In the thousand-year war against the Alliance of the Holy Covenant, the Imperium of True Human Beings was also faced with the problem that a lot of citizens of the Imperium had been captured and brainwashed by the Holy League. A lot of people from the Holy League and the former citizens of the Imperium who had been brainwashed by the Holy League were captured, too.
In order to restore the brainwashed citizens of the Imperium to normal, and in order to explore the mysteries of the 'Three Fundamental Laws', the Imperium had also performed unscrupulous studies on the brains of the people of the Holy League, obtaining a lot of precious brain scans and a deeper understanding of brainwashing technologies.
The so-called 'brainwashing' seemed mysterious and unbelievable, but it was in fact just an upgraded version of the mind interference technologies such as psychological cues and deep hypnosis.
All the self-awareness and free will of human beings came from the feedback to the material world. It was even branded into the brain cells in a certain way like conditioned reflexes. The unwavering ideas and even the indestructible beliefs originated from the glittering sparks deep inside the brain cells. They were not unchangeable.
As long as the corresponding areas in the brain were located and the brain cells were changed slightly to some extent, resulting in pathological, permanent changes, it was possible to completely change a person's mind.
In medicine, there were many examples where certain brain tissues were removed or implanted after brain surgeries, resulting in a drastic change in personality.
Some people even had accidents and suffered serious brain damage. While they lost part of their memories, they grasped skills that they had never grasped before.
Although those examples were not real brainwashing, the mechanism was the same.
As for the spectral Cultivators who did not have brain tissues but only had souls, it was even easier for them to be interfered with and tampered with. Without the protection of artificial bodies, it was very easy for the spectral Cultivators in the natural environment to split their souls and completely lose themselves. They could even be mixed with other people's brainwaves, turning into beings that were neither human nor ghost.
All in all, from a technical point of view, 'brainwashing' was not a fantasy but a collection of the best technologies in medicine, hypnosis, meditation, and many other fields. It was an objective reality.
The mental attacks that Li Yao was good at could create the most terrifying illusions deep inside the enemy's brain, making them unable to free themselves from the greatest fear. Was that not a kind of brainwashing?
If the enemy's soul was slightly weaker, they might even mistake the illusion for reality and be immersed in it forever, unable to break free at all.
After Li Yao came to the Imperium of True Human Beings, he had obtained the brain slices of a lot of people from the Holy League through Li Linghai, Xiaoming, and Wenwen.
He compared the images with the brain scans of the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan that he had found in the Xing Yao Federation. He discovered, to his surprise, that the people of the Holy League, the Pangu Clan, and the Nuwa Clan all had similar mutations in certain areas of their brains!
The humans, who were less than two meters tall, and the various races of the Pangu civilization, whose height ranged from seven to ten meters, were naturally completely different in terms of appearance.
However, their brains were surprisingly similar, except for the difference in size and volume. The structures of the cerebral cortex, the sulci, and even the brain cells were basically the same.
If there was a difference, it would be that the brains of human beings were more delicate than those of the thirteen races of the Pangu civilization. It was almost like the advantages of the brains of thirteen carbon-based lives had been cut off and condensed in a marvelous way. It could trigger higher thinking and training potentials with a smaller brain capacity and a lower energy consumption. It could also adapt to the harsh environments on the cruel planets where even the Pangu civilization could not survive.
After comparing almost ten thousand brain scans, Li Yao discovered that a certain area deep inside the brains of both the people of the Holy League and the people of the Pangu Clan had artificial anomalies.
The reason why it was' artificial 'was that the same area deep inside the brains of the ordinary people and the people of the Nuwa Clan rarely changed.
Li Yao deduced that the abnormal area should be the mark of the Path of Ultimate Benevolence, or the Three Fundamental Laws.
Although human beings were tools created by the Pangu civilization, they were advanced life forms that boasted high wisdom and developed thinking abilities after all. They were born to worship freedom. In order to make human beings obey their orders, the Pangu civilization naturally had to mark the brains and even the gene strands of human beings since they were born so that human beings could be brainwashed incessantly for years in order to worship the Pangu civilization as gods.
Of them, the seal on the brain was the most solid. The dignity, pride, and unwillingness of human beings were all locked up from the brain cells directly.
On the other hand, the Three Fundamental Laws and the Path of Ultimate Benevolence were not exactly the same. The former was only a law that human beings had to abide by, but the latter was about emotionlessness, desiredness, tranquility, and peace. It was the first law that both human beings and the Pangu civilization had to abide by.
Before the Pangu civilization brainwashed human beings, they had brainwashed the thirteen carbon-based lives under their command and sealed their feelings and desires. They had also left deep marks in the similar areas deep inside their brains.
