Chapter 144 Datai City 9
Xia Bai took out a pair of scissors and cut off Hua Haoming's hanging hair.
Hua Haoming finally felt a little better. "Cut them all off. I feel annoyed when I see them."
Xia Bai: "You don't even know how to cut your hair in time, what are you going to do in the future? Can you find a girlfriend?"
"How can I find a girlfriend?" Hua Haoming sighed, "I still have a black flower in my body. It's so annoying."
The two of them chatted for a while, and no one else urged them. After Xia Bai cut Hua Haoming's hair, he sat back and heard Wen Yuxin sighing.
"Why can't I see outside clearly again? What the hell is this game about?"
Ling Changye also frowned, "I remember you could see it before?"
"It was OK when I first came here. I could see people at the Tourism Bureau's aid station outside. But then the fog got thicker and thicker and I couldn't see anything. It was annoying."
"Maybe there are some important clues outside that cannot be seen." Ling Changye said: "We are isolated in small areas, so it is normal not to let you see other places, but it is true..."
He paused and turned to ask Xia Bai: "You just said we were going in the wrong direction. Did you find anything new?"
Xia Bai then showed them the letter his son wrote to his mother and the folder.
He sat across from them, looked up and thought for a moment, "I have a guess."
Ling Changye didn't read very fast, but the letter was short. When Xia Bai spoke, he had already finished reading the letter. "You speak boldly."
"Yeah." Xia Bai began to speak boldly: "When we entered the game, the game system broadcast mentioned that monsters were rampant and it was a doomsday crisis caused by humans themselves. Look at the photos in this folder. Does it look like a research institute is studying something?"
The folder happened to be in Yang Yi's hand. He glanced at it and said, "It looks like it. Very similar."
Xia Bai continued, "There is a page at the end of the folder with two words in the title, 'Evolution Theory'. I made many guesses about these two words. Combined with our current situation, I think they are differentiation theory and evolution theory."
He pointed to the letter that was now in Hua Haoming's hands, "This letter also leans more towards the theory of evolution."
Shi An was so worried that he scratched his hair, "Why didn't I pay attention in class when I was in school? Now I can't understand anything."
"Stop yelling!" Hua Haoming kicked him. "It was useless for you to listen well before. You were so stupid. Now it's enough to listen well."
Yang Yi shook his head upon seeing this, then looked at his brother again, not only shaking his head but also sighing.
Yang Mei: “……?”
He grabbed and hugged Yang Yi, "Can you blame me for being stupid?"
Yang Yi held Yang Mei with one hand and said to Xia Bai, "You mean, the people in this game world believe that human evolution requires the stripping away of all human emotions to achieve absolute rationality and focus, and that emotional monsters were born in this human self-evolution?"
Xia Bai nodded, "That letter is a pretty obvious clue. Dad lost his first child and his job because of his bad temper. Bad and intense emotions can drag people down and affect their development. The son who wrote the letter has the same bad temper as his father. He said he wants to be a better person and become a son that his mother will be satisfied with. He should get rid of emotions like anger."
He pulled out the photo of the calm boy from the folder, "Becoming like this, without any emotions, not burdened by any emotions."
"Then what?" Zhou Buyu asked, "What does this mean? Why do you say we are going in the wrong direction?"
"The game defines this as a doomsday crisis for humanity, saying implicitly that this is humanity's own fault." Ling Changye said: "This is the game mocking humans for trying to strip themselves of their emotions. This behavior is stupid. So what are we doing?"
“What we are doing…” Wen Yuxin said, “Aren’t we destroying emotional monsters?”
"Ah." She covered her head. "We are eliminating emotions?"
Xia Bai stared at the photo, full of melancholy, "What will humans become when they have no emotions? Will they really become absolutely rational and focused people? Emotions, emotions..."
“No.” Yang Yi said, “Emotions have feelings in them, which is why in this world, after being separated from the human body, emotions can become spiritual monsters.”
"Based on this theory," Xia Bai said, "when people lose their emotions, they not only lose anger, sadness, regret, shame and other emotions, but they also lose a lot of cognition and emotions related to emotions."
"If that's the case," Zhou Buyu thought from another perspective, "People in this world have always believed that humans are burdened by emotions, and that humans must be free of these emotions if they want to evolve. But do emotions really only have negative effects?"
It's not just this world. There are many people in the real world who think this way. Many times they regret not being able to control their emotions. They envy people with stable emotions and want to be friends or partners with people with stable emotions.
"No, if I'm not happy, I'm anxious." Shi An said, "A certain amount of anxiety will make people more urgent and motivated. If people don't have any anxiety or a sense of crisis, they won't be motivated to do anything, and slowly they may lose the motivation to live."
