Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 604 The Concept of Life That Should Not Exist

The emergence of the Evil Brain Motor fills a gap in the company's long-standing expertise in consciousness development.

In the wasteland era, this was also the first reliable tool for consistently exploring the consciousness side.

Zhou Yi was extremely pleased with this.

Although he is now a light core body, his long-term activity on the side of consciousness almost inevitably requires the use of the Great Holy Spirit. Otherwise, faced with the vast sea of ​​fragments of consciousness, there would be no way to investigate them.

However, once the Great Holy Spirit, which acts like a GPS, is activated, one's own information will inevitably be leaked, and the Great Holy Spirit itself is a domain controlled by the Dream Demon Group.

But now things are completely different.

The evil brain motors are independent of the Great Holy Spirit, and are networked with biological brains, maintaining a high degree of independence and functionality.

Using this device is like controlling a large-scale game console to explore another world.

Zhou Yi quickly noticed this through the screen.

On the conscious side, material life forms are merely shadowy figures, varying in size depending on the intensity and radiating power of their consciousness. However, pure conscious entities like conceptual life possess clear forms and structures.

for example.

The karaoke king, active on the consciousness side, looks like a black media player.

The Earth God is depicted as a clay bodhisattva standing on auspicious clouds.

In the realm of consciousness, they are the original inhabitants, while material life can only appear as black projections, like boundary breakers.

However, things were not peaceful there either.

Through the evil brain generator, Zhou Yi saw a giant wearing a black cloak, dragging a long, thin, oar-like black sword, swimming across the wasteland of consciousness formed by piled fragments.

This person's strength is astonishing. Just looking at this guy makes the light core inside Zhou Yi's body buzz and crack, as if it is a strong warning.

The black-clad giant passed by a series of shadowy figures, seemingly observing and identifying something.

It only attacks native conceptual life forms. Faced with it, the conceptual life forms all flee in panic, seemingly lacking any courage to fight it.

Zhou Yi summoned the local earth god and asked, "Who is that?"

"die."

The Earth God, hovering beside the evil brain generator, said, "It is very similar to the Lord of the Dead Sea; both are manifestations of natural laws. Consciousnesses showing signs of death will attract its approach and arrival."

“Under normal circumstances, it will not attack the consciousness of material life on this side, because ultimately, it is a collection of death consciousness, a collection of death phenomena.”

"But it will attack conceptual life, because conceptual life should not exist in the first place, but is the result of death, and it will fragment conceptual life."

Zhou Yi was taken aback: "Shouldn't conceptual life exist?"

"To be precise, it means that conceptual life with self-awareness should not exist."

The Earth God said, "In the old human era, before the impact of the circular flow descended upon this world, conceptual objects were merely an ideology."

“A conceptual object that possesses self-awareness is a conceptual life.”

“Early conceptual life forms were extremely rare; their very existence was an extremely low-probability event. The earliest conceptual life form was the nightmare.”

"But the impact of the circular flow caused a large number of material life forms to decompose instantly, and countless fragments of consciousness poured in, resulting in an unprecedented large-scale reorganization and chaos on the consciousness side."

"The most stable concept is that it acquires these fragments of consciousness with strong self-awareness, and then condenses into self-awareness."

"In the determination of death, conceptual life is an abnormal individual, a deceased person who should have died but was forcibly prevented from regenerating, and is the object that it wants to eliminate and reset to zero."

“Once a conceptual life is reset to zero by death, it will lose about half of its consciousness fragments and it will be difficult to recover for a long time. This is why everyone avoids it.”

Zhou Yi touched his chin.

It turns out that conceptual life has such a mechanism.

So to say……

"The self-awareness of a large number of conceptual beings actually originates from the consciousness of the old humanity?"

"good."

The Earth God said, "When a whale falls, all things come to life. It is because of the extinction of the old humans that a large amount of consciousness and material heritage was left behind, which led to the life forms we have today."

Zhou Yi couldn't help but look towards death.

This man in black robes with a long sword had no facial features; his cloak concealed only deep darkness.

"Which is stronger, Death or the Lord of the Dead Sea?"

"Hard to say."

The Earth God thought for a moment: "We never consider death to be life, but rather as a walking natural mechanism, because it kills all conceptual life."

"Compared to it, the Lord of the Dead Sea is much more normal; at least he won't attack others without reason."

"Death and the Lord of the Dead Sea once met, it seems that the Sun God witnessed it with his own eyes, and Death seems to be unable to kill the Lord of the Dead Sea... but the specifics are unclear."

Zhou Yi was startled upon hearing this.

Is the Lord of the Dead Sea immortal?
He immediately contacted Dragon, who was currently traveling on business as "Mr. Krabs".

"That's what happened."

The dragon said, "The Sun God told me that this was actually a plan devised by the Sun God to guide the God of Death to deal with the Lord of the Dead Sea. He wanted to use this trick of using one tiger to devour another to see if he could deal with the Lord of the Dead Sea."

"However, Death did not attack the Lord of the Dead Sea when it encountered him."

"Later, after investigation, the Sun God confirmed that the Dead Sea itself was not a product of this world, but rather originated from the sun's energy. Therefore, the Dead Sea Lord is a conceptual entity born from this prototype and does not belong to this world. Death here cannot affect its prototype..."

Zhou Yi understood.

