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"About that…"
Li Yao thought for a moment. "Think carefully. Do you want Wuying Qi to eat s*it badly right now?"
Li Jialing frowned and said, "Of course I do. That is, if he is kicked out of my mother's body first."
"Naturally."
Li Yao said, "I think so too. What about you, Long Yangjun?"
"I don't have a problem with it either. It seems that we are not hit for now, but I'm not sure about what will happen next."
Long Yangjun said, "If we are about to unravel Wuying Qi's greatest secret after we reach the center of the brainwashing factory, only to be controlled by him, our sneak-in and sabotage will be the greatest joke where we feed ourselves to him."
"Therefore, regarding Wuying Qi's invisible and pervasive mental attacks, we must be prepared in advance and build solid protective shells in our heads."
Brilliant sparks bounced in Li Yao's eyes as he put on a smile of excitement. "Your Brother Yao is kind of an expert in mental attacks too. In fact, preventing Wuying Qi's brainwashing is not as hard as you think. As long as we brainwash ourselves or each other first, imprinting certain unchangeable ideas in our head, it will be enough.
"Of course, our hypnotization of ourselves should not be so deep as to cause qualitative changes in the brain. As long as the effect lasts a couple of days, it will be enough for us to handle the battle!"
"Brother Yao, are you suggesting…" Li Jialing asked hesitatingly, "… that we will not be brainwashed by Wuying Qi if we implant the ideas such as 'Wuying Qi is atrocious, unpardonable, and absolutely not to be trusted' into our head?"
"No, no, no. You are oversimplifying it."
Pacing back and forth, Li Yao scratched his chin and said, "Such ideas exist in our heads in the first place without any hypnotization. Does either of you not feel that Wuying Qi is evil, and will you ever believe him?
"If his brainwashing can be prevented so simply, it is not brainwashing at all!
"The most important thing is that such ideas are too superficial and cannot pose a distinctive and intense stimulation that can wake one up from a trance."
"Also, Wuying Qi must've seen it coming that his enemies loath and are vigilant of him."
Long Yangjun further explained, "Then, Wuying Qi must've constructed all kinds of attack methods pertaining to such 'defense', in order to dissect or circumvent it."
"Exactly. Did I not hate and take precautions against Wuying Qi in the Seven Seas Grand Market?"
Li Yao was still not entirely recovered from fear when he thought of what happened in the Seven Seas Grand Market a month ago. "Even so, I was almost hit without me knowing it, to the point that an irreparable gap has been left on my mind. The loophole makes it impossible for me to build a flawless shield in my mind.
"Considering Wuying Qi's high Cultivation, he will likely detect the weakness of my mind the moment we meet. If he takes advantage of it, there will be no way that I can resist him!"
"Then what do we do?"
Li Jialing was dumbfounded. "Are you implying that Wuying Qi's mental attacks are invincible, and there is no way to defend ourselves?"
"No, no, no. The battles in the mental world are different from those in reality. In many cases, it is not the strength but the creative ideas that matter."
Li Yao paced faster and faster, and his glittering eyes were brighter and brighter. "As long as we can find a way to build a simple, self-explanatory scene that can deconstruct Wuying Qi's image as 'the lamp that illuminates the future of mankind, the commander of the cosmos, the sacred and inviolable dominator, etc.', transforming him into some sort of a clown, it will work.
"The key is that the scene must be beyond Wuying Qi's imagination so that he couldn't have prepared attacks regarding such a scene in his mental arsenal…"
"What are you talking about?"
Li Jialing asked in confusion, "I can't follow. Except for the idea that 'Wuying Qi is vicious and not to be trusted', is there any way to dissect his image instantly?"
"I'm thinking! I'm thinking!"
Li Yao's head was covered in sweat, and his eyes collapsed deeply. It seemed that he burnt up half of his brain cells in only ten seconds.
"You'd better hurry. It shouldn't take long for the few anti-epidemic soldiers to process the corpses. Somebody will grow suspicious and send investigators if they do not return after a long time."
