Sword of Dawn

The memory fragments released by Gawain Cecil?Or No.18 crack?And also requisition more computing power?

This sudden information immediately attracted Gao Wen's attention, and with a thought, the information that was quickly refreshed in his mind stopped, and this news was firmly grasped by him.

Obviously, the Eternal Sleepers have done a rough job in their data security management. Those unencrypted data and the network structure that lacks warning mechanisms are simply defenseless in Gao Wen's view, even if he is still unsure about this mental network. Quite unfamiliar, but also able to figure out how to operate the information in the network and lock the trend of information flow in a short period of time by relying on the knowledge acquired by swallowing and a random operation.

Of course, this cannot be entirely attributed to the weak security awareness of the Eternal Sleepers—after careful analysis, Gao Wen realized that their spiritual network itself is actually quite secure. First of all, the prerequisite for accessing this network is To become an Eternal Sleeper, a person can only be qualified to participate in this network if he has shaped his own spirit with a specific "fallen magic" and passed the "registration certification" of the Eternal Sleeper's Mind Network; secondly, the network itself also has Powered by simple identity authentication and rights management, in addition to having to have an "eternal sleeper account" to be able to connect to the Internet, individuals who access the network must also have corresponding rights to be able to operate in several areas of this virtual world—previously in the city center The barrier around the zone is the embodiment of the authority system.

Considering the non-reproducibility of the human spirit under normal circumstances, this "account management" is actually quite reliable.

However, this network has the most fatal flaw: as long as an individual meets the two requirements of networking qualifications and corresponding permissions, all his behaviors in this network are uncontrollable, even if he searches for information indiscriminately like Gao Wen, Tossing the data nodes with various misoperations, showing countless suspicious behaviors, the network will not generate any alarms.

In short, the network is impenetrable to external attacks but defenseless to internal threats.

The Eternal Sleepers who created this network at the beginning certainly did not expect that there would be such an alternative as Gao Wen - a "satellite spirit" who could devour other people's spirits and even pretend to have spiritual authority...

Gao Wen pretended to be contemplative, and closed his eyes slightly, but in fact he had already started to search the entire network based on the information he had captured—he was trying to capture information from the mind network of the Eternal Sleeper before the connection ended. Get as much useful information as possible.

There are indeed huge and unimaginably large loopholes in this network, but Gawain believes that the outsiders are by no means fools—even those who sleep forever are not fools.The network is flawed only because it's still a work in progress, and sooner or later the Sleepers will realize the flaw.

God knows how fast this group of cultists who usually have nothing to do and dream about everything in their dreams will fix bugs...

After several attempts, Gawain finally mastered the knack of grabbing information from the mind network. He searched with the feature of "Gauwain Cecil's Memory Fragments", and unexpectedly found that there were quite a lot of corresponding information :

The Eternal Sleepers have cracked the "Memory Fragments of Gawain Cecil" seventeen times, and all of them failed without exception. The most painful failure was the first time. They organized hundreds of powerful sect members Computational arrays were formed to try to forcefully crack those memories, but they were wiped out in waves.

And after that, they learned a little better, no longer hard cracking, and instead tried to cut and vaguely understand the memory fragments - until now, more than 300 people have died one after another, and all of them are elites.

The source of these memory fragments is unexpected and reasonable: they were the last time Gawain devoured the Eternal Sleeper cultist, and the latter "secretly uploaded" through his own mind connection.

Before dying, the devoured cultist tried his best to copy some of the memories he saw and sent them to his accomplices... This really surprised Gawain.

That guy may want to warn his companions in this way, let them know the truth about "Gauvan Cecil", or he may simply want to send back some valuable information, and it is more likely that he had already Completely chaotic and crazy, completely unable to control his behavior, but anyway, the memory fragments he sent back have become the "important spoils" of the eternal sleepers. These cultists seem to be determined to wrestle out of these memory fragments something to come...

Gao Wen carefully read the records circulated on the Internet, where the Eternal Sleeper cultists analyzed and deciphered those memory fragments. Due to the almost defenseless information structure of this network, he can see almost all the information in the database.

After some tracing and locking, he even discovered the place where those memory fragments were stored.

After confirming that he had not attracted the attention of anyone on the Internet, he opened the data carefully.

Sure enough, it was my observation record of overlooking the earth from space...there is not much data, only about 8 to [-] years of high-definition video data.

