Chapter 215 The mysterious source of the invitation (5,200 words)
This is the Night City, or the mother body?
When the girl was looking at him, Xiao Xiao was also looking at her.
He cherished this opportunity, so he concentrated and looked at her very seriously, refusing to let go of anything.
But in the end, Xiao Xiao felt a little confused.
can't read.
It's hard to describe the feeling at this moment. Under Xiao Xiao's observation, she looked like a real person, sitting there so real, no different from what she understood and the people she usually saw.
Different... But if it were really someone he had seen in daily life, Xiao Xiao could see through them at a glance. With his ability as a seer, Xiao Xiao could see through anyone.
But I can't see through this.
Even if Xiao Xiao exerted the power of the clairvoyant to the extreme, and his three clairvoyant eyes were widened, he still could not feel any deep emotions from this girl sitting quietly. She seemed to
Independent from the entire world, this confirms the speculation of the indigenous people that this kind of life form itself is foreign and has no connection with this world...
……wrong.
Xiao Xiao just wanted to come up with the answer, but suddenly rejected himself.
He looked at the girl harder and suddenly realized that he had actually seen it wrong just now.
She is not completely independent from the world, on the contrary, she is closely connected to every part of the world.
It is impossible to describe the confusion at this moment.
Even though Xiao Xiao was well prepared, he still couldn't define her.
And with the results that I observed with the eyes of the clairvoyant at this moment, the things that I wanted to verify before suddenly fell into deep chaos. The answer that I had already been inclined to in my heart suddenly changed.
Vulnerable...
If she is Night City itself, then it is inevitable that she is connected to everything.
If she is just a foreign mother, then it is inevitable that she is independent from this world.
But she happened to have both.
This made Xiao Xiao feel confused and confused when he saw her for the first time.
It wasn't until Xiao Xiao was in a state of explosive thinking and experienced countless thoughts arising, dying, colliding and tearing apart that he suddenly woke up:
Yes, it is neither the city itself nor a simple matrix.
She is the source of mystery!
…
Xiao Xiao forgot from whose mouth he heard these four words for the first time, but he had no special feeling before.
It was only now, when I saw this girl with my own eyes and felt the complex cognition conveyed to me by her body, that I suddenly realized that whether I defined her in terms of the will of the city or the mother body, it was not accurate. Only the mysterious source was the best.
suitable.
Because she is the huge night city, the source of all fantasies.
She is the root of all weirdness and pollution, all surreal phenomena, and the source of all irrationality.
The final verification was successful.
The moment he saw this girl, Xiao Xiao felt an indescribable feeling of heaviness and depression in his heart.
After chatting with Bai Cheng in Yedi City earlier, he became curious, is there really a will of the city that will appear in front of strangers?
It is precisely because of this that he began to verify his thoughts on the train to Ye Di City. He had a final goal. No matter how much he thought about it, it would be better to see the source of it. Anyway,
, although now I am completely unable to explain this kind of life, but since she has appeared, I should be able to see her, otherwise... otherwise she will look down on herself.
Emmm
Judging from the final result, she was still very considerate.
…
…
Various useful or useless, logical or chaotic thoughts flashed through his mind, and Xiao Xiao became extremely energetic.
He tried hard to control his trembling emotions, with a gentle and steady face, adjusting the muscles of his face little by little, intending to convey that he was friendly and harmless to the unknown, mysterious, and unfathomable life form in front of him.
signal of……
Then he heard the girl's expressionless voice after putting down the coffee cup:
"Aren't you too bullying?"
"..."
"?"
The smile that Xiao Xiao had just tried to adjust suddenly froze on his face.
What direction is this going?
As for the girl who put down the coffee cup, after she said this sentence, her indifferent expression gradually showed a lot of resentment, and you could even see the grievance in her slightly red eyes:
"I am the weakest one, and I always feel scared. I don't know when I will be eaten by those big guys, so I have been hiding..."
"Because I was afraid, I hid in the deepest part of the night, keeping silent and not provoking anyone..."
"But you still caught me and bullied me, cut off my tentacles, eliminated my influence, and threatened to destroy my anchor..."
"..."
She seemed to be getting angrier as she spoke. Suddenly she raised her head and looked at Xiao Xiao, her little head moved forward:
"You can just beat me to death..."
"..."
"...fuck!"
The development of the matter was so unexpected that Xiao Xiao, who had the ability to think explosively, almost lost control of his expression.
Why did things turn out completely different from what I thought?
Looking at the girl's aggrieved expression, he wanted to pinch himself to see if she was still dreaming.
In the state of explosive thinking, a long time actually passed. Xiao Xiao tried hard to adjust his mood and tried to figure out what he should say. But from a realistic perspective, Xiao Xiao seemed to just pause for a moment, and then suddenly looked straight at him.
He found this girl and said:
"What on earth are you?"
