"What are you doing? Giving them a bath?"
Li Xingkong walked up behind Tang Cheng and suddenly spoke, startling Tang Cheng.
"Oh my god! It's you, Brother Li! You scared me to death!"
Tang Cheng turned his head and saw that it was Li Xingkong, looking startled.
He was, after all, Foundation Establishment cultivator, and when someone suddenly touched him from behind without his noticing, he couldn't help but be startled.
However, upon seeing that it was Li Xingkong, his initially shocked expression returned to one of normalcy.
If it's him, then it's not surprising. It would be strange if he could sense a powerful cultivator approaching him.
"These guys are really stubborn, so someone in our Inspection Department came up with a plan."
Tang Cheng pointed to the bucket of water in front of him.
"The snails on our Earth Star are afraid of salt water because it causes them to release moisture from their bodies upon contact. So they thought they could try this on these larger snails."
Tang Cheng chuckled and splashed the ladle of salt water in his hand away.
The Snail People, soaked by the salt water, let out another strange cry. If you looked closely, you could see some liquid seeping out from the soft skin of the snail that had been soaked by the salt water.
It's just that because of its large size, the salt water wasn't very deadly.
"Weren't they still discussing whether or not to torture them?"
Li Xingkong's eyebrows twitched, and with a flick of his wrist, a spray of water shot up from the bucket, like a water gun, and landed on the Snail People.
"This isn't punishment, it's just giving them a bath."
What Tang Cheng said was indeed true; from any perspective, washing him with water really couldn't be considered a form of punishment.
"Can the language of these Snail People be deciphered?"
Listening to the Snail People's constant cursing, Li Xingkong couldn't understand a word, nor did he intend to learn their language.
"It's fine now. We got it from the other prisoners. As Snail People's prisoners, they've long forgotten their native language and only remember the Snail People's common language. But this has saved us a lot of trouble."
"So you can understand what this guy is swearing at, right..."
Li Xingkong's hands didn't stop moving. Aliens, or invaders, he could give them a few more hits without feeling any guilt.
"A little bit, I guess. I haven't studied these guys' language much, and they're really stubborn; they won't cooperate at all."
"Didn't you cast a spell on them?"
"I used it, but these guys are a bit tricky; neither hypnosis nor truth-revealing techniques worked on them."
"We've already taken some tissue samples from them for research, and the interrogation is basically on hold until the research results are available."
"Oh? The spell isn't working?"
Li Xingkong became interested.
"Let me see one."
Upon hearing Li Xingkong's words, Tang Cheng stepped forward, opened one of the cages with a snap, and then reached out and pulled out the Snail People inside.
With a flick of his Li Xingkong immobilized the Snail People who had been captured, holding it in place in mid-air.
Then, Li Xingkong's Divine Sense surged into the Snail People's body like a tidal wave.
The Snail People's structure is different from that of Earth Star People; there are significant differences between the two.
However, as carbon-based life forms, they still share some similarities in their most basic components.
Li Xingkong's Divine Sense swept through the inside of the Snail People's body, quickly passing over a large amount of meaningless bodily fluids and physiological maintenance systems.
After scanning through them once, Li Xingkong identified the nervous system of these Snail People.
The Snail People's nervous system is different from that of a human; it is itself a thin, transparent, membrane-like structure.
After using his Divine Sense to penetrate its nervous system and sever its senses, Li Xingkong studied it briefly and found out why it ignored these spells.
"The nerves of these Snail People are interconnected, similar to the principle of infinite power transmission. As long as multiple Snail People are nearby, their nervous systems can connect autonomously."
Li Xingkong slightly provoked the Snail People's nerves, and the other Snail People immediately rolled over as if they had been pricked by something.
"When you used the spell to torture it, the Snail People under the spell went into an abnormal mental state, and its body was controlled by the other creatures that weren't tortured, which is why the spell didn't work."
If other cultivators were to study this, they probably wouldn't be able to figure anything out, since this thing requires at least a pair of Snail People to be present in order to discover it.
"Goodness, so that's how it is. Looks like these guys still need to be detained separately."
After hearing what Li Xingkong said, Tang Cheng understood. No wonder he never saw these guys talking or communicating. It turned out they had another way of communicating.
"No need, I'll try."
Now that Li Xingkong has taken action, he is naturally prepared to resolve this matter.
Li Xingkong quickly scanned the Snail People's nervous system with his Divine Sense and soon found the memory structure of this Snail People.
That's right, what respectable cultivator would go to such lengths to interrogate these guys and determine whether their words are true or false? That would be too much of a waste of time.
If you want to know something, just search for it in their memory.
Li Xingkong acted quickly. He first searched the Snail People's memory for the written language it possessed, and then used his Magic Power to temporarily create a translator so that he could understand the Snail People's language.
Since the compiler is based on the language structure mastered by this Snail People, it naturally has no problem understanding the Snail People's language.
It can even quickly find the corresponding meaning of some words that contain a lot of information and have built-in hyperlinks.
As for words that come with hyperlinks, there are plenty of such words in the Divine Land language, like Mencius' mother moving three times, or the proverb "three men can make a tiger"... all sorts of idioms with allusions are hyperlinks.
After mastering the language, Li Xingkong began to search through the Snail People's memories.
First and foremost, what he wanted to know was why these Snail People were so fearless.
Or rather, why are they still refusing to cooperate even after knowing that their main ship has already been destroyed?
With this question in mind, Li Xingkong began his search, and soon Li Xingkong the memories of the Snail People ' interactions in the cage.
The amount of information was substantial, and Li Xingkong became somewhat serious as he listened.
These Snail People are really fearless.
However, their ideas are somewhat flawed.
According to what I remember, before their flagship was destroyed, they were not panicked at all because they firmly believed they would not lose. Even if they were captured, in the end, when the warships appeared in the sky, the Divine Land side still had to obediently release them.
After their main ship was destroyed, they were initially quite panicked, but after a discussion among the Snail People, they came to a conclusion that was both laughable and absurd.
The fact that they were able to destroy their star destroyers means that this civilization is powerful enough, and is definitely not an inferior civilization on a planet.
The current cosmic order tends to be stable, and any civilization that is strong enough will definitely join the Pan-Civilization Convention. This Convention also has provisions for prisoners of war, and prisoners of war basically have no safety.
Li Xingkong was very interested in the Convention in his mind and found the relevant provisions regarding prisoners of war through a link.
"Prisoners of war must not be intentionally harmed, their lives must not be endangered, they must be provided with sufficient food, and they must not be mistreated Dao of Humanity..."
The Snail People's memory contained hundreds of relevant regulations, and the content of these regulations was many times better than the existing prisoner-of-war treaties on Earth Star.
The reason this thing can be implemented is mainly due to the Pan-Civilization Convention organization behind it.
This organization is very strong!