Nick felt a warm and soft sensation beneath his feet, as if he was stepping on his internal organs. The entire floor of the mansion had turned into a slippery, wriggling material. The ceiling above his head was a mass of lumps of flesh that looked like tumors, wriggling like soft flesh at the throat. Nick's lower body had turned into a slug-like axe leg that slithered on the surface.
He felt as if he had become a mollusk.
"Your condition is starting to get serious!" The being that seemed to be piled up from countless bubbles that were as deep as the universe and as bright as the sun said, "But it's fine … If the consciousness of an ordinary person is some scattered sugar, you are that kind of hard, ice-cold sugar cube. Under the impact of this chaotic information, you can hold on a little longer!"
"The fact that you can still maintain your consciousness means that the consciousness inertia that sustains your rationality has not disappeared. That is why there are only initial symptoms of cognitive disorder. If this continues, you can last for three days before the confusion in your consciousness will further deepen, provided that you do not directly face those aberrant memetic viruses."
"The situation is still good …" the voice said. "It's not as bad as I thought!"
"You call this' the situation is still good '?" Nick said. "I suspect that I have already gone mad!"
"Those who have truly gone mad do not know that they have gone mad!" Chen Ang said. "Right now, you can still distinguish that you have entered an abnormal state. I originally expected that you would completely distort your cognition and not realize your abnormality. It would be like a dream, thinking that all the absurd situations you encounter are normal."
"How are you going to explain to S.H.I.E.L.D. in that situation?" Nick said. "Are you going to let me, who has already gone mad, go back?"
"I will give you a device to manually interfere with cognition!" Chen Ang took out a pair of glasses. "Use this pair of glasses. Through calculation and simulation, it will interfere with your vision, filter out the memetic viruses, and manually interfere with the information you have obtained. It is like installing a device to manually filter harmful substances in your consciousness. "
Nick put on the glasses, and the whole world returned to normal.
Although it still appeared distorted, dark, and bizarre, at least it looked a little more normal. Nick ignored the walls with faces on them, and the chandelier above him that was twisted like a skeleton. The floor under his feet had also returned to normal, except that it was filthy, bloody, and wet with moss.
Nick looked at the slug covered in black mucus crawling over his feet, and his face twitched. "It's much better now! Really! "
He saw Chen Ang's head glowing like a light bulb.
"You subconsciously feel that this place is dirty and dark. You feel that there are a lot of germs and microbes here, and your Spirit Vision distorts these feelings. The blood stains on the walls, the slugs and moss on the ground — they are all symbols projected by your spiritual perception." Chen Ang said. "And the soul door in your consciousness has been opened, and it has also released your consciousness shackles."
"What do you mean?" Nick asked.
"You can sense some information that was previously suppressed by common sense. Other than the five senses, humans also have conscious senses. Before the shackles are released, the things that the consciousness observes will be forgotten, and occasionally appear in the form of dreams. This is the reason why the five senses relax the suppression on the consciousness during sleep, allowing these things that you previously couldn't sense to surface."
Chen Ang explained the reason with knowledge that leaned towards mysticism. Seeing that Nick still didn't understand, he added, "In layman's terms, your Spirit Vision can see some clues that normal people can't."
"Spirit Vision is a kind of distortion of consciousness. It's the result of distorting your five senses and adding them to your senses. It contains many elements of illusion and madness, but it also contains some extraordinary senses that belong to rationality." Chen Ang said, "It's very dangerous, but it's also very useful!"
"How long can this pair of glasses protect me?" Nick asked calmly.
Chen Ang was silent for a moment before answering, "If you don't look directly at things that contain more chaotic information and more powerful memes, it can maintain your basic rationality for a week."
"This thing takes over my information receiving window — in other words, my senses. By interfering with my senses, it filters out those harmful memetic viruses." Nick said. "Doesn't that mean that you know everything that I sense?"
Chen Ang nodded. "Yes … The artificial intelligence in the Republic will filter the information you receive. If you feel that it's inappropriate, you can return it to me!"
"Then I won't be able to work at all!" Nick said coldly. "A large number of illusions and disturbs my cognition. If I can't distinguish what appears in front of me. Why the hell would I still be the director of SHIELD? "
"The current director of SHIELD is Coulson!" Chen Ang reminded him.
"To hell with him!" Nick adjusted the color of the lenses, making them as transparent as a pair of sunglasses. "Now that the situation is critical, I have to do it myself!"
"I will isolate myself from the most confidential information … Don't even think about getting anything through me!" Although Nick said so, he knew that he had to expose some secrets to the Revolutionary Alliance. Not because of anything else, but because he had to choose the lesser of two evils.
Letting the Revolutionary Alliance know some of SHIELD's secrets was better than letting all humans go crazy!
Nick walked out of the mansion. This time, he finally understood what it meant by — you know too much!
Nick had never experienced such a terrible danger of knowing too much. The sky was already slightly brightening — if the sun rising from the east was still the sun — it looked more like the mouth of a well, as if there was a hole in the sky. Light and some other things flowed out from the hole, as if the wound in the sky was bleeding pus.
The moon in the sky had not completely set yet. Nick glanced at it.
