Dream Guide

At this moment, Situ was standing in the wind, leading his "people" to prepare for the attack.

Aoki could feel some subtle changes in the nearby mental force field, but Situ's control was obviously very subtle, and it did not affect anyone except him and the savages at all.

He saw that the scepter in Situ's hand was emitting silver light. Its shape was somewhat similar to the black sacred wood staff he had seen before, but the material was obviously different. Intuitively, that one is made of wood, and this one is made of metal or stone.

The savages were moving regularly under Situ's command. It was hard to tell anything from their formation. As Petru said, it was just a piece of loose sand. But if you use your mental power to sense carefully, you will find that the savage's position is very subtle, and the mental force field twists between them into a strange state of connection.

Aoki thought of octopus and the Internet again. He already knew the tentacles of the Internet. He also caught one in the basement of Mei's Experimental Building. He had reached a certain consensus with the ghost and even risked it to have the possibility of self-evolution. He just wanted to know, the Internet Where is the brain?

Su Huilan suddenly asked him: "When these savages were controlled by the scepter, were they voluntary or forced? Do you think they are an independent consciousness at this time, or are they part of a community consciousness?"

Aoki said: "I really don't know this, but from experience, their state should be similar to being hypnotized. In a group real-life dream, they have their own independent consciousness, but are subject to unified dispatch and control, or use The analogy of an octopus is more appropriate, I can’t think of a more vivid way of saying it.”

Qingmu had already come out of Su Huilan's dream, and there was no need to avoid talking about this kind of topic to Situ.

Su Huilan pondered for a while: "This already feels a bit like a high-dimensional creature."

"Higher dimensional creatures?"

"Yes, if you think about it, the octopus's neural structure is actually not complicated, but it is decentralized. It has a main brain and eight accessory brains. Each tentacle can be regarded as an accessory brain with an independent nerve center, but No one would treat this tentacle as an independent living body, but who knows whether it has consciousness?

If this tentacle is conscious, think further, what if this tentacle is a person?

If you think of a group of hundreds of savages as an octopus, each person is equivalent to a tentacle, but you don't think of these people as living beings, do you?

There are only very few nerve fiber connections between the octopus tentacles and the brain, which can filter out most of the inefficient information and only receive high-level instructions from the brain, while the low-level information is analyzed by the tentacles themselves and made behavioral decisions. Therefore, the octopus's prey can be accomplished independently by its tentacles without going through the brain.

Many tentacles are connected together to form a common consciousness with the octopus's brain, and it becomes an advanced life. Similarly, the bodies and brains of many savages are connected to another advanced brain through some kind of mind control method——"

Su Huilan glanced at Situ, "Is that a high-dimensional life, or should we call it a four-dimensional octopus model?"

"Four-dimensional octopus?" The people next to him felt a little scared.

Before Aoki could imagine what the octopus looked like, the coal boss above his head had already shouted: "Wow, cool! How about making a plate of four-dimensional grilled octopus skewers?"

The crow waited for a long time, but no one came to him, so he had no choice but to close his mouth in boredom.

Mrs. Larry, who had been listening, interrupted at this time: "This is really an interesting idea! The four-dimensional octopus - that means that higher-dimensional creatures may be composed of three-dimensional creatures like us, and our consciousness It is the "partial consciousness" of high-dimensional beings scattered in the universe, and our bodies are just their "neurons" or tentacles!

It would be very interesting if there really was such life in the universe. Its brain lives in four dimensions or higher, but its invisible tentacles extend to the entire universe, forming intelligent creatures that think they are independent in the three-dimensional world! "

Su Huilan added: "It may be able to transcend time and space. Its tentacles not only extend to every corner of space, but also extend to the timeline that we cannot touch." She looked at Situ and the mobilizing savages and deliberately raised their tone, " For example, this brain might be able to control a savage here, a cat from Earth, and a dinosaur from the Triassic at the same time!”

Boris listened for a long time but didn't understand. He said impatiently: "You scientists are really interesting. You are at war now! Do you understand war? During the war, you still have the mind to talk about what a four-dimensional octopus! What a high-dimensional Life! Then tell me, where is the brain you are talking about? Can it help us fight off the savages over there and let me have a good sleep? "

After Boris said this, everyone became quiet and stopped talking. Indeed, it is a bit inappropriate to say this now.

Petru deeply agreed with Boris's words and said: "Boris, do you want to fight with me? We have guns. As long as Mr. Stone holds back the old wizard, we can kill him without leaving a trace!" "

Boris said disdainfully: "Go away, who wants to be with a notorious pirate!"

Petru took out a grenade and weighed it in his hand: "You will be willing."

Boris curled his lips, but his eyes shone.

Just when everyone was silent, Situ suddenly turned around and said, "Do you know the Boltzmann brain?"

"What?"

Aoki, Su Huilan, and Mrs. Larry all knew about the Boltzmann brain, of course, but they didn't know what Situ meant when he suddenly said this.

"The four-dimensional octopus, your metaphor is spot on! It is lying on the Milky Way, its tentacles pass through black holes and the mists of time, and reach into your brain... Each of us - is its tentacles!"

After Situ finished speaking, he turned around and stood there motionless, leaving only his back, as if he had never moved and what he just said was just everyone's illusion.

Aoki looked up at the sky. There was no Milky Way in the sky, only a red sun that had just risen. The strange thing is that behind the sun, there is a little sun.

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Due to the addition of the third wave of savages, the original balance of the confrontation was broken, resulting in a moment of chaos. However, the three parties quickly calmed down and each took their own positions, forming a new balance. This balance is more stable than the previous one, because everyone is worried that if they make any changes, the other two parties will unite.

No one spoke anymore, and even the savages stopped howling. The atmosphere in the mountains and forests became very strange. The air was dull and solemn. The wind seemed to be frightened by this atmosphere and did not dare to come. It only shivered on the treetops far away.

The crow scratched the feathers on its neck with its claws and cried out dissatisfied: "You didn't even eat breakfast, so you went out to fight!"

Its voice was not loud at first, but now it was amplified more than ten times like using a loudspeaker. It buzzed in people's ears, and even it itself was startled: "Whoa! What's going on?! "

The sound of this sentence was louder than before, like thunder in the mountains and forests.

With a bang, the original calm and balance were broken.

I don't know who among the three great wizards raised the scepter in his hand first, and the stable mental force field in the valley suddenly became chaotic.