Dr. Schreb gasped heavily, "When they first brought us here, they needed to extract memories from us to store information. Mix together like paint. Then inject us with the memories of their choice. But they need the help of experts, and I know the intricacies of human thought better than they do. So they also asked me to be a scientist because they needed my technology. But they made me erase something else......"

At this point, Dr. Schreb seemed to recall something, and there was a relief in his look of fear, "Do you know what it's like to be forced to erase your past?" ”

Lin Ming was silent, he felt that he was getting closer and closer to the truth. The doctor's statement made him explain in his own way that consciousness was uploaded to a world. Thus these consciousnesses are made up of sets of data.

Then the role of the doctor is to help those black-clad zombies, or those AIs that can only follow programmed behaviors, to recombine and redistribute these consciousnesses.

Because the doctor understands human nature and knows how to better compose a more perfect script.

But the doctor's words were clearly not understandable to everyone, such as the detective who seemed the calmest among them.

At this time, Inspector Bamstede asked in a deep voice, "What about my past and my childhood?" My deceased mother, Shell Beach, and all those memories of what happened? ”

Walensky laughed, "You still don't understand, Frank! We are here, never had a childhood! Our past is all illusion and fiction! No, it's not just fiction, it's all ...... No, no...... Yes! ”

However, at this moment, Walensky suddenly went from reason to madness, and then he lost his life in an instant, and he lay on the ground strangely, with a crazy smile on his face as if he understood something.

Lin Ming was also shocked by Walensky's sudden death, but he quickly calmed down and asked, "Doctor, what's going on?" ”

Schreber examined Walensky's body and said, "Yes, he died suddenly?" But I've never encountered anything like it. It seems that he said something that should not be said. ”

Lin Ming frowned, and said in a deep voice: "Doctor, you continue!" Is what Walensky said right? ”

"Yes, we're all the same. The whole of this is fiction. ”

Inspector Bamstede asked in a deep voice, "You said they brought us here, so where did they come from?" ”

In fact, Lin Ming was also very curious about this question, although it had not been a long time since he woke up. But he also asked people in the city and read some books.

These people speak English, and the writing is also English. The customs are also similar to those of the United States in the 30s and 50s of the 20th century. But these people don't know English, they don't know America.

Schreber's voice fell silent a lot when he heard this question, "I'm sorry, I can't remember. None of us remember who we were and where we lived. Probably somewhere, probably! ”

Lin Ming clapped his hands, "Not bad, not bad!" Maybe from the beginning, we were here, there was never a past, and there is no future at all! ”

Inspector Bamsted looked at Lin Ming, "Why do you say that?" ”

"Because everything is fictional, you, me, and the doctor. The whole city is an illusory world. It could be a never-ending dream, but it could also be a virtual world. We have human memories, but we are not human. Clear the past each time and gain new memories. It's like a new life. ”

At this time, Lin Ming's eyes stared at Dr. Schleber and said, "And as a doctor, you should know that pricking a needle into the center of your eyebrows is the easiest way to kill someone, right?" I guess the detective should know how to kill a person quickly. ”

Dr. Schleber was silent for a moment and nodded, "That's true, stabbing the eyebrows will kill this person." ”

So why use this way to instill memory? Then there is only one possibility, you, me, and everyone else, are not really human. Our bodies, our functions, are controlled by some deeper force. Because I found something very strange. It's been nearly 21 hours since I woke up. I didn't feel hungry or thirsty. Of course, there is nothing else that needs to be convenient. So is this a normal human reaction? ”

Inspector Bamstede had some difficulty understanding Lin Ming's words, but Dr. Schreb clearly understood, "In other words, there is another force behind those monsters that controls them?" ”

"Yes, it is not the human emotions that really want to study the human emotion, or the human soul. They just follow some kind of procedure to do it all. But it was clear that the experiment was missing one of the most critical things. ”

"Damn, why didn't I think of all this before."

