Humans walked on the ground or flew, covering visible distances. Modified Humans could do the same, but they had one additional way to move: through a unique space made of light. It was not actual distance, but more like a human network—one that could also carry physical objects.
That was where the Mechanical Giant Claws came from.
A flood of memories poured in. Lu Yin absorbed the Modified Human's memories and learned that this place lay at the border between the Technology Starfield and the Inner Universe, not far from where Ghost Marquis had dragged him in before. He also learned that Modified Humans could receive commands through that unique space of light. They had no need for Personal terminals at all. The network connection humans believed existed in the Technology Starfield was an illusion.
Even more incredible, Lu Yin discovered that the Technology Starfield was a single whole, a unified system whose Main Brain's thoughts spread outward, linking the entire starfield through manifested thought. Those unique beams of light were the Main Brain's thoughts.
Thoughts could actually become physical. If he had not seen the Modified Human's memories, Lu Yin would never have believed it.
So the cloud of light that carried Yiben City, along with those air ducts, was all manifested thought.
He had been inside someone else's thoughts all this time. The realization sent a chill through Lu Yin.
It was a terrifying possibility: the entire Technology Starfield was under the Main Brain's control. If Lu Yin had not merged with a Star Envoy Level Modified Human, he could never have learned this. An ordinary Modified Human would not know.
Modified Humans could not betray their masters. Luo Huang was a Half Modified Human, born human rather than a Modified Human occupied by a controlling consciousness. That