CH 370

C370 – A Bug

Five days later…

“I don’t think he noticed it!”

Although he had some doubts, the authenticity of the illusion made him give up on his thoughts and completely immerse himself in it.

In fact, the world Insect Girl built had bugs. Many of them originated from Wanghu’s own imagination. After more than ten years, his classmates were still so similar to what he remembered. This was impossible in itself.

…

The eighth experience of the illusory world.

Pu!

A sharp claw of a monster stabbed into Wanghu’s body.

He fell to the ground in despair, and his vision gradually fell into darkness.

“Am I going to die?”

Blood was flowing, consciousness gradually becoming hazy.

“His vital signs are weakening. This doesn’t make sense. It’s clearly just an illusion.” Little Lo Xin licked her fingers and came to the side of the target. She was sure that this fellow’s body was entering the death procedure.

“Could it be that this is what Lo Ya said that she lied to herself?”

She thought that she was dead, but in the end, she really died.

Even though she did not encounter any danger.

The Insect Girl Clan immediately carried out emergency treatment. The method was very simple. It was to change the situation and make him appear on the hospital bed.

“You’re awake.”

Wanghu opened his eyes and saw a body that was slightly different from the Amis people.

“Your vital signs are normal. The damaged part has been repaired. Congratulations, you have passed the test.”

The voice in his mind kept echoing. Wanghu felt that it was not real. He got up from the hospital bed and looked at the doctors and patients who were performing surgeries around him. He could not help but ask, “Where is this place?”

“This is XX Civilization Base 11, Bionic Base 11.” A doctor stood straight at the door and looked at him expressionlessly.

The word XX seemed to be blocked and could not be heard at all.

The doctor beside him pulled open the curtains, and a majestic planet appeared in front of him.

“Isn’t that… My Mother Star?”

Upon seeing the Tiss Civilization’s Mother Star, Wanghu walked over in shock.

On both sides of the window, one could see an unprecedentedly spectacular interstellar warship. He took a deep breath and turned to ask the nurse beside him, “What is this place? Why am I here?”

“A long time ago, we cultivated a primitive brain embryo in a petri dish. We also planted various concepts into it. After decades of growth, this brain continued to grow. It continued to live the life he thought he was living in the laboratory. Unfortunately, the brain did not know that everything he believed in was false. This civilization, this universe, all the senses… All of them were fake images simulated by electrical signals. He, is just a brain that has no autonomy and is manipulated by others.”

The nurse’s expression gradually distorted, and the entire world flashed from time to time like a screen.

Wanghu felt frightened, and he looked around in panic. He realized that everything was like an unstable dream, jumping continuously.

“Hey!”

After an unknown period of time, an indistinct and inaudible voice came from an extremely distant place.

“Hey!”

The voice was extremely ethereal, as if someone was calling out to him from a very distant place.

“Who, who is calling me? Where is this place?” He covered his head and cried out in panic.

“Hey, brain, can you hear me?”

The voice gradually became clear.

“[Brain, brain! Tell me your world, shout out loud]”

Empty, distant, as if the sound of something approaching could be heard, along with the sizzling sound of electricity.

“Not good, my brain is unstable, stop contacting me.” The sound soon faded away, and the surrounding scene became normal again.

Wanghu sat back on the bed in a daze.

“Petri dish, brain?”

He looked at the nurse who had returned to normal and asked again, “Madam, am I really just a brain that has been trained in an instrument?”

“What did you say?” The nurse chuckled. “You think too much.”

“Then why…”

Without waiting for him to say anything, the nurse’s image distorted again and finally disappeared. Many of the people around also disappeared one after another, leaving only the constantly twisting houses.

He stayed inside and felt that everything was going to be broken into pieces, but he just had to maintain a fragile and stable state.

…

Outside the illusion realm.

“Lo Ya is a devil!”

The three Little Insect Girl were sure of this.

This Experimental was being played around. What was even more terrifying was that he began to doubt everything around him, thinking that he really was the brain in the petri dish.

Lo Yin asked with anticipation, “What do we do now?”

“It seems to be letting him dream.”

“Dream in a dream?”

“Lo Ya said to ask him to find the problem,” said Lo Ya.

“Alright, let’s wait for the Brain Insect to continue the experiment.”

…

Wanghu finally got tired and laid down on the bed and began to sleep.

Then he had a dream. He dreamt of a huge instrument. A lonely brain with various kinds of electrodes was inserted into the instrument.

“Destroy it!”

“This brain is useless, make it useless!”

The sound that surrounded them, at the same time, an indistinct thing that could not be seen reached in and grabbed the brain in front of them.

“Ah!” Wanghu felt a pain in his head, and then he was woken up.

He found himself lying at home.

“It was a dream.”

Everything seemed to have returned to normal.

He began to live like he did in the past, but some inconspicuous bugs mysteriously appeared in his life.

For example, when a bug crawled into a drawer, it was pulled over and found that it was missing.

Normally, people would think that the bug had left through the gap behind the drawer. However, Wanghu, who had paid special attention to the details and was deep in thought, He felt that it was impossible for the bug to crawl through such a small gap.

For example, there was a human-shaped shadow that flashed in front of his eyes, but when he looked again, there was nothing.

This was something that he often encountered when he was young.

Because these details were too frequent, it was almost impossible for people to pay attention to them in life. However, Wanghu deliberately conducted research until he realized that there was indeed a problem.

What was even more terrifying was that sometimes there was a bug, but when he went to observe, everything returned to normal, as if the world had automatically corrected itself.

Occasionally, there would be people who would realize the problem, and most of them would think that they were seeing things.

In such a frequent life of BUGs, Wanghu’s Spirit began to go out of control. He often dreamt that he was a brain that was being tortured by various kinds of electrodes. But in reality, this kind of bug seemed to be reminding him. There is no problem with the world, it is your own brain that is wrong.

Indeed, it was just some insignificant phenomena.

…

“The experiment is complete. He hasn’t truly seen through the essence.”

“That’s why consciousness is so easy to deceive, as long as there are some scenes, the person inside will be deeply trapped.”

Little Insect Girl and the others had obtained the information. Although they did not understand much, it was fine. This was all analyzed by the Cerebrate Bacteria.

Next, they would carry out a similar type of false stimulation. After completing it, they would let it return to reality and see if he could differentiate the difference between the two.

Other than Wanghu, most of the samples had also become experimental subjects.

But the result made Lo Ya realize that if she were to assume that she was in the same state as the brain in the tank, perhaps she would never be able to find any loopholes.