Chapter 920

The whistling continued for half an hour, and then finally subsided.

In the control center of the Empire Hub, the technicians are still tensing all nerves. Everyone is busy checking the system status, repairing the faulty nodes, restarting the equipment that was offline before, and the sound of commands and reports is heard every second. As the sound continued, although there was no gunpowder smoke in the huge hall, it was like a battlefield.

The power ridge of the entire facility has been brought back online, and the hub tower on the surface has also been re-operated. Within a few minutes of the end of the whistle, more than 90% of the nodes and facilities have returned to normal, responsible for monitoring the system. The magicians of the The traces are fading quickly.

Only other nodes in the empire that are still in a state of interruption are reminding everyone that the previous mutation is not an illusion.

Rebecca looked nervously at the center of the hall. A silver-white metal pillar stood there, as if running through the entire facility. Carmel, who was covered in arcane brilliance, was floating beside the pillar. Inflated nearly twice, standing there like a radiant giant, countless arcane light streams shot out from the gaps in his rune armor pieces, connecting a large number of runes and guides on the metal pillars. Magic Node - The Arcane Master from a thousand years ago is using his own way to sense the residual energy noise in the magic net. There is a certain risk in doing so, but it is now the most efficient and most reliable means.

After a while, Carmel finally ended the connection, his body slowly recovered, and floated to the commander's seat at the front of the hall.

"Master Carmel," Gawain asked before Rebecca spoke, "How is the situation? Have you found the reason?"

"It is certain that a very powerful energy body has entered our network - the traces left by the neural network show that this energy body is larger than we imagined, and if it runs out of control, it can almost burn the entire magic net!" Card! With a lingering tone of voice, Meier said what made everyone on the scene have the urge to take a deep breath, "However, this energy body subtly performed countless 'self-splitting' when it passed through the network— — it amortized itself and flowed through those nodes in pieces, without causing any damage, like flowing water... 'seeded' into the very bottom of our network and disappeared there."

Gawain felt that he was listening to a fantasy, and it was difficult for Rao to understand what the thing Kamal described was because of his "worldview of this world". "Mom...what is that...how can I hear what you mean that it seems to be...some kind of living thing?!"

"It's a bit beyond common sense, but it seems... it's really alive, even sensible," Carmel said in a deep voice, "I tried to trace its traces just now, but all traces were subtly erased. It's not at all a phenomenon that can be caused by unconscious energy turbulence."

Gao Wen frowned, all kinds of speculations surging in his heart, he felt that he seemed to have some ideas, and subconsciously asked: "...Is that energy body 'shared' with itself to avoid damaging the network?"

"Not sure, if ta is really some kind of intelligent thing, then ta's dispersal behavior may also be to avoid self-destruction - although that thing can indeed burn the magic net, it will definitely be hit hard in the process, It may even be directly annihilated - that is the magical energy that spans the entire empire,

Its power is far beyond the imagination of mortals, I think even the gods should not take the initiative to attack such a powerful energy..."

The scene described by Carmel made Gawain more and more serious. The accident that happened today exceeded any previous plan, and even made him feel a long-lost sense of powerlessness. However, just before he wanted to ask more When it came to the details, a technician from a nearby listening booth suddenly shouted, interrupting the conversation of everyone on the podium:

"Received a signal from Shilin City!"

Rebecca, Gawain and Carmel almost said in unison, "Connect!"

In the next second, the information from Shilin City was presented through the holographic projection at the front of the hall. Gawain saw Archon Baldwin Franklin standing there with the busy hub control hall in the background behind him. There was obviously a serious chaos in Shilin City, but everything seemed to have calmed down.

"Your Majesty," Baldwin Franklin said hurriedly as soon as the communication was connected, "We just experienced an abnormal accident here, the communication was completely cut off, the energy failed, and..."

"It's the same here, but the situation here seems to have calmed down," Gawain interrupted, "How is the situation on your side?"

"Ah... This place has returned to normal," Bai Dewen was stunned, and quickly responded, "We are restarting each node, and now we have reconnected to Saint Sunil and the main hub of the imperial capital..."

While the Duke of the West was talking, Gawain saw that the image of the map of the whole world had reappeared above the largest projection device at the end of the hall, and some light was gradually emerging from the nodes of the magic web that had been completely dimmed. During several jumps and fluctuations, Shilin City and the nodes within the radiation range of San Sunil lit up one by one.

Soon, the technicians' reports came from other listening seats: "Received a signal from Fort Winter!" "Communication with Changfeng Fortress has been restored!" "The channel to Fort Solim is open!"

"It looks like...everything is recovering," Gao Wen breathed a sigh of relief, but the strong doubts and unease in his heart did not dissipate at all, "but we still haven't figured out the reason..."

"What is the energy body that suddenly invaded the network..." Rebecca also muttered subconsciously, "It's a pity that I didn't catch it and let it run..."

Just as Rebecca murmured halfway through, a small magic net terminal on the podium suddenly lit up, and a slightly old voice came from it: "No, Your Royal Highness, that thing hasn't escaped yet - we caught it. ta's tail."

"Duwart?" Rebecca immediately looked over the terminal, and Duwart in black had emerged from the holographic projection, "You said you caught it?"

"Catching," Duvalt nodded, "the thing isn't completely off the network, it's moving rapidly along the 'unconscious zone' of the neural network, and Naritil is tracking in the border area - we need more computing nodes. Support, which enhances Naritil's range of perception and speed of action."

