In the Typhon Empire, deep in the hidden underground palace.
The bright lights of the magic crystal lit up in the rotunda. Beside the ancient stone round table inlaid with countless mysterious runes, the archbishops in black or white robes had taken their seats in order. There was silence in the depressing and uneasy hall. Only the occasional twitching of the artificial nerve cords on the walls of the surrounding hall would make a slight sound.
After what seemed like a century of silence, the silence was finally broken.
Stars of deep purple light emerged from the sky above the round table, and slowly formed an indescribable shape. From within the clouds and mist filled with starlight, the deep voice of the Ever Sleeping Pope came: " Everyone, let’s get started.”
“Yes, Your Majesty,” a bishop in white robes nodded, stood up and said, “We have completed the brain wave analysis of Bishop Lemont. , and reproduced it in the brainserver array. Based on the experience of several previous trial runs, this forged brainwave can deceive the filtering laws of the God of Holy Light. It won’t take long before we may be able to use it for the third time. Second observation. "
"Very good progress," words of praise came from the starlight cloud, but there was almost no emotion in these words, "Remember the safety regulations, even the Archbishop is not allowed to do this. Spying on the Kingdom of God twice in ten days. If anyone is found mumbling alone, sluggish, falling asleep, or praying to a certain god after spying on the Kingdom of God, their brains must be sealed off and their memories cleaned as soon as possible. ”
< p>The white-robed bishop lowered his head: "I obey your order."Then a black-robed bishop next to the white-robed bishop stood up: "Your Majesty, the 'outside wanderer' has already Destroying the old aristocratic power in the southern territory of Ansu, He showed... strength and control beyond our expectations."
The starlight cloud seemed to be stagnant for a moment, and then floated again: "He. What are you doing now?"
"He issued a large number of decrees and began to try to bring the entire southern territory into rule according to the way he ruled the Cecil region," the black-robed bishop said, "He showed similar The various qualities of the 'Great Monarch', although those decrees and actions are difficult to understand, he seems to really want to establish a stable and long-term rule and create a mortal kingdom..."
< p>The Starlight Cloud did not speak, but another bishop at the scene could not help but ask: "Does he really intend to become a monarch?""All the words and deeds of the wanderers outside the territory cannot be justified by common sense. Speculation, but at least according to the information we have, extraterrestrial wanderers often only play one role after the arrival of a world," the black-robed bishop said. "Judging from his various actions since his arrival, we may think that he is here. What you have to do in this advent is to be a monarch."
"It is also possible to establish a strong enough mortal kingdom and then destroy it," a slightly shrill female voice came from across the round table. , the speaker was a female bishop in black robe, "After all, he is an existence similar to an evil god, and it is not like we have never seen him build a kingdom and then completely destroy it. "
"The evil god also has his own purpose. There is no purpose at all, only the chaos of the deep world," a voice came from the starlight cloud, interrupting the discussion and argument of the bishops, "At least now we and The extraterrestrial wanderers have yet to come into direct conflict, which is a good thing. "
The white-robed bishop who spoke first raised his head curiously: "Your Majesty, what do you mean..."
"As long as our world can continue, we will not Mind doing anything," Starlight Cloud said calmly, "Of course, now we have to continue to observe him - until we are sure that the extraterrestrial wanderers at least have no clear hostility to this world, we can take the next step.
All the bishops lowered their heads: "Yes, Your Majesty, I will obey your order." "
"Then let's move on to the next topic, Project Zero..."
...
The brief dizziness receded like a tide, and Gawain appeared in front of him. He saw the gorgeous and majestic palace walls of the dream city, as well as the eternal sleeper "citizens" walking comfortably among the wide walkways.
He felt that the last time he entered this dream world was a long time ago. ——Although he actually came in a few days ago to check Daniel's study progress.
There are many things in the real world, and the newly conquered southern territory still needs to be built slowly, Gawain. There is almost no extra time to pay attention to matters outside the construction territory. Even if he takes time to "go online", he comes and goes in a hurry.
But fortunately, he is a little free today. Have time to enter this dream world for a while.
The scenery in the dream city is not much different from the past. It seems that it will always be so gorgeous and majestic, and it will always be so peaceful and peaceful, which is completely unexpected. There is an astonishingly large amount of data flowing behind this city, and it is unbelievable that the builders of this city are actually a group of notorious cult believers. However, for Gawain now, these things are not important for the time being - in Before stabilizing the situation in the Southern Territory, he didn't have much time to pay attention to what these cultists were doing.
At most, he could take the time to take a look at the City of Dreams to make sure that these eternal sleepers were not targeting the Southern Territory. Just any big news.
Gao Wen arrived at the central area of the city with ease, found the crystal node that connected the deep data of the network, and then started to search randomly in the Eversleeper Network, and just browsed a small part of the information. , he couldn't help but have a smile on his face.
