When I was wandering around Shadow City, I would often meet Xiling—this super-conscious superconscious, who was a little confused and always seemed to be wandering around doing nothing, seemed to appear unconsciously in a few specific places, and these places were basically me. Or where Sandora usually likes to visit, which is probably related to her life form: as the ethnic consciousness of the Xiling group, she is more inclined to pay attention to the movements of the leaders of the group. The coordinates where Sandora and I usually stay are probably Xiling is most familiar with the place.
This can explain why Xiling always stays in Sylvia's dessert shop: this place is simply Sandora's second paradise-by the way, Sandora's first paradise is the kitchen at home.
Speaking of Xiling, her life in Shadow City is very comfortable. This girl is always walking around in a leisurely manner. In addition to going to the research center to cooperate with Tavel's experiments, she has nearly 20 people every day. The hours are spent in idleness, I really envy her life of idleness and wild cranes. However, according to Bubbles, in fact, Xiling’s daily workload is extremely huge: basically every Xiling apostle who hangs in the spiritual network is constantly uploading and downloading data through her, but Xiling himself It seems that she has never realized that she still has these jobs: all data exchanges at this level are handled by the underlying protocol of the spiritual network. As the highest level consciousness of this network, Xi Ling can't even feel those things. Xiling has been wandering outside for so many years, and the reason why the spiritual network of the apostles of Xiling can also operate normally is this: most of the work is done by the "subconscious side" of this spiritual network. Like a veteran cadre who has been retired for seven or eight years—no, when I see her silly face with no motivation, I can't help but think of the pile of reports on my desk, and I have to quickly divert my attention.
"Yo, long time no see," I shook my head, put the little doll on the table, then reacted instantly, and put the little guy on the chair again (the little doll pays close attention to her image outside, she feels that she is It’s very embarrassing for people to be placed on the table or similar places as dolls, but I don’t have such concerns at home), while raising his hand to greet Xi Ling, “Another image?”
The tall, black, long, straight girl had her eyes on Sylvia from just now, and then she suddenly raised her head when she heard the voice, noticing my arrival, she stood up in a panic, and walked clumsily. A dignified military salute: "Oh, hello, Your Majesty. I saw an image in the shared data link and I really like it. After it becomes like this, it can't be changed back. The report is over!"
Me: "...well, it's very your style. By the way, how long has Sylvia been sleeping?"
My eyes fell on Sylvia. The silver mole was still sleeping soundly on the table, neither paying attention to my movement nor seeming to pay attention to Xiling. As a store manager, her image like this is really unbearable to see: she will always live in her own small world, and external stimuli must be filtered by 80 to 90% for her to be in place, right
"I don't know, she was sleeping when I came here," Xi Ling replied seriously, "I'm waiting for her to wake up, and I can eat when she wakes up... Oh, by the way, I can also give Tavel Bring some snacks back, Tavel asked me to bring some back."
I was surprised: "Huh? Tavel also eats?"
Then I felt that this question was so strange, and I didn’t realize it until ten seconds later: Tavel’s iron man image of “working around the clock and doing scientific research with thousands of threads” has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The one who can lead several basketball courts The mass projection, and the madman who works in three shifts with me have almost become a special species in my mind. Suddenly knowing that she can eat and drink normally, this shocks me no less than the impact of ordinary people seeing their own father. When mom goes to work, she lubes her ankles...
Xi Ling was also taken aback by this wonderful rhetorical question, but she is the type who easily forgets things she can't understand, and soon she was distracted by my words: "Speaking of which, the past two days How does it feel to have a group of special 'nodes' incorporated into your network?"
Those special "nodes" in my mouth are nothing but a large group of fallen apostles headed by Harlan.
Hundreds of thousands of fallen apostles were formally merged into the New Empire spiritual network the day before yesterday—of course, because the purification of some fallen apostles has not been completed, they are separately mounted in an isolated network segment, and the superior of this network segment The nodes are me and Xiaoxue. Through the information disturbance generated by two void creatures, the low-level fallen apostles mounted on the network can be purified. This is the fastest way for us to reverse the transformation of the fallen apostles. Regardless of whether it is an isolated network segment or the empire's main network, as long as it is based on the spiritual connection of the apostle nodes, there will definitely be an intersection with Xiling. This is determined by the network architecture, and there is no possibility of detours. Strictly speaking, "Xiling" is not a "clear individual" that can be viewed independently. She is the collective will generated by tens of billions of Xiling apostles as nodes. Due to the high level of her will in the network, there is no difference between the fallen apostle and the normal apostle to her: it can only be counted as a node, and the information that a node can represent is only "pass" and "failure" two states. In the past, there was no individual "Xiling" in our network, and the fallen apostles connected to the network did not have any visible impact on the network itself, but now we have an additional "super network administrator" who cannot be blocked. There are so many captured soldiers, I am a little bit worried about whether Xiling will suffer from any bad... pollution.
