The cave is not very large, and the fire lit on the ground illuminates the whole cave. The spiritual force field that originally covered the entire island was isolated by Aoki, and a spiritual vacuum centered on Su Huilan appeared.

Su Huilan understood Aoki's intentions, when he isolated the spiritual force field on the island, this place would become the same as an ordinary place without tab, and the consciousness of the savage would lose the protection of the mental force field, and it would theoretically be able to hypnotize it normally.

However, Su Huilan's heart tightened at the moment. She didn't care about hypnotizing the savage, but looked nervously at everything around her, and said in a trembling tone, "Aoki, what's going on?" ”

Alice cried out, "Oh my God! What happened? Where are we? ”

Aoki had been fighting against Tab's natural force field just now, and the spiritual power that had been discharged by him was rolling around the space like a tide, and the huge waves crashed against his wall of consciousness again and again. He had no time to worry about it, but to concentrate on dealing with the forces of the counterattack.

It wasn't until Su Huilan reminded and Alice's cry that he noticed the scene in this "spiritual vacuum":

Su Huilan looked surprised, Alice opened her mouth wide in horror, and Anderson and the wild man were lying on the ground. But—

The earth is gone!

The fire that was still burning just now is gone!

The cave is gone!

There was a white light shining in the whole space, like a thick fog in late autumn, everything was shrouded in fog, and nothing could be seen.

Only people remain.

With the exception of Aoki, everyone else witnessed the entire cave disappearing. Stone walls, land, fires...... Everything is slowly fading until it finally disappears, as if it has been slowly erased from the retina.

But strangely, people are there. They are like two-dimensional creatures lying on a blank sheet of paper, they can see each other, but they can't see the world outside of them.

Everyone could see the deep fear in each other's eyes.

Aoki was also a little surprised, this was not the result he wanted.

He took his mental power back.

Boom –

As the spiritual wall he had built disappeared, the island's natural spiritual force field quickly filled the vacuum, as if a monstrous wave had crashed and hit the people who were in confusion and fear.

It's all back.

The earth, the caves, the burning fires......

As if nothing had happened.

Su Huilan was stunned, and even Alice forgot to help her when she fainted.

Is it a hallucination? No way!

She's an Awakened, and not an ordinary Awakened One. She had always been confident in her mental power, and she believed that it was not an illusion just now. No one could make her hallucinate like this, unless someone hypnotized her into a dream.

She looked at Aoki and opened her mouth, and it took a long time before she said, "You...... What was done? ”

Aoki spread his hands innocently: "I didn't do anything!" ”

A chill rose in Su Huilan's heart. She would rather be hypnotized by Aoki, so that at least everything is still within the acceptable range, at most it means that Aoki's mental power is much stronger than her. But now things were going beyond her comprehension, and she couldn't explain what had just happened.

Aoki bent down to pick up the cigarette butt he had just thrown away from the ground, the cigarette butt was not burned out, it was still smoking.

"I'm sure this smoke is real! It was always on my mouth and never left. He said.

"You mean......" Su Huilan was not quite sure what he wanted to express, and looked at him suspiciously.

Aoki said, "You must be suspecting that that moment was a dream, right?" ”

Su Huilan nodded.

"I almost thought so. Everything is gone, and only us are left, much like the black box stage when the consciousness has just entered the dream realm. But the question is, why...... Are we all clothed? And this cigarette—"

Aoki pressed the cigarette butt against the middle nail cover with his thumb, and with a flick of it, the cigarette butt drew a red arc with a spark and flew into the fire, "It's always on my mouth, and when everything is gone, it's still smoking!" ”

Su Huilan's eyelids jumped suddenly, and said, "When you push the natural spiritual force field on the island away, the things on the island are gone, and the things we and ourselves have brought are all ...... Oh, my God! …… Could it be that this island does not exist at all? Everything is an illusion brought to us by Tab!? Only we are real? ”

This sounds highly unreasonable, but it is a good explanation for some phenomena that are otherwise difficult to explain. Maybe there are no ghost islands at all, but you can only see them when Tab's spiritual power affects you, and everything is an illusion! So when Aoki pushed the mental force field away, the illusion disappeared.

But when did it all start? When there is fog at sea? Maybe even earlier......

It occurred to her that something terrible had happened—if it had started since the time of Tubuai......

"Petru! What about Petru? Su Huilan exclaimed.

Aoki re-lit a cigarette, took two puffs, shook his head, and said, "If everything is fake, then who is he?" He pointed to the wild man on the ground, and then to the unconscious Anderson, "How did Anderson's injury come about?" ”

Su Huilan was a little confused. Yes, she saw it just now, and when it was all gone, the wild man was still lying there, and Anderson was indeed injured.

"Moreover, if it is a hallucination or a dream, when everything is restored, we should see it as it is, such as we are on a boat, or at sea, or still on the slopes of the island of Tubuai, instead of a void space!" Aoki said.

Su Huilan nodded: "Yes, there is always a beginning in the dream realm...... " She suddenly had a flash of inspiration, remembering what Aoki had just said, "You say this is a bit like the black box stage at the beginning of the dream?" ”

Aoki said, "Well, the name was given by Professor Mei when he was researching the Space Box. Because the moment a person enters the space box, it is like just entering a dream, and the subconscious has been awakened, but it has not yet begun to recall the memory, and this moment is like a black box of consciousness. ”

"Wouldn't that ......?"

"Are you trying to say we're still in the space box?"

"No, no, no, this ...... Of course...... No way! Su Huilan felt that the idea that popped up in her head was too ridiculous.

"It's not impossible!" Aoki said.

Su Huilan was taken aback: "What? ”

Aoki said, "The two coffins made by Professor Mei have not advanced to this extent, but it will be difficult to say in the future." I'm a little worried about what the professor's project will look like, maybe it's Pandora's box! ”

"Why do you say that?"

"If the dream guide game becomes popular, we can certainly tell which are invading parasitic consciousness through the space box, but the player may also fall into the dream and not extricate himself. At that time, human beings will live in two worlds at the same time, and it will be impossible to distinguish between real and illusory. ”

"Two worlds? Both? ”

"That's right, just like we are now. We're somewhere in the South Pacific Ocean of the planet, and we're in that Klein bottle you are talking about. Klein bottle—"

Aoki slowly exhaled a puff of smoke, "Could it be an enhanced version of the space box?" ”8)