Shou Yuxuan stared at the light beam without blinking. In the meantime, he asked his assistant to transmit all the information in Elder Nether Spring's head to the crystal processor. A moment later, he was still not satisfied and tapped the main control light beam again.
Immediately, orange liquids were injected into Elder Nether Spring's brain.
The expression on the light beam was even more painful. The corners of his eyes and lips were shivering even faster. The data on the other dozens of light beams were flowing out even faster.
Shou Yuxuan was finally satisfied. He focused his attention on studying the light beam.
"Director Shou."
The scar-faced man frowned in dissatisfaction and said, "There's no need to exploit his brain like that, is there? The 'Demon God Virus' and the antidote right now are enough for a real battle. There's no need to pursue a more powerful effect! Let's just leave his brain to us!
"The brain has been exploited by us for such a long time. His brain cells are feeble, and his physiological functions are at rock bottom. He may die at any moment. We still have a lot of questions to ask him!"
Shou Yuxuan nodded. After collecting the last bit of data, he tapped another light beam, somewhat unwillingly.
Immediately, dozens of liquids were injected into Elder Nether Spring's brain and body. On the light beam, his expression gradually turned from pain to dullness.
Li Yao speculated that it was some sort of mixed sedative drug. It was essentially 'rebooting' Elder Nether Spring's brain so that he would be able to face the next question.
The scar-faced man coughed and said coldly, "I'll repeat myself. Tell me the name list of the Children of the Nether World, and you will be given a quick death."
The words' Children of the Nether World 'seemed to have triggered a mysterious curse deep inside Elder Nether Spring's brain. The big face on the light beam was immediately twisted to the maximum. His hands and feet were struggling hard under the continuous lightning. Screams were echoing inside the broadcast rune arrays.
"Traitors! You traitors! You betrayed me! "
On the dozens of light beams nearby, faces and names were popping up one after another. Li Yao recognized some of the young Cultivators who were in high positions in the Federation. He did not know that they were all Children of the Nether World!
One of the pictures was displayed on several light beams at the same time. It was Elder Nether Spring, who had turned into a human being, talking to a Child of the Nether World in a quiet, uninhabited forest.
Suddenly, countless Cultivators jumped out from various directions. The Child of the Nether World, in the meantime, stabbed a flying sword over with a smile on his face!
"Betray me? Go to hell! Go to hell! "
The high-pitched voice in the broadcast rune array was still echoing. It was obvious that Elder Nether Spring hated the 'Child of the Nether World' very much!
His fury, hatred, and every activity of his brain cells were transformed into billions of data on the analysis light beam nearby, as well as crazily bouncing brainwaves.
"The result of the thirty-ninth interrogation was the same. A total of one hundred and twenty-two Children of the Nether World gave up their names, which was exactly the same as the last fifteen."
"His brainwave activity is also very normal. The coincidence rate with the past fifteen times is more than 93%. It can be determined to be the truth."
"This should be all the Children of the Nether World. They have all been controlled and collected by us. None of them has escaped."
A few Meditation Healers and interrogation specialists analyzed the information in Elder Nether Spring's brain carefully.
Li Yao felt cold all over his body. The picture that lasted only several minutes contained so much information that he found it difficult to react.
What was the meaning of this? Had the Patriots Partnership learned of the existence of all the Children of the Nether World a long time ago and captured all the Children of the Nether World and even recruited them for their own use?
Also, Elder Nether Spring had fallen into the hands of the Patriots Partnership because of the betrayal of a Child of the Nether World, too?
"Calm down, I need to calm down and think!"
Li Yao took a deep breath and stuck his head to the cold shell of the magical equipment to lower his temperature. While the magical equipment hummed, he summarized all the known information and sorted out the most probable pattern of the whole incident according to the timeline.
First of all, almost a year ago, the news of the Flying Star Sector, the Imperium of True Human Beings, and the apocalypse had been sent back to the Tian Yuan Realm, leading to the greatest changes in the past thousand years.
Many knowledgeable people believed that the Imperium could only be resisted by the cooperation of the three Sectors.
However, some Cultivators insisted that the demon race was absolutely untrustworthy and would never agree to cooperate with the demon race.
Of the Cultivators, the most extreme, radical, and fanatical ones established the Patriots Partnership under the leadership of Lu Zui, the director of the Secret Sword Bureau, in an attempt to save the Federation in their own way!
At the same time, in the Blood Demon Sector, the Red Tide Plan and the Spore Stratagem were being pushed forward in secret. The Children of the Nether World, Elder Nether Spring's trusted subordinates that he had planted in the Heaven's Origin Sector decades ago, also surfaced and took action in preparation for the Spore Stratagem.
As the director of the Secret Sword Bureau, did Lu Zui really know nothing about the Children of the Nether World?
Maybe not.
Maybe he had known some of the Children of the Nether World a long time ago. Elder Nether Spring had even released some false information to the Tian Yuan Realm through some of the Children of the Nether World, such as the fake teleportation locations of the Red Tide Plan.
On this invisible black battlefront, the real and the false, the false and the true, everything was possible.
Li Yao did not know the details, and the details did not affect the big picture, either.