It's not a good way to say it, but Harlan's soldiers were the most dangerous source of pollution in the Empire until they were completely cleansed. Hanging them online requires hundreds of security protocols. The potential harm of these sources of pollution can be seen, but Xiling still maintains a direct connection with these fallen apostles—although the connection between the two is not a direct exchange of information, and there are also instructions for this on the Internet. According to the security protocol for this kind of situation, theoretically, the probability of the latter infecting the former is zero, but this does not affect my concern, does it
Xi Ling's expression was a little sluggish for a while, I felt like static electricity appeared around me, and I felt shrouded in a certain force field. I knew that this was the other party's comprehensive inspection of her core program. After a while, Xi Ling shook her head with a smile: "It feels normal."
I was completely relieved, and then I looked at Sylvia with Xiling, wanting to see when this dull and comfortable silver mole will wake up--Speaking of it, Xiling is really honest, she just sat and watched I don’t know how long I haven’t thought about going to other places
"Actually, it's not that long." Xi Ling smiled calmly, "It will be very relaxing here, and I can forget about the Rift Valley..."
Xiling once again mentioned the "Rift Valley", which is an information fault zone in the apostle's spiritual network, a network vacuum that cannot be detected. This thing is an unsolved mystery, and we didn't know until Xiling appeared." rift" exists. Tavel is already operating a project team dedicated to the detection of the "Rift Valley", but there has been no progress so far. Now that Xiling has taken the initiative to mention this matter, I am immediately concerned: "What changes have been made in the Rift Valley?"
I just asked casually, and I didn't expect to hear any new news, but Xi Ling actually nodded: "It seems to have shrunk a little bit. I carefully observed the situation near the Rift Valley a few days ago and found that it affected The number of nodes has decreased by about 1%... However, the rift valley sometimes fluctuates like this, but in the past, the fluctuation range did not exceed 0.5%, and this time the movement seems to be a bit louder. "
As a creature living in the real material world, I need some deduction to understand what Xi Ling means: Does she mean that the fracture zone of the empire's data network is decreasing? Fewer network nodes with missing termination markers
"It's a good thing." I scratched the back of my head uncertainly. It was a bit difficult for me to think of such a complicated question. "What did Tavel say?"
"She is trying to make an interface," a holographic projection appeared in front of Xi Ling, which showed some kind of complex and huge device, which seemed to occupy the entire room, and there were several dormant cabin-like things in the center of the device, "You guys Different from my way of perception, when I explain the Rift Valley to you, you will never be able to 100% understand what it is, so Tavel wants to make such a device that completely transfers the spirit of outsiders into the network, so that you can Observe the Rift Valley from the same perspective as me."
I suddenly remembered that such a thing was mentioned in the technical report submitted by Tavel a while ago. She said that she was making a device that could share perception with Xiling, and even transcode the human soul to enter the apostolic spirit network. , Of course, that’s all I can remember, the report is quite detailed, but what I can understand is basically limited to the title and the conclusion at the end...
While Xi Ling and I were chatting, Sylvia, who was lying on the table, finally woke up leisurely. The silver-haired girl stood up with a long lazy waist, and looked at the two guests in front of her in a daze: "Oh, Chen, And Xiling, are you here?"
"I want to eat." Xi Ling reached out and gestured in the air, creating a holographic projection of a lot of small snacks, "That's it, two servings, and Tavel also wants one."
Sylvia looked at the pile of pastries that needed to be processed on the spot, nodded, and then looked at me with questioning eyes, and I hugged the boring little doll next to her who was dozing off: "I'm taking care of the children. Here, you can get her whatever she wants."
Sylvia tucked the little doll under her arm and went to work behind the store. It's incredible to say that this silver mole is usually unresponsive to the point of late Parkinson's, but it doesn't delay when making snacks—of course, it's only when making snacks, you ask her to serve it out after making snacks That's basically enough to starve to death. According to Sylvia herself, she used to open a jewelry store and often made some small gadgets by herself, and she would not delay things at that time—this is simply inexplicable.
I thought about this question for a long time, and finally came to a conclusion: probably Sylvia's dull symptoms are limited to when she communicates with others or concentrates on the outside world, and she seems to be a normal person when she is busy in her own small world.
Listening to the movement behind the store, Xi Ling smiled contentedly: "Okay, Tavel will be able to have breakfast soon."
I froze, turned my neck 90 degrees stiffly, and watched the sunset outside, and the afterglow of the setting sun filled the street...
Xiling actually brought breakfast for Tavel! She is here watching Sylvia sleep in the daytime, watching for a whole day!
I hope Tavel is not as stubborn as Xiling or Sylvia. She will starve to death sooner or later when she deals with these two creatures... If the apostle can be starved to death.
Looking at this small storefront, I suddenly remembered something that Xiaoxue accidentally mentioned when they met Haran two days ago:
Harlan liked Sylvia's waterless round cakes very much.
