In the blink of an eye, the sound of the tide receded and the sunlight converged.
The three returned to the brain corridor.
Behind him was a door that could no longer be opened.
The numbness of his body disappeared, and all the remaining water marks on Jiang Fang's disbanded silver hair also dried up.
It was as if the entire ocean was under the sun, and all the past and memories were evaporated into foam.
The chewing noises in the hallway no longer sounded.
What was left for them was a heart-pounding emptiness.
The medullary carpet undulates and wriggles at an extraordinary speed, proving that the brain is in a state of extraordinary activity at the moment.
Everything is pointing to the end where they are going.
—The sixth door, which could not be opened originally, has now opened silently.
The heavy door opened quietly to the five.
At the lock button, the five nicks and ravines were already full of redness, like a bloodshot eyeball, staring at them from a distance.
After two consecutive days of use, Li Yinhang's mobile phone finally lost battery life. The screen was turned off and could no longer be turned on.
The only thing that could be illuminated in the corridor was the meager light from behind the door.
It seemed to be a troubling high-pressure deep sea, a small lantern that angler fish used to catch their prey.
Li Yinhang, who had escaped from death just now, looked at the light that was indistinguishable from good and bad, and swallowed his saliva unconsciously.
She looked at Nan Zhou and asked with her eyes: Are you going in here
Nan Zhou stroked his lips and seemed to be thinking about something.
Li Yinhang looked at him eagerly, waiting for his reply.
After some careful deliberation, Nan Zhou spoke up.
"You kissed me just now." Nan Zhou looked at Jiang Fang, "This is not the same as the kiss in the forest."
Li Yinhang: "..."
Jiang Fang: "..."
Li Yinhang immediately took a step forward without looking sideways, and straightly distanced himself from the two of them, in order to pretend that he didn't hear anything.
Nan Zhou cautiously verified: "In the forest, you kissed me because you were hungry. Just now, it was also for the mission. But every time my body has different degrees of strange reactions, I'm thinking, why is this—"
Jiang Fang held Nan Zhou's head firmly and pressed down, so that he might have a chance to find the thin redness on his face: "Let's go out and talk about it."
Nan Zhou was hit straight by Rua.
He thought about it for a while, felt that Jiang Fang was right, and nodded: "Well."
Jiang Fang: "Yinhang, go ahead."
Li Yinhang was listening to the small talk with his ears pricked up when Jiang Fang suddenly called his name.
Seeing her walk a distance, Jiang Fang lowered his voice and said to Nan Zhou, "Don't say anything."
Nan Zhou was curious: "Why?"
Jiang Fang clamped his auricle with the knuckles of his index and middle fingers, and gently tugged: "Just tell me."
Nan Zhou let out an "oh", rubbed his hot ears, and walked towards the end of the journey with the other two.
They can finally achieve the final "exploration".
Last time, when Nan Zhou came here, there was a gurgling eye in the keyhole, blocking his sight and preventing him from peeping inward.
Of course, Nan Zhou also gave a proper gift in return.
—He poked its eyeballs.
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, beautiful fantasy, and beautiful colors.
Even the dark wolf happy house gave them an illusory dream.
But inside this door, oncoming is another door.
It was pitch black all around.
Only a small lamp inlaid by the door, and a display screen flashing blue light on the door leaf, provide a light source for the gap of less than a few square meters between the two doors.
…suddenly technological.
For a time, everyone was at a loss.
It was like a utopian world full of illusory colors filled with warm tones, suddenly falling back to cold reality.
After detecting the presence of the three people, a burst of electricity flashed across the display screen.
Soon, a line of words flashed on the screen.
"Please select the room that the inspector will enter."
... "inspector"
Before Nan Zhou could figure out the meaning of this code, a cross-sectional view of the human brain appeared in front of them.
Obviously it was his choice.
Nan Zhou tried to touch the screen, and found that this cross-sectional view of the brain is strictly and finely divided into 52 functional blocks.
The background color of the blocks is white.
Nan Zhou's fingertips slowly crossed the screen.
Wherever his fingertips can reach, the blocks he touches will turn blue, which is different from the other white blocks.
In the sixth door, it is not a fairy tale game.
It's a general exam room that checks their previous knowledge of all levels.
If there is a person with a superior sense of space in the player team, even if he does not know the structure of the brain, he can map it according to the tortuous corridor, so as to calculate which functional area of the brain the level they enter belongs to.
And Nan Zhou's computer memory helped them save this time-consuming and laborious step.
Nan Zhou faced the icy display screen and clicked on the location of the first room they entered.
… the prefrontal lobe responsible for learning and movement.
Since they stepped into this deep, dull brain corridor, Nan Zhou began to draw pictures in his mind.
He was thinking, what kind of person is the master of the brain.
At the beginning of entering the library level, Nan Zhou felt that this was a person who loved to read.
But when he really threw himself into the labyrinth of books, Nan Zhou could be sure that such thousands of books should not be read by a normal person.
Even if you live for a hundred years and read one book a day, you can only read more than 30,000 books in a lifetime, without taking away the age when you can't understand complex characters, and if you don't take away the time spent eating and sleeping.
The bookshelves that can form a large labyrinth in front of you, there are more than 100,000 volumes inside
In addition to being able to see that the owner of this brain has a special preference for chess books, the scope of this brain's reading is simply unbelievable.