"..."
The girl was startled for a moment, then became angry and anxious: "You are still cursing people now, right?"
"No……"
Xiao Xiao immediately shook his head, but the expression of seriousness and confusion on his face became more intense, and he asked seriously: "I am really curious, who are you? Demons in hell? Or God from heaven? Are you aliens?
Or are you aborigines born in this world? What is your relationship with this city? What are you pursuing here? Painful substances?"
As he asked a series of questions, the girl's expression seemed to be somewhat silent.
Xiao Xiao couldn't feel any changes in her body, but he intuitively felt that she was thinking quickly.
Xiao Xiao didn't know how fast she was thinking, but she obviously thought for a long time.
It seemed that some issues had been determined, and it seemed that she had just made certain decisions, and the smile on her face changed vaguely.
Looking at Xiao Xiao, she whispered: "You already know how to threaten me, but you still ask me these questions?"
"Threatening you doesn't require knowing you."
Xiao Xiao knew that what he said now was very important, but facing this girl who couldn't see through it, he decided to tell the truth. Regardless of his knowledge or experience, it was too shallow in front of the mysterious source. He believed in himself
Lies would not have the desired effect, so he decided to use the most honest words to complete his communication with this first mysterious source.
So he slowly replied: "I just speculated on some of your logic based on some theories, and then used the threat of cutting off these logics to force you...to ask you to show up to meet me. But I still
Curious, where do you belong?"
Listening to Xiao Xiao's words, the girl's expression seemed a little stunned.
But in Xiao Xiao's somewhat blurry vision, this astonishment seemed to be an illusion in itself.
The girl just smiled and looked at herself: "Tell me what you understand."
"I know you have some suspicion in your mind, otherwise there is no point in seeing me."
"..."
Xiao Xiao nodded. As an clairvoyant, facing this girl, he felt like he was being watched by the clairvoyant.
So he took a deep breath and whispered: "You seem to be the city itself, and you seem to be a descendant outside this city. You fell from the sky and fell into everyone's heads. I know that you are not
It doesn’t really exist, you should...just exist in the spiritual world, you influence some people and let them see everything you want them to see..."
"But you also have no choice but to control some people through pollution...or purchasing..."
"I am certain that you can interfere with the operation of this city and control the power of the city itself, but this control is not unbreakable. If you kill those who have been contaminated by you, the city can refuse
I can still see your control. The strangers...or, in other words, the city messengers are your final anchor point. You can only exist if they exist in this city."
"What will be your fate if you kill these strangers?"
"Just disappeared, or lost the last connection with this city and was forced to wander in the foggy sea?"
"..."
As he said this, the atmosphere in the coffee shop became a little solemn, and the time and space around him stopped. Xiao Xiao noticed that the clerk behind the counter had been keeping the same movements for a long time, and the mysterious man in front of him
The girl looked at herself steadily with empty eyes. Those eyes were too deep, and she was unable to see the end of them.
"You are too powerful and can do too many things that we can't imagine. However, at certain times, you don't seem to be so omnipotent. You have all the power that we understand, but you seem to be
What are you pursuing..."
"So, I don't quite understand..."
He was silent for a moment, and then slowly asked the final question: "Are you gods born in the spiritual world..."
"Or the devil who came to conquer this world?"
"..."
"..."
It wasn't until he finished saying this that Xiao Xiao took a deep breath, stopped, and quietly waited for the other party's answer.
He was not sure what the other party was willing to tell him, but he was sure of one thing: no matter what the other party answered, even if he just told a lie to himself, the research on the aboriginal people and the understanding of the mysterious source would be significant evidence and progress.
"It's really amazing that you can say this."
Unexpectedly, when the girl opened her mouth, she actually praised herself: "Human is a creature imprisoned in cognition, so when the answer exists outside cognition, few people can even think of doubting something.
Maybe there is some fundamental difference between you and other people, or other factors are deliberately driving you to see these things that are close to the answer..."
"But if you can ask these questions, it means that you have begun to try to break the cognitive cage."
"And it's reasonable for you to feel confused..."
She suddenly smiled and said: "Because your life level has not changed yet and you cannot understand higher-dimensional things."
"Maybe I really can't understand."
Xiao Xiao answered immediately, even looking a little anxious: "But I want to know an answer."
“Which one is real, what the aborigines saw or what the strangers saw?”
"Are the aborigines really just transformed by you? Or are the strangers living in the fantasy you created?"
"..."
"That's the problem..."
The girl looked at his anxious look and suddenly laughed and said, "Why can't everything be true?"
"..."
Xiao Xiao was suddenly stunned and answered after a long time: "This is not an answer."
"I don't know if you have ever played games..."
The girl looked at Xiao Xiao with a smile and said: "Those games have exquisite pictures and backgrounds, and some even have complete histories and origins. There are people who have placed their hopes for life in the world of this game. He believes in the game.