Now Harlan is still in the state of returning to the factory for overhaul. Sandora and I have teamed up to open several holes in his body. It is estimated that it will take two or three days to repair. I guess Harlan and Bella Villa know each other, but I don't know what his expression will be when he sees Sylvia now. After he is "discharged", maybe he should take him to this small shop to have a look. He has seen the difference between the waterless buncake and Sylvia—I began to speculate maliciously what would happen when the two "former fallen emperors" met, and now this Sylvia is simply Bella Villa's Crash version...
The little doll and I ate a full stomach of cakes, biscuits and snacks before going back. Before leaving, I agreed with Xi Ling to go to her house next time to play—well, after Tavel’s conversion device is completed, go to the spiritual network Let's see what the world looks like in Xi Ling's eyes. Before leaving, I also packed away all the snacks left by Sylvia, and went back as a gift to Sandora: Anyway, Sylvia hardly sold anything all day, so I almost took Everything she had in the windows and behind the counter was out.
Xiling packed away a few boxes of pastries, and before leaving, she was still happily saying that Tavel could finally have breakfast—I don’t want to complain about whether eating these things for breakfast will make you fat. Anyway, Tavel is not a human being, so I will I want to complain about Xiling's wonderful world view: she lacks effective perception of the environment in which we "outsiders" live, and she doesn't understand what is going on with people's work and rest habits in the real world. She still stubbornly believes that it is morning, because "Tower Weier hasn't had breakfast yet." I looked at the sky outside and it was almost completely dark, and I thought that Xi Ling was right: at least Tavel's meal plan will be settled tomorrow morning...
"Speaking of which you are a puppet, what's the point of eating?" I returned home with a small lamp on my shoulders, told my sister that I had already eaten dinner outside today, and began to study the puppet's digestive problems—because the food she ate Dim sum is almost as much as I am. I pinched the little girl's chin and studied her neat white teeth until she bit my thumb and chewed hard twice before giving up.
"Stupid, this is an alchemy technique, you don't understand." The girl the size of a doll said with her chin up, and then jumped off the dining table to grab buns: She is good at eating, and dolls also want to eat. Have you grown up
After dinner, Sandora will have some desserts as usual, so I took out all the snacks I brought in Sylvia's package and shared them with the whole family—Sandora shared them all by herself. Ninety percent. It was only when I was sharing snacks that I noticed that there seemed to be someone missing in the family: the fox, which was full of presence in every sense, seemed to be missing.
"Where did the fox go?" I held a bag of animal biscuits and looked around. These small biscuits were prepared for her. Now I feel like a bitter man holding a bone and calling for the husky at home, and I deeply regret doing so. Why did you raise a second...
"I don't know, I ran out before eating." Qianqian said without raising her head, she was busy soaking the biscuits in milk, and then ate them with a spoon after the biscuits were almost softened: this is her way of eating biscuits Weird habits, from the age of six until today have not changed.
Of course, her habit is completely incomparable with Sandora: Sandora is used to spreading mustard on biscuits and dipping them in sweet bean sauce, and always has a cup of 1982-year-old pickle soup on hand. When I go to the whole world, I think it will immediately reflect the spirit of great unity of the people of the world, which is a test of people's psychological quality.
Just when I was about to call that bastard fox home for dinner from the spiritual connection, a space door suddenly opened in the living room, and a mess of golden fur balls rolled out of it.
In fact, she ran out, but you have to understand that the fox's tail covers an area larger than her body. Usually when she runs around, she feels like a rolling golden fur ball.
The fox ran out of the space door and went straight to the direction of the smell of food, completely dominated by animal instincts. I grabbed her by the tail, so that the fox fairy realized that there were people around. I noticed that she was covered in dirt, her tail was a mess, and even the hair on her ears had lost a bunch of hair: she was in a mess like never before.
"You ran to fight the dog again!"
My voice rose an octave in an instant, and I was almost outraged by this fox fairy who was getting more and more degenerate.
The fox's ears are drooping - this is the default meaning.
I pinched her ears dumbfoundingly: "You are a thousand-year-old demon fox, even if you win a fight with a dog, you won't show your face!"
The fox turned his face away: "... I lost..."
I:"… "
The whole family: "..."
This guy ran to fight with the dog, but NM lost!
I asked with a shocked expression, but I knew what was going on: the fox went to Avalon to find an old friend, and met a vicious dog wandering in the temple area. Of course, the key to the problem is not how vicious the dog is , the crux of the matter is—
The dog was named Cerberus, and Tinker had raised it to guard the garden area of the temple.
The fox fought with the three-headed dog for nearly two hours, and currently has zero wins, two losses and three draws. She plans to go home to challenge after filling her stomach...
After working hard for a long time, I finally restrained the urge to put a collar on the fox fairy's neck, and realized deeply: If I don't find something for this fox to do, she should go to Atlantis to find Zeus next. Brother three kicked out... RS