Death can only affect locals; it has no effect on this foreign guest.

Besides that, in the world of consciousness, aside from the shadowy figures who exist as NPCs, the main characters are the conceptual life forms. They usually fly around and search in that broken world.

Different concepts of life lead to different tendencies and personalities.

Zhou Yi saw a type of tower-shaped altar that was found all over the place, with white or black flames burning on it.

The local earth god said that this was the mark of the "God of Fire".

"The Vulcan is an ancient conceptual being that builds fire altars everywhere. If you get close to a fire altar, you can obtain fragments of consciousness about fire through the two-colored flames on it."

"White flames can be infused with fragments of one's own consciousness, while black flames can be infused with fragments of the fire god's consciousness."

"Fire represents not only high temperature and light, but also the duality of civilization and destruction. The fire altar can stabilize the fragments of consciousness in a large area, allowing them to maintain order rather than chaos and tending towards destruction."

"If you happen to be able to touch the altar on the other side, you can get this kind of inspiration. This fragmented consciousness comes from the thinking and creation of many consciousnesses in this world in the past."

When talking about the God of Fire, the Earth God spoke very politely and respectfully: "Unfortunately, the consciousness side is always fragmented, and the fire altar will always collapse and crumble. But it will also be constantly rebuilt, day after day, without stopping."

"Knowing that this will never end, Vulcan has never given up, and everyone respects it. It is a blessing to have such a down-to-earth being in the conceptual life, focused on repairing the world."

Zhou Yi thought to himself. It seems that everywhere you go, there are diligent behind-the-scenes workers who are constantly making repairs and maintenance.

The complete opposite of [Vulcan] is [Fear].

This person's signature is the black and white forest that is built everywhere. It is an artificial dense forest constructed by black and white consciousness keys, which is crisscrossed and resembles a special fortress built with a large number of pillars.

Black and white monsters roam the forest, and they will touch any consciousness that approaches them.

Once inside these black and white forests, and followed and touched by the black and white humanoid monsters, the consciousness will release a large number of fragments, which will be absorbed by the forest, like a piggy bank being pulled along and bursting with coins. This is the result of the state of fear.

The Earth God said, "It feeds on panic and fear, and will even bring death and disaster close to various living beings in order to amplify fear and extract the fragments it needs."

"Sometimes, people feel inexplicably panicked and afraid, and that's actually related to this."

Zhou Yi understood now.

Because material life cannot directly enter the consciousness side, it only acts as a shadowy consciousness, like a person groping their hand in a black box.

The feedback from that side will bring about various changes in one's own emotions and consciousness.

"In fact, various concepts of life will have direct or indirect intersections with each other."

The Earth God continued, “Fear can be killed by death, and the fire altar of the Fire God can be secretly covered by the black and white forest by fear… Therefore, the Great Holy Spirit is the most important foundation. Without the Great Holy Spirit, many concepts would perish completely after death.”

“Every conceptual life leaves its own mark on the conscious side. Without these marks, the concept itself will become weaker and weaker until it is forgotten and no one mentions it anymore, eventually falling into a long slumber. That is actually no different from death.”

Zhou Yi sighed with emotion, "Conceptual life isn't easy either..."

If you don't do any work or create any chaos, no one will remember you.

Suddenly, a piece of music started playing in my ears.

"You can think I'm being pretentious, but I'm exaggerating because I'm really scared."

If it resembles wood or stone, will it get noticed?
Actually, I'm afraid of being forgotten, so I'll exaggerate the performance...

Eason Chan's "Exaggeration".

Zhou Yi was both amused and exasperated: "Now you've even automatically added background music."

"Chairman, I have also grown over the years."

Karaoke said, "I am gradually learning and trying to create background music around the employees to match their mood. This way, whether they are happy or sad, they can enjoy themselves more thoroughly and to the fullest."

Zhou Yi asked, "Can everyone accept this?"

"Please rest assured, Chairman, this can be turned off at any time. It can be turned on automatically or off automatically. It's very flexible."

Then it's alright.

Zhou Yi turned his attention back to the evil brain motor.

"Could you take me to see the Lord of the Dead Sea?"

"of course can."

On the screen, the Earth God has transformed into an accompanying advisor.

"It's in the sky."

Zhou Yi adjusted his perspective and looked up at the sky.

This most powerful conceptual life form takes the form of a black sun, like the shadow cast by the sun on the material side, hanging in the sky. However, it is very close to the ground and its size is enormous.

The area it radiates, which corresponds to the Dead Sea region on the material side, is where fragments of consciousness flow like tides, like some kind of peculiar dynamic oil painting.

Because the Lord of the Dead Sea is extremely dangerous, getting close to him is considered to disrupt his aura, and he will attack.

Therefore, it can only be viewed from a distance.

Zhou Yi remembered that there was a concept of life that he had wanted to see for a long time.

"Paradise on Earth?"

The Earth God was taken aback: "You want to go there and take a look?"

"Can I go?"

"Of course... but..."

The Earth God said, "There might be risks over there, because Heavenly Paradise is constantly absorbing and merging conceptual beings, and it's very aggressive towards outsiders who approach. If you go there, make your corporate identity clear to avoid misunderstandings and conflicts..."

"it is good."

Zhou Yi listened to the advice: "I'll have Mr. Crab come over."

(End of this chapter)