Life Copy Game

Dim lights illuminate the dull road ahead.

The invisible pollution that spreads in every inch of space is like a dull drum beating on people's hearts, one after another.

Zhang Yusi raised his head and glanced at He Ao in front of him, then lowered his head and looked at the blood-stained road under his feet.

They had only walked out for more than a hundred meters, and the corridor they saw was basically an empty area that had been destroyed, or electronic equipment that had been completely damaged.

During these more than 100 meters, Zhang Yusi deeply understood the meaning of what He Ao just said, "Pollution is everywhere."

With the death of the sea anemone monster, the strong impact of pollution also disappeared. For a short time, Zhang Yusi thought that everything would return to the way it was before she was polluted.

But as time passed, she gradually realized that people still couldn't be too naive.

If there is a loud noise blasting in your ears, the small noise will go undetected.

And when the noisy noise disappears, for a short period of time, people will feel that the world has become quiet.

But the world will not be quiet. The subtle noise still echoes in the ears, and as the surrounding environment quiets down, it becomes more abrupt.

Zhang Yusi is in this state now.

Every few steps she takes, the world in front of her will flicker briefly, and some illusory images will be superimposed on the real scene, disrupting her perception.

Sometimes she would hear some inexplicable calls or laughter, and sometimes it would be like passing a densely populated vegetable market, but there was no corresponding noise in this bustling market. It was as quiet as a ghost land, and when she walked through the market At that time, it seemed as if someone was whispering in her ear.

These 'things' did not deliberately guide her perception like just now, and many times, they were even fleeting like flashbacks.

But this chaotic scene made it increasingly difficult for her to distinguish between reality and fantasy.

For a moment, she thought it was all a dream. She was still doing boring experiments in the small laboratory in Beidu.

The absurd illusion in front of us is not some ruins or pollution, but...

It's just that she's crazy.

In this superposition of reality and illusion, this short distance of one hundred meters seems as long as a marathon.

“Clear distracting thoughts, don’t think about anything, don’t think about anything.”

The calm and calm words pulled Zhang Yusi out of her chaotic thoughts.

She raised her head and looked at He Ao's back in front of her.

He Ao did not look back, but continued to move forward at a steady speed. His pace was steady, and each step was like the sound of a bell from an ancient mountain temple, calling Zhang Yusi back from the chaotic and crazy thoughts.

"Calm down and don't doubt yourself,"

He Ao continued, "Don't think about what those chaotic things are. These mild pollution can improve your ability to distinguish, because they do not create a completely 'real' illusion. You can still distinguish What is reality and what is illusion? Grasp the reality and stabilize your thoughts. "

He Ao turned around and looked at Zhang Yusi, "The most important thing is, never forget who you are,"

He turned back and continued forward, "If you encounter pollution that you really can't resist, just imagine that you are an idiot who can't think and only remembers your name. Although you may become a real idiot, an idiot is He who has a name will never forget who he is."

"Um!"

Zhang Yusi nodded in understanding.

Following He Ao's footsteps, she began to empty her mind and search for the characteristics of the real world in the flickering weird illusion.

In fact, as long as we have the right direction, the characteristics of the real world are not nowhere to be found.

Because Zhang Yusi has a basic understanding of the real world. This understanding anchors her thinking and allows her brain to naturally draw what the real world should look like.

Which scenarios are illogical or should not occur?

For example, what just flashed before her eyes was a pale little boy holding a balloon running towards her in this dark ruins environment.

This kind of thing is illogical.

In addition to scenes and phenomena, she will also summarize issues of her own perception, such as which whispers are not ringing in her ears, but ringing in her mind, which should not be uttered, and whether the wind blowing across her arms is real. The wind is still a sudden hallucination.

All these made her understanding of the real world clearer.

The illusions that affected her had not disappeared, and the things that interfered with her cognition had not been hidden, but her mental and mental state had become increasingly clear.

She has been able to gradually find the boundary between reality and illusion, and has begun to figure out the secret to maintaining her mind.

Stay focused and think less.

Of course, this reduction of thinking does not mean giving up thinking uniformly, but when illusions appear, try to maintain the concentration of thinking, and maintain a higher frequency of thinking when you are in reality.

Although this method was a bit uncomfortable at first and difficult to get used to, she quickly adapted to it due to the extremely high thinking ability of the 'researcher'.

Her steps, which had been somewhat heavy and slow, gradually returned to briskness.

