Chen Mo quickly understood. The Precursors likely did not possess the ability to attack using mental power.
A strong mind did not necessarily mean possessing psychic abilities.
Chen Mo's telekinesis had also been acquired through X-Gene Serum in the Wolverine world. Otherwise, he would merely have possessed powerful mental strength, at most granting him some resistance to mind-control attacks. When someone else's mental power invaded his consciousness, he could only resist passively. He would have been unable to actively attack or control another person's consciousness, much less materialize his mental power for telekinetic attacks.
The Precursors were clearly in that exact situation!
Although the Precursors possessed powerful mental strength, they lacked special abilities that could wield mental power, such as telekinesis. Like a queen bee controlling its swarm, they could only exert a certain degree of control over monsters through the monsters' unique hive consciousness. Beyond that, they had no mental attack capabilities whatsoever.
Newt, meanwhile, had been a complete accident. Using the Jaeger pilots' neural handshake system to connect with a monster's brain was equivalent to abandoning all defenses and voluntarily opening his mind to the monster.
A monster's consciousness merely bore a small mental imprint from the Precursors, and its mental strength was not much greater than a human's. If there had only been a single neural handshake, it would not have been enough to control his consciousness. That was what had happened with Dr. Herman.
But afterward, Newt had continued to frequently perform neural handshakes with monster brains. While repeatedly connecting with the monsters' consciousness, he had also been infected by it, leaving the Precursors' imprint in his mind and becoming a member of the hive!
The other controlled monster worshippers had all been the same.
After confirming that the Precursors had no mental attack abilities aside