Shang Jianyao was stunned for a moment and said:
"What's the use of this?"
He himself couldn't figure out what use he was.
Du Heng pointed to the ground:
"Look."
"I don't look at it!" Shang Jianyao responded reflexively while looking down at the soles of his feet.
Those floor tiles had blurred at some point, revealing the situation on the next floor.
There and this floor are just upside down, the ceiling is the ground, and the ground is the ceiling.
There was another self under Shang Jianyao, he was like a shadow, his feet extended from under Shang Jianyao's feet, and the whole person hung upside down there but there was no sign of cerebral congestion.
This merchant saw Yao holding the embodied small speaker, looked at Xiao Chong who was playing a game not far away, and said happily:
"I won't lose to you in this game now."
Xiao Chong muttered and replied:
"Wait and try."
The merchant in front of Du Heng looked around again.
Every wall here was completely blurred, and the scene of different merchants meeting Yao and different Du Heng was printed.
There is a reckless Shang Jianyao exchanging experiences with the rebellious high school student Du Shaochong back then, and there is also a calm and rational Shang Jianyao asking scientist Du Heng about the awakening, and so on, a total of nine acts.
After taking his gaze away from himself who was comforting the test subject Du Shaochong, who valued his feelings, Shang Jianyao lowered his head again and glanced at himself below.
"Ten ......," he was puzzled and shocked.
He immediately looked at Du Heng opposite and blurted out:
"I only have ten personalities, why do eleven selves appear now?
"Who am I?"
This "I" refers to him in the current room.
Du Heng smiled:
"You and I are in a collective state."
"Oh......" Shang Jianyao looked like "I see, but I still don't understand".
His mind jumped and uncontrollably turned to another thing:
"When was Xiao Chong found by you?"
Du Heng replied with a smile:
"Thanks to you.
"When you open the liquid nitrogen tank at the Hom Reproductive Medical Center, get the white gas into the 'Sea of Origin', and solidify it with Xiao Chong's gap, he returns."
As soon as Du Heng finished speaking, the light of the machines in the room lit up at the same time, flickering faster and faster.
"This is?" Shang Jianyao's face was staggered with lights, red, yellow and blue.
Du Heng sighed slightly and said:
"'Siming' and the others have started."
Shang Jianyao thought for a while and said:
"What are they doing, and what role do I play?"
He was worried about the question behind.
Du Heng replied quite calmly:
"What they need is for you to open that door, and they need multiple of you and multiple me to contact at the same time.
"Only in this way can they accurately locate the room where our two collective states are located, and then bypass the barrier from multiple entrances and invade this place, making it difficult for me to defend."
"I don't understand." Shang Jianyao shook his head honestly.
Immediately afterwards, he kindly suggested:
"Why don't you get busy first, and I'll explain in detail later."
Du Heng glanced at the machine lights that were flashing quickly, sometimes bright and sometimes dim, and said with a smile:
"There is still some time, just communicate."
"Okay, okay." Shang Jianyao was also polite.
…………
In the swirling building, the experimental area full of instruments resembled a high-end computer room.
Jiang Baimian retracted his thoughts and planned to seize the time to study what the "main engine" was like and whether the surrounding "space capsules" could still be used.
At this moment, she saw the signal lights on the "main unit" flashing brightly at the same time, flashing rapidly, as if something important was happening.
Jiang Baimian pondered slightly, turned around without hesitation, and ran towards the place where he came in.
Something was wrong, she wanted to quickly communicate with Shang Jianyao "outside".
Fortunately, there was no other exit here, just one road.
…………
In the "maze", in the room full of machines and all the walls blurred.
Du Heng showed a reminiscence expression, sighed and said:
"This matter has to start with the study of consciousness and natural superpowers."
"If it's a long story, then it's a long story." Shang Jianyao still understood that the current scene was tight and time was tight.
Du Heng pointed at him and laughed:
"You, none of the students I taught before dared to speak to me like this, even Wu Meng, who has the best scientific research talent, will only imitate me and read books such as "Tao Te Ching" and "Commentary on the Three Mysteries", but they don't ask for much understanding."
"Wu Meng is your student?" Shang Jianyao was shocked.
"I helped him get the gray name of Wu Meng." Du Heng shook his head, "That's another matter, let's get back to the point."
Wu Meng himself is a native of Honghe.
"Hmm." Shang Jianyao closed his mouth tightly and nodded frequently.
Du Heng once again showed a look of memories:
"I have shown a special place since I was a child, studying while receiving observation and research, which also caused me to be autistic and rebellious in high school for a period of time, so that my ability has not become stronger.
