Overturned Tower

It wasn't until he reached this state that Russell finally understood why there were rumors that "crossing the wall of Leviathan will lose the essence of being a human being".

His redshift level finally reached the ninth level.

It is only the last step away from the tenth-level redshift, which is the highest level in theory.

But even so, Russell's spirit inevitably began to alienate...

The biggest difference is that the separation between him and the "vessel of God" has finally disappeared.

Just like a psyker loses control, falls and becomes a demon—at that time, the soul can't bear the psionic energy expanding inside the spirit body, so it splits open. The swelling demon squeezed the spirit body, and the remaining part was inherited by the demon.

Although in theory, the two are combined into one. But in fact, it is just the core of the "demon" covered with shells called "memory" and "personality".

Now the separation between Russell and the God's Container has disappeared... The God's Container that existed inside Russell's spiritual body was like an oil drop suspended in water. When Russell broke through the wall of Leviathan, he was given by Russell to " Digest" dropped.

They are completely and truly one. But this time with Russell as the main body.

When Russell possessed some of the abilities of the "God's Container", he also possessed some of the qualities of a demon. The biggest difference is that he can dive into the sea of ​​group subconscious.

Originally the sea of ​​group subconscious resisted everyone. A waking will will make the spirit "lighter" and can only be suspended on the surface of the group's subconscious sea; after falling into sleep, with the weakening of willpower, the individual's will can dive into deeper places, but that At that time, their consciousness was hazy and fuzzy... This made them unable to make any changes to the sea of ​​subconsciousness of the group with a sober attitude.

But at this moment, Russell can project his spirit and sink into the deep layer of the group's subconscious sea when he is not asleep.

According to the "subjective cognition hypothesis" of psionics, it is said that the "group subconscious sea" in everyone's cognition is different, and the performance is based on personal cognition. Russell at this moment can prove that this statement is indeed correct—

Russell sat on the back seat of the floating car, took out a bottle of champagne from the wine cabinet next to him, and poured it for himself.

The golden wine, under the warm-colored lights inside the floating car, seems to be shining liquid gold. And a string of tiny bubbles emerging from the bottom, looks like a crack under the light.

Russell held it up and aimed it at the light.

And at the moment when the golden light penetrated the wine and shot into Russell's eyes.

Russell felt his consciousness leave the body in an instant, and suddenly "forward" and drilled into the crack.

When he woke up again, he appeared in a huge "art gallery".

On both sides are sky-high towering golden walls, on which are hung countless moving and talking portraits like the portraits in Harry Potter.

Every portrait is talking to the paintings around it, but none of them can see Russell... It's as if there is no "person outside the painting" in their cognition.

The most recent portrait around Russell is a delphinium driving a car.

However, the delphinium in this painting is not as rational and cold as she usually is.

She was curled up in a fluffy and soft lazy sofa, dressed in a cool swimsuit, holding an exaggeratedly huge barbecue, biting it off with a manga-like mouth, and still talking to the front.

There was also a painting hanging in the direction she was looking in front of.

But the painting was blank inside.

That's where Russell was originally.

This is not to say that Delphinium is hungry or hungry/nor is it that she is a lazy soul in her heart... because this kind of intention is highly concentrated, with an abstract and underlying predictive nature that needs to be interpreted by humans.

She is curled up in the lazy sofa at the moment, which shows that her heart is a little tired at the moment; and its warmth can warm the "coldness" of the heart, but she is not wearing thicker clothes, just leaning on the sofa, so it shows that Cui There is still a small amount of loneliness in the finches, but this loneliness can be easily resolved, and there is already an object to resolve.

She is dressed in cool clothes, which means that she wants to "take off the shackles", but there are still a few clothes, which means that she does not want "wild and unrestrained freedom"; she is eating food exaggeratedly, which means that her heart is Hungry, desperate for something.

And what she was gnawing on was a huge barbecue, maybe...it was referring to herself. Because the first time Russell and Delphinium went out to eat, they ate barbecue. The size of the barbecue was so huge that she couldn't control it, which showed that she had a slight fear of her "talent" in her heart, followed by greater greed and more determined actions.

"do not be afraid."

