The subsequent journey seemed to be a little too smooth, and soon Bai Ning arrived at the second elevator shaft, the flashlight shone down, and the scattering range of the aperture was obviously more hazy, and it was impossible to see what the darkness below the aperture was.

Looking at this situation alone, as shown in the 3D diagram, this is a continuous elevator shaft connecting the three-story building.

Without the slightest hesitation, Bai Ning once again rappelled down with the help of a rope.

Descending to the elevator door on the second floor, Bai Ning deliberately stopped, and the flashlight shone around it, and found that there was a bare piece within the pillar of light, which seemed to be a very vast space.

It is a very strange feeling, like an elusive dream, which can be viewed by the spectators, but it cannot be physically touched, nor can it be accurately controlled.

You are in the middle of a dark path that seems to be far away, with no way to come and no end.

Under the strong pressure of the uncomfortable feeling in his heart, Bai Ning continued to descend to the third floor underground, landing with his feet on the ground, a very solid touch, and the strong flashlight hit it, which was the texture of concrete.

That's where it gets interesting.

The elevator shaft on the second floor was rocky, but the elevator on the third floor is concrete, and the two seem to be completely reversed.

The third basement floor, is it really just a void space that exists in the labyrinth of illusions?

Quickly dispersing the process of strengthening this point of view, Bai Ning climbed out of the elevator shaft neatly, and what greeted him was still an unusually spacious office space.

It's just that the tables, chairs and benches here are messy, and judging from the various residual traces, it seems that the personnel here are extremely panicked when they evacuate.

There were also burned-out black braziers in some areas of the ground, the ash of which showed that a large number of paper documents had been physically erased.

This space is much more logical than the first one, kicking over a table, the rotten and dull texture, the metal part hits a fairly crisp sound, and the physics engine performance is perfect.

The overall look and feel experience is as if the three-story underground space is real.

However, regardless of whether this third underground floor is virtual or not, all of Bai Ning's perceptions at this time only exist in the illusion.

This feeling is very subtle, feeling the illusion in the real environment, feeling the illusion in the virtual illusion, the two give people a really different feeling.

Need to go deeper?

Staring at the silent darkness not far away, Bai Ning seemed to have only this one thought in his heart.

It was very inexplicable, Bai Ning's footsteps echoed in this empty dark space, as if Bai Ning's body was acting autonomously.

However, this body itself is a part of the illusion, so what can be said to be autonomous or involuntary?

It is a very strange feeling to feel the self-movement of the body.

It was as if Bai Ning's body and consciousness had been completely separated at this time.

In the previous reasoning and summary process, Bai Ning had already made it clear that the core of the illusion was in a state of detachment from the body and consciousness, how could it be reproduced again in the illusion?

Could it be that being in this virtual underground three layers will generate a new operating logic?

In other words, whether or not you can enter the three underground floors is a matter of mutual choice in itself.

Whether or not you can enter the third basement floor has a screening process for the core of the illusion; The desire to leave is not subjectively decided by the entrant.

Seeing that he had fallen into a passive state because of a momentary hesitation, Bai Ning hurriedly concentrated and calmed down, wanting to regain control of his body.

Under such a subjective will, Bai Ning felt that his walk seemed to be beginning to obey his will, and the flashlight glanced around in a wider range, and found that there was an old and decaying log door not far away.

The decoration design that is incompatible with the surrounding environment, behind this log door, seems to be a small wooden house deep in the dense forest, and I don't know whose place it is.

Is this what the Illusion Core wants to lead to contact?

Just confused for a moment, Bai Ning pushed the door in, and a breath of air mixed with the smell of damp moss came to his face, making people feel as if they were in a mossy and humid forest.

The door opened, and it was still pitch black behind it, feeling this crazy and primitive atmosphere, Bai Ning did not expect an endless coniferous forest behind this door.

Bai Ning was not afraid to see a stretch of primeval jungle, but here he ran into a primeval jungle, which can only be described as a ghost, dangerous and weird, with some kind of incredible bizarreness.

Slowly raised the flashlight and shone it in, but what came into view was a pale face.

Gogol !!

Suddenly meeting Gogol here, Bai Ning's firm heart suddenly jumped.

Why is he here?!

In this fictional three-story underground space, in this special place guided by the core of the illusion, in this primeval jungle mixed with the smell of moss, why is there a figure of Gogol?!