Everything is real, and there are people modifying the game in the background. In his opinion, the game is just a bunch of chaotic code..."
"...Which one do you think is true?"
"..."
Xiao Xiao seemed to be touched by something in his heart, but he tightened his lips and did not speak.
He was worried that if he interrupted, the other party would not say anything more.
"Don't be so careful..."
The girl suddenly breathed a long sigh of relief, with a hint of complaint in her voice: "For those who don't know, I thought you were the one being bullied... I don't know if you are an alien in this world or some hateful person.
This guy is using you to beat me up, but I am very angry. I have been singled out after working so hard to hide, so I feel very insecure now..."
"In that case, I do want to tell you something."
She looked at Xiao Xiao, her face seemed somewhat calm: "It's okay, I'm already the worst off anyway."
Xiao Xiao suddenly became excited and forced himself to remain silent, saying, "Tell me what?"
The girl said: "The answer you most want to know..."
Xiao Xiao's heart trembled slightly: "Who are you..."
"I've said before, your current level of life is too low. If I tell you the answer directly, you won't be able to understand it..."
The girl smiled, as if she had thought of something, and whispered: "But maybe there is a way to make you understand. I know everything you did after you came to Yedi City, including when you saw the person who passed me.
The power comes to download people who realize they are reborn in a brand new body, so why can’t you understand that we are also downloading our own consciousness?”
"this……"
Xiao Xiao was suddenly startled. Even his ability to think explosively could not calm him down.
On the contrary, precisely because of the existence of the ability to think explosively, the more he thought about it, the more terrifying he thought.
Awareness of downloading?
If the mysterious source is just the downloading consciousness, then who is the body waiting for the consciousness to settle in?
City?
If the city begins to be occupied by downloaded consciousness, then where has the city’s original consciousness gone?
"This is just a metaphor..."
The girl saw the shock in Xiao Xiao's heart, and her expression became even happier: "But this metaphor really made you understand a lot, didn't it? Of course, you don't have to be so anxious and afraid first. What I need to declare in advance is
, even if we are the consciousness that is being downloaded in this world, we are not actively invading this body, and we are mainly anti-guests..."
"us……"
She looked into Xiao Xiao's eyes and said solemnly: "I was invited here!"
At this moment, a force like a lightning strike hit Xiao Xiao's mind instantly. He looked up at the girl blankly. For a moment, he felt that she was becoming unusually tall, far taller than this city.
She was even taller, and suddenly felt that she was illusory and did not even exist. A deep and painful whine seemed to ring in her ears, a sign of despair that something was being swallowed up.
Since leaving his bedroom, his brain has rarely felt out of control.
But at this moment, that feeling of losing control suddenly appeared again.
Countless real and fake pictures flashed through his mind in an instant. He thought of those cold eyes at his classmates' reunion, of the rat people in the subway station, of the man who was suffocated to death by life, and of the man who was suffocated to death by life.
That rotten street, I thought of the city turned into endless flesh and blood, I thought of the extremely cold eyes of Black Gate City, and these extremely weird pictures flashed rapidly.
That was the woman in the video that I saw when I was strengthening the Insight Route.
"Look, I'm telling you you shouldn't pursue this kind of answer..."
The girl seemed to be able to feel the depression in Xiao Xiao's heart, and she laughed excitedly: "It's hard for me to understand, who would be willing to give this kind of power to you? You just need to be obedient, just like me.
Just like those messengers...the distribution of authority is a must, but once the wrong authority is given to certain people, it is easy to suffer backlash."
Xiao Xiao was unable to answer these questions, but kept thinking in his confused mind.
When he first verified these, he had no purpose.
Verification is an end in itself.
Because in the small building of the old president, I saw too many aboriginal research reports on the mother body, I also had doubts about my self-understanding, so I subconsciously searched for the answer, but in the end I got close to the answer, but found that I
I can't understand it at all.
I saw the mysterious source of Night City, and the other party even admitted it so frankly.
But what’s the use of knowing it?
…
…
"Now that you've started, don't stop..."
And also in Xiao Xiao's chaos, this girl wearing a Lolita dress suddenly had a mysterious smile on her face, leaned over, patted Xiao Xiao's shoulder gently, and said in his ear: "Actually,
I can see that you are a little different from others, but don’t worry, I will help you keep this a secret. You found me, which really made me feel insecure, but think about it again..."
"Maybe this is my only chance to avoid being eaten?"
"..."
With a mysterious smile on her face, she gently held Xiao Xiao's face: "So, shall we form an alliance?"
"To show my sincerity, I give this gift to you!"
"..."
The clerk next to me took out a beautiful gift box from the shelf behind the counter and handed it over.
The girl placed the gift box solemnly in front of Xiao Xiao, with a mysterious and bewitching voice:
