It wasn't until he reached this state that Russell finally understood why there were rumors that "if you cross the walls of the Leviathan, you lose your essence as a human being."

His Red Shift level had finally reached the ninth level.

It is only one step away from the tenth level of redshift, the highest level of theory.

But even so, Russell's spirit inevitably began to alienate......

The biggest difference is that the separation between him and the "vessel of the gods" has finally disappeared.

It's like a psyker who gets out of control, falls and becomes a demon—the soul can't withstand the expanding psionic energy inside the spirit and splits. The swollen demon squeezed through the spirit, and the rest was inherited by the demon.

Although theoretically, the two are one. But in reality, it is just the core of the "demon" cloaked in the shell called "memory" and "personality" on the outside.

Now the separation between Russell and the vessel of God is gone...... The vessel of the gods, which originally existed inside Russell's spirit body like oil droplets suspended in water, was "digested" by Russell when he broke through the Leviathan Wall.

They are completely and truly one. But this time it was Russell as the main body.

While Russell possessed some of the powers of the "vessel of the gods", he also possessed some of the qualities of demons. The biggest difference is that he can dive into the sea of the group's subconscious.

The sea of the original group's subconscious resisted everyone. A sober will make the spirit "lighter" and can only be suspended on the surface of the sea of the group's subconscious; After falling asleep, as the willpower weakens, the individual's will can dive deeper, but at that time their consciousness is hazy and blurred...... This prevents them from making any changes to the sea of the group's subconscious in a conscious manner.

At this moment, Russell can project and sink his spirit into the depths of the sea of the group's subconscious when he is not sleeping.

According to the "subjective cognition hypothesis" of psionics, it is said that the "sea of the group subconscious" in each person's cognition is different, and its performance is based on individual cognition. Russell at this moment can prove that this statement is indeed correct -

Russell sat in the back seat of the float car, took a champagne from the wine cabinet next to him, and poured himself it.

The golden liquor shines like liquid gold under the warm lights of the interior of the floating car. And a string of tiny bubbles emerging from the bottom and upwards was like a crack under the light.

Russell held it up and pointed it at the light.

And the moment that golden light penetrated the wine and shot into Russell's eyes.

Russell felt his consciousness leave his body in an instant, and suddenly "forward" and burrowed into the crack.

When he woke up again, he appeared in the huge "art gallery".

It is flanked by towering golden walls that are as high as the sky, and on them hang countless moving and speaking portraits that look like portraits from Harry Potter.

Each portrait was chatting to the painting next to them, but none of them could see Russell...... It's as if there is no such thing as an "outsider" in their perception.

The most recent portrait next to Russell is a delphinium driving.

However, the delphinium in this painting is not as rational and cold as she usually does.

She was huddled in a fluffy and soft lazy couch, dressed in a cool swimsuit, holding an exaggerated giant barbecue, biting it down with a comic mouth, and still talking something to the front.

In the direction she was looking in front of her, there was also a painting.

But the inside of the painting was blank.

That's where Russell was originally located.

It's not that Delphinium is hungry or hungry / It's not that she's a lazy soul deep down...... Because this intention is highly condensed, it has an abstract underlying premonition that needs to be interpreted artificially.

She is curled up in the lazy sofa at the moment, which shows that her mind is a little tired at the moment; And its warmth can warm the "coldness" of the heart, but it is not wearing thicker clothes, just leaning on the sofa, so it shows that the delphinium still has a small amount of loneliness, but this loneliness can be easily resolved, and there is already an object to solve.

She is dressed in coolness, which means that she wants to "take off her restraints" but still has a small amount of clothing, indicating that she does not want "wild and unfettered freedom"; She exaggerated her appetite for food, indicating that her soul was hungry and thirsty for something.

And she was nibbling on a huge barbecue, so maybe ...... It's yourself. Because the first time Russell went out to eat with Delphinium, it was a barbecue. The size of the roast was so large that she was a little overwhelmed, which showed that she had a faint fear of her "talent" in her heart, followed by greater greed and more determined action.

"Don't be afraid."

