Chapter 3108: Must Be Caught If You Reach Out!

"Follow my Indication to execute the network integration procedure!"

"Yes!"

Multiple affirmative responses came from the Spirit Thought Network, and subsequently, the integration procedure began to execute; at the same time, the abnormal information flow within the local area network where the attacker—whom Xia Duo had been monitoring—was located also suddenly changed.

It seemed the attacker had already sensed the actions on Xia Duo's side, but judging by how quickly the other party reacted, the means by which they deployed the meta-thought information flow did not seem to be through a Spell under some fixed pattern, but rather appeared more like some kind of non-standard ability.

Perhaps this was the unique aspect of Psionic in the Computing Power Pool.

Not being a standard Spell meant the attacker's methods would be highly diverse, but this also brought a drawback, which was the issue of limited individual focus.

To continuously cope with Xia Duo's attacks, one must invest equivalent focus, and thus, one would be unable to quickly handle other matters in the outside world.

As for disconnecting, Xia Duo actually hoped the other party would disconnect under these circumstances!

Because consciousness information is a force of true Reality, the moment a direct mind connection is formed, and the moment a massive flow of consciousness information converges, it is actually equivalent to indirectly locking onto the other party's location.

Not disconnecting might still offer a possibility of struggling by relying on the specificities of Psionic; once disconnected, Xia Duo could immediately lock onto the other party's location and project the true Xiling Liliang accumulated by the Computing Power Pool.

It all depends on how the other party chooses!

Perhaps it was a premonition of Xia Duo's goal, perhaps it was out of some keen intuition, or perhaps it was merely out of a Psionic Mage's contempt for Arcane Magic, but that attacker, suspected to be a Psionic Mage, did not choose to disconnect.

But regardless of whether the other party disconnected or not, it was within Xia Duo's expectations; not disconnecting was merely harder to catch, and the main reliance was still on the tracking by the Gale and Rain Arrow squads, while Xia Duo could mostly only provide containment and reinforcements after discovery.

Xia Duo did not quite like this situation where he could not grasp the initiative, but he was helpless; the attacker had initiated the attack first, and he was responding passively, so he was already in a passive position.

Being able to strive to reflect a sliver of initiative from the midst of many passive states was already not easy; wanting to fully grasp the initiative would be underestimating this enemy too much.

……

An unknown place.

A middle-aged man whose face faintly revealed a sense of unruliness was just about to reach out to pull off the Inspiration Headband he wore on his head, which was used to connect to the Computing Power Pool, but he was stopped by the dignified old man beside him.

"Do not disconnect yet, see what exactly they want to do!" the old man ordered.

"But Master, they are backlashing my mind, I cannot hold on much longer!"

The middle-aged man ultimately did not dare to take off the Inspiration Headband, but at this moment, he no longer had his initial composure, and fine beads of sweat had seeped out on his forehead.

"I said hold on; with me here, what are you afraid of?"

The dignified old man did not care about the middle-aged man's resistance and still kept the other party in a connected state, but he also took a focusing Crystal from his own Mental Image World and pressed it to the middle-aged man's brow, while instructing:

"Try to control the minds of the other connected users; since you have already been discovered, do not be timid anymore. It is someone else's home field anyway, so what if it gets smashed?"

"But Master Aokesi, are you not going to—"

"Shut up!"

The middle-aged man had just started to say the following words when he was sternly interrupted by this dignified old man named Aokesi, "And do not let your mind wander; the other party is not an ordinary person, be careful of having your thoughts stolen by them. If there is a next time, you can go back to the country."

"Yes, yes."

The middle-aged man nodded repeatedly, seemingly possessing a very deep fear of returning to the country.

……

Unlike the submissiveness in reality, the attacker in the mental world was perhaps his true nature, and Xia Duo quickly sensed the other party's intentions.

Although he was prepared for some sacrifices, that was not a reason to let the other party act as they pleased.

While blocking the attacker's mental intrusion into other connected users within the same network, Xia Duo increased his efforts to convert the consciousness information flow gathered by the Computing Power Pool into true Xiling Liliang attacks.

Even if it was just the leaking aftermath, Xia Duo utilized it to compose customized questions that struck directly at the attacker's Subconscious, continuously launching assaults against the attacker's Subconscious.

For example, where do you come from, have you ever seen **, what is your opinion on **, and so on.

While facing the attack of true Xiling Liliang, one also had to face the tidal, continuous interrogation at the consciousness level.

This was Xia Duo's containment method, and also the greatest advantage of the Computing Power Pool as a home field; Xia Duo had no reason not to utilize it.

At the same time, he also spared a sliver of energy to pay attention to the actions of the Gale and Rain Arrow squads; currently, the Gale squad had already begun investigations in Alaigaya City of Cormanthor.

And the Rain Arrow squad was still on standby in Evereska.

The consciousness clash was swift and lethal; Xia Duo, with the aid of his intelligent brain and the Computing Power Pool, stole a piece of secret information through the tidal interrogation of the attacker's Subconscious in a moment, not much, only one name—

Psionic Master Aokesi!

Although whether this Psionic Master Aokesi was the attacker this time was uncertain, there must be a certain connection with the attacker; otherwise, who would be filled with all sorts of complex emotions toward the name of an ordinary passerby?

Of course, there was other information, but the attacker seemed to have received relevant training and was using a forged identity, or rather, a forged Personality, containing memory, cognition, emotion, and so on, a large amount of consciousness information.

Only when it involved that "Psionic Master Aokesi" would true emotions be revealed.

But fake is ultimately fake, just like when Xia Duo was trapped in Mohawi's Mental Image World, the other party used the state of their mutual Mind Link to directly construct a world based on both parties' cognition.

The various laws of reality that Xia Duo was familiar with were all within it; under such circumstances, it was almost impossible for him to escape, but he still escaped, which was actually also utilizing the fact that they were in a state of Mind Link, and the constructed Mental Image World contained the cognition of both parties simultaneously.

At that time, his research on mental Spells had already reached a bottleneck state, and it just so happened that Mohawi had mastered too many rules regarding the mental Domain, and at the same time, in order to trap him, the other party had chosen reality rules as much as possible.

This was equivalent to indirectly completing Xia Duo's cognition of the mental Domain, eventually prompting him to complete the 【Mind Interference Field Equation】, a new rule that transcended the Mental Image World, while the other party happened to be unable to understand this rule.

Thus, under the conflict of rules, that temporarily constructed Mental Image World collapsed, and Mohawi also died at the moment the Mental Image World collapsed because he had invested all of his consciousness.

Of course, for a Psionic Mage, death was not the end; afterwards, Xia Duo and Mohawi still had another bout, and Xia Duo still won.

It was also because he had already had the experience with a Psionic Master once before that Xia Duo knew many weaknesses of Psionic Mages, some of which perhaps even the Psionic Mages themselves had not realized; they were conclusions Xia Duo reached by combining the two magic systems of Arcane and Psionic.