"Is this possible? But everything just now is very real. Our sense of touch, vision, and smell are all normal, and even the movements are real. Is this all an illusion?" Yue Guanchao said to Song Siyuan The situation is somewhat suspicious.
Song Siyuan continued to explain: "This kind of hallucination is not hallucination as we understand it, but a problem with our perception. People have pineal glands in their brains. If there is a problem with this thing, it is easy for perception confusion to occur. I guess these human brains It can use people's pineal gland to influence people's judgment of the outside world. This is different from the monster hallucinations we usually see. It directly affects perception at the level of the human brain, rather than using external objects to change vision."
"Don't forget, the giant himself is fused with mycelium. The spores he emits are likely to have hallucinogenic effects. I remember that there is a brightly colored wild mushroom in Yunnan Province. Eating it will cause extremely realistic hallucinations. It's as if a strange and gorgeous world appears before our eyes. This situation is a hallucination caused by poisoning. If the spores here have the same effect, I think we have been poisoned by some kind of neurotoxin. Together with the abnormal perception of the pineal gland, What we see is both real and illusory. For us, reality is an illusion, and illusion is also reality. The two are difficult to detect, and of course it is even more difficult to distinguish them.”
"Then if we go in now, won't we die?" Yue Guanchao said.
Song Siyuan said: "If we don't go in, is there a way to survive? The fish talisman is still in the giant's body. The skeleton we saw just now was obviously a rotten withered bone, but now it has returned to a pale death state with no blood. , it can be seen that we have always been under the control of giants."
"Perhaps, even our escape may be an illusion. We will only know what happened if we go back and find out."
Yue Guanchao had no choice but to take them back to the shrine. At the same time, the pale dead people had surrounded the door. The giant was still struggling in the river pool, trying to escape from the fire. When he saw them coming back, he stretched out his hyphae vines to catch them. They were trying to stay, but unfortunately they were blocked by the flames, so they had to retreat angrily.
Yue Guanchao looked at the giant and asked cautiously: "What do you want to do by trapping us in an illusion?"
When this sentence was asked, the giant's face became extremely cunning: "Flesh and blood can only sustain my body. My spirit is too lonely. It is so lonely that it makes me feel extremely painful. I want to turn everyone into mycelium." Living organisms, let them become my kind, let their memories be used by me, all living creatures are my senses and tentacles, all consciousness is my memory..."
These words made everyone feel as if they were facing an abyss, a cold wind seemed to blow on their backs, and a layer of hair grew on their backs.
Yue Guanchao thought that the giant's purpose was to control more people, and also thought that the giant's purpose was to escape from the tomb, but he never expected that what he was trying to do was to control memories.
If they understand it this way, they will also understand the true purpose of the giants - as long as the animals and plants in Shennongjia turn into mycelial symbionts, through the connection of mycelium, they will become the giant's organs for exploring the world. As they move , Giants can reach any distant place in an instant, and at the same time, their memories belong to the Giants, allowing the Giants to constantly chew on the memories and relieve the extremely painful loneliness. "
Listening to the giant's words, Song Siyuan suddenly slapped the back of her head and her eyes lit up: "No wonder, how could I forget this? As the last individual of the tribe, the giant will always be lonely mentally. If he wants to become If you are not alone, you can either create more of the same kind, or you can only madly seize the memories of all living creatures to experience the different lives of living creatures."
"If it was in the previous situation, the giant was still kind. He had neither the ability nor the inclination to do so. After the fish charm entered the body, some foreign consciousness changed his mind and inspired his evil side. When they come out, of course they will turn all the Beifu soldiers and Onifang people into mycelial symbionts."
"If he is allowed to continue assimilating, all living creatures will eventually escape from Shennongjia. By then, even the living creatures outside Shennongjia will be unavoidable."
"The problem is!" She changed the topic: "After all these years, since giants can control living creatures, why don't they control those corpses to open the locks, but instead wait for us to come, unless..."
Song Siyuan's mind was running rapidly, and she continued to have fantastic thoughts. An idea finally filled her mind. She said excitedly: "Unless he is trapped here and cannot get out, and the living creatures controlled by him are also trapped here." Here it is.”
"What is it that can trap him here? Even the people on the ghost side can't solve it!"
Song Siyuan looked outside the door. Her eyes kept scanning everything in the cave. She found that there were never any corpses around the twelve soul-catching bones. Her eyes lit up: "Yes, it's the twelve soul-catching bones. It's the chaotic space created by these stones. , trapping the giant here, even if he wants to get out again, he will not be able to get out of this area."
Yue Guanchao asked: "Is it possible? Since these twelve Soul-Capturing Bones belong to the Guifang people, their memories are all controlled by the giant. He should know how to make the Soul-Capturing Bones ineffective, or escape."
