Chapter 300 I Caught You

The scene in front of him gradually stabilized, and the splendid palace and minaret of the Dream City appeared in front of Gawain again.

Seeing the "incarnation" of the eternal sleepers coming and going in front of him, as well as this quiet running city, Gao Wen couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief.

It seemed that the camouflage he had set up on the network was working well, and the backdoors he had inserted in order to infiltrate the network were not discovered by the Eternal Sleeper.

But think about it too - before the advent of computer viruses, who knew what antivirus software was?

He has not infiltrated this world once or twice - this is the third time, and the direction of his actions in this network of minds is already clear.

Steal technology, install backdoors, monitor the movements of the Eternal Sleepers, and if there is a chance, exert some influence on the Eternal Sleepers through this spiritual network-so that this special cult group can continue to develop in the direction he expects.

Gawain bypassed the crowd and arrived at the area where the node crystal was located. After connecting to the main channel, he first confirmed that everything in the "experimental field" he had left was normal, then quietly exited the secret connection and began to work with the help of the node crystal. Search for possible technical information.

Although he failed to find valid information in the previous attempts, Gawain did not gain anything in this connection. Through analyzing and learning the knowledge of the eternal sleepers that were swallowed up, and the experience of stealing resources in the spiritual network, he Having already vaguely figured out the principle and structure of this network, he found that he could do more by exploiting the loopholes in this network than he had imagined at the beginning.

This network is directly connected to the spiritual world of each Eternal Sleeper. In other words, it can theoretically be directly connected to the thinking and memory space of every Eternal Sleeper. Of course, the Eternal Sleeper also knows the risks involved. Therefore, when they connect to the network, they will protect and isolate their conscious world to prevent someone from invading their thinking through the reverse connection. However, in Gawain's view, their protection is obviously not enough.

Maybe it's because the Eternal Sleepers didn't expect that someone in their "own" network would harm the church compatriots like this, or maybe it's because the mutation of Gawain's own soul is too serious, and his control over his own subconscious world is so strong that in the According to him,

All the deceptive, covert shielding measures in this psychic network seem to be non-existent...

The node crystal emitting a shimmering light floated quietly in front of Gawain. He stared at the surface of the crystal, and the spiritual power gradually spread out. He could feel the truth hidden under the deceptive appearance of this crystal—— Massive amounts of data are exchanged, distributed, and reconstructed here. The thoughts of countless eternal sleepers fluctuate at the bottom of the sea of ​​data. Some of them are strong, some are weak, and those powerful thoughts are closely connected with the structure of the entire network. At the same time, as long as it is touched a little, there is a risk of triggering the alarm of the whole network, but those weak thoughts...

They are like algae and zooplankton floating among the waves, lacking protection and vigilance.

That is the lower layer of the Eternal Sleepers, the most basic group of cultists. Their greatest value in this network is to contribute computing power and bear data pressure as a "buffer" when the network fluctuates violently: For this immature As far as the network is concerned, fluctuations are very common, and the Eternal Sleepers chose the simplest and crudest method to ensure the overall stability of the network.

Gawain carefully let his spirit continue to permeate. Through the jump of the node crystal, he figured out the veins of those thoughts little by little, and roughly judged the strength of the master behind them. He also began to try to read those thoughts. The shallow memory of ——This is one of the most basic abilities of the eternal sleeper. Although Gawain obtained this part of knowledge through devouring, it is the first time that he has really applied it.

He has to be very careful - once it's revealed that he's infiltrated the network, God knows how overreacting cultists who have long been nervous about "outlanders" will react, and maybe unplug the server if they're nervous. now...

A vague vision appeared in Gawain's mind. He saw countless light spots flickering and flowing in the hazy outline of this dream city. Part of it is on the inner level, and several extra bright spots of light are gathered in the large palace area in the center of the city.

He carefully bypassed the spots of light that were too powerful or too close to the center zone, and began to reach targets that seemed like a good fit.

He saw some flashes of shallow memories - some were unfamiliar people holding a meeting, some were the daily life of a dark and desolate castle, and in these flashing shallow memories, he suddenly saw a very special scene. scene.

An elderly mage who lives in isolation, a paranoid man who has gone astray, a man who is tempted to fall by the eternal sleeper and willing to become a dream slave...

He slowly leaned over...

