It wasn't until he reached this realm that Russell finally understood why there were rumors that "if you cross the Leviathan Wall, you will lose your essence as a human being."
His red shift level finally reached level nine.
It is only the last 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 God" has finally disappeared.
Just like a psyker losing control, degenerating and becoming a demon - at that time, the soul could not bear the expanding psychic energy inside the spirit body, so it split. The expanding demon squeezed the spirit body, and the remaining part was destroyed by the demon.
inherited.
Although theoretically, the two are integrated into one, in fact, it is just the core of the "demon" covered with outer shells called "memory" and "personality".
Now the separation between Russell and the container of God disappears... Originally like an oil droplet suspended in water, the container of God that existed inside Russell's spiritual body was given to him by Russell when he broke through the wall of Leviathan.
"Digested".
They were completely and truly integrated into one body. But this time, Russell was the main body.
When Russell possessed some of the abilities of the "God Vessel", he also possessed some of the characteristics of the devil. The biggest difference was that he was able to sneak into the sea of group subconscious.
Originally, the sea of group subconscious resisted everyone. The awake will will make the spirit "lighter" and can only be suspended on the surface of the sea of group subconscious. After falling into sleep, as the willpower weakens, the individual will
They can dive deeper, but at that time their consciousness is hazy and vague... This prevents them from making any changes to the sea of group subconscious with a clear attitude.
But at this moment, Russell was able to project his spirit into the depths of the group's subconscious sea without falling asleep.
According to the "Subjective Cognition Hypothesis" of psionic science, it is said that the "ocean of group subconsciousness" in everyone's cognition is different, and its performance is based on personal cognition. At this moment, Russell can prove that this statement is indeed correct
——
Russell sat in the back seat of the float car, took out a bottle of champagne from the wine cabinet next to him, and poured it for himself.
The golden wine looked like shining liquid gold under the warm light inside the float car. And the string of tiny bubbles emerging from the bottom looked like a crack under the light.
Russell raised it and pointed it at the light.
At that moment, the golden light penetrated the wine and shot into Russell's eyes.
Russell felt his consciousness leave his body in an instant, suddenly "forward" and penetrated into the crack.
When he woke up again, he appeared in the huge "art museum".
On both sides are towering golden walls that stretch to the sky, with countless moving and talking portraits hanging on them, like the portraits in Harry Potter.
Each portrait is chatting with the painting next to it, but none of them can see Russell... It's as if there is no "person outside the painting" in their knowledge.
The closest portrait beside Russell is that of Delphinium driving a car.
However, the Delphinium in this painting is not as rational and cold as she usually is.
She was huddled in a fluffy and soft beanbag, wearing a cool swimsuit, holding an exaggeratedly huge barbecue, biting it down with a comic-like mouth, and still talking to the front.
There was also a painting hanging in the direction she was looking in front of.
But the painting was blank inside.
That's where Russell originally was.
This does not mean that Delphinium is hungry or greedy/nor does it mean that she is a lazy soul deep down... because this intention is highly concentrated and has an abstract underlying foreshadowing that requires human interpretation.
She is curled up in the beanbag at the moment, which shows that her soul is a little tired at the moment; and its warmth can warm the "coldness" of the soul, but she is not wearing thicker clothes, just leaning on the sofa, so it means Cui Cui
There is still a small amount of loneliness in the bird, but this loneliness can be easily relieved, and there is already someone to relieve it.
She is dressed coolly, which means that she wants to "take off her bonds", but she still has a small amount of clothes, which shows that she does not want "wild and unrestrained freedom"; she gnaws food exaggeratedly, which shows that her soul is...
Hungry, intensely craving for something.
And what she was eating was a huge barbecue, so maybe... she was referring to herself. Because when Russell and Delphinium went out to eat for the first time, they ate barbecue. The size of the barbecue was so huge that it made
She was a little unable to control herself, which showed that she had a faint fear about her "talent" in her heart, which was followed by greater greed and more determined actions.
"Don't be afraid."
Russell suddenly said: "I will always stand by your side."
"...What did you see?"
Delphinium, who was driving, didn't look back, so her voice was a little soft: "My heart?"
