Chapter 3166: The Panicked Luodasi, A Transaction

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Therefore, Xia Duo was certain that the missing part in the memory of this Psionic Master named "Luodasi" was not truly lost, but rather hidden by some means beyond his current scope of understanding.

He believed that as long as he fully analyzed Luodasi's consciousness, he should be able to find that hidden information; after all, information could not simply vanish into thin air—if it existed, it could certainly be found.

But what about time?

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

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

Xia Duo was extremely envious of this kind of information blockade or information concealment at the consciousness level; even if he could not use it himself, others could, and most crucially, this method possessed very high research value.

And this once again proved the extraordinary achievements of the Psionic Mages of Zhamu Dasi in Meta-Thinking compilation; once thoroughly researched, it would reveal more laws of the consciousness domain.

Of course, this was on the condition that this method could be realized through non-psionic means.

How could one make an enemy willingly and proactively reveal sensitive information?

It must be through the use of tools or spells; ordinary people would find it nearly impossible to distinguish truth from falsehood when caught in such a scenario.

If one could change reality solely by relying on their own consciousness, then could one maintain their own existence solely by relying on their own consciousness?

Moreover, once he brought up this matter, he would likely have to say goodbye to his status as the leader of the Alliance, with no hope left at all; no one wanted a leader who enjoyed prying into their minds.

If one were to copy the fragmented consciousness of a Psionic Mage, would that consciousness believe itself to be the original, and would it even be able to continue possessing idealistic Psionic Energy?

And wanting to change back was also very simple; as long as a thought arose, his body would naturally manifest from the phenomena of heaven and earth, and the same went for his soul.

If there were any, at worst he could just switch to another Consciousness Copy; the greatest significance of a copy was that it could be restarted repeatedly—if it didn't work this time, he would just try again.

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

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

Previously, when Pulitatisi introduced the Astral Invaders race, he mentioned the growth process of mind flayers; although it was strange enough, upon closer inspection, the physical body seemed to be an indispensable existence.

Furthermore, whether a Consciousness Copy could continue to possess Psionic Energy was an unknown; even if it did, the difficulty of trying to escape from the heavy defenses of the Tower of Time would be no less than attacking the Tower of Time head-on.

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 run away, and in any case, two Psionic Masters had already escaped by way of death before, so one more wouldn't matter.

In fact, he had always had a question: since those Psionic Mages possessed idealistic abilities, what kind of existence was a real soul to those Psionic Mages?

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If it could only be realized through Psionic Energy, then unless Psionic Energy could truly merge with Arcane Magic in the future, its research significance for Arcane Mages would be very limited.

If not, then Luodasi would truly be his to mold as he pleased; he could repeatedly grind a certain interrogation progress until the other party was willing to proactively disclose the hidden information.

As for now, since he couldn't search it directly and didn't have enough time for a full analysis, Xia Duo was somewhat troubled for a moment; there was a very sweet cake right in front of him waiting to be eaten, but the box just wouldn't open.

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Of course, for Psionic Mages, that cave had been modified by them and contained many psionic traces that Xia Duo could not simulate, but whether the Consciousness Copy had Psionic Energy was another matter.

In other words, as long as Luodasi was made to speak voluntarily, wouldn't that bypass the 【Consciousness Lock】?

"There must be a way!"

And this was while under the protection of the Tower of Time located in Floating City Chang'an!

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

He himself could maintain his existence solely by his own consciousness, but that was his Bloodline Ability, not something everyone possessed, and he had never tried to copy his own complete consciousness; they were all reduced versions, and the essence of the intellectual brain was his cluster of Consciousness Copies.

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

How could this be good!

But just like that, the problem became—

After thinking it over repeatedly, Xia Duo still decided to talk to Luodasi face-to-face, of course within the 【Consciousness Cage】, which was the Consciousness Copy of the other party that he had replicated.

Would a Consciousness Copy believe itself to be the original? This question was beyond doubt; Xia Duo had performed similar operations on many enemies in the past, and he even had many Consciousness Copies collected now.

According to the idealistic rules of Psionic Energy, a Consciousness Copy should be able to continue possessing Psionic Energy; once this thing was awakened, it was very difficult to get rid of.

Then what about Psionic Mages?

But whether a Consciousness Copy could continue to possess Psionic Energy was hard to say, as Xia Duo had never created a Consciousness Copy of a Psionic Mage before.

This plan was indeed feasible, but it was very difficult to realize, not because of technical reasons, but because once he truly proposed such an idea, he would be an evil mind-prying voyeur in the eyes of other Arcane Mages.

But this was a real world after all; if there was no body and no soul, could Psionic Energy really be born out of thin air?

If Xia Duo still didn't dare to try under these circumstances, then he would be unworthy of his own Arcane Magic attainments!

Although they wouldn't immediately call for him to be killed, keeping him at a distance was a high-probability event.

Those Consciousness Copies would indeed believe that they were the original!

Therefore, the first face-to-face inquiry could not use Luodasi's Consciousness Copy, because Xia Duo had to first confirm whether the Consciousness Copy possessed Psionic Energy.

Very quickly, Xia Duo thought of a way: since this box couldn't be opened from the outside, or rather was very difficult to open, then what about from the inside?

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

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

The main purpose of this method, which he had named 【Consciousness Lock】, should be to prevent outsiders from prying into certain key information within one's own consciousness, but it certainly wouldn't be set against oneself.

After multiple Bloodline Awakenings, Xia Duo's own bloodline had undergone earth-shaking changes; he himself could exist independently solely by his consciousness, which was the 【Entrusting to Heaven and Earth】 among his Bloodline Abilities.