In this way, Shado quickly flipped through the volumes of books related to magic and Netheril in the collection room, and then turned to other aspects, pretending to be searching for information seriously or collecting intelligence greedily.
A few hours later, he rubbed his slightly raised eyebrows and left the collection room with some unfinished thoughts. After that, he did not look for Orin again, but left the library and even the level of the Temple of Stars on his own.
However, he did not return to the Nese embassy, but went straight to the Linaneus city area of Taivimansa, where the big tree named Linaneus was located, and it was also the Moon Shadow family tracked by the Rich Envoy.
Hiding place.
It is also the core sphere of influence of Daphne, the prophet and adviser to King Erlan in Taivimansa.
As he walked, Xia Duo was sorting out the information he had just seen in the collection room in his mind. The bloodline ability to trace back memories does not allow him to achieve a true photographic memory, but only allows him to recall scenes from the past.
Reminiscing in a way similar to re-experience can restore all the details, but the shortcoming is also very obvious, that is, the results cannot be obtained directly.
You also need to go through a set of experience processes. Of course, during this process, Xiaduo also developed a search method that adapts to such a process to improve the search speed.
But this method does not change the essence of "retrieval = re-experience", it just skips most useless information through certain tricks.
This process is somewhat similar to searching for keywords on a computer, but the computer itself will not display all results according to specific keywords. It also requires a search process or relevant settings in advance.
What Xia Duo now calls sorting out information is actually a process like this. He first uses the specific conscious information related to the Yueying family in his subconscious to lock in the relevant scene in his memory in the collection room.
Then accurately trace back the relevant scenes. This is the trick. When tracing back to specific time nodes, you still need to make fast or slow conditional progress like watching a movie to obtain the "focus" effect on the target information.
In fact, it is to transfer this part of the information that was originally swept away and stored in the subconscious mind to the conscious mind, and form a more profound short-term memory.
It allows Xia Duo to have an impression of the information without retrospective memory, and then perform post-processing on the information, which is the process of thinking, and form a more profound long-term memory.
Some of it becomes subconscious information again, but the next time he encounters a relevant situation, he will quickly remember this processed information.
For example, after hearing the name of a certain Moon Shadow family member, you can immediately think of intelligence information related to that name.
If there is no such process of retrieval, analysis and reprocessing of information in past memories, then when Xia Duo encounters relevant situations in the future, at most he will have some so-called "intuition".
If the subconscious mind does not pay enough attention to this information, even intuition cannot be generated, and even if it is generated, it may not be noticed by the conscious mind.
After all, any intelligent creature will actually produce a large number of intuitions at any time, but a few intuitions are so strong that people cannot ignore them, while the vast majority of intuitions are ignored.
Especially for Xia Duo, who can analyze the subconscious mind, if he always pays attention to the specific details of the operation of the subconscious mind, then he will not have any time to care about external things.
The simplest breathing is a kind of intuition. If you have to take care of even breathing, then why don't you need to take care of it?
In fact, although Xia Duo has been able to integrate part of his subconscious mind, he mostly gained the speed of retrieval of his own consciousness through this method, and the operation of his subconscious and superficial consciousness is still maintained in its original state.
Otherwise, does he have to control every breath by himself? Does he even have to control all the nerve and muscle activities related to breathing?
This is indeed what Xia Duo can do, but it is not necessary. The clear division of labor between subconscious and superficial consciousness is very effective. More importantly, through the layering of consciousness, it provides additional spiritual protection for intelligent creatures.
Shado had seen a special creature in the etheric plane whose consciousness was powerful enough to produce psychic powers. It was the twisted phantom that was the main source of Netheril spiritual materials in the past.
This kind of creature certainly has a strong consciousness, and most twisted phantoms can produce psychic powers. For those who cast spells without targeted psychic protection measures, they are simply like natural enemies.
But such a special consciousness also brings a problem, that is, one's own mind is almost undefended, and mind interrogation is not 100% useful for intelligent creatures like humans that have latent and explicit consciousness systems.
After training or some people who are born with such talents, they can completely make completely opposite judgments on the same thing consciously and subconsciously.
To put it simply, it is the ability to lie, because most psychic spells cannot analyze the subconscious mind in detail. The most they can do is detect consciousness, so that they can "lie".
But for creatures like the Twisted Phantom that don't differentiate between latent and expressive consciousness at all, just a mental link is enough for the linking party to obtain all the information.
Moreover, Twisted Phantom, as an intelligent creature, has a bigger flaw. Since the way they communicate with the outside world is through spiritual link, this makes them unable to even lie verbally when facing outsiders.
Chateau does not admire lies, but lies are the mediator of complex social relationships, which prevent people from having to make choices between either/or, and are also the last guarantee of individual privacy.
If you don't even have the ability to lie, then it would be too sad for you to be an intelligent creature.
In fact, the twisted phantom is indeed a race where the strong even control the consciousness of the weak. Almost every twisted phantom hopes to get rid of the link with their superiors.
In addition to the individual will being forced, the biggest disadvantage of this kind of link is that the superior can force the subordinate to dedicate themselves, and then transform the superior into a king.
This is actually a choice that every twisted phantom at the upper level of spiritual link will make. Even if it is already a king, the dedication of the subordinates can still make it improve.
Of course, in order to maintain a deterrent to other kings of the same clan, the Twisted Phantom King will also selectively retain his subordinates instead of merging them all and swallowing them.
The reason why twisted phantoms attack humans is that on the one hand, their kings really want to gain improvement from the minds of other creatures, but on the other hand, the twisted phantoms themselves want to do this.
They actually do not wish to kill humans, but wish to leave the etheric plane by inhabiting human hearts.
Because the spiritual link cannot cross planes, as long as you can go to the material plane, even just passing by, after returning to the etheric plane again, as long as you do not encounter the previous superior, the broken spiritual link will not be automatically restored.
And if they can gain independence, those twisted phantoms usually choose to stay away from their own kind, and even stay away from all intelligent species, because they understand that all intelligent creatures are potential targets for attacks by the kings of their own species.