"Perhaps, as the doctor said, what you should know has been erased. And we're stuck here, with no way out. And the sudden and violent death of Mr. Walensky also proves this. He must have seen something, and the moment he saw it, his life was taken away by that force. ”

"So what do we do now?"

Lin Ming was silent for a moment before saying, "It's better to continue to go to the place where those black-clothed monsters are." Because you said they have a center in their hands. And to solve all this, whether it is to revive the world, or what to do. We all need to completely destroy that center, or take control of it. ”

"But we can't get to them. You know, they will only open the door to me when they are calling me. Dr. Schleber didn't know what he was afraid of, but Lin Ming felt that he wasn't telling the truth.

"You said they were deep underground, if you could dig through the ground?"

"It's impossible, you know, they're hiding deep, and if they want to dig through the ground, we simply don't have enough time right now. And the power you have now is not enough. ”

"So what else can be done, doctor? Obviously you know what to do. ”

As soon as Lin Ming grabbed it in the air, Dr. Schleber felt as if he was firmly grasped by an invisible giant hand, and he even heard the joints on his body clicking.

"Now there's only one way, and that's to get to the end of the city, where there's a passage to where they are!"

After Dr. Schleber finished speaking hurriedly, he was let go by Lin Ming, but he saw a pair of eyes with a playful expression, "No, no, I think there is a better way, because those guys have finally found here, after all, midnight and early morning are coming."

"Don't you want to go to the end of the city?"

"No, I don't have that interest? End? That's just a sham in a sense. So now let me welcome the bugs that have been tracking me all over the city! ”

The ability of "FM" in Lin Ming's hand turned into a dazzling electric light, and with a crackling sound, five or six black-clothed zombies who were flying in the air not far away let out an exclamation.

One of them had already been directly knocked out by Lin Ming, and the remaining five zombies flew towards Lin Ming, but they didn't get close.

The one at the head stared at Lin Ming with a look of surprise, "Doctor Schreber, you have to give us a reasonable explanation. ”

"I don't know why this is happening!" Dr. Schreber explained, but slowly retreated towards the back. Suddenly, however, he was stopped by another strong hand.

"Dr. Schreber, I also want to know what exactly the so-called 'real' is!"

"Inspector Bamsted, if you're not him, you're going to die."

"Yes, even death is freer than being manipulated to live. Now I understand Add's choice. ”

The man in black at the head said in a deep voice, "Now, it looks like you have learned the truth from this traitor. ”

Lin Ming looked at the one in the lead, as if he had discovered something, and said in an affirmative tone: "It looks like you have been injected with memories. ”

"Yes, I know everything about you, I know your emotions."

"It's just a false memory, but you're just a puppet that is controlled and operates according to a fixed program. You are not free! ”

"Puppet? Are you talking about yourself? Mr. Murdoch. ”

"Okay, I know you're trying to act like a human as much as you can, but you have to follow a fixed rule, and we'll find out soon."

"Know what?"

"Do you want to know what a human being is, and what a human soul is?"

"Yes, we need to look into all this."

"So why? Is it just because you're going to exterminate? No, you are all a collective, with a collective consciousness, a collective memory. So in a way, your race can be equivalent to an individual. The others are just offshoots of this individual. Splitter instances can be retrieved at any time. I don't know if I'm right? ”

The Mr. Hand, who had gained Murdoch's memory, was silent for a moment, "Yes, we are one!" ”

"So who is it that you are in control of all this? Your chief, or was it some of the first instructions? May I ask, then, where did you bring us humans here? And on what basis did you build this human city? ”

Mr. Hand was silent for a long time, and the black-clothed zombies around him were also silently suspended in mid-air, and he said after a long time: "I don't know! All we know is that we need to study you humans. ”

"Look, that's the way it is. You, like us humans, are all puppets of **control. I don't even know if we're human. ”

"And what do you want to do, Mr. Murdoch?"

"I want to go to the underground space where you are, and I need to meet your leader. Believe me, you don't want to go to war with me. Also, I'm not Murdoch either! ”