Chapter 290: Mind Network Invasion

Amber was confused by Gawain's request. She blinked and looked at the lord who suddenly said he wanted to sleep, with an expression on her face that showed she was worried that he would die immediately: "Are you sure you just want to sleep for a while?"

"What do you mean by that expression?"

"I always think you are going to sleep..."

"What?!"

"Really, I've heard many bards tell stories about legendary heroes. Usually those legendary heroes are about to die when they suddenly say to the people around them, 'I want to sleep for a while, and you stay with me.' —Do you want me to call Rebecca and Hetty for you? You tell them first, and I'll dig a hole..."

"Can you please give me some advice? Get some sleep!" Gawain was concentrating on locking his mental frequency, so he really didn't think much when talking to Amber. He suddenly reacted when he heard what the other party said, and his veins jumped immediately, "You Don't ask why, anyway, I need to enter immediately... well, it's okay to say it's a meditative state. Anyway, I can't be disturbed during this period. You can help me guard it. If anyone asks me to send a report or something, just accept it first - —Anyway, you are with me all day long, and you know how to file and record all kinds of information." Amber thought for a while and realized that she should be able to handle this kind of work, so she nodded. I was still curious about why Gawain, a knight, suddenly expressed his desire to "meditate", but the latter seemed to be serious, and the half-elf lady immediately stopped her troublemaking thoughts and nodded to express her cooperation.

Gawain did not waste time - there was no bed in the study, but he didn't really want to sleep, so he directly found a more comfortable position on the large chair and prepared to sneak into the Eternal Sleeper network of minds. Before starting to connect, he glanced at Amber one last time: "If there is an emergency later, you can slap me hard or use the power of shadow to drag me to the Shadow Realm."

"Understand, understand, Don't worry."

After explaining this last thing, Gawain completely relaxed his mind and actively integrated his thinking into that special spiritual frequency.

After a familiar trance, his mental vision transcended the hazy darkness, and a glorious, magnificent, and incredible world appeared in front of him. It was the "utopian world" he had seen before. ”——The eternal dream of the eternal sleeper.

Just like when you first connected, you couldn’t see anyone when you first entered this world. The broad and magnificent streets were empty, and the whole world was like a dead city. Gawain knew that this was some kind of " "Loading" process, so he quickly changed his appearance when no one was paying attention, and then walked openly on the streets of this dream city.

After a while, people gradually began to appear on the street, coming and going, and it was very lively.

Gawain walked towards the central area of ​​the city according to the route he remembered, but after taking only two steps, he felt that there seemed to be a faint voice echoing in his mind.Dang, this voice made him unable to ignore it, so he had to find a corner where there was no one around, and then concentrated on trying to hear what the voice was saying.

Thanks to the part of the knowledge he devoured, he quickly locked onto that voice. The moment he concentrated his mental power, a strange correspondence suddenly appeared in Gawain's mind. Message:

"Call all mid-level and high-level nodes, Project Zero collects computing power, and connect immediately after receiving the message."

Gao Wen frowned.

This is a mass "announcement" - and it was sent to myself?

Could it be that I suddenly felt some fluctuations in my spiritual world before connecting because I received this message?

What is Project Zero?

Gawain felt that he should have come into contact with another big secret of the Eternal Sleeper. However, with insufficient information, he decided to act cautiously and first find out what the so-called "Project Zero" was. OK.

After confirming that the voice in his head was just a group message, Gawain left the corner where he was hiding, and then found the central area of ​​the dream city with ease.

During this journey, he also paid close attention to the current appearance of the city and compared it with what he saw the last time he came here.

Just as he expected, the city has changed.

Although the overall layout has not changed, during this period of time, the Eternal Sleepers have obviously been perfecting their dream world. When he came here last time, many large buildings in the city The interior was still "holey", as weird as an unfinished game scene, but this time he saw that many holes had been filled, and some architectural details that were originally unreasonable and unrealistic had also been repaired.

This dream city seems to be constantly being improved... In addition to deceiving and harming people, those cultists are really a bunch of hard-working guys.

Gawain easily passed through the invisible barrier used to detect authority in the central area of ​​the city. In the square in the central area, he saw the large and small "node crystals" and the Avatars of the Eversleeper who are connected to the crystal.

To be honest, it feels a bit weird to act openly in a city full of cultists. Even though Gawain had been in various game worlds in his previous life, this kind of complete The level of immersive virtual reality was a bit too high for him, but it didn't matter, anyway, it was Charlie's face that he was touching - and he saw more than a dozen Charlies along the way. When he thought that everyone was wearing vests, Gawain suddenly felt much more comfortable.

