DipNovel Chapter 65 Brain and Eyes
Chapter 65 Brain and Eyes
Chapter 65 Brain and Eyes
That night, dawn broke.
[The Seventy-Seventh Day Since the Alien Creatures Descended—A Case Report on Human Active Defense]
[The commander of the Angula border outpost successfully resisted the transformation of mirror perception. Method: Before looking in the mirror, he confirmed the actual number of fingers; afterwards, he confirmed again. Core mechanism: Using factual memory to counteract visual errors.]
[System Prompt: This method is ineffective for those who have already converted; it only works for those who have not. Once conversion is complete, factual memories will be overwritten in gray and cannot be restored through self-verification.]
[System Update: The method used by Homo erectus to tame Lysaurus has been confirmed as "feces-guided." This method utilizes the Lysaurus's territorial marking instinct, is extremely low-cost, and highly efficient. This system will not comment on whether similar methods have been used in human domestication cases.]
The light curtain went out.
Lu Cheng stood on the balcony, and Carrie came out with a cup of hot tea.
A night breeze swept across the square, and in the distance came the sound of a water dragon digging a hole.
"The system says it will not comment on whether similar methods have occurred in cases of human domestication," Carrie said, handing him a teacup.
"Because the system doesn't know either, the core of fecal guidance is to make the tamed believe that they made a choice voluntarily. Sergei from Ivan Bear Kingdom thinks he voluntarily signed the contract, Wood from Sam Eagle Kingdom thinks he voluntarily killed the Tyrannosaurus Rex, King William from Hans Cat Kingdom thinks he voluntarily protected the venom collection point, and DuPont from Jacques Chicken Kingdom thinks he voluntarily cleared the waterway. Everyone thinks they acted voluntarily, so it's unclear which step was guided by the upright ape and which step was chosen by themselves."
"Commander Angula figured it out. He saw seven things with his eyes, but his brain knew they were fake, so he used his brain to cover up his eyes."
"But he could only control himself, not Sergei, not Dupont, not Namibia, and the 30,000 who walked into Angura. The upright ape doesn't need to convert everyone, only those whose minds can't control their eyes. And those whose minds can't control their eyes will always be the majority."
Taro Tanuki Country, Kyoto, late at night.
Massa stood outside the courtyard, while inside, the upright ape was applying plaster to a picture frame.
It dipped its front paws into a mud mixture made of fine soil and water from the dry landscape garden, and then applied it in circles along the edge of the mirror.
He applied the paint slowly and carefully, as if he were painting a picture.
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After finishing applying the paint, it wiped its front paws clean on the gravel, squatted in front of the mirror, and looked at the gray lines on the mirror frame with its clear black and white eyes.
The gray lines gleamed faintly in the moonlight.
It looked at it for a long time, then stretched out its front paws and flipped the mirror over, placing it face down on the stone slab.
Then it lay down next to the mirror, rested its head on its front paws, and closed its eyes.
October of the year 5914 in the Blue Star calendar, the 10th day since the arrival of the alien creatures.
The commander of the Angula border outpost is named Mbeki.
His method involved checking the actual number of fingers before looking in the mirror and then checking again afterward.
After Livy sent his telegram, this method was tested by four countries.
The results, however, were inconsistent.
Weiqiang Longguo tried it, and the success rate was 70%.
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Kerry had a hundred soldiers look in the mirror; seventy of them held up, while thirty had gray lines appearing around the edges of their pupils.
John Bull tried it, and the success rate was 40%.
David took the photo himself, and after taking it, he remained silent for a long time before saying, "I still see seven roots, but I know they are fake."
His pupils had no gray lines.
The country of Jacques Chicken tried it, and the success rate was 20%.
George didn't take the photo, saying, "I don't even want to try. What if I can't handle it?"
Ivan the Bear tried it, and Vla looked in the mirror. After looking in the mirror, he turned it upside down on the table, said "Five roots," and then went about his business.
His pupils had no gray lines.
Sergei, the mining committee member who had been removed from his post, also had his picture taken. After taking the picture, he counted seven stones and then squatted down to start arranging concentric circles with pebbles.
Fola had him sent to a quarantine camp.
Clearly, Mbeki's method does work, but it doesn't work for everyone.
Kerry compiled the experimental data and sent it to Lu Cheng, adding a handwritten note at the end:
About half of the people have enough brains to keep their eyes occupied. The other half don't.
Okay, that's actually a pretty obvious statement.
When Lu Cheng received the telegram, he was in his office reading a report sent by Bertswana.
The report was dictated by the old chief and written by the engineering corps of the powerful Longguo. It was only one page long, with large characters, like those written by a primary school student.
"My name is Moses, chief of Bertswana, and I am seventy-one years old. On Advent Day, I couldn't choose any Homo erectus, but thirty thousand Homo erectus migrated from a neighboring country and squatted outside my village. The young people said they should kill them, but I said no. Not because I'm kind, but because I saw those Homo erectus squatting under the mango tree at the village entrance, drawing circles on the ground with twigs. The circles they drew were exactly the same as the circles my ancestors drew on pottery. My ancestors said those circles were protective charms for the village. How could Homo erectus draw them? I don't know. But I feel that creatures that can draw the same charms shouldn't be killed."
"Later, the engineers from the mighty dragon kingdom came and helped us dig an underground network. They brought with them water dragon beasts. The water dragon beasts dug very quickly, and the excavated soil piled up into small hills. I squatted down next to the mound and saw a piece of pottery buried in the soil. There were circles drawn on the pottery, exactly the same as those drawn by the upright ape. I showed the pottery to the engineers, and they said it was from a pre-civilization era, 100,000 years ago."
"Yesterday, Commander Mbeki's method reached Bertswana, and the engineers from the mighty Dragon Kingdom asked me if I wanted to try it. I said I would, and they brought me a mirror and placed it in front of me. I looked in the mirror, and my right hand had seven fingers. I put the mirror down and looked at my real hand—five fingers. I looked again, and it still had seven. I said to the engineers: 'I have seven fingers in the mirror, and I have five fingers outside the mirror. Which one is real?'"
"The engineer said what's outside the mirror is real. I said, where did the seven fingers in the mirror come from? The engineer couldn't answer. I answered for him: The seven fingers in the mirror are what that hominid that drew circles saw on my hand when it looked at me 100,000 years ago. It wasn't that I was mistaken, it was that it was mistaken. It took the number of its fingers as mine. The misunderstanding from 100,000 years ago has now been transmitted to my eyes."
"There are no gray lines in my pupils."
Lu Cheng read the report twice.
The old chief's pupils had no gray lines, not because his brain was pressing down on his eyes, but because he had returned the ownership of his seven fingers to the upright ape.
It's not "I misread it," it's "it misread it."
Mbeki's method is to guard your own eyes; Moser's method is to understand the other person's eyes.
Both roads were passable.
Bertswana, 80 meters underground.
The engineering corps captain of the powerful dragon country was surnamed Zhao, thirty-two years old, his face stained black and yellow with dust from the underground project.
He led twelve engineers and water dragons to dig through the third trunk line of the Bertswana underground network, to a depth of eighty meters.
When they dug to a depth of eighty meters, the water dragon beast unearthed a stone slab.
Captain Zhao turned the stone slab over, revealing that it was engraved with symbols of upright apes and ancient Blue Star language side by side.
It shares the same style as the pre-civilization stone walls, but the content is different.
The ancient Blue Star language is severely worn, with only a few words still recognizable: "planting," "harvesting," "storing," and "distributing."