"They have ultimately come to hunt us down in this world."

Ni Ge clenched his fists: "These insects... they want to exterminate us completely!"

Zhou Yi was a bit puzzled: "Are you saying that the insects from the Mud Tree World are hunting the Mud Tree People?"

"Yes, Chairman."

Ni Ge looked at the Evil Brain in the metal container with urgency: "We used to casually squash these insects for many years, eliminating them by various methods. In their eyes, all of these are evidence of slaughter and cruelty towards their swarm. Once they became powerful, they surely sought revenge!"

Zhou Yi felt something was off, but it also seemed to make sense.

"For other Dead Sea creatures, they are more restrained and do not hunt them on a large scale. As long as one does not approach the insects' nests, they are left alone. But when it comes to us Mud Tree People, they don't spare anyone, hunting us everywhere!"

Ni Ge waved his arms excitedly, even the adventure vine wrapped around him twisted its branches wildly.

"Not only have they gnawed down the Sky-reaching Tree, but they also hunt us all over the world."

"These insects can parasitize, enslave, and control our kind, but with other creatures, they rarely do this, often just killing them for food."

"This is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth! Pure revenge, not only to destroy us but to reduce us to their former status, turning us into their insects..."

Ni Ge looked up and sighed: "Now they have completely fused with this brain, indicating progress in that direction, able to cross boundaries. With this first one, there will definitely be a second, a third..."

Unable to help himself, Zhou Yi looked toward Da Vinci: "Is this true?"

The silent Mechanical Doctor finally spoke: "Not at all."

"Firstly, the insect swarm of the Mud Tree World, if they had high intelligence, could potentially enslave and raise Mud Tree People. But according to Ni Ge, the insects there do not possess an intelligence advantage, primarily relying on their numbers and evolutionary capabilities to break through. By consuming the Sky-reaching Tree, they destroyed the foundation of the Mud Tree People's survival."

"We have analyzed the Evil Brain, and this insect life within did not exhibit intelligent feedback. Whether inside the container or subjected to external pressure, they remained unmoved, their responses stuck in instinct and conditioned reflexes."

"This brain has indeed been modified and enhanced, the swarm and the brain have achieved symbiosis, but the brain itself has lost its ability to think independently."

"They follow a path of strong survival and low intelligence, developed to a rather mature stage, in stark contrast to the Cave People."

Zhou Yi listened and nodded.

This matched the conclusions of the Panoramic Reading.

The Evil Brain itself had low intelligence, but strong consciousness intensity.

Da Vinci added: "We conducted numerous simulations with data and consulted Miss Chen Yin as an advisor in the information field. She provided critical judgments, which I will let Miss Chen explain for more accuracy."

Few in the company knew about Chen Yin's identity as the Book-eating Demon, Da Vinci was one of them.

The Book-eating Demon said: "This brain is very unique; I've never seen anything like it before."

She leaned close to the metal container and tapped the crystal window with her finger.

"The Evil Brain houses a massive amount of consciousness fragments. Except for the Dream Demon's consciousness, the insects have no true self-awareness, meaning they lack self-concept. So their low intelligence conclusion is correct."

"But they possess a unique power derived from their material bodies. These insects connect to form a special biological conduit that can lock consciousness fragments, accumulating and storing them without letting them scatter, akin to a special large net."

Zhou Yi was somewhat astonished: "They used this ability to capture the Dream Demon?"

"That's the only possibility."

The Book-eating Demon nodded.

Through the observations window, her eyes stared intently at the black brain: "The material side and consciousness side influence each other; any power developed to the extreme on either side produces astonishing strength."

"When a person loses their sight, their hearing sharpens. For vegetative patients, their sensitivity to consciousness far exceeds that of other people, extremely keen."

"The insects in the Evil Brain maximized the vitality of the material side, abandoning thought, forsaking the pursuit of individual self and consciousness freedom, focusing solely on survival evolution."

"In their world, the only standard is survival."

"Amazing life forms, capturing consciousness with materiality, even the Light Core Body can be caught. Such life forms do not exist on our side. I can't stay too close or I might be captured."

The Book-eating Demon lightly sighed, her eyes gleaming with joy: "If only the Book of All Living Beings could use them as a medium, it would be unimaginable..."

Zhou Yi listened patiently.

"This seems to be a bit off-topic."

