Mecha Star Wars.

Chapter 1418 The Difference in Mental Strength
What are the drinks like in StarCraft?
Lin Fan took a few sips and, as usual, couldn't taste anything, but it did feel different from the drinks she usually had.

Some drinks, when shaken, create miniature nebula-like vortices in the cup; others look like green grass juice, instantly boosting your energy bar after drinking—a kind of interstellar, enhanced Red Bull; still others resemble liquid gel, looking rather unappetizing. But after forcing myself to pour it into my mouth, it miraculously melts into a liquid, sliding down my throat, leaving only a refreshing coolness…

Putting aside the taste, the novel sights and experiences certainly added a lot to my knowledge.

In contrast, Antonio was very disappointed – the "phantom wine" he had been looking forward to did not work at all to create an illusion.

He refused to believe it and drank several cups in a row. Then he started cursing the official Xing Shu for false advertising, opened his personal terminal, and shouted that he would file a complaint.

It's unclear which keyword was triggered, but the service robot that the researchers had been pulling to answer questions suddenly rushed in front of Antonio.

[Dear guest, we have detected that the service provided by Liuguang has caused dissatisfaction. Please inform us so we can resolve the issue immediately.]

"Wow! You've got a pretty good sense of service." Jin Sichen, holding a glass of magic wine, crossed his legs, enjoying watching Antonio make a fool of himself.

Antonio's emotions were interrupted by the sudden appearance of the robot. He paused for a moment, then picked up the robot, pointed it at the empty and full wine glasses, and began to complain.

After Baba finished speaking, he realized that the robot did not respond. Then he remembered that the other party was displayed in subtitles, so he quickly manually flipped it back to the front and casually made a sarcastic remark.

"It's all so high-tech now, how come there's not even a voice function?"

"Guest's request has been identified. Voice function activated." The little robot suddenly spoke. "Inform the guest that, in order not to affect the sound effects inside the Flowing Light building and cause too much noise interference, the service robots are all off by default and only communicate in screen display mode. Guests can turn it on or off as needed."

“That makes sense,” Cen Fangyuan nodded, sitting on the other side of Lin Fan. “The music outside was so loud just now, it’s quite reasonable that the robot couldn’t hear what was going on.”

Antonio didn't care about any of that. Just as he was about to ask more questions, the little robot spoke again.

"The drinks reported by customers do have a hallucinogenic effect, but it only has a very short-lived, temporary effect on customers with lower mental strength. Flowing Light Entertainment adheres to the Interstellar Mental Protection Regulations and will never sell products that exceed safe limits and have a harmful effect on mental strength."

The subtitles were displayed simultaneously on the monitor, and Antonio only realized what was happening after listening to and watching them.

"Does that mean I'm unaffected because of my high mental strength?" He blinked.

It seems like a good thing, but...

His high expectations were dashed, and Antonio's emotions wouldn't be completely dispelled by the other party's explanation.

"Then you should clearly state that in the official introduction!" He wasn't going to let it go easily, even if the other party was just a robot. "Wouldn't all my anticipation over the past few days have been for nothing?"

Just as Qi Mai was about to speak, the little robot's voice rang out first.

"Yes, sir." The official product page flashed quickly on the monitor, then rapidly switched to the wine category, zooming in again and again. "It's clearly marked at the very bottom of the details page~ Please take a look!"

When Antonio browses the StarNet website, he mainly focuses on the pictures and general descriptions. There's so much new and interesting content waiting for him to explore; he's hardly going to click through to the details one by one.
"Alright." Lin Fan reached out and pulled the dumbfounded Antonio to sit down, casually grabbing a drink and shoving it into his hand. "To put it bluntly, isn't it just a lethal agent? I found it unbelievable when you told me it could be openly sold here. Does this make sense?"

“In H country, this kind of thing is contraband. But he’s from P country, so our standards are a bit different,” Cen Fangyuan whispered to Lin Fan. “The circumstances are different; we can’t use our original rules to judge him.”

“Indeed,” Jin Sichen nodded in agreement, “but according to what the robot just said, it seems that a small dose is allowed here. I didn’t feel anything, but did any of you experience short-term hallucinations after drinking this?”

Jin Sichen raised her glass. Many people said they had it, while others had never tried it before and came over specifically to taste it.

“I did.” Cen Fangyuan smiled wryly. “The moment the tongue entered my throat, the scene of working alongside the old man flashed through my mind.”

He lowered his eyelids with a touch of nostalgia: "I was wondering why I suddenly thought of that, since I wouldn't make that connection in the current environment. Turns out it was just an illusion."

Everyone else shared what they saw: hometown, relatives, memories... The process mostly lasted only two or three seconds, so brief that those unaware of the reason might think it was a sudden flash of memory.

