Chapter 320: Inhuman (128) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]
Cen Bingqi's most risky move turned out to be the most correct one.
By the time everyone was pulled out from the deep consciousness, before they had time to figure out why Cen Bingqi had put them all into the deep consciousness, everyone learned a shocking piece of news.
They are the experimental subjects. The entire experimental area is a simple stage built for them. It is like the Truman Show. Everyone except them knows that they are experimental subjects. Their every move is watched and recorded by cameras and projected onto the big screen for frame-by-frame analysis.
And they are the Trumans who know nothing.
The terms "Dr. Liang's nephew", "people with connections", and "marginal people ostracized by everyone" are all part of the cover-up of their identity as experimental subjects.
On the one hand, they need all the people who appear in this body to not realize that they are experimental subjects, and on the other hand, they have to rationalize the bug that they cannot access the core information but can still live in the experimental area, so the smokescreen of "relatives" appears.
However, all the researchers in the laboratory are not professional actors in the Truman show, so it does not make sense that they have no access to core information. This statement certainly has loopholes, otherwise Cen Bingqi would not have been able to deduce their current situation through these clues.
Bai Jinshu hummed and glanced at Cen Bingqi lightly: "But such a simple disguise can already fool most people."
Cen Bingqi blinked awkwardly: "It's not our fault..."
You really can't blame them.
The order in which consciousness was introduced into their experimental group determined that they could not discover this problem. The first few consciousnesses placed into the body were all ordinary people. These good-natured people who had no sense of crisis would not observe these subtle problems at all. By the time high-ranking leaders, industry leaders, and people in special professions with agile skills entered the body later, everyone was already busy fighting and had no time to pay attention to the outside world.
This order was arranged from the beginning.
From the laboratory's perspective, piling up consciousness programs in the body is like building a building. Numbers 1234 that entered previously are just the foundation. The real struggle begins with the appearance of number five, which is then intensified by number six, and then begins a cycle of back and forth starting with number seven.
"Cen Bingqi later used some tricks to get some of their research materials," Cen Bingqi interrupted, "This was indeed arranged."
Everyone was kept in the dark before, it’s just that no one thought in this direction.
Once this idea is confirmed, it is unlikely that they can obtain the most core information since they are living in the experimental area, but it is not difficult to collect some scraps.
"We found that everyone's identity was arranged from the beginning," Cen Bingqi took a deep breath, "and the information everyone received at that time was that this was an experiment on split personality, and we were already the third phase of this experiment."
Before them, there had been many experimental subjects in the Phase I and II experiments, but as subjects locked in a room for everyone to study, they all ended up dying.
During this process, the experimental group also discovered that personality disintegration will occur after the death of the conscious personality, thus triggering a chain of explosions.
All the experimental subjects in the first and second phases died, with different causes of death. As for them, there were five people in total, including A, B, C, and D, and they were already the third phase of experimental subjects.
Having learned from previous mistakes, the laboratory came up with a new idea in this experiment:
It would be better to try to make the experimental subjects not realize that they are experimental subjects, but instead think of themselves as researchers living normally in the experimental area.
Since the first two episodes have proven that this is feasible, in order to minimize the resistance of the experimental subjects, the best way is to prevent the experimental subjects from realizing that they are experimental subjects.
So when five bodies woke up from their beds in the dormitory at the same time, Personality No. 1 who appeared in the body saw the schedule and deliberately created traces of life placed on the table in the dormitory room, and thought that he had woken up in the body of a researcher, the third phase of the experiment officially began.
As for the four people, No. 1, No. 2, A, B, C, and D, who initially met and became friends, the personality that controlled the body when they met was just the "foundation" at the bottom of this experiment.
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Outside of the perspective of the personalities, what happened to Cen Bingqi and others is another story from another perspective of the laboratory.
"I roughly understand," Bai Jin thought for a moment and began to reverse the reasoning. "From the laboratory's perspective, it is safer for groups to fight than for individuals to fight. So they first introduced four personalities from ordinary professions, such as shop assistants, white-collar workers, and kindergarten teachers. Even if there are disagreements, ordinary people will not kill each other directly. This will lay the foundation for future conflicts."
"Then we started trying to insert a fuse to make him quickly escalate the conflict."
This is number five.
In the following process, the laboratory began to monitor the changes of the front-end personality at all times, and inferred which personalities belonged to a faction through the patterns of their appearance. Then, through purposeful introduction, they created the personality traits they needed, put them into the experimental subjects, and influenced the outcome of the struggle.
For example, as the lead, No. 5 was purposefully created to be a small leader who is powerful but arrogant. He is used to treating everyone as his subordinates and giving orders to others. Such a style will inevitably cause resistance from some ordinary people.
