Myriad Realms Gatekeeper
Chapter 1046: 484: Brain in a Vat!

Chapter 1046: Chapter 484: Brain in a Vat!

Shen Ye supported himself against the wall, lowering his head to look at his palm.

Cold sweat dripped from his forehead, sliding down one bead after another.

At this moment, there was no one else present.

The small and silent cubicle felt like a tomb. He stood inside, expressionless, his face pale and his body trembling slightly.

At the very beginning.

From the moment the barrier opened.

He had crossed over into the body of another deceased Shen Ye, experiencing all kinds of strange and perilous events.

He had long grown accustomed to storms and had been through countless battles.

Even when standing before the White Night Spirit King, he could remain composed.

But.

Until today, until this moment.

For the first time, he felt something beyond the grasp of his understanding.

A sense of fear rose within him.

This fear did not stem from any concrete threat posed by an enemy, nor from the conclusion that the Eternal Brain was already dead.

This fear corroded his body and soul.

This fear—

was utterly uncontrollable.

Shen Ye wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and once again spread out his palm, watching the constantly writhing line of Fate.

—The power of this divination had not been released.

The Eternal Brain was already dead.

Divination could not proceed!

And yet, the Eternal Brain was still operating.

The fact that the beings of the real world were still alive was the best evidence of this.

Then.

Who—

was controlling the already deceased Eternal Brain?

The Eternal Brain was the “Great Dao,” the “God,” the sanctuary for all sentient beings.

It had died.

Who was continuing to sustain all of this?

Shen Ye stared into the void.

A line of small, glowing text quickly appeared:

“Because you harbor the Era Ultimate Power: Heavenly Technique, despite this power not being particularly strong, you are still able to peer through the void and see traces of the virtual world.”

The power of Chaos Heaven!

—Pei A’suo seemed to have also discovered the secret of this world.

But she had not said much.

What could it possibly be?

From virtual to reality.

From life to death.

All beings continued to live upon the corpse of the Eternal Brain.

Why?

There had to be some purpose behind this.

Shen Ye remained silent for a few moments, then suddenly sighed and muttered under his breath:

“Divination!”

The power he had long gathered materialized upon his palm.

The distorted line of Fate suddenly stretched out, shooting upward into the invisible void and vanishing in an instant.

A line of small, glowing text appeared once more:

“You have activated ‘War Dance Songstress’, elevating ‘Fate Divination’ by one rank.”

“The target of this divination is ‘Non-Eternal Brain’.”

“This divination has not been obstructed.”

“Beginning!”

In an instant.

Endless darkness suddenly unfolded before Shen Ye’s eyes.

The power of Fate was winding and weaving within the darkness, attempting to locate the “Non-Eternal Brain.”

This term was used because it controlled the Eternal Brain yet was not the Eternal Brain itself. In Shen Ye’s subconscious—

This term came closest to the truth!

At last.

The darkness receded like a silent curtain being drawn apart.

The sound of waves rose and fell all around.

Shen Ye lowered his head and found the tide lapping at his feet.

This was the coast shrouded in night.

Why had he arrived in such a scene?

Was it some kind of omen?

Shen Ye wandered aimlessly along the shore.

Suddenly, he saw a wooden box being carried by the tide, washing up onto the beach before him.

A box…

Shen Ye instinctively reached out and opened the box.

Inside, he saw a large, transparent water tank.

Within the tank lay a pulsating human brain.

Shen Ye’s entire body trembled, and that phrase almost escaped his lips—

Brain in a vat!

This was a well-known conjecture in human history, one he had heard of before.

“A person’s brain is removed and placed in a vat filled with nutrient fluid;”

“All the brain’s nerves are connected to a computer, which continuously feeds it normal sensory information.”

—How could this person determine whether their brain was inside a skull or inside a vat?

Shen Ye held his breath.

This scene before him must be a vision laden with symbolic meaning.

Divinations often produced such visions.

Visions were never literal; they were premonitions, metaphors, meant to suggest something to the diviner.

Then—

The most critical moment had arrived.

Shen Ye stared at the transparent water tank in his hands, forcing himself to stay calm.

—The entity holding this brain in a vat must be the “Non-Eternal Brain” he sought.

Who was it?

Shen Ye slowly looked toward himself, wanting to see clearly what sort of existence he was playing at this moment.

But he stopped.

Darkness.

Endless darkness transformed into a single curve, flashing past his vision.

This was fate’s omen.

—If he were to see the manipulator of the brain in a vat, then the fate awaiting him would be endless darkness.

He couldn’t look…

Yet merely knowing about the brain in a vat.

Did that mean his search for the truth could only end here?

Shen Ye felt a twinge of unwillingness.

He resolutely continued to stare at the brain soaked in nutrient fluid.

—Looking at the brain itself was safe.

But what more could he glean from this vision?

As Shen Ye watched, a strand of black shadow suddenly emerged from the depths of the brain, surfacing onto its outer layer and beginning to take the form of an eye.

“I mustn’t let it see me!”

For some reason, this thought emerged in Shen Ye’s mind.

He gently set down the water tank and moved behind the box, carefully closing the lid.

In an instant.

The box began to tremble violently.

The eye that had just taken shape was controlling the brain, furiously ramming against the wooden box.

The box was about to break apart!

Shen Ye had no other choice. Silently, he whispered one word in his heart: “Dissipate.”

—He forcibly ended the Fate Divination!

All the visions receded like the tide.

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