When Rancheng C saw Yuki again, it should have been... about a day or two later.
Rancheng C was uncertain whether his sense of ti was still accurate. Human "sense of ti" is highly dependent on the periodic neural activity of certain specific neural networks. The brain region that perceives ti is located right next to the area that encodes spatial information, not far from the hippocampus.
Given that the technology to interfere with the hippocampus and control the transformation of short-term mory into long-term mory is very mature. Therefore, manipulating an individual’s "sense of ti," making them feel that ti has been shortened or extended, is also possible.
This technology has limited practical value. The speed of human thinking is still restricted by the transmission speed of neural signals and the degree of neural network optimization. Even if the subjective sense of ti is disturbed and humans develop a subjective drive to "accelerate thinking speed," the speed of thought activity will still be inherently limited.
Thought cannot accelerate infinitely.
However, it can make the subject feel that a short period of ti suddenly becos infinitely long, and unknowingly, they waste a lot of ti. Their primitive instincts will strongly drive them to "find sothing to do" – because, for wild animals in natural environnts, a "prolonged state of laziness" ans "prone to death."
This drive inflicts intense ntal torture on people.
When one’s sense of ti is manipulated by others, the manipulator can induce this ntal torture in a very short amount of ti.
This virtual sense of ti hell can be even more terrifying than actual long-term imprisonnt. Although the sense of ti is adjusted, the speed of thought does not increase much. The tortured individual will only feel, with extre clarity, ti slipping away pointlessly between their fingers, unable to accomplish much. The clear mory also becos a form of torture – because, on a physiological level, the detainee hasn’t had ti to forget.
The sense of helplessness it brings, compared to actual confinent, is even more horrifying.
Since one’s brain has already fallen into the opponent’s hands, the possibility of being subjected to such treatnt is not small.
Rancheng C himself had done similar things.
He looked at Yuki and smiled, "You ca so quickly... I thought I would subjectively go through quite a long ti before seeing you again."
This form of tornt does not even cause regressive physical damage. If human neural networks aren’t used for a long ti, there is a risk of other functions taking over. If soone doesn’t speak for a long ti, they might forget how to speak.
But this change relies on objective ti.
This technology for adjusting the subjective sense of ti won’t accelerate the neural network’s self-adjustnt. The target will not easily forget or lose skills.
It is an ideal form of torture.
Considering the resistance of Internal Strength Masters to chemical drugs, this approach that works from the ground up might even be more useful than a truth serum.
Yuki shook his head, "Generally speaking, we don’t advocate torturing captives. Now, Mr. Six Dragons Sect, have you cald down? Is there anything you want to confess?"
It was exactly twenty-four hours since Yuki last ca in. The forr apprentices were just too enthusiastic. Yuki only ntioned wanting to carefully analyze the confessions of those Six Dragons Sect mbers, and those Research Knight Apprentices made nurous analyses based on what Rancheng C said and wrote several reports.
Much more comprehensive than Yuki himself had thought.
Finally, Yuki had no choice but to be dragged by this group of old friends to participate in the collective activities on the ship.
These forr apprentices were indeed at the bottom of the Scientific Knight Order but had seen the various collective activities of the higher-ranking Scientific Knights. From the classical era’s "musical hobbies" to the "sci-fi, second-dinsional aesthetics" of the Martial Ancestor’s ti, various different era’s cultural and artistic activities existed. Or imitated the banquets from the ti of Yawgmoth in Superman Enterprise, among others.
Although these forr apprentices couldn’t completely replicate those collective activities, Inzewei still valued such things when building the Sect.
It felt a bit like the so-called "Party" collective activities of the old tis, and they organized several.
Although they could only provide virtual food and play mini-gas with AR images, the forr apprentices still enjoyed this atmosphere a lot.
From yesterday, Yuki had beco the center of the party, the coolest person in the Pixie Sect Sect’s residence (submarine).
At first, Yuki was quite interested in this unique "religious activity" of the Scientific Knights. But everyone was just too enthusiastic, almost everyone wanted to talk to him about The Twelfth Martial God.
Yuki was worried about letting sothing slip and kept avoiding this topic.
As expected, this only piqued the forr apprentices’ curiosity.
In the end, Yuki still felt it was more suitable for soone like him to co and question this Six Dragons Sect guy.
Having wandered the wilderness with his master, he wasn’t really used to this kind of... atmosphere.
It just so happened that his conversation with the Six Dragons Sect Banner Leader was also being broadcasted live, so it was like giving those forr apprentices sothing to do.
"Anything new to confess?" Hearing Yuki’s question, Rancheng C lowered his head and remained silent.
Yuki said, "At this point, why are you still hesitating? Even if you have imnse faith in Six Dragons Sect, you certainly can’t go back. For a long ti to co, you’ll have to stay in this virtual prison. And if the Six Dragons Sect people don’t co to rescue you, it’s fine. But once they co, the guards will kill you before they succeed. I don’t need to describe how easy it is to kill an unprotected brain, do I?"
"Looking at it comprehensively, no matter how powerful Six Dragons Sect is, there is no benefit you can gain from them. Aside from religious-like experiential faith, do you have any reasons to remain loyal to them?"
Rancheng C’s mouth moved slightly, as if he wanted to say sothing.
Yuki imdiately asked, "What reason?"
"A part of my brain’s mory tells , even if I die for Six Dragons Sect, I can still gain enough benefits," Rancheng C said. "Even though I don’t know the reason... although I don’t rember it, there was once evidence that told ... extrely clear evidence told that even if I died for Six Dragons Sect, I would still receive a reward – a trendous reward."
Yuki laughed, "But doesn’t that piece of ’mory from who knows which part of your brain’ also tell you that Six Dragons Sect isn’t afraid of any Martial God? And yet, look at how things are now?"
Two lines of tears rolled down Rancheng C’s face.
He shed tears without any forewarning.
Reviews
All reviews (0)