Chapter 794?

This is the first time Gawain has entered the interior of the central temple of the City of Dreams.

This temple is located in the center of the city of dreams, and from the structure of the spiritual network, the data that constitutes this temple is also located in the deepest part of the entire network - it is directly monitored by the Supreme Bishops' Conference, and is always under the control of Pope Megall III. Under the "watching" of the temple, all mental activities in the temple area are based on the highest security policy, and data flow control is extremely strict.

Therefore, for a long period of time, Gawain hadn't thought about this area. In order to prevent his "stowaway" from being discovered by the monitor of the temple, he would not even move around the temple area.

Until today, Daniel has become the monitor of the temple area and reconstructed the data flow of the entire area.

Gawain calmly teleported to the inner corridor of the central temple, and then walked into the resplendent rotunda.

In the gorgeous hall illuminated by passive radiance, the figures of the archbishops emerged one after another. The surface of the golden round table in the center of the hall was painted with many mysterious runes, and each rune appeared with the arrival of the participants. Sparkling, Gawain walked slowly to the round table, his eyes calmly swept across the magic and sacred marks floating on the edge of the round table, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart——

Those who are engaged in networking like RGB, as if this thing can really improve the performance of the mental network...

While the thoughts were floating, the figures quickly solidified, and the archbishops of the Eternal Sleeper Religion arrived at the venue and came to Gawain.

Gawain looked at the seats at the scene, and saw that there were a total of twenty-three seats around the gorgeous round table - which corresponded to the twenty-three archbishops including Daniel.

But at the moment one chair is vacant.

Gawain remembered the situation reported by Daniel—in the previous exploration of Sandbox No. 1, an archbishop of the Eternal Sleeper was mentally polluted by the upper-level narrator in order to cover other people, and has now been isolated in the real world. It seems that The vacant seat was hers.

Gawain came to the vacant seat and sat down at will—the seat was good, it was his now.

Except for Daniel, the archbishops had no idea that the extraterritorial wanderers had come to their side. They took their seats around the round table in order. Yuri Charvin sat on the left of Gawain, and another unknown archbishop was sitting. Gawain to the right.

Several of the participating bishops couldn't help but cast their sights on Gawain's seat. Of course, there was only an vacant seat in their sight, and one of the archbishops shook his head and sighed: "Alas... I hope Wen Archbishop Ti can recover as soon as possible.

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There were several echoes around, and several lines of sight that were directed to Gawain's position were filled with sighs and melancholy.

Gawain felt a little embarrassed, but he still stayed on his seat with a stern face... After all, Daniel was sitting across the table, and his character as a foreigner couldn't be broken - as a foreigner, he couldn't be embarrassed. Just ran away from the seat.

At this moment, a voice resounding in the venue announced the start of the meeting and relieved Gao Wen's embarrassment: "Everyone, let's start."

Gawain looked at the reputation and saw Selena Geer sitting in a position not far from him. She was wearing a simple and elegant white dress, and her tone was as calm and gentle as she remembered.

"His Holiness the Pope will also participate in this meeting." Selena continued.

Megall III?

With a move in Gao Wen's heart, the face of the pioneer who was known for his loyalty and gentleness in the northward team appeared in his mind, and almost at the same time as his thoughts were floating, a starlight that was constantly wriggling and deforming, floating above the golden round table The aggregate suddenly appeared in everyone's sight.

Gawain's eyes froze for a while, the memories from Gawain Cecil surging in his mind, but he couldn't overlap the indescribable starlight with the "comrade-in-arms" in his memory.

He couldn't help but think of Bertila, who had turned into a plant, and Franken, the "Grand Master" who merged with the body of a false god and died...

It seems that mortals have to pay a huge price to contend with the passage of time and live long years.

Then, he heard a trembling voice from the starlight, whose original voice could no longer be distinguished, and the voice said to the archbishops present: "We are facing a special crisis - No. 1 sand The 'upper narrator' brewing in the box has begun to infect the real world, and you must have already understood the specific situation.

"In addition to this, all minds in Sandbox 1 have been confirmed to have disappeared, including the three thousand fellow Church members as test entities, and millions of virtual minds formed by the sandbox system.

"We haven't been able to identify the reason for these minds disappearing - they may have been 'swallowed' by runaway upper narrators, or they may have... somehow integrated into Sandbox 1, or even melted through the shield and into our Surface network."

The voice of Megall III echoed in the hall, and Gawain's eyes gradually became serious.

The minds in Sandbox No. 1 have disappeared... There are millions of minds inside, most of which are virtual personalities generated by the sandbox system...

The huge number of "virtual personalities" did not surprise Gawain, because the sandbox runs an extremely simulated "real world", and with the development of the internal historical "script", the scale of civilization in the sandbox world will definitely change with It's impossible for the huge number of "residents" to be real testers - that means the Eternal Sleepers have to put the entire population of an entire country into their sandbox, which is obviously inappropriate. realistic.

Therefore, it was their inevitable choice to use virtual personalities as the "NPC" of the sandbox system, and it was also what Gawain had already anticipated.

But he didn't expect that Sandbox No. 1, which seemed to be functioning normally on the surface... was actually empty inside?

As for whether those virtual "NPCs" can simulate human minds that look like real ones, and whether they can realize high-level artificial intelligence, this also made Gawain very concerned, but now is obviously not the time to care about such things.

