Prison Island

Chapter 652 Fantasy Cage
One day passed.

About two billion elemental spirits have awakened on Earth.

Then, the number began to decrease sharply, and finally stagnated. No matter how many controllable elements everyone created, there were no more human souls to control them.

"What's going on? Why is there no one here?"

"There should be 5 billion people, why is it only 2 billion?"

Ren Xing Cang Yue was puzzled. Where are the other three billion people? Aren’t they on Earth?

Wan Kai said faintly: "It's a mess, right?"

"Give up?" Everyone was stunned.

Wan Kai said bluntly: "Although we have created elemental bodies, if we want to control them, these free spirits have to move themselves. We can't think for them."

"You must want a body, and your desire to see the light of day must be extremely urgent, and your mind must be extremely volatile, before you can feel the elemental body."

"In other words, if they have given up at this point and are in a daze, or lost in memories, or passing the time with lonely fantasies..."

"In short, if you don't have a strong enough desire for a body, you won't have the energy to connect to the elemental body."

Everyone frowned, they had already created the elemental body.

The free spirits don't need to work hard to arrange themselves. As long as they put a little effort into it, they can feel their own bodies.

Just like a vegetative person, his body's neural control system has been repaired, and his brain only needs to emit electric sparks to take over the body.

This is equivalent to feeding the pie of resurrection into one's mouth.

As long as the mind is thinking frantically: No, I won't be trapped in this darkness forever, right? No, I don't want to be like this, body, body, I want my body! Just something, don't have nothing.

As you continue to focus on this matter, after a period of time, your mental strength will be connected and the elemental body will be activated.

But even so, there are still three billion people who have not completed this startup project.

This shows that they have no strong desire to wake up at all, their minds are thinking about other things, and their energy is not moved in this direction at all.

"That kind of dark and empty experience is extremely hopeless. How could there not be a strong desire to wake up?"

"Even children instinctively want to control their bodies."

"We have already awakened a large number of children, why do so many adults give up?"

Luo Yan was puzzled and looked at Kerry.

I saw that Kerry and his murderer's two children were both awake.

Although the elemental body under his control was very small and was only moving ignorantly, like a shapeless cloud.

But at least it was successful.

If even such young children can do it, why can't adults do it?
The only explanation is what Wan Kai said, it’s not that it can’t be done, but that they didn’t do it, gave up, and put their mind on other things.

"Well, it wasn't particularly painful at first. When you are in the state of a free spirit, your thinking ability is very strong."

"My memory is stronger, and all my memories are imprinted in my mind with incredible clarity, like a large database that I can browse at will."

"The same is true for memories created by fantasy. In short, they will never be forgotten and do not consume any energy."

Kaiba raised his hand and told about the feeling of a free spirit in the void.

Alan also said: "And in the state of soul, although all senses are empty, there is no feeling."

“But you can revisit the feeling and relive the past.”

"So in that darkness of emptiness, loneliness and torture, immersing oneself in past memories, or rewritten past memories, is the only way to dispel loneliness and ease the torment."

Luo Yan and others were shocked, this was a serious problem.

For most people, which is better, a state of darkness, dead silence, and unconsciousness, or is it more comfortable to calm down and reminisce about the good times in the past?
No doubt many will choose the latter.

Except for the panic at the moment of death, and the possibility of trying to wake up, later on, you will gradually realize that you are dead, and feel that you will be like this forever, and then you will be afraid, worried, and then accept your fate, and finally start to immerse yourself in memories to pass the time.

"It's terrible. If I get stuck in memories, I'm afraid I'll never be able to return and won't think about reality anymore."

"Especially as you said, you can create memories through imagination? And the memories are also extremely clear?"

"This is equivalent to having a mental world created at will, where they can imagine anything happy. They become addicted to it and will never wake up."

Luo Yan frowned, realizing that those who couldn't wake up now would never wake up in the future.

Because this is essentially an escape and will only get you deeper and deeper.

However, Kaiba said: "It's not that exaggerated. Although it is possible to create false memories, it is only a formal wish fulfillment. The real experience is based on real memories."

"After all, in the state of the soul coffin, there is no body, no dopamine secretion, and no material stimulation to create new experiences beyond imagination."

“Everything can only be based on the data you have experienced. In other words, the upper limit of your ability to create happiness is the upper limit of your past life experiences.”

"For example, the happiest thing in my past was when my brothers and I defeated the navy. After we came back, countless people followed us and joined us. We had a grand party at the beach... Then my eldest brother poured me a bucket of strong acid cola. The sourness at that time made me miss it very much."

"This is the highest experience of my life. The feeling, when in the soul coffin state, becomes extremely clear and fresh. I can easily recall all the details of the time."

"But, that's it. Even if I imagined that we would win this time, Tai Sui would return, we would travel the universe, and everyone would be happy, but the experience I got would at most be the same as the experience at the beach party that year."

"It is impossible to go higher, because one cannot imagine feelings that have not been truly experienced, and there is no corresponding material in the soul."

“So you said that creating happiness at will is possible to a certain extent, but the upper limit is locked.”

