At first, there was only the endless wind blowing across the empty fields.
But soon, Yuri felt a strange aura gathering rapidly. It was formless and substanceless, but it attracted everyone's attention with a strong sense of existence—the feeling was as if there was a huge creature invisible to the naked eye slowing down. Stepping up in front of everyone, this huge creature disappeared, but the sound of deep breathing and the sense of oppression originating from biological instinct continued to come from all directions.
Everyone's eyes were wide open with tension and confusion. Sammler subconsciously summoned the battle staff. Wendy frowned instantly, and Magnum's figure suddenly appeared from the air. Before he had time He greeted Yuri and the others with a loud voice, and then stared in Gawain's direction with wide eyes—
A vaguely translucent outline appeared in front of Gao Wen, and quickly condensed into a solid body in the next second.
It was a huge white spider.
She lay quietly on the flat grassland, surrounded by a layer of almost transparent white light cocoon, the grass blades blown by the wind swayed on the edge of the light cocoon, surging as if licking, and when the white spider appeared In an instant, Magnum's exclamation sounded: "All my ancestors! Mind wind—"
Gawain casually pointed in Magnum's direction, "Shut up."
A huge turbulent flow of thoughts instantly hit Magnum's mental layer, and the latter exploded into a ball of gorgeous fireworks before he finished speaking the four words of "psychic storm"—of course, he recovered and reappeared two seconds later. , and immediately shut his mouth and stood obediently in the same place. Visually, the mental storm will not be able to rise in a short time.
Gawain had more or less experience fighting side by side with Magnum, so he was already prepared.
And this sudden episode also woke up the people at the scene. After a short period of stunned panic, Yuri was the first to regain his composure. "God" should be charged now, but he swallowed subconsciously: "Your Majesty, this is..."
"The upper-level narrator, the preserved part," Gao Wen said casually, and glanced at the eternal sleepers who were facing the enemy, "relax, he is harmless, and will not be polluted even if you look directly at it—God Sex and humanity have been stripped and purified, leaving only the pure mind and 'personality', which is essentially similar to Magnum or Selena."
While speaking, the transparent light cocoon enveloping the entire white spider trembled slightly, and then, as if gradually waking up from a long deep sleep, the huge white spider suddenly moved, and the entire light cocoon shattered and dissipated in an instant. .
The "Upper Narrator" woke up, and the astonishing jointed limbs swiped in a daze twice, and then gradually grasped the balance. He (she) propped up his body, and his head turned aimlessly in this strange world. The eyes, however, have rays of light circulating on the surface of the skull, and a feeling of bewilderment seems to be transmitted to everyone's mind through those rays of light.
And almost at the same time that the white spider woke up, a black figure also appeared out of thin air——Duwart, an old man in a black robe holding a dilapidated lantern, appeared at the foot of the white spider. Gao Wen and others not far away.
"Welcome to wake up," Gawain nodded to them with a smile, "I hope this 'sleep' has not caused too much damage to you."
"We..." Duarte finally hesitated to speak. He felt the tense atmosphere around him, but he didn't seem to care about all of it. He just whispered in confusion, and the old lantern in his hand flickered, "We should into eternal darkness..."
"We should have already perished." Naritil in the form of a white spider finally got rid of her confusion. She turned her head and "stared" at Gawain, "What happened?"
"You guys did die once," Gao Wen sighed, and said helplessly, "But don't you know—as long as the conditions are right, the data can be 'data restored'."
"Data restoration?" Naritil's tone was confused, "What is that?"
"It's very complicated to explain, and you only need to know one thing—at the last moment, I 'saved' you," Gao Wen said, pointing to his head, "It's a huge amount of data, but you It should be clear that the stats of the entire sandbox world don't add up to me."
Naritil was stunned, lowered his head slightly, and looked at Duvalte under his feet: "Duvart, can you understand?"
The old man in black robe holding a dilapidated lantern was looking at Gao Wen with astonished eyes. Suddenly, he seemed to understand something, and sighed thoughtfully: "I think I know..."
He remembered what happened that day, and what he encountered when he tried to pollute Gawain's mind after forcibly entering the apotheosis form—at that time, he was defeated so quickly that he didn't have time to analyze anything, but at this moment he Finally, he had the opportunity to sort out what happened at that time, and finally had the opportunity to understand what happened to himself and Naritil.
"I should have thought..." He looked complicated, "Pollution is mutual, and the devouring of the mind is of course also possible... Your memory and soul are so huge that even the gods would be horrified. If we rashly establish a connection with your mind, how could we end up with only" It's that simple to fail. You... 'eat' me and Naritel!"
In an instant, almost everyone's eyes widened in astonishment. Even Yuri and Magnum, who had personally experienced the first half of the battle, couldn't help but look at each other. In awe, the eyes of Veronica, who was silent on the side, became more and more profound, but Hetty showed a thoughtful look—only Gawain remained indifferent, he looked up at Naritil, and spread his hands: "Didn't I spit it out again?"
If Amber was at the scene, he would definitely answer the question immediately and say, "It's not considered edible if you spit it out, at most it's swallowed for a while." But he didn't follow, so no one answered Gao Wen's teasing at the scene.
The atmosphere seemed a little weird.