"Similarly, humans have a certain morality because they have shame. It is hard to imagine what would happen if a person or a society did not have any shame at all."
Xia Bai had a blank face, "So, you still don't think there's anything wrong with us?"
Shi An: "What's the problem?"
Xia Bai scratched his head. "We just said that if we lose a certain emotion, we may lose the related cognition and emotion. Are we having problems beyond our cognition?"
"It's so worrying. How can we know beyond our cognition?" Hua Haoming said: "We need other people's perspectives."
Xia Bai thought of the way Sister Xue Mu looked at them, "We might be a little weird in other people's eyes."
But if Sister Xuemu doesn’t say it, then she probably has no way to say it.
Several people were at a loss.
"Well, let's compare. Don't compare ourselves, but compare the difference in the world we see." Ling Changye said, "Let's first look at the nine of us. Apart from ourselves, what are the differences between the others now and before?"
Everyone looked at each other, but didn't seem to notice any difference.
Yang Yi said, "Xia Bai and Captain Ling, you two looked at each other, you must have observed each other very deeply."
Xia Bai and Ling Changye looked at each other at the same time.
It is noon now, and the world outside the window is foggy, but there is still light escaping and illuminating their world.
Xia Bai stared at Ling Changye seriously, looking carefully at every part of his face under the dim light. He did not compare the difference between Ling Changye now and before. He knew that if he lost a certain emotion and everything attached to the emotion, there would be no difference between the present and the past, and the comparison would not make any difference.
He was wondering why he fell in love with Ling Changye at that time. This thing cannot be taken away. Both Ling Changye and the psychic said that it remains in his soul.
At first, of course, it was love at first sight with his corpse, no, his body.
Later, after entering a dungeon with him, he wanted to be his partner. Why did he want to be his partner?
Because he always feels safe and happy when he is with him.
happy?
Suddenly, he felt that this word was particularly unfamiliar.
His brain was thinking hard, and Ling Changye's smile suddenly rushed into his mind.
Xia Bai suddenly approached Ling Changye and stretched out his hand to hold Ling Changye's frowning eyebrows, "Captain, you haven't smiled for a long time."
Ling Changye also asked him: "Why do you have such a rich expression? Like a little bitter melon."
“…”
Yang Yi saw something, and asked, "Are you happy?"
For a moment, they all thought it was strange to say the word "happy" alone. The only place where "happy" existed should be on the happy monster.
They suddenly realized with a cold sweat on their backs that they seemed to have lost the feeling of happiness and the understanding of happiness.
"We, we don't have the feeling of happiness anymore?" Wen Yuxin said with a sad face.
"We may not be anxious anymore, so we have no motivation to complete the game. It's just the task buried deep in our hearts that allows us to barely pass it?" Hua Haoming suddenly felt very strange, and his reaction seemed to have some problems.
But how should he react when he said this?
Hua Haoming: "So annoying!"
Idiot Yang Mei quickly wrote down the names of the emotion monsters. He read the first two words of the emotion monsters: "Fear, have we lost our terror? Sadness, have we lost our sadness? Shame, have we lost our shame?"
He stopped reading here.
"Xia Bai means that if we destroy an emotion monster, we will lose an emotion? To destroy an emotion monster, don't we have to kill the person when the emotion monster is parasitic in the body? The one in Wanwan's body is a shame monster, but we didn't kill her. Didn't she commit suicide? So we still have shame?"
The other eight did not speak.
Yang Mei blinked.
Hua Haoming hissed, "Why are you so worrying?"
He snatched the paper from Yang Mei's hand and continued, "We may have lost fear, sadness, shame, hatred, anxiety, happiness, regret... but at least we still have sorrow."
“…”
"Have we lost our sense of shame?" Wen Yuxin said, "I think I still have some dignity."
Hua Haoming: "Now you feel it is useless. You no longer have the correct understanding of shame."
"Then tell me, what shameful things have I done?" Wen Yuxin asked.
Hua Haoming thought about it and really didn't expect it. "I don't think so. I don't have any sense of shame anymore."
“…”
Ling Changye said: "I don't know if there are any other emotional monsters that we haven't discovered. If only sadness is left, that is, sadness is the only emotion left in us, then this emotion is absolutely dominant and it is probably quite obvious in us."
"Really?" Hua Haoming touched his hair that was about to be cut off. "I don't think I'm sad. This damn game is so annoying. It really makes me confused."
Ling Changye also frowned, "It's not a good thing for one or a few emotions to dominate. We have to be careful."
"That's why Xia Bai stopped the captain from destroying the monster." Zhou Buyu said.
Xia Bai nodded. "The emotional monster in this hotel may be the result of the emotions of us in the hotel. To eliminate the emotional monster is to eliminate our emotions."