"After experiencing it for a while, I gave up. I still wanted to return to reality, wait for Tai Sui to come back, and create a new future that is real and true."

Luo Yan was suddenly enlightened after hearing this. The upper limit of fantasy experience is locked. If a person's highest experience in life is drinking Coke, then even if he has beauties on both sides and owns the world in his fantasy, the highest experience he can get is the pleasure of drinking Coke.

Just like the emperor's golden hoe, this kind of person, in his endless lucid dreams, no matter what he experiences, is just repeating the experience of drinking Coke, or even worse...

"So that's how it is. No wonder the kids are the ones who are addicted, and the adults are the ones who are addicted."

"The happier your life was in the past, the longer you will be addicted, and the harder it will be to get rid of it."

"On the other hand, if there was nothing sweet and no good experience in the past, you wouldn't be too addicted and there is still hope of waking up."

"Especially for an ascetic like you, Kaiba... even your dreams are only about partying with your brothers and drinking Coke..."

Kaiba's elemental hand scratched his head. Luo Yan was right when he said that he was an ascetic monk.

Except for the happy early days when he was with his brothers, the next ten years or so were all torment.

He has to worry about all kinds of big and small things in Neptune Port, and he has never been in a relationship. Every day he is either dealing with affairs or training to become stronger.

He rarely even tasted delicious food, and as for clothes, he never wore them at all.

"Well...it's not just about drinking Coke. I've also had a lot of fun during the four years I've been with you guys." Kaiba said to save his dignity.

Everyone hummed a few times, but no one refuted him.

At this time, Caesar frowned and said, "Speaking of which, several of my brothers haven't come back yet. Could it be because of those Fulu particles?"

Luo Yan did a count and found that indeed, all those who had tasted the Flux Particles, even the Brain Flash and all the Chemical Bliss, had not woken up.

The only exception was Caesar, because he had forgotten the experience…

"If we do a deeper statistical analysis, you'll see that all the powerful people haven't returned..." Feng Wuji said.

Everyone nodded. It seemed that most of the people who came back were those who had lived in poverty in the past.

Or someone who is very self-disciplined, does not like hedonism, is detached from vulgar tastes, has lofty pursuits, but ultimately has never experienced that kind of pursuit.

"If you think about it this way, I feel really lucky to be able to get back 2 billion now."

"Although most people are at the bottom of society, they have access to a large number of electronic and chemical pleasure products and are addicted to low-level pleasures."

“It can be said that this is a generation that has been wasted.”

After everyone talked about it and figured out the reason, they felt that getting back 2 billion was already very good.

"What about the rest of the people?"

"There's nothing we can do. The road has been paved. The soul is free to think. We can't help people think."

There is nothing we can do about it, no solution, no way to save it.

And now he is even very happy and doesn't want to come out of that closed experience at all.

But everyone knows that this immersion is only temporary.

Because no repeated experience can fight against eternity.

By the time they collapse into despair and have a strong desire to survive, who knows how many tens of thousands of years it will be...

"Let's not worry about others and think about the present first." Renxing Cangyue said solemnly.

"A day has passed, and Themis could arrive at any time. We don't have time to develop anymore."

Kaiba said: "We now have 2 billion Titans. Although most of them have poor consciousness, with so many people, Themis will be drunk to death in the war field."

Everyone is very confident that the current human military strength is terrifyingly strong.

Gao Xin freed everyone's souls, and directly opened up a whole new field of technological development for them.

Although most people cannot condense the White Star realm, Titan Super God is enough.

This is a level that can be stacked up. If the elemental body continues to develop, it can theoretically develop into a planetary super god, a stellar super god, a galaxy super god...

Of course, that was still a long way off, and Themis couldn't possibly give them that much time.

But with so many Titan-level beings, plus a number of White-Star and Seraph-level sharp knives, killing a quasi-emperor will definitely not be a problem.

What is the difference between a quasi-emperor and a true emperor? There is actually no difference in physical strength, and they may even be stronger in power.

But the strength of the Emperor level is, "Don't think about beating him by jumping levels." No way! Even if you are at the same level, it won't work.

That is as strong as some kind of concept... For example, Emperor Gao Xin, just the name itself is worth an economic difference of five orders of magnitude at the beginning, and then the realm jumps by three levels.

After this, there will be countless unimaginable ways to lose to him.

Don’t ask, because if you ask, it’s unpredictable.

You never expect what surprise someone will come up with in the next second... or even suddenly develop something beyond your imagination, breaking your old worldview.

Then, all the expected and imagined winning theories are nonsense! They are all keyboard warriors!
If a real fight breaks out, it will be bullshit and even your world view may be distorted.

This is the realm of Emperor Gao Xin.

The only one who might be similar to him is probably Emperor Ran, but he has never really fought against him.

Apart from this, others who have also reached the pinnacle, or even have stronger numerical strength, can only be called quasi-emperors at best.

Therefore, even a quasi-emperor, even the so-called pinnacle of the dimension, can be defeated in theory.

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(End of this chapter)