Chapter 9 White and Two: Confused Cognition

Leo spent the next two days familiarizing himself with the environment, although he was separated from Sylvia and couldn't get in touch for the time being, Leo wasn't worried about her, in this state and environment, her own ability was enough to cope with all situations, the only thing to worry about was whether the appearance and body shape adapted from the bloodline of the Faceless would be affected by the mysterious power here.

Sylvia's faceless ability and Leo's ability to adapt her body and appearance through perfect control of the body's musculoskeletal strength, she still used some extraordinary power in the process of changing her body, although from the previous situation, the power here did not affect her, but for a long time in the special environment here, she will be more or less in danger of changing back to her original form, so there is not a lot of time left for Leo.

However, Leo was not in a hurry, because on the first day of his arrival, he had already learned about the ship architecture of the Loclos Starmen, and found a maintenance passage directly through the upper and lower floors on the wall of the outer wall of his room, although there was a gap between the third and second floors of this passage that happened to be stuck in the rock, blocking the passage, but it was not difficult to dig it again.

If Sylvia was exposed, she could hide in the passage for the time being.

Although this large laboratory is completely closed, and there are no special circumstances where people inside can't get out and people from outside can't enter, it doesn't mean that life here is very boring.

In fact, for the vast majority of those who work here, life here is far better than outside, so even if the guards don't die unexpectedly as a result of some experiment, they don't choose to leave and get paid for their years of work, but stay here until they die due to some accident.

In fact, this is not the only case in Leo's lab on this level, but also the guards and researchers in other levels of the lab

The reason why these people behave so abnormally is mainly related to the machines they use to pass the time on a daily basis.

There are no entertainment facilities in this lab, but there is a brainwave guidance device that is even more obsessive than the entertainment equipment, which the Earth Federation calls the Dream Maker.

When a spacecraft flies in hyperspace, especially in subspace, except for a few powerful psionics and creatures with special physiques, other human or extraterrestrial creatures need to enter a special hibernation capsule for deep hibernation.

The hibernation capsule can not only protect ordinary people from the effects of various mysterious cosmic energy radiation, but also slow down aging, so that the aging degree of the body is only equivalent to a few days during a few years or even decades of hyperspace flight.

Although this kind of hibernation pod has very little damage to the user's body, it is not impossible, especially for humans and humanoids in long-term dormancy, the brain will degenerate to varying degrees, and in serious cases, it will even directly enter the state of brain death at the same time as the wake-up program is activated.

So in order to help the brain continue to be alive in hibernation, scientists from the Earth Federation have created something like a brainwave guide.

In fact, the basic principle of this kind of thing is very simple, that is, let the machine create a virtual world, and then project the user's brainwave in the form of a virtual character into the virtual world through a special brainwave receiving device, so that the brain is always in a state of micro-activity.

Now the Fran Empire has also found a lot of non-functional dormancy pods from the wreckage of the spaceship of the Loclos starmen, and they can even know how to use these dormant pods.

Leo saw the hibernation pods the next day, and when he learned about the environment, he had already learned about these dormant pods from the old guards who worked here, but the old guards didn't know that they were hibernation pods, but called him a great creation.

So when Leo entered the big house in the corner of the laboratory and saw forty hibernation pods lined up, and those dormant pods were called great creations, he was also a little surprised and surprised, but he was even more surprised to find that the French Empire was not only able to use these dormant pods, but also modified them.

The only thing left in the dormant capsule he saw was a brainwave guide, energy device, main control chip and dormant capsule, as for the other cryo-dormant devices, energy filtering devices and all other core devices, all of them were dismantled, and from the point of view that the dormant capsule was well preserved, that kind of demolition was not a forced demolition, but a purposeful formal demolition.

After that, Leo used the hibernation pod with common sense, and naturally he entered the virtual world made of the main control chip of the hibernation pod, in which he was directly given the status of a nobleman, and was able to enjoy all the privileges and benefits that the nobles of the normal world could and could not enjoy, and did not leave the virtual world until the time of use was up.

When he came out of the sleeping pod, there would be another person who couldn't wait to lie in, and then fell into that illusory world with a happy face.

Seeing this scene, Leo also understood why the guards here were reluctant to leave even after reaching the mission age, because that illusory world was too real, with everything those people wanted, and in that world they could live the same as the real world, which was equivalent to extending their life in disguise.

Therefore, those people can no longer distinguish between what is real and what is false, in their hearts maybe the world in the dormant pod is real, and now this world is false, once they leave here, they will be trapped in this false world forever, and they will never be able to return to the perfect "real" world, they are naturally unwilling to leave.

Leo is no stranger to this chaotic world cognition, in fact, those who use the hibernation pod have more or less similar cognitive confusion after waking up from their dormant state, and various civilizations have some methods that can help people with cognitive confusion quickly recover their correct cognition, so it does not cause any major problems.

And now the guards here all have cognitive confusion after using the hibernation pod for the first time, and they continue to enter the illusory world without leaving this state, and this cognitive confusion will gradually deepen, and eventually become a fixed cognition that cannot be solved.

