Chapter 69 Psychological warfare
Walking in the quiet metal corridor, except for the flashlight in your hand, there is no little light. Because of the silence, Oliver can only hear his own heartbeat, as well as ... the sound of footsteps, any little sound can be transmitted far away, and even a trace of echo.
Makes it feel like ... there's another person approaching him or her!
No one, silence, darkness, in this environment, a person's psychological pressure will increase exponentially, especially when there are unknown enemies peeping in the dark. If it is an ordinary person, it is very likely to break down in a few hours!
Good thing Oliver is very human, although he looks tense, but far from the psychological limit, just while groping, while secretly on guard.
He was accompanied by a living person, that is, medic Mitchell. although was made to pass out, at least is also a living creature, gave Oliver a warm feeling.
It's still good to have kindred spirits, and it's not as scary.
"Don't worry, I'll get you out of here." Oliver muttered to himself. This was the promise he made before he came. He would be responsible for each and every member of the team.
But spinning around, he suddenly realized he was lost!
"No, definitely not something lost, but the sense of direction in the head was disturbed ..."
Oliver frowned as strange hallucinations arose in his head one after another, causing him to keep getting distracted and distracted, trying to draw him in one direction.
This feeling, which required constant concentration of will to overcome, was very draining, and the other members of the exploration team were attracted to this feeling ...
His heart moved slightly with an uncomfortable premonition that if he continued to walk blindly like this, he might, indeed, walk into a trap!
Although I do not know what the things inside to do, but think not what good. oliver is actually the opposite of the direction that attracted him, he subconsciously want to stay away from this compulsion, but somehow, the heart of the sense of danger is getting stronger.
In this moment, out of a cold sweat!
"No, this hypnosis can interfere with my thoughts, but not enough to affect my actions ... I am super human and have a stronger will to overcome this interference."
"That's right! They did it on purpose, the things in there are bound to be intelligent, and they knew they couldn't interfere with my subjective behavior, so they guessed I would do the opposite ..."
"They knew I would go the other way, so ... I was trapped! The direction they attracted me to is the correct exit."
Thinking of this, Oliver immediately reversed a few steps, his face a little cloudy.
"According to this speculation, I should follow the feeling that attracts me?"
"But they may be able to change the direction of this attraction at any time ... if they are discovered, then I will walk into the trap again."
Oliver vaguely had this concern that he might be gradually walking to the central area ... Once he entered, nothing good would surely come of it!
But he does not know whether he should trust his own intuition, perhaps all the intuition, but also the other side deliberately made out to mislead him!
"Really powerful, such life science is really far above human, some of the simplest electromagnetic waves, it can make people hallucinate, and even hypnotize people to control ..."
Oliver walked casually for a while longer and came to sit at a fork in the road.
He did not dare to go any further, the sense of crisis in his heart almost reached the extreme, but there is a strange sense of relief: further ahead, is the safe place, is the way out!
It was so contradictory, he didn't know which intuition to trust, his proud sixth sense was completely invalidated at this moment!
"What is controlling all this, is it artificial intelligence? Or is there alien life in the central region?"
"Their mind technology, necessarily far ahead of the human ..."
Oliver looked at the time, an hour and a half had passed, and the people outside must be trying to rescue themselves by any means possible. But he hoped they would not be too impulsive, once they entered this area blindly, they might be hypnotized and controlled again.
By then, he could hardly save more people as he could not protect himself.
He let out a long sigh and carefully pondered the dilemma before him.
"They must have very little energy, perhaps just enough to survive, and there is no room for a little waste. Otherwise, just send two robots to capture me directly."
"Either that ... robots are all damaged?"
Oliver quieted down, his head began all kinds of guesses, and he knew that this kind of psychological warfare required absolute patience.
"It lured me over, is it trying to communicate with us?"
"No, absolutely not!" He immediately vetoed this answer.
Would a tiger communicate with a rabbit? A male eagle would communicate with a mouse? Impossible!
He deeply understood the malice involved, definitely not as simple as communication!
"Then, what is the use of attracting people there?"
The civilization gap between the two sides was too big, and he really couldn't figure out what the use of ordinary humans was.
Oliver tried to grab his hair out of habit, but it was blocked by a glass cover, his astronaut helmet.
The other side is stuck here for millions of years, perhaps only recently woken up by human activity. Millions of years down the line, it is understandable that energy is in desperate need, and only this low-energy hypnotic means can be used.
"If I were an advanced civilization ..." Oliver sank down and stood in the other side's perspective, speculating carefully.
If he was on the side of a high level civilization and his ship accidentally crashed on a planet of a low level civilization, what would he do?
He would definitely maintain maximum vigilance!
The ideologies of the two sides are different, and the civilization levels are so different that they don't need to communicate at all. Oliver just needs to show a little bit of strength to scare the shit out of the other side, at least for a few months.
Then he can free up his hands and use the rest of his energy to try to contact his home planet and have them send someone to save him!
Thinking about it, Oliver instantly broke out in a cold sweat, if this is really the case, the human race is finished! In front of a real interstellar civilization, what is the difference between humans and weak bugs?
But now the situation is a bit odd, what is the meaning of attracting them in? As food? Or direct mind control? Enslavement of humans?
Oliver felt hairy inside, but the other side did not show direct means of attack, which means two things: First, the other side's energy is really too scarce, simply can not allow a little waste. Either that or the other party simply does not have the ability to attack directly.
Second, has been trapped here, the other party's mobility must be very poor!
Anyway, all he has to do is to escape from this place!
To escape was simple, he just had to get rid of the interference in his mind, walk to the edge area of the flying saucer and fire a shot, then he could break the wall and escape the ascension.
Many of the devices here were in disrepair, and even if the aliens could control the mechanical doors inside, there were only a few of them, and it was impossible to block all of them.
The problem is, he has a lot of hallucinations in his head, and even the basic sense of direction is lost, how easy it is to find an exit?
It's dark and unlit, and all the places are pretty much the same, so he doesn't know where he is!
Something inside wanted to lead Oliver to the central area, so it kept interfering with his mind with an unknown technology, making it impossible for him to concentrate.
But Oliver also wanted to guess the other side's mind and stay away from the central area ...
How to overcome this interference became the first thing to think about.
This is a war, and he needs absolute sanity and patience to win this war!