Chapter 2152: Setting Off Again

————I came back very late today, my brain is buzzing, as if I've been possessed; I'll update this chapter tomorrow morning~

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It's similar to adding real physical rules to a simple 3D game; this is no longer just an update, it can completely be called changing to a new game.

The Mental Image World where Xia Duo is currently trapped did not initially have the rule of the 【Mind Interference Field Equation】; it was something Xia Duo deduced after the Mental Image World took shape, combined with the cognition of another creator.

When Xia Duo completed the spell, the entire world began an unprecedented transformation; the oscillations of the Magic Net were one wave higher than the next, and the addition of the world's underlying rules also caused a major shift in the world's manifestation at the material level.

The Tower of Time where Xia Duo is located, as well as the Nan Jing region, began to undulate like water waves along with the fluctuations of his mind—movement in the physical sense!

Even when Xia Duo focused his attention and tried his best to discard distracting thoughts, wherever his gaze passed, it was still like an oil painting fading; the material structure was stripped away bit by bit, turning into elemental essence, and then the elements dissipated, turning into Void.

Seeing this scene, Xia Duo was deeply shocked; although he knew the matter of this Mental Image World was essentially different from the matter of the real world outside, it still reflected a portion of the reality of the outside world to some extent.

The process of material structure being stripped away bit by bit gave him great inspiration; if he weren't still in danger, he would have wanted to ignore everything and start an experiment on the origin of matter.

Subsequently, Xia Duo stopped focusing; the flying distracting thoughts, under the reinforcement of this special world, were like a violent storm of destruction, and everything they passed through turned into Void.

In this process, Xia Duo's own form was also erased, but his will still existed, and without the limitation of a form, he clearly felt that another very strange will was filling the interior of the world.

It was just that that will could not support this increasingly real Mental Image World at all; he felt the other party trying their best to repair it, but the promotion trend of this entire world was like a boulder rolling down a high mountain—unstoppable.

The Void area began to expand rapidly, until finally, only an imperceptible sigh remained in the void.

Immediately after, Xia Duo perceived the real outside world—

His Saint Form Avatar, which had lost control and was leaning forward, and the Xianshi Mawang, which was even more magnificent and splendid than the Mental Image World just now.

"As expected, only a very short time has passed!"

This was actually Xia Duo's first reaction! But before he could do anything, a turbulent flow of information, like a flood breaking through a dam, surged into his mind from an unknown place.

Xia Duo's heart tightened; realizing something, he could only hurriedly send a Sending to Saville, asking him to take him back to the Floating City, and then he collapsed to the ground.

……

At the consciousness level.

Xia Duo watched helplessly as a large amount of turbulent information merged into his own consciousness; these pieces of information seemed chaotic and disorganized, but soon he discovered that there were faint fluctuations of will within them.

"The Mental Image World is already broken; don't tell me you still want to possess me?"

This was the first time Xia Duo had encountered such a situation; previously, when deeply synchronized with a projection identity in a Projection Plane, although he would be interfered with by the other party's memories, no matter how many those memories were, they would not form a will.

The current situation was like the feeling of having a strange soul that one could feel being forcibly stuffed into one's body!

Of course, this was merely a metaphor; Xia Duo could be certain that the other party had not projected a soul into his consciousness, but had merely reshaped an consciousness that might possess a self within his own consciousness through consciousness information.

This situation was simply unheard of, even more exaggerated than making a monkey write a literary masterpiece!

After all, for the latter, Xia Duo knew that the probability was almost zero and he had never seen it, while now, consciousness information automatically composing an consciousness that possessed a self was happening right before his eyes.

The level of shock was completely incomparable!

"Damn it! How am I supposed to deal with this!"

The organized memories Xia Duo used to have in the Projection Plane or his rational Meditation every morning were actually work done to categorize information.

In essence, the information he very much wanted to discard still existed in his consciousness, but it was classified as junk information, while the information that composed his personality and consciousness was highlighted to ensure the independence of his personality and consciousness.

But now, those suddenly surging chaotic information flows could actually automatically compose a consciousness; this was troublesome. Even if he classified these information flows as junk information, as long as they were not completely cleared, there would always be a risk of reorganization.

Now, the only thing Xia Duo could do was to scramble those pieces of information again before the other party's consciousness truly took shape, but such a passive delaying strategy only treated the symptoms, not the root cause.

Once he slacked off one day, he would likely face the situation of being possessed or suffering from schizophrenia!

"How on earth was this done?!"

Just as he didn't believe in perpetual motion machines in reality, at the consciousness level, Xia Duo also didn't believe there was any will that could maintain eternal immortality just by itself; there must be some mechanism that allowed it to be this way.

Placed in the current situation, Xia Duo firmly believed that as long as he kept scrambling those turbulent information flows, he could eventually exhaust the other party's will completely, but how long would this time actually be!

Psionic Magic is determined by the mind; it should be very good at this kind of war at the consciousness level. If he had to spend decades or a hundred years dragging such a heavy burden every day, that would be even more uncomfortable than being in prison!

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Soon, as the turbulent information flow from the unknown place stopped surging in, Xia Duo also gradually adapted to the work of scrambling the unknown consciousness's reorganization from time to time and purifying his own consciousness.

Manifested in the outside world, it meant he could wake up in the outside world, but he would still be distracted and dazed from time to time.

In the Floating City's Xiu Xi Shi, Xia Duo looked at Niya, who was full of worry, and subconsciously comforted her: "Don't worry, I can handle it. Later, let Saville decline the invitation to Calimshan on my behalf; I won't show up."

"You just said that!"

"Ah—"

Xia Duo reacted immediately; perhaps he had performed a consciousness rollback while resisting the turbulent information flow, which meant that those seemingly chaotic consciousness pieces were harder to deal with than he had anticipated.

Rolling back occasionally was no problem, and memories could be retrieved quickly, but if he kept rolling back, would he have to spend his days in the repetition of constantly retrieving memories from now on?

"Xia Duo, what is wrong with you? Is it the people from Calimshan attacking you or something else?" Niya asked worriedly.

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Just as Xia Duo was about to answer, he felt a wave of dizziness; the next moment, he returned to the consciousness level again and began the operation of scrambling the gradually forming alien consciousness.

At the same time, he also had to check whether his own consciousness information had been contaminated; fortunately, it hadn't this time.

After dealing with the problems at the consciousness level, Xia Duo returned to reality and answered Niya's question:

"I was attacked when I returned to my residence from the Yungong banquet just now. The attacker should be a Psionic Master of illusion from Zhamu Dasi. If nothing goes wrong, the death of Prince Xisi should be their handiwork!"

"Can you be sure it's an illusionist from Zhamu Dasi?" This time, it was Saville who asked.

"I can be sure, it's just that there is no actual evidence available to show for now!"

Although Xia Duo was currently overwhelmed by the invasion of the foreign consciousness, he was not without gains while confronting it.

Of course, he didn't dare to actively analyze the information flow that had suddenly surged in, but when the other party tried to contaminate him, he still inevitably came into contact with some information.

It should be said that it was indeed someone from Zhamu Dasi; more specifically—it was a Psionic Master named "Mohawi", who was also an illusion Master who had mastered the 【Mental Image World】!