"dark clouds"
"This is not the kind of information I can tell you," Mao Ting said. "I'm sorry, I can't tell you."
"Is it because speaking out would have a negative impact?" Xu Wei propped up his head and measured his expression. "Your expression betrays you."
Mao Cheng was stunned and subconsciously adjusted his expression.
"You lied to me?" he reacted.
Xu Wei shrugged: "Sorry, the people stationed at the transfer station by your interstellar civilization are not very good at hiding things."
Mao Ting struggled: "The thing most correlated with increased ability is not mood swings."
"That is, it is relevant but not significant."
He lowered his head and fiddled with the instrument.
Xu Wei continued: "Is it because knowing it would not help the players to improve their abilities? For example, after I realized that rage would improve the effect of my skills, it became more difficult for me to have this emotion. Otherwise, I really don't understand why they didn't announce it if there was a shortcut."
Mao Cheng stopped fiddling with the instrument and sighed: "Your analytical ability has also improved a lot."
Xu Wei smiled: "So, do you have any information you can share about my guess?"
He raised his hand and tapped a few times on the screen in front of him. The two purification chambers on the side deflated their air with a hiss and the glass covers opened.
"Go in." He waved his hand.
Xu Wei and Lu Fanye lay down in the purification cabin, and the clean cabin door slowly closed.
The cabin vibrated slightly due to startup, the purification power was fully turned on, and the light from the instruments was a bit dazzling.
The "pollution level" wave line displayed on the electronic screen above my head started very high and was showing a downward spiral.
Although he didn't know why Mao Cheng suddenly asked them to enter the evolution chamber while they were chatting, Xu Wei still found a comfortable position to lie down and waited for the purification to be over as usual.
Mao Cheng walked closer, walked around their cabin, checked the data overhead, recorded it, and went to work on the side.
Xu Wei lay in the cabin and let his mind go. Halfway through, he opened his bracelet and recited the initials and photos of the presidents on the kill ranking list. He was in a daze for a while, and the data barely dropped to 1%.
Mao Machi appeared next to the cabin almost at the moment when the wave line was infinitely close to 1%.
He knocked on the cabin door of the two people with his fingers, signaling them to pay attention, and then operated on the information screen of the goggles for a while, and suddenly a blue transparent information board appeared in the closed cabin of the two people.
As he left, there was the sound of a purification chamber deflating.
Soon, a line of simple large characters appeared on the information panel.
[We are using the newly established internal network, and we are in a clean room, which can prevent "it" from snooping to the greatest extent. 】
Xu Wei realized that this might be the only time Mao Ting was willing to tell them higher-level news.
She held her breath, squinted her eyes and stared at the pale blue screen without blinking.
A color animated picture was uploaded.
This is the view from space near Earth.
In the magnificent and boundless sea of stars, the black matter that covers the sky and surges is like a huge black cloud, enveloping the beautiful blue planet. It is also like a black sea filled with despair and falling, dragging a long, endless thick body, stretching into the depths of the distant starry sky.
Just the photo gives off a huge sense of oppression.
[Due to certain characteristics and its unique appearance, we call "it" - in Earth-speak, "dark cloud."]
Xu Wei recognized the name very much. She looked at the "dark cloud" and was shocked by its physical existence.
This is a "cosmic creation" that even the "male voice" from higher dimensions envies.
[It first invaded the remote star systems of the alliance, and then began to erode the core star regions. We resisted stubbornly for many years, but still could not find a way to eradicate it - until Akacilia's star appeared, and she predicted that you - the humans on the other side of the starry sky, have special powers.]
[Xu Wei, your guess is actually very close. Words describing this ability have already appeared in some of the human literary fantasy works in the past, but you seem to have only regarded it as a science fiction guess and have not realized that you actually possess this ability.]
Xu Wei was slightly startled.
[When designing the system, the people at headquarters named this ability as you call it - "mental power", but I do not accept such a casual definition. Perhaps, using another more formal word in human language can highlight its greatness -]
【Willpower.】
【This is a unique talent that you humans are born with. By understanding the composition of this power, we created the Judgment Game, presenting the will of every human being in the form of "skills" or "props", and splitting the "dark clouds", and achieving the final purification through your use of skills and props. In a sense, players rely on themselves to pass the dungeon. 】
Xu Wei touched the information screen tentatively, and an input box popped up at the bottom. It was the nine-character input method that she was most familiar with.
[Spiritual power... it's really an old setting. So, the emotional fluctuations I just mentioned can strengthen our will? ]
There was a pause for a long time, so long that Xu Wei thought he had fallen asleep, before a new text appeared on the message screen.
【It can be understood this way. Willpower is a precious spiritual wealth of mankind. Its upper limit is very high and can be steadily improved through the struggle against pollution. My teacher is doing a related topic recently. The research shows that the growth of willpower will experience a "stagnation period" and requires internal or external stimulation to break through. External factors are what I call facing pollution, including daily clearance, and emotions are the most favorable internal stimulation. 】
Xu Wei was silent for a moment.