All in all, Lu Zui should have known the existence of a few Children of the Nether World, but he did not elicit the real teleportation locations of the Red Tide Plan or the truth of the Spore Stratagem from the Children of the Nether World.
Maybe, even the Children of the Nether World did not know anything about it themselves.
That was where the attitude of the Children of the Nether World was concerned.
Li Yao put himself in the shoes of the Children of the Nether World and felt that, despite Elder Nether Spring's delicate move, the loyalty of the chess pieces was still a big problem.
The Children of the Nether World had lived in the Federation for decades in the appearance of 100% human beings. They might not be powerful, but at the very least, they had a bright future ahead of them!
Right now, with the help of the Flying Star Sector and the strategic situation, the Federation was gradually gaining the upper hand. It was unstoppable like the rising sun.
They must have established their own families in the past decades. Why would they work for Elder Nether Spring so loyally?
Li Yao thought for a long time and could only come up with two reasons.
Firstly, they had sent tremendous intelligence to Elder Nether Spring over the past decades, which was a great weakness for him. Once Elder Nether Spring lost his power and threw out the evidence, they would not end well, either.
Secondly, at that time, Elder Nether Spring's Spore Stratagem seemed to be a good plan with a high probability of success. If it succeeded, they would be the heroes of the new world!
Perhaps, it was the two reasons that supported the Children of the Nether World to follow Elder Nether Spring to the end.
However, three and a half months ago …
Li Yao sabotaged the Eye of Blood Demon. Jin Tuyi sabotaged the Spore Stratagem. Elder Nether Spring had lost his gamble. Completely lost!
Staying in the Blood Demon Sector would have been like a fish swimming in a boiling cauldron. He could only swallow the last dose of Divine Blood of Chaos in desperation and escape to the Tian Yuan Realm in the form of a human being, hoping to instigate a war with the Children of the Nether World and Abyss for the last gamble!
However, Elder Nether Spring had never considered, or rather, had no time to consider, the attitude of the Children of the Nether World!
When there was still hope for the Spore Stratagem, the Children of the Nether World would not betray him. However, it did not mean that the Children of the Nether World would still stand on his side after the Spore Stratagem failed and he lost everything.
Before, of the two reasons why the Children of the Nether World supported him, the second reason, which was that he would be the hero of the new world, was no longer possible.
What if Lu Zui found the Children of the Nether World and proposed a deal to them?
"You were supposed to work for Elder Nether Spring, but he has completely failed. Right now, you are working for Lu Zui. Capture Elder Nether Spring, and I guarantee that your life will not change. Your life may even be better than before!"
If Lu Zui proposed such a deal, some of the Children of the Nether World who had been driven into desperation would certainly defect, wouldn't they?
As long as some of them betrayed more people, the situation would snowball. Li Yao believed that, in a few days, most of the Children of the Nether World would join Lu Zui and the Patriots Partnership without any hesitation, or after a few seconds of painful hesitation!
What happened next was simple.
Elder Nether Spring had just been transformed into a human being. Although he was in the Yuanying level, he was still a beginner in the utilization of the strength of the Cultivators. He was one of the weakest Yuanying in the Heaven's Origin Sector.
Besides, it was impossible that he had kept a lot of the Divine Blood of Chaos. For the sake of secrecy, it was impossible for him to sneak into the Federation with a large batch of soldiers of the Nether World Watch.
It was most likely that he was on his own.
After he came to the Tian Yuan Realm, in order to instigate a war, he naturally had to turn to the Children of the Nether World, his former subordinates.
Li Yao even suspected that, with Elder Nether Spring's cunningness, he would intentionally expose himself to Lu Zui and pretend to surrender.
But as it turned out, Lu Zui was even more cunning than he was. He had long subdued all the Children of the Nether World. When the two parties met, he had captured him and sent him to the secret base at the bottom of the ocean for secret interrogation, digging out all the secrets in his head!
"Hu …"
Li Yao took a long breath in relief. He sorted through the entire timeline three times and pondered over every detail. Finally, he was certain that it was the answer closest to the truth.
If that was the case, Lu Zui knew the Blood Demon Sector like the back of his hand and seemed to have foreseen his actions. All the suspicious points could be explained.
When he saw Elder Nether Spring for the first time, Li Yao was so surprised that he even felt that it was rather abrupt.
But now that he thought about it carefully, he realized that it was the most reasonable conclusion.
Elder Nether Spring was a stray dog in the first place. He had fled to the Tian Yuan Realm, a place that he was not familiar with at all, and he was in charge of a force system that he was not familiar with at all. Was it strange that he ended up as a prisoner when faced with the Patriots Partnership, an opponent that had been lurking in the dark?
It would be unreasonable if Elder Nether Spring, a stray dog, still had a series of delicate plans after the Spore Stratagem, which had cost him all his time and resources, failed!
If Elder Nether Spring had such capability, wisdom, and wisdom, he would've seen through Jin Tuyi's real purpose a long time ago and executed Jin Tuyi. Would he have watched Jin Tuyi and himself sabotage the Spore Stratagem while doing nothing?
Getting to the bottom of it, Elder Nether Spring was still one step away from being a real super expert.
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