"Rest assured my ass. Who can rest assured when you are chuckling so cunningly?"
Li Yao gnashed his teeth hard. "According to that train of thought, assuming that the star child was corrupted by the extraterrestrial devils a long time ago, the arrival of the extraterrestrial devils in the tenth space ring would make perfect sense. The star child and the extraterrestrial devils were of the same body in the first place. They were master and slave, not simply partners!
"Besides, the star child had two reasons to build an enormous space gate to summon the fleet of the Imperium to the Flying Star Sector. It was not only for the Imperium to conquer the Flying Star Sector, but also for the Imperium.
"It could also return to the center of the cosmos with the fleet of the Imperium to the homeland of the Imperium of True Human Beings, the real prosperous place," the mental devil said.
Li Yao was silent for a moment before he said, "However, its scheme was stopped by us in the end, and the star child was …"
"Basically," the mental devil said, "swallowed by Professor Mo Xuan."
Li Yao bulged his eyes and stared at the mental devil in a daze.
The mental devil opened its hands innocently. "Don't look at me like that. At that time, I was not really born yet. You were the one who experienced it in person. You and the other Yuanying of the Flying Star Sector were caught in the illusionary space created by the star child, and your soul was about to be corrupted. At the perilous moment, Professor Mo Xuan and the other 'star spirits' swallowed more than half of the 'star brain' in order to save you. They must've swallowed a lot of the star child's soul by the way, right? This created the perfect opportunity for you to make your final strike.
If the star child's soul did contain some … well, things like bacteria, viruses, or parasites, they must've been swallowed by Professor Mo Xuan, too, right? "
Li Yao was silent for a long time before he softly said, "F * ck!"
He abruptly sat up in the cold darkness, breathing rapidly in the deathly stillness. Cold sweat dripped down from the corners of his trembling mouth onto the ground. "Tick tock, tick tock." The sound was incomparably clear, just like his heartbeat at this moment.
"What's wrong?" Long Yangjun asked curiously. "You seem to have discovered something."
"Listen, I've roughly figured out the ins and outs of the whole thing!"
Li Yao's teeth seemed to have turned into two rows of icicles. His every word seemed to be enshrouded in an ice core. "More than a hundred years ago, the Flying Star Sector was a paradise for the extraterrestrial devils. The extraterrestrial devils might be the offspring of 'chaos' hundreds of thousands of years ago, or they might be from the Blood Stripe Virus, a life form of energy that is even more ancient. But it doesn't matter!
"More importantly, more than a hundred years ago, when the 'star child', the vanguard of the Imperium of True Human Beings, arrived at the Flying Star Sector in the form of a soul, he encountered an enormous cosmic storm. His soul was torn apart and weakened. At that time, it was possible that an extraterrestrial devil took advantage of the situation to corrupt, infect, and control him!
"He might have been aware of it, or he might have been kept in the dark, thinking that he was working for the Imperium of True Human Beings. In fact, once the 'space gate' was opened, the communication would be two-way. While the army of the Imperium could reach the Flying Star Sector through the space gate, they could also bring some of the weird creatures from the Flying Star Sector back to the center of the cosmos to infect more people!
"However, the star child, or the extraterrestrial devil that corrupted him, failed. The space gate was not opened, and he was heavily wounded, too!
"Yes. The six Yuanying and the five 'star spirits' must've dealt a heavy blow to the star child and the extraterrestrial devil deep inside his soul, making it fall into a certain state of hibernation. It was even swallowed by Professor Mo Xuan together with the star brain and entered Professor Mo Xuan's body!
"In other words, Professor Mo Xuan was already infected by the extraterrestrial devil at that time, but he did not show any symptoms. It's like a healthy human being who has a lot of viruses inside his body but can suppress them. He is just a 'carrier'!
"Also, I assume that Professor Mo Xuan's unusual body structure, which is purely made of liquid metal, caused a lot of trouble for the extraterrestrial devil's corruption, too. Perhaps it had never seen such a weird life form before and did not know where to start. Therefore, in the decades after it returned from the Flying Star Sector, it had been well-behaved and did not expose its existence at all!
"It was resting, recovering its strength, and looking for the best opportunity.
"That was — right. The collapse of the Virtual Spirits Sector!
"In the past hundred years, with the collapse of the Virtual Spirits Sector as the node, it was divided into two phases. In the previous phase, Professor Mo Xuan had always been normal. Although he had the ambition to create a virtual life form, he was still within the normal range and focused on pure theoretical studies.
"However, after he 'recovered' from the collapse of the Virtual Spirits Sector, he bought out the 'Tinder Plan' and somehow recruited Lei Yuqin to establish Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital. So many things have happened!
"It must be noted that the collapse of the Virtual Spirits Sector caused the brain death of Su Changfa, a Yuanying Cultivator. Even if Professor Mo Xuan's soul was more powerful than Su Changfa's, he must've been heavily wounded, too. Wasn't it the best opportunity for the extraterrestrial devil?
