Prison Island

Chapter 31: The Way That Can Be Spoken Is Not the Constant Way

Gao Xin lifted 200 kilograms, while he weighed only 70 kilograms.

In other words, his strength is at least 2.9 times his body weight, or even 3 times, which reaches the limit of the human body.

Luo Yan felt a little dizzy, so he sat down with the help of something and took a rest.

Adrenaline wouldn't allow him to maintain as much strength today.

Luo Yan said after a while: "Have you really become a top-notch glass man? Have you really developed the potential of a normal person?"

"You really didn't strengthen it?"

Gao Xin grinned and said, "No, it's because of your blood."

"I was in that state yesterday. I trusted you so much that I really thought I had taken a drug that could develop my potential."

"Then at the last moment, with the power of the superior glass man, I deliberately waited for Dashanbei to approach, and used my last movable hand to kill him!"

Luo Yan slapped his face and said, "I just made that up! Is the placebo effect really that strong?"

Gao Xin grabbed his arm and said, "You're just that strong!"

"But it's not the placebo effect. Stop thinking about that useless principle. You have to put aside that illusion and see through the essence of the phenomenon!"

Luo Yan finally asked curiously: "Then...then tell me, what are the answers to the three ultimate questions?"

Gao Xin immediately gestured: "How should I put it... the universe has consciousness, and the consciousness of all of us is part of it."

"Just think of it as this incomparable, huge Holy Spirit from which we all come, through which we live in the physical world, and to which we return after we die."

"..." Luo Yan was speechless after hearing this.

Gao Xin said excitedly: "Every one of us is the Holy Spirit, and we are all perfect in spirit."

“What makes us different is the material world, but that’s okay. As long as the mind is strong enough, we can control our body.”

Luo Yan waved his hands and said, "No...you...you are not talking about metaphysics? That's too much."

"What mind, what consciousness? Can you distort reality?"

Gao Xin answered seriously, "Bend reality? I tried, but the laws of physics are too strong."

"Perhaps the Great Holy Spirit can distort the material world, but we are not enough. We are just one of its countless branches, trapped in a material body and can only affect this body."

Luo Yan frowned and said, "Does this metaphysical stuff you mentioned have any direct relationship with your extraordinary placebo effect?"

"Why do you think that using my blood to develop your potential proves your Holy Spirit?"

"Soul and the like are too much nonsense."

Gao Xin said seriously, "I just used the word soul to make it easier for you to understand. In fact, I didn't know how to describe it when I was a child."

Luo Yan pursed his lips and said, "Okay, I won't argue with the words, but I still can't understand the connection between the two. Maybe it's just that your brain has been strengthened, and is therefore particularly suitable for the placebo effect?"

Gao Xin laughed in silence and waved his hands repeatedly: "Your logic is wrong."

"The Great Holy Spirit of the Universe existed first, and we are all part of it, so I can use your blood to develop potential."

Luo Yan was stunned and scratched his head, "No... eh? Ah?"

"You said my logic is wrong? You got it backwards, right? I admit that you have developed your potential, but why do you think it is because of the existence of the Great Holy Spirit? Can't there be other reasons?"

Gao Xin said firmly: "No! This is the reason! Otherwise, I would not have succeeded. Why do you insist on not believing it?"

Luo Yan's facial features were distorted: "I want to believe it, but this doesn't make sense. What you said is illogical."

Gao Xin was so anxious that he stamped his feet and said, "That's logical!"

"This is an obvious thing."

Luo Yan was puzzled and said, "Go ahead and tell me."

Gao Xin looked solemn as he spoke a lot and made some movements.

Sometimes it's a loud voice, sometimes it's a vague whisper.

Sometimes he pointed at the air, sometimes he picked up things nearby and gestured. He felt like a madman.

But he didn't seem to be talking nonsense. His words gave people a sense of profoundness and mystery, as if he was really expounding on the great truth.

"No... I can understand every word you said, but when you put them together, I don't understand. It seems there is no logic at all!" Luo Yan grabbed his hair.

Although he didn't understand it, he felt it was unfathomable, as if it really concealed some truth. This feeling was driving him crazy.

Gao Xin was also very anxious: "Why can't you understand? This logic really exists and can be connected with countless phenomena, so it is not 'illogical'."

"It is also very correct, so it is not 'anti-logic' either."

"This is a positive logic, but you don't understand it, but I do! So I call it dark logic!"

"As long as you think of the dark logic, it's easy to combine these phenomena!"

His serious look almost drove Luo Yan crazy: "Why are you so sure? I don't understand!"

