The room was dusky. Only a moderate amount of light lit up near the desk to illuminate this corner.
Luo Nan sat in front of the desk. The flexible e-ink screen placed on the desk reflected a glimmer of light, forming a virtual work area. It displayed the newest three-dimensional map of Xia City. Not only did it display the streets, buildings, and traffic layers on the surface, it even displayed the structure of a kilometer in depth, as well as the continental shelf structure of the surrounding sea region. This was the result of a combination of satellite images and the Society's survey intelligence.
The map was zoomed in and floated within the work area. It was like a floating city amidst the clouds and multicolored light. It was small, but it was spectacular.
The price of such a map was naturally exorbitant. It was sold for one honor point. However, Luo Nan soon pointed out two errors on the map. He relied on his own soul cloak ability to take back the honor points in the blink of an eye. He even made a small profit.
But even so, his debt of honor points firmly crossed the -130 point threshold, and it was still accumulating further.
Right now, there were over a hundred flashing red dots marked on this extremely detailed three-dimensional map. Each red dot corresponded to the scene of Xia City covered by the soul cloak. They corresponded to specific Life Sketches in the living starry sky. They also corresponded to the lives of specific people in these complex scenes.
Luo Nan's finger moved lightly, and Xia City began to rotate amidst the clouds and multicolored light. It looked like he could grab it with a single hand and then crush it to pieces.
He couldn't crush Xia City, but he could slaughter these red dots and their corresponding heads at any time if he wanted to.
Ever since he met with Her Majesty Empress Wu, the situation had inexplicably progressed smoothly. That person's guidance was accurate and ruthless. It allowed Luo Nan to experience the fierce methods of an Extraordinary. It struck the vitals of some greedy capitalists and the Xia City government.
If one were to compare the use of capital to the cultivation element, then perhaps it could be viewed as soul strength. They also needed a material body as a medium in order to exert a true influence on the real world. Otherwise, they would just be jumping numbers. At most, they would only be able to stir up waves in the hearts of people.
Originally, these red dots represented members of Congress, officials, and capitalists. They were scattered throughout Xia City. They didn't need to take the lead themselves. They were able to use capital, power, and interpersonal relationships to construct an incorporeal net. They used this to drive the power of the real world.
But after the "fortunate meeting" at the Museum of Art, a portion of the originally interwoven network in Xia City didn't suddenly collapse. It was like the frail nerves of the councilors and brokers. It was on the verge of collapse. It could collapse at any moment.
In addition, Luo Nan's side could follow the clues to the melon. They continued to expand the scope of their search, illuminating even more structural areas of the net. They also illuminated the fat and clumsy bodies of the slugs that hid under the shadows of money and power.
This made Luo Nan feel that spending two honor points per day for this information service was truly worth it.
Moreover, Luo Nan didn't just rely on the strength of the Society. Take the Wraith Sign for example. That ugly yet powerful Darksider species was climbing within the living starry sky. Time and time again, it passed through the mental windows of the members, brokers, and capital representatives. It spat out incorporeal poison threads, leaving behind a special imprint.
As time passed, the Wraith Sign would appear in their subconscious and dreams from time to time, trying to figure out the pattern of the flow of their consciousness and doing a deeper infiltration.
This' spider 'was also weaving a web. It was weaving a poisonous web that could wear away at people's hearts. For the Wraith Sign, invading the minds of higher life forms and corrupting their wills was an instinct it never grew tired of. It could also obtain nourishment from this. The more it did, the more energetic it became. It was just like how it treated Jack back then.
Luo Nan could completely use this poisonous web to control the movements of these slugs, to knead their wills, and to seize their lives.
Of course, compared to these simple and direct actions, the Wraith Sign wasn't good at gathering information in detail.
The Wraith Sign could identify the nature of certain thoughts and emotions. It could understand their positive and negative tendencies. It could even capture some relatively clear fragments of consciousness. However, it was unable to understand the complex social relationships and meanings within.
Luo Nan needed to do a step further in summarizing and sorting out these complex social factors.
He worked in this manner.
Even though Luo Nan possessed an excited brain that continuously received drug stimulation, possessed the living starry sky style of rough clairvoyance, possessed the gradually perfecting embryonic form of the overall planning technique, and had the HexaEar's computing space as well as the intelligence system of the Xia City branch supporting him, it was absolutely not easy to do this.
It was impossible to rely purely on his brain to sort things out, so he began to write. There were pure words, there were tables, and there were even sketches that he was more accustomed to.
Luo Nan stayed up all night after returning home. He drew a total of over four hundred sketches, all of which were reflections of his thoughts. Some of these sketches were extremely valuable. They even had the tendency of becoming psychic drawings. Some of them were a complete mess. They were like scribbles. Even Luo Nan himself didn't really understand them.
Of course, this sort of thing couldn't be done on a physical notebook. Luo Nan began to draw in the flexible screen drawing software.
He hadn't slept all night. Under the effects of hormones, his biological clock, which had gradually stabilized over the past month in such a vile environment, was actually able to hold on. It cautiously and conscientiously sent out a message, reminding him that it was time for his morning exercise.
Luo Nan didn't move. With his current special situation, forcefully maintaining the tempo of his cultivation wasn't a good thing. At most, he would maintain the habit of running in the morning. He wouldn't let the changes appear too abrupt.