Under this psychological suggestion of "even if trouble occurs, you can mentally throw the blame to Charlie", Gawain found a node crystal with not many people in it with a nonchalant expression, and then gently put his hand on it. on the crystal surface.

The data flow filled his mind in the next second, and the control of these data flowsThe required knowledge also emerged.

Those cultists really haven’t made much progress in this area... Obviously virtual reality has become so powerful, but in terms of database management, authority authentication, and security protection, it is still the same mess as before, and there is no one. Will an expert come to guide them?

Gawain was teasing in his mind as he began to retrieve key information about "Project Zero."

Soon, he received feedback, but the content of the feedback made him frown even more:

"Project No. 0, belongs to: Initial Planning Team, confidential Project, bishop or above can be consulted."

In this mental network where the database structure is chaotic and security precautions are basically zero, only a few things are carefully organized and encrypted. Gawain did not expect. This "Project Zero" that I learned about by accident actually has such a high level of confidentiality.

Only bishops and above can check...Does the authority gained by oneself meet this standard?

Gao Wen hesitated for a moment, and then decided to give it a try with the mentality of "The worst thing is that I will be banned, and those cultists won't be able to use the wifi to hack me anyway."

Facts proved that his decision was correct - after issuing the instruction for further reading, some information about Project Zero quickly entered his mind, but what he saw Things are still confusing:

Memory segmentation project (unfinished);

Conscious immersion project (completed);

Time iteration (unfinished) );

Perceptual bias calibration (not completed);

Guardian plan (proposal);

Dream closed-loop and open-loop (under discussion by the bishops’ conference, not yet available) New meeting)...

This seems to be just a directory. Just from the list, it seems that you can think of a lot of things. However, no valuable content can be analyzed. Of course, Gao Wen will not be satisfied with this. , but when he wanted to further expand on this information, he only saw a special prompt:

Project No. 0 operates in isolation, and there is no information available in the surface consciousness network.

In confusion, Gawain tried several more keywords and retrieved some relevant information, and finally confirmed that he could not see the entire content of Project Zero here - although the Eternal Sleeper could not It is a mature concept of information encryption, but they still protect certain extremely critical things to a certain extent. Before knowing their encryption rules, Gawain did not dare to try to crack them casually.

And he probably figured out one thing: the dream world he saw did not seem to be all of the "eternal dream" created by the eternal sleepers. If it is correct...including this This entire space, including the dream city, seems to be just a "surface consciousness network"?

Gowen couldn't help but feel a little emotional: This spiritual network seems crude and crude in many places, full of loopholes, but on the whole it is very advanced and complex.A rather simple and crude way to achieve an incredible virtual reality world... Is this also a technical feature of the magical world?

After putting away his curiosity about "Project Zero", Gawain began to browse various information in the spiritual network, and gradually confirmed one thing:

It’s just that he is not a real and complete “Eternal Sleeper” after all, so he has never known about the network’s restart. Until today, the Eternal Sleeper Network sent out an email targeting all Chinese people. He reconnected here after receiving group messages from upper-level nodes.

Currently unclear about the situation of "Project Zero", Gao Wen decided to ignore the message of "recruiting computing power" for the time being to prevent himself from accidentally falling into danger. This message is just a voluntary solicitation notice, so there should be no problem if you ignore it.

With Amber watching by his side, Gawain doesn’t have to worry about what’s going on in the real world for the time being. Gawain decided to take advantage of this connection to dig out more useful things from the Eternal Sleeper’s spiritual network. .

But before the "useful" information appeared, an interesting piece of intelligence first jumped into his mind:

"About the 'Outlander' (temporarily codenamed Gawain· Cecil)’s known information and temporary response plan”

Gawain looked confused: “What is this?”

This message hung in his heart. The lowest authority in the network, basically any Eternal Sleeper believer can read it after accessing the network. Obviously this is sent to everyone in the entire sect. Of course, Gawain couldn't help his curiosity, and immediately Then he expanded it, and a line of big words came into his mind:

"First of all, I would like to advise all fellow church members - Do not easily contact wanderers from outside the territory, the danger is far greater than just Duo Wasteland!"

After this comes the main text.

The more Gao Wen watched, the more confused he became. He had one thought in his mind: I showed them a mixed-cut MV last time, and it has evolved into this?

emmmm... Is the inner drama of programming so rich?