In the spacious chamber, the surviving researchers were divided into two groups. A group of people hugged their bodies and trembled, as if they had seen or heard something, but their eyes were glazed and they did not move for a long time. The other group stood stunned, standing by the glass wall, staring at the air in front of them. There is an indescribable silence that spreads through the secret room, and even the sluggish people keep muttering to themselves, but it only sets off the strange feeling in the silence. All those who can still think, their brains are also a little insufficient at this time, and many strange situations have been seen, but the words spoken by the companions who disappeared from front of them are just nonsense in normal times, but in the present, they make people feel the deadly weirdness more and more.

This is not killing oneself in the ordinary sense, stopping one's physiology, but a thought, a kind of consciousness level, chasing from the spiritual level, it is formless, but until a person's cognition of self and the world, human life and death, have objective physical significance, but as a subjectively active life, the subjective spiritual meaning seems to be more important. For most people, self-consciousness is something more important than self-body—religion, philosophy, and the metaphysical guidance of people to live and find meaning have always been formulas that insist that "consciousness" is greater than "body."

When a person asks, "Do people have souls?" This question means that his cognition and observation of himself have been raised to a level where he is not satisfied with objective physics. When one admits that one has a soul, when one thinks that one's consciousness is more important than one's own body, and that one's actions depend on the activity of one's own mind, those spiritual things have already become the decisive factor in self-knowledge.

Researchers who are still conscious and able to think, perceive, and discern have witnessed first-hand how a person collapses from self-perception and then completely disintegrates physically and physically. For those who are able to think and elevate "thinking" to an essential point of view that distinguishes themselves from others, and even to a height that determines their own existence, all the collapse from the level of self-knowledge, from the level of spiritual consciousness, is essentially a death that is more complete than the disintegration of the body. Before the complete disintegration of their physical form, the deceased exhibited distortion of thought, metaphysical philosophical negation, and even a more terrible ending than death in the normal sense.

The madness that manifests itself in this already collapsed researcher is already a kind of "death". He was "dead" before he disappeared from the air without a trace.

All those who witnessed this scene and were able to think about it can clearly feel the death that constitutes the self-perception factor of the deceased. And how cruel and complete this death is.

Compared with the complete disintegration of the physical body and the strangeness that disappeared into the air, these still sober researchers are more afraid of the destructive power of the invisible erosion on their own cognition. It was also the horror that hit their own weakness the most of the strangeness they had witnessed in the hospital.

It doesn't matter how emotionally you feel, what your thoughts are, how your body is. What matters: How do you perceive yourself? How do you perceive the world?

In their research, never before have they seen such an anomaly in which a person's self-perception collapsed, although theoretically valid, never so quickly. Obviously, a few minutes ago, the deceased seemed quite normal. From a complete personality to the collapse of self-awareness, what kind of attack this person is enduring, the people present can not find the slightest trace.

This guy just suddenly changed his mind, screamed madly, as if he had realized the truth of heaven and earth, propagating the idea that he usually disdained even himself, as if some switch had been turned on, and the whole person's inner being was completely distorted in that moment—yes, distorted, all who witnessed all this thought that it was a distortion from the inside out, and the distorted posture presented on the physical body was completely a more simple portrayal of the distortion of his self-perception.

How creepy it is to see an enemy that cannot be seen, a means of concealment, directly penetrating a person's flesh and aiming at the mind to carry out a fierce attack.

"No, it can't be, it's gone......? That's it? One researcher muttered to himself in distraction, reaching out to fish something out of the air, but all he felt was that there was nothing but air.

A real, utter death is more visible than ever.

"He means that our enemy is God?" Another researcher seems to be thinking about what the already crazy researcher claims. In his view, it is an idea that opposes the subjective and objective facts of the self, and there are contradictions everywhere, and there are many places that cannot be justified. However, from the perspective of the history of human development, science does not play the first driving role, but philosophy has a stronger guiding and driving role. There are many people who claim that the end of science is philosophy, which is not appropriate in his opinion, but it is undeniable that this kind of statement means that in fact, most people still think that "philosophy" is the first place on the level of all human thought.

Once the leading role of consciousness is subjectively affirmed, then the ideology and philosophy that dominate consciousness is the first factor why people are human beings. When such a first factor is attacked, any second and subsequent factors are not enough to fight and rescue.

It is the consensus of many people that only the mind can kill the mind, and only from the destruction of self-consciousness and self-knowledge can a person be completely eliminated. To put it more extremely, the reason why people think that the elimination of a person's body is also a complete elimination is simply because in modern times, science has always given people a feeling that human consciousness exists based on the body, and as long as the body dies, the consciousness will also die, which makes physical death a decisive end.

However, in such thinking, it is impossible to hide the essential situation that people want to kill another person physically, but in fact, what they want to kill is still the ideology and self-knowledge that are rooted in the actions of the flesh. If there is a way to directly attack and distort one's ideology and self-perception, no one will specifically destroy another person's body.