There was still some time before the morning run. He stopped racking his brains over his work and began to tidy up.
The several hundred sketches were of varying quality. The main body was still an analysis of the negotiations between capital and bureaucrats. They didn't touch too many elements of the inner world. However, this was the result of an entire night of hard work.
When Dean Wan Ta imparted the planning technique to him, she encouraged him to use parallel thinking to process information. It didn't matter whether or not the brain could restore it to a temporal array. Mutual blending of information, bursting forth with inspiration, and fuzzy processing methods had always been the advantage of the biological brain.
What's more, Her Majesty Empress Wu had already spoken very clearly. With her laws and regulations, Formatting Theory, as the core, Luo Nan could fully utilize all resources to detect and understand the external environment. He could calculate and compare, and achieve the framework of the Enemy Against Ten Thousand. This was the correct path.
Luo Nan already had a few outlines of inspiration. He didn't need it. For the time being, he couldn't do it like Jin Tong, who possessed absolute explosive and destructive power. However, he could use the special effects of the Wraith Sign to do many things in advance.
Therefore, Luo Nan viewed these sketches as a part of the overall design. They were the prelude to the Enemy Against Ten Thousand. He treated them very seriously. He categorized and numbered them one by one. Only after sorting out the general logic did he sink them into the second layer of the drawing software.
As the second layer of the software opened, a deep and cold radiance flipped over. It filled the entire screen of the flexible e-ink screen and engulfed the Floating City within the work area.
The sketches Luo Nan drew drifted down, and then their figures and shadows disappeared. Only the consciousness that was connected to the external neuron could grasp their existence.
Ever since Luo Nan drew those few inexplicable psychic diagrams, the second layer of the drawing software had become a direct display of his attainments in Formatting Theory.
Unbeknownst to him, a marvelous change had already occurred here.
A pop-up window bearing an unknown text appeared. Luo Nan cleared it out of habit, and the interface of the Void Stars completely appeared. There was a virtual brain at its center … It was the newest display of the APP icon and its UI in the interface of the external neuron.
There was practically no difference between the two of them.
In the first place, this was simply the result of the two software's "mutual communication".
Luo Nan didn't know when it happened … Luo Nan reckoned that it was when the virtual brain app appeared. Its UI inexplicably seeped into the second layer of the drawing software carried by the external neuron. It completely replaced the previous Format Pyramid and the upgraded Self Format core star field map.
But it made sense if one looked at it the other way around.
When Luo Nan first saw the virtual brain, its interior was nothing more than a few sparse bright spots. There were dotted lines connecting them. It was like a Life Sketch that Luo Nan had casually plucked from his living starry sky.
But right now, the starlight within the virtual brain region was resplendent and boundlessly dense. It was like a bright silver heart that floated beneath the vast and empty scene of the universe. Speaking of planets was a bit of a waste. It could be said that it was the complete model of a galaxy.
Luo Nan was very familiar with the scene of such a star cluster. This was the core star field that was transformed from the form of the Format Pyramid after his cognitive upgrade some time ago. It represented his Self Format.
However, upon closer inspection, the originally dense clusters of starlight now had some slight adjustments to their layout. They appeared to be a bit sparse. There were some gaps up, down, left, and right. There seemed to be some rules that could be followed within the meandering starlight.
As for what these rules were, or perhaps it was just a momentary misconception, Luo Nan didn't know for the time being.
This was probably the result of the intersecting effects of the two star maps.
In any case, the mutual influence and collusion between the two applications was already an established fact. Right now, Luo Nan opened the virtual brain APP and opened the second layer of the drawing software. The interface and the core looked completely the same.
Moreover, the several hundred sketches that Luo Nan had sprinkled inside, including the thousand drawings he had drawn and accumulated over the years, still existed. It was just that they were hidden deeper.
The two applications shared the same UI interface. They exchanged information and data. Their cores also seemed to be merged into one … Luo Nan didn't know what this meant in the end.
Was it originally like this? Was it something that would automatically appear when the opportunity arose? Or was it some sort of special intelligent logic that carried out a mystical integration?
What sort of reasoning was this? What was the basis for this?
Luo Nan pondered it over and over, but he could only start with the external neuron itself. He revolved around this mystical little thing and made some conjectures.
First, the external neuron changed, revealing the virtual brain APP after he received Dean Wan Ta's coordinating technique. Was this an orderly change in the brain that led to the activation of a new function, or was it the coordinating technique itself? Luo Nan needed to verify this further.
Second, whether it was the external neuron or the coordinating technique, they both maintained a certain degree of compatibility with his current cultivation system. This was a good phenomenon, and it was worth further excavating.
Third, the external neuron itself seemed to maintain some sort of connection with the resources of the outside world. The two unreadable satellites made Luo Nan quite concerned.
But in the end, Luo Nan was submerged in a puzzle that had been troubling him from the very beginning. This little thing of mysterious origin seemed like a Dynamo Core, but it was a hundred times more powerful than the Dynamo Core that he knew of. How in the world did his father get his hands on such a precious and rare object? And why did the Dynamo Core use such a secretive and tortuous method to return to his hands?
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