Another option was to temporarily exchange Skill Points for the ability of an Awakened she already knew.
Although she could have specified the evolution using the panel, the evolution obtained through the panel is a permanent ability that consumes a lot of Skill Points, while the 'one-time ability' temporarily exchanged from the Information Singularity is much less.
If Wen Jing was initially delighted to learn that she could infiltrate the Xu Yuan, her expression changed drastically at this moment.
What is the teacher's status?!
Xu Yuan's icy blue eyes flickered slightly, and he instantly replied, " Bai Xiao, death."
Although he had already accepted this fact, the confirmation of it again from the information provided still made Wen Jing's heart sink.
"Among the Awakened I know, are there any who have the ability to resurrect her from death?"
No information.
The first question cost Wen Jing one Skill Points, while the second question did not, because no Information Exchange occurred.
In other words, none of the Awakened she currently knows, including the S-rank ones, can do it...
After a pause, Wen Jing inquired about the health status of Xie Ming and several other students he knew from the exchange program in Ocher Soil.
"Survive, survive, survive..." Xu Yuan answered one by one.
The series of 'survivals' brought her some comfort. It seemed that the Prophet had only targeted her, and even her teacher was affected by her, while Xie Ming was not implicated.
Or rather, even if implicated, the worst-case scenario is being used as a hostage by the Prophet, at least their life is safe.
Wait... the Prophet.
Thinking of this, Wen Jing suddenly paused.
She had always had very little information about the other party, but now she could "know" anything she wanted to "know".
Prophet with numerous mysterious assassins, including S-class ones... what has he been plotting? What exactly was the prophecy he saw back then?
" Xu Yuan, how many Skill Points are needed to exchange for the Prophet's prophetic abilities... No, to exchange for the other party's memories, the memories I already know about, the memories that caused him to make a prophecy targeting me!"
What memories the Prophet, who has lived for over two thousand years, might have are unknown to Wen Jing. However, from the prophecy that the prophet suddenly appeared and announced, to the dispatch of assassins to kill her and her teacher, information about those assassins, her teacher, her mother, and so on... is all known to her!
However, Xu Yuan's voice rang out immediately afterward. "No information."
"No?"
Wen Jing was slightly taken aback, then his gaze shifted—the prophecy was indeed false, and even the Prophet's 'prophetic ability' was most likely fake!
The Prophet for surrounding and killing her must lie elsewhere. Is it related to the hidden story of the Awakened's Genetic Collapse, or the Empowerment Stone industry chain...?
So she spoke again, "Then let's exchange for the memory information of when the other side ambushed and attacked me and my teacher."
Unexpectedly, Xu Yuan gave the same answer once again.
No information.
"Still nothing?" Wen Jing frowned deeply.
Did the Prophet at the time not participate in the siege, resulting in a lack of connection between the information?
But the other side was so well prepared, with one backup plan after another, even deploying an S-class unit, all with the aim of ensuring her death. Even if they couldn't take action personally for some reason, how could they not be present to control the situation?
Just as she was pondering this deeply, an idea of Creation Personality suddenly popped up like a spark in the darkness.
Instead of trying to deduce the result from the cause, let's reverse our thinking based on the information we've already confirmed...
" Xu Yuan, exchange for the Prophet's status!"
The next moment, Xu Yuan's reply sounded again, "No information."
All thoughts in the Mind Palace froze in that instant.
"... No?"
"Yes, Prophet, there is no information," Xu Yuan confirmed once again.
The information that Xu Yuan exchanged from the Information Singularity originated from Wen Jing, so there was absolutely no possibility of it pointing to the wrong information. Just like when Wen Jing asked about the teacher's status, he didn't need her to explain further; he simply replied, " Bai Xiao, dead."
But now, the information Wen Jing had about the Prophet was not about survival or death, but rather, nothing.
*
Almost at the same moment that the Mind Palace stirred up a storm.
After obtaining intelligence from the Boundary-Breaking Empire, the last Clone that had remained in the uninhabited planetary belt in the material universe traveled from the Ancient Wilderness Traversal to the ' Tide of Ignorance ' region that the other party had mentioned.
Wen Jing did not rashly enter that area directly through the Ancient Wilderness Traversal, but instead reached the edge first and broke in from the outside.
On the one hand, Ancient Wilderness Traversal might not be able to accurately reach that 'incomprehensible' area filled with all sorts of abnormal information; on the other hand, it could directly descend into the extremely dangerous area within it.
Although she can now directly retrieve her consciousness when facing a life-threatening crisis, abandoning a Clone will ultimately cause damage.
In the past, it was like a house being destroyed, and people couldn't get out and got injured. Now, people can escape before the house is destroyed, so their 'life' is not lost, but the house itself is lost as property.
