Full-Time Public Enemy

That is to say, Colin and his team didn't need to board the spacecraft to maintain this connection.

The time was short, and the energy consumed was immense.

The spacecraft was precisely using this device to teach Colin and his team spiritual power techniques that far exceeded the standards of this world.

Then Chen Gu began to analyze these "techniques." To his surprise, these techniques were not based on the Brain Domain Hacker or Psychological Spy vocational skills he had previously guessed. They weren't tailored for the development of the Long-headed People's spiritual power.

Instead, these techniques seemed to be specifically designed for spiritual power.

Could it be that in the Star Sea, there is another profession that specializes in spiritual power, which is naturally compatible with the talents of the Long-headed People?

Despite the fact that professions had developed for many years and were quite refined, new ones would occasionally emerge.

Suddenly, Chen Gu remembered something: he had consumed quite a bit of Grade 4 Ore Crystal. It was one of the three most valuable minerals on the planet.

Aside from that, there was another type called Raw Silicate.

Raw Silicate is an important raw material used to manufacture quantum super brains. The spacecraft's flight logs recorded some mining areas it specifically visited, all of which were important sources of Raw Silicate.

The mastermind's meticulous promotion of the heretical cult, intending to control the planet through the 'True God,' must also have his own interests at stake.

Is there anything else of value on this planet besides these minerals?

At the very least, we can preliminarily conclude that the mastermind is most interested in Raw Silicate.

He controls a profession that excels in spiritual power.

As Chen Gu continued to review some information on the spacecraft, he discovered that it had arrived on the planet more than twenty years ago.

It had a "plan," and had been strictly following it since the day it landed, developing the Holy Church according to this plan. Only occasionally would directives arrive to make some minor adjustments to the overall plan.

According to this plan, the "Holy Mountain" had basically completed its mission; the work it needed to do was finished.

Within the next two to three years, a "Prophet" would arrive. The Holy Mountain's next task was to cooperate with this Prophet to elevate the Holy Church to a position from which it could completely overthrow the royal family's rule and establish a theocratic state on the planet.

During this process, the Holy Church would provide a large amount of advanced weaponry to the Holy Church's rebel forces to help them secure autonomy.

This meant negotiating with the Confederation for a deal: a portion of the mined ore would be handed over to the Confederation, while the Holy Church would manage the rest. The Confederation would have to pay for any ore they wanted from the Holy Church's share.

Chen Gu certainly wasn't foolish enough to believe this plan was prescient, somehow foreseeing the arrival of his group, or himself as this "Prophet."

Clearly, the mastermind had originally intended to send someone to reap the rewards within these two years. The plan was to coerce all the Long-headed People into negotiating with the Confederation—betting that the Confederation wouldn't slaughter all of them, thereby gaining a substantial share of the ore profits.

However, Chen Gu felt the mastermind's gamble was unlikely to pay off.

It's not a matter of right or wrong, good or evil; it's really because the stakes are too large. The capital magnates within the Confederation would never share such considerable profits.

To be precise, no Star Nation would do so.

During this time, Chen Gu had also come to understand why the Confederation had preserved the Long-headed People instead of slaughtering them, taking over the entire planet, and then using mining robots for extraction.

A reluctance to commit genocide was one reason, but it might not have been the main one. Massacres also required the deployment of troops, which cost money.

Subsequent processes, like cremating and burying corpses, and managing the potential public uproar from leaks, would also require a great deal of effort and money.

So, with the Long-headed People's royal family willing to cooperate and still able to provide ore, it was more cost-effective to supply them with some food and rudimentary weapons than to use expensive mining robots.

Yet even after analyzing so much, Chen Gu still hadn't found any clues that would allow him to continue tracking the mastermind.

But Chen Gu had some speculations. He said to Marcus, "Lend me the base's interstellar quantum network connection port; I need access to the Bureau's secret database."

"Okay."

After the connection was established, Chen Gu brought up a list of all the heretical organizations in the Confederation's history. The Bureau had a department dedicated to studying such groups and had thoroughly researched every one of them.

Their research covered everything: origins, political purposes, and modus operandi.

Chen Gu kept comparing and analyzing until he reached a conclusion. There's a 70% chance it's our old nemesis: True Knowledge Sin! 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

By this time, Chen Gu was exceptionally fatigued. He exited Isabella Wu's memory, feeling as limp as a dehydrated vegetable.

No one immediately voiced an opinion on his judgment, neither agreement nor opposition.

The veteran Bureau of Mystic Security employees began their own internal evaluations, reassessing True Knowledge Sin based on their knowledge and understanding.

Chu Zheng, Dora, and Boluo, however, were far less informed. They lacked a clear and complete understanding of True Knowledge Sin and merely looked at each other. Chu Zheng, though, was convinced. If the instructor says so, then it must be true, no doubt about it.