Just like now, those who have formed a fixed perception will think that this is a false world, a prison that traps their souls, and will naturally become indifferent to everything here, even if the researchers here do live experiments in front of them, their psychology will not fluctuate, let alone have any sympathy, and even Leo feels that the researchers here regard them as experimental subjects, and they may not resist, because they will think that doing so can make them completely free from this false world.

The performance of these guards also reminded Leo of one thing, something that originated with the Knight King and was related to the royal family of France.

For a long time, the secret army of the French royal family has a very mysterious force, although this force belongs to the French Royal Guard, but it has always been directly controlled by the French emperor, and this force is very powerful, its strength is not only in its combat effectiveness, its strength is more reflected in the fact that the soldiers of this army are not afraid of death.

From the record of success, this unit has brought huge casualties every time it appears, not only against its enemies, but even on its own, and has a record of seven total perils, basically using it once to regroup once.

It's just that every time this army enters a battle, it brings victory, so people who study the history of the war will also think that this private army of the French royal family is the strongest army in the world.

Now that Leo saw the hibernation pods and the guards who were confused by the hibernation pods, he couldn't help but connect them with the private army of the French royal family who had sacrificed their lives.

In the records, there were no similar troops in the First and Second Dynasties of France before the Knight King, and the earliest record of this army is the first battle after the Knight King left the Northland, which can be said to be a battle that laid the foundation of the Knight King, if that battle was not won, then the Third Dynasty must not have existed.

In that battle, this mysterious army suddenly appeared on the battlefield, penetrated the enemy's defense line with a death-forgetting attack, and directly rushed into the place where the enemy generals were located, slaughtering all the enemy generals, and finally causing the army to collapse in an instant, far outnumbering the knight king.

If, correctly, the mysterious troop had all made a mistake like confusion and might have even been brainwashed, as was the brainwave guide that was originally used on the battlefield to make the recruits forget their fears.

And now, although there is still that mysterious force in the personal guard of the French royal family, it should be different from the previous mysterious force, because if there is really such a strong and forgetful force, then whether it is the war with the Kingdom of England or the French Civil War, it should appear on the battlefield, and these dormant pods should not be placed here, for those guards and laboratory staff to use.

From this point of view, the real purpose of these dormant pods has not been handed down by the French royal family, only a part of the use method has been handed down, so it will be arranged here by the French royal family to alleviate the loneliness of the people who work here.

It's just that Leo, who has been guessing in his heart, is also very curious about how the Knight King knows how to use the hibernation pod, and how he knows how to improve the hibernation pod, removing the excess parts that it can't use, and keeping only the brainwave guide.

Is it some kind of tool to be able to learn this kind of knowledge, like the king elector, or is it something else.

However, the choice of the king was directly eliminated by Leo, because in his memory, the Loclos did not have the tools that the Earth Federation used to learn knowledge, so even if the Knight King was the first to discover the wreckage of this spaceship, he would not be able to find any tools that could help him understand this spaceship.

This also made Leo put his thoughts on the true identity of the Knight King, almost all the information related to the Knight King, mentioning his identity is to say that the former French royal family, as for which of the descendants of the French royal family is not mentioned, and there is no way to find out.

This is mainly because the last emperor of the second dynasty of France had a large number of heirs, more than 70 children recognized alone, more illegitimate children, and more daughters than sons, so many people have the identity of the heirs of the former French royal family.

The reason why no one doubts his identity as the heir of the former Francois royal family is because this identity was said when he had almost unified the Vilen continent, and at that time, even if he was not the heir of the former royal family, it was not a problem to establish a new dynasty, and there was no need to do more.

Moreover, after the knight king ascended the throne, he also verified the purity of his bloodline through special methods.

There are many doubts about this seemingly perfect identity, such as why the Knight King appeared on the East Coast, when the East Coast was regarded as a wild place by the French royal family and nobles, and only those punished sinners would be sent to the east coast of the Vilen continent, and ordinary nobles would not go to the East Coast, let alone royalty.

And the place where the Knight King first appeared was in the area where Winter Rin City is located, according to the records, he led his cronies and nobles to escape to Winter Rin City, and then killed those bounty hunters who chased and killed, but the problem is that before this initial record, the life of the Knight King became blank, and after that, the Knight King never mentioned the things before Winter Rin City.

"Interesting Knight King!" Leo used to focus more on the relationship between the Knight King and the Black Forest, as for the life of the Knight King himself was not on his list of concerns, but now he found that the Knight King was actually related to the shipwreckage of the Loclos Star Man, and the direction of his attention naturally changed.

"The Knight King isn't dead!" Leo, who was staying in the guard's small room, flipped through the few books he had found about the Knight King, and a bold idea suddenly came to his mind.

Although this idea is very bold, and even a little absurd in the eyes of others, because the death of the Knight King has caused quite a stir in the world of Velon, not only the kings of various countries, but also the leaders of the major churches have rushed to attend the funeral, no matter how good the Knight King is, it is impossible to hide so many people with extraordinary powers.

What's more, even if the Knight King can hide from these transcendents, it is impossible to hide from the Black Forest, because the Black Forest has signed a contract with him, and whether the signator on the other side is still alive or not must be reflected in the contract containing mysterious power.

But even so, Leo still feels that his guess may be right, the Knight King is really not dead, not only is he not dead, but the Knight King may even be very young.