But right now, the mental devil was telling Li Yao that Blackstar the Great's "soul explosion" just now was actually a transmission of a certain mysterious wave that was similar to a "virus", which was trying to sabotage and tamper with the same area deep inside Li Yao's brain.
Therefore, it is very possible that Wuying Qi is in possession of brainwashing technologies similar to those of the human beings of the Holy League — the brainwashing technologies from the primeval era of the Pangu civilization?
Li Yao was deep in thought. He recalled his conversation with Long Yangjun when Nepenthe overthrew the Great Iron Plants below the ground of the capital planet.
At that time, Long Yangjun told Li Yao that Wuying Qi and the Holy League were probably deeply connected. They were even two sides of the same coin. Or maybe, Wuying Qi and some other ambitious schemers intended to control 99% of human beings with brainwashing technologies so that most of the weak would be the ants and slaves of the strong forever. However, things went out of control in the end and "activated" people's absolute loyalty to the Pangu civilization. That was how the freak, the Alliance of the Holy Covenant, was created.
Li Yao was rather suspicious at first. If that was the case, it would be too appalling.
But now, it seemed that Long Yangjun's prophecy was probably correct. Wuying Qi and the Alliance of the Holy Covenant might really be involved. At the very least, they both had the same terrifying brainwashing technologies that could deprive human beings of their most precious free will!
"We need to calm down and think about what Wuying Qi is up to exactly."
Li Yao rubbed his temples softly and said, "In order to sort through the whole thing and see through the scumbag's real purpose, we have to eliminate the unexpected factor that is us first, because Wuying Qi couldn't have foreseen that we would pop up uncannily when he initiated the plan.
"If we hadn't shown up, Jin Yuyan would've been assassinated by Red Lady, Qi Yuanbao, and Wuying Qinxin before the battle. Then, the Seven Seas Grand Market would've been mired in chaos, and the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors would've collapsed. It would've been impossible to resist the scourge of the four families' coalition fleet.
"Under such circumstances, it would've been perfectly reasonable if Lei Chenghu's Thunder Fleet gritted their teeth and jumped over to save the day. Everybody would've thought that it was a choice that the reformists had no choice but to make!
"The reinforcement of the Thunder Fleet, on the other hand, would've left the defense line of the capital extremely undefended. The Imperial Guards and the Deep Sea Fleet couldn't have resisted the ace fleets of the four families at all. It was almost like taking off one's clothes and tempting the four families to attack the capital voluntarily!
"The most ingenious thing was that the whole operation was flawless and untraceable. It was impossible to tell that Wuying Qi was manipulating behind the curtain at all. Qi Yuanbao and Wuying Qinxin were the scapegoats!
"But we showed up.
"Not only did we rescue Jin Yuyan, but we also brought the news that the Black Wind King had arrived. We even fabricated a nonexistent 'Black Wind Fleet', which boosted the morale of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors' side. They were about to defeat the coalition fleet of the four families on their own.
"As a result, the Thunder Fleet would've lost the reason that they had to reinforce the capital out of helplessness.
"If the Thunder Fleet did not leave the heartland of the four families, it would've been impossible for the ace fleets of the four families to attack the capital blatantly. It seemed to be something that Wuying Qi was most reluctant to see. Therefore, he showed up voluntarily and even sacrificed Wuying Qinxin, his most important trump card, in order to sabotage the Seven Seas Grand Market and strike the confidence of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors.
"Although it did give the Thunder Fleet an excuse to reinforce the capital, it was too abrupt, too weird, and too many coincidences. It was not as smooth and secretive as the original plan.
"It was easy to understand why Wuying Qi assassinated Jin Yuyan. He knew very well that Jin Yuyan's beliefs were not compatible with his, and the two of them would've ended up on bad terms sooner or later. So, he might as well kill Jin Yuyan before he discovered his real identity and lead the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors and the four families to both suffer heavy losses. The wretched merchants and the wretched free coin, which were even more wretched, would be more convenient for his reign in the future.
"But it was rather unbelievable that he was tempting the ace fleets of the four families to attack the capital in such a hurry. What arrangements did he have in the capital that made him confident that he could destroy the ace fleets of the four families?"
Li Yao recalled the enormous hole that Wuying Qi had dug below the ground of the capital planet.
It hadn't been long since Wuying Qi took control of the capital. There was no time to reorganize and train all the fleets, and he had already mobilized tremendous manpower and resources to dig a hole below the ground. Was the hole the secret weapon that he was confident about destroying the ace fleets of the four families?
"Do you still remember the history of Wuying Qi's rise? He first rose to fame when he detonated Karan, where his headquarters was, as a border guard, and annihilated the invading fleet of the Holy League by the way."
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