"What... what are you going to do?"
Watching several Mechanism Automatons carry helmet-like objects over, while others pushed boxy cabinets resembling small carts behind them, then begin connecting cables and forcibly fitting the helmets over their heads, the two men could not help panicking.
But their captors held the knives, and they were fish on the chopping block. Powerless to resist, the two men were eventually fitted with Terminals, and the reading of their thoughts began.
Their consciousnesses were somewhat muddled, but as the Probes went deeper, releasing spiritual power to stimulate their brain bodies, the memory reading began to show results. Their thoughts and feelings surfaced, along with their shallow memories from the recent past.
All of this was faithfully recorded by the intelligent machines under Heavenly Pivot's control and converted into models of the Spirit-Particle Memory Meme for easy integration.
Before long, the two men felt waves of wrenching pain in their heads and simply passed out, but Li Chen had finally obtained what he needed.
Once he integrated their memories and examined them, his heart immediately sank.
They really were probing our strength!
The two men had not lied. They truly belonged to the Divine Sword Gate and the Spirit Firmament Gate.
They were affiliated with an organization on the Earthly Immortal Continent called the Immortal Alliance, a union of Spell Dao and Sword Dao cultivators that professed to eradicate evil and defend the Dao, taking opposition to the Outer Dao as its duty.
The evil they spoke of did not mean demons, but heretical factions and the Demon Dao. The Outer Dao referred to the likes of Martial Artists and Puppet Masters-primarily Puppet Masters.
Their mission was to investigate the strengths and weaknesses of the Guangyun region and uncover everything we have!
*Luckily, my true strength