"Notify the computing center," Gawain immediately raised his head to look at Carmel, "all the standby personnel who have no assignments to enter the immersion cabin!"

...

Neural Networks, "Zone of the Unconscious."

A vast and chaotic thick fog shrouded the whole world. The sky light of unknown origin floated high in the sky, passing through the thick fog and casting strange and twisted beams, illuminating the gray-white water surface at the bottom of the world, and countless strange-shaped clouds and vortexes kept coming. The fog condensed and dissipated in the depths, making the whole world in an unstable state of change all the time, and the hollow sound of wind came from far away from time to time, making the place even more bizarre and desolate.

This is the boundary area of ​​this huge and complex network. It is the symbolic state presented by the deepest “chaos” of the neural network. It is the impossible area generated after a large number of mental nodes that constitute the network are interlaced, interfering, and iterated.

Here, any orderly calculation ultimately points to disordered results, where useless data is destroyed every minute and every second, and there are unformed "ideas" and "memory" that are turned into nothingness here - those ideas And memory is formed by the interconnectors of the network interacting with each other in the dream. It is the result of countless brains wandering together. They are constantly forming and breaking down in this border area, and what they show is those clouds and vortices.

The mind normally connected to the neural network will never visit this area - a dozen layers of security protocols protect the user's brain from being devoured by the "unconscious zone" by rash network roamers, but today this should be The unvisited "frontier" has ushered in uninvited guests.

A huge lavender phantom flashed in the depths of the fog. The shadow was projected on the gray-white water surface at the bottom of the fog, but it reflected countless bizarre runes and colorful light balls. Around this phantom that flashed quickly, The fine spider silk and the illusory spider arthropods are constantly growing and extending like a dream.

A huge, snow-white spider was moving rapidly above the mist, and the huge spider web formed and spread rapidly around her. Her long limbs stirred the dense mist below while running wildly. The spider mobilized, constantly forming disturbing barriers and false paths, while the white spider's headless head was always looking in one direction—

Although the lavender phantom was very fast, it had already fallen into the spider's web. For the predator, any escape of the prey in the spider's web was just a sideshow before closing the web.

Naritel is an impatient predator.

So after determining that the time was right, she immediately stopped all information flow in the border area.

The lavender phantom was instantly bound by the invisible power in the fog, and countless runes and chaotic lines of light and shadow burst out on the surface of the ta, just like a runaway spell model showing a posture on the verge of collapse, however, In the next second, this "runaway spell model" quickly stabilized itself and began to collapse inwards - a large number of colorful light balls and runes first spread outwards, and then condensed inwards. In just a few seconds, This chaotic and eerie shadow has a definite "appearance".

It was a woman—at least some features looked female.

Her body is as big as a clock tower, and her face is beautiful but has a strange feeling that is not human. Her pupils are like broken stars, showing the appearance of stars, there is no boundary between the white of the eye and the pupil, and it is black. Her long hair poured down from the back of her head, with a lot of wandering brilliance and fine lightning flashing on her hair, but from the head down, her entire upper body showed an illusory, cloud-like state, only It can be vaguely seen that there is a black short robe draped over the body. Under the short robe is the outline of the female body, and there is only a thin cloud of mist on the lower part of the body. , faint runes and orbs of light emerged and moved there.

The bell tower-like "lady" finally stopped. She raised her head and saw a huge white spider descending from the fog. A dense spider web emerged around the spider, and the spider silk extended into the surrounding space, forming a fine the encircling net.

She finally shouted angrily, "Why do you keep chasing me?!"

The white spider stopped on the gray-white water. She seemed to be stunned when she heard the oncoming shout, and then a small figure with white hair hanging down slowly emerged from the fine fluff on the top of the spider's head. Tirping looked at the "giant lady" not far away with a serious expression: "You broke the magic net, you will pay."

"I didn't break anything!" The bell-tower-sized lady seemed to grow even more annoyed, staring at the little girl on top of the spider in front of her - in her eyes, the girl and the spider were an obvious one, "I passed by The exact calculations have been done since last year - nothing is broken! I can't be wrong!"

Naritel blinked, and then seemed to confirm with someone in the distance, and then nodded: "It seems that there is no damage..."

"So you got it wrong - I don't care about you, but I have to..."

"But I still can't let you go," Naritel shook her head. "You delayed the project, this is called 'economic loss'..."

"...Damn!"

The bell-tower-like lady couldn't help cursing after being stunned for a moment, and then her whole figure suddenly became illusory. In the brief stupor of the white spider, she broke free from the shackles of the spider webs and the surrounding fog, and became a ghost again. Phantom, instantly disappeared in place!

However, this sudden escape, which seemed to have a very high success rate, was unsuccessful. She had just moved a short distance, and the arthropods of the white spider blocked all her paths like teleportation—she failed.

After several unsuccessful breakthroughs, the bell-tower-like lady once again condensed and looked at Naritel with a frightened expression: "This is impossible... How can you be so fast!?"

Naritel thought about it seriously, and then looked down at her spider body, and then looked up at the other party: "I have many legs."

Then she looked at the "giant lady" seriously again, her eyes fell on the mist that kept converging and scattered from the lower body of the other person, and she shook her head regretfully: "You don't even have legs."

"???"