Chapter 180: Sense of Presence
How do you define whether a person exists?
Does a person exist when he can be seen by others? Or when he disappears from everyone's eyes, does he cease to exist?
Would anyone define their existence in terms of this self in the eyes of others?
Long Yue didn't know how others defined presence, anyway, when she really tried to be invisible according to the mysterious person named Ivy, she really couldn't see herself.
The arms, the legs, the body, the things that used to define one's existence, suddenly disappear.
Maybe it's not like it's gone, but it's something you can't see, and you can feel it.
However, because I can't see, my feelings have become blurred, and it seems that it is easier for me to imagine myself as something else, and the subjective role of the heart exceeds the objective?
It's like the familiar self is about to disappear and then a new self will be ushered in.
It is not the feeling of a blind person whose head is no longer important and whose consciousness represents the rest of the body, but a feeling that the mind and body are completely let go, the body is no longer distinguished, and the consciousness becomes one.
This feeling is so novel that Long Yue is curious about it, switching back and forth between stealth and non-stealth.
"You are the one hundred and third Chosen One, and the last." Ivy said on the other side.
"The last one?" Long Yue was a little strange and asked, "What about the rest of the people?" ”
"They've all gone to the chosen place." Ivy said.
"So when am I going there?" Long Yue asked.
"You're already there." Ivy said.
Then a crack opened in the white space, and Long Yue saw that there was a place full of white light outside, she walked out, and then found herself in a sci-fi style building, although this building was very similar to the world in the card, but Long Yue knew that it was not the same, just because some details were identified by her.
Long Yue walked towards the building, and when she came to the front of the city, she glanced up at the sky, and the dark sky was like an abyss. It made her feel a sense of emptiness.
However, this emptiness was soon filled with another emotion, and Long Yue saw a familiar person walking towards her not far away.
"Ivy?" Long Yue asked.
"Hmm" Ivy on the other side nodded and said, "Long Yue, when I leave here, I will go to you." I hope we won't be too surprised when we meet. ”
"Here?" Long Yue said with some surprise, she obviously left that place just now, why did she listen to what Ivy meant, this doesn't seem to be a realistic place?
"This is a testing space. You must pass the test I set to finally qualify as the Chosen One, okay Longyue, the test begins. ”
After Ivy finished speaking, her body suddenly disappeared, the kind of situation that gradually faded away, and it would never be possible in the normal world.
As Ivy vanished, the sky began to turn red, and the city began to melt, and almost in a matter of seconds, the world was completely scorched by the apocalypse. The red sky, the scorching earth, if it weren't for the completely different environment just now, Long Yue would definitely think that all this was true.
Suddenly, Long Yue heard the sound of friction behind her, Long Yue turned around, and saw more than a dozen zombies scattered in the distance running towards her.
Long Yue subconsciously looked around, wanting to find a weapon.
Then I saw a ball of light suspended in the air not far away, and inside the ball of light was a pitch-black rifle.
Long Yue probably knew what she was doing, and without too much hesitation, she walked in front of the ball of light. Picked up the rifle.
The weight of the rifle is very light, and there is a special lightness in the hand, Long Yue lifted the rifle and tried to look at the zombies over there through the scope.
Those zombies have ugly faces. With terrifying sharp teeth in his mouth, he roared and rushed towards this side.
Long Yue pulled the trigger without hesitation, but in the end, it didn't stabilize, and the bullet grazed the zombie's shoulder and flew out.
The huge inertia with the force of rotation made the zombie's body rotate and fly. Then it fell heavily on the ground, and the power of the rifle exceeded Long Yue's imagination, giving her the confidence to defeat the zombies.
Long Yue began to try to target the zombies, but she found that the bullet would change direction randomly during the flight, and the final hit area would only be a range, and it would take hard concentration to calm her heartbeat before she could hit.
About ten minutes later, when Long Yue knocked down the last zombie, the trial was finally over.
Ivy's projection tells Long Yue to go to a valley a hundred miles away from her city in ten days, where it all began.
She felt a shock in her body, then a blur in her vision, then everything moved away from her, and then she appeared in reality, standing on the roof with the card in hand, and below it was an endless sea of zombies.
It's been a long time since Ivy chose the first Chosen One, and Long Yue was Ivy who found the Chosen One who met the requirements in a remote city, and after handing over the card to Long Yue, Ivy hid in the dark to observe.
Seeing Long Yue detached from the mental space at this moment, the other party's expression was a little excited, but she quickly regained her calm, and then her body disappeared.
Of course, as the inventor of this stealth technique, Ivy can still see the phantom in the air after Longyue's invisibility, but if it is someone else or a zombie, there will be no trace at all.
After stealing, Long Yue found that the zombie group that had become crazy following her scent really seemed to have lost her information after she became invisible, and began to become aimless again.
A few minutes later, the originally dense crowd of corpses began to thin out.
Long Yue returned to the room, took a dagger and an iron rod, and left the room.
The purpose is a valley a hundred miles away, and Long Yue has seen the map of the city before and knows that there is indeed a special valley a hundred miles away.
The valley was surrounded by mountains on all sides, with only a depression in the middle, and if it was the safest place in the apocalypse, it would undoubtedly be the valley.
As for why Long Yue didn't go before, just because she couldn't even take care of herself, where was she in the mood to think about anything else?
Being chased by zombies every day and dying, hiding, hiding, fearing, there is no time to think about the future, short-term planning is the only thing, because if there is no short-term survival, the long-term is even more empty talk.
A person's sense of existence is not only a feeling, but also an active need, people have the need to want to exist, or to put it simply, it is the desire to survive, the desire to survive is the reverse of the sense of existence, and it is logically symmetrical to the sense of existence. One is to feel because of existence, and the other is to pursue for the sake of being.
Long Yue now has the ability to stealth, so she began to think about the future, that valley is surrounded by mountains, it is indeed a good place, maybe the card maker is there, waiting to start a new era. (To be continued.) )