Eternal Night

Chapter 884 Same words

"WP-6666, Reader Experience Card".

"Containment measures: 1. This item will be stored on the seventh floor of Zone A of the main station library. Anyone who needs to explore it can apply to the librarian. There are three reading opportunities per year (cancellation, containment change)."

"Second, this item will be stored in the final sealed room of Zone Z of the General War Library. The librarian will control the key to open it. Only those with the consent of the General War Commander can enter. The hard requirement for application is a cognitive decay resistance level of 100 or above. There is one reading opportunity per year (cancelled, containment changed)."

"Third, this item will be sealed within ███████ and guarded long-term by special operations teams ███, ██, and ███. No one may open the door to the █████ sealed room. If anyone approaches the door, the three operations teams can immediately kill them. That is not a person, but something else (deactivated, containment changed)."

“███████，███████████████████████…”

"Description: The item is a book (a diary, a magazine, a dictionary, a newspaper, etc.), whose specific form of expression will be determined by the perception of the observer. It is usually a paper medium that contains the most information (not the most effective information) in the observer's perception."

"The person who possesses this item will undergo the following phases of change."

"In the first stage, you will feel that the item contains a massive amount of information, and it is exactly the information you want to obtain. At the same time, the paper carrier of the item will display far more information than the paper carrier can hold, defying the laws of physics. The highest record is that a page of paper that is 15 centimeters long and 10 centimeters wide contains 380 million valid words. At the same time, the reader holding the page can clearly see every word."

"By reading the paper-based materials from the first phase, the holder will be able to obtain a large amount of information that they should not have known before, including but not limited to their personal information, information about the people around them, information about their thoughts, information about the world they live in, information about the entire dream world, █████ information, ██████... and so on."

"However, the information gained from reading is merely 'knowing,' not necessarily understanding or answering questions, especially when the information explored by the holder exceeds the scope of their original comprehension. In such cases, more than 99 percent of the information will be incomprehensible to them."

"The more information that cannot be understood or answered, the faster the holder will enter the second stage. The highest record is three minutes and eleven seconds after the holder enters the second stage."

"During the second phase, the holder will hear a very subtle 'narrative' voice. The source of this voice is unknown, its authenticity is unknown, and its gender, biological affiliation, or even whether it is a living being is unknown. At the same time, the voice will sound like chaotic noise to the holder, making it impossible to discern the meaning of the information or how much narration is heard. During this phase, the holder's cognitive decline resistance level will drop rapidly and eventually fall below the normal range of life... Please note, it is the range of life, that is, below zero."

"The decline in cognitive resistance level is irreversible. Any holder will experience this process during the second phase. The final lower limit of their cognitive resistance level is currently unknown. This process is irreversible. In order to verify the recovery and lower limit of their cognitive resistance level, containment objects including but not limited to SP-07, Clear Water, SP-037, Whirlpool, AP-621, Universal XX, WP-03, Operating Room, etc. have been used. So far, no method has been found to repair the cognitive resistance level."

"Once the holder's cognitive decay resistance level falls below zero and enters the negative stage, their cognition of everything will become incomprehensible. Their cognition is no longer at the level of life. Their language expression can still be understood and summarized for a short time, but this time lasts for a very short period of time. However, they can communicate with the outside world and leave records during this very short period of time (see Table of Contents 1)."

"Once the holder's cognitive decay resistance level falls below zero and enters the negative stage, they will gradually be able to understand the meaning of the narration. The lower the cognitive decay resistance level, the more narration they can understand, the more information they can comprehend, and at the same time, they will begin to recognize the narration as 'human language'."

"Those holding this stage will gradually experience a decline in their sensory perception, including but not limited to gradual cognitive impairment, inability to ascertain the true state of their surroundings, inability to recognize specific acquaintances, inability to correctly perceive life and objects (death), inability to express themselves correctly, inability to describe specific images, inability to use correct language and writing, inability to understand the correct sense of time, and inability to understand normal logical concepts, █████, ██████████..."

"In the third phase, the holder will ███, which will eventually lead to ██████ becoming a reality, and ███ will then be mixed into █████████, thus causing the ███ scene to erupt."

Wu Pifu suppressed his anger and finished reading the introduction to the reader experience card, then slammed it on the table and said, "What the hell did you show me? It's full of black cubes! I want to see what's inside those black cubes!"

