Chapter 61: It's broken, it's not Xiaodai, it's the hacker (TL: Who the hell is Xiaodai)
"You guys..." Dr. Mei glanced at Vill-V and the others, then realized, "Did you plan all this?"
"A little backup method. I didn't expect it to be useful so soon." Ai Yue said lightly, then looked at Vill-V, "Has the matter at the Deep Place been resolved?"
"Of course, otherwise Aponia wouldn't have come out." Vill-V said with a smile, then pulled out the chair to the left of Ai Yue and sat down. "Come to think of it, how long have you been preparing that blueprint? It doesn't look like something you came up with on the spur of the moment, does it?"
"On behalf of the people in the deepest places, I thank you, Ai Yue." Aponia sat on the right side of Ai Yue, staring at him intently, "With that thing, their pain will be alleviated."
"Wait, what are you talking about?" Dr. Mei felt more and more puzzled. "Dr. Ai Yue, are you planning something behind my back?"
She had long felt that bringing Ai Yue and Vill-V together was not a good thing, but wasn't this bad thing happening too quickly?
"Nothing much, just a little renovation and upgrade to the Deep Place." Vill-V gestured to a universe on her fingertips, "According to the drawings given by Ai Yue, a mental comfort device was installed to block the influence of external mental forces and alleviate the mental problems of the people inside."
The vast majority of members in the Deep Place are not unforgivable criminals. Many of them are warriors who have developed mental disorders due to stress and other reasons during the fight against Honkai. Because they cannot integrate into the lives of ordinary people and the management above cannot give up such combat power, they set up the Deep Place as a shelter for them.
"All plans for the Deep Place need to be approved by the higher-ups..." Dr. Mei said subconsciously, and even laughed at herself in the end, "Never mind, they probably can't take care of this now."
At this point, she looked at Ai Yue again: "So, Dr. Ai Yue, what is your plan specifically?"
"First of all, it's impossible for the Eighth Herrscher to come here in person. She will only use her mental power to spy on us and then create a dream to wrap us up in it." Ai Yue said, "But at the same time, this is also an opportunity for us to track her back."
Although Ai Yue obtained the spiritual sample of the Eighth Herrscher from his dream, he was not a true psychic after all, and could not bring it into reality, so naturally he could not use it for mental positioning.
What's more, that thing has already been used as experimental material.
Therefore, the most urgent task is to find a way to induce the Eighth Herrscher to appear a second time without entering the dream, and then use the other party's mental fluctuations to locate her, so as to reversely lock her position.
This is why Ai Yue needs to bring Aponia out from the Deep Place—as the strongest spiritual perception fusion warrior at present, Aponia is definitely the best candidate to fight against the Eighth Herrscher. Even if the opponent can create a dream that traps everyone in it, Aponia will definitely be the one who stays awake.
What's more, only Aponia can maximize the effect of mental positioning technology. After all, her mental power can extend to most places on the earth, and even if Ai Yue uses "Aponia's Embrace", he can only cover a small area, and the strength is not at the same level at all.
Therefore, Ai Yue's plan was to use Aponia to locate the Eighth Herrscher, and then let Mobius use the Second Herrscher's pseudo-power temporarily obtained from the potion to directly cross the spatial distance and appear in front of the Eighth Herrscher, and then kill her.
This plan may seem very simple and crude, but if you think about it carefully, you will understand that in order to complete this plan, you must have the corresponding technology, and any of the means involved are beyond the reach of today's humans.
In other words, only Ai Yue could use the system to come up with such a simple and crude plan.
"Are you sure?" Dr. Mei frowned. "If the Eighth Herrscher is really the Herrscher who controls consciousness, then how can we reversely locate her?"
In Dr. Mei's opinion, the first step of Ai Yue's plan was full of uncertainty. After all, to compete with the Herrscher who played with consciousness in mental skills was itself an act of overestimating one's own abilities.
"Oh, don't worry about that." Vill-V smiled and patted Ai Yue's shoulder. "Although Ai Yue speaks arrogantly, he only says it when he is sure. If the success rate of this plan is less than 90%, he will not use it."
Although Dr. Mei is also a top scientist, she is busy with work and has not had much contact with Ai Yue. Therefore, she knows Ai Yue far less than Vill-V and Mobius, so her impression of Ai Yue is still at a "human-like" stage.
But in the eyes of Vill-V and Mobius, Ai Yue had already transcended the scope of human beings and reached some indescribable level.
"Actually, I just informed you." Ai Yue shrugged at Dr. Mei's doubts. He lowered his head to look at his phone, then showed a subtle expression, "Even if you reject this plan now, it's too late—she's already here."
Dr. Mei was stunned for a moment, and then her phone responded. The girl answered the call, and there was a slightly panicked voice on the other end of the phone: "Mei, Dr. Mei! Everyone suddenly fainted for no apparent reason! I..."
The voice didn't finish its words and suddenly closed its mouth. Only the sound of someone falling to the ground came from the microphone. It was obvious that the other party did not escape the symptoms of sudden coma.
Aponia closed her eyes at this moment, and then slowly said: "I saw her, she is coming this way—"
The next second, she opened her eyes: "She's here."
Almost at the same time, Ai Yue also smiled: "Well, you came."
He spread out his hands, and something like a headset appeared in his palms.
"Take it, Aponia." Ai Yue threw it to Aponia, "You will understand how to use it."
The second after Aponia put it on her head, a black figure slowly emerged in the center of the conference room.
That was not a real body, but a projection left in the minds of several people by the power of the Eighth Herrscher.
When humans see this figure, it means that they have been captured by the other party.
"Hello again, human." The Herrscher glanced around the conference room and finally looked at Ai Yue, with obvious sarcasm on her face, "Thanks to your guidance, I was able to find this place."
"Yeah, after all, if you give a dog a bone, it's hard for it not to run over here." Ai Yue responded with the same mocking words, "So a dog is a dog, and it doesn't have the intelligence to think about whether this is a trap or not, right?"
"You!" The Eighth Herrscher was shaking with anger. "You are so smooth-talking. I hope you can still say such words when I torture you in my dream!"
"You don't have that chance." Aponia opened her eyes again, with a calm expression hiding some turbulent emotions, "I have found you."
It was just a casual remark, but the Eighth Herrscher's expression changed instantly.
Because her original body could feel that there was a powerful mental force that suddenly and inexplicably locked onto her.
'How is this possible?'
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