Eternal Night

Chapter 370 Falsehood and Truth

Wu Xianxiao did not get up immediately. He lay on the bed and silently moved his qi and blood. Then he immediately felt that his martial arts were almost completely gone. His original insight and sensitivity towards his body were also gone. He was completely no different from an ordinary person.

Moreover, his whole body felt sore and stiff, and it was difficult for him to move. Not only was he not recovering to the level of an ordinary person, but he was even in a state of serious illness.

Sensing all this, Wu Xianxiao closed his eyes and continued to sense the changes on his spiritual side.

The sea of ​​consciousness disappeared, and when he closed his eyes he was just like an ordinary person except that everything in front of him was pitch black, there was no aura, and no sea of ​​consciousness.

When Wu Xianxiao opened his eyes again, he knew that almost all the extraordinary powers in his body had disappeared, and the physical fitness brought by traditional Chinese martial arts and human immortal martial arts had also returned to normal.

The reason why it is "almost all" is that three things are still left.

first of all……

"Super Brain World!"

Wu Xianxiao closed his eyes and opened them again. Everything in front of him immediately turned black and white. Everything was still and the scene in front of him was quickly collapsing. But in just a moment, his super brain world disappeared. Although he could still enter it, Wu Xianxiao did not enter the super brain world for the second time.

Just as his super brain world was unfolding, he vaguely heard a voice, but it didn't sound like a voice. It was more like a signal, a symbol, a piece of information. It seemed to express an emotion like "eh", but it was full of distortions and impurities, and it was completely unintelligible.

Then his super brain world was suppressed by a strange feeling, similar to the feeling of "anti" super brain world, or "negative" super brain world. He couldn't describe it accurately, and could only summarize it roughly. In short, some kind of opposite negative of the super brain world suppressed the effect and duration of his super brain world.

This was the first supernatural power he retained.

The second type is the title.

Wu Xianxiao could sense that his titles of Common Man, Kratos, and Louis XVI were still effective, but he was unable to sense or describe them. At the same time, there was another title that vaguely existed but had no effect yet, and that was the title of World Savior.

The third force is more exaggerated...

"The negative backlash rate of the mind is ten percent!"

Wu Xianxiao's eyes suddenly turned blood red, and then in this state, everything around him began to gradually dissolve and distort.

The quilt he covered was made of flesh and blood, the bed he lay on was a fat worm, the mother in front of him turned into a symbol of "mother", and the bright sunshine outside the window turned into a pale, indescribable light body...

It only took a moment for Wu Xianxiao to shut down the negative backlash in his mind.

Because even though he had only activated 10% of the backflow rate just now, he could normally withstand this level of backflow rate. But just at that moment, he felt that the Golden Body Arhat and the world that were bearing the negative backflow of his mind on his behalf were consumed a little, and the degree of consumption was almost the same as if he had activated more than 50% of the negative backflow rate of his mind.

A huge negativity is affecting the overall negativity in his sea of ​​consciousness. Even if it only triggers a small amount of negative backlash in his personal mind, it will cause the negative energy in his sea of ​​consciousness to run wild.

These are the only three powers he has now, but they also prove that everything before his eyes is false, and he has fallen into some kind of spiritual illusion.

"... dragging me into the phantom, and suppressing my super brain, affecting the total amount of negative energy in my sea of ​​consciousness..."

Wu Xianxiao felt increasingly heavy-hearted. Putting this information together, he had roughly guessed who the enemy he encountered was... or what it was.

"The final product!"

Wu Xianxiao learned about the existence of the Final Brain from Liang Min. This is the first explicit super brain recorded by mankind, and it is very likely the strongest special super brain known. It may be even more powerful than Chu Minghao's current invincibility, and its special field may be the mental and soul level.

All of this fits the situation he's in now.

So he suspected that he was now in a situation similar to that of a brain in a vat, and everything before his eyes was an illusion.

Only the ability of a super brain can break through the illusion and title of the Brain in a Vat in a short period of time. This transcendent power that did not exist when the final product was alive is not affected. At the same time, the level of negative backlash in his mind is so high that even the Brain in a Vat cannot cover it up or simulate it.

Just as Wu Xianxiao fell into deep thought, his mother slowly woke up. Then, looking at him in a daze with his eyes wide open, his mother also fell into a daze. Then she immediately jumped up to hug him, but was afraid of touching the wires and IV needles all over his body. She could only carefully touch his face and arms with her hands, crying and murmuring, "It's good that you're awake, it's good that you're awake..."

Wu Xianxiao's heart was beating fast, and he looked at his mother. Then his mother jumped up and ran out of the ward, shouting as she ran: "Doctor! Nurse! My son is awake! My son is awake!!"

Wu Xianxiao closed his eyes slightly. On the one hand, his body was very tired and weak, on the other hand... he didn't want to see the scene in front of him.