He Ao, who was walking in front, felt relieved when he heard the brisk footsteps.

In fact, the method of simplifying thinking to resist pollution is mentioned in the FBI training. The FBI requires investigators to keep their thinking as simple as possible when facing pollution erosion, which can reduce the chance of being contaminated and maintain sanity.

The idiot method can be said to be an extreme case of this simplified thinking method, that is, when faced with irresistible pollution, give up all thinking and imagine that you are an idiot who only remembers your name, in order to improve the survival time of your sanity.

Although in that extreme case, this method actually doesn't make much sense.

The method He Ao taught Zhang Yusi is not simply a method of simplifying thinking. When resisting such high-level pollution, the effect of that simplified method is actually much weaker, because under this level of pollution and interference, it is not If the polluted person wants to clear his mind, he can do so.

Those messy babbles will naturally give rise to messy thoughts.

So in the face of this situation, resistance is actually better than ‘avoidance’.

And the only thing that can resist thinking is thinking.

So in addition to teaching Zhang Yusi to 'simplify', He Ao also deliberately guided her to 'focus'.

In fact, this method of guiding concentration is an immature way of resisting pollution.

This method does not come from the memory of the dungeon character, but was derived by He Ao himself after reviewing Jace's experience.

Jace is a very special 'copy character'. His specialness does not lie in his experience, but in his state.

He was facing direct contamination from a high-ranking being anytime and anywhere, and he even had crazy thoughts in his mind.

But he is not crazy.

In fact, in a sense, Jace is equivalent to a 'demigod'. Although he is very weak, he can directly enter madness to spy on the truth.

Although he cannot maintain basic thinking in a state of madness, nor can he truly control the state of madness, nor can he remember the truths he has seen.

But he can still use his weak body to pry into the bottom truth of the world, and, being so close to the truth, he is not crazy.

Relying on his love for the once beautiful world and his hatred for the mysterious man, Jace still maintained his last sanity amidst the deepest madness.

This reminded He Ao of a kind of existence, an 'angel'.

In Yin Lian's underground library in Rock City, He Ao once read a book called "The Glorious Sanctuary".

It is mentioned that all angels are indescribable monsters and minions of gods.

But among the knowledge he knew, the counterexample to this conclusion was the Legion Commander of Chenxi City, an angel who maintained his human form.

In the later murals recording the history of the Fountain of Youth, He Ao also saw the footprints of a humanoid angel. The angel who claimed to be a "wizard" buried the Fountain of Youth after defeating the puppet controlled by the Fountain of Youth.

In other words, at least at the end of the catastrophic era of the copy world, some people have mastered the method of promotion without turning into monsters.

Howe didn't know what was the reason that eventually turned all the original angels into monsters, but he didn't rule out the influence of those crazy world truths.

And Jace is the one who has resisted the pollution of these truths.

And his method of resisting pollution seems to be an obsession that cannot be eradicated.

However, this kind of obsession cannot be copied, and He Ao does not want to copy it, so he tried to weaken it based on the properties of this obsession. Based on the experience of previous characters and the core principle of simplifying thinking, he summarized this A focused approach.

After all, obsession is also an extreme concentration in a sense.

Of course, he didn't know whether this method really worked.

So he combined this method with the method of simplifying thinking and told Zhang Yusi.

Of course, he did not directly tell Zhang Yusi to focus. Inexplicable concentration is ineffective. There must be a definite focus that can guide one's true thinking.

He Ao took a clever trick and set this focus into the real world.

Zhang Yusi, who was tortured by pollution, longed for a real and peaceful world. He Ao channeled her desire so that she could concentrate better.

In fact, it doesn't matter where you focus. What's important is to stay focused in the true sense, to maintain an almost obsessive focus on what you desire.

The final result was somewhat beyond He Ao's expectations.

Zhang Yusi's talent sequence is very powerful in improving her thinking ability, and she is very smart, so she quickly understood the key to concentration and dynamically controlled her thoughts.

In a short period of time, she adjusted herself out of the contaminated state and became increasingly sober.

He Ao originally thought it would take some time to see the effect.

This focused approach has proven to be very effective.

He Ao vaguely felt that he had come into contact with some unusually secret knowledge.

"What department,"

Zhang Yusi, whose mind was gradually relaxing, finally had the time to observe the surrounding scene. Her eyes swept across the damaged machinery and messy wires in the corridor.

"If this is really a spaceship belonging to the ruins civilization, will we have a chance to meet living ruins people on this spaceship?"

