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Gawain nodded slightly.

"What Rosetta Augustus can't see, they can see," he said in a deep voice, "this is obviously not because Typhon's emperor is stupid-but because the Dragonborn exceeded my expectations .

"The so-called 'closed and xenophobic, closed in the mountains and glaciers' are all false.

"Dragonborn have a very long lifespan, and it seems that the closer their blood is to the original dragon race, the longer their lifespan. For such a long-lived race, their civilization may be slow, but they will never be ignorant - even if they only look outside once in a while , The long years are enough for them to accumulate enough wisdom and experience.

"Human dynasties change, in the eyes of this long-lived race, it is like a drama on the stage. After a scene, a dynasty will pass. And if they still have a secret card that is enough to fight against the evil tide, then what they have seen There's definitely a lot more 'drama' than you and I can imagine.

"Our magical technology and marketing plan may be novelty to them, but many of our ideas are probably not new to them.

"Facing a race like this, we can no longer use the same way of thinking that we used to deal with Typhon and the Ogure Tribal Nation..."

Hearing Gao Wen's unhurried words, Heti thought for a while and understood: "Because it can't be squeezed out?"

Gao Wen: "...it's not your style to speak like that, where did you hear that?"

Hetty quickly bowed her head: "Amber said that she compiled a set of nouns you created, which can be used in various occasions related to new things..."

Gao Wen's eyes twitched: "Don't learn from her in the future, sooner or later I will search out all the little books she hid and burn them."

Then he cleared his throat and resolved the embarrassment for a moment: "In short, Dragonborn is a group worthy of attention—even though they call themselves 'principal', few people in this world would despise such a 'principal'. They act as Enemies can be troublesome, but if drawn to a front, they must be invaluable allies.

"This kind of ally is worth our sincerity and cost to maintain."

"Yes," Hetty replied seriously, "I will keep it firmly in mind."

Gao Wen nodded in satisfaction, then glanced at the mechanical clock on the wall next to him, and said thoughtfully: "According to the schedule, I should go to the acceptance computing center today..."

"Yes, there is still half an hour before departure," Heidi replied, "Yuri's side is already ready."

Gao Wen hummed, turned his head, glanced at a map on the desk not far away, and said casually after looking away: "Go and make arrangements, we are ready to go."

Gawain and Hetty left the study.

On that large wooden desk, a map depicting the entire territory of the Cecil Empire was quietly spread out.

On the map, several key locations in the south, north, east, west, and Holy Spirit Plains are depicted with strange tower-shaped icons, and smaller icons are drawn around those towers, and the red lines are connected like spider silk. Nodes one by one.

The main hub of the southern border, the main hub of the northern border...the control center of the imperial capital...the main hub of Sorin, the main hub of Saint-Sunil...

At the bottom of the map, a row of handwritten letters seemed to glow under the sunlight:

The whole territory connection plan of the imperial magic net.

Chapter 0857 "Sample"

Cecil City, North Shore Development Zone, Imperial Computing Center.

The majestic pyramid-shaped building is quietly located on the open river bank highlands. The magical streamer flows silently in the magic veins on the surface of the building. The newly transplanted green plants surround the building, and there are separate supplies for the facilities. The magic net obelisk and signal gain devices of Neng are distributed on the two wings of the pyramid-this brand-new facility is shining in the sun, and it is ready for today's official opening.

The black magic guide car with the imperial emblem hanging on it parked steadily in front of the pyramid. After the door opened, Gawain and Hetty got out of the car.

The person in charge of the computing center had already been waiting at the door.

"It looks really beautiful—much more beautiful than I imagined," Hetty couldn't help but looked up at the top of the "pyramid", watching the arcane radiance continuously flowing on the inclined surface, she felt the slightest Without skimping on admiration, "it certainly appeals to ordinary people more than traditional, no-nonsense research facilities."

"The 'distribution stations' that will be open to the public will follow a similar design idea," Gao Wen said with a smile. "After all, they are not only the research facilities of the empire, but also part of a series of follow-up livelihood plans."

During their conversation of two or three sentences, the technical team led by Yuri had already arrived in front of Gawain—these former priests of the Eternal Sleeper showed a trace of awe, and treated Gawain with a more respectful attitude than ordinary Cecilians. Saluting, Yuri lowered his head and said meticulously: "I salute you, Your Majesty the Emperor—we have completed the task you assigned, and the Imperial Computing Center is ready."

