Chapter 42: I Think, Therefore I Am
However, although Yang Wuji can use the Yuan Shen out-of-body to engage in eavesdropping, this method is both troublesome and unsafe compared to directly using Shen Nian to monitor.
When Yang Wuji was testing the out-of-body experience, he once secretly diverged his consciousness towards the location of his sister's room, wanting to get in and eavesdrop on his sister's daily activities.
Although he succeeded in eavesdropping in the end, he cracked a big case where his sister wanted to hack his money, but afterwards his sister told him that he felt the presence of others in the room.
This made Yang Wuji understand that in the state of being out of the body, relying on divergent consciousness to explore the surroundings and receive information is as conspicuous as walking naked in the wilderness, even ordinary people with strong mental power may discover his existence.
So he was just excited for less than two days, and he put the talent of Yuan Shen out of body into the cold palace again.
I didn't expect this chicken rib talent to play a role in the deep web now!
Yang Wuji's purpose is very simple, he plans to eavesdrop on the conversation between the gold lord and the game guild executives, and then understand their preferences, and wait for them to come out of the temple, and then say a few clever words in front of them.
Maybe people will look up to him because of this, and then let him, a game bastard, also blend into the guild...... No, it's to invite him, a future god-level player, to join the guild!
"But...... Is it dangerous to just directly diverge consciousness and eavesdrop on the past? ”
Yang Wuji was just about to restrain his consciousness and diverge towards the twisted Odin Temple, when a trace of worry suddenly rose in his heart.
After all, this is someone else's private deep web space, and if there are any detection and protection programs set up and he is found eavesdropping on the side, this matter may be self-defeating, causing him and the guild to turn against each other.
"By the way, can my talent for reclusion only cover my consciousness?"
After being troubled for a while, Yang Wuji had a whim, and he couldn't stop this thought as soon as it appeared:
"It's a big deal, disconnect the network and reconnect! Anyway, the invitation has already been authenticated, even if I reconnect, I can directly enter the third layer of the deep web and return to this private space! ”
The more he thought about it, the more feasible it became, and Yang Wuji began to try.
But it was much more difficult than he had imagined.
Unlike the body and the primordial infant, his conscious existence has no form, just like a ghost, he can't see or touch it, he only knows that he exists.
And if he wants to cover the hidden talent on consciousness, then he must first have a specific consciousness carrier.
"Consciousness...... My consciousness should be an aggregate of information, information...... And what is the message? ”
Yang Wuji's mind began to spin rapidly, trying to condense the form of his consciousness.
His intelligence and spiritual power, which were far beyond ordinary people, were exerted to his limit at this time, and his incomparably swift thinking was like a violent wind, gradually rolling up a storm in the cognitive space.
In this kind of thought storm, his memory, knowledge, three views, and emotions are like liquids of different colors, thrown into the same water tank, and then frantically stirred and mixed by his thinking.
Gradually, in his perception, the cross-latitude cognitive space he was in began to tremble slightly, and those pictures that "looked" distorted and shook gradually cracked, as if something extremely hard was about to break the cognitive space and appear in his perception!
"It's not close!"
Yang Wuji felt that those cracks were constantly increasing, and suddenly had a realization in his heart - as long as these cracks were broken, he could embody his own conscious existence in the cross-latitude cognitive space, revealing the true "form" of his thinking consciousness!
"What's missing?"
In the brainstorm, Yang Wuji felt that his existence was still missing something crucial, so he frantically kept looking for the missing fragments.
But no matter how much he thought, he couldn't find what the missing piece of information was!
"No, no...... No, yes! Everything about myself should be here! ”
In the confusion, Yang Wuji felt that his consciousness was like a beast locked in a cage, trapped in a storm of thoughts, and the faster his mind turned, the longer he was cognitively locked up.
It seems like a decade, a hundred years, a thousand years in an instant......
Just when his consciousness was about to weaken and die, and the storm of thoughts began to get out of control, suddenly, a chill welled up in his heart.
Yang Wuji felt like he was standing bare-bottomed in the autumn mountain spring, and the cold spring water poured down on his head, which immediately made him feel excited, making him understand that it would not work like this, and it would be very dangerous to go on like this!
At the same time, a question came to the center of his mind.
This question is like a nuclear bomb that explodes in an instant, burning, merging, emptying, and finally blowing away all the information about himself in the brainstorm, and finally blows away the residue, the content of the question is:
"What is the purpose of my existence?"
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After the explosion, the thought storm completely subsided, but countless questions about the meaning of his own existence instantly filled Yang Wuji's consciousness.
"Why do I exist?"
"Why did I wake up?"
"What's the point of everything I'm doing?"
"Is it true that as long as I know these meanings, I can find the piece I am missing?"
Yang Wuji's consciousness was buried by countless questions, and unconsciously, the cognitive space quietly shattered, and countless points of light slowly flew out of the channel revealed after the space was shattered, and converged at the core of the explosion, finally forming a human figure.
This humanoid is about the same height as Yang Wuji in reality, but he has no facial features and skin, and the whole person seems to be pinched out of translucent fluorescent plasticine.