After a few seconds of silence, he asked, "Have you ever thought about what would happen if humans lost all their emotions?"
What would happen if humans lost all emotions?
After all, this world is not the same as what many people think. Humans are burdened by emotions, and if they lose all emotions, they will be absolutely rational and focused.
They looked at the photo of the boy who seemed to have lost all emotions and wondered, if humans lost all emotions, would they still be human?
What if they lost all emotions?
Several people's hearts skipped a beat, but they only felt one skip.
"But." Wen Yuxin was almost worried about this game. "If we don't kill the emotional monsters, we won't be able to leave here and complete the game."
This is the biggest contradiction, they seem to be in a desperate situation.
They can't pass the game without eliminating all the emotional monsters.
If all the emotional monsters were eliminated, they would have no emotions and might not want to leave the game, but just lie quietly in the hotel.
The other eight people were also very worried, and Hua Haoming cursed again.
"Since it's a game, there must be a way to beat it."
Ling Changye said, "Do you remember that last time when everyone was meeting in the restaurant, someone said that the Tourism Management Bureau used fire, water, and strong light to eliminate the emotional monsters in their community. This is not necessarily a way to eliminate emotional monsters, but more like a way to prevent emotional monsters from approaching. Let's use this method to resist the emotional monsters first, and then find a way to pass through."
"It should be that different emotional monsters have different aversions to different things." Yang Yi said: "For example, the fear monster may be afraid of strong light and prefer a dark environment, and the anger monster is very afraid of water and so on."
What he said made sense, but it was not necessarily possible to determine which monster was afraid of what. They needed to conduct specific experiments.
“So annoying.”
Several people sat in the room for a while, then stood up with sad faces.
Ling Changye: "It is confirmed that the man in room 504 has a sorrow monster inside him. Four people are needed to keep an eye on him. If he can't hold on any longer and commits suicide, the sorrow monster will come out of his body and look for the next host. These four people must find a way to control it in room 504 and prepare water, fire, light, electricity, etc."
He looked around at the people and said, "Erwa and Shi'an, you two go. You both have natural abilities, plus me and Zhou Buyu."
"The rest of you go inform the other guests in the hotel and find a way to gather them together. It will be easier to resist the colorful ghosts together. At least when the colorful ghosts show up to attack, we can see who is being attacked."
After sorting them out, Xia Bai picked up the letter and folder and said, "I'll go notify the woman in Room 102 first."
This letter was found by Erwa and Xuemu in Room 102, and he wanted to return the letter to that woman.
Yes, you can give it back to her directly.
She should be like them, without anger and many other emotions. Even if she knew that they stole it, she would not curse them.
Just as Xia Bai expected, after he returned the letter to her and apologized to her, the woman in her forties said worriedly, "Alas, you stole things at such a young age, what are you going to do in the future?"
Xia Bai also sighed. I wonder if Erwa will be affected by the things in the game and grow up to be a bad person?
After being sad for a while, Xia Bai asked, "Aunt, after your son left, did you go to look for him? Do you know where he went?"
"Of course I have. You said this child is so worrying." The woman said, "I asked everywhere, relatives, friends, his classmates and teachers, but I didn't find out anything. I don't know where he went. Why did he leave? I love him."
Xia Bai handed her the folder and asked, "Do you see any photos of him in here?"
The woman took the folder and started flipping through it, but suddenly stopped when she reached a certain page.
Xia Bai leaned over and was slightly stunned. It was the boy who had no emotions.
He looked up at the woman. She stared at the boy in the photo for a long time. She no longer had any sadness, fear or anger. She just stared at him for a long time, scratching her ear with one hand. "Why did he become like this? Why, why is he so worrying..."
Xia Bai nodded slightly.
He handed the photo to the woman and told her to go to the restaurant.
The woman walked away carrying the photo of her son and the letter. She walked very slowly. She was the only one walking in the long, dim corridor. Her footsteps were simple and subtle. If you listened carefully, you could hear that they were sometimes light and sometimes heavy, as if she was staggering.
Except for the man in 504, everyone was called to the restaurant.
They wanted everyone to stay in the restaurant, which was difficult to do. The restaurant was gloomy and accompanied by waves of complaints.
Who wouldn't be worried? Xia Bai was worried too, so he released three ferocious-looking corpses at the door, and the room suddenly became much quieter.
Yang Mei gave Xia Bai a crooked thumbs up.
Yang Yi walked past a person with the detector in his hand, and there was no obvious red color for the time being.
"I don't know what's going on up there." Hua Haoming asked, "Do you want to go up and take a look?"
Yang Yi said, "Wen Yuxin and I can hold this place, how about you guys go up and take a look? Be sure to be careful not to get touched by the emotional monsters. I feel like if you get touched by them, you won't be able to escape."