"Sorry. That's already an instinct."
"It's okay, no need to apologize. My heart is upright, without any shadow. There is nothing that I can't let others see...especially you."
Delphinium smiled.
She hesitated for a moment and then asked: "But if you modify those people's minds, will this be somewhat..."
"I did not distort their memories or 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 true nature of the spiritual plague.
Russell said in his heart.
His consciousness returned to the gallery in the blink of an eye.
In this supposedly windless gallery, there is a faint, hazy colored mist slowly drifting from a distance.
It was so beautiful and ethereal, like an aurora flowing on the ground. It enveloped Russell, but it did not cause any harm to Russell, but instead cured his fatigue.
But after it flowed through, iridescent stains appeared on some paintings on both sides.
They are like a kind of oil that adheres to the surface of the painting. Everyone's color is different, but it can be easily wiped off with a gentle wipe. But if it stays long enough, it will become part of the "painting" itself.
.
For those whose frame is polluted by this iridescent color, they will become more crazier and radical to the naked eye. The portrait itself will also begin to become "quite Keke-flavored". The more polluted it is, the more it is polluted.
People are more likely to be further polluted.
Delphinium didn't change much because her willpower was high enough; her mind wasn't so dirty, so she only felt that her "spirituality had gotten better" and her "mood was less complicated."
"...Those things should be related to artificially and maliciously guided public opinions, or rumors spread everywhere."
Russell said uncertainly.
He has been wandering in the sea of collective subconsciousness for the past few days.
Russell noticed that the more people are persecuted or bullied, or the more likely they are to believe rumors, or the more likely they are to be induced by the media to become angry or sad, the more likely they are to have these "colored fogs" attached to their portraits.
". And only a few people can be resistant to these colorful fogs, and can stick to themselves without being infected by this fog.
Although Russell also knows that even for people in the normal world... being bullied, deceived, and misled is normal, so it is normal and reasonable to change one's mind.
But in this world, it is obviously different. Everyone has become more sensitive and more susceptible to permanent effects. Although this may also be the reason why people suffer from excessive psychological stress in the cyberpunk world...
...but what if the cause and effect are opposite?
It is precisely because people are easily infected by that "fog" that the world has reached this stage.
So Russell specially conducted an experiment, which was to erase the dirt deep in the hearts of these people.
He could see with his naked eyes that the people he wiped became rational overnight... Although it did not improve the social atmosphere overnight, it did help some people recover.
For example, a person who is always angry and will even quarrel with others just because they look at him twice; or a person who is willing to accept any marketing strategy and be defrauded of almost all his money by the merchant's sales trap.
; Or someone who is crazy about chasing stars and is as fanatical as a believer...
Overnight, they suddenly woke up.
An angry person still has a bad temper, but he will not make people feel "angry for no reason"; a person who loves krypton money is still inclined to consume like a person who buys things randomly, but at least he will not spend all the money or even ask others for it.
Borrowing money feels natural; star chasers still like the celebrity idol, but they will not lose their minds because of it and become "weird" to others.
And the most characteristic point——
That is, the whispers that had always existed from the bottom of their hearts disappeared. They were finally able to sleep peacefully at night.
People who are smelly cannot easily smell their own scent, and people who keep hearing small sounds in their ears will gradually ignore that sound - there is a special power that makes everyone anxious. And people have already adapted to it.
I was so "anxious" that I didn't notice it at all.
But after Russell removed that "dirt", more than one person posted on the Internet saying that his mind became peaceful.
It wasn't until they "waked up" that they realized they had been trapped in a dream.
It's like a person who has been pushed by his parents since he was born. He never understands what he likes and what he wants to do...but one day he suddenly understands and his eyes light up. That's it.
A feeling of sudden enlightenment.
At the same time, almost everyone's blue shift intensity increased overnight. Those with blue shift intensity lower than four levels even directly increased by two levels.
Originally there was no reason, just because of a sudden misunderstanding or anger, they were against each other, hoping to kill the person opposite. Suddenly they realized that their actions were so stupid, so they apologized to each other; those who were either greedy, arrogant, or jealous, had already
Those annoying people who have reached the point of being crazy and become "incomprehensible people" in the eyes of normal people, look at others in confusion when they go to work, and are even a little afraid of their former selves.