As soon as the humanoid appeared, Yang Wuji knew that this humanoid was him, and his consciousness had already merged with it and was completely replaced by it the moment the humanoid appeared.
This is the ontology of his "being" in the cross-dimensional cognitive space! It is a collection of all the information involved in the individual consciousness called "Yang Wuji" in the cognitive space!
If the human form is destroyed, then his consciousness will cease to exist!
"it...... Isn't it just that I want consciousness to condense into a carrier? How did you make such a big move......"
Yang Wuji is familiar with and feels the wonderful existence form of his consciousness.
At this time, he felt that the whole body of the consciousness body was full of eyes, the whole body was full of ears, and the whole body was full of noses...... Every part of the conscious body, every inch of skin, can perceive all kinds of information transmitted from all around.
There is a feeling that I have become a humanoid god.
After the surprise, Yang Wuji's heart welled up with infinite fear.
He guessed that if his consciousness was really trapped in the storm of thoughts just now and couldn't get out, then it might really "exist and die" in the end, and no matter how strong his body was in the real world, it would only become a solid empty shell.
This has nothing to do with his spirit, divine thoughts, and Yuan Ying, once the existential consciousness dies, there will be no Yang Wuji in this world, even if a new consciousness is born from his body or Yuan Ying later, it is no longer himself, but a brand-new, individual with independent self-awareness.
"What the hell am I ...... I almost died on the Internet...... The world is terrible. ”
Yang Wuji's consciousness body raised his hand, wiped the cold sweat that did not exist in the position of his head, and muttered a sentence to himself.
At this time, a piece of blue light that he had seen before suddenly appeared out of thin air in the cognitive space, like iron filings attracted by a magnet, slowly adsorbed to his consciousness body, and dyed his consciousness body into a small blue man.
"What is this? The Smurfs? ”
Yang Wuji observed his blue light consciousness body, a little foggy, and the BGM of the Smurfs appeared in his mind:
"On the other side of the mountain, on the other side of the sea, there is a group of Smurfs......"
"No, it's not BGM! It's my conscious body singing......"
Yang Wuji was speechless and found that all his thoughts and ideas would be directly reflected in his consciousness, and if other consciousnesses probed into his consciousness to listen, he could also hear the lyrics of "They are lively and smart, they are naughty and sensitive".
After a deep perception, Yang Wuji found a cloud of information that was constantly tumbling and surging, like a power engine, at the core of the consciousness body.
And the core of this mass of information is the question that suddenly emerged just now, like a nuclear explosion to dispel the brainstorm, that is, the question about the meaning of his existence.
"I don't need an answer...... Can the question itself be the core of consciousness? ”
Yang Wuji felt very magical.
This information group composed of questions, driven by thinking, constantly rotates and deforms, inspiring pieces of thinking light in the conscious body, and these bright lights of thinking condense countless information in the entire consciousness into a complete "body", and drive the consciousness body to act according to Yang Wuji's thoughts.
If he emptied his mind, the light in the entire consciousness would disappear, and the consciousness itself would become a translucent slime-like aggregate of information.
"Is this what it's called 'I think, therefore I am'?"
Yang Wuji had some enlightenment.
After condensing the consciousness body, in this strange cross-latitude cognitive space, he really seems to have his own body, there is a down-to-earth sense of security, all the information about himself is tightly condensed by his thinking, unless he is willing, this information will not diverge, nor will it lose a cent.
After getting acquainted with it, Yang Wuji quickly mastered the knack of controlling the speed of thinking in his conscious body, and was able to slow down and speed up his thinking to a certain extent.
He found that the faster he thought, the faster the consciousness body moved, and the higher the density of information. On the other hand, the slower the thinking, the more "limp" the consciousness becomes.
In addition, he also discovered that the consciousness body can also be transformed according to his mind to a certain extent.
"Interesting ......"
Yang Wuji mobilized to speed up his thinking, causing a burst of dazzling thinking flashes from his consciousness body, and the blue light that was adsorbed on his consciousness body was immediately dispelled by the thinking flash.
Soon, however, blue light appeared out of thin air again, covering his entire body of consciousness.
"These blue lights, it doesn't feel like it's harmful...... It's like something unique to the deep web. ”
Yang Wuji perceived and analyzed these blue lights, and from the information fed back by the consciousness body, these blue lights are like water and air in the real world, which belong to the basic components of the deep web.
So he didn't resist anymore, and let them cling to his consciousness.
"Now comes the main event."
Yang Wuji calmed down, his original intention of condensing the consciousness body was to test whether the Hidden Talent could only cover the consciousness, if it could succeed, then his consciousness body could be like his real-world body, with a strong concealment ability in the deep web!
With the opening of the Hidden Talent, a nameless force gradually appeared on Yang Wuji's consciousness body, covering his consciousness body in an all-round way.
This power is powerful and indescribable, like an eraser, completely erasing the traces of Yang Wuji's consciousness in the cognitive space!
Then he felt light, and the whole consciousness body suddenly penetrated the cognitive space where he was now like a game character with a bug, and began to fall continuously.