Could it be that when Gogol actively deleted the content of the illusion, he left a certain memory of himself in the core of the illusion?

This pale Gogol is the demon left here by the Gogol outside, and he will never be able to leave the demon at the heart of this illusion.

Too psychedelic look, beyond all expectations, looking at Gogol standing not far away, Bai Ning didn't know how to communicate.

"Did I bring someone with me again?"

Inexplicably, this sentence suddenly popped up in Bai Ning's mind, and it was clear that Gogol on the other side did not speak.

In addition to the strange form, the content of these words is even more groundbreaking.

This part of the memory that Gogol discarded, he even has his own self-speculation and judgment, and can subjectively judge that the Gogol outside is the ontology, and it is the existence that Gogol has abandoned here.

This feeling, described as a doppelganger, can no longer be determined, and the overall feeling is more like a clone.

Or, it is the dismantling or reproduction of one's own soul.

Could it be that the core of the illusion has reached this level of control over the soul of the individual?

Or, perhaps, this is the ability that Gogol has learned by using the core of the illusion, and what he calls memory renunciation is actually the partial renunciation of his own soul.

Some supernatural theories are used to explain Gogol's repeated expeditions to the outpost's research base, and that is the natural affinity of the soul.

It is precisely because of the natural yearning in the depths of his soul that Gogol will lead a large number of expeditions to this outpost research base.

"Yes.

Is it the real Gogol or the fake Gogol who left here? ”

Soul and body, if the core of the illusion can really completely strip away the body and will, then can it also copy the will of the human being?

If a new consciousness is transplanted into the body, will the person still be the same person?

This bizarre speculation all originated from the triplets brain-swapping experiment in Bai Ning's mind.

If the brains of identical twins were to be replaced with each other, would the triplets still be the original triplets?

The nervous system, consciousness, and soul, has the relationship between these three really been successfully cracked by the Atlantean civilization?

The Gogol in front of him seems to have all the answers to this conjecture.

"It's all true, and it's all false.

Now that you have one foot in the realm of illusion, do you think that you are real or fake at this moment?

Being able to come here means that you have automatically broken free from the shackles of the safety rope, your body has been completely lost in the underground space, can you return to the original point, what do you think you rely on?

Or, to put it another way, is it you at this time, or something else, that can lead your body to return? ”

Pale Gogol's face moved slightly, but the words he uttered were terrifying, vaguely pointing to the illusion core being able to replicate a false consciousness-dominated body return.

This kind of thing is explained by the VR brain-computer interface model, when a person is addicted to the content of the game, the AI will host the body, and the AI will help the gamer manage the daily activities of the body.

Artificial intelligence is actually just an analogy, once AI passes the Turing test, then does it also mean that human beings have created a living person through a cloud of virtual data?

So is this virtual data an independent consciousness or a sound soul?!

If consciousness and soul can be artificial, then can the illusionary core, which can successfully separate consciousness and body, use artificial intelligence to regain control of the body?

Could it be that the learning interaction system that Bai Ning envisioned before, or the military simulation interaction system, these speculations are actually incorrect, this so-called illusion core is actually an artificial intelligence simulation system.

The so-called endless illusion is actually to analyze and replicate a person's past as much as possible, and test a person's reaction as much as possible.

In this way, after a long period of training, the Illusion Core can copy an identical AI program.

So, if the level of artificial intelligence that this group has successfully copied occupies the control of the body, this existence that is exactly the same as the original owner, is it still not the original owner?

With the content of Pale Gogol's previous response, "all are true and all are false", when a mass of consciousness or soul that has been stripped away is completely reproduced, can it really be distinguishable from the real and the false after that?

Just like the six-eared macaque that became the Monkey King, when all the immortals can't tell the difference between the two, then the one designated by Rulai is really the six-eared macaque?

"Are you saying that in this labyrinth of illusions, there are actually countless people wandering aimlessly?"

Artificial intelligence is nothing more than a program that can be copied in countless copies, which is the most basic speculation, and it is also a frightening speculation.

The learning of human consciousness by the Illusion Core is not one-way, and its iteration method cannot be single, so even if Bai Ning has only entered the Illusion Realm three times, it does not mean that the Illusion Core has little understanding of him.