Russell suddenly said: "I will always stand by your side."

"…What do you see?"

The delphinium who was driving didn't look back, so his voice was a little low: "Is it in my heart?"

"Sorry. It's already an instinct."

"It's okay, you don't need to apologize. My heart is upright and there is no shadow. There is nothing that cannot be shown to others... especially what you see."

Delphinium smiled.

She hesitated for a moment, and asked, "But if you modify the minds of those people, will it be a little..."

"I didn't distort their memories and personalities."

Russell shook his head: "I just removed the influence of the 'fog' on them."

"fog?"

"Actually, I don't know what that is..."

That might be the essence of the spiritual plague.

Russell said in his heart.

His consciousness returned to the gallery again in the blink of an eye.

In this supposedly windless gallery, there is a faint, hazy colorful mist drifting slowly from a distance.

It is so beautiful and ethereal, like the aurora flowing on the ground. It wrapped Russell in it, but it did not cause any harm to Russell, but healed his fatigue.

But after it flowed through, iridescent stains appeared on some of the portraits on both sides.

They are like a kind of oil, attached to the surface of the painting. Everyone's color is different, but it comes off easily with just a swipe. But if it stays long enough, it will become part of the "painting" itself.

And those people whose true color of the frame is polluted by this iridescent color, they will become more crazy and radical visible to the naked eye. The portraiture itself would also begin to become "quite homely." The more people are polluted, the more likely they are to be further polluted.

Delphinium hasn’t changed much, because her will strength is high enough; her mind doesn’t have much dirt attached to it, so she only feels that her “spirit has improved” and “the mood is not so messed up”.

"...Those things should be related to man-made, maliciously guided public opinion, or rumors spreading around."

Russell said uncertainly.

For the past few days, he has been wandering in the sea of ​​group subconscious.

Russell noticed that the more people who are persecuted and bullied on weekdays, or the people who are more likely to believe rumors, or the people who are easily induced by the media and become angry or sad, the more likely these "colored fogs" will be attached to their portraits. ". And only a few people can resist these colored fogs, not be infected by the fogs and stick to themselves.

Although Russell also knows that even for people in the normal world... being bullied, deceived, and misled is normal, so it is normal and reasonable to change their minds.

But in this world, it is obviously different. Everyone becomes more sensitive and more susceptible to permanent effects. Although this may also be the reason why the cyberpunk world has caused people's excessive psychological pressure...

... But what if the cause and effect are reversed?

It is precisely because people are easily infected by that "fog" that the world has come to this point.

So Russell made a special experiment, which was to erase the dirt deep in the hearts of these people.

He could see with the naked eye that the people he wiped became rational overnight... Although it didn't mean that the social atmosphere would improve overnight, it did make some people recover.

For example, a person who is always in a rage, and even quarrels with others because others look at him twice; or a person who eats any marketing strategy, and is willing to cheat almost all of his money by the sales trap of the merchant ; or someone who chases stars until he is in a daze, fanatical like a believer...

Overnight, they suddenly woke up.

Angry people still have a bad temper, but they won't make people feel "angry for no reason"; people who love krypton gold and random shoppers still tend to consume, but at least they won't spend all their money or even ask others for help. Borrow money and take it for granted; star fans still like this star idol, but they will not lose their minds and become "weird" in the eyes of others.

And the most characteristic point—

That is, from the bottom of my heart, the rustling whispers that had always existed disappeared. Their nights were finally restful.

People who stink are not easy to smell themselves, and people who keep hearing small voices in their ears will gradually ignore that voice—there is a special power that will make everyone anxious. And people have already adapted to this "anxiety" for a long time, so they don't notice it at all.

But after Russell removed the "dirty", more than one person posted on the Internet saying that his mind became peaceful.

They don't realize that they have been trapped in a dream until they "wake up".

It's like a person who has been pushed away by his parents since he was born, and has never understood what he likes and what he wants to do...but one day he suddenly understands his life, and his eyes light up all of a sudden. It's that sense of relief.

At the same time, the blue shift intensity of almost everyone has increased overnight. If the blue shift intensity is lower than the fourth level, it even directly increases by two levels.