Even though it was his own memory, Gao Wen still couldn't help but want to yawn when he saw those video materials. I have to say that these almost unchanging images really look boring. Thinking about those cultists is really exciting. People sympathize with them—they have spent huge manpower and material resources, and even if they successfully read this huge memory in the end, they can only stare at these meaningless surveillance, and Gao Wen is almost sure that they still dare not hurry up. Enter……

I am afraid that I will miss the whole world if I fast-forward. This is almost the mentality, I can imagine it, I can imagine it.

Gao Wen thought about it carefully, and as a well-meaning person, he decided to add something less boring to these boring memory fragments...

After an unknown amount of time, Gao Wen finally completed the transformation of those memory fragments.Since it was his own memory, he could be said to be very handy in operating it, but in order to prevent people from being noticed, he spent a lot of time modifying the "features" of the memory fragments and erasing the traces of his own changes.Although he felt that the group of Eternal Sleepers who still had a weak concept of information security would not necessarily think of this, but be careful when sailing for thousands of years—what if the Eternal Sleepers have obsessive-compulsive disorder?

After finishing this work, Gao Wen still felt that he was full of energy. After thinking for a while, he didn't cut off the connection directly, but continued to search in this huge spiritual network, trying to find more secrets of the eternal sleeper—— Especially the technical information about the principle of this mind network.

The Eternal Sleepers' way of building human brain arrays is indeed insane, but this does not mean that all their technologies are in this style, or at least there should be milder, less inhumane alternatives, whether they can Being controlled by an outsider, taking the opportunity to steal a wave now will definitely make a profit.

But just when Gao Wen started to search for this information, a strange sound suddenly came from high above.

He looked up in astonishment, and suddenly saw a huge crack in the originally clear and bright sky. The ugly crack spread rapidly in all directions like a scar that tore the world apart. The magnificent and magnificent world shaped by the spiritual network is quickly torn apart as the cracks spread. The city towers in the distance are collapsing and breaking, and the floating land and palaces in the sky are also falling to the ground. At first glance, it looks like the end of the world!

Gao Wen's first reaction was that his messing around on the Internet had been exposed, or that a certain step of his tossing and fumbling had ruined this semi-finished mental network, but soon a question echoed in his mind. The voice, the voice made him understand what was going on:

"The stars have left their positions, the gods have not yet returned, the eternal dream is temporarily closed, and everyone returns to the secondary consciousness network."

The "residents" who were active in the city looked at each other in astonishment. Disappointment and anger began to spread in the city, but these cultists did not hesitate to order. In Gao Wen's sight, one figure after another began to fade away. : These eternal sleepers have logged out of the network one by one.

Gawain smiled, thinking of the "little gifts" he had left in this network, he cut off the spiritual connection contentedly.

After an indescribable but extremely brief trance, the virtual world formed with illusions disappeared, and the familiar terrace and starry sky appeared in the field of vision that gradually focused.

There is also Amber in the field of vision who is constantly jumping up and down, bringing her face closer to scare people.

"I'll go!!" Gao Wen was in a trance at this moment, and he was startled when he saw Amber bouncing around in front of his eyes. He almost subconsciously reached out to grab Amber's ear, but in vain— —In a trance, he missed it, and the half-elf's ability to avoid the claws of the devil seemed to have improved again.

"What are you doing!" Gawain stared at the half-elf in front of him. Although he didn't catch it, he obviously frightened him with his aura. "Bouncing up and down to scare people?"

"I see you are here in a daze with your eyes closed, and I thought something happened to you!" Hu Po yelled fiercely, with her waist on her back, "I just care about you, you are not satisfied, are you?"

"Really?"

"Of course it's true," Amber rolled her eyes in dissatisfaction, "And what were you doing just now, did you just fall asleep standing up like this? I yelled in your ear for a long time and you didn't respond!"

"Are you still trying to wake me up?" Gao Wen immediately frowned, "I didn't hear it at all... Well, it seems that next time I have to find a way to allocate some energy to pay attention to the movements of the real world, otherwise there will be hidden dangers... "

"What are you talking about?" Amber blinked, "Are you really sleepy?"

"Don't worry, I'm fine." Gawain could see that at least half of the half-elf really cared about him, so he smiled and waved his hands, "Speaking of which, what do you want from me?"

Amber suddenly showed a happy expression, and took out a deck of cards from her arms: "Come and play cards! Come and play cards! I managed to trick Tyre into playing cards, and now you are the only one missing!"

Gawain's mouth twitched suddenly: "Tyl..."

