Chapter 279 Consciousness infection
In the dark night, in the deserted Hedong, the sudden singing echoed, as if all dangers and difficulties would flow away with the water and the wind.
Jiang Baimian hummed the melody gently, adjusting his state to the best.
After singing a paragraph, she looked sideways at Shang Jianyao and asked with a smile:
"Why don't you use a small speaker?"
"In this current environment, I have to sing this song myself to feel it." The answer was Shang Jianyao, who kept improving.
He even offered suggestions for improvement:
"It will feel better to beat your lap while singing."
Jiang Baimian imagined for a moment and said:
"I'll try it later."
In front of the shrine, Zhou Yue, who had mirrors on his head, waist, and hands, looked at them and felt that he seemed out of place.
"Is it really suitable to sing at this time?"
"Forget it, forget it, dreams are everywhere, why be serious?"
Such thoughts flashed through Zhou Yue's mind, and finally fixed on the way she was most used to dealing with them.
Just when Shang Jianyao patted his thigh again and was about to hum the melody, the entire Nanke Temple suddenly became pitch black, and all the light bulbs seemed to lose their current in an instant.
Soon, under some light, Jiang Baimian and the others found themselves in a community hidden by green trees.
The buildings here are not too high, and the warm lights reflect behind the glass windows, making the night no longer so quiet and deserted.
"The community where Jiang Xiaoyue jumped off the building?" Zhou Yue looked around and asked.
"It should be." Jiang Baimian gave a positive answer.
The three of them seemed to have been moved out of thin air, and everything around them was so real.
"The information that the 'High Mindless One' wants to provide is hidden in this illusion?" What Zhou Yue remembers most is this question.
Shang Jianyao nodded:
"Maybe, probably, maybe we need to explore it ourselves."
"Do more and make more mistakes......" Zhou Yue still insists on her own philosophy.
Although they now look like they are standing in the atrium of the community, they should actually be sitting cross-legged on the futon.
As soon as she finished speaking, the environment changed, just like Shang Jianyao, Jiang Baimian, and the others last time, the three of them didn't need to do anything, they entered the corresponding building and came to Jiang Xiaoyue's residence.
The individual squeezed at the door, scrambling to peer inside through the gap.
Zhou Yue's ears faintly echoed with fear, despair, and collapse:
"Are you trying to force me to death...... Are you trying to force me to death......"
Then, she saw the interior layout of the house, the distorted faces clinging to the floor-to-ceiling windows, and Jiang Xiaoyue sitting on the railing.
In the next second, Jiang Xiaoyue jumped out of the window.
In the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground, Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao, and Zhou Yue all felt that their thoughts were swallowed up by the whirlpool, and their reasons were submerged by darkness.
When they broke free from this feeling, they found that they were still in the community covered by green trees, no different from the beginning.
They entered the room again and again, passed through the prying crowd, entered Jiang Xiaoyue's home, witnessed her muttering to herself and jumped off the building to commit suicide, and experienced the painful feeling of her consciousness turning into a candle in the wind and her thoughts being torn to pieces.
They were like they were trapped in this period of time, unable to break free or leave.
In the repetition over and over again, Jiang Baimian's consciousness gradually became blurred, and his whole person became more and more muddled.
Suddenly, her left arm chip gave her a preset signal.
This is a reminder that her overall state is not right!
What's wrong...... Jiang Baimian's thoughts instantly returned from the chaos a little, and he found that he was repeating a sentence.
That sentence is:
"Are you trying to force me to death...... Are you trying to force me to death......"
This...... Jiang Baimian instantly woke up for most of the time, and found that he was standing on the railing, with an open glass window in front of him and a much smaller ground below.
She was about to jump off the building!
And there is no bloody human body in the corresponding place.
I, have become Jiang Xiaoyue? Really entered this illusion? What would happen if you did jump? A series of questions flashed through Jiang Baimian's mind, and a sense of fear rose in his heart.
She quickly turned her head sideways and looked at the place where Shang Jianyao should be.
Then, she found Shang Jianyao, who was wearing a dark blue short down jacket, also standing on the railing, with one hand reaching out to her head.
During this process, Shang Jianyao endured the night wind and kept his eyes on the ground below, as if he was considering whether to jump down.
"I'm sober." Seeing this, Jiang Baimian said.
"That's good." Shang Jianyao withdrew his right hand.
Jiang Baimian asked curiously:
"You are not affected? Didn't you become Jiang Xiaoyue?"
"I have been dragged back when I was infected, and now I am calm and rational." Shang Jianyao replied calmly.
Can it still be like this? Does psychosis have this benefit? Also, this is different from Qiao Chu's "forced charm", it is not a one-time encounter, it requires repeated cycles to infect, and switching personalities can indeed effectively get rid of it...... Jiang Baimian nodded with understanding.
Immediately afterwards, she thought of another person:
Zhou Yue!
"Maybe I have to give Zhou Guanzhu a little stimulation." Shang Jianyao also pointed to the side and said.