Gao Xin exclaimed, "I am absolutely certain! If you understand the logic, you will understand it too! You will also be certain!"

"Only if we first know the truth that everyone comes from the Great Holy Spirit can I trigger that method and produce such a result."

"Didn't you say this before? Everyone is equal. Since you know this, why don't you believe it?"

"And the placebo effect you mentioned, why don't you combine it with other phenomena? All phenomena in the world should follow a set of truths!"

"If this truth is wrong, how can I put together a technology? And can it be realized with my own consciousness?"

"Yes! Technology. I used the word technology. Do you understand?"

Luo Yan took a deep breath: "Okay, okay, let's all calm down..."

"Technology, right? Since it's technology, it's knowledge, then you can't be the only one who can do it. I should be able to do it too, right?"

Gao Xin nodded desperately: "I have always said that everyone can do it. Everyone is sacred. It must be like this, otherwise the result would not be like this... My logic cannot be missing a link! It is linked one by one! It is very rigorous!"

"Okay, okay..." Luo Yan interrupted: "I don't care about your principles, okay."

"Just like AI technology, I just need to know how to use it. Didn't you say there is a method? Teach me."

Gao Xin pondered for a moment, then began his mysterious explanation.

This time Luo Yan was even more confused because Gao Xin quoted a lot of words from Taoist classics.

Each of them is mysterious when taken individually, and even more indescribable when put together.

"What does it mean to abandon wisdom and intelligence, to abandon cleverness and profit? What is the mind? What is fasting? What is the mind of heaven pointing to the right and the mind of scheming pointing to the left?"

"You haven't been to school, have you? Where did you learn these words?"

Gao Xin was stunned. "I heard this from my Aunt Yao. She tells fortunes for others. I felt some of the words were very appropriate, so I used them. So you understand my description, right?"

Luo Yan frowned and said, "Abandon wisdom and intelligence, abandon cleverness and profit. This is from the Tao Te Ching. It means to abandon intelligence and return to innocence and simplicity..."

"As for the heart, it comes from Zhuangzi's "On the Equality of Things": The heart is not a piece of wood or stone, it is sensitive and connected, it is triggered by emotions and responds to changes in events."

“It means that when you feel a certain emotion or thought in your heart, your body will naturally produce corresponding actions or expressions.”

When he said this, he himself was stunned.

Gao Xin said excitedly: "Oh, yes, yes, that's what I mean, you understand!"

Luo Yan frowned in confusion: "No, what do I understand? This is what it means, but the author didn't mean what you said."

Gao Xin stamped his feet and said, "I don't care what the author means. I haven't read the book, but this is the only way I can describe it to you."

"Just try it, it's very simple!"

Luo Yan said dully: "What should I try? You didn't tell me the method."

"Be careful! Just believe it." Gao Xin said seriously.

Luo Yan gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I'll try!" He directly found a cup and prepared to cut his finger and drink the blood.

Gao Xin stopped him: "Your blood is in your body, what's the point of drinking it!"

"Drink this for you!"

He directly found a bottle of liquid from the warehouse, not knowing what it was.

"This is..." Luo Yan asked.

Gao Xin said: "This is the drug for developing potential, just drink it."

Luo Yan didn't ask any more questions and drank it all in one gulp.

He waited for a long time and tried to move heavy objects, but to no avail.

"No, I really believe it." Luo Yan shouted.

Gao Xin gritted his teeth and said, "You don't believe it. You won't feel any joy after drinking it."

"..." Luo Yan's mouth twitched and he said, "Because it's so hard to drink. What is this?"

Gao Xin pointed at him and said, "Look, you are instinctively questioning what this liquid in the meat storage could be..."

"If you really believe it, you will be very happy and touched. Your first reaction will probably be to thank me for giving you this bottle of medicine."

Luo Yan had been frantically repeating to himself to hypnotize himself into believing it, but after hearing this, thinking back, it seemed that he had not believed it just now.

Luo Yan went crazy for a moment: "No, this is too mysterious."

Gao Xin said: "It's not mysterious. You have to control your instincts."

Luo Yan scratched his head and said, "No, control your instincts? How do you control them?"

Gao Xin tapped his heart: "It's a skill, could you please be more careful?"

"This technique doesn't require any external instruments or equipment. It can be performed directly with the human mind and body. It's like suddenly learning to swim when you're drowning. The threshold is really low!"

Luo Yan didn't understand: "You didn't mention any skills, what skills are you talking about?"

"Didn't I say that?"

"Did you say that?"

"Didn't I say that?"

