Urban Legends: The Legacy of Ancient Civilizations

The subsequent journey seemed a little too smooth. Soon Bai Ning arrived at the second elevator shaft. He shined the flashlight downwards and found that the scattering range of the aperture was obviously hazy, making it impossible to see clearly what the darkness under the aperture was.

Looking at this situation alone, as shown in the 3D diagram, this is a through-elevator shaft connecting the three-story building.

Without any hesitation, Bai Ning used the rope to descend quickly again.

After landing at the elevator door on the second floor, Bai Ning paused deliberately and shined the flashlight inside. He found that there was a bare area inside the light column, which seemed to be a very wide space.

It's a very strange feeling, like an elusive dream of nothingness. You can watch it, but you can't actually touch it, nor can you exactly control it.

You are in this dark path that seems to be far away, with no way out and no end.

Suppressing the uncomfortable feeling in his heart, Bai Ning continued to descend down to the third underground floor. When his feet landed, he felt a very solid touch. When the strong flashlight shined on them, it felt like concrete.

This is very interesting.

Previously, the elevator shaft on the second floor had a rock floor, but the elevator shaft on the third floor had a concrete floor. The two seemed to be completely reversed.

Are the three underground floors really just a void space existing in a maze of illusions?

Quickly breaking up the process of strengthening this point of view, Bai Ning climbed out of the elevator shaft neatly, and what he saw was still an unusually wide office space.

It's just that the tables, chairs and benches here are in a mess. Judging from the various remaining traces, it seems that the people here were extremely panicked when they evacuated.

There are also some burned-out pitch black braziers in some areas on the ground, and the ashes inside show that a large number of paper documents were physically eliminated.

This space is much more logical than the first one. Kick over a table, it has a decaying and dull texture, and the metal part hits with a very clear sound, a very perfect performance of the physics engine.

The overall visual experience is as if this three-story underground space actually exists.

However, regardless of whether the three underground floors were virtual or not, all Bai Ning's perceptions at this time only existed in an illusion.

This feeling is very subtle. Feeling the illusion in the real environment and feeling the illusion in the virtual illusion are really different.

Need to go deeper?

Staring at the silent darkness not far away, Bai Ning seemed to have only this thought in his mind.

It was very inexplicable. Bai Ning's footsteps echoed in this empty dark space, as if Bai Ning's body was acting on its own.

However, this body itself is a part of the illusion, so how can it be said that it is autonomous or involuntary?

It's a very strange feeling to feel your body moving on its own.

It was as if Bai Ning's body and consciousness had been completely separated at this time.

During the previous reasoning and summary process, Bai Ning had already clarified the state of separation of body and consciousness at the core of the illusion. How could it happen again in the illusion?

Could it be that being in this virtual three underground floors will produce a new operating logic?

In other words, whether you can enter the three underground floors is a matter of mutual choice.

Whether you can enter the third underground floor involves a screening process at the core of the illusion; wanting to leave is not subjectively decided by the entrant.

Seeing that he had fallen into a passive state due to a moment of hesitation, Bai Ning quickly concentrated and meditated, trying to regain control of his body.

Under such subjective will, Bai Ning felt that his walking seemed to be following his own will. He scanned a wider area with his flashlight and found an old and decaying wooden door not far away.

The decoration design is incompatible with the surrounding environment. Behind this original wooden door, it seems to be a small wooden house deep in a dense forest. It is unknown who lives there.

Is this what Illusion Core wants to guide contact with?

After just a moment of confusion, Bai Ning pushed open the door and walked in. A wave of air mixed with the smell of damp moss hit his face, making people feel like he was in a damp forest covered with moss.

The door was open, and there was still darkness behind it. Feeling this crazy and primitive atmosphere, Bai Ning did not expect that there would be an endless coniferous forest behind the door.

Bai Ning was not afraid to see an endless stretch of primitive jungle, but here he encountered a primitive dense forest. This could only be described as a ghost, dangerous and strange, with some incredible weirdness.

He slowly raised his flashlight and shined it in, only to see a pale face.

Gogol! ! !

Suddenly meeting Gogol here, Bai Ning's determined heart suddenly jumped.

Why is he here? !

