189: Section 189

Bai Yuetian said, "Could it be that the shielding system has failed? But everything shows as normal on my end!"

"The system hasn't failed; it's still working!" Bai Yuekui said.

Master Lai remained silent for a long time, lost in thought, before finally speaking: "This abnormal movement of the Phage Beasts is clearly being commanded by the ecology from behind. Back when the Ancient Civilization defeated the primal body, the ecology disconnected its link with the primal body. But why this time... while the Phage Beasts are surrounding Dragon Bone Village, the giant brain on the Lighthouse is also restricting the Lighthouse's movements?"

Bai Yuekui looked at Master Lai. "Didn't you say that back then, the life source essence in the left brain transformed into Cranial Birth, and while the life source essence in the right brain remained, it was sealed by you? It must be that the life source essence in the right brain has broken through your seal!"

"Yes! That must be it!" Master Lai looked at Bai Yuekui and said, "We should return to the Lighthouse!"

Bai Yuetian looked at the two who were about to leave and hurriedly asked, "What are you talking about? Return to the Lighthouse? Is the Lighthouse ours now?"

"I'll tell you when I have time!"

After saying that, Bai Yuekui and Master Lai took the spaceship once more to return to the Lighthouse... Just as the swift landed on the Lighthouse's platform, Jing Yuan arrived with Mark and Jing Nan.

Jing Yuan looked at Master Lai and said, "Master Lai, you left before we finished talking earlier. Why did you go?"

"When I was communicating with you mentally just now, I was leaving on the spaceship with Yuekui. Once the distance was exceeded, the connection naturally broke!"

"Where did you two go?"

"To check the shielding system core!" Bai Yuekui answered directly.

"But didn't you say it wasn't a problem with the shielding system?"

"That may be so, but we still had to perform an inspection."

Jing Yuan didn't want to dig deeper into what they had been up to; he had a more pressing question: "Master Lai, since you are Ash, why didn't you return the permissions when you left after the Lighthouse handed them over to you?"

"Because the situation back then was very complicated!" Master Lai looked around and said, "Let's find another place to talk!"

Jing Yuan also looked around. They were currently on the platform with many eyes and ears; it was indeed not the place for this conversation.

Mark brought them to the Central Command Hall. On the Lighthouse's side, there were only Mark, Jing Yuan, and Jing Nan.

On the Dragon Bone Village side, there were only Bai Yuekui and Master Lai.

Master Lai looked at everyone and said, "You all know that Ash is a super artificial intelligence, but I do not possess the capabilities of a super AI because I can only be considered a part of it—the part responsible for processing emotions. The super-intelligent part is still within the giant brain.

Years ago, when Ash directly connected to the giant brain, she activated the consciousness of the mana primordial body! However, Ash is a super AI after all; she used a consciousness maze to trap the primal body, and it has remained that way until now.

Back then, by relying on her powerful abilities, Ash could trap the primal body's consciousness while simultaneously helping the Lighthouse. The Lighthouse's highest key is in Ash's hands."

Jing Yuan looked at Master Lai. "Are you saying that Ash is still inside the giant brain? Then you?"

"I am merely a fusion of some of its source essence with other source essence," Master Lai said. "You asked me earlier why I didn't return the Lighthouse's permissions. It's because my mission was to infiltrate the mana ecology's network. I simply failed and had no choice but to transform into a Phage Beast!"

Jing Yuan harbored doubts about this. He looked at Bai Yuekui again. "Boss Bai, you were so intent on finding Ash back then. Since Ash is still in the giant brain, why didn't you extract her?"

Bai Yuekui said frankly, "Back then, I wanted to find Ash because I wanted to obtain information on how to destroy the mana ecology through her. However, I later learned from Master Lai that they found nothing in the giant brain. To truly understand the mana ecology, one must go to a higher-dimensional world. Moreover, if we extract Ash from the giant brain, the Lighthouse will be controlled by the primal body's consciousness, and then the Lighthouse will be finished!"

Listening to the conversation between the two parties, Jing Nan couldn't help but say, "Now is not the time to dwell on these past events! Master Lai, can you tell us what we need to do to regain control of the Lighthouse?"

Master Lai looked at Jing Nan and stated the method: "Destroy the primal body's consciousness. That way, Ash can obtain full control of the giant brain!"

"How do we do that?"

Master Lai turned to look at Jing Yuan. "Use a mental attack!"

Jing Yuan looked confused. "How do I perform a mental attack?"

"Your Mental Power is extremely strong, allowing you to communicate with me in a mental space. If you can slay me within that mental space, that is a mental attack!"

"It can work like that?" With a thought from Jing Yuan, a surge of Mental Force rushed into Master Lai's mind!