"have no idea."

He Ao shook his head.

After so many years, under such strong pollution, there is a high probability that there will be no living people left, and even if they are alive, they may not be human.

Zhang Yusi also knew that this was impossible.

She sighed slightly.

In this silent space.

A spaceship with no living people and only ruins is nothing more than a tombstone floating in space.

A civilized tombstone.

The two continued to walk a few steps forward, and the originally dim lights above their heads became even dimmer. Four out of every five lights were broken, and the remaining one flickered and was almost as good as extinguished.

Zhang Yusi turned on the flashlight and shined it into the darkness.

The two people's positions changed to diagonal positions, with Zhang Yusi walking in front and He Ao walking behind.

Continuing forward, the surrounding pollution became more intense, the lights in the corridor had completely disappeared, and all the lights were destroyed.

The two of them could only use the light of the flashlight to move forward slowly.

The damaged mechanical equipment around them emitted a little electric light from time to time, indicating that they still had some vitality.

He Ao used the dim light of the flashlight to scan the surrounding environment.

There seemed to have been some kind of fierce battle in this dark area, with damaged robot remains scattered everywhere.

Most of these robots are not combat robots equipped with weapons, but cleaning robots and engineering robots.

Broken robotic arms and the remains of lying barrels can be seen everywhere.

Corresponding to these mechanical remains, there were thick, dried dark brown blood stains on the ground.

However, although there is a lot of blood here, there are no human bones.

In fact, He Ao had noticed this since he first came here.

In this 'scene', there were blood stains everywhere, but no human bones were left anywhere.

He suppressed his thoughts and continued to move forward.

The further you go, the more robot remains are piled up.

Because they had to constantly pass over the robot wreckage in front of them, the speed of the two people also slowed down a lot.

Zhang Yusi controlled the light of the flashlight to sweep through the gaps between the robot remains.

She didn't know why, but she always felt like something was watching them in the deep, dark gaps between the robot wreckage.

At this moment, a white sword light flashed above her head.

The flesh spider leaping out from the gap in the darkness was cut open by this sword and fell to the ground, blood splattering on the robot's remains.

At this moment, pairs of bright red eyes poured out from the gaps in the robot remains.

"Run forward."

Before Zhang Yusi could react, he heard He Ao's shout.

Without hesitation, she followed He Ao's instructions and rushed forward.

In the dark corridor, red flesh-and-blood spiders kept pouring out from between the robot's remains, densely packed like an overwhelming wave.

The sharp metal joints hit the ancient machinery, making a tinkling sound.

He Ao's sword light flashed from time to time, splitting the rushing flesh and blood spider into two.

His sword light is extremely fast, and sometimes he can kill four or five spiders with one sword.

"Hebu, there seems to be a light ahead."

Zhang Yusi crossed a piece of mechanical debris, glanced ahead, and shouted quickly.

She held a heavy pistol in her hand and fired continuously, knocking down the flesh-and-blood spiders that appeared in front of her.

Her reaction speed is not that fast, but the pressure she is under is not that great either. Relying on careful observation and prediction, she can often attack the flesh-and-blood spiders in front of her before they take action, and generally maintain the front line. The road is clear.

"past."

He Ao walked beside her and chopped open another flesh spider with his sword.

The two of them moved very quickly and reached the glorious door in a blink of an eye. At this time, a flesh-and-blood spider jumped out from the gap and headed towards Zhang Yusi's cheek.

The bright flashlight illuminated the appearance of the abdomen of these flesh and blood spiders. It was not a flat abdomen, but a huge open mouth full of fangs.

Almost at the same time as the monster jumped out, Zhang Yusi raised his pistol and pointed it at the center of the monster's huge mouth.

With a crisp gunshot, the flesh-and-blood spider was violently knocked away.

The two figures entered the light one after the other.

The bright light illuminated the two people's vision at that moment, even making it difficult for the two people who were accustomed to dark lights to open their eyes.

The flesh-and-blood spider behind him, like a tide, quickly retracted after touching the edge of the light.

Seeing this scene, He Ao frowned slightly.

"He Bu, look."

At this time, Zhang Yusi beside him suddenly shouted.

He Ao turned around and followed Zhang Yusi's line of sight.

To their right is a huge long picture window.

At this moment, the two of them were standing next to the picture window.

A majestic giant spindle-shaped object that occupied almost half of the field of view of the viewing window appeared in He Ao's sight.