Could this elf's shame be able to communicate with that sick sea monster?Can this product lose the san value? !

Or is it because both of them are racially disgraceful, so the burden is offset...

"Come play cards, come play cards~~"

Amber was jumping up and down with great interest, while Gao Wen felt an unprecedented headache—he suddenly felt that the gang of Eternal Sleepers cultists would be easier to deal with...

Chapter 0228 Beyond the Edge of Mortal Civilization

The stars have returned to their positions, and the stars have left their positions. The stars are revolving leisurely in the sky. They shine coldly on this world, completely unaware that a large group of mortals used to be busy on all fours under their guidance, and in the end they got nothing.

The ancient gods did not return, nor did the prophesied day of judgment come, although everything that happened before that perfectly confirmed those prophecies - such as the monstrous waves in the endless sea, such as "Au" in the influence of the stars The special energy fluctuations released, such as the frequent whispering of the gods—but other than that, the crucial last step, the step of the Storm Lord waking up from the deep sea, did not happen.

The Lord of Storms is the only god remaining in this world. If he fails to wake up, then the Day of Judgment will be out of the question.

Everything seemed to be a joke, but the "culprits" who caused this embarrassing situation, the "God Eaters" in the deep sea, knew nothing about it.

In the depths of the endless sea that has been blocked by storms all year round, the ancient Siren City "Antaveen" stands quietly at the place where it made a forced landing. It is slightly inclined and embedded on a rocky seabed close to the land. One part reaches the "big trench", while the other part gradually rises along the seabed until about one-tenth of it sticks out of the sea and rests on the edge of the land called "Io Continent" by the sea monsters. And form a spectacular steel city wall on the coastline.

The sea monsters are indeed used to living in the deep sea, but on this planet with a large landmass, they have gradually learned how to survive on land-of course they will not build large-scale cities on land like humans, However, in order to mine resources and monitor the situation of the "jumping engine", they built a series of outposts and strongholds on the west coastline of the Io continent, and the largest stronghold is the "Prime Point of View" directly opposite the "steel city wall". ", from the watchtower of this stronghold, you can directly overlook two-thirds of the entire "steel city wall", which is an important monitoring post here.

The "steel city wall" is actually Antaveen's stern wall. In the earth-shattering forced landing countless years ago, Antaveen plummeted from the atmosphere, and the technicians tried their best to make almost all power The lost starship slightly adjusted its falling posture, and finally the ship passed the edge of the land at a dangerous angle, directly sending about a quarter of the continent into the deep sea, while the starship itself After being severely damaged, it slid into the sea along the continental shelf, and finally formed the current situation where one end is close to the trench and the other end is on the edge of the continent.

The bow structure was almost completely destroyed during this process, but the stern was preserved intact—this was the greatest luck, at least the jump engine with the most complicated structure and the most difficult repair was preserved.

But the Krakens soon discovered that even if the engine was in good condition, they could not get the spacecraft back into the air—not to mention the launch, even the most common machinery and equipment on the spacecraft became unable to operate after the disaster After getting up, it took a long time after that before they realized that this was a "fault" caused by different laws of physics.

Since that day, the sea monsters have been working hard to learn and adapt to the rules of this world. They seem to have returned to the first moment when the lights of civilization were lit, and they have to adjust their life forms to adapt to the world—but soon they discovered that , This kind of "starting all over again" needs more than one time.

The world is constantly shuffling...

But it doesn't matter, the development of civilization cannot be smooth sailing, and the Krakens are used to this difficult situation in development.

The Siren Queen Petiya arrived at the "Cape of Marina". She stood on a high watchtower, looking at the steel city wall on the coastline, and the energy pipelines on the steel city wall are lighting up one by one—the core fusion tower has already Started up.

Taking advantage of this "explosive increase" of squids, the Krakens collected enough engine fuel in advance, and the re-ignition of the core engine was carried out smoothly, but the technicians did not have much hope for this ignition, because they still Several key issues in the magic power conversion process have not been resolved, but Perthia doesn't care about these.

Ignition failure is no longer one or two times, all Krakens are used to it, and Perthia knows very well that even if ignition fails, technicians can still collect valuable technical information from this process - these experiences and based on experience The natural laws summed up are the most precious wealth.

Sea monsters are not a very intelligent species, and they can even be called "sluggish" at certain times, but patience and optimism are their greatest reliance.

