After finishing the meeting with Daniel, Gao Wen did not directly exit the network, but left the virtual space and returned to the consciousness level of the mind network.
This layer is also what he calls the "visible zone"—as opposed to the visible zone, which is the data link layer deep in the network that will not be noticed by ordinary visitors.
His virtual space was created by manipulating the data link layer.
"The whereabouts of the huge computing resources are unknown..." Walking on the streets in the central area of the City of Dreams, Gao Wen whispered to himself, "The mind network is a network built on the basis of active nodes, and there is no need for a 'brain servant'." The fixed 'server' ah..."
He raised his head and looked at the eternal sleepers walking in front of him. In his eyes, those figures are now living computing nodes. After completing the knowledge he lacked, he has a deeper understanding of this network. I learned more about these cultists operating on the Internet.
The Order of the Eternal Sleepers is a huge dark sect with an astounding number of members and a complex and secret inheritance system. Not all the Eternal Sleepers understand the secrets of their own sect—in fact, like Viscountess Kant, she was bewitched by the Eternal Sleepers And there are many "marginal believers" who have gone astray but don't understand the organization of the Eternal Sleepers in this sect.
The eternal dream that can escape the real world has an unimaginable attraction to those who are miserable and desperate in reality. Even nobles and great magicians can hardly resist its temptation under certain circumstances, and once you Accepting the temptation of the Eternal Sleeper and contributing one's mind to this huge network for the first time, the beautiful illusion brought by the mind network that can confuse reality is enough to sink even the most determined person deeper and deeper.
These eternal sleepers walking on the street, how many of them are senior cult members, how many are dissatisfied nobles, and how many are superpowers who are in trouble. Will there be members of the secret society among them? Will there be believers from the southern part of the mainland, or even from other races? Or even... would there be members of some other denomination with no hope of advancement
The Eternal Sleepers have lost their faith and magical system, just like the druids after the fall of the white star three thousand years ago, they are actually a secular and extraordinary organization based on magic technology, so they can absorb "believers" without any problems. Psychological pressure, they can confuse nobles and mages, and they can even confuse those apparently upright orthodox believers and priests!
Thinking of this, Gao Wen couldn't help feeling that the Eternal Sleeper was probably the most terrifying of the three dark sects...
Just walking with divergent thoughts like this, a somewhat familiar little figure suddenly flashed in the corner of his eyes.
Gao Wen took a closer look and saw a little girl in a beautiful white dress bouncing along the fallen leaf path not far away. She jumped up and down on fallen leaves and stones, and stepped on the path from time to time Next to the curb slightly higher than the ground, walking on the "single-plank bridge", the carefree and innocent appearance is really impressive.
The little girl who called herself Patti Grant? How come it's such a coincidence to meet again
Gao Wen frowned, and his first thought was to pretend he didn't see him and walk away, but before he lifted his footsteps, the little girl had already seen him sharply.
"Ah! It's Uncle Selsey!"
The little girl yelled happily, then jumped off the curb, ran up to Gao Wen, lifted her skirt, and performed a not-so-standard ladylike courtesy: "Hello, Uncle!"
Her words and demeanor are somewhat reminiscent of a good tutor, but her actual movements are quite clumsy.
It seemed too deliberate for Gao Wen to go offline directly at this time, so he could only respond with a dry smile, and then subconsciously looked around: the woman suspected of Selina Geerfen didn't seem to be around here.
"Are you looking for Sister Serena?" Patty noticed Gao Wen's actions, and immediately said crisply, "Sister Serena is not here! She is busy at home!"
Gao Wen heaved a sigh of relief, and then he looked at Patty with curiosity, and asked the question he wanted to ask earlier: "By the way, how do you recognize me every time? There should be A lot of people use the same appearance as me, right?"
This is what he is most curious about—in this original network that has not yet implemented the real-name system, and has not yet implemented a user name floating on everyone's head, there is no way for people to identify others at a glance. You can enter the sea by just pinching anyone, and the eternal sleepers are still completely satisfied with the "initial stage of universal Internet access" that is casually wandering in the Internet, but the little girl in front of you can recognize herself every time, which is really strange very.
You know, the face of Charles I is a popular skin in this network...
"Is it hard to recognize?" The little girl was stunned when she heard Gao Wen's question, she blinked her eyes in a daze, "But I can recognize it. Although there are many people here who look the same, everyone's ' It felt 'all different...'
"It feels different..." Gao Wen couldn't laugh or cry: What kind of answer is this
He felt that the little girl in front of him was quite weird, and he couldn't help but feel more vigilant, but after two or three times of contact, he gradually dispelled his initial thoughts: this little girl named "Patty" should have something behind her. Really not a middle-aged greasy foot-picking cultist...
