Chapter 3161: Information Retrieval, Kalishi

After much hardship—though mostly mental fatigue—Xia Duo finally obtained information related to the purpose of their trip from the memory of a Psionic Master.

Originally, he thought these Psionic Mages had come from the south to the Northland either to support Kalishi's plan or to scheme for the Computing Power Pool alone, but the purpose in these people's memories was something he never could have imagined—

The true purpose of these people coming to the Northland was actually to investigate Kalishi!

In the memory of this Psionic Master named "Saike," they had accepted instructions from the upper echelons of their school to come to the Northland to investigate Kalishi's whereabouts, and if there was an opportunity, they could even capture him directly.

It was not the upper echelons of just one school, but both major schools instructing them simultaneously!

The reason Saike and the others did not go to Kalishi's hometown, Evereska, as their first stop was mainly because they were worried about being detected by Kalishi in advance and him escaping; after all, Evereska could be considered Kalishi's home turf.

Therefore, they initially chose Cormanthor, and after learning of the existence of the Computing Power Pool, they decisively chose to start their investigation from the Computing Power Pool.

Psionic power allowed them to intrude into the consciousness of Northland mages in the most precise way, thereby seizing various secrets, including Kalishi's whereabouts.

They had already failed once before, though it was not the same group of people, but the schools had not given up and instead sent a higher-level team to the Northland.

When parsing this part of the information, Xia Duo immediately realized that the few Psionic Mages captured earlier through Kalishi's guidance were indeed problematic!

Very quickly, Xia Shao parsed why the two major schools of Zhamu Dasi had sent people to investigate Kalishi in Saike's memory!

So where did the problem lie?

If Saike's memory had not been deliberately altered, then the few Psionic Mages captured earlier were actually not trying to use the Computing Power Pool to forge an Artifact, but were trying to track down Kalishi through the Computing Power Pool!

Among them, matters involving self-construction and the Conscious Mind could become key veins within this massive amount of conscious information, much like ocean currents in the sea.

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How was Kalishi able to steal the treasure? And how was he able to successfully return to the Northland from the south?

Saike's group consisted of eight Psionic Masters, with over a dozen Psionic Scholars (ordinary Psionic Mages) acting as assistants; the leader was a Psionic Master named "Tiuka."

"Rest assured, those despicable tricks cannot affect the trust the Alliance countries have in me. I have already grasped new intelligence; Kalishi's good days are coming to an end!"

But unfortunately, because Tiuka oversaw the invasion plan and was the core of the invasion team, he died directly during the first wave of the Computing Power Pool's counterattack.

As for what the treasure was, Saike did not know; his task was only to determine Kalishi's whereabouts, and if there was an opportunity, to carry out a capture.

Is there such a logic?

These underhanded methods are truly troublesome; Xia Shao feels the Northland Alliance should have a set of comprehensive defamation laws!

However, Xia Shao also had a bit of doubt—

If one only focuses on the water, it is actually very difficult to distinguish the ocean currents, but if one focuses on things outside the water, the ocean currents can be very obvious.

Although he said that, Xia Shao was actually still a bit worried in his heart; after all, in the current era, so-called "public opinion" refers more to the mage community, and the mage community is indeed the absolute backbone of this society.

Then he immediately returned his consciousness to his avatar and came to the Alliance Headquarters, where Charles brought him some not-so-good news—there were already people outside stirring up public opinion, saying that it was because of his incompetent leadership that Computing Power Pool users were repeatedly injured.

Although he had some doubts, without more direct evidence indicating that the intelligence he obtained from interrogating the consciousness was false, he still had to rely on the currently known intelligence.

If he could capture Tiuka, perhaps he could know what treasure Kalishi had stolen.

Human memory, or rather conscious information, possesses a high degree of organization, and its specific patterns are also known as the "self"; any bit of conscious information can ultimately be linked to everything else.

Although the personnel from various countries who supervised the interrogation at the time insisted that there were no problems with the interrogation process and that the information those people provided was absolutely true.

While it cannot directly interfere with high-level decision-making, it will still cause no small impact.

Xia Shao could not help but sigh; Psionic Mages are truly skilled at manipulating human hearts. Facing the worried gaze cast by Charles, he patted the other person's shoulder and comforted him:

If one is suspicious of everything, then one will inevitably fall into the quagmire of subjective idealism, just like Psionic Mages who are addicted to their own Mental Image World; in the end, it is either self-destruction or the destruction of the world.

This is actually a relatively efficient method of conscious information retrieval, specifically used for finding specific information; combined with the "Precipitation Method" Xia Shao used before, one can quickly screen out important information in a person's memory.

Of course, doing so will inevitably miss a large amount of information; it can even be said that 99.999% of the information is missed (conscious information itself has over 99% of subconscious perception information that is completely worthless).

Actually, thinking about it now, could a few small fries really come into contact with secrets like forging an Artifact? How could it be interrogated so easily? And why did they die suddenly right after answering?

To completely master a person's memory, one still needs to rely on painstaking effort to parse it bit by bit; perhaps one can use some techniques to increase the parsing speed, but the total amount of work will not change too much.

This kind of link possesses the power of Reality, just like throwing a buoy into the ocean; if there is an ocean current, the buoy will be carried away by the current.

Obviously, from Xia Shao's perspective, he was more willing to believe that his interrogation and judgment were correct, so the problem must lie with the previous interrogation, and furthermore—

And Xia Shao is doing exactly that now; he is conducting a targeted Mind Link on specific information in Saike's memory fragments—which is the purpose of this trip to the Northland.

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Specifically regarding the operation on Saike's memory fragments, it is actually starting from the purpose of Saike's trip, tracing the veins of conscious information linked to it bit by bit, until the information he wants is found.

The reason is quite outrageous; it is actually because Kalishi had stolen a treasure when returning to the Northland from the south!

The problem must be with Kalishi!

But Xia Shao is now personally interrogating information that is the opposite of before, and he is interrogating the consciousness of a Psionic Master! Not some small fry! And he also believes that his interrogation process absolutely has no problems.

Generally speaking, most people will keep a treasure well after obtaining it, and some even arrange for people (or other security facilities) to guard it 24 hours a day.

Having obtained the key information, Xia Shao could not care about resting; he just gave himself a Deep Sleep Spell, and one or two hours were enough to make him regain his vitality.