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Chapter 261 The Mind-Stealing Demon

Xue suddenly realized that the abstract behavioral science of the dragon race might even be a kind of collective unconscious behavior. If he were a biologist, and carefully studied the great cultural transformation of the dragon race from before to after their return home, as well as the impact of the long-distance migration of biological populations on the whole, he might be able to win the Nobel Prize.

However, there wasn't time for that right now. An elder came over as soon as he saw Xue Luding, and after learning about the situation, he fell silent.

"What's wrong? Is there some difficulty?" Xue Dinglu asked.

“No, Your Highness, if your description is correct, we seem to have recorded the race of this enemy, and our ancestors also made a deal with this enemy.” The dragon elder’s words made Xue Dinglu pause for a moment, then the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

"I need the corresponding intelligence and information."

"Okay, I'll go get the corresponding record right away." The elder ran off as fast as he could, making Xue Daolu feel a little embarrassed.

What happened? He actually thought that he could just have a dragon here to help him look up information, but he didn't expect that in just a few days, the entire dragon race seemed to have undergone earth-shattering changes. Behaviorally speaking, it was as if they had suddenly changed from dragons to dogs.

At the same time, they seem to be a little too enthusiastic, acting as if they are treating their subordinates.

Xue Luding couldn't quite figure it out, so he simply stopped thinking about it and took it one step at a time. After all, he wasn't a god and couldn't predict all the outcomes. He couldn't stop the dragons from becoming those abstract, idiotic young people.

Soon, the elder ran back, carrying a large bundle of thick scrolls on his back.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, we've found it! This is the racial information of that 'God-King'." The dragon handed a large number of scrolls to Xue Luding, then quickly found one of them and said, "It's recorded in detail here."

Xue's Law has opened the scroll.

It records a special monster called "Mind Flayer," a non-physical, pure soul-like creature that seems to come from a planet that has long since been doomed.

That apocalyptic planet was completely uninhabitable for any living thing, but a civilization still existed there: the Mind Flayers.

These monsters are somewhat like "ghosts" in the traditional sense. They have no physical form, no gender, and no biological functions or desires. They are a race that drifts on the surface of the planet like ghosts.

At the same time, their racial characteristics give them the ability to easily invade living bodies. They can enter the deepest part of someone's soul without anyone noticing, and then gradually devour the soul. This state can last for several years or even more than ten years.

Therefore, once they have completely devoured their former selves, they are no longer their original selves, but rather a hybrid of multiple souls. They may even forget their original identity as mind flayers, and may only realize their true identity when their instincts are triggered. Thus, they can avoid most detection and testing.

The dragon ancestors were colleagues with this race, and some ancestors even researched magic to counteract this creature in order to prevent it from entering their bodies.

And these scrolls happen to contain the corresponding magic.

"The Qiankun Questioning Heart Method?" Xue Dinglu stared silently at the name of the spell, then looked at the dragon elder opposite him with suspicion.

"Well, the name of the magic isn't important. We've come up with all sorts of strange names before." The elder seemed a little embarrassed and turned his head away.

Xue Dinglu activated his magic and immediately lost his composure.

The principle behind this magic is very simple, even too simple: it's about beating up your own nature.

Yes, it's about constantly beating up your own nature, like those people in that abstract, materialized beast girl world who keep beating up their own bad side. The essence of this magic is to forcibly divide yourself into "id, ego, and superego," and then keep beating up all three until a result is achieved...

Because when you beat up your past self, it's like dissecting your own true nature, but for the mind-stealer, it's like being inexplicably pinned to the ground and beaten up, and incidentally, feeling like you've been strengthened.

Therefore, this move is incredibly effective against Mind Flayers. Although the Dragon Ancestors only tested it once, the results were outstanding.

Xue Law: "..."

This strange magical inventory suggests that the dragon ancestors must have done quite a few bizarre things over the past tens of millions of years.

The next document is an introduction to the Mind Flayer world.

It was a planet that once had a brilliant civilization, but that civilization was destroyed, and the world was plunged into apocalypse. The inhabitants on it fought desperately to survive.

After countless years, they gradually transformed into the "Mind Flayer," a being that could survive without relying on a physical body. Like ghosts, they turned the entire planet into a ghostly realm. Having become energy beings, they transformed this place into a world unsuitable for carbon-based life forms.

