A single step apart, yet the difference was that between heaven and earth.
Li Xiao knew perfectly well that they had all fallen into an illusion. None of their sensations were real. Their expressions would change, yet from beginning to end, none of them had opened their mouths.
That was right.
The so-called ring communication was actually part of the illusion. The rings they were truly wearing had not transmitted any sound, because the four of them had never opened their mouths at all.
Whether it was the life-saving medicine or the treasure.
None of the four had obtained anything. They were all still searching for the treasure within the illusion.
"This stage is far too difficult. Anyone could fall for it," one spectator sighed.
Li Xiao nodded. "That's right. This stage tests how one identifies an illusion. If you never realize from beginning to end that you're inside one, then you'll die here."
Humans could not see the true world.
That was because human eyes could not see every color. All human perception was actually realized through information fed back to the brain by the body.
Everything was information.
When a massive amount of information replaced the information fed back by the body, it created an effect similar to that of a Brain in a Vat.
This was also one of Mother's greatest methods. Especially with the support of extraordinary power, if Mother acted, it could plunge an incalculable number of living beings into illusions.
Li Xiao realized that the effects of this forest resembled Mother's methods.
Everything Feng Wu and the others saw, touched, and came into contact with at this moment was actually feedback information. None of their movements had been transmitted to their muscles, so their bodies remained completely frozen where they stood.
Their brains had