Twenty minutes later.
In the center of the empty square, Ask held a knife in his right hand and a sword in his left hand, standing in the middle of a ground full of data fragments.
Raphael looked at him blankly, his expression as if he was frozen.
"Your swordsmanship is not right." After a long silence, Raphael finally said, "I just monitored your fighting process."
"Faced with such a highly complex battlefield environment, if we want to replicate the effect your swordsmanship just achieved, the computing power required is theoretically sky-high... This is not something that ordinary people can do. Doesn't it come from the power of your extraordinary swordsmanship?"
"I don't understand what you're talking about." Ask sheathed his sword and looked around. "So these are all the encryption programs?"
"What's the name of your extraordinary swordsmanship?" Raphael did not answer, but flew quickly in front of him, with a look of curiosity and excitement - as if a child saw his favorite toy.
"Is that all?" Ask repeated.
"If I don't have a name, I'll give it to me." Raphael said seriously, "How about calling it 'Laplace Demon Sword'?"
Ask: …
"I think it sounds better to call it 'The Sword That Artificial Intelligence Must Die'." Ask narrowed his eyes.
"Haha, I'm just kidding." Raphael said with a smile, "That should be all. I can sense that the main body has restored contact with us. Do you want to go out now?"
"Hurry up," said Ask.
"Okay." Raphael opened his arms and said with a smile, "Hold me, I will take you out."
Ask drew out his sword with a clang.
Then he woke up from the information connection cabin.
"Asker!" Nora hurriedly helped him up, "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine. I didn't die." Ask understood what she was worried about. "My sanity is not damaged."
"That's good." Nora breathed a sigh of relief and patted her chest.
"Where's your brother?" Ask asked.
"They seemed to have found out something and went out temporarily," said Nora.
"Mr. Ask, Miss Nora." Raphael's voice sounded again, but this time it was no longer as lively as in the virtual world, but a cold and indifferent female voice:
"Thank you both for your help in cracking the encryption. Please return to Licinius Mansion as soon as possible and wait for our further notice."
"Let's go." After noticing that Raphael was in an unpleasant state, Ask also realized that a certain plot mission seemed to be about to happen, and hurriedly said to Nora.
"Okay." Nora said seriously, "I'll take you out."
…
A few minutes ago, based on Raphael's analysis of the incomplete decrypted data, information about a certain location was exposed to the priests.
Bishop Varian led the Papal Guard to the outer city, while the other cardinals, together with the Pope, were discussing in the Lateran Palace how to deal with Bishop Langdon and keeping a close eye on Varian's field progress.
Even after capturing and subduing Bishop Langdon, the hour hand of Giotto's Clock remained in place and did not roll back - indicating that Raphael judged that the threat had not been resolved.