Chapter 15 Reliving Memories

"I will leave here and continue to wander."

'Free zone of consciousness'... that's what the Tunnel of Doom said.

Outside this space, there is a very special place.

is an area similar to 'nothing'.

But it is not completely nothing, because the Tunnel of Doom says that there are many small spaces formed by special dream energies.

These dream energies are called "free consciousness" by the Tunnel of Doom.

Because the dream energy in each small space is actually the consciousness of a certain creature, and this consciousness is normally empty.

In fact, it is similar to a dream calendar. The biological thought data from the normal void is input into the dream energy, and then this energy is trapped in a small space.

However, these energies do not try to leave the small space, or they do not even know that they are in the small space.

These consciousnesses trapped in space are generally immersed in their own...memories.

Just like the Dream Calendar, they have complete memory data from normal void creatures from birth to death.

Therefore, they will always be immersed in their own memories, and according to the description of the Doomsday Tunnel, this feeling is very 'real'.

They will repeatedly experience the situation from birth to death, continuing to feel the life they have experienced.

In other words, this dream energy consciousness is constantly experiencing the life that normal void creatures have experienced.

And there is a special point, that is, different results will appear when they experience memory.

They will not go through the experience completely according to their past memories. Each time they experience it, there will be some different situations. For example, if a creature's final cause of death was stabbing to death, it may become being beaten to death in the second experience.

In short, the initial changes are very small, but this change will become larger and larger as they are experienced more times.

It may even reverse the death.

The Tunnel of Doom indicates that after some creatures have experienced a lot, their memories can be said to have become completely new memories.

The relationship with the original memory is very small, but the essence will not change.

For example, if the dream consciousness experiences the life of a certain Ershi citizen, it will always repeatedly experience the identity of this citizen and will not become any other citizen.

And as the number of times increases, there will be countless different experiences and results.

What's more interesting is that these creatures don't get better by constantly revisiting their memories.

Some of them didn't die so miserably, but they might die more miserably the second time. The Tunnel of Doom said that it had seen some creatures whose memories were initially very... comfortable lives, but after experiencing it a few more times, their lives became miserable.

Of course, there are some creatures that are the opposite. Some creatures fail and die in the battle, but in the process of revisiting it, it wins and survives.

What the Doomsday Tunnel pays most attention to is the dream energies of revisiting memories...they will affect the size of the space they are in.

These spaces are usually very small, perhaps a few centimetres in diameter, but they are not always the same.

The space will expand or shrink, which is mainly related to the hope and despair of this consciousness.

That is what it experienced in its memory.

As they revisit their memories, their lives become filled with hope...and that causes this space to expand.

On the other hand, if the experience was miserable when you revisited it, the space will continue to shrink and eventually disappear.

Generally speaking, these spaces are always large or small, kept at the level of a few centimeters.

But some spaces become quite huge because there is always hope in the process of revisiting memories.

In fact, this is the space that Lin is now exposed to.

Some creatures... they are always full of hope.

Tunnel of Doom finds this creature interesting.

There are very few biological memory data from the normal void, and they are all full of hope.

In fact, in the process of revisiting memories, the revisiting consciousness is not necessarily good, but it always has a strong hope.

For example, even if it suffers during the re-watching process, it still feels that it will definitely get better in the future.

Of course, it is the same with other things. No matter what kind of pain you encounter, you are always full of hope...

The memory data of this creature is called "Pure Hope" by the Doomsday Tunnel.

Once it appears, it will cause a space to continue to grow, and perhaps after a long time it will become as big as it is now.

The Tunnel of Doom also said that the space where the gravel dwellers now live is actually created by this kind of "pure hope".

Although a long time ago... that is, when the normal void was still very close to the unpredictable land, the space for raising living things was created by the tunnel itself.

However, after the two voids moved away, it did not create its own space, but began to settle residents in these "naturally formed" places.

So...are these places 'naturally formed'?

In fact, the Tunnel of Doom is not clear either.

However, it feels that perhaps the space formed by this hope itself is also a living being.

When space becomes huge because of hope, this is actually not a good thing for the consciousness inside.

Because the consciousness inside will be dispersed and disappear because the space is too large.

To use Er Shimin’s analogy, it is like the skull has become too large, causing the brain cells inside to disperse.

In short, if the space becomes too large, consciousness cannot be maintained and the space will be filled with floating dream energy.

However, Doomsday Tunnel felt that space itself might be a new creature because it had some judgment capabilities.

Or perhaps something akin to thinking, like it could respond to the hopes or despair of the space's inhabitants.

The hope is to make life better for residents, which is probably not simply a 'natural reaction' but a behavior of the space itself.

It is also possible that the original consciousness has not actually completely disappeared.

However, the Doomsday Tunnel has not been thoroughly studied, and this is what it told Lin.

Tunnel of Doom prefers to focus on these situations, but it rarely goes too deep.

The Doomsday Tunnel itself is actually a kind of...conscious entity that remembers data.

It's just that it was born a long time ago.

Just like the current conscious entities that contain these memory data, it was originally trapped in a small space and constantly relived its memories.

Until it encountered something, it began to... move around freely.

It has been wandering in places like this for a long time, and it has also been to unforeseen places.

It told Lin that the 'distant shadow' it had mentioned before, which was probably related to Lin, was in an unpredictable place.

But the 'Distant Shadow' cannot be touched directly.

The main way to observe the 'Distant Shadow' is to input a lot of... information into it.

Just like it does now.