"You —"
Li Yao was so infuriated that he almost wanted to fight the mental devil without caring about anything. Gritting his nonexistent teeth for a long time, he held back his fury and said, "Let's quarrel at home if we want to. This is someone else's head!"
"Who's quarreling with you?"
The mental devil sneered and said, "Although my suggestion is partly selfish, it's not necessarily a lie. If you don't believe me, you can observe his brain carefully."
The mental devil snapped its fingers softly, and a red spark flew to the center of Fang Gang 123's brain, before it suddenly exploded into redness and illuminated the entire brain.
Li Yao's soul was immediately frozen.
If the brain of a human being was a splendidly constructed, solemn palace, Fang Gang 123's palace would be the dilapidated walls after the bombardment.
Not only had his sulci been almost ground flat, and his cerebral cortex was as smooth as a mirror, but the nerve bundles that connected the various units of his brain had also been broken and entangled. There were also traces of corrosion and scorching.
Among the cerebral cortex, the limbic system, and the brain nuclei, dark, high walls had been established. Among the high walls were abnormal nerve synapses that looked like thorns, which released aggressive electric arcs now and then to suppress the normal bioelectric activities.
Under such heavy wounds, many parts of Fang Gang 123's brain had severely shrunk, and other parts had expanded abnormally, occupying the activity space of the normal brain cells.
No wonder he was utterly unmoved no matter how Li Yao stimulated him.
As it turned out, his brain had been messed up into such an appalling state!
"Do you see? All the sunspots were born and raised in the Holy League. Only in such a way can they carry the genes and soul marks that Wuying Qi gave to the sunspots in the beginning."
The mental devil said coldly, "It means that their brains have been wrecked and modified by the leadership of the Holy League, or the Ultimate Benevolence Masters. They have been modified beyond recognition.
"Just like Zhuge Jinglun, the director of the Third Institute of Mental Research, said, the connection between their cerebral cortex and their limbic system has been cut off. The areas that are responsible for memories and feelings have severely shrunk, but the areas that are responsible for body instincts and part of the information storage have abnormally expanded.
"This is a warrior of the Fire Race. If my guess is correct, the Ultimate Benevolence Masters must have implanted a lot of battle-related knowledge into his body instincts and information storage area to form some kind of … program.
"When he enters the combat state, these programs will run automatically as if they were instincts, turning him into a precise, efficient, cold, and merciless killing machine.
"But under normal circumstances, his IQ and thinking ability are lower than a three-year-old's. He is a complete idiot.
"Let me ask you, for such an idiot, how are you going to awaken his non-existent self-consciousness? No matter what you tried to instill in his mind, it would be like a chicken talking to a duck, or playing the lute to a cow!
"Therefore, only my approach will work. Imprint the most vivid and stimulating information on his cerebral cortex directly. Only then will it be possible to trigger his feelings and desires. Even the feelings and desires of the dark side will be better than none at all, won't it?"
"… Of course not!"
Li Yao's soul constricted tightly like a clenched fist. He bellowed, "Look at his brain. This place is like a scorched wasteland. All the soil has been burnt and corroded by the acid rain. Magma and venom are flowing everywhere.
"What you're doing is transplanting some random trees from other places and planting them on this corroded wasteland. Even if it looks luxuriant, it will only be a lie!
"It's useless. You can't really wake him up by doing that. You'll only turn him from a slave of the Ultimate Benevolence Masters into a slave of your desires.
"Do you not think that what we should really do is to improve the soil quality of the wasteland, eliminate all the acid rain and magma, sow the tiny seeds, and slowly grow the plants that belong to the soil. Start from a tiny green plant and revitalize the brain region, don't you think?"
The mental devil tilted its head and thought for a long time.
"I don't think so."
It sneered. "Then how much time will it take? How much will it cost? What are the benefits?"
Li Yao was silent. Staring at the mental devil for a long time, he ignored the guy and flew toward Fang Gang 123's shivering soul.
"Don't be scared. We're friends. I'm your compatriot. I'll … save you."
Li Yao mumbled to himself. Gentle brilliance beamed out of the deepest part of his soul and enshrouded Fang Gang 123's damaged nerves and withered brain cells.
The mental devil narrowed its eyes and observed for a long time. Finally, it realized what Li Yao was trying to do. It frowned again.
"You're crazy."
The mental devil sighed. "You're helping this guy repair his brain bit by bit at the cost of your precious soul power?
