Arcane Lord

Just when Sha Duo was about to launch a surprise attack in a drow way, he didn't know if it was an illusion or not, but he suddenly heard a voice in the dark constantly warning him not to do so.

Upon discovering the anomaly, Xia Duo immediately became alert. Regardless of whether there was such a sound or not, it seemed that it was no longer the best time to launch a surprise attack.

After quietly exiting Gurnet's study, Shado stopped in the shadows in the courtyard outside. After calming down, he gradually realized the problem.

Perhaps it was still the aftereffects of the previous immersive experience of "Brandon"'s memory, which allowed him to adapt to Zall's way of thinking and behavior almost effortlessly.

Perhaps his conscious mind often reminds him that he is Shado, not Brandon, but the subconscious influence is difficult to eliminate.

Therefore, when he thought of practicing, he immediately chose to do it in the Zhuoer way, and his conscious mind did not notice any abnormality at all, just thinking that it was just his own idea.

It wasn't until he took action that he suddenly realized that maybe his subconscious was not willing to be polluted by the outside world!

After thinking about this, Xia Duo couldn't help but lament that this projection trip was really full of accidents. First he suffered in the light prison, then he suffered from abnormal eyes, and now there is subconscious pollution. He doesn't know if it will happen again in the future. What an unexpected situation!

But the most important thing now is no longer the so-called training, but solving the problem of consciousness as soon as possible. Thinking of this, Sha Duo immediately left the Gurnet Library without looking back.

After that, he retreated all the way until he was far away from Domtos City, then he found a hiding place and entered the portable space.

If he doesn't want to leave this projection plane, only in the portable space can he avoid the influence of this drow body to the greatest extent.

As for the existing consciousness pollution, Xia Duo is not helpless.

This so-called pollution is not enough to mix a large amount of information to organize certain thinking and behavioral logic. As long as we can clarify the root causes and trace the original self-cognition, we can avoid these pollutions well.

And this is exactly what Xia Duo is good at.

With the ability to trace back memory, he can restore to the greatest extent his thoughts at every moment in the past, and can "record" any bit of external information without having to worry about himself receiving unknown influences at a certain moment. .

It’s just that this ability must be used frequently, just like the backup of computers on earth. A time node can only prove that it is safe before that time. If you want to back up again later (confirm safety), you need to recheck the last backup to What happened between this backup.

Of course, human consciousness is always affected by external information all the time, and the whole is in a relatively stable and dynamically balanced state.

This state can be understood as a person's [personality], or [mental model].

If the soul is hardware, then personality is probably the software running on this hardware.

Compared with the soul, Xia Duo feels that personality can better represent a person's self.

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Of course, since personality is a relatively stable and dynamically balanced state of consciousness, Chateau does not reject changes in personality.

It's just that these changes must be changes after his past personality has been determined. If it is a change that has not been confirmed and accepted, it can only be classified as external pollution.

The ancients in my hometown often said, "I examine myself three times every day", which actually means this.

Once a person develops a relatively satisfactory three views, he will continue to operate in this mode in the future. However, if he wants to continue to operate stably, he must always introspect and maintain this mode.

It is said to be a change, but actually it is more appropriate to say it is an "autonomous upgrade".

Xia Duo was naturally relatively satisfied with his previous personality state, and now it was obviously not the so-called [autonomous upgrade].

Therefore, after realizing that the drow's memory had a considerable impact on himself, he immediately gave up his original action and began to introspect himself.

Self is the top priority, which is whether a person is himself or not. Other issues are based on "I am who I am".

If "I" becomes "not myself", what's the point of everything else!

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In the hidden place, Xia Duo maintains the overlapping state of the portable space and the projection plane, which is equivalent to being in the portable space and the projection plane at the same time.

As for tracing back memories, it is enough for him to be in the state of being in the portable space to eliminate the interference caused by the projected body.

Not long before entering the projection position this time, Xia Duo had just carried out a full memory retrospective. Of course, it was also the first time. It could be regarded as saving a "backup" of his personality.

His current tracing started from that "backup".

There was nothing abnormal during the period before entering the projection plane. Until he was projected as the drow "Brandon", a large amount of external information continued to pour into his memory and impact his consciousness.

Looking back into the past again, starting from the past "backup" personality, Xia Duo re-examined almost bit by bit, and soon he discovered how this information changed his personality bit by bit.

In layman's terms, some information is automatically marked as "trusted files" by his subconscious mind. As these "trusted files" accumulate, they automatically combine into a "virus"-like existence, which is different from his normal personality, and the thinking and behavior patterns that interfere with his normal personality. To put it more bluntly, it is "Brandon's personality."

Now, what Xia Duo has to do is to temporarily ignore the automatic judgments made by his subconscious mind in the past, and use his past "backup personality" to make active judgments again.

All this is very time-consuming and labor-intensive, almost as much as re-experience the experience after entering the projection plane, and it is also the kind of detailed information, including all the information from all angles of perception, including the normal five senses, the magic network, and even intuition.

Among them, the most difficult thing was not the life-or-death experience in the light prison, but the time when he immersed himself in Brandon's memories.

Although the time spent in the projection plane was very short, even less worth mentioning compared to the main plane, it actually lasted for hundreds of years in Sha Duo's consciousness.

Over the past few hundred years, Brandon has received all the information he perceived including his normal five senses, the magic network, and even his intuition.

A large amount of information accumulates, and even if there is a conscious self-protection mechanism, it is difficult not to have a negative impact on consciousness.

In other words, it is a miracle that Xia Duo has not been assimilated into "Brandon"!

Perhaps it was because of his rich experiences on earth, or perhaps because of his new soul state after his last bloodline awakening, which played a positive role in stabilizing his consciousness.

But no matter what, he is now on the verge of putting things right and clearing things up!