As for what happened at that time, it was indeed similar to what Duwart said, except that this was not the first time that Gawain "swallowed" other minds—he did this once a few years ago, and it was swallowed by him at that time. He is a reckless and regrettable eternal sleeper. The other party tried to invade the consciousness of "Gauwen Cecil" from the spiritual level, but was torn into pieces and disintegrated and absorbed by Gawain's massive memory bank. It was precisely because of that devouring , Gao Wencai grasped a lot of information related to the Eternal Sleeper, and eventually became an "extraterritorial wanderer" who invaded the mind network.
What he did on the upper-level narrators was essentially the same as that of the previous year—even though the difficulty and volume were different, but in front of the satellite database that worked hard to make miracles, it was just a matter of downloads.
It is difficult for Gao Wen to explain the specific principles of this to outsiders, but he reckons that the people at the scene probably don't need any explanation: they generally attribute such things directly to the ancestors who are awesome/extraterritorial wanderers who are awesome/legendary pioneers There are three reasons why it's awesome...
Of course, "swallowing the gods" sounds very good, but Gawain estimated that he could only do this once—if he didn't happen to be in the conscious world formed by the mind network, if he didn't happen to meet the "upper narrator" His extremely restrained mental body god, if it is not for the inexperienced and relatively weak side of the devoured party, he would not be able to succeed.
The perfect conditions required in this process are so harsh that they cannot be replicated—in the final analysis, those sea monsters are more powerful in "swallowing gods" on the physical level.
Complicated thoughts flashed across in an instant, Gawain coughed twice, then looked at Naritil, and broke the silence again: "So I wanted to tell you at the time that I could have a better way—but you didn't Listen, I just ran out, and I almost didn't have time to 'drag' you back."
The giant spider's long jointed limbs slid twice unconsciously on the ground, and Naritel's soft voice came directly into everyone's mind: "I was... very anxious."
"I know," Gao Wen smiled, "It's understandable."
"Your Majesty," Semler finally found a chance to speak. The serious middle-aged man couldn't help but take two steps forward, and said while nervously looking at the huge white spider, "You put the upper narrator... 'Saved' down, do you want to... "
As Semler opened his mouth, the attention of Naritil and Duvalte also fell on Gao Wen, and Duarte directly expressed his same confusion: "You left us, want to do What?"
"I want to do some follow-up research," Gao Wen said frankly. "These people here have a delicate relationship with the gods. We are very curious about the strengths and weaknesses of the gods, so we need 'upper-level narrators'. And I also want to To verify some personal conjectures - a 'god' who has removed most of the characteristics of gods, your existence form itself makes me very curious."
He talked about his own thoughts, and looked at Naritil and Duvalte calmly and honestly, without hiding the curiosity and inquiry in his eyes.
The "upper-level narrator" is the most precious treasure he rescued from the spiritual network. This is a unique sample of gods, which contains the entire cycle of birth, death, and rebirth of gods, and has the ability to strip divinity and humanity and eliminate spiritual pollution. , safety and controllability, and other unrepeatable characteristics, so Gao Wen tried his best to keep "Him", and even named the nascent imperial computing network "Narrator's Neural Network".
Facing Gawain's answer, Naritil gathered some of his limbs somewhat uneasily, shook his huge body slightly, and said with a sigh: "So, is this another new 'experiment' project? ?”
"This is indeed an experimental project," Gao Wen nodded, "but not all 'experimental projects' are bad. There are also experiments that both parties agree to and voluntarily participate in, there are harmless experiments, and there are mutual aid experiments... "
"I know," Naritil interrupted Gawain, "this knowledge... I still understand."
Gao Wen raised his eyebrows: "What about your opinions?"
Duwart closed his eyes slightly, and Naritil said softly after a few seconds of silence: "What does this mean to us—we are individuals that should perish, just like you once said, There is no place for us in the real world. Of course, if you insist on doing this, then do it...”
"But I hope that all of this will be based on fair cooperation rather than coercion." Gawain shook his head, "The former Order of the Eternal Sleepers no longer exists, and here is Cecil, who is implementing Cecil's order— I don't want to force you."
Duarte opened his eyes. "We need a reason."
Gao Wen looked at the other party quietly, and after a few seconds, he slowly said: "Just to remember those who once lived in the No. 1 sandbox."
Naritil moved her long jointed limbs.
"The history of No. 1 sandbox is over, and the former residents in it no longer exist. After a person dies in the real world, his relatives and friends will remember him, his neighbors will remember him, even if no one Remember, he always has bones left in the world, but those virtual personalities in the sandbox, no one remembers them in the real world, and there are no remains of them on the Internet," Gawain said calmly, "Naritil , Duarte, you -- that's the last thing left of them.
"I don't intend to use this statement to kidnap your thoughts, but I hope you can consider this: the 'Upper Narrator' is the last memory of the entire sandbox world, if you are willing to use Cecil as a citizen If you stay here, then for the former residents of No. 1 sandbox, this is also a kind of continuation."
Naritil and Duwart fell silent at the same time, Gawain didn't pause when he saw this, and then continued: "Also, if you are willing to stay, I promise that you can get in touch with the 'real world' in some way.
"You are now in a new type of network that is different from the psychic network. There is no sandbox system here. The new terminal technology allows you to interact with the real reality to a certain extent-I can give you this part of the information , let you know what I said is true.
"In exchange, I want you to be part of this new type of network. Of course, you will be restricted by the rules of the network - this restriction is mainly to protect the nodes of the network, and I can promise that it will be harmless to you.
"How to balance, you judge for yourself."