"In that case, everything makes sense now. Why did Professor Mo Xuan's personality change so drastically? Why did he create the third form of the civilization of mankind? Why did he grasp the technology of the Spiritual Nexus that was more advanced than the Federation's and even the expedition army of the Imperium's?
"The extraterrestrial devils are energy lives in the first place, and they are very sensitive to technologies such as network transmission, virtual reality, and brain hypnosis. Also, the extraterrestrial devils had deep contact with the Star Ocean Imperium ten thousand years ago, which even led to the collapse of the Star Ocean Imperium. Assuming that some of the extraterrestrial devils received the Spiritual Nexus technology of the Star Ocean Imperium at that time and engraved it in a certain spiritual energy ripple in a way similar to 'hereditary genes', it was not entirely impossible that the 'devil' of the Flying Star Sector got hold of it!
"All in all, it was a plan that was implemented a hundred years ago, only to be disrupted by me, Professor Mo Xuan, and thousands of soldiers of the Flying Star Sector. Today, a hundred years later, it has been restarted, and the Xing Yao Federation and the Black Wind Fleet have been taken into account!" Long Yangjun was stunned by the plan.
She pondered for a long time and found that there were indeed not many loopholes. Even though the details were somewhat different, it made sense in general!
"What are you going to do?" Long Yangjun asked.
"Stop it, of course!"
Li Yao rose to his feet and took out dozens of high-energy nutrition liquids from his Cosmos Ring. He gulped them all down like a whale absorbing water. Without wiping his mouth, he declared resolutely, "Years ago, Professor Mo Xuan swallowed the 'star brain' without caring about the consequences and fought the star child to the end in order to save me and everybody else in the Flying Star Sector! When I returned to the Tian Yuan Realm and everybody thought that I had completely turned into the Blood Devil, it was Ding Ling Dong and Professor Mo Xuan who believed me first!
"Right now, now that we know that Professor Mo Xuan is likely to be possessed by the extraterrestrial devil, I will certainly find out the truth and pluck out the extraterrestrial devil that haunts Professor Mo Xuan's soul!"
"Yes!"
The mental devil shook its fists hard inside Li Yao's head and declared solemnly, "Then, we will eat it!"
"Then, we will have to hurry," Long Yangjun said gloomily.
Long Yangjun said gloomily, "We have been here for more than … two hours!"
"What? So long?"
Li Yao was slightly dazed. He raised his wrist and looked at it, only to discover that Long Yangjun was not lying.
Mental attacks had the side effect of disrupting the perception of time in the brain. He thought that the extraterrestrial devil lurking inside Lei Yuqin's head only launched a momentary attack, but in fact, it lasted for a long time.
Come to think of it, Professor Mo Xuan's original plan should have been flawless. Even if someone had discovered the location of his nest and explored all the way to this place, as long as they were exposed to such intense mental corruption in an enclosed space, they would have gone crazy even if they did not die. This place was essentially a fatal trap that had been lured down on purpose!
Even though Li Yao and Long Yangjun were both extraordinarily Yuanying, their souls were still shaking, and their heads were splitting. It was not until they rested for more than two hours that they were finally back to normal and able to condense spiritual energy again.
"If … Professor Mo Xuan has any plan, it should've been fully activated right now!"
Li Yao took a deep breath and struggled to his feet. Shaking his swollen head hard, he said in a hurry, "We have to go to the 'Grand-Unified Spiritual Nexus Information Processing Center' at the center of Hundred Flowers City immediately and stop him!"
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM! Right then, deafening explosions suddenly echoed outside of the iron gate above their heads. After a few explosions, a cluster of lightning seemed to be condensing quickly outside. In the end, after an explosion, the entire iron gate was blown inward and crashed into the wall on the opposite side, deeply embedding itself into the alloy wall!
"Don't move!"
"Drop the magical equipment and raise your hands to surrender!"
"Stop the circulation of spiritual energy, or we will open fire!"
"We are the Union Army. Report your identity. Don't move. Don't move. Don't move!"
Almost a hundred pillars of light tore apart the dull darkness like sharp blades. The glittering crystal cameras on the Crystal Suits were particularly dazzling in the darkness. Dozens of Crystal Suits rushed in at the same time and locked onto Li Yao and Long Yangjun.
A large batch of the Union Army also blocked the channel outside so tightly that even a cockroach would not be able to crawl out.
It seemed that the Union Army had taken care of the few remaining 'battle shells' and taken control of the entire Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital.
Li Yao glanced at Long Yangjun and asked in a low voice, "How's your recovery going?"
"Not bad," Long Yangjun said softly.
"We were too careless just now. It did not occur to us that the extraterrestrial devils were behind all this. Our brains have been seriously wounded. How can we possibly recover after a couple of hours of rest?
"Moreover, looking at their posture, if we don't kill them all, how can we leave?"
"Got it."
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