They all knew that once they were possessed by an emotional monster, there was only one way to go: either being killed or committing suicide.
As soon as Yang Yi finished speaking, they heard noises coming from upstairs. They were on the fifth floor and couldn't hear the noises clearly. They could only vaguely hear someone shouting something.
Xia Bai and Hua Haoming immediately ran upwards. Yang Mei followed them, but after taking just one step, she was pushed back by Xia Bai.
Yang Mei was stunned for a moment and looked up at him.
His former trial partner Hua Haoming frowned, "Aren't you looking for death if you go there?"
"You are the ones who are looking for death." Yang Mei opened her mouth, her pretty face full of sorrow. She couldn't think of what he was going to say, "You are going to die, if you die... please don't die..."
Hua Haoming glanced at him and picked up his □□ prop.
When they ran to the fourth floor, they could clearly hear the sounds from the fifth floor.
"Erwa, back off! Your branch is useless!"
"What's next?"
"Use fire!"
Hua Haoming's □□ and Shi An's □□ spewed out flames at the same time.
As a member of the Wangchuan Group, Shi An also has a very powerful skill called energy conversion.
He can convert the surrounding energy into fire, electricity, ice, etc. It is said that when he was pursuing a female player, he converted the energy into solar energy and gave the female player a real little sun.
Fire is one of his best transformation skills, even more powerful than Hua Haoming's fire-breathing item.
Xia Bai stood behind them and saw through the gaps in the firelight a man lying on the bed in the room. It was obvious that he was dead.
Not far from the bed, there was a silver humanoid creature lying on the ground, twisting its body and making unknown screams, its body swaying like waves in the firelight.
Mood monster sad, silver.
It looked the same as the black emotional monster that Xia Bai saw on TV when he first entered the game. It was also a simple humanoid with something like eyes on its face, but the color was different.
In the firelight, it was like human mercury, light and dangerous, waiting for its chance to strike.
"It seems to work! It won't move forward! It's afraid of fire!" Shi An said loudly.
The others wiped the sweat from their faces.
Ling Changye said: "Make the fire smaller and try to trap it in a circle."
"Then I'll take it. Shi An, please be careful." Hua Haoming frowned and said, "It's too energy-consuming. What if it runs out?"
Shi An: "You take it, I'll carry it for a while."
Hua Haoming collected the □□, and after the fire died down, the sad monster inside could be seen more clearly.
It kept screaming and shouting. Although they couldn't hear what it was shouting, they knew it was very anxious. It kept stretching its arms forward, and after touching the fire, it would immediately retract them. Its body, especially its face, became more distorted, and its screams became more shrill.
It makes people feel irritated and sad, and they subconsciously want to stay away from it.
"They are afraid of fire, but fire seems unable to destroy them. Other emotional monsters should not be destroyed by water, light, electricity or the like. How did the Security Bureau eliminate emotional monsters that were not in the human body in the past?" Zhou Buyu asked.
"Why do you have so many questions?" Hua Haoming said in annoyance, "I have a vicious guess. The Security Bureau may be arresting people and using them as traps. When the emotional monster enters the person's body, they will kill the person immediately to eliminate the emotional monster in the body."
"You are talking a lot of bullshit. What's the point of discussing how to eliminate them now? We can't eliminate them, so what should we do?" Shi An sounded like he was about to turn his hair white with worry.
"Its arm has crawled into the fire! Be careful!" Ling Changye frowned and reminded them loudly.
When they looked carefully, they found that the silver humanoid monster's hand had really reached into the fire. It was twisted even more severely and it was no longer recognizable as a human.
It was afraid of fire, but under the attacks of successive fires, it still crawled forward, twisting and screaming, as if it was determined to climb onto them and suck their food no matter what.
"Shit!" Hua Haoming cursed subconsciously and immediately raised the □□ in his hand, "I'm tired of it. Let's destroy them all."
"No! He's still crawling in the fire! If he keeps going like this, the whole hotel will burn down!"
"It seems to have adapted to the fire, and is crawling faster and faster!"
"I can't see its figure clearly! Retreat!"
Hua Haoming and Shi An retreated while spitting fire.
When Hua Haoming was backing away, he bumped into someone and realized that Xia Bai, who had been silent all the time, was standing motionless, looking at the looming sad monster.
"Who are you trying to make worry die? Do you want to die?" Hua Haoming pulled Xia Bai back with force, "Run! Find an NPC to stop us!"
However, Xia Bai seemed not to have heard his words. Not only did he not retreat, but he also took two steps forward towards the remaining fire, walked in front of the sad monster and faced it.
He stretched out his hands to it and opened his arms.
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