Chapter 3165: Consciousness Lock, Online Interrogation Game

Therefore, Xia Duo is certain that the missing parts in the memory of this Psionic Master named "Luodasi" are not truly lost, but have been hidden by some means beyond his current understanding.

He believes that as long as Luodasi's consciousness is fully analyzed, that hidden information should be found; after all, information cannot simply vanish into thin air, and as long as it exists, it can certainly be found.

But what about time?

The first Psionic Master memory Xia Duo obtained came from Mohawi, who had attacked him back in Calimshan, but over the past few years, he has been unable to fully analyze all of Mohawi's memories, only managing to select and analyze what he deemed potentially important.

The Precipitation Method and the Context Method were gradually explored and developed during this very process.

Xia Duo is extremely covetous of this kind of information blockade or information concealment at the consciousness level; even if he cannot use it himself, others could, and most crucially, this method possesses extremely high research value.

And this, once again, proves the extraordinary achievements of the psionic mages of Zhamu Dasi in Meta-Thinking compilation; once thoroughly researched, it will reveal more laws of the consciousness domain.

Of course, this is on the condition that this method can be achieved through non-psionic means.

If it can only be achieved through psionic power, then unless psionic power can truly merge with Arcane Magic in the future, its research significance for Arcane Mages will be very limited.

As for now, since direct retrieval is impossible and there is not enough time for a full analysis, Xia Duo is somewhat troubled for the moment; it is as if a very sweet cake is sitting right in front of him waiting to be eaten, yet the box just won't open.

Thinking this way, Xia Duo still decided to take the risk and meet with Luodasi. Of course, the risk he spoke of was merely letting Luodasi escape; in any case, two Psionic Masters had already escaped by way of death before, so one more wouldn't make a difference.

Of course, for a psionic mage, that cave had been modified by them and contained many psionic traces, which Xia Duo could not simulate, but whether the Consciousness Copy would possess psionic power remains to be seen.

If one can change reality merely by self-consciousness, then can one maintain one's own existence merely by self-consciousness?

Entrusting one's self to Heaven and Earth, existing in the Nothingness Between; in this state, both body and soul disappear, leaving only one's own consciousness to control a piece of heaven and earth.

In other words, as long as Luodasi is made to speak voluntarily, wouldn't it be possible to bypass the 【Consciousness Lock】?

If it were even possible, it could be treated as an online game connected to the Computing Power Pool, allowing all users to interrogate Luodasi online; each user could be assigned a copy, and if even one user managed to ask the information out, it would be the same as Xia Duo asking it out.

Moreover, in terms of protection, it is no worse than that of the Tower of Time.

And this is while the Tower of Time is under the protection of the Floating City Chang'an!

Will a Consciousness Copy believe itself to be the original? This question is beyond doubt; Xia Duo has performed similar operations on many enemies in the past, and he even has many Consciousness Copies in his collection now.

But this is, after all, a real world; if there is no body and no soul, can psionic power really be born out of thin air?

Therefore, the first face-to-face inquiry cannot use Luodasi's Consciousness Copy, because Xia Duo must first confirm whether the Consciousness Copy possesses psionic power.

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If it does, at worst he can just switch to another Consciousness Copy; the greatest significance of a copy is that it can be repeatedly reset—if it doesn't work this time, he can just try again.

Xia Duo has undergone multiple Bloodline Awakenings, leading to earth-shaking changes in his own bloodline; he himself can exist independently merely by his consciousness, which is the 【Entrusting to Heaven and Earth】 among his bloodline abilities.

In fact, he has always had a question: since psionic mages possess idealistic abilities, what kind of existence is a real soul to those psionic mages?

This plan is indeed feasible, but it is very difficult to implement—not for technical reasons, but because if he were to truly propose such an idea, he would be seen as an evil mind-peeper in the eyes of other Arcane Mages.

According to the idealistic rules of psionic power, a Consciousness Copy should continue to possess psionic power; once this thing is awakened, it is very difficult to get rid of.

Then what about psionic mages?

When Pulitatisi introduced the Astral Invaders race earlier, he mentioned the growth process of the Mind Flayers; although it was strange enough, if one looks into it closely, the physical body seems to be an indispensable existence.

After careful consideration, Xia Duo still decided to talk to Luodasi face-to-face, though of course, this would be within the 【Consciousness Cage】, which is the Consciousness Copy of the opponent he had replicated.

If one replicates the complete consciousness of a psionic mage, will that consciousness believe itself to be the original, and even continue to possess idealistic psionic power?

How could this be bad!

He first used his subconscious sensory information and the feedback from Scrying spells to construct a virtual scene with sufficiently high precision within the 【Consciousness Cage】; it was the very cave where Luodasi and the others had hidden.

How can one make an enemy willingly and voluntarily reveal sensitive information?

And wanting to change back is also very simple; as long as a single thought arises, his body will naturally manifest from the phenomena of heaven and earth, and the same goes for his soul.

If it does not, then Luodasi would truly be at his mercy; he could repeatedly grind a certain interrogation progress until the other party is willing to voluntarily disclose the hidden information.

Very soon, Xia Duo completed the setup of the brand-new interrogation environment, not in the Tower of Time, but in the Floating City, as the newly built Floating City possesses a perfect Laboratory environment.

The primary purpose of this means, which he has named 【Consciousness Lock】, should be to prevent outsiders from peeping into certain key information within one's own consciousness, but it is certainly not set up against oneself.

Therefore, such things can only be done, not spoken of, and they must be done cleverly to avoid giving others a handle against him.

"There must be a way!"

If one does not use tools or spells, an ordinary person would almost be unable to distinguish the real from the fake in such a scene.

Moreover, whether a Consciousness Copy can continue to possess psionic power is an unknown; even if it does possess psionic power, wanting to escape from the heavy defenses of the Tower of Time is no less difficult than attacking the Tower of Time head-on.

And once he brings this matter up, he can probably say goodbye to his status as a leader of the Alliance; there is no hope left, as no one wants a person who likes to peep into their minds to become a leader.

Those Consciousness Copies do indeed believe themselves to be the original!

He himself can maintain his existence merely by his own consciousness, but that is his bloodline ability, not something everyone has, and he has never tried to replicate his own complete consciousness; they are all pruned, and the essence of the intellectual brain is his cluster of Consciousness Copies.

It is just that with this, the problem changes to—

Although they might not immediately call for him to be killed, keeping him at a distance is a high-probability event.

Very soon, Xia Duo thought of a way; since this box cannot be opened from the outside, or rather, is very difficult to open, then what about from the inside?

But whether a Consciousness Copy can continue to possess psionic power is hard to say; after all, Xia Duo has never created a Consciousness Copy of a psionic mage before.

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Under such circumstances, if Xia Duo still dared not try, then he would be unworthy of his own Arcane Magic attainments!