"What do you mean?"
After a moment of silence, Lu Yanli seemed to regain his voice and reason. His voice was dry. He looked at the brain in disbelief, then turned to look at his future self.
He didn't want to believe this was true, but his intuition told him that this might be true.
The faith he had held firmly for so many years collapsed at this moment. He wanted to seek a normal life, wanted the world to become normal, wanted all those people from the past to come back... But he didn't expect that he was the most abnormal person.
Oh, not really a human being.
Maybe he is the murderer who caused the changes in the world, a monster.
"No wonder... No wonder I want to erase my memory." Lu Yanli from another future raised his hands to cover his face, his shoulders shaking with laughter, "No wonder..."
No wonder he failed to destroy the institute last time, and could only inexplicably return to the past and continue to repeat the actions that killed his past self again and again.
"So, my parents..." Lu Yanli paused.
If memories are all false, how can family and friends be real
He didn't ask this question out loud, but his future self seemed to know what he wanted to ask and answered without thinking, "Is there any difference between real and fake?"
Two pairs of identical eyes looked at each other.
After a while, he continued to ask: "Is there any meaning?"
"Perhaps, have you heard of the concept of brain in a vat?" The human brain continued to speak.
"If you cut off a person's brain completely and connect it to a computer with an instrument so that he can feel everything he normally feels, and he can hallucinate all his actions, how can you prove that it is not this brain?"
"I..." Lu Yanli was stunned like never before.
This problem is not a problem for people with simple and direct thinking, because they will not think about it carefully. Lu Yanli is different. He is smart. When he encounters this kind of logical loop, especially the problem that is related to him, it is difficult for him not to think deeply.
How could he prove that what he experienced was not an illusion
This chaotic, strange, bizarre world, perhaps just an illusion of his
"No need to think. When I think I exist, I exist." Future Lu Yanli thought about it but didn't want to answer directly. "But you, do you know that you are just a brain?"
The brain answered readily: "I know. I often ask them for a mirror to look at my image. The old man said that I am very satisfied with my current life. When illusions can meet all needs, truth and falsehood are not that important."
"People always have all kinds of irrational ideas. No one can do everything right. Calculations can do it. That's me."
"Where is the machine they developed?" Lu Yanli of the future didn't want to waste any more time talking. He was worried that if he continued to listen, he might give up escaping like the previous one and re-enter a new reincarnation.
This time, he specifically chose the year when the budget was weakest, and he prepared for it for a long, long time.
Even if it is an illusion, he must choose the illusion he wants.
As long as a war breaks out between the two time and space, he can leave.
"If I am now a brain in a vat, how can I prove that what I see is not fake? How can I prove that the guess I made is true?" Before the brain could answer, he took a step forward and stretched out his hand holding the knife, with the blade lightly touching one of the sensor lines connected to the left mechanical brain.
Brain: "I really can't prove it, but I advise you not to disturb my hallucinations."
"What would happen otherwise?"
The brain suddenly laughed.
Its voice was very special, very popular, and it was hard to tell whether it was male or female, young or old, but it seemed to be heard everywhere. It laughed for a long time, and Lu Yanli kept staring at it, never putting down the knife in his hand.
"I can help you leave, but you have to take me with you." The brain said, "This world will be destroyed soon, and I need a new world to continue my fantasy. But the machine is not ready yet, and needs to be debugged again. The investigators are not here, so they have to go somewhere else."
"So, can you put the knife down now?"
A door frame appeared on the pure white wall behind the brain, and the door opened, as if beckoning them to go in.
Lu Yanli put away the knife and glanced at the man beside him who looked exactly like him, but did not move.
"Don't worry, the others won't be able to come back for the time being, or they won't be able to come back at all." The brain was still talking, "You see, I can't move by my own strength. This is the balance between me and them."
"I need you, and I hope you don't do anything stupid."
After entering the room, Lu Yanli asked his future self: "Is what it says true?"
"I hope not."
For a moment, the room fell into an unspeakable silence.
After a long time, another question was heard in the room.
"So what are we... doing? How do we contain them?"
This question has never been answered.
After waiting in the room for a long time, they suddenly heard a sound coming from outside the room.
It's the brain that's talking to people.
I don’t know if it was intentional, but their brain let them hear everything.
It does need to deal with a lot of things, such as dealing with marine infection problems, the death of all volunteers of the 14th investigator, and the problem of out-of-control of the shelter. As it said, humans will always be affected by irrelevant emotions and their reason. Only machines will not be affected and can make the best choice in many difficulties.
