Below most of the arrays of super crystal processors from the primeval era, countless thick cables were entangled like parasitic vines. They were then connected to dense crystal processors of human beings, all of which were the most advanced models of crystal processors in the Imperium.
It seemed that Wuying Qi had connected tremendous crystal processors of human beings to the crystal processors of the primeval era, trying to activate the primeval crystal processors from hundreds of thousands of years ago with the operation mode of the crystal processors of human beings. God knew how he did it!
However, that was still not the focus of Li Yao's attention. His focus was on the weird facilities that looked like blood pools next to the crystal processors of human beings.
Every blood pool was like a huge medical cabin. However, it wasn't filled with dark green medicinal liquid, but a suspicious dark red liquid that was as red as blood. In the blood-like liquid, there were membranes as thin as cicada's wings floating. What was wrapped in the membranes was … something that looked like a human.
The reason why they were called "something that looked like a human being" was because they had been squeezed to the point that their original appearance could not be seen at all. They were like highly-corroded living skeletons, but they boasted abnormally expanded brains and tumors that were beating like hearts on their heads, releasing intense brainwaves incessantly.
All the brainwaves were absorbed by the suspicious red liquids. After being purified and transformed by the super crystal processors, they were transmitted to the depths of the array crystal processors of the Pangu civilization incessantly.
The "people" that were covered and swallowed by the membranes were not completely dead yet.
Although he was dozens of meters away, Li Yao could sense their intense regret and agony in the cold mist.
Perhaps, the people who came to this place at the beginning were not forced but sincerely admired Wuying Qi and were fooled by his fancy words. They even thought that they could become the operators of the stellar-level magical equipment.
They did not know that it was such an "operation"!
"Hurry up and add new 'fuel'!"
The officer commanded the soldiers to throw the ignorant Meditation Healers into the empty blood pools. Immediately, the workers in white airtight suits pierced some thick and sharp tubes into the back of the Meditation Healers' heads deeply, connecting the "offerings" to the enormous stellar-level magical equipment.
It turned out that all meditation healers were called "fuel".
"It appears that, just like how Wuying Qinxin's brain had to be detonated when he launched the mental attack on us in the Seven Seas Grand Market, in order to implement the large-scale brainwashing that affects the entire space zone, he has to drain the brains of hundreds of Meditation Healers first before he can launch Wuying Qi's own brainwaves."
The mental devil said, "The stellar-level magical equipment in the primeval era has been highly modified with the crystal processors of human beings so that it can shoot out brainwaves of human beings without any loss. It can even use the sun as an energy source and an amplifier. What an incredible technology. Take a guess. Did Blackstar the Great really come up with such a marvelous technique on his own? Or …"
"Hmm?"
Li Yao was a little absent-minded. He was still immersed in his fury, and he unconsciously clenched his fists.
Even though those who were being tortured in the blood pool were all unpardonable Immortal Cultivators, such an act that violated the bottom line of humanity was too evil!
Li Yao felt as if there were ten thousand needles piercing his eyeballs, making him so angry that he couldn't think.
"You —"
The Imperial Guards, who had been collectively hypnotized, were particularly sensitive about anomalies. They immediately sensed that something was wrong with Li Yao. The officer in the lead looked at him suspiciously and scanned every detail on his face. "What's wrong with you exactly?"
It was unnecessary, and there was no time to wait.
The real Wuying Qi would arrive at any moment. Long Yangjun, who was pretending to be Li Linghai, and Li Jialing, who was pretending to be Li Yao, could not resist him for long.
Even though they sensed that quite a few intimidating auras were hiding in the darkness around, so what?
In the entire Imperium, few people could have blocked Li Yao in an unexpected assault!
Li Yao raised his head and smiled at the officer, revealing his real face and his eyes that were as sharp as fiery sabers.
Li Yao took action. Before the components of the Crystal Suit were all spurted out of his Cosmos Ring, a hundred supersonic blades of compressed air spurted out of his fingertips and cut the throats of dozens of soldiers and crystal processor operators before they took a weird turn in midair and attacked the darkness around.
All the defenders were greatly shocked. None of them expected that such a tough expert at the peak of the Divinity Transformation Stage would be bold enough to invade the Gold Crystal Pyramid at the risk of his life, nor did they expect that Li Yao's soul would be so weird that it was not affected by the mental attack at all.
Very soon, Li Yao's Crystal Suit that was as dark as the night sky was dyed crimson by blood.
The ground was littered with broken limbs and broken bones. Not a single defender could make even the faintest sound.
Only a few ignorant Meditation Healers who were lucky enough not to be thrown into the blood pools, as well as a lot of "fuel" who had been exploited to the limit in the blood pools, were still alive.
Li Yao looked at the "fuel" in the blood pools, with ripples in his eyes.