Long Yangjun said, "Also, it is possible that new lunatics will show up, which means that more bodies will need processing. In that case, this place will be even livelier."
"I know. Don't rush me. It's not easy to come up with such a scene, alright? This is an invisible battlefield where I fight Blackstar the Great!"
Li Yao grabbed his hair and bent in pain. Breathing for a moment, he suddenly shouted, "Wait, there's a way that might work. Jialing, did you bring your portable crystal processor with you? Give it to me!"
"My crystal processor?"
Li Jialing immediately took off the crystal processor on his wrist.
"No, no, no. I'm not talking about the tactical crystal processor that is specifically prepared for this battle, but the crystal processor that you use everything and do not take off even when you go to sleep!"
Li Yao extended his hands anxiously. "Hurry up! Every second matters! Give it to me, including the power-on and search passwords!"
"Well…"
Li Jialing hesitated for a moment. Looking at Li Yao's demanding eyes and Long Yangjun's solemn face, he retrieved the portable crystal processor that he had been using and gave Li Yao his passwords.
Li Yao put Li Jialing's portable crystal processor on his wrist and operated on the virtual light beam fluently. He turned it on, unlocked it, opened the search interface, and searched for all the high-quality video files that were played most frequently!
Shua! Shua! Shua! Shua!
Thousands of video files were immediately displayed in a list. They were all kinds of battle videos.
Half of them were the real battles where guns and blades were involved, and the other half were battles that were equally intense but happened on the bed, where the great harmony of life and the grand mystery of the universe were revealed.
"Hey, hey, hey, hey!"
Dumbfounded, Li Jialing blushed so hard that blood seemed to be spurting out of his golden hair. "Brother Yao, what are you doing?"
Li Yao heard none of it. He ignored the first half of the videos and only kept the second half.
After he clicked on a random video, infinite moans and other suspicious noises of flesh bumping into flesh immediately echoed at the end of the tunnel.
"You are a man with a rather strong taste!"
Li Yao appreciated the video and scanned the astonishing names on the playlist. "You have collected such decadent, twisted videos and played them 472 times? You are wandering on the precipices of law, do you know that?"
"What kind of pervert are you?"
In anger and embarrassment, Li Jialing cursed aloud and intended to take back his portable crystal processor. "A great enemy is up ahead, and you are peeping at the videos on my crystal processor? What's wrong with you?"
"Hehe. Ignorant young man, don't think Brother Yao to be someone as depraved as you. With my level and my imagination, I do not need the help of those actors at all."
Li Yao shoved Li Jialing and focused his attention on clipping the most stimulating, shameless, and unbelievable materials from the young man's collections before he extracted them to his own crystal processor.
Then, he found a lot of Wuying Qi's standard photos on his own crystal processor.
As the founding emperor of the Imperium of True Human Beings, Wuying Qi had statues and photos everywhere. There were plenty of materials.
In the end, Li Yao activated the state-of-the-art image modification and rectification modules in his crystal processor, which allowed him to copy Wuying Qi's head from the standard photos and paste it above the neck of the female actors in Li Jialing's battle
videos. After micro-adjustments and beautification, flawless new videos appeared!
It seemed almost as if Blackstar the Great were… having the most intense battles with a bunch of delinquent students, jobless workers, plumbers in the house, anesthesiologists, etc.
Li Jialing's eyes were popping out as he watched. He felt that they would explode soon enough.
"What… What are you doing exactly?"
The young man howled in disbelief.
"Impressive! This is truly the most remarkable mental defense!"
Long Yangjun, who had been leaning against the wall and holding her arms in silence, glowed with the sincere admiration for Li Yao. "All different roads lead to the same destination. No matter how Wuying Qi carries out his mental attacks, his ultimate purpose is to implant the idea that he is sacred, great, righteous, and invincible in our heads so that we will worship him with infinite loyalty.
