After saying goodbye to the Dragon of Imagination, Ask took Medea back to his tent and summoned Malkina using a special candle.
"So, what did you find?" Malkina, who had just appeared, said lazily, turning her gaze to Medea, "Hey, so you..."
"Sister," said Medea.
"Hmm, your memory has been restored, right?" Malkina narrowed her eyes and smiled, "Then ask, what do you want to know?"
"How did the Queen know that Emperor Otto's mind was affected?" Ask asked.
"This is a long story." Malkina said slowly.
"Please keep your words short," said Ask.
"Ahem." Malkina glared at him angrily and said in a clear voice, "Well, the clues of this matter were first discovered by Medea."
"Me?" Medea asked in surprise.
"Yes." Malkina said, "When you were a child... after that loss of control, His Majesty examined your mind and unexpectedly found traces of the mind plague in it. This plague is similar to 'implanted thoughts', but it is a high-level application of the law level. It can stay in a person's mind for a long time and can also be transmitted to the surrounding minds."
"It's equivalent to a more powerful ability to implant thoughts?" Medea frowned. "What exactly is that thought?"
"Nothing," said Malkina.
Medea:
Ask:
Both of them were a little stunned, and Malkina immediately explained:
"It's just a blank plague. It stays there for a long time, it spreads, but there's nothing in it."
"No content?" Medea showed a puzzled expression.
"Camerica, let me ask you a question." Malkina did not continue to explain and suddenly asked her, "If my first step is to implant an idea in you, the specific content is 'as soon as you hear me clapping, you will scream immediately'."
"My second move is to clap my hands in front of you."
"So, which specific action will consume spiritual energy?"
"Of course it's the first step. Spirituality is consumed when the mind is implanted..." Medea answered without hesitation, and then immediately realized something, "So..."
"That's right." Malkina frowned and said, "The plague implanted in your heart is a similar product."
"It doesn't contain anything in itself, but it is designed to receive designated signals from the outside world. When it receives the signal, it can secretly instill specific ideas into it."
"In layman's terms, it's like installing a backdoor in your head."
"Why do I feel like the mastermind behind this is a computer science major?" Ask wondered, "Bypassing firewalls to set up backdoors, creating zombie machines, and transmitting viruses are all classic hacker techniques."
Medea: ... (You treat me like a broiler?)
"What you said does make sense." Malkina also began to think. "Anyway, after Medea's mental plague was cleared, probably last year, a demigod attacked our city and was later executed by Your Majesty."