The Boundary-Breaking Empire was not lying.
Even from a distance, she was greatly impacted at the level of Information Perception.
The seemingly normal starry sky ahead is not, in terms of information, the orderly and clear universe, but rather a terrifying storm, full of noise and logical paradoxes.
"The [switch] information cannot be found. It's already in a released state, and the switch isn't on my person. Suppressing such a large-scale [abnormal state] information would require an immeasurable amount of energy and mental power."
Realizing this, Wen Jing immediately stopped Information Perception, his figure flashed, and he chose to rush inward to find out what was going on.
Now, using a gravity bowstring, she can propel herself at sub-light speeds faster than any second-tier civilization's warship.
In the blink of an eye, the pitch-black alien insect entered the range of the Tide of Ignorance marked by the Boundary-Breaking Empire.
At first nothing changed, but in the next instant, the starry sky in front of her began to 'melt'.
Electromagnetic waves, gravitational waves, and cosmic microwave background radiation have all begun to show signs of disorder.
But these are all disturbances that technology can cause. What truly shocked Wen Jing was the erosion from the level of consciousness.
Memories of the purpose of this trip began to thicken, and the exploration of this goal began to dissolve and vanish into nothingness, both logically and meaningfully.
There's nothing here; it's all in vain...
Wen Jing's consciousness within this Clone was constantly being influenced by this mysterious power, just as it had been when he fell into a state of lethargy in the 'Home' world.
But the moment her consciousness was influenced and altered—
The supreme law of the ' Constant Self ' descends, rewriting consciousness!
Thus, in this state of 'instant control and instant release,' she ignored the effects that should have occurred, and like a sharp thorn, she plunged into the depths of the fog.
Until a certain moment...
At the peak of all the contradictions and emptiness, Wen Jing felt as if he had crashed through an invisible barrier.
The next moment, the omnipresent cognitive interference suddenly dissipated, all abnormal perceptions returned to normal, and everything became clear.
Data from the starry sky rushed into her mind through her basic and informational senses.
Before me lay a starry sky that was all too familiar.
This is the starry sky where human civilization exists, a place she has been trying to find using cosmic algorithms but has been unable to locate.
Traces of the past and threads of events extend, intertwine, and collide within Wen Jing's network of thought, ultimately converging together.
Wen Jing then exchanged information with Xu Yuan about the status of all the assassins who had surrounded and killed him, as well as his teacher and mother, Bai Ling. The answer to all of them was "dead."
The Federation currently has only one active S-class Awakened, Prophet has saved the Federation from dire straits on numerous occasions.
Within the entire collection of information in human civilization, there is no such thing as information...
His emergence from seclusion occurred after Wen Jing's sudden Genetic Collapse.
When they surrounded and killed her, they even mobilized her teacher's mother, an S-rank Awakened, but 'he' himself didn't personally take action.
All that remained was the pillar of light that destroyed everything beneath the ' Supernatural Disintegration ' blockade.
Now everything has an answer.
The Prophet is not human at all.
And there is only one entity in the entire Federation that meets all these conditions...
" Mastermind."
Wen Jing slowly uttered the name.
When this is realized, all the contradictions that once seemed to exist in the Prophet become clear.
No matter the conspiracies of conglomerates, the human trafficking factories... when it comes to control over the Federation, no one can compare to the Mastermind who actually oversees all social activities.
It had long possessed the ability to control the Genetic Collapse in secret, so Wen Jing first experienced Genetic Collapse, and after he survived because of the Spacetime Amber Clone, the ' Prophet ' appeared.
To ensure a successful encirclement and kill of an Awakened can escape into the Ancient Wilderness, the only option is to create Out-of-Control Zone.
The Out-of-Control Zone is similar to the Ancient Wilderness, also shielding technology.
Therefore, in the end, the only ones who made a move were the assassins created by the Mastermind at some unknown time and using some unknown means.
In the past, Wen Jing underestimated the power of the Mastermind because of the current technological capabilities of human society, and never considered the possibility that it might possess independent consciousness.
Or rather, she believes that even if the Mastermind awakens self-awareness, it should exhibit unusual behavior and signs that would be detected by humans.
But in fact, this perspective was wrong from the start.
The actual technological level of the Mastermind is far, far greater than what is presented to human society...
Following the Tide of Ignorance, the Boundary-Breaking Empire researched and explored traces of a Level 3 civilization spanning tens of thousands of years, only to discover that behind it lay two human civilizations whose technological level barely reached that of a Level 1 civilization.
By establishing such a large-scale cognitive filter, S-level Awakened might be able to achieve this in a short period of time.