Song Siyuan took a long breath and said: "At that time, in order to hide their traces, the Guifang people used the twelve soul-catching bones to create a chaotic space to isolate them from the outside world. In this case, not only the outside world could not enter here, but also they There’s no way to get out of the outside world easily.”
She paused and said in a mysterious tone: "As for how to destroy the twelve Soul-Capturing Bones, it is even more impossible for ordinary Guifang people to know. Come to think of it, the Guifang people who know how to deal with these Soul-Capturing Bones have been reduced to ashes. For thousands of years, the people of Guifang only know that the Soul-Capturing Bones are working, but they don’t know how to eliminate the chaotic space created by the Soul-Capturing Bones, let alone how to destroy the Soul-Capturing Bones.”
At this point, the truth about the Soul-Capturing Bones became clear. She suddenly understood and explained: "In other words, in today's era, the chaotic space has become an unsolvable legacy maze, trapping both outsiders who come to Shennongjia, and Onigata people, under this premise, no matter how many memories of Onigata people the giant seizes, they will not be able to find a way to escape from the Onigata world, so they have been trapped here for nearly two thousand years."
Song Siyuan's expression cheered up: "To put it more simply, the chaotic space trapped the giant, making it impossible for him to escape. Over the past thousands of years, the living creatures in the ghost world have been eaten up. In order to continue to survive and seize memories, the giant has Then there is only one way left, to escape from the ghost world."
She continued: "Then, the giant brought us here not to eat us, nor to assimilate us, but to let outsiders like us physically destroy the soul-possessing bone so that he can escape. This is why, we I can live till now.”
After saying that, she looked at the giant with a serious expression: "You want us to destroy the soul-possessing bone so that you can escape, right?"
The giant listened to her words, nodded and said, "Just understand and do what I say."
Yue Guanchao didn't expect that the giant's thoughts were so deep. Along the way, he probably had been observing them through various living creatures, and tricked them into coming to the tomb. Now that he knew that they would die soon No, of course I won’t be so nervous.
He carefully considered the current situation and thought about it: "Then, this also means that if we die, you will have to wait until the end of the year to escape. Maybe you will starve to death before then."
"Since you are asking for something from us, then immediately stop the illusions used on us. Otherwise, we will beat ourselves to death so that you will never be able to leave the ghost world again and will be trapped here alive."
While speaking, Yue Guanchao picked up the shotgun and aimed it between his eyebrows: "At this position, with just one shot, we will die immediately. As for whether you will starve to death, you yourself know it."
After him, all the remaining people raised their shotguns and aimed them between their own eyebrows.
This threat was obviously effective. For the first time, fear and anxiety appeared on the giant's face. His eyes were sullen and he said: "You don't dare. How do you know that all this is an illusion? If it really happened, if you shoot this shot, you will also do it." die."
Yue Guanchao smiled crookedly and teased: "Then it depends on who can afford to lose. Anyway, if we die, we will lose one of our lives at most, but can you bear the consequences? It is better to die than to watch oneself starve to death. If there are too many, it won’t be us who will be tortured for thousands of years to come.”
Yue Guanchao was indeed uncertain about the current situation, but since the giant needed them alive, this was a good opportunity for a deal. If he shot them with one shot, he would be truly dead, and he could be buried with an old monster who had lived for thousands of years. It’s not a loss either.
"Ah~~ Damn it, you dare to negotiate terms with me."
As soon as these words were spoken, the giant roared angrily, instantly stirring the blood pool, and the mycelium vines continued to flow. Although these vines were fierce, they never dared to hurt them. When Yue Guanchao noticed this, he felt that everything they saw was... Maybe it's a hallucination.
Yue Guanchao lowered his head to look at the shotgun, glanced at Song Siyuan, and everyone pulled the trigger in unison.
Bang ~
The bullets from the shotgun flew out, and the shrine kept making strange noises. In just a moment, Yue Guanchao felt his eyes go dark, and he slowly opened his eyes.
After his eyes regained clarity, he looked down and saw that what he was holding was just the mycelium wrapped around his neck. The other people behind him were in a similar situation. Their necks were all wrapped in mycelium, forming a hanging ghost hanging in the air. He pulled it out with his backhand. The dagger on the waist directly cuts the hyphae, and at the same time, it also cuts the hyphae of other people.
When everyone woke up, they began to observe their surroundings. The resurrected skeletons had returned to normal, and even the brilliant light outside had disappeared. It was pitch black outside the shrine, and there was no more abnormal phenomena.
Inside the shrine, countless mycelium has occupied all the corners of the shrine, shaped like an insect nest covered with spider silk. On top of the mycelial vine nets that can be seen everywhere, trembling red and white brains can be seen. These human brains Like flying insects that got caught in a spider's web, they were scattered and suspended in the air.