In this fictional three-story underground space, in this special place guided by the core of the illusion, in this primitive jungle mixed with the smell of moss, why is there Gogol? !

Could it be that what Gogol said about actively deleting the contents of the illusion was leaving a certain memory of his in the core of the illusion?

This pale-faced Gogol is the inner demon left here by Gogol outside, the inner demon that can never leave the core of this illusion.

The look was too psychedelic, beyond all expectations. Looking at Gogol standing not far away, Bai Ning didn't know how to communicate.

"Did I bring someone here again?"

Inexplicably, this sentence suddenly popped up in Bai Ning's mind, even though Gogol opposite him didn't speak.

In addition to the strange form, the content of these words is even more earth-shattering.

This part of memory abandoned by Gogol, he actually still has his own self-thinking and judgment, and can subjectively judge that the Gogol outside is the ontology, and it is the existence abandoned here by Gogol.

This feeling can no longer be described as a clone. The overall feeling is more like a clone.

Or, it is the splitting or copying of one's own soul.

Could it be that the control of the individual soul by the core of the illusion has reached this level?

Or perhaps, this is the ability Gogol acquired by using the core of the illusion. What he calls memory abandonment is actually the abandonment of part of his own soul.

Using some supernatural theory to explain Gogol's repeated expeditions to the outpost research base is the natural affinity of the soul.

It is precisely because of the natural longing deep in his soul that Gogol led a large number of expedition teams to this outpost research base.

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Is it the real Gogol who leaves here, or the fake Gogol? "

Soul and body, if the core of the illusion can really completely separate the body and will, can it also copy the human will?

If a new consciousness is transplanted into the body, will the person still be the same person?

This strange speculation all originated from the triplet brain transplant experiment in Bai Ning's mind.

If the brains of identical twins are replaced with each other, will the triplets still be the same triplets?

Has the relationship between the nervous system, consciousness, and soul been successfully cracked by the Atlantean civilization?

The Gogol in front of him seems to have all the answers to this conjecture.

“It’s all true, it’s all false.

Now that you have stepped into the boundary of illusion, do you think you are real or fake at this moment?

Being able to come here means that you have automatically broken away from the shackles of the safety rope. Your body has been completely lost in the underground space. Can you return to the starting point? What do you think you rely on?

Or, to put it another way, is it you at this time that can lead the return of your body, or is it something else? "

Pale Gogol's face moved slightly, but the words he spoke were horrifying. He vaguely pointed at the core of the illusion and could copy a false consciousness to dominate the body's return.

This kind of thing is explained by the VR brain-computer interface model. When a person is addicted to game content, artificial intelligence will take care of the body and help the gamer manage the daily activities of the body.

Artificial intelligence is actually just an analogy. Once AI passes the Turing test, does it mean that humans have created a living person through a ball of virtual data?

So, is this virtual data a mass of independent consciousness or a sound soul? !

If consciousness and soul can be artificially created, then can the core of the illusion that can successfully separate consciousness and body use artificial intelligence to regain control of the body?

Could it be that the learning interactive system or the military simulation interactive system that Bai Ning had imagined before were actually wrong. This so-called core of the illusion is actually an artificial intelligence simulation system.

The so-called endless illusion is actually to analyze and copy a person's past as much as possible, and to test a person's reaction as much as possible.

In this way, after a long period of training, the core of the illusion can copy an identical artificial intelligence program.

So, if the successfully copied artificial intelligence takes control of the body, will this existence that is exactly the same as the original owner still be the original owner?

Based on Pale Gogol's previous response, "It's all true and it's all false." When a stripped-out consciousness or soul is completely copied, can it really be possible to distinguish between truth and falsehood in the future?

Just like the six-eared macaque that became Sun Wukong, when all the gods can't tell the difference between the two, then is the one designated by Tathagata really the six-eared macaque?

"Are you saying that in this maze of illusions, there are actually countless me wandering aimlessly?"

Artificial intelligence is nothing more than a program that can be copied countless times. This is the most basic conjecture, and it is also a frightening conjecture.

The Illusion Core's learning of human consciousness is not one-way, and its iteration method cannot be single. Therefore, even if Bai Ning has only entered the Illusion three times, this does not mean that the Illusion Core's understanding of him is minimal. .