Chapter 3110: Just a Pawn, Catching a Little Tail

Of course, whether it is offense or defense, as long as there is contact, interaction will occur. For both sides, information about the other can be obtained during this process; it is merely a matter of who gets more or less, and who analyzes and processes it faster afterward.

Therefore, when both sides no longer conceal their offensive intentions, the interaction is bound to be intense and high-speed. Whoever can grasp this process will be able to achieve final victory.

Regarding this, Xia Duo also braced himself with twelve-fold focus, but he still discovered that while this attacker was attempting to intrude upon other users connected to the network, they were also intensifying their analysis of the Computing Power Pool's foundational structure.

That is, the specific rules for the Meta-Thinking interaction of all connected users.

This is the most core secret of the Computing Power Pool. Xia Duo hesitated slightly, then chose to prioritize protecting the Computing Power Pool; even if all the users in the large network currently connected were to die, it would indeed be a major accident for the Computing Power Pool.

But if the core secrets of the Computing Power Pool were leaked, it would be hard to say whether there would even be a Computing Power Pool in the future. After weighing the options, he naturally had to prioritize protecting the Computing Power Pool.

Of course, this does not mean abandoning those users. Not to mention that those users can, in a sense, be considered part of the Computing Power Pool itself, which Xia Duo cannot allow himself to abandon.

Even considering it only from the perspective of an accident, Xia Duo could not accept a serious accident happening under his watch.

Therefore, in responding to the attacker's consciousness intrusion against other users, Xia Duo chose a less precise but more efficient way to solve the problem at the source: continuing to connect to the network to increase the network's capacity.

At the same time, he accumulated more Xiling Liliang to launch a continuous offensive against the attacker. Xiling Liliang is real and substantial, and it can be used to offset or even suppress the attacker's intrusion.

Psionic Mages are indeed more flexible and precise in operating Meta-Thinking, much like precision-guided weapons on Earth. Even if the ideal hit rate can reach one hundred percent, what if the target is behind several layers of flawless barrages?

Indeed, as long as the target has no protection, it will definitely be a one-hundred-percent hit, but the process of passing through the barrage will greatly consume those precision-guided weapons.

Earth does have defensive schemes based on this line of thought, such as close-in weapon systems. They are not without flaws, but they eliminate blind spots as much as possible through calculation, and their advantage is also very obvious: they are cheap.

Moreover, as a final line of defense, even if they are truly expensive, they are worth it.

And now, what Xia Duo is doing is a similar processing scheme, but the difference is—the implementation cost of a Psionic Mage's Meta-Thinking attack is actually much lower than Xia Duo's, similar to how missiles are cheaper than close-in weapon systems.

But in terms of total quantity, one hundred Psionic Mages cannot compare to Xia Duo, because he has countless Northland Mages standing behind him, while the Psionic Mages cannot exactly drag the entire Zhamu Dasi over here.

For the Anti School, whose ideology is gradually becoming extreme, perhaps they could, but the Zeqi School, which currently still holds the leading power, would certainly not agree.

And being ideologically extreme does not mean they are stupid. They want Zhamu Dasi to be reborn from destruction, not to be completely destroyed and return to the Void.

If they fail to successfully create a New Artifact and instead anger the Northland Alliance, pushing the Northland Alliance to the enemy's side, then they would truly be not far from total destruction.

Although it is temporarily impossible to determine whether Zhamu Dasi is really, as Kalishi said, preparing to use the Alliance's Computing Power Pool to create a New Artifact, there is one thing Xia Duo can be certain of: Zhamu Dasi cannot go to full-scale war with the Alliance for the time being.

The Computing Power Pool concerns the interests of most mages in the Northland. Doing a few small things is still within the range of tolerance, but if a major accident or event is truly caused, a full-scale war is almost inevitable.

Because the benefits of the Computing Power Pool have already been proven; whether it is for the development of Magic or for financial interests, the Alliance cannot abandon the Computing Power Pool.

