Mary looked at her mentor nervously. As for what the other person's sudden words meant, she actually didn't really want to know.
She is afraid of her mentor - even to the point of being frightened. If she could, she would rather she had never shown any magical talent, nor had she crawled into this place out of curiosity ten years ago. An ownerless tower that had been abandoned for decades, and met the mentor who had just moved here - now she is a second-level official mage, and according to the mentor, "she may be able to become a mage in her lifetime" "Intermediate level", however, in Mary's view, becoming a level two magician is not honorable at all, and is even worse than being an ignorant village woman in a mountain village.
At least, the village women don’t have to dissect countless animals, breed deformed monsters, learn how to connect human brains to monsters, or endure the mental disorder of their mentors. Come the pressure.
Daniel is a magician with mental problems. In fact, in the eyes of the only few apprentices in the tower, this mentor is completely crazy. He is often immersed in weird dream states, even if He has no sound emotions when he is awake. He is irritable, irritable, gloomy and terrifying. He will make his apprentices eat rats and poisonous snakes. He will release terrible monsters and magical creatures into the tower because of some hallucination, and then drive them away. He led the apprentice to fight those monsters, not to mention the horrific magic experiments he conducted on himself...
Although Daniel was occasionally gentle and kind, his crazy time was far longer than Ten times that, under this madness, his occasional gentleness became even more terrifying.
The old mage remained in a sluggish state for more than ten seconds. He finally moved his body, and the young female apprentice suddenly raised her head in excitement.
"Mentor..." Mary bent down slightly, "As long as you're okay..."
Daniel looked at Mary for a long time and seemed to notice the buckle on her neck. Huan later remembered that this was his student. He muttered some unclear words in his throat, then raised his hand and waved: "Clean up the laboratory. You can rest today."
Mary Blinking, she felt sincerely relaxed, and then she watched the old mage in front of her slowly turn around and walk towards the exit of the laboratory. The old mage's mage robe bulged bulgingly behind his back, and a snake-like artificial nerve cord emerged from it. The hem of the mage's robe poked out, twitching convulsively.
Gawain did not stay in the "Simulation Experimental Field" for too long. After confirming that the old mage had been kicked out of the network, he released the data submersion state and returned to the surface of the psychic network. .
Placing spies among the Eternal Sleepers and looking for controllable chess pieces was his original plan - especially after discovering that the Eternal Sleepers also made up the persona of an "outside wanderer". His idea became more and more perfect. After all, this cult group was too weird, and it was impossible for him to investigate everything himself, so he foundFinding such a chess piece is inevitable, but that piece happens to be a Typhon magician, which is an unexpected gain.
After learning the general situation of Daniel, Gawain quickly sketched out many temporary plans in his mind. He believed that as long as he used them properly, the old mage would play many unexpected roles.
He is not worried that this will increase his risk of exposure - after successfully destroying Daniel's mind defense, he has controlled the other party's authority in the psychic network and set the "activation switch". As long as the other party mentions anything about "outsiders infiltrating the network", the network connection will be cut off immediately. And even if this security method does not work and the news is leaked, how can the Eversleeper find Gawain?
Their network is riddled with holes. Gao Wen has found countless loopholes and backdoors. This primitive and crude network has no real-name system. Secondly, it does not restrict skin changing, address mapping and feature query. It was a complete mess. Gawain thought that it would be more difficult for the cultists to find a person from the psychic network than to find a spell other than fireball from Rebecca's spell list——
Rebecca does not have a spell list.
"Oh, it's the uncle I saw last time!"
A clear voice suddenly came from the side, and Gawain, who was walking on the tree-lined avenue and wandering around, was struck by this sound. A slightly familiar child's voice woke me up.
He looked around and saw a little girl with long light brown hair running towards him happily, with bouncing steps.
Is she the "little girl" I saw last time?
Gao Wen's mind instantly corresponded to the character of a standard middle-aged greasy male online scammer, and it was also the type with a lolita tone on with the voice changer, so his whole mind instantly became clear. When he looked at the "little girl", there was no fluctuation in his heart: "Paddy?"
"Ah, uncle still remembers me!" The little girl suddenly looked very happy and danced around Gawain. Jumping back and forth, "Uncle, are you here again?!"
The corner of Gawain's mouth trembled, and he finally admitted one thing in his heart: I'm afraid the real person behind this little girl is really not a middle-aged greasy person. Male cultists, after all, the spiritual network is a fully immersive virtual reality. Even if the perversion index of a creature like a cultist is five plus signs higher than that of a normal person, it is quite difficult to jump to this level, even for Thor. Even an independent boss like Delin can't do it...
