Chapter 3162: Southern News, Shrouded in Mystery

————It will be later~~

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After going through all sorts of hardships—though mostly mental exhaustion—Xia Duo finally obtained content related to the purpose of their trip from the memory of a Psionic Master.

Originally, he thought these Psionic Mages had run from the south to the Northland either to support Kalishi's plan or to plot for the Computing Power Pool on their own, 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 higher-ups 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 higher-ups 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 out of concern that they would be detected by Kalishi in advance and he would flee; 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.

Having obtained the key information, Xia Shao could not care about resting; he simply cast a Deep Sleep Spell on himself, and an hour or two allowed him to regain his vitality.

To thoroughly master a person's memory still requires the "grinding" effort to analyze it bit by bit; perhaps one could use some techniques to increase the analysis speed, but the total workload would not change much.

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

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

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

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

The reason was quite absurd; it was actually because Kalishi had stolen a treasure when he returned to the Northland from the south!

If one were to be suspicious of everything, one would inevitably fall into the quagmire of subjective idealism, just like Psionic Mages who are addicted to their own Mental Image World, ultimately leading to either self-destruction or the destruction of the world.

Is there such a logic?

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

But Xia Shao had now personally interrogated information that was the opposite of before, and he had interrogated the consciousness of a Psionic Master! This was no small fry! He also believed that there was absolutely no problem with his interrogation process.

Previously, they had already failed once, though it was not the same group of people, but the school side did not give up and instead continued to send a team of higher caliber to the Northland.

However, Xia Shao also had a bit of doubt—

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

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

If Tiuka could be captured, perhaps one could know what treasure Kalishi had stolen.

Although the personnel from various countries supervising the interrogation at the time insisted that there was no problem with the interrogation process and that the information stated by those few people was absolutely true.

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 also be very obvious.

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While it is impossible to directly intervene in the decision-making of the higher-ups, it will still cause no small impact.

Saike's group consisted of three Psionic Masters in total, plus a dozen Psionic Scholars (ordinary Psionic Mages) acting as assistants; the commander was a Psionic Master named "Tiuka."

Specifically regarding the operation on Saike's consciousness fragments, it actually started from the purpose of Saike's trip, tracing the thread of consciousness information related to it bit by bit until finding the information he wanted.

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Actually, thinking about it now, could a few small fries have access to secrets like forging an Artifact? How could it be interrogated so easily? And why did they die immediately after answering?

Of course, doing so would definitely omit a large amount of information, and one could even say that 99.999% of the information was omitted (consciousness information itself has over 99% of subconscious perception information that is completely worthless).

This is actually a relatively inefficient method of consciousness 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.

Obviously, from Xia Shao's perspective, he was more willing to believe that his interrogation and judgment were not problematic, so the problem must lie with the previous interrogation, and furthermore—

Those underhanded means are truly troublesome; Xia Shao felt that the Northland Alliance should have a set of comprehensive defamation laws!

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" actually refers more to the Mage community, and the Mage community is indeed the absolute backbone of this society.

The problem must be with Kalishi!

Human memory, or consciousness information, possesses a high degree of organization, and its specific pattern is also known as the "self"; any bit of consciousness information can ultimately be associated with everything.

Among them, those involving the composition of the self and the Conscious Mind are even more capable of becoming the key threads in these massive amounts of consciousness information, just like ocean currents in the sea.

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.

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

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

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

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

So where did the problem lie?

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