Any other creature that comes here will feel like it has entered the underworld. They will be invaded by countless mind-stealers on a soul level. The essence of this is having countless nightmares in one night and finding that their behavior and temperament are becoming less and less like their own.

After reviewing a series of intelligence reports, Xue Dinglu roughly understood what kind of enemy this was.

In other words, after possessing a body, the Mind Flayer has already shed its original Mind Flayer nature, and has completely become a fusion of multiple souls.

Therefore, these races are often used as pawns by the Apostle to infiltrate and secretly enter other planets.

Even the world's consciousness, without explicitly knowing about this thing and setting up special protective mechanisms, wouldn't realize that it had infiltrated and had already replaced the original entity. This thing operates at the level of soul energy, not on the material level.

Therefore, even if the world consciousness discovers it, it only sees that the soul energy of an ordinary person has increased significantly, and nothing else is abnormal.

Xue took a deep breath.

The universe is full of all sorts of strange races, like Olivia's original form, the Mimic Demon, which is a race similar to a slime that can transform into any shape.

And these Mind Flayers are actually a ghost-like race.

If this thing were to enter a normal civilized world, wouldn't that be equivalent to a "pseudo-human invasion" or a "weird resurgence" scenario?
Xue's law was quite an eye-opener.

Soon after receiving this batch of intelligence, Xue Dinglu recorded it and did not linger.

I immediately returned to the main world and logged into the World Consciousness account to start testing it out.

The tricky part about Mind Flayers is that they can be infiltrated by someone who is both prepared and unprepared. However, once you have the information, you can easily set up a firewall to intercept Mind Flayers.

For example, if the limit of life on Earth is the peak of level 0, then Xue's Law sets a condition where all soul energy above level 1 is displayed.

The next moment, only a few faint points of light remained in the entire world. Xue Lude looked at the few souls above level 1 and recognized them as familiar faces.

Well, that means that at least in my hometown, we don't have this kind of thing.

However, just as Xue was about to leave, he was shocked to discover that his mother's code contained a more complex and sophisticated line of code.

Unlike Xue's Law, which simply filters the magnitude of souls, Mom's code contains a complex scheme of soul screening, anomaly detection, and anomaly filtering, with tens of thousands of densely packed instructions. Any individual that does not meet the anomaly detection criteria will be struck by a 10 billion volt lightning strike.

Xue Law: "..."

No, why would the world consciousness have such a complex detection mechanism?
Could it be that Earth, once known as Blue Planet, was also invaded by such creatures?

Xue's Law felt a slight tingling sensation in his back.

In other words, for at least a period of time, this thing attempted to invade Earth, but after being discovered by Mom, it set up a series of detection and attack mechanisms. Then, realizing it had met its match, it stopped considering this planet.

Therefore, this testing agency was permanently preserved and hidden deep within the code, used as a firewall.

What if Mom hadn't discovered this place...?

Xue's Law saw the last line of code: mass extinction...

Detonate all volcanoes, triggering a cataclysmic mass extinction, until the anomaly disappears.

Thinking of this, Xue closed his eyes. His mother probably wouldn't give the enemy any hope, but would instead kill her son without regret, cleanse all species, and if there were still any abnormalities, cleanse them again.

Repeatedly elbow the biosphere until the entire biosphere is no longer abnormal, then the mass extinction will end.

Xue Law: "..."

Yes, this method is simple and crude, but effective.

Who knows, one of the several mass extinctions in the geological strata might have been caused by a similar creature invading and forcing Mom to start attacking the whole world.

Seeing this, Xue's Law was relieved. It's good to have a super reliable world consciousness. At least if there's a real problem, there won't be a situation where your base is raided.

The world of angels is a malfunction; it didn't realize something was wrong until the Mind Flayers stormed the divine realm and planted the Divine Tree.

Having a complete grasp of the situation, Xue Lude immediately perked up. He was no longer clueless; he had now become half-information Xue Lude.

As for the mind flayer's racial talent of possession, can Xue's Law achieve it?
It's definitely possible, very easily.

Xue's Law could do it even more easily; he could even replace himself with someone from another world without possession.

This is the ability of the cheat engine: to change one's identity to that of a native, ideally replacing the original identity of a local, stealing someone else's ID card to act secretly and surf the internet stealthily.

(End of this chapter)