion maze on the first two levels. As for the existence of the existence in the third level that can unlock the absolute secrets of the Tunguska region, it is most likely just Gogol's wishful thinking. .

True and false, false and true, everything Gogol said is to achieve its own purpose.

As for what this core purpose is, Bai Ning currently doesn't even know whether Gogol has entered the illusion maze, so it is even less possible to know what Gogol's ultimate purpose is.

Gogol's instability is indeed not comparable to someone like Ivan. To put it more pessimistically, Bai Ning even needs to be mentally prepared to be completely deceived by Gogol.

Assuming that Gogol is just a madman trapped and dead in the depths of the Tunguska Forest, then the only result this madman can bring is total destruction!