"Very good," Gawain nodded with a smile, "You guys are doing well. Look up, Cecil's rules are not that strict."

The former Eternal Sleepers raised their heads one by one. Gawain and Hetty glanced at these people who were "making up for their mistakes". They were about to say something, but they were all stunned for a second.

Gawain looked at Yuri with a strange expression—and the obvious dark circles on the faces of almost everyone else, and there was inevitably a trace of surprise in his tone: "You... are you okay?"

Yuri didn't react at first, and was stunned on the spot with a pair of huge dark circles and bloodshot eyes, but soon he understood Gawain's meaning, and was surprised that the "outsider wanderer" would care While waiting for his health status, he also quickly shook his head: "Please don't worry, this is commonplace for researchers..."

A group of former bishops and archbishops nodded their heads when they heard the words, and the scene was full of immortality—Gao Wen looked at these people almost dumbfounded, and then turned his head and whispered to Hetty: "I think they are higher than your level. A little higher - it doesn't look like a painting..."

Hetty: "..."

The old ancestor forbade her to learn to talk dirty with Hu Po, but what should the old ancestor do if he kept talking badly?

But before she could respond, Gawain had already stepped forward: "Then let's not waste time, let's go in now. Yuri, you lead the way."

Gao Wen couldn't help urging, not because he couldn't wait for the acceptance of the computing center, but mainly because seeing the mental state of these eternal sleepers made people feel uncertain. He was really afraid that these guys would die suddenly on the spot for him to see—to be honest As expected of the only one of the three major dark sects engaged in network engineering, how long have these people not slept?I'm sorry for their title of "Eternal Sleeper"...

With a slightly wandering thought, Gawain followed Yuri and others into the building of the computing center. The spacious and bright thinking hall and the mental hub that was emitting a faint buzzing sound greeted the arrival of everyone. Wendy, who was next to Yuri, walked forward with excitement and joy, and said, "Your Majesty, all of us are deeply attracted by this incredible technical idea. The more we study it, the more we feel it." Almost limitless potential - We used to think that the spiritual network created by the Order of the Eternal Sleeper was enough to solve all the "computing" problems in the world, but after seeing the information about the origin space, we realized that the development of technology really It's endless..."

"This thing keeps everyone up at night," Semler said in a deep voice. "We even wanted to put ourselves in an immersion pod all day. The team is building a new network 'base' from scratch these days, creating The basic mental space, sorting out the level of consciousness, and building the zero-level network... Everyone doesn’t want to rest, and everyone doesn’t want to miss this event that casts history.”

Yuri nodded, and took over the topic: "In fact, we are already thinking about how to allow transcendental beings with stronger physiques to connect to the Internet for a longer period of time, Archbishop Rutherford... Researcher Rutherford wants to use it on brain servants before he wants to improve." The "artificial umbilical cord" on your body, which is equipped with life-sustaining circulation energy supply——Your idea of ​​transforming the mind network has inspired us that the technology related to brain servants can actually be harmless. Our initial idea is based on the experience of Magnum researchers Looking for the improvement direction of brain servant technology in memory, he is currently the only one who has undergone brain servant transformation and is soberly 'returning'..."

A middle-aged man with thinning hair on the forehead—he is the "Rutherford researcher" Yuri called—had a smile on his face, and said with a little pride: "The key to this is to accurately extract and analyze For the memory of Researcher Magnum, we have solved most of the early problems, and the only remaining problem is how to get Researcher Magnum to cooperate..."

Wendy couldn't help but sighed: "When he became an internet mind, the punches and kicks that used to work are no longer effective... and the only two who can help are Selina and Lord Magall. Ideas aren't interesting."

Gao Wen: "..."

The former eternal sleepers put on the uniform of researchers, and after breaking away from those dark and heavy projects, they devoted themselves to purely technical careers. Running in such an extreme direction, Gao Wen had to interrupt them loudly during their heated discussion: "Stop—all stop. Calm down."

It was only then that Yuri and the others suddenly realized that they seemed to be too excited after talking about technology, so that they almost forgot the majesty of the "outside wanderer", and stopped nervously, while Gawain frowned and looked at these people : "Don't forget the previous lesson."