He immediately felt that his Spirit Vision had deepened a little!
What the hell was that? A wriggling ball of flesh full of tentacles with eyes of all sizes growing on it. When Nick looked up at it, some of the eyes were also looking at him. An indescribable feeling, like being massaged by a giant squid, enveloped Nick's whole body.
"What the hell is that thing!" Nick cursed in horror.
"The moon!" Chen Ang said lightly. "That thing looks like this …"
"Why does the moon look like this?" Nick said. "What the hell is on it? On the moon … what the hell is there? "
"It has always been like this, but with your Spirit Vision, you can see more of the truth. That's all! "
"F * ck!" Nick cursed.
Chen Ang raised his watch and glanced at the projected information. "Your rationality has weakened again. Don't look, don't think about those things. Now is not the time to know as much as possible. On the contrary, the less you know, the safer you will be. "
"That thing has always been watching us from the moon?" Nick's tone was grim.
"It has been like this since ancient times!" Chen Ang was a man of few words. The more he spoke, the faster Nick's rationality fell.
"I have to close that door before I go crazy." Nick held the cigarette in his mouth. He ignored the wriggling, smelly, dirty, slimy smoke that was like a worm. He gritted his teeth and inhaled the putrid smell.
"How many people in S.H.I.E.L.D. can bear the truth?" Chen Ang asked. "If you fail, we need to find someone else to take over your job. At least one person must know the truth."
Nick thought for a long time. His mind was already a little chaotic. "Coulson can't do it … damn it, I can't think of anyone who can last more than two days."
"The minds of agents are too complicated. They store more information, and the wall of common sense is not strong enough," Chen Ang said. "The simpler the person, the stronger their resistance. The more stubborn the person, the less likely they are to go crazy."
"Stubborn!" Nick took a deep breath. "Then it can only be my old buddy, Frank! He is the most stubborn person I have ever met! "
"The Punisher?" Chen Ang said. "Yes … He may be more twisted than a normal person at the beginning, but he has a higher tolerance for the later infection and can resist it longer."
"You need to give Frank some authority — then return to S.H.I.E.L.D. and deal with some matters."
Chen Ang said calmly, "Then we can start looking for a solution to the problem!"
"Lavelle?" Nick asked.
Chen Ang did not say anything, tacitly agreeing with Nick's guess. After a long time, when the big hole in the east, the mouth of the well, gradually shifted to the middle of the sky, Chen Ang said, "Lend Dr. Reed to us for a while!"
"What for?" Nick frowned.
"He is researching teleportation technology … That's too simple. The Republic has been monitoring the space around Earth. This can't be hidden from us. It looks like he is about to succeed. I want to push the boat with the current and let him test the waters for us! "
"Where are you going to take him?" Nick asked.
Chen Ang did not answer directly. "Do you know? We don't have enough time to solve the riddle now! We can't solve the questions set by the Death Knight … We can only copy the answers. "
"Right now, we can only be bad students who are ready to copy the answers next door."
"Let's pray that the examiner doesn't pay attention to us!"
"Send Reed over and pretend that it is an experimental accident!" Nick's eyes darkened and he interrupted thoughtfully. He nodded slightly. "Creating such accidents … we are professionals!"
"Reed is our beacon!"
Chen Ang said. "I will pretend to stop Ulysses from opening the fourth seal. We need to protect the heroes' wall of common sense, so we can't let them know the truth. There is no point in stopping the fourth seal! The test has begun, and we can't delay it … I will trick them over and use a reason similar to the final battle to gather the opposition on Earth that has given us a headache with them and then send them over. "
"I will be responsible for guiding them step by step to find the answers we need."
"At the same time, hide the situation and delay the collapse of their wall of common sense. You are responsible for cooperating … If they feel something is wrong, I will jump to the other side and you will be responsible for guiding them. "
"Jump to the other side …" Nick said doubtfully, "Can you do it?"
Chen Ang grinned and clenched his fist. "Being a villain … I am super professional!"
Nick was still doubtful. "Won't Ulysses Crow, Ebony Hou, and Namor cause trouble for us if we send them over?"
"Now, it is time to make use of them." Chen Ang's eyes flickered. "I will make them helpless. When necessary, I will beat them until they are convinced and then stand up to lead them. "
"Dr. Strange is the easiest person to discover the truth. We still need him later and the power of the Time Gem, so he can't go crazy. Because he used the Time Gem too much, he has been targeted by something outside of time. When the time comes, I will banish him outside of time, and when necessary, you can pull him back. "
"Just say that I am the mastermind behind everything. That should be able to deceive him for a while!"
Nick's expression was uncertain. He said solemnly, "My current state … is too dangerous! I can go crazy at any time … If something happens to me, there will be a big flaw in the plan. "
Chen Ang said, "Go find Dr. Strange and tell him that you suspect there's something wrong with me. Get him to help you suppress your chaotic consciousness. Strange has studied the Seven Chapters of Mystic Lord, so he has a way to help you maintain a portion of your rationality. Tell him that I lied to you about the information and caused you to be infected by the evil gods. "
"You can only come out when necessary. Too early or too late will affect our plan. "
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