All along, what Gao Chuan has experienced has given him such a cognition: there is a foreign body hidden in his subconscious, and now he is not sure what it is, but the "Gao Chuan" before him, especially the first "Gao Chuan" who produced this cognition, that is, Gao Chuan, who looks like a teenager, called this foreign body "Jiang". Others who are not Takakawa, such as Dorothy and Tiese, see it as a "virus."

Conceptually speaking, the "virus" does not only exist in the body of "Takakawa", nor is it simply embodied in the consciousness of "Takakawa". Although it is not possible to directly observe its normal body, it is somewhat clustered in terms of human-understandable thinking, which is called "a collection of many tiny cells", and it is easier to understand that it is like bees and ants, and it does not have intelligence in a single body, but it can show surprising intelligence when it moves in a collective way.

If we assume that the "virus" that cannot be directly observed is that it is distributed in all patients with doomsday syndrome - in whatever way and in what form - the "virus" contained in a single patient with doomsday syndrome is not intelligent, but causes the pathology to occur through instinctive activity; When multiple patients with doomsday syndrome appear, the "virus" in multiple people begins to form a swarm intelligence similar to bees and ants, and this intelligence determines a range of lesion characteristics and produces a more sensitive and efficient response to external stimuli.

In the reality of the hospital, when the "virus" itself has not been actually observed, researchers have summarized the various hypotheses based on the data they have, and this hypothesis is one of the more respected. This hypothesis can well explain the convergence and difference in the occurrence of lesions in patients.

In this hypothesis, once the individual patient has a certain particularity, it means that the "virus" in the patient's body occupies a special place in the cluster - just as ants have a queen ant and bees have a queen bee.

In this way, in Gao Chuan's self-observation, the "river" that exists in his body and consciousness is like the "king" of the "virus" cluster. The "queen" of ants and bees can do everything it can, and when the "virus" constitutes swarm intelligence, it will have the majority of that swarm intelligence.

To put it simply, if there is only one patient with doomsday syndrome, then there is probably no "river", and there will only be a single amount of "virus" that can be contained by a patient with doomsday syndrome, and these "viruses" exist and act in the most instinctive way, causing effects on patients similar to colds and minor mental illnesses.

When a contagion occurs and there are many—perhaps thousands, hundreds—of patients with doomsday syndrome, the size of the "virus" cluster exceeds a certain threshold, at which they become wise. When the threshold is just exceeded, this wisdom may be weak, but it can already support instinctive activities, so that patients can have a more profound stress response and worsen the lesion, and even any attempt to eliminate the "virus" can already produce targeted responses.

After that, the patients with doomsday syndrome expand and spread again, and the "virus" cluster becomes more and more intelligent, and then a subjective consciousness will be born, which will integrate all non-instinctual activities, so that instinctive and non-instinctive behavioral responses form a stable balance, just like the superficial consciousness and subconscious of human beings, the manifestation of self-personality and the activity of biological instincts, which seem to be contradictory contradictions, but complement each other.

Thus, "Jiang" was born.

In this hypothetical theory, "Jiang" is such a thing, which did not exist from the beginning, but finally appeared after a period of time, through the growth of the "virus" and the increase in the number of patients with doomsday syndrome. From this point of view, "it" is still a "virus", and its behavior and intelligence are inevitably affected by the way the "virus" exists - just as it is impossible for human consciousness and behavior to be completely detached from its own influence as "carbon-based, eukaryotic domain, animalia, chordates, vertebrate subphylum, mammals, euzoan subclasses, primates, hominidae, hominus, homo sapiens, homo sapiens, sociality", or rather, it is the meanings of these terms that make up the whole of human beings, It also means the limits of human beings.

The "virus" that cannot be directly observed is not strictly included in the meaning of the terms that describe human beings, so it is an all-round anomaly, and it is also Dorothy and the color system believe that "Jiang" must be regarded as a "virus", rather than as a monster that may still have a little human nature, because all the definitions that describe it are completely different from "human", and theoretically, it is impossible to produce such a thing as "human nature".

They have always believed that it is neither scientific nor prudent to summarize some of Jiang's behaviors and influences into "human nature" just through a small amount of contact and their own sensibilities. The behaviors and words that can be observed by the patient of "Takakawa" are only the illusions of the victims themselves, the so-called "sad spring and sad autumn", spring and autumn is a natural phenomenon, and human beings themselves forcibly give it a meaning that conforms to human nature, nothing more.

As for why "Jiang" has so many similarities with the dead Doomsday Syndrome patient, everyone's sister "Mae", Dorothy and Setsu both believe that it may be because when "Mae" becomes a Doomsday Syndrome patient, the "virus" cluster reaches a certain threshold and produces intelligence, and when "Mae" dies, this intelligence also grows to a threshold that can form a "Jiang".

That's it, so coincidentally, that "Mae" happens to be the last number to satisfy the threshold. As a result, the information of "Zhenjiang" had a great impact on the birth of "Jiang". However, this "great impact" is only relative to the impact of other patients on the "river". Putting this impact in the whole cluster of "viruses" is extremely insignificant.

Therefore, for Dorothy and Tieshi, although it is only hypothetical, they are more inclined to think so: "Gao Chuan", as a patient with doomsday syndrome, has been generating illusions, and "Jiang", which occupies most of the wisdom of the "virus" cluster, has made good use of this illusion. In order to make better use of the relationship between "Takakawa" and "Mae", "E" treats "Takakawa" differently from other patients with doomsday syndrome. This is indeed wisdom, and it is something that cannot be done before the "virus" has appeared in cluster intelligence, and even before this cluster intelligence has reached the level that can be called "Jiang".