Amadeus also slammed the information page onto the table at almost the same time, while the others and a large fly were still looking at it carefully.

The last individual of the contained civilization smiled bitterly, "Sir, not everyone is like you, able to directly hear the narration without any change. The content of these erased black squares is all indelible information pollution. Just knowing it is enough to kill mortals and corrupt the sublimated body. Except for the root, which can avoid it through self-information closure, this information cannot be known by anyone... You are an exception, but you also have to consider the researchers who wrote this information." At this point, Wu Pifu stopped complaining; after all, he couldn't disregard human life.

At this moment, Xu Shilan looked up and asked, "What's the difference between this reader experience card and the Omniscient Sphinx?"

The last individual of the contained civilization immediately replied, "The Omniscient Sphinx instills all information you don't yet have a concept of, while the Reader Experience Card only displays information you already possess a concept of. Although the displayed information far exceeds the scope of your cognitive capacity, it is targeted. Also... there is actually a fourth stage after the third stage, but so far, of all the employees from the derivative worlds selected by the contained civilization, only one exceptional employee with a cognitive decay resistance level of three thousand has ultimately reached the fourth stage, and that stage..."

The last remaining individual of the contained civilization remained silent for a long time, and everyone was curious but patiently waited.

"...He finally uttered the same sentence spoken by the Buddha in the Buddhist esoteric teachings."

"what?"

Everyone was shocked, and the last individual of the contained civilization immediately said, "That's right, someone in my civilization once obtained a Buddhist secret treasure, and it was one of the six great Buddha secret treasures, which is the secret treasure that Wu Pifu is targeting this time. It is a secret treasure established by a Buddha of the level of a Buddha like the Sandalwood Merit Buddha. There are a total of twenty-two Buddhist secret treasures, namely the Secret Treasure of the One Buddha Master, the Secret Treasures of the Three Great Initial Buddhas, the Secret Treasures of the Six Great Buddhas, and the Twelve Secret Treasures with Affinity. As far as my civilization's investigation knows, apart from the Twelve Secret Treasures with Affinity, six of the other ten main secret treasures have already appeared, including one Initial Buddha secret treasure and five Buddha secret treasures. Apart from the Secret Treasure of the One Buddha Master and the two Initial Buddha secret treasures, there is only one Buddha secret treasure left, which is the one currently in the Broken Domain."

Wu Pifu remained silent for a long time before saying, "So many! I thought this Buddhist treasure was very valuable."

Everyone was speechless. The last individual of the contained civilization smiled bitterly and said, "No, it is indeed very valuable. In fact, of the six Buddha's secret treasures, four were discovered and destroyed by the Heavenly Court, and my contained civilization obtained one. That's why we are so afraid of the Heavenly Court... Putting all that aside, the only one discovered, the First Buddha's secret treasure, actually has some connection with you."

Wu Pifu frowned, while the last individual of the contained civilization explained, "It was discovered by an ultimate seed in the early stages of the Heavenly Court civilization... Do you understand now?"

Wu Pifu paused for a moment, then tentatively asked, "A monkey?"

"...Yes, monkeys."

The last individual from the contained civilization stopped there, not continuing the topic. He said, "In short, this reader experience card is an extremely dangerous containment item. Fortunately, its danger is passively triggered. I can give you a page, but whether you use it is your own choice. I'm not sure if you can withstand the negative effects of this thing. If it causes your cognitive decline and resistance level to drop irreversibly, especially below zero, then I'll have to consider finding another ally..."

Before Wu Pifu could speak, Beelzebub suddenly said, "Let's talk about the only fourth-stage person you just mentioned. He said the same thing as the Buddha, right? What was that thing? Could it also be an unspeakable black cube?"

"...No, it's not some black cube. After all, it's from the Buddhist treasury. The six great Buddha treasuries all contain a portion of the words spoken by the Buddha Master and the First Buddha. It's just that my civilization only obtained one Buddhist treasury, so I only know this incomplete part."

The last remaining individual of the contained civilization paused for a few seconds before saying, "He said, the Buddhist master said..."

"...It wasn't a dream after all, but rather the total collection of the universe that is neither thought nor non-thought..."

(End of this chapter)