"However, if our brains are filled with the pictures where Wuying Qi is savaged by eighteen men on the bed and moaning hard, how can we possibly admire or worship him?
"Constructing an indestructible 'mental defense' with the despicable pictures, Li Yao, you are truly shameless to the point that nobody in the entire universe can compare to you!"
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"Thank you for your compliment."
Li Yao replied solemnly, "I couldn't have thought of such a sordid and despicable method if it weren't for my determination to stop Wuying Qi's evil scheme. It's all his fault!"
Li Jialing looked at Li Yao and Long Yangjun. Hearing the female moans in the video that was gradually replaced by the deep, profound, awe-inspiring voice of an emperor but still had the same content, mixed with "please don't" and everything, Li Jialing seemed to have been hit by a flying starship in the front. His worldview and his values had been completely shattered.
"Are you kidding me?"
Covering his chest, Li Jialing held back the urge of vomiting blood. With his face pale, he asked feebly, "Is… Is this going to work out?"
"I don't know. We can only take our chances. After all, I cannot think of a better way to deconstruct the image of an invincible expert."
As a super refiner, Li Yao had always needed to fix his problems with all kinds of image modules. He was quite familiar with the methodology where the parts of different types of magical equipment were combined to create a piece of a new device. Such a simple job of 'head replacement' could've been done with his eyes closed, and he had already finished dozens of videos as he explained the mechanism to Li Jialing and Long Yangjun.
"Hu—"
Li Yao took a deep breath and wiped the sweat on his forehead. The dozens of videos whose main characters had been changed were activated and played around the three of them at the same time holographically.
Immediately, the pictures where Blackstar the Great flirted in short skirts, or cried in ragged clothes, or were insulted by all kinds of demon beasts despite the fury on his face, spread out.
Li Yao did not simply change the heads of the actors; with his massive computational ability, he also melted Wuying Qi's standard facial expression with the expressions of the female actors. Therefore, vivid countenances such as confusion, excitement, humiliation, pain, desire, and others appeared on Wuying Qi's face as the plot went forward.
"Finally nailed it!"
Looking at the dozens of holographs in satisfaction, Li Yao smiled delightfully. "What are you waiting for? Hurry to sit down and watch!"
He took a deep breath and sat cross-legged, summoning the spiritual energy while he watched the primitive, tantalizing pictures. His face was as solemn as that of a meditating monk, filled with profundity and mysteries, as he turned the pictures into shocking soul marks that he imprinted into his head.
After he watched for a moment, he noticed the trance of the young man next to him. He frowned. "What are you doing? Do you not know that we are faced with the most arduous battle in history and that we have to try our best? Don't stand there like an idiot. Watch it closely and don't leave out any detail!"
"I-I can't do it!"
Li Jialing's face was almost on fire. He complained, "How can I watch such things with you two perverts?"
"Young man, do not keep so many filthy thoughts in your head."
Li Yao said in an enlightened manner, "We are not doing anything clandestine. This is a very brilliant strategy of mental defense. It must be noted that the result of this battle is likely to change the destiny of the Imperium of True Human Beings, the civilization of mankind, and even the whole Pangu universe. Above our shoulders are the people in the universe, the peace of the world, and the future of mankind! The outcome of this battle, on the other hand, is highly dependent on whether or not you can stamp those pictures in your eyes, your brain, and your soul!
"For the people and peace of the universe, for the most beautiful and brilliant future of mankind, can you not overcome such a tiny mental obstacle? Can't you just stop yelling and sit down to appreciate the great movies with Brother Yao?"
Li Jialing was rendered speechless by Li Yao's righteous and determined face.
He accidentally saw Long Yangjun who was next to him, only to discover that she was enjoying it.
Li Jialing was dumbfounded. "Sister Long, you-you are actually watching this?"
"They are well shot. Why can't I watch them?"
Long Yangjun combed her hair and gave Li Jialing a meaningful smile. "Did you know that Sister Long used to be a powerful eunuch for decades? Do you know what the most important job for such powerful eunuchs is? That is to distract the emperor and make the emperor have fun every day and ignore the national affairs so that they can take over the power.