But as long as Zhamu Dasi exists for one day, its threat to the Alliance's Computing Power Pool will always exist. If they can cause one major accident, they can cause countless more. Rather than guarding against it daily, it is better to eliminate it completely.

That is, Xia Duo still has a decent bottom line. If it were Weide here, Xia Duo would have no doubt that this guy might stage a major event himself and then dump the blame on Zhamu Dasi.

From a utilitarian perspective, this is indeed a way to maximize benefits in the short term: destroying Zhamu Dasi together with Kaitemier, who is currently at war with Zhamu Dasi; perhaps one could even call upon Calimshan and Sannata.

With the four parties destroying Zhamu Dasi together, the Northland Alliance, as the strongest party among them, would surely be able to get half of the Artifact, plus Psionic Mage captives; no matter how you look at it, it seems like a profit.

It is just that Xia Duo cannot accept such a plan; for him, war is always the last resort.

What he is doing now is actually saving Zhamu Dasi, saving the other side from the fate of destruction, but this attacker actually does not appreciate it and keeps putting up a desperate struggle.

In this situation, how could Xia Duo not guess that a guy who is not even a Psionic Master has the guts to come to the Northland to stir up trouble? There must be a big fish behind them.

Perhaps it is that "Psionic Master Aokesi," who, in the attacker's own view, also has a very complex impression.

After all, no matter how this matter ends, as the person actually executing the mission, there will never be any good fruit to eat.

So, don't look at how this guy is still attacking and resisting with all his might; in reality, he has long harbored thoughts of retreating. The mental confrontation is real and substantial, and Xia Duo keenly perceived this, subsequently generating an association—

Could the big fish behind the attacker be right beside the attacker at this moment?

In Zhamu Dasi, because of the interaction of the Mental Image World, the relationship between Psionic Mages and other Psionic Mages of the same school is actually quite good; at the very least, their personal friendships are not too bad, and at most, there are just differences in philosophy.

In the current situation, only by standing beside them and pointing a "gun" at them can one make a Psionic Mage do something they are unwilling to do.

And based on this speculation, Xia Duo further judged that this actual attacker and the person standing beside him pointing the "gun" might not come from the same school.

If his guess is correct, this attacker should be from the Zeqi School, and the one forcing him might be from the Anti School.

Originally, the Zeqi School should be the strong one externally, but being strong does not mean being brainless. Knowing that Zhamu Dasi is currently in a bad situation, coming to provoke the Northland is by no means a wise move.

Only the Anti School, whose internal ideology is gradually becoming extreme, could make such a decision: dragging the Northland into war, destroying Zhamu Dasi, and then completing their rebirth through the newly created Artifact.

This is the judgment Xia Duo made by combining Mohawi's memories and the intelligence provided by Kalishi. He feels that the truth might not be too far off; this Anti School is indeed a bit extreme!

Of course, the premise of the Anti School's Rebirth Project is to be able to successfully create a New Artifact and have it mastered by the Anti School. If they cannot, then everything is out of the question.

Therefore, the other side's primary goal is actually not to drag the Northland into the water, but to find a way to create the Artifact first. Then what could be easier to achieve this goal than a mole who has proven themselves?

Xia Duo suddenly felt that this attacker, or even the Psionic Master forcing him, might be a bitter-meat scheme played by Zhamu Dasi, all for the sake of solidifying Kalishi's status as a "defector."

Even to achieve this layer of purpose, they used Xia Duo, allowing him to discover Zhamu Dasi's conspiracy, yet without causing him to have excessive worries about Psionic power.

If this is truly the case, then Xia Duo boldly predicts that this tracking and arrest operation will be very smooth, so smooth that it will make the Northland Alliance feel that so-called Psionic Mages are nothing more than this.

If that happens, Xia Duo's further advocacy of the Psionic threat might not be able to withstand the temptation of the Artifact and the broadening of the Arcane Magic Boundary.