Chapter 5: The Brain in a Vat

"Buzz! Airplanes! Airplanes! ”

Before he could think about it, a series of strange sound waves hit.

Then there is weightlessness, and then it is pulled to a stop at great speed!

"It's crazy, it's endless!"

Re-down-to-earth, Hua Kejing vomited bitterness.

This time, the dizziness was much less than before, but he didn't throw off his arms and run forward.

He wasn't sure if there was any point in saving the workers, let alone the empty construction site.

But when he came back to his senses and saw the scene in front of him clearly, Hua Kejing was shocked again.

The gate is gone!!

The whole construction site is gone!!

Hua Kejing spun around in place in panic.

It's a barren place!

A barren place!!

A barren !!

This time, even the entire island building is gone!!

"There is also this kind of sassy operation, Lao Tzu just wants to work happily, and he has never thought of doing things!"

As an ordinary construction site worker, what happened in this day simply made thousands of grass and mud horses gallop in Hua Kejing's heart.

He even began to have intermittent superstitions, thinking that he had encountered supernatural events such as ghosts hitting walls.

"Be calm...... Be calm......" he told himself.

Syllable...... Syllable...... Syllable......

Hua Kejing slapped his face continuously, and the picture looked ridiculous.

Because of the cold, it hurts to fight, but it does have some effect.

He began to work to dispel the negativity, carefully analyzing the message contained in this chain of events.

"If you don't count the desert island this time, the concrete floor slab on the eighth floor has collapsed a total of four times......"

"Yes, it starts at the site gate every time......"

Finally, Hua Kejing seemed to have a glimpse of a clue in the layers of redundancy.

"Each time it ended with the collapse of the eighth floor of the concrete floor."

The next moment, he grasped some commonality in the existence of several mysterious "worlds".

"The only one when everyone withdrew happened to the follow-up story......"

"The concrete floor slab on the eighth floor did collapse, but there were no casualties, and then I went back to the dormitory, so what happened this time should be real!"

Hua Kejing continued to think, and gradually sorted out the outlines of the events.

It was after he was lying in bed and closing his eyes that he suddenly came to this lifeless construction site.

And after the eighth floor of the concrete floor collapsed again, he appeared on this desert island.

"A loop!!"

Hua Kejing realized that he was most likely trapped in a strange cycle.

The cycle begins with the entrance to the site and ends with the collapse of the eighth floor of the concrete slab.

"The collapse of the concrete floor slab, as if it cannot be changed, is an inevitable event!"

"If I'm not mistaken, the moment I arrived at the site gate, the amount of concrete pouring work that had been completed was already doomed to the collapse of the floor slab."

"All I can change is to save the workers on the floor before it collapses......"

Hua Kejing's figure stood alone on the island.

On his head is a cold moon,

Surrounded by the icy wind,

And the surrounding area is still desolate.

……

Yuansha Island, which is the name of the island where the Hua Kejing construction site is located.

The subtropical maritime monsoon climate makes for an abundance of plant populations, and even in the depths of winter, the islands are still lush with trees and flowers.

According to research, it has been inhabited here as early as the Southern Song Dynasty, and now it is a national scenic spot.

But now Yuanshayu has indeed become a deserted island, uninhabited, as if no one has ever set foot on this land.

Hua Kejing pondered, the cold moonlight slanting his figure obliquely on the flat and delicate sand.

By this time, he could faintly hear the sound of the waves, but when he looked around, it was still empty.

Reaching the site gate is the beginning, and the collapse of the eighth layer of concrete slab is the end – this is the second inference.

But this time, even the construction site has been completely destroyed, and it is considered to be collapsed, I'm afraid I won't be trapped here forever!

Thinking of this, a chill went straight to the bone marrow.

"Who am I? Where the hell am I now? What exactly am I going to do? ”

The three questions in a deep predicament are really timely and appropriate.

Then Hua Kejing hurriedly and helplessly took steps and ran.

Something has to be done!

The first thing he thought of was to run to the edge of Yuansha Island to see what was going on in Lucheng on the other side of the island.

But when he ran to the location of the original ferry port of Yuanshayu and looked in the direction of Lucheng, he was shocked again.

"Heron City is gone!"

"Egret City is gone!"

"How could Egret City disappear!?"

……

Hua Kejing gasped and continued to chatter.

Yuanshayu is only four or five kilometers away from Lucheng, and even at night, it is easy to rely on eyesight.

Not to mention that Lucheng, as a special economic zone and port city on the southeast coast, is simply a city that never sleeps.

Now, however, all he had in his eyes was pitch black.

It was endless darkness.

At this moment, the direction where Lucheng is located has been replaced by continuous sea water, and the entire Yuansha Island has become a real isolated island.

"Fake! Everything is fake, this island is fake! ”

Drawing the third inference, the uneasy emotions began to spread from the brain to the whole body, and Hua Kejing's body gradually became numb.

This desert island has no shape, but it is not the original world!

"But I'm not dreaming!"

Hua Kejing's eyes widened, staring straight at the deep and strange sea in the distance, and only continuous waves remained in his pupils.

He didn't believe in ghosts and gods, but it was hard to accept.

"I'm being controlled......"

"Brain in a Jar!"

A word suddenly crossed his mind, and then he grasped it tightly.

The so-called brain in a jar is not a new topic, and many people have already put forward various related ideas.

Suppose a mad scientist or an alien takes our brain out of the skull and puts it in a vat with a nutrient solution to maintain its physiological activity, and the supercomputer transmits the same various neural electrical signals to the brain through nerve endings, such as visual, auditory, taste stimuli, etc., and uses this to simulate our daily life and make us feel that everything is normal in the world.

In such a computer program, we can talk and laugh with friends, love and sweetness with lovers, and even shed tears of excitement at the moment of the birth of the baby.

But this seemingly real and warm world is actually just the result of the brain soaked in the nutrient solution being manipulated by the computer.

What we see, hear, feel, and even think in our hearts is planned for us by the computer.

Therefore, the "world" in which Hua Kejing is deeply immersed, including the desert island in front of him, and the several floor collapse incidents experienced before, may be virtual reality created by computers.

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