He saw that the information flow in the Eversleeper network became much more orderly than before, and there was a crude, conceptually similar "search." Engine" thing was running, and when retrieving some recent psychic network construction information, he saw the name of "Nightmare Bishop Daniel" at the end of many materials.
The "student" seemed to do Not bad.
With an interesting thought in his mind, Gawain began to search for what he needed in this spiritual network, which was more convenient than before. The first thing he did was to pay attention to Project Zero. Information - and of course, he still couldn't find anything.
Even if he uses special "backend permissions" to access deep data in the database, he cannot see the information about Project Zero.
It seems that the significance of this project in the Order of the Eternal Sleeper is really great. Even Daniel, who has been promoted to the Nightmare Bishop, has no way to get this stuff for the time being.
Gao Wen had no regrets about this. His focus on Project Zero was just a matter of routine and a little personal curiosity. After discovering that there was no progress in this area, he skipped this part directly. , start searching for information related to yourself in the spiritual network.
After using the words "Ansu South Territory", "Gawain Cecil", "Outside Wanderer" and other words as search keywords, Gawain appeared almost immediately "in front of his eyes" A large amount of intelligence——
“The southern border of Ansu was in flames of war, and a head-on conflict broke out between the terrifying extraterrestrial wanderers and the southern noble group.”
“Gravel Ridge massacred ten thousand people in one day , the coalition of more than forty nobles was instantly defeated."
"The army of extraterrestrial wanderers destroyed Count Pepo's fleet on the White Water River..."
"The powerful extraterrestrial wanderers. The rogues continued to hunt down the defeated nobles."
"The southern border will usher in a new monarch..."
"What the hell..." Gawain was stunned. "...Can't these cultists seriously do some serious work such as conspiracy to subvert the world? Can't hold back gossip when they have the Internet?"
Although I know that a lot of this information is only But it was posted casually by some Eternal Sleepers. Gawain couldn't help but his eyes twitched several times when he saw some familiar sentence patterns. When he was a keyboard warrior in his previous life, he was also a near-late-stage full-body diffusion level. A fan of meme-he never thought that he would become a part of the meme as a person involved!
But after all, he was a well-informed person who had been a satellite in the sky for millions of years. Gawain was just stunned for a moment and quickly recovered. Then he smiled helplessly and continued to browse other things on the Internet. .
He first paid attention to the overall activities of the Eternal Sleepers in the Southern Territory, and then discovered that the activities of these cultists in the Southern Territory seemed to be turning to a low point... Their superiors clearly asked the cultists to keep a low profile in the Southern Territory... This is Because you are worried about conflict with yourself, an "outside wanderer"?
Gawain was quite dumbfounded by this, but at least it was a good thing, so he continued reading.
Later, he saw that the Eversleepers seemed to be paying attention to the outbreak of civil war in Anzu, but for the time being, he found no sign that they were involved in this war.
Then, he unexpectedly saw some news related to the Son of the Storm:
"The Son of the Storm's plan to cross the deep seaParanoid, they seem to be planning to completely abandon the human world? "
"It seems that a large number of Storm Sons have disappeared on the ocean. They may be involved in a new war with the Kraken..."
"Their actions are gradually deviating from the track, maybe After all, the Son of the Storm was bewitched by the storm..."
The information in this regard is fragmented, and there is no announcement that seems reliable and decisive. It seems that some people are related to the Son of the Storm. Things that the Eternal Sleeper cultists released in their own name. Looking at this information, Gawain couldn't help but be a little curious——
Those Sons of the Storm who went crazy and rushed into the far sea area...why did they follow them again? Are those deep-sea fish demons fighting?
Didn’t Tyr say that the sea monsters have been lying on the sea bed to eat for a while and have no time to fight with the "land people"? Has the Deep Sea Salted Fish Spirit been digested in advance?
With all kinds of confusion, Gawain finished browsing this information, and he wanted to search for more things related to the Son of the Storm or the Siren. But it seemed that there was only so much information in this area.
After browsing the Eversleeper's database for a long time, Gawain felt a little tired, so he ended his contact with the node crystal.
The illusions in front of him receded, and the scene of the Node Crystal Square stabilized in his field of vision again.
An Eternal Sleeper cultist walked over from the side, seeming to want to connect with the crystal. Gawain took a few steps back and gave up his position to the eternal sleeper.
Then he left the node square and walked towards the garden area along the path beside the square.
In the process, he tried to open the "tracing" line he had ordered Daniel to set up, and began to search for a familiar brainwave around him.
Ten minutes later, in the garden area. On an avenue, he saw the person he was looking for.
The little girl Patty was sitting alone on the swing next to the flower bed.