Chapter 417: Investigation Team (4)

"Don't get excited," Du Zhengyi said. "Do you think I would make a move? Over such a trivial matter at work? You might not believe it, but I truly don't have a hobby of beating up my colleagues."

Someone laughed out loud at an inappropriate moment.

Du Zhengyi added calmly, "Not yet."

The laughter stopped abruptly.

Du Zhengyi continued, "I suggest you terminate the investigation; I am giving you professional advice from a career perspective. You want to investigate a high-energy Mage who is a minor, and you chose a way to provoke him right from the start—that is not how it is written in the Qionglin Mage Manual. I know that sometimes you don't follow the rules either, thinking the Mage Manual is written for the weak and that you don't need to abide by it. I don't know if you have considered that if the other party is stronger than you, then you are the weak ones."

Luo Qi was distracted, listening to what Du Zhengyi was saying; in his field of vision, these words became extremely slow. He was concentrating on listening to the Consciousness World of the pretty boy. A brand-new Consciousness World gradually formed a vague outline under his tentacles, slowly taking shape as a world refracting pale green light. Luo Qi did not dig too much into this world; he glanced at it nonchalantly and began to listen to the echoes floating on the very surface of this world.

Soon, those thoughts constantly reflecting in the space merged into a gradually clear voice. Luo Qi heard a sentence in the ancient Mage language, more concise and archaic than today's language. This sentence was a Secret Language, the keyword to join a Mind Mage's Magic Array.

Luo Qi chanted this Secret Language with his mind, passing it off as genuine to be included within the protection of the mind barrier, and a green city wall appeared in his field of vision. He nimbly slipped into the new Magic World, using his own method to awaken another interface of this Magic. The green wall disappeared, and a web woven from countless ancient Mage words appeared where the wall had been.

He moved out one of his branch Sub-consciousnesses, crawling rapidly across the entire web like a bug, copying the entire Magic network into his own memory. After completing all this, he extended his tentacles and casually changed a few Spells in the Magic network. The exquisite Magic web immediately became chaotic; countless contradictions and countless loopholes appeared one after another, and the city wall collapsed like falling dominoes.

In Luo Qi's perception of the outside world, he heard Du Zhengyi slowly spitting out his final threat.

"If—you—are—weaker—than—the—other—party—"

Luo Qi's consciousness split into eight tentacles, busy in the world of consciousness. Each tentacle differentiated into new Slimes, several mouths, and several Sub-consciousnesses, calling upon the consciousness of everyone in this room; he wanted to see where their souls were. If he couldn't see a person's soul, if a person had no soul, that would be too terrifying; he would rather see it.

Several souls cast shadows in the Consciousness World. They possessed different shapes and different colors; some couldn't even maintain their shape, and their colors were very dim. Luo Qi gradually realized that those were the lost ones; they either didn't understand themselves, or they simply had no decent sense of self, never insisting on anything, having no sense of right or wrong, and no likes or dislikes.

There were other souls, like cocoons wrapped in layers. In this surreal world of diverse shapes and colors, they were as white as if they had danger labels stuck on them. Luo Qi felt a trace of anger and a trace of murderous intent as soon as he got slightly close to them. By process of elimination, Luo Qi felt they were all Battle Mages. Their Consciousness Worlds naturally came with sturdy shells; these were powerful magics to counter Mind Mages, and perhaps they even contained traps aimed at Mind Mages inside.

Luo Qi wanted to touch and poke them with envy, but he had some scruples when he thought of the tomboy's sharp gaze. She had sensed it just now when he had only made a slight movement; he knew that Battle Mages were truly tough characters.

He avoided these cocoons and had brief contact with other souls. He hesitated and did not rummage through their lives like he was flipping through his own drawers. Luo Qi pondered for a moment, called out their basic physiological consciousness, and clearly displayed the part of their consciousness that controlled these functions.

"You—"

Du Zhengyi continued to speak in the real world.

"—are—"

Luo Qi became happy again, excitedly examining these fragments of consciousness. A few people's bladders were almost full, a few people were very afraid, and several hormones were being secreted abnormally.

"—the—weak—ones."

Luo Qi laughed out loud. He had received Du Zhengyi's permission—permission to do something to prove that what Du Zhengyi said was true, and by the way, to make today's investigation void.

In the real world, he smiled at Du Zhengyi.

At this very moment, more than one person in the hall wet their pants, dirtying the Highland Mage's carpet. Their consciousness released signals through their brains to relieve bladder pressure.

Following the different reactions of each person when nervous, a few people screamed, and a few people who wanted to laugh when nervous let out high-pitched laughter that was even more irritating than screaming.

This panic caused a chain reaction. Someone screamed and backed away, only to bump into the person behind them, and someone else hit the wall hard. Someone accidentally cast an Attack Magic, which was fortunately neutralized in time by the nearby Battle Mages.

Battle Mages were basically not bothered by this kind of group reaction, but the smell of urine was immediately identified by the Mages' sensitive noses, and they let out incredulous curses. This area of the hall fell into chaos in an instant, and Luo Qi shrugged and walked behind Du Zhengyi.

In any case, today's investigation was completely ruined. An investigation that couldn't be completed at all was looking more and more like a farce.