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"No! But it'll be soon!" Master Lai looked at Jing Yuan and said directly, "Just now I sensed that after you pierced the Devouring Beast's spirit seed, the Devouring Beast's essence disappeared!"
Jingyuan's eyes darted around, wondering why Master Lai would notice this.
“Normally, even if the Spirit Seed of a Devouring Beast is shattered, its source essence should return to its ecosystem! But its sudden disappearance is very abnormal!”
Jingyuan stared at Master Lai. "What are you trying to say?"
"Just now, I sensed a large number of Devouring Beasts gathering around you. It seems you did something to anger them!"
Jingyuan remained silent.
Master Lai said directly, "I suspect that you absorbed those vanished source substances!"
Chapter 189 Connecting Kloto
Jingyuan stared at Master Lai, his mind racing with thoughts.
Jing Yuan suddenly smiled and said, "Master Lai, don't you think about it? How can a person absorb life essence?"
"The essence of primordial matter is also a kind of energy. Energy cannot be created out of thin air, nor can it disappear out of thin air; it can only be transferred."
"Yes, it's possible that it was transferred into the air, just like normal energy consumption!"
Master Lai shook his head, "Now the entire Earth is controlled by the Mana ecosystem. The source matter will not dissipate naturally; it will only be absorbed by the ecosystem again!"
“So…” Jing Yuan had a guess, “Mana doesn’t care at all whether a Devouring Beast is alive or dead. But if the Source Essence disappears, it will care a lot!”
"Yes!"
“If…” Jing Yuan quickly said, “I mean, if… I really managed to store the life essence of the Devouring Beast in some way, what would happen?”
Jingyuan was referring to storage; he didn't want to reveal his abilities yet.
Master Lai's face was hard to read. He replied, "If it really was absorbed by you, then that explains the rampage of the Devouring Beasts! For the ecosystem, Source Essence is everything. These Devouring Beasts you see are all part of the ecosystem, and the Source Essence of the Devouring Beasts is also the Source Essence of the ecosystem. By absorbing the Source Essence of the Devouring Beasts, you are essentially competing with the ecosystem for Source Essence. When you take too much, the ecosystem will naturally sense it!"
Master Lai's words gave Jingyuan a jolt!
It turns out to be like this!
"If the ecosystem is sensitive, what will it do?"
"Naturally... elimination!"
"You mean it wants to eliminate me? Then it can just target me alone, why surround Dragonbone Village?"
Master Lai said expressionlessly, "You can think of the entire ecosystem as the human body, and the Devouring Beasts are the white blood cells of the ecosystem. They will devour anything that is harmful to the ecosystem. When you absorb a large amount of source matter in a certain place, the ecosystem will send a large number of Devouring Beasts to investigate the place where the source matter disappears."
You must have absorbed a lot of Source Material near Dragonbone Village. The ecosystem reacted, came to investigate, and then... they discovered Dragonbone Village, an unexplorable area! If you were the ecosystem, wouldn't you also focus on investigating this area?
Jingyuan looked at Master Lai, "So what can we do now to save Dragon Bone Village?"
"The shielding system in Dragonbone Village is still effective. However, this time the Ecosystem is personally directing the exploration, giving it higher authority. But once it finds nothing here, it might abandon the exploration and leave. Or, it might divert the Ecosystem's attention elsewhere. Then, they can return to the surface!"
Jingyuan nodded, agreeing that this was the only way.
However, their most urgent task is to regain control of the lighthouse and control its ascent, so that they can remain invincible.
Jingyuan looked at Master Lai and asked, "Master Lai, since you were in Clotori back then, why did you transform into the Devouring Beast?"
Master Lai also looked at Jing Yuan, "The ecosystem isn't as simple as you think. A long time ago, it blocked the Primordial Body from accessing the Mana Network. Although Ash entered the Primordial Body's brain back then, the information he obtained was very limited! Later, Ash and the Primordial Body's consciousness fought in the giant brain, gradually forming me! In order to seek more information, I tried to infiltrate the Mana Network, but unfortunately, I was discovered by the ecosystem and had no choice but to transform into the Devouring Beast!"
"Then do you know how to take back control of the lighthouse from Clotho?"
"This will likely require re-entering the giant brain."
Jing Yuan frowned. Entering the giant brain?
"Then..."
Before Jingyuan could finish speaking, Master Lai disappeared.