As number six, Cen Bingqi follows number five. His identity was purposefully created to be a racing driver who is straightforward and quick to repay favors. In addition, his special physical fitness is much better than other personalities. He will inevitably dislike a small leader like number five and will stand against him.
At this point, the prototype of this fighting faction emerged.
The subsequent arrangements are nothing more than adding water if there is too much noodles, and adding noodles if there is too much water.
Based on the personality changes that appear in the foreground, the laboratory speculates what kind of personality the oppressed party needs to invest in order to turn the tables and maintain the situation of fighting each other:
If you need to reduce the influence of the No. 5 leader in the group, then add the Entrepreneur personality; if you cannot defeat the entrepreneur, then you need someone with a big picture view, then add the Leader personality with certain successful management experience; if both parties are conservative in their actions and are about to make peace under the control of interests, then you need someone with many creative ideas and unconventional ideas, then add the Writer personality...
This pattern continues until number nine is invested.
"At this time, one of the test subjects in the other experimental groups died due to internal fighting, so our experimental group is a little worried that if we continue in this direction, there will be problems," Cen Bingqi said. "After all, we are different from other groups. Other groups have encountered accidents under the premise of maximizing peace. Isn't it easier for us, who are aiming to create conflicts from the beginning, to get into trouble?"
Therefore, No. 10 Cen Bingqi is their small attempt to transform themselves.
They try to import a personality that is smart enough to turn the situation around, transform the current fight, and try to transform the physical conflict that will lead to personality disintegration into a battle of wits.
However, what the experimenter did not expect was that after No. 10 entered, he did not participate in the dispute between the two parties, but never appeared again.
From the perspective of the laboratory, it is very simple to determine which personality has the upper hand. There is only one body, and human nature dictates that no one wants to be trapped in the mind forever, so whoever appears in the foreground is the one who has the upper hand.
They didn't expect that Cen Bingqi didn't join either side of the opposition they had carefully calculated and guided. So in their opinion, No. 10 never appeared again after entering the body.
This only proves that mental struggle has no advantage in the battle between personalities.
In order to ensure the continuation of the struggle, the experimental group had no choice but to admit that this method was ineffective. In order to provoke the struggle that had been dormant for a while, they chose to add a personality with high combat power.
Number 11 Cen Bingqi came into being.
And the following process was just as Cen Bingqi described.
"No. 11 Cen Bingqi overexerted himself, causing the originally planned factional struggle to suddenly turn into a personal struggle," Bai Jinshu said thoughtfully. "When things developed to this point, the originally planned factional confrontation turned into a melee, and this melee also dragged the laboratory into a cycle, that is, they must constantly introduce people with higher martial arts values to suppress the previous one, so as to ensure that other ordinary people are not killed in the process."
This behavior is easy to understand. Among a group of ordinary people and industry leaders who are not known for their fighting skills, there is a No. 11 who only knows how to fight. If No. 11 is not controlled, he is very likely to kill everyone in order to monopolize the body.
In order to control No. 11, who is known for his strong fighting power, they can only bring in No. 12, who has a higher fighting power than him, to suppress him. Only in this way can he have no time to care about ordinary people.
In order to suppress No. 12, No. 13 who is slightly stronger than him must appear.
If you don't want anyone to die, this is the only way to do it.
As a result, the experimental group fell into an internal cycle: only by constantly introducing stronger people can the strong be made too tired to fight with stronger people and thus ignore ordinary people.
In this process, the combat effectiveness of newcomers was forced to rise all the way. In addition to the struggle between the strong and the stronger, ordinary people were also fighting each other. During this period, several leaders appeared intermittently, such as the ruler's personality with more mature and ruthless means and the business personality who was good at profit transactions.
This sequence continues until the 21st appears.
"At that time, we discovered that when No. 21 killed No. 3 and caused personality disintegration, some scattered information proved that everyone thought that the last subject of the third phase of the experiment would also die." Cen Bingqi said.
During this struggle, in addition to them, the remaining four experimental subjects A, B, C, and D also died due to personality disintegration during the experiment. Their unconventional approach made them the last experimental subject of the third phase, and all researchers in the project entered this experimental group.
But at this time, something unexpected happened again.
Bai Jinshu tapped the table with his fingers: "This tax queen, No. 10, who had been regarded as a discarded pawn after being put into the body, suddenly appeared and suppressed everyone with his own strength, becoming the personality that appears most frequently in the foreground."
From the perspective of the experiment, they had no idea what was happening inside the body, but they soon discovered that the subject had survived the personality disintegration that would have meant death. Not only that, after surviving, Number Ten suddenly began to appear in the foreground frequently.