Jiang Baimian looked at it intently and found that Zhou Yue was in another similar room, also standing on the railing, holding the window, ready to jump down.
Her black hair was disheveled, and her eyes were confused and she said two sentences to herself:
"Are you trying to force me to death...... Dreams are everywhere, why be serious...... Are you trying to force me to death...... Dreams everywhere, why take it seriously......
She seemed to be struggling very much, and she would not make up her mind to jump off the building for a while.
Seeing this, Jiang Baimian didn't care whether the other party's correct position was distorted by the illusion, and directly stretched out his left hand and spread five fingers in the direction of Zhou Yue.
A silver-white arc jumped out, crackling and illuminating the surroundings.
In an instant, the arc fell on Zhou Yue, causing her body to tremble for a while.
In the next second, open windows, faces glued to glass, rooms with lights, and greenery become extremely illusory and quickly disappear.
Shang Jianyao, Jiang Baimian, and Zhou Yue were still sitting on the futon, surrounded by shrines and pillars.
"The hallucination just now was a bit strange......" Zhou Yue shook her numb hand, "I still have the feeling of being electrified."
"Dreams are everywhere, why be serious?" Shang Jianyao replied to her.
Jiang Baimian found a problem from Zhou Yue's exclamation just now:
"It's a bit strange indeed.
"Why is our consciousness affected, and we feel like we have become Jiang Xiaoyue?"
Shouldn't the hallucination ability of the "High Mindless" focus on distorting environmental information and replicating the target state and other external areas?
When will he be able to directly influence the awareness of the goal?
Hearing Jiang Baimian's question, Zhou Yue's eyes widened:
"Yes, the 'illusion' in our field can't do this, at least at the level of 'spiritual corridor'......"
As she said, she stopped and smiled slightly awkwardly.
She said she leaked her mouth again!
Jiang Baimian politely skipped this point and said thoughtfully:
"He got magical items from other realms from the 'Mind Corridor'?"
"It's possible." Zhou Yue agreed.
"There is another possibility." Jiang Baimian continued.
Her expression became quite serious:
"It is not the 'higher mindless being' that affects our consciousness, but the illusion itself."
"The illusion itself?" Zhou Yue didn't understand a little.
Jiang Baimian explained:
"He should have recreated what happened at that time and created this illusion.
"And since it is a reproduction, maybe some weird things in Jiang Xiaoyue's spiritual world have been copied, and it has an effect."
"That is to say." Shang Jianyao helped Jiang Baimian make a concluding statement, "What affects our consciousness is not the 'higher mindless person', but Jiang Xiaoyue's spiritual world."
Zhou Yue shrank back:
"Sounds a bit scary......"
Then, she nodded lightly and said:
"Theoretically, there is such a possibility."
"Jiang Xiaoyue's spiritual world is really a strange place......" Shang Jianyao helped the two ladies present express their feelings, "No wonder that the 'higher mindless person' became obsessed."
Zhou Yue secretly agreed and raised a question:
"Didn't you say that he wanted to enter Nanke Temple and inform us of important information?
"Why don't you keep coming in and only create illusions for us?"
"This is just a guess." Jiang Baimian was a little speechless.
At this time, Shang Jianyao shook his head and said:
"Because you are not polite enough."
"Huh?" Zhou Yue looked at the tall young man suspiciously, "Do you want to stand up and greet him?"
Shang Jianyao pointed to the mirror in front of him:
"There are too many mirrors here, how do you let him in?"
"Yes!" Zhou Yue suddenly realized.
Jiang Baimian also figured out the key at once.
She and Zhou Yue looked at each other, took a breath, and turned the mirrors around her body and around them one by one, with the back facing outward.
In the fierce wind, the branches in the courtyard of the Taoist temple swayed in the night.
After only two or three minutes, Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao, and Zhou Yue set their sights on the entrance of the hall at the same time.
In the darkness, a figure stumbled out. He was an old man in his sixties, with messy long gray hair, all kinds of clothes, and his eyes were cloudy and bloodshot.
As he walked, he looked back at the back, and in the void, faces were prominent, his expressions were distorted, and his eyes were red.
This "higher mindless person" walked faster and faster, and finally ran away, but he couldn't get rid of the countless faces in the surrounding night.
Gradually, a half-high railing and an open glass window appeared in front of him.
This "higher mindless person" climbed onto the railing and said to himself with a trance-like expression:
"Are you trying to force me to death...... Are you trying to force me to death......"
This voice was soft and erratic, not at all like it came from a man, but from a woman somewhere far away.
At this moment, the pupils of the "High Mindless One" were reflected in the shrine of Nanke Temple, reflecting the dragon symbol inlaid with pieces of broken mirrors.
He stretched out his hand abruptly, and the sound of a lotus coming from his throat, as if a dying beast was struggling.
Shang Jianyao, Zhou Yue and Jiang Baimian each took a few steps towards this illusion, and finally heard the words of the "higher mindless person" as if squeezed out of their chests:
"Five, zero, three."
(End of this chapter)