Chapter 280: Chaos

The Old Mage was chattering away with the Queen, as if he had been lonely for a long time. Luo Qi thought mockingly that perhaps he carried too many secrets, weighing him down into the deep sea like a lead ball. The Queen had other motives, but Luo Qi did not spare any extra thought to investigate; he felt a bit overwhelmed, perhaps still not having recovered from the shock just now.

He was not very happy, standing in the Consciousness World like a broken child, somewhat like floating in an ocean of consciousness, swaying and drifting gently with the currents.

This was a mental network, Luo Qi could feel it; although it was not as rich, colorful, or thriving as the network of tens of thousands of individuals connected together in his previous memory, dozens of Alien creatures were still working in coordination, dividing labor and cooperating in an orderly fashion... just like Luo Qi and the Ghosts of the Society.

Luo Qi thought of that remark from the Old Mage: the structure of Alien creatures was very interesting, and Mages had learned quite a lot from their biological structure.

At this moment, a packet of information was bundled and thrown into the Queen's Consciousness World. Luo Qi looked up in this memory, subconsciously cruising over to examine this information packet together with the Queen. The Alien creatures' mental network rapidly parsed the content of this information, and Luo Qi was surprised to discover that it was a mission briefing.

The Alien Queen had no interest in what she had to do; she understood that her consciousness could not resist, so she stopped bothering to feel distressed. If one day Mages also had a Wikipedia, Luo Qi would write a note on it: Alien creatures are a formidable race, both on the physical level and the mental level.

The information packet was unfolded one after another; the goal of the slaughter was to leave no survivors, including women, the elderly, and children. In other words, a complete purge.

A flash of mockery swept through the Queen's consciousness, and she transmitted a sarcastic smile of willingness to serve to the Old Mage.

Luo Qi felt somewhat exhausted; he might have stayed in the Consciousness World for too long. Previous Deep Dives had always burdened him heavily; this feeling was very much like unprotected diving—the deeper the Deep Dive, the heavier the load on the body. Using diving as a comparison, this was his deepest dive yet, because due to the physiological characteristics of Aliens, they were natural Telepaths and a collective existence of consciousness; such mental power was extremely strong. Luo Qi knew he should leave; the Ghosts would bundle up the Queen's memories for him, and he could save them to slowly open the Queen's memoirs after disconnecting from the mental link with the Aliens.

Just at this moment, a Mage's geographic Coordinate was translated from the Aliens' mental network.

Luo Qi's heart skipped a beat. Jiangnan?

He had originally been Calculating the probability of a coincidence, thinking it couldn't be that, but now...

Soon he would not need to think anymore. More information was given directly. On this mission briefing provided by the Old Mage, all the information clearly and accurately described the characteristics of the Jiangnan Du Clan. Several target parameters were like cold-bloodedly describing the characteristics of Du Zhengyi. He felt a wave of dizziness and almost retched. Du Zhengyi had said his parents died of a plague.

His parents were dead, he was an orphan, but what if his parents did not die of a plague... at what point in time did the massacre actually occur?

No, Luo Qi remembered; Du Zhengyi had his own memories of being ill, and he was already a child old enough to remember things when he was taken away by Pei Shu. He would not have mistaken the memory of the plague; if his family had died in a massacre by Alien creatures at that time, he would not be in this state today when seeing the Aliens.

Luo Qi became confused; the question returned to the previous point: when exactly was the time point of the massacre?

Suddenly, his heart stung, and his head began to ache violently. He suddenly heard a burst of "laughter"—it was the familiar mockery of the Alien Queen; that laughter pierced through the memory and was a terrifying laugh directed straight at his physical body.

Oh no. Luo Qi let go of this memory in terror, struggling to surface. The collective consciousness of the Alien creatures was too powerful; he had lingered in the memory for too long and must have lost control.