Mecha Star Wars.

Chapter 1591 Mental Control

Lu Shiman longed for it, but unfortunately, due to genetic limitations, he was unable to absorb spiritual energy.

She was utterly disappointed. She couldn't understand why Lin Fan, who clearly knew all along, would deliberately let her witness these things, stirring up an unattainable hope.

Antonio, however, sensed an opportunity to stir things up and patted Lu Shi on the shoulder to comfort him:

"Can you imagine things beyond your comprehension if you don't see them with your own eyes?"

"Now I know, but what good is it?" Lu Shi said, looking down in frustration.

"It's about the thought process! What I'm teaching you is the thought process!"

"But the guide's spiritual power cannot be manifested externally at all..."

"Who says it can't be manifested externally? Have you tried it?" Antonio retorted. "Just now, didn't you also think our water-based abilities were just healing spells? What about now?"

"..." Lu Shi blinked. "If guides could fight with mental power like sentinels, why hasn't anyone mentioned it all these years?"

“So everyone’s trapped like you, huh?” Antonio said, shaking his leg playfully. “Your world is dominated by Sentinels. Genetic optimization is for Sentinels, even Guides were created for Sentinels. Do you think they’d give you any chance to be on par with them? Think about your poor… sorry!”

Antonio had intended to use Isolde as an example, but then suddenly remembered that she was Lu Shi's mother. It was inappropriate to be so hurtful, so he immediately stopped himself and apologized.

"So, you mean the Guide's true abilities have actually been concealed and misunderstood by the Sentinels for all these years?" Lu Shi asked incredulously.

“That’s possible. At least they definitely don’t want you to be too powerful. Otherwise, why would they pamper their guides?” An Dingsao replied. “Don’t use protection as an excuse. Look at our ship, do you know Wu Yi? She’s just a chubby little nurse. She didn’t know anything before, she was even worse than you, but now she’s a Golden Core cultivator!”

“You know about the Golden Core stage, right? It’s a realm slightly below mine. In our entire Noah’s Ark, besides Hani and me, she’s ranked third among all the crew members. Isn’t that amazing?!” Antonio raised an eyebrow at her.

"Impressive!" Lu Shi turned in his direction, her eyes full of curiosity. "What about Miss Lan? How impressive is she?"

“Her…” Antonio thought for a moment, “She’s good at healing magic, and I haven’t actually seen the rankings. But in terms of healing magic, she’s the best. Of course, that doesn’t include me and Honey, we’re too far behind them to be ranked. But in terms of combat power, she doesn’t actually have much self-defense ability. She’s somewhat similar to you guides.”

"We were in Annemo before, right? We always had to protect her. She felt like she was a burden to us. After joining the Noah, she consciously started learning physical skills and offensive abilities. Although it's still early, the future is promising... On the Noah, true care is not about spoiling, but about making them strong, so they can be self-reliant and protect themselves."

"Look at you Sersorn, on the surface you dote on your guides, but you practically turn them into useless people who have no sense of self. It is clearly the Sentinels who need the guides more, but in real life, the guides depend on the Sentinels more."

"If it were genuine love from the bottom of their hearts, that would be fine, but now, the guides are being secretly hampered and deliberately suppressed by the sentries at every turn... No wonder only those guides who have climbed to high positions and have some experience can see through this truth. But in the end, there are too few of them, and they have no power to resist, so they can only let the situation spread."

"Then what can we do?" Lu Shi asked. "Even the elders can't help me. I'm just a nobody who's only just started and hasn't even become a guide yet. There's no way I can turn things around."

Antonio clicked his tongue: "Everyone talks about strategy, strategy is very important! Did you think I showed you those moves for nothing? From healing to attack, the core of water-based attacks remains the same, what has changed is the external form and the internal idea."

"Whether your mental power can manifest externally is not up for discussion. Haven't you ever considered that the ability to heal the Sentinel's mental world could also be used to attack, restrain, or even control and destroy?"

Lu Shi stared blankly, muttering in bewilderment, "Can... it be?"

In Therthorn's mind, guides were born to heal the mental pollution of sentinels. No one would ever consider the possibility of sabotage or restraint.

