Despite the calmness of Li Yao's soul, he could not help but feel that the world was shaking. He was so infuriated that his strength was about to explode like a supernova and shatter the nest of devils into pieces!
"Don't be rash. A little impatience will spoil a great plan!"
The mental devil's voice came from the depths of his soul, helping him to hold back his crazily expanding fighting will. "As an extraterrestrial devil, I regard the feelings and desires of human beings as the source of my strength. I hate the slaughterhouse that defies humanity more than you do. However, it is useless to burst into fury right now. You will only make things worse.
"Let's leave aside whether or not we can destroy the Channeling Temple on our own. Even if we can, what about the millions of people who are caged here? They are still mired in the depths of the Holy League. Nobody can rescue them. "
"That is true, but we can't just turn a blind eye to it."
Li Yao asked, "What do you think we should do?"
"We have grasped the precise coordinates of this place on the shuttle just now. As long as we have a chance to send the coordinates back to the Imperium and the Federation, we will have a chance to dispatch an army here and clean up the Golden Lion Sector," the mental devil said.
"More importantly, by investigating the case of the Puppet King, we have also been granted the highest permissions of the mainframe crystal processor of the Channeling Temple, which allows us to see how the brainwashing process works in this place. We will even have a chance to install some 'backdoors' in the system so that we can cooperate with the enemy when the fleets of the Imperium or the Federation attack this place one day.
"After all, we are not just restoring the feelings and desires of the people of the Golden Lion Sector but restoring themselves to the entire Holy League, right?"
Li Yao had to admit that the mental devil was right.
Trying to control his boiling soul, he followed Chu Zhixiao and crawled to the mainframe crystal processor of the Channeling Temple.
Chu Zhixiao divided the members of the yaksha squad into two groups. She led Yuan Kou and Yun Haixin to investigate and interrogate the staff and the senior priest, while Guan Qixing led Li Yao, the spider tank, to check the traces left on the mainframe crystal processor, trying to figure out the traces of the Puppet King from the data.
This was exactly what Li Yao wanted.
In the depths of the Channeling Temple, they saw the super crystal processor system that had been left behind for hundreds of thousands of years.
The array of crystal processors was different from the crystal processors that Li Yao saw deep inside the Gold Crystal Pyramid. At first glance, it looked like a pile of rusted, metallic organs. There were also complicated tubes that entangled the organs, from which colorful liquids were flowing.
The thirteen carbon-based intelligent lives in the Pangu Civilization Alliance all boasted different crystal processor technologies. The tree-like super crystal processors in the Gold Crystal Pyramid were a product of the Houyi Clan, and the crystal processor system that looked like a metal organ must be a product of the Pangu Civilization Alliance.
However, no matter how different they looked, after hundreds of thousands of years of integration, the internal computational logic and operating system of the Pangu Clan and the Houyi Clan were very similar. They were both based on the Fuxi system.
Li Yao had deeply cracked the mysteries of the Houyi Clan's super crystal processors in the Gold Crystal Pyramid. Naturally, his understanding of the Pangu Clan's super crystal processors was much better than that of other people.
Besides, the mental devil had swallowed all of Professor Mo Xuan's legacies and become an information life form that was on par with Xiaoming, Wenwen, and A Boxing Champion. Once it entered the world of crystal processors and the Spiritual Nexus, it would be even more unstoppable.
Shua! Shua! Shua!
The three senior priests in bright gold robes recorded their fingerprints, iris, blood, and brainwaves. After inputting a series of complicated runes, the control panel of the mainframe crystal processor popped up from the metal organs. Li Yao and Guan Qixing inserted the few thick cables on their bodies into it.
Immediately, the real world dimmed and perished in front of them, only to be replaced by a virtual world of data. It was a new, glittering world made of infinite information, interconnected, complicated information superhighways, and enormous storages!
Li Yao and the mental devil split into two groups, one in the open and the other in the dark.
On the surface, it was following Guan Qixing's arrangement and collecting the surveillance videos of the Channeling Temple in the past ten days as well as any data related to 'Gao Huan'.
In secret, the mental devil sank into the depths of the mainframe crystal processor and swallowed tremendous data without alarming anyone. It had a better understanding of the structure of the Channeling Temple.
As it turned out, the main temple that they saw just now was just the most fundamental brainwashing facility that was designed to produce 'soldier bees' and 'worker bees'.
Once the system discovered that the brainwashed person was very strong or that there was anything special about their soul, they would be transported to the deeper parts of the Channeling Temple together with the metal cocoon for targeted modification.