Jing Yuan knew that he had deliberately severed the mental link.
Jingyuan opened his eyes and sat up in bed.
He glanced around the room; Penny was still asleep on the sofa, with the food she had brought him laid out on the table next to her.
Jingyuan covered Penny with a blanket and did not disturb her.
She was exhausted by the end of the day.
Jingyuan casually picked up the milk and bread from the table, munching on the bread as he walked out of the room.
Outside the lighthouse, peace returned to normal. As Jingyuan walked along the road, both the upper class and the common people bowed respectfully to him.
Jingyuan frowned. Since Mark came to power, he had abolished many formalities, such as bowing.
Looking into the eyes of these people, Jingyuan wondered if they were afraid of him.
However, Jingyuan doesn't have time to deal with these trivial details of etiquette at the lighthouse, nor can he care what these people are thinking!
Jingyuan's final act of killing all the rebels had a huge impact on the people of the Lighthouse.
Inside the lighthouse navigation control room, Mark and Jingnan were still trying to figure out how to regain control.
Jingyuan walked in and said to Mark and Jingnan, "I just talked to Master Lai, and he said that we need to enter the Kloto to regain control of the lighthouse."
Mark looked puzzled. "Enter Clotho? How do we get in?"
"I don't know. He left before I could even ask!" After waking up, Jing Yuan used his mental power to search the area around the lighthouse, but he couldn't find any trace of Master Lai.
Upon hearing Jing Yuan mention entering the Klotor, Jing Nan instinctively asked, "You mean you want to connect directly to the Klotor through your brain and enter it?"
"A direct connection to Kloto?" Jing Yuan asked in confusion, "Why would you propose such a solution?"
"Ever since I discovered that Kloto has the highest authority over the Lighthouse, I have been collecting information about Kloto. In the Lighthouse's records, someone once planned an experiment to directly connect the human brain to Kloto in order to awaken him."
"What were the experimental results?"
"The experimental results were not recorded!"
Mark looked at Jingnan, "Who conducted the experiment back then? Dr. Carrie?"
Jingnan shook his head. "No. It was a man named Flynn."
"How come I've never heard of him?"
"He was locked up by Morgan a long time ago, supposedly because he was conducting brain-to-brain experiments on his own."
"Where is this person being held?"
"You guys come with me!"
Jingnan turned and walked outside, with Jingyuan and Mark following behind her.
Jingnan led them to a place called the Closed Data Management Room.
As soon as the three entered, a mixture of alcohol and foul odors hit them.
Behind the gate was a culture tank containing a worm, and behind the culture tank was a human figure.
Jingnan went in first, saying, "This is my first time here too!"
In front, a robot split in two is placed on the workbench.
This is a female robot with short hair and delicate bionic skin that is even whiter than a human's. Her face is also very delicate and cute, but everything below her neck is mechanical and has no human skin.
Jingnan was captivated by the robot at first sight.
I never expected there would be such a robot on a lighthouse.
Jing Yuan was stunned when he saw it.
Isn't this just Ash?
To be precise, this is Ash's physical manifestation.
She was on the lighthouse.
Jingyuan carefully recalled the plot. When Gray stole the giant's brain, he seemed to have also taken Ash's body along with it.
Jingnan couldn't help but touch Ash's face.
Suddenly, a flippant voice came from behind: "Don't you know what you should and shouldn't touch?"
Immediately afterwards, an old man with white hair came out. Were the old man's feet still shackled?
“There shouldn’t be anything on this lighthouse that we shouldn’t touch!” Jingyuan looked at the old man and asked, “Are you Flynn?”
Flynn glanced at Jing Yuan and sneered, "Such an arrogant tone! Who do you think you are?"
Chapter 190 Flynn's Brain-Connecting Plan
Jing Yuan looked at the flippant old man and said coldly, "I'm asking you, are you Flynn?"
Flynn chuckled. "Are all kids these days so rude?"
Jingyuan was about to walk towards Flynn, but was stopped by Jingnan.
Jing Nan said, "Dr. Flynn, this is Jing Yuan, the new leader of the Light and Shadow Society, and this is Mark, the new city lord!"
Flynn looked at Jingnan with a lecherous grin and said, "I never imagined you'd grow up to look exactly like Mavis!"
Flynn tried to turn the workbench but found it wouldn't turn. He looked up and saw that Jingyuan was pressing down on the workbench.