And this kind of wisdom has nothing to do with human nature, has nothing to do with all the qualities that human beings have, and is only the wisdom of the "virus".

Although the above is only hypothetical, it has gained great recognition in the reality of the hospital. It may still be wrong, or a one-sided theory, lacking sufficient examples, but the application of this hypothesis in research has shown an extraordinary guiding role. Even now, when "Takakawa" has become LCL, how to complete "Super Takakawa" needs to rely on this assumption to carry out the plan.

The problem now is that there is no time to completely prove the hypothesis, but it is necessary to start from the hypothesis and act with the hypothetical theory as the core.

The requirement for Gao Chuan is: no matter what Gao Chuan thinks in the past, no matter what Gao Chuan thinks in the future, at least, the current self must take this theory as the center and implement it into his thinking and behavior.

Unlike the teenager Takakawa, who believed that "'Jiang' exists in the depths of his consciousness", Takakawa believes that the foreign objects that exist in the depths of his consciousness today may not be "Jiang", but "viruses" that are closer to instinct. Viewed from the perspective of the apocalyptic illusion, it is likely to lead directly to the "monster in the depths of the collective human subconscious".

Judging from the information on the Internet ball, it is not easy to dive deep and feel this monster in the collective subconscious of human beings, the place where this monster is located is very "deep", and what the deep diver feels is only the strong sense of existence exuded by a part of it, and the oppression of human consciousness. When the Deep Diver is under such fearful pressure, the distance from this monster is still extremely "distant".

However, Takakawa felt that his own peculiarity had made the depths of his subconscious a direct passage - except for this passage, no one else's subconscious could get so close to that monster when entering the collective human subconscious.

From this conclusion, once a real conscious walker forcibly penetrates into Takakawa's subconscious, she will only end up becoming a victim of that monster. Just like the current situation, the goth girl seems to intend to let Takakawa walk in consciousness, so that Takakawa can open his own consciousness channel on his own, and she becomes the opportunity to enter.

Takakawa pondered. Perhaps, the Goth Maiden is trying to find out the source of the "Takakawa Peculiarity" that he has observed from his subconscious, and further confirm his plan. She didn't really have strong ill intentions towards him, but just wanted to "see what happened" and "pass by". However, she may have misjudged the answer to the question of "what will exist in the depths of Takakawa's subconscious".

And it's likely that this mistake didn't just affect her personally.

As one of the triumvirate of the Doomsday Shinrikyo cult, the Goth Maiden clearly possesses extraordinary peculiarities and strengths. The reason why she founded the Cult of Doomsday Shinrikyo was the monster she first observed in the collective human subconscious, which had a very strong impact on her. From this point of view, all her actions and considerations are also based on "observing the monsters in the collective human subconscious".

What exactly happens once she gets to where that monster is? It's hard for Takakawa to imagine.

Therefore, Takakawa prefers that unless it is a last resort, he will never use his consciousness walking ability in front of this goth girl, and he will not build a bridge from heart to heart in front of her.

"I see." The familiar girl's voice came from not far away, and Takagawa raised his gaze and looked in that direction, only to see the goth girl holding a parasol and coming out of the slowly flowing mist. Her dress has not changed much from when they first met, and her expression is still puppet-like, without much change, and even makes people wonder if her mouth has moved when she speaks.

At first, Gao Chuan still felt that she was "walking", but the next moment, this feeling became "floating".

She floated so fast that her feet hung in the air, as if her whole body was being pulled by the flowing mist, and she came to Takakawa in the blink of an eye.

Takakawa looked her straight in the eye, and she didn't even blink.

"What is that?" He asked.

"You're resistant to conscious walking because you think the depths of your subconscious lead directly to that monster?" The goth girl asked.

Her rhetorical question seemed to confirm the legend of the witch - that a witch could read minds - but if it was just such a question, then Takakawa felt that it was not a big deal. If mind reading cannot see through all the details of the speculation process, and only knows the result, then this kind of mind reading seems to be powerful, but it is actually easy to be used.

"Yes." Takakawa directly admitted it. He hides the things about "Jiang", as well as the things about the "reality of the hospital", in the thinking process that will not be seen by the goth girl.

"I'm not interested in that thing." The gothic girl's graceful and cold voice said, "I'm not going to the depths, I'm going to float, to the sea, to the world of giants, that's the primordial land, right?" Mr. Takakawa, you were once free to become a giant and go to that world. ”

"You were one of the three people who founded the Cult of Doomsday Shinrikyo and formed the organization after observing that monster, and to say that you have no interest in it - I can't trust you." Takakawa said calmly: "If you really don't have interest, then you don't have to drill into my subconscious, right?" If you go up, I think it is theoretically possible to do it through anyone's consciousness. ”

"Unfortunately, I've done enough experiments to grab the upward passage through human consciousness that is basically impossible." The Goth Maiden said: "All subconscious infiltration is a downward movement, and in order to ascend, it is necessary to find a special passage. ”

"But that passage doesn't have to be my subconscious." Gao Chuan said: "You just made a request to me not long ago, and you can't help it so soon?" ”

"Is it to take the initiative or to wait? It's always a dilemma. The goth girl said calmly with her parasol, her body fluttering back, and in an instant she was once again in the mist. (To be continued.) )