Only the more depraved ones - a very small number of twisted people who harm others but do not benefit themselves, or those who are insane to an outrageous degree, still maintain their own madness and distortion.
Originally, the entire society was in chaos, so they were not conspicuous; but now, it's like the citizens of a country of madmen who were poured madman's medicine into a well and suddenly all recovered from their illnesses... and those who took the madman's medicine orally were still alive.
Maintaining the confusion, they became so conspicuous in an instant.
This is not just one or two people, but a large group of people.
Then, Russell suddenly realized something.
Because he is not from this world at all, let alone from this era, there is one thing that he has always ignored...
He has always believed that the various chaos in this world are either "very easy to understand, and the world on my side will be like this", or "this is hard to understand, and it probably belongs to the special provisions of the cyber era and the spiritual world."
”, and didn’t feel any problem.
But what if this chaos is actually man-made?
Or rather...
——Why does he think that the world he once lived in is the benchmark of truth and there are no problems?
What if the people in this world have actually already accepted a kind of "sublimation"?
After all, they are not aborigines who have not left the planetary age, but have entered the glorious cosmic civilization of the starry age.
Human beings in the 20th century are completely different from those ancient people in BC; and how can the gap between the cosmic civilization that has entered the age of stars and the human beings in the 20th century be so small?
Even if civilization ends and inheritance dies... can human beings really degenerate so quickly and completely?
Even if humans can deteriorate, why do named elves also begin to deteriorate?
Why is it that a good person like Delphinium, whose moral standards are far above average, cannot awaken the power of Holy Order?
So Russell made a bold conjecture.
——Perhaps there is such a curse that causes the human spirit to continue to deteriorate.
This may be the "spiritual plague" that the deer-headed statue refers to.
Just like the curse of the Tower of Babel in the legend, it creates barriers between people and disperses them to various places, making people unable to understand each other and allowing unprovoked malice to gradually hatch from the bottom of human hearts.
Once he was as noble and pure as a god, but now he is as humble and twisted as an ant.
And this curse may not be limited to this world... even the world where Russell once lived is also infected by it.
Russell has adapted to that environment, so he can only lament how depraved the world is.
But as Russell "dispelled" the corrosion of the souls caused by the unknown curse they had endured, their twisted postures dissipated in an instant.
Although it cannot be said that everyone became a good person or a saint overnight - but at least everyone became a normal person.
In other words, he has become a "civilized person" whose "reason can roughly control the body and behavior" and is not easily deceived, deceived and instigated by others. It is as if he has "grew an extra brain" and has become a more rational "civilized person".
...Is this state normal? Am I abnormal?
Therefore, Russell decided to meet Sai Lun at this time - not entirely to reassure Delphinium, nor was it because he had a "trump card" at this moment.
But he felt that he was very close to the edge of the truth, so he wanted to find an answer.
Chairman Sai Lun is one of the oldest named elves, and she is someone from that era.
...Perhaps she can provide an answer for Russell?
Russell didn't know where the chairman was. So he asked Delphinium to take him to the unlisted small company that Delphinium saw on the surveillance camera where the previous "Shu Shu" went.
And they are very lucky, Sai Lun is actually working here today.
She is respected as the chairman, but she is actually typing code in such a small company.
The moment before they entered the door, Sai Lun seemed to have sensed it and turned around. The door opened immediately before they knocked on the door.
Seeing it with my own eyes, I couldn't help but marvel at how beautiful that lady was. That kind of cross-gender beauty, although not as demonic as Russell's mentor, still made Delphinium look at her for a moment.
But the first words Sai Lun said with a smile surprised Delphinium:
"You were able to successfully eliminate the influence of 'Dream', Thrall. It's amazing."
"I'm not Sal yet, don't say that."
Under Delphinium's stunned gaze, Russell shook his head.
He asked rhetorically: "What is a fantasy dream?"
"It is a possibility of the destruction of the world."
There was no Riddler part, and Ms. Selon didn't hide anything when they first met. She answered simply and neatly: "A disaster called 'Twilight'."