Earlier, Bai Zhi had never known how to deal with the Possibility Worm.
If the Safe House was like a Time Bomb, then this thing was like an untimed bomb. But now that it had obediently acknowledged him as its master, Bai Zhi no longer needed to worry about that.
So after returning, he planned to see if Calamity Reimu could repair this breeding tank... though he had no idea whether she could currently repair a Legendary-grade Item.
After storing the breeding tank inside Na Jie, Bai Zhi turned his gaze back to the stone platform before him. Raising Judgment, he fired a shot at that "eye."
The stone platform was not particularly sturdy. One shot from Bai Zhi blasted a gap in the pattern, revealing that the structure beneath seemed hollow, with traces of pale white patterns exposed through the opening.
"This thing..."
Bai Zhi's expression changed slightly, but his hands did not stop. Before long, he had completely pried open the stone platform.
However, the sight that appeared before him was utterly horrifying.
—It was a pile of densely stacked human brains.
These brains had been arranged according to some pattern, white and tender, their grooves crisscrossing, rhythmically contracting and expanding as time passed...
"...A Brain in a Vat? Don't tell me this is what the worm wanted to eat? If it really feeds on this, then I can't keep that thing..."
Looking at the human brains still functioning before him, Bai Zhi's expression became rather strange.
Brain in a Vat was a famous hypothesis with many philosophical precedents, such as Zhuang Zhou Dreams Butterfly, the Hindu concept of Maya, Plato's "Allegory of the Cave," and Descartes' "Demon."
Most of these philosophical concepts ultimately led to the same conclusion.
It was difficult not to associate the brains here