The final tally revealed that, aside from Lin Fan and Antonio, only Jin Sichen was immune to the Illusion Wine. "That shouldn't be!" Antonio frowned, looking at Jin Sichen. "Is your mental strength higher than Wu Yi's and the others?"

As is well known, as one's cultivation level increases, one's spiritual sense, or mental power, also increases accordingly.

Jin Sichen is only at the Qi Refining stage. How could he remain unmoved while Wu Yi, who is at the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment, experienced a momentary flashback?

"It can't be that just because you study psychology, your mental strength is exceptionally high?" Antonio couldn't understand.

“It could be because of his talent,” Lin Fan said. “His ability to instantly hypnotize someone with just a glance is also a manifestation of high mental strength, isn’t it?”

“…Isn’t it because of his special eyes?” Antonio paused for a moment. “I always thought his talent was his eyes, otherwise why would he always wear sunglasses that look like they’re welded to his face…Speaking of which, it was so dark on the way in, could you see anything with sunglasses on?”

"Thank you for your concern, I can see very clearly." Jin Sichen grinned at Antonio, then turned to Lin Fan and said, "I also think that my control comes from mental power, but I can't do it when I close my eyes... So my eyes must play some special role, but I don't know if they have any other role besides the release channel, and how much of that role they play."

Unlike Lin Fan and the others, Jin Sichen doesn't have regenerative abilities, so she can't just gouge out her eyes for experiments.

Even Lin Fan and Antonio wouldn't recklessly harm their bodies, especially vital organs like their eyes or internal organs—who knows if they'll ever fully recover?

“If you can’t control it with your eyes closed, it’s not a problem with your eyes,” Antonio said, pointing to the crowd of onlookers behind him who were listening to their conversation while also eating and drinking. “Those with low cultivation levels can’t control their mental power. You can ask them if you don’t believe me.”

Everyone nodded in unison.

“It’s not impossible,” Lin Fan pondered. “It’s possible that after your abilities improve, you’ll be able to control your mental power without using your eyes. And I think your eyes might not only be the channels you mentioned, but also have the function of a directional amplifier.”

"What do you mean?" Jin Sichen leaned forward.

"Isn't your so-called channel just cheating, like punching two holes in your mental barrier to release your weak mental energy directly to the outside?"

Seeing Jin Sichen nod, Lin Fan continued, "But I've been thinking, can the mental power of the Qi Refining stage really control and hypnotize others instantly? And in the beginning, before you started cultivating, you didn't have acquired mental power, but your talent has existed since childhood."

"So Jin Sichen's eyes themselves must be a body imbued with extremely strong spiritual power?" Cen Fangyuan guessed. "The spiritual power he cultivated later was from a different source?"

"I don't know," Lin Fan shook his head. "I'm just guessing. The mental power carried by Si Chen's eyes might be similar to a high-level mental power, but it's completely independent of physical cultivation. If not, then to achieve the hypnotic effect he had before, the not-so-large mental power would have to be amplified during the output process. Moreover, since he can use it on targets in his field of vision, aren't his eyes also a kind of directional aiming device?"

Jin Sichen and the others fell into deep thought.

"So his eyes are useless to us because our original mental strength is higher than the mental strength he was born with, right?" Antonio asked.

"It's probably still due to the octopus-man genes. Don't we all know the advantages of the genes of advanced civilizations?" Lin Fan nodded. "After all, this is the most obvious difference between you and me and others."

The concept of spiritual power originated from the divine consciousness of the Immortal Cultivation Star, but since arriving in interstellar space, the idea of ​​converting it into spiritual power has been frequently mentioned, and everyone has realized its importance.

Everyone fell into deep thought. The private room was completely silent, and even the faint, ethereal music coming from outside could be clearly heard.

"Stop thinking about it! Stop thinking about it!" Antonio, naturally the most impatient, jumped up and shouted, "If you can't figure it out, you'll understand it when the time is right. We're here to have fun today. Hey robot, come over here and tell me what other fun things you have to offer?"

"There are many!" The lights around the little robot flashed incessantly. "Guests can directly start the 'Consciousness Online Game' in the private room and enjoy various games in a virtual game world with a virtual identity. They can also enter the social interface to connect with people from different planets who have social tags and engage in real-time social interaction over a long distance; when singing and dancing in the private room, they can also activate the holographic dance service, with selected virtual dance partners to dance and sing with them..."

“What’s that?” Antonio pointed outside the private box.

The floor there actually lifted the dancers on it up, and they even changed direction in the air. They flew horizontally, diagonally, and even spun upside down.

The dancers seemed to have broken free from the constraints of gravity, dancing wildly in the air, instantly captivating everyone's attention!