After completing the double game with the tin soldier and the chess player behind the door, they walked out of the library.
The owner of the brain is still eating continuously, as if he is not worried about bursting his belly.
It was as if the man had four stomachs in his belly to allow him to overeat like this.
At that time, Nan Zhou felt a little weird, but he just recorded it silently and didn't make a sound.
Out of the frontal lobe, they go to the amygdala.
…
Facing the monitor, Nan Zhou clicked on a small, almond-shaped pituitary.
…
The fairy tale of [Wild Swan] tests "fear".
Nan Zhou and Li Yinhang were treated as goose and stayed by the stepmother who disguised as Alyssa.
Nanzhou, who turned into a swan, peeked at the door knocker while secretly pondering the weirdness of this level.
In [Xiao Ming's daily life], they experienced a similar situation.
"Xiao Ming" turned his fear into the whole family and the ghosts in the family.
In other words, if it is a level related to "fear", they are in someone else's brain and should experience the fear of the owner, not their own.
But when "Alyssa" chose, she told them that anyone can go.
And Jiang Fang's experience after his return proved that Nan Zhou's assumption was correct.
The [Wild Swan] level uses the player's own fear.
Jiang Fang was afraid of heights.
Therefore, what he faced was one heavy mountain after another that he had to climb.
This inevitably made Nan Zhou even more puzzled.
Does the owner of this brain have no fear of his own
Could it be that his amygdala, only when stimulated by outsiders like them, can secrete substances that represent the emotion of "fear"
After a good rest and the removal of the stepmother's mask, 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 did not stop at all.
Squeak, squeak, squeak.
The master of the brain is enjoying the food endlessly.
Such endless gluttonous behavior has an inexplicable sense of mystery in itself.
After the amygdala, they enter the hormone-filled pineal gland.
In that closed cabin, Nan Zhou had a dream.
However, after waking up, there was only a large blank in his mind.
He didn'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 object, 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 process of love and love based on the player's experience.
Ending their pineal adventure, the three of them re-entered the hallway.
As a result, in the corridor, the sound of chewing food that had been resounding suddenly disappeared, only the strange sound of gurgling water.
Next, they entered the nucleus doubtful of the brainstem, which is full of vagus nerves.
In this game, they experience unprecedented hunger.
… also experienced an unprecedented nesting doll game.
In this level, there are two fairy tales with hunger themes, "Candy House" and "The Girl Who Stomps on Bread".
Nan Zhou couldn't help but associate the sound of chewing that disappeared in the corridor with this connection.
- When the brain stops eating, the host immediately goes into a state of extreme hunger.
This is very different from what they encountered in the amygdala and pineal gland.
In the previous level, the game used their memory to influence them.
This time, the hunger that comes with the game has become a level that traps them and affects them.
When the thinking advanced to this point, Nan Zhou had probably already pieced together this weird portrait of the "brain master".
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 "Sea of Memory" can only judge whether the player's memory is true or false based on the mechanical data standards, and constantly collect the player's memory and keep it for himself.
…
After briefly reviewing their journey along the way, Nan Zhou lowered his hand.
Before his eyes, the five rooms they had walked through had condensed into five blue blocks on the display.
A prefrontal lobe filled with too much knowledge.
The amygdala that cannot generate fear on its own.
The pineal gland is unable to generate sexual desire on its own.
The vagus nerve that transmits hunger signals uncontrollably.
Unable to understand what "memory" is in the hippocampus.
…and, indirect, constant chewing in the hallway.
After Nanzhou lit up the last seahorse-shaped block, the display screen turned gray.
A circle whirled around the center of the screen.
After a while, it jumped out of the gray text of "verification successful".
Such silent, depressing, and mechanical words made the surrounding atmosphere so heavy and sticky that it was impossible to breathe.
Nan Zhou let out a deep breath of the turbid air in his lungs.
The closed door in front of him slowly opened.
Nan Zhou and the others gradually explored the last level of [Brain Invasion].
And here is the truth of [brain invasion].
- They entered the final room, the visual center.
A transparent glass room with a 360-degree panoramic view.
The brilliance suddenly lit up around him, so that Li Yinhang couldn't help blocking his eyes.
When she regained her ability to see things again, she heard Nan Zhou let out a soft sigh: "It really is like this."
She narrowed her eyes and looked carefully.
They appeared to be submerged in a light blue sea, like three divers who had been put into a diving cage and sunk to the bottom of the ocean for exploration.
However, when she looked at it again, she was shocked to find that—
What they were in was a petri cube filled with pale blue nutrient solution.
In the petri dish, there is nothing else but the brain.
… only a milky, whole brain like a giant walnut.
Li Yinhang shuddered and looked around.
Outside the transparent glass, there are pits and valleys lined up, all of which are brains like this.
Farther away, there was a team of monsters two and a half meters tall with slender hands and feet. They stopped and walked beside this row of petri dishes, carefully selected and carefully screened.
Li Yinhang was very familiar with their eyes.
It's like the eyes of diners who are picking fish and shrimp in a vegetable market.
Even more creepy to her were the labels affixed to the outside of their petri dishes.
Even though the label is reversed, she clearly recognizes the font on it:
— "Name: Feed Box No. 1921".
- "Specification: 90x90x90 standard feeding box"
- "Level: Premium"
— "Food Maturity: 80":,