Semler took a deep breath and bowed his head deeply: "Yes, we will not forget."

Gao Wen's expression relaxed slightly: "Cecil's research work has a complete process of project establishment, evaluation, review, and approval. I think you should have read the relevant documents. First, keep them firmly in mind, and then you can talk about it. For the future at Cecil."

In fact, he would like to add a thought of his own - although the overzealous research impulse is harmful, the persecution of Magnum seems to be quite pleasant, but it is a pity that this sentence obviously damages the majesty of wanderers outside the territory , he had no choice but to hold back...

……

The lifting platform driven by the anti-gravity rune quietly stopped in the middle of the half-moon-shaped slot, and Gawain and Hetty stepped off the platform.Together with Yuri and others, they took the lifting platform and passed through the isolation gate on the uppermost floor of the computing center. With the soft sound of the mechanical locking device, the lifting platform returned to the bottom of the floor, and a bright pure white room appeared to everyone. in front of you.

This is the room on the top floor of the entire computing center, and it is also the main destination for Gao Wen to "inspect" the computing center today.

Hetty looked around curiously at this room with a special security level.

The layout here looks similar to other "connection computer rooms". Dozens of immersion chambers are neatly arranged on the floor, and a series of rune devices and auxiliary equipment are distributed near the wall. The only difference from other computer rooms is that, Hetty didn't see the "pillar" in the center of the room used to connect the mental hub, but instead it was a particularly eye-catching large seat.

The seat was placed on a silver-white metal platform, and a large number of rune drag chains and artificial nerve cables extended from the base. Already in an active state - this seat reminded Hetty of the first "immersion" device in the laboratory at that time, but it was obviously some kind of more advanced equipment.

After briefly recalling the architectural layout of the computing center, Hetty realized that this "seat" was located at the center of the entire "pyramid", directly above the mental hub!

"Have you noticed?" Gawain noticed Hetty's sight, he smiled, and said as he walked forward, "This device is also used to connect to the 'narrator's neural network', you can regard it as A special immersion chamber, but it is directly connected to the mental hub, which is equivalent to a part of the mental hub. Kamel made it himself. In order to make it have a stronger connection ability, seventeen artificial nerves are connected under the seat cable and plenty of ley connections—that's for me."

Heidi had already known a certain plan of Gawain in advance, so there was no big surprise at this time, but after seeing the special "connection device" for the first time, he showed a purely curious look, but Yuri and others present looked at each other in blank dismay. They got up, but before they had time to ask anything, the slight friction sound of the mechanical device running was heard again from the direction of the elevator gate not far away.

The lifting platform returned to this room again, and Kamel and Veronica walked off the platform.

Veronica held the platinum scepter and nodded slightly to Gawain: "Sorry, we are late."

Kamel went on to explain: "It took a little time to coordinate the middle-level and lower-level network technology groups and debug the remote devices."

"No, it's just right," Gawain smiled, "We're about to start."

Then he turned his head and looked at Yuri and the others.

"The necessary personnel are here," he said in a low voice. "Now everyone is connected to the network—we are going to the final step of activating the 'Narrator's Neural Network'."

The "Archbishops" looked a little dazed, but Hetty, Kamel, and Veronica had already walked towards the immersion chambers closest to the center of the room, and Semler and others quickly reacted—no one questioned the outside world. Following the command of the rogue, they quickly found available immersion chambers by themselves, and lay in them one by one.

Gao Wen came to the "seat" in the center of the room, and sat down slowly after calming down a little.

Normally, he doesn't need to use any equipment to connect to the network, but that's the case when "mind network".

Today's "narrator's neural network" has a higher level of security and higher connection requirements. Pure mental signals will be physically blocked by terminal equipment, so he must also use a special connection device to enter this new network. .

All for safety.

A slightly cold and tingling sensation came from a series of contacts on the back of the seat. A little magical power penetrated the not too thick clothes and began to connect with the nervous system. Gawain relaxed his spirit and entered the The newly established, still immature cyberspace.

A sky-blue connection interface flashed across the field of vision, and chaotic lights and shadows gathered from all directions. After a brief sense of space displacement and weightlessness, the scene in front of everyone's eyes finally gradually stabilized.

