Lord of Arcane

Chapter 3257 Hippocrates

Yongle City.

In the temporary warehouse, Shaduo finally saw up close the captured Illuminati members, including the only high-level wizard. Each of them wore a standard gray cloak and some even wore a mask.

In Xia Duo's view, this is the classic image of an evil organization.

Of course, the identities of these Illuminati members in real life may be very normal.

For example, the "chicken" Person under his control is the logistics mage of Terminus, the current border city of Sruvend, responsible for the maintenance of infrastructure in fixed areas within the city.

"Why did you have to join the Illuminati when you could do anything else? Now you are not only in danger of losing yourself, but also bringing trouble to your family and friends!"

Xia Duo removed the disguises of these Illuminati members one by one. Most of the elves were unfamiliar faces, but there were one or two he knew, or even familiar with. This discovery made him even more amazed!

But no matter what the reason, the fact that these elves appeared in the secret base of the Illuminati was enough to bring disaster to their families and friends behind them.

If the involvement is deep enough, it will be even more troublesome, and it is not impossible that the whole family or clan will be implicated.

After saving the images of these elves and passing them to Doom, Shado began to make consciousness copies for these guys. After dealing with the Illuminati for so long, his skills in making consciousness copies have indeed improved a lot.

This is all the result of the Illuminati feeding him experience over and over again.

The first thing he made was a copy of the consciousness of the only high mage who was captured this time. This high mage was a golden elf, and his expression when he was imprisoned was perfectly frozen in a look of horror.

In a life-and-death crisis, a high-level mage would not necessarily be more calm than an ordinary person, but the high-level mage Xia Duo in front of him was not unfamiliar, and could even be said to be familiar.

This was a Yeerlan elf. Shado had had several contacts with him before. Although the communication process was not very harmonious, it at least exceeded the attitude of most elven wizards towards humans.

Xia Duo even had the idea of ​​inviting the other party to join the Lingsi Network Research Center, but because they were not close friends yet, he was unable to actually implement it.

"Hippocrates, I didn't expect that our meeting would be in such an occasion!"

Although the two sides did not have much friendship, they had met and communicated after all. Xia Duo couldn't help but sigh that he had not realized before that this guy was actually a member of the Illuminati.

This was after a comprehensive examination of the demon, which showed that this guy was not a demon, and as a high-level wizard, he really had no compelling reason to join the Illuminati.

This further illustrates this guy's true attitude, which is that he undoubtedly believes in the Illuminati's rhetoric - he wants to revive Elan and create a new world.

He is just a Yeerlan elf, why does he have such a strong obsession with Elan?
Xia Duo really couldn't figure it out, so he became more interested in this guy's memory.

However, considering that the Alliance would probably ask to take over these prisoners soon, Shado did not immediately explore Hippocrates' memory, but continued to make copies of the consciousness of other elves.

During this period, he completely blocked out any news from the outside world, and only lifted the blockade after completing all the copies of his consciousness.

The next moment, a large amount of information came pouring in. Not only were there direct messages directed at him, but even his communication device was almost blown up.

It took Xia Duo almost an hour to read all the messages, and he selected some that he thought were important and responded to them.

This information is mainly divided into three categories. The first category is asking what happened before, including the war mage of the floating city asking whether there will be new tasks next.

One type was the questioning from the Alliance, including the request for him to immediately hand over the prisoners, and the identity background information that Doom had found based on the images of these elven captives he had previously provided.

The third category mainly comes from the Tower of Time, including the concern of people around her like Nia, as well as work reports from Leiden, the secretary, and the Advanced Studies Society.

In the end, Xia Duo only replied to Niya and other people around him as well as Doom. He replied to the latter mainly because the other party provided him with a lot of useful information and saved him time.

……

Everriska.

After Operation Peak Intercept, Shado finally returned to Evereska. Now the gravity environment of Evereska has stabilized, and there is no chaos in various urban areas, but -

Walking in the city of Evereska, Shado could still see the depression of the city with his own eyes.

There are few tourists on the streets, and pedestrians are rushing in and out, seemingly in a hurry. According to feedback from [Wide Area Exploration], the portal in Evereska has been in use since it was resumed yesterday.

The departure of a large number of tourists and even businessmen caused the city to quickly become deserted. This was the first time that Shado had seen Everesca in such a state.

Soon, Xia Duo arrived at the alliance headquarters. As soon as he arrived here, he couldn't help but smile knowingly. It was still as lively as ever, as if the previous interception operation had never happened.

But the tense expressions on the faces of the headquarters staff still revealed an unusual atmosphere. Indeed, how could there be no reaction to such a big thing!
"Good day, Counselor Chateau!"

"Good day."

Xia Duo smiled and greeted each staff member who passed by. What he was most concerned about now was not how to respond to inquiries from representatives of various countries, but the situation of the computing power pool.

In theory, no matter where Evereska flies to, as long as it is still in the main plane, it will not affect the normal operation of the computing power pool.

But that is just theory. It is almost impossible for the actual computing power pool to not be affected.

It was not because of the movement of Evereska itself, but more because of the vibration of the magic net caused by the Peak Cutting Technique and the changes of Evereska's maze.

However, the impact varies in size, and Xia Duo now wants to confirm how big the impact is.

……

He walked quickly to the Lingsi Network Research Center. Outside the gateway control hall, Xia Duo saw Charles, whom he had contacted on the way. He kept walking and asked him to follow him, while asking:

“When you said everything is normal, do you mean the current state of the hashrate pool, or has it always been like this?”

"It's the current state. There was a momentary pause in the response of the networks of various countries, but it recovered quickly afterwards. Since then, there have been no abnormalities."

"Was there only that one momentary pause?"

"Yes."

Charles answered in the affirmative, and Shado did not ask any further questions, for he had already met Christa, who was about to report to him.

Xia Duo spoke first: "I heard that the computing power pool had a momentary pause yesterday. Tell me the details."

"Yes."

Christa was a little surprised that Shado was so concerned about the pause, but he immediately explained, “According to what we learned later, the pause in the computing power pool should have occurred at the moment when Everiska moved.

"Due to the interference of the rapidly vibrating magic network environment, the connection between the sub-network and the main network produced a momentary hysteresis effect, but it only lasted for a moment, and then it recovered.

“For hashrate pool users, only some users who use advanced functions can feel it, while ordinary users can hardly feel the pause.

“In addition, we conducted a surprise inspection of all gateway instruments and translation devices afterwards and found no abnormal damage.

"We can now basically determine that the impact of this incident only lasted for a moment yesterday. If there are no similar situations in the future, this kind of pause should not happen again."