"Yes, we're both specialists in brain repair. In the past, we trained, refined, and fought so crazily that our brains would explode a couple of times every day, but we barely asked for the help of Meditation Healers and brain surgeons. We always repaired it ourselves and connected the cerebral vessels and the nerves one by one. Our understanding of the structure of the brain has long surpassed that of most Meditation Healers and brain surgeons. We're the best specialists.
"However, you have to understand that this is not our own brain but somebody else's brain thousands of kilometers away from ours. The difficulty and the cost of the repair are at least ten times higher than the repair of our own brain!"
"Cut the crap."
Focused, Li Yao split thousands of tentacles out of his soul and helped Fang Gang 123 connect the broken cerebral vessels and nerves with the calmness of a surgeon. Removing the superfluities that blocked the sulci, he said to the mental devil without looking back, "You know very well that you can't persuade me."
"But I can stop you!"
The mental devil gnashed its teeth. "Our souls are intertwined and of the same origin. While you're exhausting yourself, you're also burdening me. Asshole, I can already feel that my strength is fading. Stop it now!"
"Stop me?"
Li Yao finally turned around and stared at the mental devil. "Then … why don't you give it a try?"
The mental devil shuddered and was stuck in its throat. Gritting its teeth for a long time, it snorted heavily and floated to the edge of Fang Gang 123's brain. Sitting down, it put its hands on its waist and sulked.
"Is it meaningful for you to do that?"
After observing Li Yao coldly for a long time, it couldn't help but ask, "This guy is just a warrior of the lowest level of the Holy League and a common 'soldier bee'. Even if you can completely repair his brain and awaken his self-awareness, so what? Can you change the entire Holy League? Can you save the Federation and the Imperium? What's the significance of that? "
"Maybe not."
Li Yao focused his attention. He had already connected 3,425 nerves that were of paramount importance to Fang Gang 123, which was one tenth of the work. Pausing for a moment, he said, "But it's meaningful for him, and it's meaningful for me too."
"… I still feel that you're asking for trouble."
The mental devil said again, "Don't forget the content of the Sunspot Plan. Those sunspots are the best tools. As long as you admit that you are their god, they will tell you all the intelligence voluntarily and even die for you. If you can gather enough sunspots, they won't even frown when you ask them to attack the Ultimate Benevolence Masters.
"But you're trying to awaken their 'humanity' and 'self-awareness' and turn them into real human beings? What are you up to exactly?
"Every human being has weaknesses. They are worried, scared, and angry. Countless unexpected variables will occur, and they cannot work for you wholeheartedly. Aren't you creating obstacles for yourself?"
"You … Listen up."
This time, Li Yao did not look back, but his voice was more solemn than ever. "My Sunspot Plan is different from Wuying Qi 3.0's Sunspot Plan.
"In his' Sunspot Plan ', all the sunspots are tools. He only uses these tools to seek his own interests. As long as his ambitions can be realized, it doesn't matter how many of these' sunspots' die. It doesn't matter even if all of them die.
"But that's not the case with my Sunspot Plan. I can't treat living, flesh-and-blood human beings as tools like Wuying Qi 3.0, even if it's for the most honorable and sanctimonious purpose!
"I consider the sunspots to be my own kind, my friends, and my comrades. If I want them to fight for a certain purpose, I have to make sure that they know the significance of their fight!"
After a brief silence, the mental devil said gloomily, "You're asking for trouble and increasing the difficulty of the mission for no reason."
"Perhaps, but you have to know that there are no shortcuts. Any method that seems simple will always have an unexpected price to pay."
Li Yao said, "Do you still think that Wuying Qi 3.0 entrusted the Sunspot Plan to us out of kindness and sincerely wanted to help us?
"Idiot, the Sunspot Plan is the bait that he threw out. It's the first step to trick us into becoming 'dragons'! If we carry out the 'Sunspot Plan' according to his ideas and regard all the 'sunspots' as pure tools, stomping the dignity and free will of human beings into the dust, will we be any different from him? How can we maintain the advancement and purity of the Cultivators?
"If the sunspots can be tools for a lofty and urgent purpose, can all the people of the Holy League be tools for an even loftier and more urgent purpose? What about the people of the Imperium? What about the people of the Federation? Do you understand? The bottom line is right behind us. If we take one step back, everything will collapse. We can only walk on the path of Wuying Qi 3.0.
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