While Gawain was constantly thinking about it, the archbishops in the hall also held a formal meeting to discuss.

The archbishops who participated in the No. 1 sandbox exploration operation told more details of the exploration operation, and the technical archbishops headed by Daniel proposed several plans. During the discussion, the severe situation became more and more obvious. The pressure of crisis weighs heavily on everyone's mind.

Selena stood up, her eyes were calm, and her tone was low:

"...As of now, we still can't confirm the nature of the upper-level narrator. His power is invisibly and intangibly polluting everything that enters Sandbox No. 1, and conventional countermeasures are ineffective.

"The attacked advance unit was attacked by invisible enemies after nightfall, and we still know nothing about this attack, except for the hallucinations of suspected mind backlash.

"My compatriots, we are trying to fight against a force that may be above the human mind... I am afraid that the conventional plan is useless."

There was a low voice of discussion in the hall, and the archbishops exchanged opinions quickly. Even Gao Wen, who was watching the meeting incognito, couldn't help but ponder, and came up with a possible response plan based on the large amount of information he had just heard.

In any case, he still doesn't want such a useful mental network to end so quickly - what's more, the upper-level narrator sounds strange and dangerous, and if possible, he is not willing to let that thing really enter the real world. .

Selena Gerfen quietly watched the archbishops in discussion, and after a few minutes, she suddenly broke the silence.

"My compatriots, listen to me—

"Maybe what I say next will make you feel unbelievable, but the severity of the situation is there for all to see, and I hope that all of us will seriously consider more possibilities.

"In response to the current situation, His Majesty Megall III and I have discussed, we have a bold plan-"

Gawain raised his head subconsciously, and looked in the direction of Selena Gerfen with the other archbishops.

"Perhaps, we should seek cooperation from outsiders." Selena said calmly.

The hall was suddenly so quiet that you could hear needles falling.

Gawain: "...?"

Daniel: "...?"

The next moment, the buzzing sound of discussion suddenly sounded, and the entire hall seemed to instantly become a pot of boiling soup. When a name that the Eternal Sleeper Religion regarded as a "large neutral boss in the wild" appeared in this special conference venue, Even the archbishops of the dark sect were unable to restrain themselves in shock and confusion.

At this moment, Selena's voice sounded again, making the scene quiet down quickly: "Quiet, everyone, please listen to me - this is not a whimsical, but a serious idea.

"Through the observation and analysis of wanderers outside the territory, we should already have a certain understanding of this indescribable existence. Various characteristics show that although he is wandering in many worlds, he presents extremely high danger and various It is a strange method, but in a specific journey, He has a relatively definite code of conduct-according to the summary of the memory fragments and the observations of the Cecil area by the 'Outer Territory Rogue Analysis Group', extraterritorial rogues When he comes to this world, he will have a specific goal, and all his actions will be carried out around this goal, and in our world, his goal is... to build a new order.

"According to the various new policies of the Cecil Empire at present, and based on the details of the religious reforms that he has implemented, we can determine that there should be some kind of opposition between him and the gods, at least, the two are not in the same camp.

"Based on this, it is not impossible for us to cooperate with extraterritorial rogues when it comes to upper-level narrators."

Selina's voice fell, and the archbishops discussed again. Someone couldn't help but get up and said: "But can we conclude the 'rules of action' of an indescribable person with the broken information we have? His actions and goals It is very likely that it is beyond human understanding, how can we ensure the accuracy of what we have summed up now?”

Selena looked in the direction of the voice: "It can't be accurate. It can only be said that within a certain period and within a certain range, his goals do not conflict with ours, and we also have the possibility to cooperate with him."

Someone else stood up: "Archbishop Selena, I don't think this is inappropriate - the outsiders may not be in the camp of the gods, but they are obviously not on our side. Cecil is doing its best to destroy the dark sect, and all things will die eventually. It has been uprooted, and our compatriots in Cecil are constantly being arrested and transformed by the local security forces and the supernatural correction center, and he obviously doesn't like us..."

"The order he implemented does not allow the existence of a runaway and extreme group like the dark sect, but this does not mean that we cannot carry out 'partial cooperation'," Selina added. "The main force of the sect is in Typhon. We may not be active in Cecil, so that we will not directly oppose the foreign wanderers, and under this premise, we and He may reach a tacit understanding on issues involving 'gods'."

Archbishops, look at me, I look at you, obviously still in shock and shaking, Yuri Charvin, who was sitting on Gawain's left, couldn't help but turn his eyes to the right, and the other person outside one seat could not help. The archbishop was exchanging ideas, while Gawain, who was sandwiched in the middle, was leaning on the chair, listening to the group of eternal sleepers discussing him, while feeling a little vacant, wandering in the sky...

A particularly loud voice sounded, and Magnum's voice made Gao Wen wake up suddenly, the short and grumpy archbishop stood up: "The foreign wanderers may be able to deal with the things in the No. 1 sandbox, he There is a corresponding level, but will he really help? Or after he does help, will we usher in a greater threat? We can't deal with the upper-level narrator-but we can't deal with him either! "

Obviously, this was the common concern of everyone at the scene, and it immediately aroused the echoes of many voices. Yuri, who was sitting on Gawain's left, stood up and looked at Daniel across the table: "Archbishop Daniel, what do you think about this? what idea?"

Daniel: "?"