[Just like the upgrade I made when Yuhuan died? ]
This time I waited for a long time again.
[That's right. In addition, emotional fluctuations can temporarily increase the upper limit of willpower to a certain extent. Every player can achieve the effect of amplifying their abilities through the impulse of certain specific emotions. For example, in your case, it is anger.]
Xu Wei's hand stopped typing, and he inexplicably thought of the popular sentence on the Internet before he was pulled into the copy - "Woman, your name is XX."
For her, "XX" should be changed to "rage".
Mao Cheng endured the hardship for a while.
[If willpower is the source of purification, then emotional fluctuations are the sharp blade that puts this power into practice. Among the tens of thousands of samples captured so far, some players have been polluted and almost crazy, but they can still stubbornly retain the last bit of rationality, relying on the emotional fluctuations deep in their minds. ]
[Emotions are the most primitive and uncontrollable impulses. Even if the mind has fallen into madness, humans can still rely on them to break through the defenses of pollution. Anger, jealousy, resentment, hope, calmness, optimism... Whether positive or negative emotions, they are extremely effective weapons.]
Xu Wei raised his eyebrows in understanding and started typing.
[So I guessed right, this is why this information cannot be made public? Precisely because it is uncontrollable, when I realized that using skills when furious would be more effective, it became increasingly difficult for me to make myself furious. ]
[That's right. In addition, the "dark cloud" itself knows very little about your power. It can only instinctively feel that the higher the level of the player, the greater the threat it poses, but it doesn't know what exactly purifies the pollution. Once this news leaks in the transfer station, the copy creatures will become increasingly difficult to deal with. ]
Xu Wei typed hurriedly.
[But it has planted a core pollution source in me, hoping to increase the pollution when my emotions are fluctuating. Has it already known this information? ]
Mao Cheng's replies were getting slower and slower.
[Based on previous research, I don't think its intelligence reaches this level. Although its individual parts have higher or lower self-awareness, as a whole it tends to be a low-thinking creature that acts according to its nature, just like you humans are to animals.]
[Its special attention to you is just like the natural reaction of animals when they are threatened: defense, attack, and kill in advance. As a high-dimensional creature, its natural reaction is much more complicated than that of animals on Earth. Of course, I don’t know why it is threatened by you at the moment.]
Hearing this, Xu Wei felt a little relieved.
She still hopes that "Dark Cloud" has more shortcomings.
The sheer power was enough to make one breathless, and coupled with his superior intelligence, there was no way he could even think of winning.
[If you are worried, I will strengthen data monitoring based on the speculation that the "dark cloud" may have a high-level consciousness.]
Xu Wei felt relieved a little. After thinking about it, she decided to ask her last question.
[So why did you tell us? Aren't you afraid it will be leaked?]
This time, Mao Cheng responded quickly.
[Just think of it as... I sensed the choice of time. ]
The moment this sentence came out, there was a knock on the cabin door. Mao Cheng had already left the cabin and was holding the glass cover to help them deflate the air.
Xu Wei climbed out, and before he had time to savor the last sentence, he saw him stagger, and hurriedly helped him up: "You look very ugly."
Mao Chow stood firm and smoothed his messy white coat: "I'm used to it."
Xu Wei glanced at his bloodless lips and asked, "Can you tell me?"
"No need." He shook his head, straightened his collar, and walked back to the instrument table alone, holding on to the edge of the cabin.
"I'm going to teach you how to use the Cosmic Connection." He leaned back in his chair and took a breath.
"Can't refuse?"
"No. Come here and hold the bracelet against the side port of my goggles."
Xu Wei then pulled Lu Fanye over.
The data transmission between the bracelet and the goggles takes some time. The three of them fell silent. Xu Wei looked around the room, seemingly unintentionally: "So, what is Lu Fanye's blade?"
Her question was so abrupt that Mao Cheng was stunned and couldn't react for a while to what the "sharp blade" was.
"His emotional weapon." Xu Wei added.
Mao Ting shook his head when he heard that. "Emotional weapons can only be felt by oneself. I also came up with this through analyzing your feedback over the past few times."
They both turned to look at Lu Fanye, who was obviously also thinking about this question: "My feelings are not very obvious."
"That's it." Mao Cheng nodded.
"Not everyone is like you. Every time you clear a dungeon, you will shout about your state of mind and feelings at that time. Similarly, not everyone will have drastic emotional fluctuations. Don't forget that calmness can also be used as an emotional weapon." He looked at the numbers on the goggles and complained, "Of course, as a researcher, I have to thank you for providing a typical sample."
Xu Wei cried out that it was boring.
Mao Ting ignored the noisy outside world, and focused and seriously projected the simulated connection program onto the screen beside him, preparing to start teaching.
"Mao Ting, I have another question," Xu Wei said, "In this instance, except for me, all other players, whether they are ability users or item masters, lack offensive means. Did you arrange this on purpose?"
"In order to... allow me to better control the copy?"
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