"Did you really say that?"

"Oh, it's... like this... it's..." Gao Xin danced and talked nonsense.

While saying all sorts of seemingly illogical things, he ran to Luo Yan and gestured wildly, then ran behind him and held up the frozen mouse.

He even danced and muttered to himself, and kept talking about something, very seriously.

He was really trying to teach Luo Yan a certain method and make him understand a certain technique.

However, the more Luo Yan listened, the more confused he became, as if he was struck by a huge mystery.

"what are you talking about?"

"I understand every word you said, but I don't understand when you put them together!"

“Although I don’t understand it, I think it’s amazing!”

Gao Xin grabbed Luo Yan and shook him madly: "It's so simple! It's really so simple!"

"Why can't you understand? Why can't you understand?"

Luo Yan was almost driven crazy by him: "I really don't understand, what are you talking about? I feel like you are talking nonsense to me!"

"I really feel like you're making this up!"

Gao Xin glared at him, then suddenly stretched out his arm, rolled up his sleeves and motioned him to look: "Look! Look! This oven is getting hotter! Don't you feel it's hot?"

Luo Yan thought he was hallucinating again, but when he took a look, he was stunned on the spot!
Gao Xin's outstretched arm seemed to be burned. The skin turned red and soon blistered, with large areas of burns and scalds appearing.

"What the hell!" Luo Yan was stunned.

They were in a cold storage, and Gao Xin actually got himself burned out of nowhere!
"How easy it is, brother!" Gao Xin was demonstrating a wonderful human skill, but his tone was as if he was demonstrating a phenomenon as straightforward as free fall.

"As long as you feel like you're being burned, your brain can make your body appear to be really burned. I call this the virtual projection."

Luo Yan's eyes widened: "Imaginary reflection?"

He also remembered another experiment, blindfolding the prisoner and scratching his wrist with the back of a knife, without actually cutting it, but letting warm water flow through his skin, giving him the illusion that he was bleeding. After a while, the prisoner died without suffering any substantial injury.

Although it is different from Gao Xin’s current situation, the ability of the brain nerves to influence the body is indeed very strong.

He could understand that everything Gao Xin showed had traces to follow, and it was not something that humans had not discovered at all. In fact, its appearance had been discovered long ago. It was just that the application and development of it was not as good as Gao Xin's. The power of various related effects was surprisingly great on him.

It was as if Gao Xin had grasped the true relationship between the mind and the body, and grasped some essence and mystery, but this mystery Gao Xin could not teach, and he found it difficult to understand.

Luo Yan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly came to his senses and said in surprise: "Stop! Brother, stop now!"

Gao Xin stopped, and as his wound stopped getting worse, he motioned for him to try too.

Luo Yan, however, had a sad face and stared at his arm for a long time.

Finally he said dejectedly: "No... I can't do it!"

"Tsk..." Gao Xin felt very uncomfortable, looking at the various bizarre logical images in his hallucinations.

"How can I tell you... How can I tell you..."

He looked up to the sky and sighed.

When consciousness completely switches to sensory mode, the logical processing stage of identifying external information seems to be skipped.

External information directly impacts him in the form of very simple data, and he can only process it with sensibility, imagination and emotion.

It was difficult for him to describe this feeling using human logic, and the more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt.

I felt stuffy and depressed, as if ants were crawling all over my body! It was as if something was entangled inside my skin, but I couldn't break free or scratch it.

Luo Yan saw that Gao Xin was going crazy, twitching from time to time, his hands and neck were twisted, and his face looked like he was constipated.

"Why can't you understand..."

"You have a mouth and can talk, but you can't learn to sing? It's really so simple!" Gao Xin almost moaned.

Wow, this complaint is so sharp that it makes Luo Yan depressed, as if he is a fool.

Seeing how uncomfortable he was, Luo Yan hurriedly said, "Forget it, forget it, forget it. I won't learn it anymore. You don't have to teach me. Just think of it as your superpower, okay?"

Gao Xin was helpless: "It's really not a superpower. You have it too if you come here!"

Luo Yan didn't care, and waved his hand and said: "Alright, I really don't understand this hidden logic, but I believe it, okay, I will respect it!"

"Let's all calm down first."

Gao Xin nodded and turned his consciousness back to his left brain.

He regained his rational thinking, thought about it, shook his head and sighed: "It's worthy of being called dark logic. I can't teach it no matter what."

"Brother, if you understand, then you understand. If you don't, there's nothing I can do."

"The Tao that can be spoken of is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name."

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ps: Sorry.

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