CHAPTER XXV
"I'm obsessed with you. So you will be assigned to follow my team, will help to realize your research ideas, will enter your subconscious to awaken you. Colonel Lance said this calmly and dropped a super-nuclear bomb.
"Oh, oh, I...... It's an honor to be appreciated by you", Chen Yan stammered, and in the face of the sudden confession, he almost wanted to have another flood to rush the mountain.
Ransto chucked his chin and admired her expression, and said slowly, "I think you like me too." ”
Chen Yan's jaw dropped again, and he didn't know where his conclusion came from.
"In the hallucination we just escaped from, you were in danger and thrown into the flood. But your first instinct is neither to make the flood disappear or to make yourself a pontoon, but to have a mecha appear. He smiled and said, "That mecha happened to be operated by me." ”
Chen Yan didn't remember the good thing he had just done, so he had to put his head down desperately. I heard a voice overhead, "So, you subconsciously think I can give you security." And it's a sense of security in times of crisis, and you rely on me. ”
Chen Yan struggled to pick a crack in this logic, "But dependence is not the same as liking." ”
"Like is a wonderful feeling, it will inevitably rely on something, something to rely on. Maybe some people like beauty, some people like strength, and some people like excellent qualities. Otherwise, do you think that liking came out of nowhere?" Lance argued with an illustrative example, as if it were a very serious topic.
Chen Yan's advantage is that no matter what bad environment she faces, she can quickly adjust her mentality, and she immediately asked: "Then what about you, what do you like about me?"
Lance glanced at her, "Tenacity." Or rather, never give up. ”
"Oh, just like Xiaoqiang. ”
"What is Xiaoqiang?"
A cockroach crawled in front of them, and Chen Yan stretched out his hand and pointed: "That's it, it has the quality you just said." Colonel, do you like it?"
Reims:......
Chen Yan looked at the chief's wonderful face with her unique spirit of self-entertainment, and secretly laughed in her heart for a while, "What you told me, are you going to forget everything after I get out of my subconscious?"
"Yes. ”
It was so straightforward that Chen Yan felt choked and panicked, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief. But if you forget, what do you say, or do you say it because I forget?
Lance looked serious: "But I will repeat the above words again." ”
As soon as the word "Huh?" came out, she realized that she was talking nonsense, thinking that if this development continued, the direction would be out of control. So he hurriedly changed the subject, "Well, how do you get out of here?"
Seeing her like this, Lance smiled in his heart and changed the subject, "This is an illusion scene you created. In fact, it's very close to a brain-controlled invasion now. There are many ways to attack the brain, from those whose abilities are much higher than those of the other party to directly 'interrogate' the opponent's brain, and those with similar or inferior abilities can confuse or even kill the other person by creating illusions. ”
Chen Yan pondered this sentence carefully, "Then how can you get out of the illusion?"
Lance: "It's very simple. First, you have to realize that this is an illusion, and second, you have to find the irrational part of the illusion, which is the 'point', and once you find the 'point', you can break through from here. A 'point' can be anything, any irrational situation. Because a brain controller may read your memories to create a world that looks real. But in fact, everything in the world is changing rapidly, and the world built with memories must be no longer reasonable. This is your home, so we can only rely on you to get out. ”
They have realized that this is an illusion, so now they need to find that "point". They had been in Chen Yan's bedroom since they entered this hallucination, so they first carefully checked the bedroom and found nothing suspicious.
So they walked out of the bedroom and began to look room by room, even behind the curtains. Faced with the long-lost home, Chen Yan began to have mixed feelings, but after searching many times, the familiar ones wanted to vomit, especially knowing that this family matter was an illusion.
There is no doubt about it. This was to be expected, after all, it was not the intruders who created this environment, it was her own subconscious. A person may not know herself well enough, but her subconscious mind must know herself best.
Therefore, the illusions created by the subconscious mind are especially real.
I didn't find any flaws.
"It's not the way to go on like this, you have to think about where the 'point' might be. She thought hard with her head in her hands, and walked back and forth by the window.
If a person is trapped in the subconscious mind for a long time, it can cause irreversible damage to the brain. For example, now, Chen Yan's thinking is not as clear as it was at the beginning.
Lance knew this, but he was still calm on the surface, "Don't worry, take a break." You're playing against another self, and it's not an easy task. ”
Chen Yan looked at the people coming and going outside the window. A schoolboy scurries to his mother with his school bag on his back, which has disappeared after the invasion of the behemoth. Asher's education is uniform, and newborn babies are trained from birth so that they can serve Asher and have the ability to save their lives.