He is not the original Wu Xianxiao. The original "Wu Xianxiao" has long been lost in countless iterations of personality, but he is indeed Wu Xianxiao. He has Wu Xianxiao's name, body, some memories, and the "self" of Wu Xianxiao, so he is also Wu Xianxiao. He remembers his father, mother, and some of his classmates, friends, and relatives in the 21st century...

He remembers.

At this time, his mother An Rongzhi ran into the ward with several doctors and nurses.

This is a high-class ward, a single room with a washroom, spacious and bright. It was obviously bought at a high price and is a privileged one.

The arrival of doctors and nurses also stopped his mother An Rongzhi from speaking anxiously. The doctors checked his physical condition, looked at the data on the instruments, looked at his eyes, etc. Then all the doctors looked surprised. When they tried to ask Wu Xianxiao what to say and Wu Xianxiao could still speak, the surprise turned into horror, and two of them even ran out of the ward in a hurry.

An Rongzhi also noticed something was wrong. She gave Wu Xianxiao a comforting look, then immediately ran to the bedside and made a phone call: "...My son is awake, yes, he is awake. No, what are you talking about! Wu Qingxin, I tell you, if something really happens to my son, I will never forgive you! When can you come over?"

"…I don't care. If you haven't arrived tonight, don't come back!"

After one phone call, An Rongzhi started making calls continuously.

Wu Xianxiao just lay quietly on the hospital bed, letting the doctors and nurses torment him, and from time to time he would say words like "it hurts", "it doesn't hurt", "it's sour", etc.

After a commotion, the doctors and nurses took his mother out of the ward, but left two young nurses in the ward to guard him. He did not make any other movements, but just looked out the window.

(…Is this really just a false fantasy?)

Wu Xianxiao was a little unsure. Although he had lost almost all of his extraordinary powers and various abilities on the spiritual side, a certain vague intuition still existed. This intuition told him that everything before his eyes was real and not false!

(But if it is a complete version of the brain in a vat, just like the goal of the final product described by Liang Min, to accommodate all humans and the entire human civilization into his super brain, then even this intuition may be false, and even my current thoughts and ideas may have been set by it.)
Wu Xianxiao remained silent. He watched the two young nurses busy recording the data on the instrument. He suddenly asked, "What year, month, and day is today?"

The two young nurses were stunned for a moment, and the one who was closer to him said, "Mr. Wu, today is May 2026, 5."

Wu Xianxiao nodded slightly, and just the action of his nod made the two young nurses' eyes light up.

It was definitely not a melodramatic story of falling in love with him, but as a dying ALS patient, he was still able to speak and nod, which was an incredible medical miracle in itself.

On May 2026, 5, in normal history, Wu Xianxiao will begin the first step of cryogenic hibernation, and then go through all the cryogenic hibernation procedures in the next two days. He will then be placed in a cryogenic hibernation chamber and will not be thawed and repaired until the end of the Fourth World War in the 11th century, 2877.

His memory was incomplete, but he roughly remembered that in early May 2026, he had suffered cardiac arrest many times and had completely lost the ability to survive. For example, now there is still a trachea in his mouth to assist him in breathing, and his body has multiple life-sustaining tools, including heart, blood, etc.

His ALS has paralyzed all the muscles in his body, including his respiratory muscles, heart muscles, etc. It can be said that according to a normal person's body, he is actually dead.

However, his parents had some money, so he lived in this special ward and used all the equipment that could maintain his life. At the same time, his parents made up their minds. His mother stayed with him, and his father began to contact the most famous cryonics company in the world, using the opportunity of the Future Man to freeze him in the future and resurrect him.

On May 2026, 5, he could not speak at all, and he had no memory of ever waking up. It was not until May 6, when the cryogenic hibernation procedure began and his blood was replaced with antifreeze, that he was forcibly awakened for a moment using various hormones and drugs. After saying goodbye to his parents, he opened his eyes again in 5.

So... no wonder these doctors and nurses were so surprised and even horrified.

A person who was physically impossible to wake up, not only did he wake up, his eyelids opened on their own, and he could even speak! ?
This level of incredibleness is only slightly worse than resurrecting the dead. These doctors probably never thought that such a medical miracle would happen in their entire lives.

but……

All this is fake!

Wu Xianxiao closed his eyes silently. He had no expression on his face, he was taciturn, and he had a heart of stone...

But in his heart, he felt so sad that he wanted to cry.

"Don't cry, don't cry."

At this moment, a voice sounded in his ears. He didn't know when, his mother An Rongzhi sat next to him. Her originally beautiful face looked thin and haggard, but at this moment there seemed to be light on her face.

She gently touched Wu Xianxiao's hair and face, and said softly and tenderly: "Don't cry, mom and dad are here..."

"Don't cry."

(End of this chapter)