Soldering's big bosses are not at this level of abnormality. Even if this "Patty" is not such a small child in the real world, he shouldn't be too bad.
Maybe geniuses do exist... You can access the Eternal Sleeper network at the age of ten or something.
Thinking of this, and seeing that there was no Selena Geerfen around, Gao Wen felt that it was okay to chat with this strange little girl, so he took the little girl slowly on the boulevard. Walking slowly, he said casually, "You seem to come here often?"
Patty looked curious: "Did uncle mean to come to this garden? Or come to this dream?"
Does this little girl simply regard this virtual space as a "dream"? Where does such a dream come from in the world...
Gao Wen muttered something in his heart, but there was no abnormal expression on his face: "I mean this 'dream'."
"I come here often, especially at night, I definitely want to come here," Patty stuck out her tongue, "Because I can't sleep well if I don't enter this dream..."
"Didn't sleep well?" Gao Wen frowned, "Why?"
Patty seemed to be a child who really didn't know much about the world, and she answered almost everything Gawain asked: "Because my body hurts and itches..."
When she said this, the little girl showed a hint of resistance and fear on her face. Gao Wen originally wanted to continue asking, but he swallowed the words and changed the topic rather abruptly. : "Speaking of which, I haven't seen your parents here - aren't they 'citizens' of the church?"
"Compatriots" of the church is a colloquial term used by believers to refer to themselves in private. Gao Wen believes that even if Patty is really simple, she must often hear similar words when she is active in this network.
The little girl shook her head: "Dad passed away a long time ago... Mom is busy, and she doesn't like it here."
The father died and the mother seemed to be the one against the Sleeper? How did this little girl access the Internet
Wasn't she brought into the church because of her parents
Gao Wen had various guesses in his mind, while silently sketching out the possible situation of this little girl in the real world, he asked along the way: "That's it... Then what does your mother do? Why doesn't she like this place?"
"Mom says she doesn't like to be in dreams, but I don't know what that means," Patty said, jumping onto the curb next to her and staggering forward, "Mom is a very Great person! Everyone in the castle listens to her!"
Gawain couldn't help but pause: "Castle? Do you live in a castle?"
"Yeah! A big, big castle!" said Patty happily, "and my room has big, big windows!"
A castle with big windows? This kind of construction is not common in this era...
Gao Wen quickly guessed the identity of this little girl in the real world: she should be a nobleman, but judging from her speech and behavior, she should not be a descendant of a high-ranking nobleman. She lives in a castle with large windows, but this The aristocratic castles of Ansu in the era all took into account the energy supply of military fortresses, basically only narrow windows and high skylights, so she may not be from Ansu... But it is not necessarily true, because of the more comfortable new castles and manor buildings recently It has become popular in the Holy Spirit Plain, and some nobles in the southern region are imitating this kind of architecture...
Thinking of this in his heart, Gao Wen said, "Sounds great. By the way, are there any tall mountains near your castle? Or are there rivers and forests?"
He wanted to inquire about the features of the scene near the castle where Patty lived, so as to determine which country the little girl probably belonged to—although he probably couldn't determine anything, he still wanted to try.
But the little girl shook her head after hearing these questions: "I don't really remember... Ever since I was very young, my mother didn't let me leave the castle, saying that it was dangerous outside. But uncle, let me tell you, this morning I Secretly asked the maid to take me to the terrace! I can see a large expanse of snow under the castle! Don’t tell others, my mother rarely even let me go up to the terrace... But my mother went out a few days ago."
Gao Wen casually said while his thoughts were diverging: "Oh, your mother is out."
"Well, Mom said she was going to be a guest at Earl Horsman's house, and she has been away for several days..."
"Oh, Earl Hussman... Earl Hussman?!"
Gao Wen repeated a sentence carelessly, but just after he finished repeating, he realized that his eyes widened immediately.
He has heard the name before!
Not so long ago, in Amber's report!
"Yeah, Earl Hossman," Patty seemed a little taken aback by Gawain's reaction, "Uncle... do you know the Earl?"
"... No, I just didn't expect that the person your mother was going to meet was such a big man, and I was frightened by the word 'earl'." Gao Wen made up a random reason, anyway, children don't think too much , but thoughts surged in his heart.
Will there be another Earl Hossman in this world? This Gao Wen can't guarantee, maybe there will be, after all, the four human kingdoms are separated in four directions of the mainland, and each country has its own independent but huge aristocratic system. There are a few nobles with the same name and title in the north and south, but rather than believing in this unreasonable possibility, he believes that the earl "Hossman" mentioned by Patty is the one he knows!
Karlov Hosman, a land nobleman in the south of Ansu.
So Patty is actually the heir of a nobleman in the southern border
Her surname seems to be Glenn... It seems that there are indeed people with the surname Glenn among the nobles in the southern border!