It also specifically mentioned the research and development of space shuttle machines, urging those people to conduct experiments immediately.
Lu Yanli did not believe its kindness and said, "Half of its brain belongs to the human brain, the right brain."
The left brain is responsible for logic, and the right brain is responsible for imagination. From the conversation just now, they can clearly feel that this brain is not like other machines that simply rely on calculations to make decisions. On the contrary, it is very similar to a highly rational human being.
The human brain is the most sophisticated instrument. Have those scientists really developed an instrument that is exactly the same as the human brain
Lu Yanli doesn't think so.
"Is it possible that half of the brain does belong to a human?" Lu Yanli speculated about his future self.
Currently, both of them were facing unknown dangers, so they stopped fighting tacitly and started thinking.
"Maybe." Lu Yanli in the future felt a bit of a headache. He had been constantly experiencing mazes, and every time he thought he had solved the final mystery, the world would reveal another layer of malice to him.
The future Lu Yanli suddenly remembered something: "Yes, there is a question and I need an answer."
"Is this our bet? I have destroyed every world I can go to, and I will come back after I am done."
"No, no, no, it's not this. I know I can do this." Lu Yanli, with scars on his face, thought for a moment and took out a piece of paper from his arms. "Is the information on this paper written by you?"
The younger man's pupils shrank: "Yes, why is it in your hand?"
On this piece of paper, Lu Yanli's weaknesses in the future were written in detail, and it was noted that most of the investigators from another world were controlled by him. He thought that he could use the chaotic time and space and the induction of the image to let other investigators pick them up, but he didn't expect that they would fall into his hands.
"How do you know?" He stared at his past self quietly, his eyes deep and suggestive.
"Yes..." Lu Yanli shook his head and frowned, "You'd better not give me any psychological hints. It's useless to hide this issue from you now. I will tell you."
The same person, with similar abilities, but the other person has much more experience than himself. If he really gives himself psychological hints, it would be difficult for Lu Yanli to guarantee that he could resist.
He told the whole story without reservation.
"So, they all said these words before they died?" The future Lu Yanli instinctively sensed that something was wrong.
The deaths of Zhuang Ci, Chu Xian, and Lin Chu... It sounds like the time between their memory awakening and death is getting longer and longer
If it is simply because the psychological suggestion fails, then it should be a collective failure and this effect of increasing time will not occur.
"We set up memory boxes so that they will self-destruct immediately after opening. How long is this "immediately"?"
"In a moment." said Lu Yanli from the future.
Now both of them felt something was wrong.
Before they could figure it out, the wall behind them slowly became transparent. When they turned around, their attention was immediately attracted by the scene in front of them.
Behind the transparent wall is the endless seabed. The originally turbid blue water has been infected with a fluorescent green. In the turbid green water, strange big fish with almost all flesh and blood faded away and only bones left are swimming around.
There was a thick layer of white unknown substance accumulated on the bottom. Looking closely, it seemed to be fish meat that had fallen from the surface of the fish body, falling down bit by bit and covering the thick sand on the original seabed.
Looking further ahead, one can see a vague red shadow. Falling down with it are the corpses of people or beasts that surround the red shadow. They fall down one after another, and the rotten flesh on their bodies keeps falling away. When they fall to the bottom, only a skeleton is left.
Lu Yanli suddenly thought of a not-so-appropriate word: whale fall.
According to legend, after a whale dies and sinks to the bottom of the sea, its body will provide food for other species for a long time.
These bodies seem to be...
Suddenly, the seawater outside the transparent wall surged up rapidly, and layers of emerald green seawater rushed up. Almost at the moment when the waves rolled down, a huge fish that had already mutated to the height of several stories crashed into the transparent wall.
The room trembled slightly.
"Oops, they still have vision."
"The room is very sturdy, there is no need to worry, my two friends." Before they could say anything, the voice of the human brain sounded from the corner of the room.
In the underground research institute, it is everywhere, and it is the top leader of the institute.
"Are we waiting here?"
"Once the machine is completed, this place will be absolutely safe." The human brain answered him.
"Absolutely safe?" One of them pointed at a huge red shadow in the distance. The shadow was so huge that its upper body was completely above the water. The room they were in was level with the shadow's legs. "It won't find us?"
"They are fighting. They are devouring those things and won't pay attention to this place." The human brain replied.
The last sentence had an upward ending, which suddenly made Lu Yanli feel creepy.
"Just like we once devoured the worm."