Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 845 - 401: The Wet Nurse of the Omniscient World, Star Chanter_3

[It advises you that it would be in your best interest not to oppose the "Polar Star Association." You are indeed powerful to it, but there are many within the organization who are more powerful than you. If you answer its questions honestly now, it will forgive your disrespectful actions.]

Lin Xun was shocked.

"Little brother, do you even understand the situation?"

He decided to give the "Apostle" a good lesson and obtain clues about the Polar Star Association’s intelligence.

Being attached to a Shell, one usually can only access the deepest memories within the Shell. The Polar Star Association, hidden in the darkness, seemed quite large and rich in intelligence. Obviously, one could not understand it all from memories alone.

Lin Xun didn’t bother with idle talk and decisively pulled out the newly acquired "Time Prison."

[...]

[Seeing you take out the "Knowledge Illusion Trap Device," the Apostle let out a disdainful smile and said without a second thought, its faith was unshakably devout, how could you expect to break its will with mere torture?]

[You might as well save your energy. To tell you the truth, the carriage’s destination is the Polar Star Association branch, where a "Star Realm Envoy" presides. Whatever punishment you’re planning to use, do it quickly. Once the carriage reaches its destination... that will be your doom!]

[You ignore the Apostle’s babbling and fiddle with the trap device in your hands...]

[The Apostle scans the surroundings, apparently looking for a chance to escape the carriage. Its gaze eventually focuses on the trap device in your hands, sensing it carefully, and then its expression changes dramatically.]

[Wait!]

[Just as you were about to activate the trap device, the Apostle shouted out... is what you have in your hands the "Time Prison"?]

[But its shout was ultimately a bit too late. Countless tiny characters transformed into white light, instantly enveloping the Apostle’s entire body...]

[It seemed to have quite a significant amount of knowledge, for it did not immediately fall into the illusion under the white light’s envelope. It resisted the illusion’s invasion with all its might, sweat the size of beans seeping out on its forehead...]

Seeing this, Lin Xun decided to lend the Apostle a helping hand.

He harnessed the Soul Power and Flesh Authority to operate the Shell, lifting the "Sword of the Bloody King" and sweeping it across, slapping it harshly on the Apostle’s forehead.

Under the subtle control of the Flesh Authority, it was guaranteed not to harm the enemy but only to render them temporarily unconscious.

"Flesh Authority is really handy, it can even achieve such delicate manipulation..."

An Apostle’s intentions could influence a Shell’s actions, but some delicate manipulations were difficult to achieve in the game.

Now with the existence of "Flesh Authority," Lin Xun only needed to drive the power within his soul to make the Shell accomplish things previously impossible.

The Apostle was slapped into seeing stars without a word and fell into the Knowledge Illusion, entering the "Time Prison."

Lin Xun still had compassion. He only set the "Time Prison" for fifteen seconds. With the perception of time flow slowed, it equaled a half-month in solitary confinement.

[...]

[The white light faded, and the "Knowledge Illusion Trap Device" stopped operating.]

[You pat the Apostle’s cheek, waking it from unconsciousness...]

[When the Apostle opens its eyes, however, they are filled with a vacant stare, and it takes a long time to come back to its senses...]

Lin Xun’s heart skipped a beat.

Could this kid be that fragile? How could a Mage with extraordinary mental strength not bear even half a month in solitary?]

In the "Time Prison," there was no light, no sound, nothing at all, just the endlessly lingering darkness.

One couldn’t do anything there but stay in place and keep company with the oppressive, dead silence.

He had heard that in reality, an experiment in ’complete isolation’ had been conducted, where participants endured a form of torture similar to the "Time Prison," being cut off from most senses.

Of course, the Time Prison was ten times, a hundred times more terrifying than the ’complete isolation’ experiment.

After a brief novelty, participants plunged into immense fear, with all sorts of bizarre hallucinations cropping up in their minds.

Having endured for a mere 48 hours, each participant suffered varying degrees of psychological trauma.

If the experiment lasted longer, the participants would collapse, their self-identity would get lost in infinite chaos, becoming utterly insane.

[...]

[It took a long while before the Apostle came to its senses. It grabbed your thigh tightly, tears and snot streaming down as it muttered that it would tell everything, begging you not to lock it in the "Time Prison" again...]

Before Lin Xun could ask, the Apostle began to spill the beans about the Polar Star Association rapidly.

As Lin Xun listened, he involuntarily furrowed his brows.

This organization named the "Polar Star Association" was even more vast, even more terrifying than he had imagined.