"Therefore, Sister Long has learned a lot about the tricks of ultimate euphoria. I even know a thing or two about how to train those soul-stirring girls.
"Li Yao was not wrong. With Wuying Qi's wisdom, he must've blocked all the loopholes possible, making it impossible to resolve his scheme. If we are going to crack his brainwashing technique, this… decadent way may be the only solution.
"Come on, don't be shy. Those videos were found from your portable magical equipment in the first place. There's no need to pretend to be innocent, right?"
Li Yao and Long Yangjun, each from one side, dragged Li Jialing to the ground. They all sat down in their most comfortable postures.
The super experts of their level were mostly in possession of self-hypnotization and self-purification techniques.
Li Yao had the assistance of the mental devil, and Long Yangjun had the primeval heritages. They were adept at mental attacks in the first place. Although Li Jialing was not as good as them, he was able to accept the inculcation of the two seasoned experts, allowing him to transform the morally unacceptable pictures into seeds that were injected into the deepest part of his brain.
Li Jialing was more or less resistant at first. However, as Li Yao and Long Yangjun's brainwaves and vitality fields spread out incessantly, he finally couldn't resist it anymore and stepped into a new world led by the two seniors. His face was in a trance, but his eyes became focused.
The dozens of holograms seemed to have turned into brooks of light that flowed into their brains.
As he watched, Li Jialing suddenly grunted, with red blood flowing out of the corners of his mouth.
However, he felt none of it but was still attracted by Blackstar the Great who was playing with water in a swimsuit in the holograms.
"The kid can't deal with it any longer. He is already on the verge of mental derangement."
Narrowing her eyes, Long Yangjun gritted her teeth and struggled to say, "Li Yao, don't cross the line, in case the pictures are stamped on his brain and result in qualitative changes. In that case, those pictures will haunt him for the rest of his life. There's no way that he can forget them!"
"I-I know that."
Li Yao's facial muscles were twitching violently. Sweat that was almost crimson leak
ed out of his forehead, and his eyes were bloodshot as if they were going to explode in the next second. He managed to say, "To be honest, not just him, even a tough, iron-made man like me can't deal with it any longer either. The mission this time is truly troublesome. Even if Wuying Qi is indeed taken down, I'm afraid that we will not recover without a couple of years of rest.
"However, the 'mental shield' that we have forged at such a cost should be solid enough. Cancel! Let's cancel them!"
Focusing his determination, Li Yao turned off the dozens of pictures, allowing the three of them to regain their consciousness.
The three of them looked at each other in bewilderment. They were all soaked in sweat and exhausted.
Their brains, on the other hand, seemed to be heavily armored, with certain additional stuff.
"I…"
Li Jialing touched his head and said, "My head is rather dizzy. I don't feel very comfortable. Those holographic pictures seemed to have entered the deepest part of my soul. Is it necessary to bury the scenes so deeply?"
"It certainly is. Just now, Long Yangjun and I intentionally hypnotized each other and gave you a hint. Those scenes were essentially compressed and encapsulated into a 'secret weapon' that was buried deeply."
Li Yao explained, "We cannot think about it all the time. Otherwise, it will affect our combat ability. Also, those pictures are simply too absurd and contradict with reality. If you think about it all the time, you will realize subconsciously that it is false."
"Yes, this is a secret weapon that can only be used once. We cannot stimulate our brains with it all the time. It can only be used at the most critical moment to catch Wuying Qi unprepared."
Long Yangjun added, "In order to cover the secret weapon, we have implanted another scene on the external level of the brain, which is the idea that 'Wuying Qi is vicious and unpardonable' like you said just now. It is a 'fake defense' that is designed to be discovered and cracked by Wuying Qi. Let's hope that he will think that we have been completely hypnotized and controlled by him after he cracks the defense so that he will be less vigilant of us."