Russell suddenly spoke: "I will always be by your side." ”

“…… What do you see? ”

The driving delphinium did not look back, so her voice was a little small: "My heart? ”

"I'm sorry. That's already an instinct. ”

"It's okay, no need to apologize. My heart is upright, there is no shadow, there is nothing that cannot be ...... Especially what you see. ”

Delphinium smiled.

She hesitated for a moment and asked, "But if you modify the minds of those people, will it be a little ......?"

"I'm not distorting their memories and personalities."

Russell shook his head: "I just removed the effect of the 'fog' on them. ”

"Fog?"

"Actually, I don't know what it is......"

That may be the essence of the plague of the mind.

Russell said in his heart.

In the blink of an eye, his consciousness returned to the gallery.

In this gallery, which is supposed to be windless, there is a faint, hazy colored mist that slowly drifts by from a distance.

It is so beautiful and ethereal, like an aurora flowing on the ground. It enveloped Russell, but instead of doing any harm to Russell, it healed his fatigue.

But after it flowed, some of the portraits on both sides showed rainbow-colored stains.

They are like an oil that adheres to the surface of the image. The color is different for everyone, but it can be easily erased with a light wipe. But if you stay long enough, it becomes part of the painting itself.

And those whose frames are polluted by this rainbow color will become more insane and radical with their naked eyes. The portraiture itself will also begin to become "quite a Gram flavor". And the more people who have been polluted, the more likely they are to be further polluted.

Delphinium hasn't changed much because her will strength is high enough; Her mind didn't have much dirt attached to it, so she only felt "a little better in spirit" and "less chaotic in her mood".

“…… Those things should be related to artificial, maliciously guided public opinion, or rumors spread everywhere and the like. ”

Russell said uncertainly.

In the past few days, he has been wandering in the sea of the group's subconscious.

Russell noticed that the more persecuted and bullied people were, or the more likely they were to believe rumors, or the more angry or sad people were to accept the media's inducements, the more likely they were to attach these "colored fogs" to their portraits. And very few people are able to resist these colored fogs, not to be infected by them, and to insist on themselves.

Although Russell also knew that even for people in the normal world...... Being bullied, deceived, and misled is also the norm, so it is normal and reasonable to change your mind.

But in this world, it's obviously different. Everyone has become more sensitive and more susceptible to permanent effects. Although it is also possible that the cyberpunk world has caused people to be psychologically stressed......

…… But what if cause and effect are reversed?

It is precisely because people are easily infected by that "fog" that the world has come to this point.

So Russell made a special experiment, which was to wipe the dirt from the depths of these people's hearts.

He could see with the naked eye that the people he had wiped had become rational overnight...... Although it did not make the social atmosphere improve overnight, it did allow some people to recover.

For example, a person who is always angry and will even quarrel with others because they look at him twice; Or people who eat no matter what marketing strategy and are willing to get almost all their money scammed by the merchant's sales trap; Or is it a person who chases stars and chases demons, and is as fanatical as a believer......

Overnight, they suddenly came to their senses.

Angry people still have a bad temper, but they don't make people feel "angry for no reason"; Like the person who buys things indiscriminately, he still tends to spend, but at least he doesn't take it for granted that he will not spend all his money or even borrow money from others; Star-chasers still like this star idol, but they won't lose their minds and become "weird" to others.

And the most characteristic point -

That is, from the bottom of my heart, the whispers that have always existed have disappeared. They were finally able to sleep peacefully.

People who smell bad on their bodies don't easily smell themselves, and people who have a small sound in their ears all the time will gradually ignore that sound - there is a special power that can make everyone agitated. And people have long been accustomed to this "restlessness", so they are completely unaware of it.

But after Russell removed that "dirt", more than one person posted on the Internet that his mind had become calm.

It wasn't until they "woke up" that they realized that they had been trapped in a dream.

It's like a person who has been pushed by his parents since he was born, and he has never understood what he likes and what he wants to do...... And one day he suddenly came to his senses, and his eyes lit up all at once. It's that feeling of sudden enlightenment.

At the same time, the intensity of the blue shift of almost everyone has risen overnight. If it is lower than the fourth-level blue shift intensity, it will even rise by two levels directly.