While the core fusion tower was activated, a siren attendant entered the top floor of the watchtower, her snake tail snaked and crawled, and she gracefully came behind the queen: "Your Majesty, just now General Vanessa reported that there is a The tide master named Tyr is gone."

"Tyr?" The Siren Queen Petya frowned, "I seem to have a little impression..."

"It's the kid who walks in a strange way..." the attendant replied, "the one who walks like a sea caterpillar."

"Oh, then I remembered, she is always lazy," Petya turned her head with a look of surprise on her face, "Didn't she sleep at home?"

"No, she's missing," the attendant said seriously. "She hasn't appeared since the last fight with those crazy humans."

Petiya shook her head: "Maybe I died, and then I chose the wrong coordinates when I was resurrected. The last time the battle was very chaotic, a few sisters who died in battle even resurrected in the Southern Ocean, and came back after swimming for more than a month... ..."

The attendant sighed: "Even if she swims back from the Southern Ocean, she should be here, unless she used that strange walking posture to 'arch' all the way back on the seabed, then she should be still halfway."

"Send a search team to search around the last battlefield, and send some people to check the strongholds of crazy humans on the edge of the sea to see if our tide master was accidentally caught by those humans... Although this possibility is not high, if it is Tyre, it is really impossible to say."

The attendant bowed and said, "Yes, Your Majesty the Queen."

Petiya nodded, and after the attendant retreated, she turned around again, and her eyes fell on the winding steel on the coastline in the distance.

At the same time, in the hidden temple of the Order of the Eternal Sleepers in the Typhon Empire, the nightmare bishops in black or white robes were gathering in the central hall, and a low and solemn atmosphere lingered on everyone.

"The Sons of the Storm and the Doom Society have sent their own messages. Our allies have all suffered losses to varying degrees due to the early launch of the 'Ultimate Plan'," a Nightmare Bishop said, his voice sounding low and cold, "Quite In comparison, our losses are minimal."

Another bishop added: "In addition, information came from the observation base set up by the Son of the Storm at sea, and they observed unexplainable phenomena - the tide has risen, and the power of the gods has begun to surge in the deep sea, but soon Soon everything calmed down uncharacteristically."

"So we can't blindly deny the 'prophecy' yet," No.3 Bishop said, "All the signs are in line with the first half of the prophecy, but there is a little deviation in the final result, perhaps some kind of force that we don't know is interfering The fulfillment of the prophecy..."

The voice of the first bishop was clearly mocking: "Who can interfere with the recovery and return of the gods?"

"The sea area where the son of the storm observed the vision is located in the extreme east sea," Bishop No.2 said immediately, "it's close to the Kraken's territory."

"The sea monster... those ghosts in the deep sea..." A black-robed bishop who hadn't said anything suddenly broke the silence, "It is said that they destroyed a pioneering land of the Son of the Storm last time..."

"In my opinion, the Son of the Storm is not trustworthy at all," someone said again, "Perhaps it is their observation of the starry sky that caused us to encounter such setbacks..."

Before the bishop finished speaking, a low, gentle but irresistible voice suddenly sounded in the hall: "Enough."

The bishops immediately shut their mouths in awe. They turned to a certain direction and bowed their heads respectfully: "Your Majesty the Pope."

A vague black figure appeared out of thin air at the end of the hall. This vague figure seemed to scan the people around the scene. Although the eyes of his face were completely invisible, everyone felt that there was a sharp gaze coming from him. Sweeping over his body and mind, everyone became more and more awed.

And this vague black shadow said lightly: "Don't forget our career - in front of our career, this is not a setback at all.

"Every one of us has expected this - although the prophecy exists, it is not the only one that guides us, it is just a factor, and whether it will be realized or not, it will not affect our plan.

"Starting the eternal dream in advance is just an insurance measure to prevent the response from being too late, and we have not gained nothing in the process."

The Eternal Sleeping Pope paused deliberately, and then continued: "The first run of the Eternal Dreamland produced a large amount of measured data, which will help us to finally perfect this huge plan, and I, in the process of observing the Eternal Dreamland Discovered its potential and uses far beyond our imagination."

The bishops were slightly agitated, and they looked at each other, obviously curious about what the Pope had said.

But the Pope didn't make the bishops wait too long. He quickly announced his decision, which surprised everyone: "Take a rest for three days. After three days, the eternal dream will restart."

There was a low voice of discussion at the scene, and a bishop immediately reminded: "Your Majesty, the eternal dream still has many imperfections..."