A vast but empty grassland continued to stretch in the field of vision, the bright and clean sky enveloped the land, and the breeze blew from nowhere, rolling the soft grass leaves and flower stems.

In the distance, flickering color blocks and lines are curling and moving, outlining the new world and the new boundary line of the earth. There is a huge light curtain moving in the sky, adjusting the details and outlines of the world.

The technicians located in other computer rooms of the computing center and the Magic Technology Research Institute are still constantly improving the world. Those color blocks, lines and light curtains are the scene of their busy work, and at a deeper level, in the network "National Application Layer", a new origin space has been formed, and a new origin laboratory is being built.

Gao Wen looked at this beautiful but slightly empty place, took a deep breath, and showed a smile on his face: "Not bad."

Then he slowly opened his hands and began to strip a piece of "data" that was saved not long ago from his "memory bank".

If you want to disobey God, you must first study God. To study God, it is best to have a sample.

Detoxified samples are the best.

Chapter 0858 The Narrator's Project

At first, there was only the endless wind blowing across the empty fields.

But soon, Yuri felt a strange aura gathering rapidly. It was formless and substanceless, but it attracted everyone's attention with a strong sense of existence—it felt like there was a huge creature invisible to the naked eye. Slowly coming to the crowd, this huge creature disappeared, but there were constant low breathing sounds and a sense of oppression originating from biological instincts coming from all directions.

Everyone's eyes were wide open with tension and confusion. Sammler subconsciously summoned the battle staff. Wendy frowned instantly, and Magnum's figure suddenly appeared from the air. Before he had time He greeted Yuri and the others with a loud voice, and then stared in Gawain's direction with wide eyes——

A vaguely translucent outline appeared in front of Gao Wen, and quickly condensed into a solid body in the next second.

It was a huge white spider.

She lay quietly on the flat grassland, surrounded by a layer of almost transparent white light cocoon, the grass blades blown by the wind swayed on the edge of the light cocoon, surging as if licking, and when the white spider appeared In an instant, Magnum's exclamation sounded: "All my ancestors! Mind wind——"

Gawain casually pointed in Magnum's direction, "Shut up."

A huge turbulent flow of thoughts instantly hit Magnum's mental layer, and the latter exploded into a ball of gorgeous fireworks on the spot before he finished speaking the four words of "psychic storm"—of course, he recovered after two seconds. Now, and immediately shut his mouth and stood obediently, the visual storm will not be able to rise in a short time.

Gawain had more or less experience fighting side by side with Magnum, so he was already prepared.

And this sudden episode also woke up the people at the scene. After a short period of stunned panic, Yuri was the first to regain his composure. "God" should be charged now, but he swallowed subconsciously: "Your Majesty, this is..."

"The upper-level narrator, the preserved part," Gao Wen said casually, and glanced at the eternal sleepers who were facing the enemy, "relax, he is harmless, and will not be polluted even if you look directly at it—— Both divinity and humanity have been stripped and purified, only the pure mind and 'personality' remain, similar in essence to Magnum or Selena."

While speaking, the transparent light cocoon enveloping the entire white spider trembled slightly, and then, as if gradually waking up from a long deep sleep, the huge white spider suddenly moved, and the entire light cocoon shattered and dissipated in an instant. .

The "Upper Narrator" woke up, and the astonishing jointed limbs swiped in a daze twice, and then gradually grasped the balance. He (she) propped up his body, and his head turned aimlessly in this strange world. The eyes, however, have rays of light circulating on the surface of the skull, and a feeling of bewilderment seems to be transmitted to everyone's mind through those rays of light.

And almost at the same time that the white spider woke up, a black figure also appeared out of thin air—the old man in black robe Duwart holding a dilapidated lantern appeared at the foot of the white spider. Gao Wen and others not far away.

"Welcome to wake up," Gawain nodded to them with a smile, "I hope this 'sleep' has not caused too much damage to you."

"We..." Duarte finally hesitated to speak. He felt the tense atmosphere around him, but he didn't seem to care about all of it. He just whispered in confusion, and the dilapidated lantern in his hand flickered, "We Should have fallen into eternal darkness..."

"We should have already perished." Naritil in the form of a white spider finally got rid of her confusion. She turned her head and "stared" at Gawain, "What happened?"