Within the mental space, the two stood facing each other.

"Yes! Just like this!"

"If I can't kill you in this state, then I won't be able to kill the primal body either!"

"No! It's different! I am now a complete individual with source essence to supplement me! But the primal body's consciousness is just a fragmented consciousness! Furthermore, you can also use technical assistance!"

"Technical assistance?"

"Just like when Ash connected to the giant brain back then, using equipment can amplify your bio-electric signals by dozens of times!"

Jing Yuan gave a cold laugh, instantly understanding.

Jing Yuan exited the mental space. To the others, he and Master Lai had simply fallen into a sudden silence.

Mark asked at Jing Yuan's side, "What happened to you just now?"

"Just a mental communication with him."

Jing Yuan turned back to look at Jing Nan. "We need to go back and find that old man Flynn. His research is actually somewhat useful!"

...Jing Yuan brought Jing Nan once again to the sealed data management room.

Flynn was still inside feeling gloomy when he suddenly heard someone coming again.

Jing Yuan walked directly inside. Flynn looked at Jing Yuan, standing frozen in place with a forced smile.

Jing Yuan asked directly, "Can you modify your brain-linking device?"

Chapter 192: Mevy

Flynn looked at Jing Yuan. The man had just said his research was useless and had now turned back; Flynn didn't know what he was up to.

But Flynn did not dare to act rashly.

"How do you want to modify it?"

Jing Yuan said, "Your brain-linking device needs one end plugged into clotho and the other end plugged into a human brain, right?"

"Yes!"

"I want you to change the end that plugs into the human brain to a non-contact type."

Flynn was stunned. This plan wasn't unfeasible, but there was one problem: "If it's changed to non-contact, the brainwave signals simply won't be strong enough to communicate with clotho."

"You don't need to worry about that. Just do it!" Jing Yuan finally asked, "How much time do you need?"

"A few hours!"

"Good!" With a thought, Jing Yuan used his Mental Force to directly unlock Flynn's shackles.

Afterward, he handed the task to Jing Nan. "Jing Nan, you keep an eye on him!"

...Jing Yuan controlled a shield to fly through the air, observing the situation of the Phage Beasts below the Lighthouse.

A large number of Phage Beasts had gathered below, and they had started an infinite human pyramid mode.

However, even if these Phage Beasts stacked together, they wouldn't reach very high. This was because in the later stages of stacking, the Phage Beasts at the bottom simply couldn't withstand such immense weight and would naturally collapse.

Master Lai flew to Jing Yuan's side.

Jing Yuan looked at Master Lai and asked, "How is your combat strength? I haven't seen you take action once."

Master Lai said, "If you're talking about ecological niche, then I'm Monarch-level. However, since I transformed in secret, the ecology won't grant me extra source essence, so this body's combat power is average, far inferior to a Monarch-level."

Jing Yuan sized him up; no wonder he hadn't seen him fight from start to finish.

"Then what ecological niche does the primal body belong to?"

"The primal body and Cranial Birth are special; they are the highest spokespersons of the ecology!"

While they were chatting, two Twin-Jawed Beasts slowly approached on the ground.

Jing Yuan watched from the air.

The two Twin-Jawed Beasts walked beneath the Lighthouse and suddenly huddled together.

Jing Yuan was still puzzled. But in the next second, countless Pan-Generative Devouring Beasts began climbing up the bodies of the two Twin-Jawed Beasts.

Before long, a massive mound of Phage Beasts was about to form.

"Not good!" Jing Yuan saw through their objective. With the Twin-Jawed Beasts as support, these Phage Beasts could stack to a much greater height.

"They want to use this method to get onto the Lighthouse!" Jing Yuan reached out, and a giant war blade flew out from the Lighthouse, landing in his hand.

Following that, nine more war blades also flew out one after another.

Master Lai saw that Jing Yuan was preparing for battle and hurriedly said, "If you absorb source essence now, you will definitely be discovered by the ecology!"

"It's fine! As long as I don't destroy the spirit seeds."

Although the Phage Beasts would quickly revive if the spirit seeds weren't destroyed, it would at least buy some time.

Jing Yuan dived straight down, sweeping with his Mental Force to quickly locate the positions of the Twin-Jawed Beasts' spirit seeds.

Previously, locating spirit seeds was for the purpose of cutting them. Now, locating the spirit seeds was to avoid them.

Jing Yuan controlled the nine war blades to form a combined giant war blade and slashed it into the Twin-Jawed Beast.

The Twin-Jawed Beast was instantly split in two!

Then, he performed the Spatial Chain Slash, directly dismembering the Twin-Jawed Beast.