Chapter 3355: Interrogation of Carano: The Origin of the Illuminati

In the command network, Xia Duo reduced the frequency of his participation in commanding frontline operations and put more energy into sorting out the data collected from the Tear Lake Operation.

This part of data is not only very large in quantity, but more importantly, it exists in the form of subconscious information in the mind network.

Among the Alliance mages recruited at the moment, Xia Duo is not the only one who can interpret subconscious information, but he is the only one who can interpret it directly.

Perhaps there are other mages who can do it, but they did not report to the Alliance in advance, and Xia Duo could not ask one by one, so he just assigned their respective tasks according to their reported abilities.

And the work of interpreting that part of the subconscious information was completely taken on by himself. To be honest, if this work was done by others, Xia Duo might not be assured.

Fortunately, he did not have to interpret it by himself as he did at the beginning. He also had a very useful tool, which also played an important role in previous operations-

Intelligent Brain.

In essence, it is a thinking cluster composed of Xia Duo's consciousness copies in a certain way.

Although some of the important privacy information was deleted, the intelligent brain composed in this way can still be used to assist in interpreting subconscious information.

This is the meaning of tools, which can greatly save time and energy for users.

That night, Xia Duo sent the first batch of information to the Sheshi Magic Research Laboratory, that is, all the magic network status information including the details of the Illuminati rituals in the Tear Lake Operation.

How to eliminate interference information and accurately find the part corresponding to the details of the Illuminati rituals requires the researchers of the Sheshi Magic Research Laboratory to do it.

Xia Duo can certainly do it himself, but his efficiency in doing such things alone is definitely not as good as that of multiple mages together, and he has not yet sorted out all the information collected in the Tear Lake Operation.

For the time being, there is no time or energy to participate in the work of the Sheshi Magic Research Laboratory.

Fortunately, the first batch of information has been sent, and there will be about four or five times the first batch in the future, plus the scattered information that is still coming from the front line.

If nothing unexpected happens, it should be possible to gain something, of course, the time of harvest is critical.

Therefore, Xia Duo does not want to be passively led by the Illuminati by the nose. He also wants to regain some initiative as much as possible, and he is by no means helpless about this.

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Yongle City

In the laboratory, Shado calmly arranged various protective measures, and then a statue of an elf with a struggling expression and slightly distorted movements quietly appeared in the open space reserved in the center of the laboratory.

This is the high-level mage Carano of the Moon Shadow Family that he had captured in Tevimansa before!

Before in Tevimansa, Shado had a brief conversation with the prophet Daphne, who was suspected to be the leader of the Illuminati. Through that conversation, he saw the other party's firm determination not to give up until the goal was achieved.

And the Moon Shadow Family is likely to be deeply involved in the Illuminati, and Shado is not going to waste words with this Carano anymore. In fact, he had dealt with the other party earlier. In his opinion, this is not a good person to deal with.

So, he simply checked the other party's status, and then began to make a copy of his consciousness.

This can be regarded as Shado's three-pronged approach to interrogate high-level mage prisoners-first imprison, then make a copy of his consciousness, and finally directly and violently analyze the other party's consciousness.

He obtained the spell [Consciousness Cage] in the projection plane, and then combined it with the original [Enlightenment] (essentially creating consciousness copies) in the main plane of Netheril, which was used to create tower spirits, and finally formed the current interrogation method.

During this period, any high-level wizard that Shado interrogated has never failed. The only problem is that the consciousness copies created are limited (some prisoners need to be handed over to the Alliance), and they cannot interpret all the information they want.

In addition, interpreting the subconscious is a huge project. With limited time, it is basically impossible to do everything in detail, so there must be a tendency, and therefore there will inevitably be omissions.

But no matter what, in terms of information acquisition efficiency, it is still far beyond the conventional interrogation methods.

Furthermore, if enough consciousness copies are created, or the prisoner's body is retained, as long as there is time in the future, it can still be analyzed.

The consciousness of a high-level wizard contains all his memories, as well as a large amount of subconscious information that he may not even know. This is a huge treasure without any meaning.

In the early stage, it was used to obtain specific information, which was equivalent to digging a shovel at random. The remaining undigged actually accounted for the vast majority. Xia Duo could not do a treasure with only one shovel.

In the future, it must be fully developed.

However, he was busy with too many things. If there were no special circumstances in the future, he would not analyze it himself. It is likely that he would set up a special project and hand it over to the people of the Tower of Time.

As for now, for the sake of efficiency, of course he had to do it himself.

…

Unknowingly, a night passed. After a complicated and boring analysis of consciousness, Xia Duo's understanding of Carano was probably second only to Carano himself.

He mainly searched for Carano's consciousness information in two lines. One line was the Moon Shadow Family where Carano was, and the other line was of course the Illuminati.

The former allowed Xia Duo to understand the origin and development history of the Moon Shadow Family, as well as some major events in the past few hundred years, while the latter also verified Xia Duo's previous speculation.

The Moon Shadow Family and the Illuminati do have a very deep connection!

The origin of the Illuminati was very early. At first, it was just a folk belief circulated among the lower-level elves, believing that a savior saint would be born in the future to save all suffering.

Including but not limited to the oppression of the wood elves.

But after Arivanda won the Crown War, the Illuminati and similar folk beliefs were hit, and the belief in the Elf Lord (official name is the Elf Guardian God and the God of Victory in War) rose at the same time.

It's just that the more folk beliefs are hit, the more they can survive. If they are left alone, they may dissipate on their own.

The Illuminati undoubtedly belongs to the former, but in the process of development, the belief was gradually distorted by the influence of the outside world. It no longer believed that a savior saint would be born in the future to save all suffering, but believed that the Elf Lord could save all suffering.

Perhaps this is also an important reason why the Illuminati has been passed down from nearly ten thousand years ago.

Of course, none of this matters, because with the existence of the Wise, the Illuminati with the Wise and without the Wise are two completely different organizations.

The latter no longer exists today, and is most likely one of the origins of the Druid Sunlight School. (The Sunlight School still believes in the main god of the elves, but focuses on the application of sunlight spells, and may also be influenced by the Lord of Radiance, which was born earlier than Netheril)