"It can be better perfected... and evolved only when it is in a running state," the Pope of Eternal Sleep interrupted the bishop, "After careful observation, I discovered this, and I also discovered another thing... "

The bishops fell silent immediately, and they heard the pope's voice:

"I found that the huge computing power brought by the eternal dream is the key to deciphering Gawain Cecil's memory fragments. During the last run of the eternal dream, those memory fragments showed signs of loosening, and they seemed to be able to resolved.

"Nightmare bishops, let's get back together, we still have a lot to do - gather your subordinate nodes and prepare to analyze Gawain Cecil's memory fragments, we must figure out, what is he - !"

Chapter 0229 Inhumans

The eternal dream that was once closed was activated again. After a wave of fluctuations, this huge spiritual network gradually stabilized. The magnificent halls, temples, towers and floating islands rooted in spiritual illusions were rebuilt. Counted Eternal Sleepers have also linked their thinking into this network—they are not only users of this network, but also builders and maintainers of this network. They open their brain computing power to the entire network, allowing this The network dominates and takes as needed, and the difference between them and those "computing power providers" who are called "brain servants" and lie in hidden temples everywhere like the living dead is that they don't need Paid the damage of life and soul in the process.

After all, the eternal sleepers are the masters of the eternal dream, and these masters are not willing to sacrifice themselves before the servants die.

And in the deepest part of the eternal dream, in the "Dream Hall" located underground in the city, the bishops and their Pope are ready.

The 22 seats are arranged in the center of the room in a circular and symmetrical manner. Eleven white-robed bishops and eleven black-robed bishops occupy half of the seats as if day and night are separated, and a hazy cloud floats in the center of the ring-shaped seats. From time to time, the phantom condenses into the form of a human being, but more often it appears as various indescribable clumps with lavender starlight—whether in the real world or in this virtual world Among them, the Eternal Sleeping Pope never showed his true face. In fact, believers even believed that their Pope had already completed the sublimation of life form and became an existence with the same power as dreams, and this illusory light and shadow was just the projection of the Pope in the world. , is just an "interface" set up to communicate with believers who are still mortals.

Today, the pope will lead his bishops to conduct No. 18 attempts to decipher Gawain Cecil's memory fragments.

"The Eternal Dream has stabilized, and the spiritual network is well connected."

"The lower-level computing nodes are ready, and the 'brain servant' array is ready."

"The guardianship team has arrived and is ready to respond to emergencies in the real world."

"We are ready, Your Holiness."

The bishops reported the procedures they were responsible for one by one. After everyone was ready, the indescribable hazy light floated slightly, as if to express approval, and his voice echoed in the minds of every bishop Middle: "Let's get started—go see what is in the memory of that ancient hero."

The information link to the memory fragments was connected, and driven by the huge computing power provided by the entire eternal dream, the terrible memory that had caused hundreds of casualties finally began to loosen—although the real situation is that Gawain deliberately There was a weak spot left in the memory fragment, but it was obvious that the eternal sleeper himself would not notice it.

They are just delighted to see that the long-term efforts have finally borne fruit, and a ray of light appears in the depths of the huge information fog. As time goes by, memory fragments are disassembled bit by bit, and the information that can be understood and recognized by humans Part of it entered the minds of every member of the Episcopal Conference.

In the beginning, they saw a scene of starlight.

The deep and lonely universe, the empty and boundless space, and countless dots of stars dotted the dark and deep curtain. This scene confused the bishops for a moment, but they quickly thought that it was Gawain Cecil's death. Perspective: Will human beings really return to heaven after death?

Before the bishops could figure out the meaning of that scene of starlight, the scene in front of them began to change crazily.

They saw the starlight receding one after another, distorted light and shadow appeared in the field of vision, and they saw the owner of the perspective shuttle through the starry sky, passing one planet after another at an unimaginable speed...

They saw the owner of the perspective appearing on a burning battlefield. Huge demons raged on the battlefield, flaming meteorites fell from the sky, and soldiers wearing all kinds of strange equipment and races they had never heard of were constantly rushing to kill on the battlefield...

They saw the owner of the perspective leading a large army to attack a fortress with an incomprehensible architectural style. The fortress seemed to be piled up with the flesh and blood of some kind of creature, and a huge swarm of frightening insects swarmed out of the fortress. Fighting fiercely with the legion led by the master of the perspective...

They also saw that the owner of the perspective suddenly came to a world of ice and snow, and a steel building emitting thick smoke exploded in the wind and snow...