In human society, there is not a lot of thinking and acting on the ideological and cognitive level, and there are many fruitful achievements. The birth of a culture always begins with the collision of ideas and ends with the end of this collision. However, the span of this process is too large, the time is too long, and it will take at least ten years for a person's ideological education, even from infancy, to be finalized, and there will be various iterations during the period.

Compared with people's attack ideology, the way and process of changing self-awareness, and the degree that may be reached in the end, the invisible and formless attack that is displayed in front of everyone at this time is more direct and fast.

If in the past, the means mastered by human beings were simmering, then now this terrifying and grotesque means is like a bullet. With a "bang", a person's self-awareness and ideology are over.

The researchers, who witnessed what happened, could never admit that the researcher with his crazy thoughts, who declared that everything was ruled by God, was still his companion - he was already metaphysically dead by the time he began to think so.

"What is unobservable, what cannot be confirmed, what cannot be touched, from a scientific point of view, does not make any sense." Another researcher woke up from a horror and said this to others as if to himself.

"To remain independent, one cannot admit that one's own mind and self-consciousness do not belong to oneself, but are part of others. If the ego is an illusion, then death is at hand. Another researcher was warning himself.

"What did he hear?" Someone else asked, "It's hard to imagine these words coming out of his mouth, just as it's hard for me to imagine myself saying such things." ”

For a while, no one answered, as if they were all thinking about their own affairs, as if they were all thinking about the meaning symbolized by this crazy and twisted deceased. If they wished, they could find many reasons to dismiss the madness of the deceased, to refute the distorted revelations. But they are beginning to realize that it is becoming more and more difficult for them to reject this crooked idea that they usually dismiss.

Because their situation is completely different from what they are in normal times—the end is near.

All the people in this hospital have made all kinds of attempts, experienced failure after failure, and sketched the changes in this world from every information they can obtain. However, of the conditions they were able to see, think, and deduce, none was a good thing, and there were no good signs. Everything is getting bad, and every time it changes, it's just getting worse.

What happened to them was a direct and brutal way of negating their efforts and ideas. Whether it is theoretical research, practical behavior or objective facts, they all seem to prove that the world is not what they imagined, and their perception of themselves, the world, and the future is subjective and wrong.

"Is there really something that we can't observe, that we can't touch, but that actually affects us?" Finally, one researcher broke the silence and asked, "Our minds are being constrained by our vision, and our perception of ourselves and the world is being constrained by the thoughts we are most accustomed to." In the midst of these layers of constraints, do we think we are right, but in fact we have deviated from the right path? ”

"Don't say it—" Immediately one of the researchers felt sick, he didn't want to hear the other person talk about these things, because, he felt himself shaken too.

"We are so small, the birth of human beings in the true sense is only a few million years, the birth of human culture is only a few thousand years, and the formation of human science is only a few hundred years. On this planet, it is only a group of life forms that have existed for the shortest time. Another researcher muttered, "We used to think that we only had a few hundred years to know what the world was like and what we were like, but do we really know?" ”

"Say no more!" The researcher, who had been feeling disgusted, yelled at him, "Don't think about it, don't talk about it, it doesn't make sense, thinking like this will only make you break down faster." You don't want to be like that guy either, do you? ”

"We have always expected the existence of extraterrestrial life, and we hope to be able to find a similar existence in the universe, and we have never thought that human beings are alone in the universe. But do we really hope that human beings are not special and that there really exist beings like us outside of us? The researcher didn't seem to hear the anxious and angry shouts, and was still muttering to himself, "Do we really want to have something smarter than we are?" Is it really hope that human beings are not the special ones? No, in fact, our searching, our imagination, and our thinking are all just to prove that we are the most special one...... We are ...... fear"

"Shut up, don't say it!" The shouting researcher seemed to realize what his dreamy companion would say at the end, and he felt extremely nauseous, a kind of mental resistance to physical nausea, forcing him to rush forward and choke the companion's throat, intending to swallow his words back into his stomach, "Don't say that here, never!" ”

However, his shot seemed to be a step too late, and it seemed that the companion who was choked by the throat had already had a chain reaction because of his behavior, and this reaction could not be stopped, directly breaking through the barrier of physiological function, so that when he was choked by the throat, he could still make an inhuman voice: "However, we are indeed not special, we are just an inconspicuous member of the thousands of children of the stars." Those things, those first sons of the stars...... Cluck...... Here they are...... They've seen it......"

It was as if he had seen something horrible and had just felt that he had a crazy idea that was messing up his brain. He kept vomiting blood, he suddenly realized what he had said, and he had a premonition of the strangeness of his actions, and he wanted to take back what he had said, but it was too late. He had a premonition that the terrifying formless thing was coming at him.