"They're hopeless. Their brains and souls have been exploited to the limits, and their vitality has been drained incessantly. Even if you don't kill them, their lives will be exhausted very soon — in the most painful way."
The mental devil asked, "Do you want to give them a hand?"
Li Yao lowered his head and snapped ten streaks of brilliance out of his fingers, which pierced through dozens of blood pools and freed all the poor "fuel" from their miserable end.
Then, Li Yao retreated to the entrance of the temple and set up hundreds of highly directional crystal bombs. It was not until half of his stock was consumed that he finally returned and observed the super crystal processors in front of him carefully.
"Do you think that the Gold Crystal Pyramid can be stopped if I summon 'Arsonist' and destroy all the super crystal processors in this place, whether they belong to human beings or the Pangu civilization?"
Li Yao asked the mental devil.
The mental devil had swallowed a lot of Professor Mo Xuan's legacies and was almost a new-generation "Internet devil". Most of the work related to crystal processors and the Spiritual Nexus was its domain in the division of labor with Li Yao.
"Please don't. It can't be so simple!"
The mental devil said, "Look, most of the crystal processor operators were killed just now, but the data and information on the light beam are still bouncing fast. The Gold Crystal Pyramid shows no sign of stopping.
"By my estimation, the array of super crystal processors that we've discovered is just the tip of the iceberg of the entire control system and the display interface at the forefront. Even if you completely tear apart a virtual light beam, it doesn't mean that you can turn off the crystal processor that projected the light beam, right?
"Also, I highly suspect that there's a certain self-defense and acceleration mechanism in the control system of the Gold Crystal Pyramid. It means that when you attack it violently, it will be activated faster."
Li Yao bulged his eyes. "Why?"
"It's very simple. You can understand it with common sense!"
The mental devil said unhurriedly, "In the Internet industry, we have to consider the user scenarios before we set up a certain work pattern. Then, assuming that the Gold Crystal Pyramid was really built by the zealots of the Houyi Clan as their last trump card, they would've considered the possibility that the Gold Crystal Pyramid was sabotaged by the Pangu Clan or the Nuwa Clan. In such a user scenario, isn't it perfectly normal and necessary to set up a defense mechanism that accelerates the activation?"
Li Yao asked in a hurry, "Then, what do we do? How do you think we can completely sabotage it?"
"About that, I'll have to hack its internal network and study its structure to find out the answer."
The mental devil maneuvered Neltharion to fly toward the control crystal processor. "I think that I should either summon a fleet with extremely tough firepower and launch a continuous, saturated, blanket attack on it, or wait until I find its core before I can kill it in one strike. All in all, let me take a look at it first …"
Neltharion found the control crystal processor. The drill of mystic rays revolved quickly and crawled into it.
Among the flashing information on the light beam, abnormal bloody stripes spread out and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Li Yao felt that a high-speed channel for data transmission had been established between him and the mental devil. The information stored in the control crystal processor of the Gold Crystal Pyramid flooded into his brain like a flood.
"As I expected, Wuying Qi's control system is very brilliant. This is only the display interface at the front. It doesn't even require much manipulation. All the necessary procedures have been completed. It's safe to say that the Gold Crystal Pyramid has been woken up. Everything is automatic."
The mental devil said, "Thankfully, we didn't destroy this place recklessly just now, or we would've lost the interface to hack the Gold Crystal Pyramid.
"As for the Meditation Healers that you killed in time, it doesn't seem to have helped at all. Their mental power has been drained and stored somewhere that we haven't discovered yet. Killing them right now will only cause minor trouble for Wuying Qi and reduce his damage output by a thousandth.
"Huh, look what I've found. The Next Sun Plan. So, this is Wuying Qi's real scheme. What's the meaning of 'tomorrow'? Does it mean that he will create a more powerful Imperium and a civilization of mankind tomorrow, or that he will increase the brightness of the sun by ten thousand times and create an 'incomparably bright sun'?
"Wow, our speculations just now were correct. Wuying Qi did not mean to destroy the sun. He only wanted to use the sun as an energy source and an amplifier so that his mental attacks could spread across the entire space zone and turn the ace fleets of the four families into his puppets.
"However, look at this. He was fully prepared for the side effects of using the Gold Crystal Pyramid. He estimated that thirty to fifty billion ordinary people would be killed in the battle. It was not mainly because of the radiation and the high-energy particles, but because the ordinary people couldn't bear such intense mental blasts. They might be deranged and turn into lunatics who only know slaughter and destruction. If not, they might become beasts with only primitive instincts.
"Think about it. With the fierce sun, the shortage of resources, and the volcanoes and earthquakes, and with most people turning into deranged slaughter beasts, the death toll of fifty billion is too optimistic.
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