In the Typhon Empire, among the mountains on the southwestern border, the ancient mage tower stands quietly on the top of a rocky peak. At dusk, the dim skylight shrouds the black roof of the ancient spire, and follows the mottled outer wall of the spire. It spreads all the way, and outlines a hazy golden edge on the tower - however, this light cannot dispel the lingering gloomy atmosphere of this mage tower, but can only make the tower seem to be torn from the sky. inexplicable.

The mountain people living in the village at the foot of the mountain are always afraid of the mage tower on the top of the mountain. They know that there is a terrible mage living in the black tower. Whenever it falls at night, from the highest window at the top of the black tower, The figure of the terrifying mage will be reflected, and the ignorant mountain people always regard the strange wind, lightning, and clouds in the mountains as signs of the mage's anger, and thus warn the children in the village not to approach the top of the mountain to prevent Bewitched by the magician, turned into a stone statue in the magician's tower or a talking owl kept in captivity by the magician - the mountain people's imagination of magic is probably like this.

In fact, their fears are not completely unreasonable, because there is indeed a terrible old mage living in the black tower, who is not very normal. Exiled to this point, he was isolated, eccentric, and never communicated with people in the village. He had several apprentices who were equally gloomy. He would only send his apprentices down the mountain to buy food or do some other transactions. The villagers can often smell blood on their bodies - and disturbingly terrifying rumors about the Black Tower spread.

The black and thin Mary carried the purchased food and left the village under the fearful gaze of the mountain people. Those absurd discussions full of unease and speculation seemed to be still circling in her ears. She wrapped her black mage robe tightly around her. Covering the cold night wind in the mountains with a hood, he walked alone on the mountain road.

There is only one road from the village at the foot of the mountain to the Mage Tower, but there are countless impulses to escape from this road. Mary looked up at the Mage Tower gate that had already appeared in her sight, and couldn't help but look back at the road she came from.

She touched the metal clasp around her neck, looked away with difficulty, and walked slowly towards the mage tower step by step.

The door of the mage tower opened automatically, and the dark doorway made her subconsciously take a half step back, but the next second, a thin arm stretched out from the darkness and pulled her into the door.

A hoarse and old voice came from the side: "Don't linger, the master will be unhappy."

Mary nodded, and quickly handed the basket in her hand to the servant who was as gloomy and aging as the entire mage tower, and then walked to the second floor of the mage tower with heavy steps.

The old mage wrapped in a black robe sat in the magic laboratory. The walls and the ground around him were painted with strange and inexplicable blood runes. The light and dark flashed between the runes, while the old mage himself entered the experiment in Mary. He slowly raised his head as he entered the room.

His white, sparse head was as dry as if it had dried out, and his wrinkled skin was full of traces of the passage of time. His old man seemed to die at any moment, but Mary knew that the old mage was far from dead— She even suspected that this old and terrible person would live forever, even longer than she did.

"You're back...go to work." The old mage glanced at Mary with turbid eyes. His voice was low and slow, like a dream, with a peculiar sense of hysteresis. Mary knew that this was because the tutor was in Some kind of special "connection" state, she doesn't know what this "connection" means, because the tutor never lets her contact this knowledge, she only knows that this is a "spell" that is completely different from traditional magic, When her mentor Daniel fell into the craziest stage of his life, he suddenly got this "spell", and then he began to study it frantically, indulged in it, and even angered the magicians of the imperial capital, and had to come to this place. A desolate and backward frontier land...

Whenever in the "connected" state, the old mage's reaction will be so slow, but the slowness is just an illusion. His thinking is still quick, and his reaction can still be quite fast. If you don't want to be punished, the smartest choice is to obey his orders immediately. .

Mary expressed her obedience and walked quickly to the corner of the laboratory. A dissected sample had been placed on the test bench, and she was using magic to maintain the best research state. Mary recognized that it was a monkey. Common monkey.

She began to process the samples according to her mentor's previous instructions, and even though she was still twitching slightly, she started her own movements mechanically - stripping flesh and blood, connecting nerve cords, dipping in magic oil...

And in the middle of these mechanical movements, she suddenly heard a strange sound coming from the direction of her mentor.

She raised her head in astonishment, and saw that her mentor had already widened his eyes, and huge fear was quickly creeping over his old, withered face. The indescribable thing that was frightened to death opened his mouth wide and made a weird sighing sound. After being stiff for two seconds, the old mage suddenly stretched his arms, as if he wanted to block something in front of him, but But he said something inexplicable:

"Stand there and don't move, I have caught you."

That was not the tone of the teacher's usual speech.

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