"If that's what you're looking for, this labyrinth of illusions will satisfy you.

However, there are countless of me wandering in this labyrinth of illusions, and what you see of me at this time may only stay for a moment before disappearing. ”

Gogol's response was more and more bizarre, if it was just a part of Gogol's spirit, then it should be here forever.

Could it be that the pale Gogol in front of him was just a replica?

However, how can a replica be able to communicate with other subjects' consciousness?

Judging by its overall tone, it seems that it has a deep understanding of all of Gogol's experiences, and it has been here for a long time.

Even if it has its own private room in the middle of the three basement floors, a fixed room marked above the 3D diagram of Gogol, how can it be fleeting?

"That Gogol outside once gave me a 3D diagram of the base, and every entrance to the third basement floor leads to you now?

What you mean by the ephemeral is that when I leave, this virtual space will be hidden again.

Will you return to the core of the illusion, this brief separation and return, is what you call fleeting?

Also, if I meet you here, who will you meet when that Gogol from outside comes here?

Could it be some other intruder? ”

Bai Ning's series of questions made the pale Gogol on the other side silent for a moment, as if he wanted to answer, but he didn't answer for a long time.

It's as if the illusion core that supports this phantom is being blocked by something, or maybe it's itself an external manifestation of the incomplete function of the illusion core.

"If you can, you can let him in and try it.

However, I do think that the Gogol you are talking about, he will not dare to come in. ”

After a long silence, Pale Gogol said this response, like a childish agitator.

Could it be that the real Gogol was trapped and died here, as Bai Ning had speculated before, and the Gogol dominated by the core of the illusion had escaped?

In other words, Gogol's so-called ability to forget before is not that he really has the ability to forget, but that he himself is a program that can be deleted.

Perhaps, after a long period of being lost, even Gogol himself can't tell which one is the real self, and what goes back and forth in the illusion maze may be Gogol himself, or it may just be a Gogol replica simulated by the illusion core.

"I don't think there's any need to tell if you dare or not.

If I'm guessing correctly, the illusion core and Gogol's consciousness have already been mixed together, right?

In a way, Gogol is the core of the illusion, and the core of the illusion is Gogol.

You are now one and the same, and you are a mind that Gogol uses to control the core of the illusion, and the core of the illusion may also partially control Gogol's body.

The reason why Gogol comes here frequently is just to completely distinguish the difference between himself and the core of the illusion, and to obtain a complete self.

Unfortunately, Gogol, who was already trapped in the core of the illusion, would never be able to do this.

The blurring of the boundaries between the real and the unreal is the most serious ill of the environmental core, and the fundamental reason why you are abandoned in the Tunguska region. ”

If the core of the illusion is an artificial intelligence program, it is likely to know some secrets of the Tunguska region if it has survived to the present.

Bai Ning added some additional details in the process of inquiry, just to find out more content.

As Bai Ning asked these questions, the pale Gogol on the other side fell silent again, as if something had gone wrong with the illusion core behind it again.

Obviously, either Bai Ning's inquiry just now touched the rule restrictions of the Illusion Core again, or there was something wrong with the database of the Illusion Core, and he couldn't give feedback to Bai Ning's inquiry.

While Bai Jing was quietly waiting, the pale Gogol on the opposite side suddenly fell into an illusory swaying state, and disappeared out of thin air like a bad signal.

With its disappearance, the moss fragrance that permeated the entire space also disappeared, and a blank wall suddenly appeared in front of Bai Ning, as if to prove that the pale Gogol just now was just a procedural projection.

Is the scene just now a double-blind test?

Because Pale Gogol could not respond to Bai Ning's question, let alone successfully deceive Bai Ning, this artificial intelligence program was annihilated by the Illusion Core.

This rapid iterative process also confirmed the prophecy that Pale Gogol said that it would die out quickly.

If the pale Gogol is not a fragment of Gogol's consciousness outside, or a fragment of memory, then is there really a fragment of Gogol's memory in the other three underground layers of this illusion labyrinth?

Or, the fragments of Gogol's consciousness have actually been completely integrated into the core of the illusion, and the double-blind test presented at this time is just to complement Gogol's ideology.

