"Failure." 496 spat out two words coldly.
Xiang Fan refused to accept this and gritted his teeth to try again. The second time, he carefully adjusted the pulse fluctuations, but accidentally input too much psychic energy. The mecha's shield shook, and the system locked up, triggering the self-destruction again.
"It exploded again." Xiang Fan turned around with an embarrassed look on his face. "Master, is this damn thing targeting me?"
496 snorted softly. "I'm not targeting you. I'm telling you—invading this route is a life-threatening situation. Don't be so naive."
The third time, Xiang Fan was very careful and even adjusted the pulse intensity to the lowest. As a result, this time the mecha did not explode, but did not move at all, and even the shield did not fluctuate at all.
"Okay, it won't explode this time." Xiang Fan scratched his head cheerfully, "Even though it didn't succeed, it didn't fail either!"
496 looked at him coldly: "Your actions can only be regarded as steady incompetence."
“…” Xiang Fan took a deep breath and concentrated again.
He recalled the logic of psychic nodes and rune connections explained by his master, and began to adjust the frequency and waveform of the pulse.
This time, he finally found the weakest psychic node, and the psychic pulse was like a precise scalpel, gently cutting into the shield.
"It's done!" Xiang Fan waved his fist excitedly, and the shield went out instantly, leaving the target mecha in an unprotected state.
496 nodded with satisfaction. "Not bad, you're learning faster than I expected. But don't get too excited, this is just the beginning."
"Getting started?" Xiang Fan's eyes widened. "Master, this crappy mecha took me three tries to use. I'm almost bald. And this is just the beginning?"
496 ignored his complaints and threw him a more complicated set of runes and data.
A densely packed psychic circuit diagram appeared on the light screen. At the same time, the new task interface displayed: dynamic battlefield simulation, requiring simultaneous control of the mecha and completion of the psychic invasion.
Xiang Fan stared at the screen, stunned. "Isn't this just forcing people to split their consciousness?! Master, you're increasing the difficulty too quickly!"
A faint smile played on 496's lips. "No one on the battlefield will wait for you to learn slowly. Invasion, operation, combat, you can't fall behind in any of them. If you don't want to be eliminated, you have to hold on."
Xiang Fan was about to cry, "I'm not learning a skill, I'm learning the art of cloning!"
After a few days, Xiang Fan was finally able to complete the basic operations of mecha control and psychic invasion simultaneously.
He sat in a virtual classroom, with increasingly complex psychic runes and rune array formulas jumping across the screen.
The formula floated in the air like starlight, sometimes turning into flowing light patterns, and sometimes turning into formation models.
496 said calmly, "The essence of psychic intrusion is to use psychic energy and runes to simulate the opponent's network system and penetrate the target's core through psychic resonance."
Xiang Fan felt dizzy. "It sounds a bit like a combination of talisman array and hacking technology."
496 nodded. "That's right, but to do it accurately, you need to master the frequency of psychic resonance and learn to adjust the stability of psychic energy in real time.
Otherwise, the psychic backlash will cause you great pain."
He tried to run the rune array, channeling psychic energy into the shield of a virtual mecha.
However, just as it touched the core, the psychic energy suddenly went out of control, and the simulated mecha directly counterattacked, bursting out with a dazzling light.
"Failed." A cold prompt popped up on the screen, as if mocking his incompetence.
"This is too much!" Xiang Fan covered his head, feeling that his brain cells were almost burned out.
496 sneered, "If this were a real battlefield, your soul would be shattered and you'd have to wait in line for reincarnation."
Xiang Fan took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and readjusted his strategy.
He suddenly remembered the "psychic modulation wave" mentioned in an ancient book. This method can stabilize the connection by fine-tuning the amplitude of the psychic energy flow.
He quickly adjusted the parameters of the talisman array and tried again. The psychic energy wave smoothly penetrated the shield. This time, a victory message appeared on the screen: "Target system successfully hacked."
Xiang Fan jumped up excitedly: "It's done! I told you I can do it!"
496 raised an eyebrow, chuckled, and asked, "Not bad. Who taught you the principle of modulation waves?"
Xiang Fan scratched his head. "Uh... I just read this in a book before. I thought it was useless and unpopular knowledge."
"Unpopular?" 496 sneered, "On the battlefield, these 'unpopular' things can save lives.
Continue to deepen your understanding, psychic invasion is far from as simple as you think."
After several days of intensive practice, Xiang Fan's understanding of psychic invasion gradually deepened.
He realized that psychic invasion was not a forceful intrusion, but more like a resonance, just like tuning music, finding the opponent's most vulnerable "tune" and then breaking through the defense in one fell swoop.
"Master, can this technique really be used in actual combat?" Xiang Fan asked with a blink of his eyes.
496 glanced at him, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly. "Of course. On the battlefield, it can not only paralyze the enemy, but also instantly turn the situation around. But remember, the cost of failure is also huge."
Xiang Fan clenched his fists, his eyes ablaze with fighting spirit: "I understand! Master, I will definitely not let you down!"
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