There is only one explanation for this situation, that is, No. 10, as a personality with no combat power at all in the investment stage, actually solved the personality disintegration at this critical moment and suppressed all personalities except him.
He gave the entire experimental group hope that the project could continue, and at the same time, he also led the entire project in another direction.
Before this, no one had ever thought that No. 10, who had increased his brain power, could achieve this level. Before this, no experimental subject had ever survived after the disintegration of his personality.
At this time, if they continue to follow their previous thinking and use other personalities that are good at fighting wits to provoke a fight, then under the premise that a death has already occurred, when the two people in the brainpower track fight, the other personalities that they have no time to take care of are likely to start a fight again and people will die again.
The purpose of the experiment was to obtain more data and find new research directions. So under such circumstances, the experimental group, assuming that the Phase III experiment would collapse sooner or later, simply turned the research content to testing the limits of Cen Bingqi's abilities.
If they can get a satisfactory result, then in the next four experiments, they will be able to obtain an extremely stable direction for training leaders.
Therefore, the experimental group did not change the previous introduction rules, but continued to increase the combat power of the newcomers little by little.
And the performance of No. 10 was also unexpectedly outstanding. From No. 22 to No. 25, every time a new personality joined, no matter how bad the background of the newcomer was or how powerful he was, he always maintained this leadership position and never went down.
Even after the disintegration of No. 26, he once again broke free from the effects of personality disintegration and survived.
This is enough to prove that what he did last time was not a coincidence at all, and he really has a way to solve personality disintegration.
At this point, No. 10 Cen Bingqi's research value in the research group was suddenly raised to the highest level.
"So after No. 26 died, they didn't put in any new personalities for a long time," Cen Bingqi said. "They wanted us to get enough rest and recover to our best condition before introducing new personalities and artificially causing personality disintegration again to observe how you solve this problem."
What the experimental group didn't know was that the time they thought was left for No. 10 to "recuperate" actually provided all the personalities who discovered the truth with a perfect time to recuperate.
During this process, Cen Bing collected most of the information and gradually pieced together the full picture of the experiment.
This time, without him saying anything, everyone realized that if they continued to stay here, they would only be faced with extreme tests again and again. If they could pass once or twice, what about eight or nine times? Ten or dozens of times? Hundreds of times?
If they failed just once, they would all fall into the abyss, while the experimental group would be able to obtain an excellent critical data.
At this moment, everyone had the same idea -
Escape.
Must escape from here.
No matter who controls the body, no matter what new or old grudges there are between these people, only by getting out can they have a future.
How to leave this test area built on the Gobi Desert has become a top priority. While preparing to escape, they must hide the truth from the experimenters who can use brain waves to monitor their physical condition at all times.
What happened next was logical. The key observation subject of the experimental group, No. 10, and No. 11, who accidentally absorbed the cognition of No. 26, took the initiative to act as the "front desk personality" and assumed the responsibility of appearing at the front desk to confuse all the experimenters, creating the illusion for the experimental group that the two of them were working together, one literary and one physical, to control all the personalities.
Behind the scenes, everyone put aside their prejudices and chose to unite against the outside world.
"So far, according to the sequence, twenty-six personalities have appeared," Bai Jinshu counted in his mind, "Number three died, number twenty-one died, number twenty-six died, and after the last personality appeared, we escaped?"
According to this trend, the final number 27 is the last of the 24 people here. After that, everyone escaped from the laboratory?
"Well... there's nothing much to say about this specifically," Cen Bingqi paused. "There's nothing much to say about this specifically. Anyway, under the threat of death, everyone surprisingly unanimously agreed to overturn the entire research institute. The time was set when the experimental group was about to introduce No. 27."
After all, only at this time can all researchers gather in one place and observe their status.
When the researchers introduced those personalities with high combat values, they only thought of making them suppress the former. The combat values became more and more outrageous. In the later stage, all kinds of professions such as killers, agents, and commandos were stuffed into them. They never thought that these things would be used on them one day.
"But what no one expected was that there was a small accident on the last try."
This time, number 27 and number 28 appeared together.
"You know the one who tried to seize consciousness at the front desk, Cen Bingqi," Cen Bingqi pointed his chin in the direction of the backstage, "that was No. 27. The situation was very chaotic at the time. No. 27, who appeared first, not only had a high level of combat power, but was also a mentally ill patient with a serious self-destructive tendency who didn't want to live at all. He didn't care about his own life or the lives of others. He was dragged into this body after committing suicide. He would kill anyone who tried to stop him from committing suicide."