The Book-eating Demon snapped back and smiled at Zhou Yi: "But my findings actually have little to do with these insects. The main point is the locked Dream Demon inside."

She drew a circle on the crystal window with her finger.

"The Dream Demon is a very special life form, traveling between the consciousness side and material side."

"What I know is that they enter and exit every being's dreams, hunting the necessary consciousness fragments. Once they mature and become Skywalkers, they vanish without a trace. But in this world, many beings remain shrouded in mystery, so it's not a big deal either."

"After all, aside from infiltrating dreams, Dream Demons pose little harm."

"However, this one inside the Evil Brain is an exceedingly rare Light Core Level Dream Demon. So I was very interested and studied it thoroughly, even delving directly into the Evil Brain's consciousness world."

"And then I discovered something very interesting."

The Book-eating Demon looked at the brain in the metal container: "That guy has been dismembered into consciousness fragments. But after being dismembered, the insects stitched it back together, using it as a consciousness tool."

Zhou Yi felt slightly horrified: "Is that Dream Demon still alive then?"

"Half-dead, half-alive, this is the first time I've encountered such a situation."

The Book-eating Demon stared at the Evil Brain without blinking, tsk-ing: "In any case, this is an exaggeration of ability that I've never seen any other life form achieve. I can't do it, nor have I heard of any Concept Life capable of this."

"One of the advantages of dismembering and stitching the Dream Demon back together is that its self-awareness struggles to function, so it becomes part of the swarm, merging with their consciousness fragments..."

"I suspect this is their survival mechanism, encapsulating and linking the external consciousness fragments. Thus constructing consciousness networks to capture any approaching entities."

"Previously, Ni Ge mentioned that there are no Great Holy Spirits or similar beings in the Mud Tree World. As a Skywalker, he should be able to sense them."

She looked at the nearby Mud Tree Person.

"Indeed, we don't have a concept like the Great Holy Spirit... very strange." Ni Ge stroked his chin, finally catching on.

The Book-eating Demon said: "I boldly speculate it's related to these insects. They forcibly absorb a vast number of consciousness fragments, immobilizing and preventing the basic consciousness units from flowing and reassembling, rendering the consciousness side almost static."

"When the swarm utilizes such developed brain organs, they can capture complete conscious entities and transform them into necessary survival tools, enhancing their consciousness-capturing ability."

She paused briefly: "This sounds a bit convoluted, but these are crucial points that must be mentioned to reach the final conclusion."

Zhou Yi nodded.

To him, these were indeed important pieces of information.

The insects of the Mud Tree World possess extreme consciousness-capturing abilities, even reducing a Light Core Level Dream Demon to their tool.

He couldn't help but ask: "Why only the Dream Demon? Didn't they capture other consciousness entities?"

"Good question."

The Book-eating Demon continued: "The material layer has the best stability and uniqueness, but its sealed structure dictates its limits."

She pointed to the observation window: "The current material intensity of the Evil Brain can only house a Light Core Level Dream Demon, which is its present limit. This brain can only hold a single nucleus and cannot accommodate more such vast conscious entities."

Zhou Yi suddenly understood.

So the brain's capacity is full.

"Upon discovering this, I wondered if this thoughtless brain could dream? If the Evil Brain doesn't dream, why would a Light Core Level Dream Demon find it?"

Unexpectedly, the Book-eating Demon's eyes flickered with a shimmer: "Strange, right?"

Zhou Yi agreed: "Indeed."

He had only encountered one Dream Demon, but it was clear that Dream Demons are cunning and shrewd, unlikely to take risks without benefits.

"So I decided to delve in and see. Because the Evil Brain's Light Core capacity was full, if it wanted to catch me, it needed to release the existing Dream Demon or forcibly dismember me. Either way, the Evil Brain's power would be divided, unable to fully target me."

"I had to read its deep-layer information in the shortest time possible, confirming why the Dream Demon entered the brain's dream."

The Book-eating Demon continued to narrate.

"I won't elaborate on the process. Despite many difficulties, I survived."

"But in the Dream Demon, I found something interesting..."

The Book-eating Demon fell silent.

She then transmitted her voice directly into Zhou Yi's mind.

"Fragments of the Dream Demon's true identity were hidden among the broken consciousness fragments. I found a lot of information within, and one very noteworthy point..."

"Among the known information, the Black Emperor is already dead."

Zhou Yi's eyes narrowed.

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