Perhaps, the illusion core has been looking for an existence like Gogol for a long time, as long as Gogol's consciousness is completely integrated, maybe the illusion core can produce a different qualitative change.

Therefore, in the dialogue with Bai Ning, it will provoke Bai Ning and let him bring Gogol back in.

Thinking about it from this perspective, there is an essential demand at the core of the illusion, and through this demand channel, you may be able to successfully leave here.

Suppressing the chaotic speculation in his heart, Bai Ning quickly left this virtual cavity, and when he passed through the entrance of the second basement floor again through the elevator shaft, Bai Ning subconsciously glanced inside again.

There seemed to be nothing, in the boundless darkness of this black hole, as if something was wriggling.

This feeling is very subtle, like a stream-of-consciousness level communication, and like an irrepressible brain action.

The bright flashlight in his hand swept inside, and he didn't find anything abnormal, just like when he came, it was empty, and there was nothing unusual about it.

At this time, Bai Ning was suddenly stunned again, because he suddenly realized that if he was in the illusion maze now, would the strong flashlight in his hand really be useful?

If the irradiation range of the strong light flashlight is just the result of a kind of brain supplement, then what is the thing that interacts with Bai Ning's consciousness?

What is the thing that just swam in the second basement floor?

If the third basement floor in the elevator shaft is illusory, then what is the second basement level connected to it?

Is it also virtual?

If it's virtual, then is there another Gogol guarding it as well?

Or maybe someone else who has explored this labyrinth of illusions?

Anyway, it was a kind of exploration at the level of consciousness, and Bai Ning simply climbed directly down the elevator door to the second underground floor.

As Bai Ning entered completely, a mysterious feeling flashed here, and a strange water ripple road pushed the dark environment around, as if something was about to rush out.

Picking up the bright flashlight and scanning it again, it was still empty like a pitch-black universe, the light was swallowed up by the darkness, and only the boundless depth remained.

At this point, it felt as if from a pitch-black door to a wider darkness, where nothing was loaded but darkness.

There was a slight sound of footsteps on the ground, and there was no huge echo of the empty space, just like the vanishing light, and the sound waves transmitted were also exhausted in the endless transmission paths.

Such a huge space certainly does not exist in the real world, but what purpose is it used to construct it by the illusion core?

If the third underground floor is a kind of illusion for Gogol, and it is also the deepest labyrinth that traps him, then what is the significance of this second underground floor to Gogol?

It can't just be a meaningless space, right?

Or does this space represent a holistic state of mind for Gogol as he travels through the second basement floor?

It's hard to have more guesses about this empty space.

Nothingness can give people infinite fear, and it can also imprison all illusions, nothingness and boredom, which are equivalent here.

I continued to walk for a while, but there was still no intention of reaching the end, as if this was really an infinite space.

This kind of exploration is tantamount to wasting time, and Bai Ning turned around and left directly.

But as soon as he turned around, the space behind him seemed to disappear in place, and the empty elevator shaft disappeared without a trace.

At this time, Bai Ning was really like a refugee trapped in the infinite universe, with endless darkness and confusion in front and back.

It's like the most lengthy of dreams, never to end, never to wake up.

Is this the whole state of mind trapped in an infinite illusion?

An infinite cycle of hopelessness, despair at its purest form.

Walking back silently, the pillar of light of the strong flashlight was still a cone-shaped white space, not to mention the elevator shaft door, not even other objects.

For a moment, Bai Ning seemed to inexplicably break into other people's dreams, with a strange and unfathomable nothingness, with an unpredictable unknown.

The previous elevator door opening was like the origin of this endless void, and now that the origin is gone, it seems that Bai Ning will stay here forever.

If an ordinary person suddenly falls into this state of endless nothingness, it is obvious that he will fall into the most desperate fear.

The repeated labyrinth, even if every choice is wrong, but it at least gives you the opportunity to choose, even if this opportunity is essentially futile, but as long as the hope in your heart is not extinguished, this vain sense of control can still soothe people's hearts after all.

However, in the current absolute nothingness, any choice is meaningless, and there seems to be no difference between being trapped in place and dying in the distance.

Complex and difficult to solve, it is not a kind of despair, there is no way to solve it, it is the real despair in this world!