Enforcer Manual
Chapter 872 - 842: Let This World Feel Pain

Chapter 872: Chapter 842: Let This World Feel Pain

Song Lan stopped the meaningless discussion about "Xiao Heizi", because he suddenly remembered the question RT6 had asked Lu Xiang a few minutes before:

How can you be sure that the conversation you’re having right now is actually occurring?

As she discussed the topic, she continued to fill in many details about the "Sea of Souls".

For instance, this prison designed to imprison human consciousness resided at the deepest level of the digital world, and only the consciousness of humans could skip the Deep Dive process and be directly recorded within it.

As an artificial intelligence, RT6 couldn’t actively enter the "Sea of Souls" in a short time but had to stay in the real world to play a supporting role.

For example, they could encounter anything in the "Sea of Souls".

There, they might come across the reason he was called "Devil" and "Cannibal Monster" by the Shadows—the things they saw were extensions of their subconscious.

Apart from the perilous events, they might of course simply walk into another "real world".

Then came the question.

If this conversation actually didn’t take place now but happened hours or even days ago, and their consciousness had already entered the "Sea of Souls" in some way, how could the RT6 in the real world help them dispel the illusions?

Song Lan felt that RT6 might have already made an attempt.

The hallucinations created by the "Sea of Souls" were highly similar to dreams; when the "Dreamer" notices parts that don’t make sense, the dream begins to crack.

And just now, RT6 had suddenly mentioned a detail she shouldn’t have known by any means.

Only if everything he was experiencing right now were images reflected from his subconscious could RT6 possibly know the details of his first meeting with δ, Song Lan guessed that this detail, illogical in nature, was a hint from the RT6 in the real world.

As for the method to verify whether they were in a world of illusion, it was simple.

Death represented the end of consciousness and was enough to break the balance of the world of hallucinations or dreams.

When Song Lan noticed this illogical detail, knowledge from an unknown source flooded his mind.

This knowledge seemed to have been imparted by RT6, but in the conversation that had just occurred, RT6 hadn’t explicitly mentioned any means to break the illusion.

Song Lan guessed that it might have been content from their previous conversation.

Afterward, to find the "Sea of Souls" before the Gene Master, he began his exploration of this container of consciousness.

But at the same time, it was a method full of risks.

Because the very researcher who proposed this theory ended up dying by the method he had devised.

The researcher was obsessed with exploring the worlds of dreams and illusions until one day he mistook the real world for an illusion and tried to wake from it through "death".

During his last research, he never woke up again.

When his assistant found him, only a research notebook soaked in blood was left on the desk, alongside a handgun and the spent casings it had ejected.

People could only learn about the journey the researcher had undergone from the research records he left behind.

All this information had emerged out of nowhere.

Song Lan did not remember RT6 telling him this, but that nameless researcher appeared in his mind, leading him to guess that RT6 must have strongly advised against such high-risk actions.

"Death" also had another drawback.

The illusions created by the "Sea of Souls" were much more complex than dreams. If his will wasn’t strong enough, or his observational skills were not sharp enough, then new illusions would quickly fill the void left by "death", trapping them once again in a new hallucination.

It turned out the "Sea of Souls" was much more cunning than they had imagined.

It didn’t set up any barriers, it simply replayed events that had happened before his eyes, and even Song Lan didn’t notice the anomaly at first.

"That’s why two people came in together."

Lu Xiang suddenly spoke up, understanding Song Lan’s thoughts. She pulled out a blade from the inner pocket of her clothes.

It was very difficult for one to observe the entire process of their own "death", but if someone else were the executor, the likelihood of shattering the illusion increased greatly.

She didn’t know why there was a blade in her clothes’ inner pocket, as if the moment they conceived the thought, the blade materialized.

Now, like Song Lan, she too had "knowledge" surfacing in her mind from an unknown source.

Song Lan suddenly felt the malice of the world of illusion.

Everything it presented was so real that, even as part of the plan, he felt he had to witness the entire process of Lu Xiang’s death.

"Wait a second,"

Song Lan called out to Lu Xiang.

Lu Xiang knew why he had stopped her, giving a faint smile, "I trust your judgment, all of this is just an illusory concoction."

"No, I’ve just had a new idea."

RT6 had only mentioned the possibility of using death to break through the illusion, but it seemed she wasn’t certain that this method would definitely work in the world of the "Sea of Souls".

Nobody could predict what death might bring to the consciousness.

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