“It’s not about destruction!” Antonio covered his head. “Control, do you understand control? Actually, I think that in the relationship between a Sentinel and a Guide, the Sentinel’s dependence on the Guide is also a kind of mental control, except that this may be formed quietly during the Guide’s healing process, rather than being actively exerted. I think you can consider trying this approach.”

"...What should we do?" Lu Shi asked.

“How would I know?” Antonio spread his hands. “I don’t have any mental power, and I’ve never been into the Sentinel’s mental world. Honey, honey, come here!” He turned to call Lin Fan, and when Lin Fan came closer, he said, “This little girl doesn’t know anything. If you ask me, I’ll know even less! You tell her.”

Lin Fan's idea to have Antonio demonstrate wasn't a sudden whim; he simply said:

"I suspect that the pollution of the Sentinel's mental world comes from the collapse of genetic defects."

She saw that thing under the water source, which was constantly emitting a corrosive gas and polluting the core, and she even took action to purify it.

She had some suspicions at the time, but out of caution, she only evolved a portion of it, and kept that part a secret.

Sure enough, in the detailed report later provided by the White Tower, the Sentinel's genetic defect values ​​were significantly improved compared to before.

Lin Fan thus confirmed his guess: she did indeed have the ability to improve the Sentinels' genetic defects, but she had no intention of stopping this trouble.

Moreover, her realm is comparable to ascension; what she can do easily does not mean that ordinary crew members can do it as well.

Unaware of the true situation, the Guides Association believed that Noah's healing magic could improve the Sentinels' genetic defects.

Soon, the Sentinel Association also found out.

Later, when negotiating cooperation with the official Thersorn, it wasn't too difficult. They used a rough outline of the data from their gene optimization experiment from years ago as a condition for the exchange—Thersorn was eager to solve the genetic defects in the Sentinels.

Even at the level of Type III civilization, artificial gene experiments still have various flaws, and the results are unsatisfactory.

The Noah's healing spell precisely addressed Therthorn's most pressing need.

Whether it's clearing away contamination, creating new weapons with built-in buffs, or repairing genetic defects, each one is an irresistible temptation for Sersorn, which has led to the Noah's status rising higher and higher.

Lin Fan did not intend to personally intervene in the racial problems of Sersorn, but he did not mind taking this opportunity to reveal the core of the contamination to Lu Shi.

“When cultivators enter the spiritual world, the way to eliminate pollution is through cleansing and purification, while you guides use your own spiritual power to fill the missing parts of the sentinels and balance the collapse of the world. In essence, it is repair,” Lin Fan said slowly.

The Guide's genes originated from the Sentinel's initial split and were then enhanced. Therefore, when the Guide's mental energy enters the Sentinel's mental world, it naturally neutralizes the chaos, stabilizes the imbalance, and achieves a temporary state of stability.

Once the environment reaches a balance, the source of the collapse will stop generating pollution; the part strengthened by the guide will then repair the damage, squeezing out the living space of the remaining pollution, thereby gradually eliminating the pollution value.

Because of the complementary nature of their genes, the Guide's mental power is only effective on Sentinels. To other non-Sentinel gene carriers, they are no different from ordinary people.

Lin Fan browsed through a large amount of academic materials on guides and combined them with her own experience to arrive at this underlying logic. She directly pointed out the fundamental principle of guide healing to Lu Shi.

"So, fundamentally, it's because sentinels can't live without guides, and guides, unless they face dangerous environments directly, don't actually face a survival crisis. But what we're seeing in reality is quite the opposite," Lin Fan said coldly.

"In my view, only when the guides truly have the ability to restrain the sentinels can they break the established pattern and achieve a real change in status."

“I’ve tried it. Objects in the mental world can be altered.” She looked at Lu Shi, who was visibly shaken. “If the guide, during the healing process, not only removes the contamination but also makes some deliberate modifications, like the mental dependence that the Sentinel develops on the guide, creating other mental imprints such as mental hypnosis or invisible control, the Sentinel itself wouldn’t be able to detect it, or even if it did, it wouldn’t have the ability to remove it, right?”

Lu Shi was dumbfounded, frozen in place, his worldview almost turned upside down.

Antonio jumped directly from the sofa to Lin Fan's side, his eyes sparkling with excitement.

"This is going to completely overthrow Sersorn! Honey, you're so naughty, I love it!"