Many special professions, powerful troops, and high-level commanders were created in such a way. While the brain was purged, the body was strengthened, including the injection of strengthening drugs, the awakening of primeval cells, the implantation of artificial organs, and so on. There were almost thirty procedures in total. Those who could survive more than ten procedures would become killing machines that could compete with the experts of the Jin Dan Imperium on the battlefield.
The meditation room in the deepest part of the Channeling Temple, on the other hand, was a space of brainwashing for the Ultimate Benevolence. Naturally, it had the most advanced facilities and the least side effects. It could also activate the strength hidden deep inside one's body as much as possible.
Of course, if the Puppet King could really hack the meditation room and inject some vicious' venom 'into the brainwashing process for the Ultimate Benevolence, it was possible that the Ultimate Benevolence who occupied the managerial posts of the Holy League would be corrupted.
After scanning the entire system, Li Yao's and the mental devil's souls congregated again.
It was time to find the Puppet King's tail!
"Guan Qixing searched for a long time, but he found nothing."
Li Yao said, "He checked all the surveillance videos in the Channeling Temple in the past three months and found nothing unusual."
"Of course," the mental devil said.
The mental devil said, "If the Puppet King boasted the Spiritual Nexus corruption and manipulation abilities that were on par with ours, or even higher than ours, even if he did play any tricks, he would've certainly erased all the traces that he left behind, including the surveillance video data that might've been exposed.
"Then, what do we do now?" Li Yao asked.
"Look for him in all the deleted and overwritten data, of course," the mental devil said.
"I have a question. Why do you think the King of Puppets is looking for 'Gao Huan' and using his feelings as a weapon? Is' Gao Huan 'a real person? Is he different from the others, or did the King of Puppets pick him randomly?"
Li Yao thought for a moment and said, "I think that 'Gao Huan' does exist, and he should be different from the others. Perhaps he was chosen by the Puppet King as the source of the 'Ultimate Love Virus' because his feelings for his wife were too strong."
"Exactly. My thoughts exactly," the mental devil said.
"I also think that 'Gao Huan' does exist. He is a soldier of the Imperium from Black Castle who was captured and sent to this place not long ago.
"If that's the case, the Puppet King must've discovered his uniqueness in a certain way and even had a deep interaction with him in order to extract his feelings and produce a brain virus, right?"
Li Yao pondered for a moment and said, "Fair enough. Therefore, Gao Huan must've left some obvious traces, and the Puppet King must've communicated with him. Neither the traces nor the communication could've disappeared without a trace. Even if they were deleted, there must've been pieces left."
"Exactly. Nobody can really delete anything on the Spiritual Nexus. As long as you have enough computational ability and grasp the correct computational logic, you will be able to recover everything!"
The mental devil smiled. "If Gao Huan is really a captive from Black Castle in the Thick Soil Sector, he couldn't have been sent to this place for a long time. All we need to do is to find the files within one month."
"However —"
Li Yao said, "It's a simple inference. If we can think of it, Guan Qixing can too. Why can't he recover the deleted pieces but we can?"
"Well, about that …"
The mental devil said confidently, "Firstly, our ability to swallow and analyze data is probably slightly better than Guan Qixing's. More importantly, I vaguely feel that the Puppet King is of the same origin as us. We are like … brothers of the same sect. I can smell his scent and guess how he corrupts the Spiritual Nexus and deletes the data. It's very weird, isn't it? But that's my first feeling."
"Brothers of the same sect?"
Li Yao did not understand what the mental devil meant, but glittering pieces spread out of his soul. When he was about to connect the pieces and find a conclusion, the mental devil had already 'leaped' into the depths of the ocean of data again with his soul.
Like two entangled fish, they swam in the glittering ocean, avoiding the poisonous jellyfish and the fatal hunters nearby. They gradually approached the bottom of the ocean and crawled into the sand on the seabed.
Inside the seemingly dark sand, the remains of countless plankton and fish were buried. However, all the remains were so fragile that they would crumble into nothingness after a gentle touch.
Only the computational ability of Li Yao and the mental devil, as well as the mysterious connection between them and the Puppet King, allowed them to sniff out the information that was about to be completely obliterated in the billions of data pieces and recover the data about 'Gao Huan' and the Puppet King bit by bit as if they were building a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle castle.
Li Yao could sense that Guan Qixing's soul was swimming anxiously like a seven-star eel on the upper level of the ocean of data, trying to find the answer. He was still far from it!
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