Lance also saw that scene, he thought of the little girl Chen Yan, and suddenly thought of a question: "I saw in the previous hallucination, your name was originally 'Chen Yan', why did you change it to the current 'Chen Yan'?"
After Chen Yan heard this, his eyes gradually widened, glanced at Lance, and ran quickly to the bedroom. Lance didn't know why, and followed.
I saw her rummaging through something in the box under the desk in her bedroom, and explained without raising her head: "Yes, my name was changed after entering Asher, and I used to use female Kaiyan before. If the hallucinations were of my own making, but I am now hallucinating, then all the places where the name appears should be Rocky Rock. ”
Lance, who had never seen her so slippery, leaned against the doorframe with great interest, and listened to her continue, "But the name I use in this bedroom must be 'Yeon', which is the name my father gave me. Look!"
Rummaging through the boxes and cabinets finally got results, she found a homework book, the font on it was childish childish, and in the name column, two words were written crookedly - "Chen Yan".
The room began to shake from side to side, the chandelier looked like it wanted to fall down, the whole room looked like it had been hit by an earthquake, and the strange thing was that the people outside the window were doing business as usual. It seems that the earthquake zone is only her home.
Lance rushed to Chen Yan's side with an arrow and pulled her head into his arms, "You succeeded, now the illusion is about to collapse, close your eyes and imagine that you can float - yes, that's it." ”
Chen Yan mobilized his imagination with Lance's words, and found that he was really floating, and the sound of the collision of furniture and electrical appliances next to him disappeared at some point.
She opened her eyes and found herself in the dark, with Colonel Lance nowhere to be seen.
"Colonel Lance!" panicked, she stretched out her hand and shook it around.
"I'm right next to you, here's what your subconscious really looks like, without hallucinations. Lance's voice was next to his ears, and Chen Yan gradually calmed down, "You have a very strong control over your thinking. ”
He paused and said, "Before you go out, can you tell me why you changed your name?" His voice was cautious, and Chen Yan couldn't imagine that this would happen to Colonel Lance.
She sighed, "Actually, there's nothing that can't be said. ”
The dark subconscious suddenly brightened, it was an abandoned neighborhood that had been trampled by giant beasts, and the bright sunlight could not hide the desolation. A family of three — father, mother, and daughter — were walking cautiously through the block.
They also don't know where to go. Every day after the Behemoth attacked Earth, the surviving humans spent their time in confusion. Maybe walking non-stop just to get food.
Maybe stay in the same place, and the giant beast will come back tomorrow, or maybe tonight's habitat will be trampled tomorrow. They gradually become numb and live for the sake of living. The enemy is too great for humans to resist.
Lance recognized that in that family of three, the man was Chen Yan's father, although he was on the run, he still couldn't hide his elegant temperament, and the little girl was Chen Yan. They hid, trembling at every muffled sound.
"When I was very young, I used to think that if dinosaurs were still alive on Earth, there would probably be nothing going on with humans. Yes, mankind has nuclear weapons, photon cannons, proton reactors, but these developments take time. In such an environment where it is necessary to hide in Tibet, I am afraid that no race can have the extra energy to develop these things, and just by living, they will use all their strength. ”
Lance looked at the three of them, they were tenaciously alive, looking for every possible rescue, hoping and disappointed countless times, but still not giving up.
They rubbed shoulders with behemoths, the buildings they were hiding in were shaken to the point of collapse, and they had to be careful when they encountered other humans, who could eat anything if they were hungry.
"We made all kinds of efforts to survive. But in the end, I couldn't hide from it. ”
In order to protect his wife and daughter, the man, who may have never done any sabotage in his life, tried his best to push a wall, attract the giant beasts, and buy them a short time to escape. Unexpectedly, on the way to escape, they bumped into another giant beast.
The mother trembled and kissed her daughter, hid her in a basement and ran away in the other direction herself.
So the little Chen Yan was left alone.
"I was in a daze and didn't know what to do. In fact, my parents are quite stubborn, so they gave birth to me, probably the kind who doesn't hit the south wall and doesn't look back. But after they both died, I felt like the south wall had really hit enough. No matter how hard you try, you can't resist someone crushing you to death with one toe on your toes. ”
She smiled, especially sad against the background of the little girl walking alone in rags, "So I stopped deliberately avoiding it, and thought, so be it, it's okay to die, I've had enough." But who knows, the place where my parents died in the end was near the entrance to Asher City. I was picked up by the patrolmen, and when I registered my name, they asked me for my name, and I changed it to Chen Yan. I want my life to be as hard as a stone. ”