"Later, I figured out that instead of letting others study me, I should study myself, so I studied hard and became a famous brain scientist and superpower researcher.
"When each country established the future-oriented nine research institutes, I was invited to become the chief scientist and president of the eighth institute."
"No wonder Ole knows you." Shang Jianyao finally couldn't help but interject.
They are both chief scientists in their respective fields.
"We have met several times, and Maximian has encountered bottlenecks in artificial intelligence, and he wants to find some inspiration from us and the Sixth Academy." Du Heng replied simply, "I won't say much about research, you can't understand anyway, your companion named Jiang Baimian is still about the same."
His eyes were in a trance and said:
"On that day, I, Oak, Richard, Lin Shao, Mono, Dafitir, and Sylvie took two experimental volunteers into the core area, intending to try our research results."
"Those two volunteers are Li Hui and Jiang Xiaoyue?" Shang Jianyao asked.
"Yes." Du Heng nodded, "The machine we made is half derived from our own research, and half comes from the results of exchanges between the Sixth Academy, well, the Sixth Academies are the 'Immortals' project team.
"That machine can create a virtual reality space, like a large holographic projection game.
"We connected the brains of Li Hui and Jiang Xiaoyue, and planned to use a special method to stimulate their screen-shaped nucleus and thalamus to awaken their remaining consciousness.
"In order to prevent sudden physical death, we have prepared a lot of biological chips and memories, and the structure of those biological chips will be affected by corresponding and amplified brain waves, and change to a certain extent to adapt to different humans.
"The level of those people in the Sixth Courtyard is really good."
Shang Jianyao asked with great interest, and asked quite worriedly:
"Is it really too late?"
The machines all over the room flashed more and more violently, and it seemed that "Siming" and other deputies would come in at any time.
"When I get old, when I think about the past, it's endless." Du Heng laughed at himself, "Don't worry, I split out more than ten personalities, and I've been running here for a long time, so it's no problem to block them for a while."
Shang Jianyao left his worries behind:
"The experiment failed?"
"In a sense, it was actually a success, and it was a success that exceeded expectations." Du Heng said with a slight sigh, "We initially used Li Hui as the experimental subject, but seeing his brain waves gradually return to normal and mutate in the direction of the awakened person, his thalamic area suddenly disappeared and disappeared.
"The corresponding place became a strange black hole, which was like a vortex that extracted our consciousness from the body and sucked it in.
"Most of the people in the second research area died in this storm, and only a few survived in a special form, and several cities related to us also suffered the same disaster, some were more serious, the whole city died in an instant, some were relatively good, only partially, but the rest of the humans basically became 'heartless'."
"Taicheng." Shang Jianyao pointed out the place where the previous situation occurred.
Du Heng's expression changed slightly, and he sighed and said:
"Although I was rebellious in high school, the school experience in Taicheng is still a very good memory for me."
He didn't say much about this topic, and continued to recall:
"I was the first person to wake up and found that although I had no body, my consciousness remained, floating in the 'darkness'.
"After spending a little time checking and researching, I have a preliminary guess:
"The mystery of human consciousness involves higher things, or it must be built in a higher dimension, and our research results are missing, although it successfully awakened Li Hui's consciousness, but it also opened the 'door' to a higher dimension, which produced a series of chain reactions and caused the catastrophe of the destruction of the old world.
"I don't know if that 'door' was because it sucked billions of human consciousness and obtained enough energy, or for some other reason, dragging our machine-made virtual reality to a higher dimension, forming a 'dark world' that overlapped with dust.
"And our consciousness relies on the biological chip attached to that machine, living in this world and surviving."
"The advanced version of the 'Eternal Man' project?" Shang Jianyao has always been obsessed with mechanical monks.
Du Heng nodded:
"I guess so.
"Then I was surprised to find that with the help of this 'dark world', I could project my power into every part of the dust, as long as I could locate it......
"Here, we are like legendary gods.
"At this time, Li Hui, Jiang Xiaoyue, Zhao Danlin, Oak, Lin Sui, Yu Huatong, Winster, and Brian also woke up.
"Because I am the dean, the chief scientist, and I know more about 'darkness' than they do, they all chose to follow my orders at that time, and with the help of that machine and our power, they built such a city modeled after the second research area, which they all called 'New World'.
"The subject of the 'New World' is our spiritual power, which is essentially a space of consciousness that is higher than reality.
"In the process of establishing the 'New World', I took control of that machine and gave them corresponding powers."
PS: This weekend is not a day off, still double shifts, after all, we have reached this level, let's do it in one go.
(End of this chapter)