Maybe she is a middle-aged greasy female scammer with a too young mentality...
"Uncle, what are you thinking about? "Patty's voice came again, "Uncle, do you like to be distracted?"
Gawain looked down at the little girl who was not even close to his belly, and found that this guy was really quiet for a second. He couldn't help but frown: "Why are you always jumping around?"
"Because I like it!" Patty said matter-of-factly, then wrinkled her nose, "But You can’t do it at home..."
"At home?" Gawain felt that he heard a very concerning word, but before he could ask, a soft female voice came from the side: "Patti, are you disturbing a stranger? ?”
Gawain raised his head and saw a woman wearing a veil and long skirt standing not far away, looking at Patty with a slight frown.
Patty immediately rushed over happily: "Ah! Sister Serena!"
Gawain watched the little girl throw herself into the arms of the veiled woman, who then He subdued the little girl with ease and looked up: "I'm sorry, this child is not wary of strangers."
"Uncle is a very nice person!" Patty said, raising her head.
Selina bent down and pressed Patty's hair: "Then you can talk to uncle again next time you have a chance, Patty - you should go and rest."
The expression on the little girl's face suddenly became frustrated: "But I want to play for a while longer..."
"You have been playing for a long time," Serena said softly but firmly. She shook her head and said, "You can't be willful, understand?"
Patty hesitated for a while, but still nodded obediently: "...Oh."
With this agreement , Gawain saw the little girl's figure quickly fade in the air, and in just a few seconds turned into light particles floating in the wind: she left the spiritual network.
Selina straightened up and smiled politely at Gawain: "Sorry, I made you laugh."
"It's okay, I don't mind." Gawain shook his head, and at the same time I made a quick judgment in my mind——
If it weren’t for the Eternal Sleepers’ gameplay being too high-end, or for having a special show for themselves, then based on the interaction between Patty and Serena and what happened last time, The sight I saw... Could it be that the "little girl" was really a little girl?
A child? Will the eternal sleeper who can access the spiritual network at the age of eleven or twelve be a child? This is unrealistic even for a magic genius!
Or...are they "family members" brought online by other eternal sleepers?
He has also seen other children in this dream city. Although they are very few, they do exist. Are those children in the same situation?
Does the Eversleeper have technology that allows people without magical abilities to access the Internet? !
This last conjecture made Gawain's heart pound. If this was true... then the technical value of the Eternal Sleeper's spiritual network would far exceed his previous imagination!
He was thinking rapidly, but he did not show it. Instead, he pretended not to care and said casually: "It seems that children are rarely seen here."
"After all, it fits the bill. There are very few conditions," Selina smiled lightly, "We can't expose it yet."
The implication is that there are conditions that need to be filtered...it cannot be exposed, so this is a risk of exposure. pilot project?
Gawain casually chatted with the other party on this topic againTwo sentences, however, did not yield any valuable information. After realizing that continuing might seem suspicious, he quietly changed the topic: "I saw the news about the recruitment of computing power for Project Zero..."
“It’s because there is a computing power gap in the time iteration experiment,” Selina nodded. Those who can come to this area are the middle and high-level people among the Eternal Sleepers, and those who can stay for a long time are at least Having reached the level of Intermediate Nightmare Bishop, it is not surprising to say a few words about Project Zero, "It is difficult to adjust the deepest time flow rate through thinking acceleration. The sandbox No. 1 that has been running the longest before only lasted a few seconds." Hundreds of years - we need more computing power."
"Sandbox"-Gawain's heart moved, and he heard a very concerning word.
This is a word that does not belong to the contemporary common language, but is a combination of two words in the ancient common language of Gondor. Because its meaning is relatively simple and straightforward, Gawain can understand it directly, but After understanding this word, he only had greater doubts in his heart.
However, he could not ask directly, because according to Selina's attitude, the Eternal Sleeper standing in this area should know a lot of the truth about Project Zero.
And he has asked enough questions.
Selecting one person to ask questions can easily arouse suspicion, so Gawain immediately ended the topic. He has collected a lot of information and vocabulary. Next time he can find someone else in this area. The eternal sleeper goes to talk about it - or find a way to cultivate and cultivate the "chess piece" he just found.
After some small talk, he nodded to Serena: "It took up a lot of your time, I should leave."
Selena smiled slightly: " It was a pleasure chatting with you."
Then the veiled lady said goodbye to Gawain and turned to walk towards the other side of the road.
The moment she turned around, Gawain's eyes suddenly condensed:
At this moment, this woman looked very much like Selina Gelfen seven hundred years ago. !