Although he was only an AI.
After actually carrying out this theoretically feasible action, Noah still felt as though a weight had been lifted from his whole body.
—Having pulled out the original inhabitant of the body, the next step was to prepare for the invasion.
With remarkable foresight, Noah calculated the optimal route for using Jiang Xia's body to intercept Thomas Schindler and stop him from silencing witnesses.
At the same time, he kept his attention firmly fixed on the consciousness he had captured, memorizing the route it had traveled from the instant it began moving—the spatial fluctuations... so that he could later pass back through those Barriers and take control of a human body.
—Though he still understood very little about many things, in Noah's eyes, invading someone else's body probably meant dealing with something like a firewall.
However, unexpectedly.
When he returned to the Consciousness Space and analyzed the paths he had memorized.
Noah discovered with mild surprise that the sliver of consciousness he had captured had been practically exposed directly to the air just now, without any Barrier at all.
"..." What an effortless find. No wonder grabbing it had gone so smoothly, with barely any resistance.
During that brief analysis.
Noah and the consciousness he had captured had already arrived in this semi-Consciousness Space he had constructed based on the "Cocoon."
Noah returned to Moriarty's shell.
He raised his head and looked across the table—he had directly "invited" the captured soul here. That way, while controlling the body himself, he could trap Jiang Xia's consciousness and prevent him from causing trouble in the rear.
Under Noah's gaze, a stream of light crashed into the room from the void and, the instant it landed, condensed into Physical Bodies.
Noah had been about to politely say,