The people who had no reason to oppose each other for no reason, just because of a sudden misunderstanding or anger, hoping to kill the other person, suddenly realized that their behavior was so stupid, so they apologized to each other; Those who are either greedy, arrogant, or jealous, have reached the point of madness, and have become "incomprehensible people" in the eyes of normal people, but when they go to work, they look at others ignorantly, and even a little afraid of their former selves.

Only the more depraved ones—the very few twisters who hurt others and do not benefit themselves, or those who have gone insane to the point of absurdity—still maintain their madness and distortion.

Originally, the whole society was chaotic, so they were inconspicuous; But now, it's like a citizen of a mad country who has been poisoned by a madman in a well and has become a madman's country, and suddenly all of them are cured...... And those who took insane pills orally remained confused, and they became so conspicuous in an instant.

It's not just one or two people, it's a large group of people.

So, Russell suddenly realized something.

Because he is not from this world at all, let alone from this era, he has always ignored one thing......

He has always thought that the chaos in this world is either "easy to understand, and the world on my side will be like this", or "this is not very incomprehensible, probably belongs to the special offerings of the cyber era and the spirit world", and he didn't feel any problems.

But what if this chaos is actually man-made?

Or rather......

- On what basis does he think that the world in which he once lived is the benchmark of truth, and there is nothing wrong with it?

What if the people of this world have already accepted a kind of "sublimation"?

After all, they are not natives who have not left the Star Age, but a cosmic civilization that has entered the glorious Star Age.

The human beings of the twentieth century are different from those of the ancients of B.C.; And how can the cosmic civilization that can enter the age of stars be so small from the human race in the twentieth century?

Even if the civilization is broken and the inheritance dies...... But can human degradation really be so rapid and so complete?

Even if humans will deteriorate, why do the name raiders start to deteriorate?

Why is it that a good person like Delphinium can't awaken the power of the Holy Rank even though his moral standards are far above average?

Thus, Russell had a bold conjecture.

- There may be a curse that keeps the human spirit deteriorating.

This may be the "plague of the soul" as the deer head statue said.

Like the legendary curse of the Tower of Babel, it divides people from each other, makes them incomprehensible to each other, and allows unwarranted malice to gradually hatch from the bottom of the human heart.

Once noble as a god, now humble and twisted as an ant.

And this curse may not be confined to this world...... Even the world where Russell once lived was also infected by it.

Russell had adapted to that environment, so he could only lament that the world was so depraved.

But as Russell "dispelled" the corrosive effects of the unknown curse they had endured, their distorted posture dissipated in an instant.

It's not that overnight everyone became a good person, a saint – but at least people became normal.

In other words, he has become a "civilized person" who is "intellectually able to roughly control the body and behavior", and is not easily bewitched, deceived and agitated by others, as if he has "grown more brains", and has become more rational.

…… Is this state normal? Am I abnormal?

Therefore, it was at this time that Russell decided to meet Selun - not entirely to reassure Delphinium, nor did he have "hole cards" at this moment.

Rather, he felt that he was very close to the edge of the truth, and therefore sought an answer.

Chairman Sailun is one of the oldest elves to attack the name, and she is the one who came from that era.

…… Perhaps, she will be able to answer for Russell?

Russell didn't know where the chairman was. So he asked Delphinium to take him to the small company that Delphinium saw in the surveillance and that the "rat rat" had gone to before.

And they were lucky that Serun was really working here today.

She is respected as the chairman, but she is actually typing code in such a small company.

The moment they entered, Sai Lun turned around as if he sensed it. And the door opened before they could knock.

When I saw it with my own eyes, I couldn't help but marvel at how beautiful that lady was. That kind of beauty that crosses genders, although it is not as magical as Russell's mentor, but it also makes the delphinium lose her mind for a moment.

But the first thing Sailun said with a smile surprised Delphinch:

"You've managed to clear the effects of the Dream, Sal. Terrific. ”

"I'm not Sal yet, don't say that."

Under the stunned gaze of the delphinium, Russell shook his head.

He asked rhetorically, "What is a dream?" ”

"It's a possibility of the destruction of the world."

There was no riddler session, and Ms. Siron's first meeting was unabashed, and she replied crisply: "A kind of disaster called 'dusk'. ”