In this situation, there is no other way except to push him deep into his consciousness and make him fall into a deep sleep, because they are going to blow up the entire institute and escape. All personalities have their own division of labor, and everyone is ready to appear in the front at any time. They cannot afford the consequences of another personality disintegration.
Then, at the moment when No. 27 was successfully suppressed, before everyone had time to breathe a sigh of relief, No. 28 appeared.
"The situation was urgent and the time was set. We changed the program in the institute in advance, tampered with the surveillance and some emergency buttons, and moved some of the switches in the institute. If we missed this period of time, they would find that the equipment damage was premeditated, and it would be difficult to find another opportunity next time." Cen Bingqi paused, "But No. 28 is obviously their backup plan after seeing that No. 27 did not cause personality disintegration. He will be more difficult to deal with than No. 27."
If they want to deal with the other party, they will inevitably miss this opportunity, and once they miss this time, they will not know what kind of crisis they will face next time.
In a flash, an idea popped into everyone's mind.
Let’s do our best.
Isn't it just personality disintegration?
Number 10 can do it, number 11 can do it, why can't they?
The first personality disintegration almost defeated everyone only because it was too sudden and inexperienced. Cognitive confrontation, to put it bluntly, is to insist that I am myself under the cognitive invasion of others. As long as they are prepared, they may be able to get through it.
Everyone looked at each other and saw the same emotion in each other's eyes.
In the face of the crisis, even those without any combat power, No. 1, No. 2, and No. 4 chose to stay. After all, a person can only know so much, and after the twenty-third division, each person will definitely get less than after the twenty-third division.
If one more person stays behind, they can deal with this cognitive invasion faster. Time waits for no one, and they must escape from here within the calculated time.
The sooner the better.
The researcher didn't know that the twenty-three personalities fighting endlessly in the experimental body in front of him were actually under the monitoring of heavy equipment. Each of them held Cen Bingqi's knife in his own hands and thrust the blade into the body of No. 28.
The handle of the knife was stained with the body temperature of twenty-three people, passed through twenty-three palms, and at the moment when the last knife was stabbed in and pulled out, it spread twenty-three cognitive invasions.
Then, the laboratory suddenly fell into darkness. Cen Bingqi, who was the first to escape from it, jumped up and broke the neck of the first researcher with his bare hands.
Cen Bingqi did not explain this part in detail, but Bai Jinshu felt almost as if he were there personally, feeling everything that happened at that time.
One after another, personalities woke up from the cognitive invasion. In the dark laboratory with flashing red alarm lights, the experimental subjects switched freely in an instant and flickered among the experimenters like ghosts.
Every time someone regains consciousness, an experimenter in the laboratory loses his life completely.
No one knew what happened at that time. All personalities switched quickly in this body like a revolving lantern. They were many people, yet one person.
The gap that vaguely existed in everyone's heart disappeared in an instant.
Number 28 is dead, but he is also not dead. Everyone present is Number 28.
When No. 1, the last one to get rid of the cognitive invasion, woke up, he found that everyone except him was already standing in the front.
They stood outside the laboratory, with the heat waves from the raging fire behind them.
The only person who escaped from the test area was holding a document in his hand, and a familiar face could be vaguely distinguished on the file.
——Their faces.
Or rather, the face of this body.
"This is the file of this body. It was rescued from the fire by Number 17 at the last minute," someone explained to him. "Number 10 speculated that all the test subjects here are not empty shells. It is very likely that this body of ours originally had a personality before everything happened."
But when the files were rescued from the fire, most of the writing had been burned and most of the remaining content was blurred. No one knew what had happened, who the original personality was, where he came from, and what kind of personality and life he had.
The only thing that can be confirmed is his name, which is Cen Bing*.
The last word is no longer clear, and we can only vaguely judge it as qi from the pinyin below.
This Cen Bingqi may be one of the thousands of victims here.
"But Cen Bingqi countered that instead of saying that his original personality had awakened, he would rather believe that the original personality in this body was still sleeping in the depths of consciousness, waiting to open its eyes at some point," Cen Bingqi shrugged at Bai Jinshu, "and then you said, now everyone is not an experimental subject, people outside the laboratory will not be called number one or number two, since the original personality will wake up one day, then everyone should just follow this format to give a name, and each person should have a different [qi] character."
"Then what?" Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows.
"Then, No. 1 said, I'll use Qi then."
Cen Bingqi turned around and looked at the test area which had turned into a sea of fire.
"The opening of the Kai."
The author has something to say:
The story of the twenty-four personalities is probably like this from this perspective~
Fixed a typo in the previous serial number
, does not affect reading
First 20 + Random 20~
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