People who were against each other for no reason but because of sudden misunderstanding or anger, hoping to kill each other, suddenly realized that their behavior was so stupid and apologized to each other; To the point of insanity, those annoying ghosts who have become "incomprehensible people" in the eyes of normal people look at other people ignorantly when they go to work, and even feel a little afraid of their former self.

Only the more depraved ones—a very small number of twisters who harm others but not themselves, or those who are crazy to an unreasonable degree, still maintain their own madness and distortion.

Originally, the whole society was chaotic, so they were not conspicuous; but now, it is like throwing madman's medicine into the well and becoming the citizens of the madman's country. With chaos, they became so conspicuous in an instant.

This is not one or two people, but a large group of people.

Then Russell suddenly realized something.

Because he is not from this world at all, let alone from this era, one thing that has been ignored all the time...

He has always believed that all kinds of chaos in this world are either "easy to understand, and the world over there will be like this", or "this is not very understandable, it probably belongs to the special offer of the cyber age and the world of spiritual relatives." ", didn't feel any problem.

But what if this chaos is actually man-made?

Or…

—Why does he think that the world he once lived in is the benchmark of truth and there is no problem?

What if people in this world have already accepted a kind of "sublimation"?

After all, they are not natives who have not yet left the star age, but the cosmic civilization that has entered the glorious star age.

Human beings in the twentieth century are very different from those ancient people in BC; and how can the gap between the cosmic civilization that can enter the age of stars and the human beings in the twentieth century be so small?

Even if civilization is broken and inheritance dies...but will human degeneration really be so fast and so thorough?

Even if humans will degenerate, why would the name-calling elves begin to degrade?

Why is it that a good person like Delphinium, whose moral standards are far beyond the average, cannot awaken the power of the holy order?

So Russell had a bold guess.

—Perhaps there is such a curse that keeps deteriorating the human spirit.

This may be the "spiritual plague" that Lu Shouxiang said.

Just like the curse of the Tower of Babel in the legend, it creates barriers between people and disperses them to various places, making people unable to understand each other and gradually incubating unwarranted malice from the bottom of human hearts.

Once noble and pure like a god, but now humble and twisted like an ant.

And this curse may not be limited to this world... Even the world that Russell used to be in was also infected by it.

Russell has adapted to that environment, so he can only lament how depraved the world is.

But as Russell "dispelled" the corrosion of their hearts from the unknown curse they had suffered, their distorted posture dissipated in an instant.

It's not like everyone becomes a good person or a saint overnight—but at least people become normal people.

In other words, it has become a "civilized person" who "reasonably can roughly control the body and behavior", is not easy to be bewitched, deceived, and instigated by others, as if "has grown a brain", and has become a more rational "civilized person".

...Is this state normal? Am I abnormal?

Therefore, Russell decided to see Sai Lun at this time—not entirely to reassure Delphinium, nor was it at this moment that he had a "hole card".

Rather, he felt that he was extremely close to the edge of the truth, so he wanted to seek an answer.

Chairman Sai Lun is one of the oldest name elves, and she came from that era.

...Perhaps, she can answer for Russell?

Russell didn't know where the chairman was. So he asked Delphinium to take him to the unlisted small company that Delphinium saw on the surveillance, where the previous "Shushu" went.

And they were lucky, Sai Lun was actually working here today.

She, who is respected as the chairman, is actually typing codes in such a small company.

The moment before they entered the door, Sai Lun seemed to have sensed it, turned around~www.wuxiahere.com~ and the door opened immediately before they knocked.

Seeing it with my own eyes, I can't help but marvel at how beautiful the lady is. That kind of gender-crossing beauty, although not as magical as Russell's mentor, still made Delphinium feel lost for a moment.

But the first sentence Sai Lun said with a smile surprised Delphinium:

"You were able to successfully eliminate the influence of the 'Dream', Thrall. That's amazing."

"I'm not Sal yet, don't say that."

Under Delphinium's astonished gaze, Russell shook his head.

He asked back, "What is a phantom?"

"A possibility of world destruction."

Without any Riddler link, Ms. Sai Lun answered without any concealment when they met for the first time: "A disaster called 'Twilight'."