"You guys did die once," Gao Wen sighed, and said helplessly, "But don't you know—as long as the conditions are right, the data can be 'data restored'."

"Data restoration?" Naritil's tone was confused, "What is that?"

"It's very complicated to explain, you only need to know one thing - at the last moment, I 'saved' you," Gao Wen said, raising his finger and pointing to his head, "It's a huge amount of data, but You should be very clear that the data of the entire sandbox world is nothing to me."

Naritil was stunned, lowered his head slightly, and looked at Duvalte under his feet: "Duvart, can you understand?"

The old man in black robe holding a dilapidated lantern was looking at Gao Wen with astonished eyes. Suddenly, he seemed to understand something, and sighed thoughtfully: "I think I know..."

He remembered what happened that day, and what he encountered when he tried to pollute Gawain's mind after forcibly entering the apotheosis form-at that time, he was defeated so quickly that he didn't have time to analyze anything, but at this moment He finally had the opportunity to sort out what happened at that time, and finally had the opportunity to understand what happened to him and Naritel.

"I should have thought..." He looked complicated, "Pollution is mutual, and the devouring of the mind is of course also possible... Your memory and soul are so huge that even the gods would be horrified. We rashly established a connection with your mind. What will happen? It's as simple as 'failure'. At that time...you 'eat' me and Naritel!"

In an instant, almost everyone's eyes widened in astonishment. Even Yuri and Magnum, who had personally experienced the first half of the battle, couldn't help but look at each other. In awe, the eyes of Veronica, who was silent on the side, became more and more profound, but Hetty showed a thoughtful look - only Gawain remained indifferent, he looked up at Naritil, spread his hands : "Didn't I 'spit' out again?"

If Amber was at the scene, she would definitely pick up the stalk immediately and say, "If you spit it out, it's not considered eating, at most it's been swallowed for a while." But he didn't follow, so no one answered Gao Wen's stalking at the scene.

The atmosphere seemed a little weird.

As for what happened at that time, it was indeed similar to what Duwart said, except that this was not the first time that Gawain "swallowed" other minds - he did this once a few years ago, when the mind he swallowed , is a reckless and regrettable eternal sleeper. The other party tried to invade the consciousness of "Gavin Cecil" from the spiritual level, but was torn to pieces and disintegrated and absorbed by Gawain's massive memory bank. It was precisely because of that Devouring, Gao Wencai grasped a lot of information related to the Eternal Sleeper, and eventually became an "extraterritorial wanderer" who invaded the mind network.

What he did with the upper-level narrators was essentially the same as that of the previous year—even though the difficulty and size were different, it was only a matter of downloads in front of the satellite database that was doing miracles.

It is difficult for Gao Wen to explain the specific principles of this to outsiders, but he reckons that the people at the scene probably don't need any explanation: they generally attribute such things directly to the ancestors who are awesome/extraterritorial wanderers who are awesome/legendary pioneers Awesome three reasons on the line...

Of course, "swallowing the gods" sounds very good, but Gawain estimated that he could only do this once - if he didn't happen to be in the conscious world formed by the spiritual network, if he didn't happen to meet the "upper narrator" The mental body god who is extremely restrained by him, if it is not for the devoured party who is inexperienced and relatively weak, it is impossible for him to succeed.

The perfect conditions required in this process are so harsh that they cannot be replicated—in the final analysis, those sea monsters are more powerful in "swallowing gods" on the physical level.

Complicated thoughts flashed across in an instant, Gawain coughed twice, then looked at Naritil, and broke the silence again: "So I wanted to tell you that I could have a better way - but you I didn't listen, I just ran out, I almost didn't have time to 'drag' you back."

The giant spider's long jointed limbs slid twice unconsciously on the ground, and Naritel's soft voice came directly into everyone's mind: "I was... very anxious."

"I know," Gao Wen smiled, "It's understandable."

"Your Majesty," Semler finally found a chance to speak. The serious middle-aged man couldn't help but take two steps forward, and said while nervously looking at the huge white spider, "You put the upper narrator... ...'preserved', do you want to..."

As Semler opened his mouth, the attention of Naritil and Duvalte also fell on Gao Wen, and Duarte directly expressed his same confusion: "You left us, want to do what?"