Amber was baffled by Gwen's request. She blinked and looked at the liege who suddenly said that he wanted to sleep, her face full of worry. "Are you sure you just want to sleep for a while?"
"What do you mean by that expression?"
"I have a feeling that you're going to sleep …"
"What?!"
"It's true. I've heard many stories of legendary heroes told by bards. Generally, when those legendary heroes suddenly say 'I'm going to sleep, stay by my side', they're going to die. Do you want me to help you call Rebecca and Heti? You tell them first, I'll go dig a hole … "
"Can't you think of me better?! I'm just going to sleep for a while! " Gwen was so focused on locking onto his mental frequency that he did not think much when he was talking to Amber. When he heard what she said, he suddenly reacted and the veins on his forehead started to bulge. "Don't ask why, I need to enter … Well, it's fine to say that I'm in a meditative state. I can't be disturbed during this period. You stay by my side and keep an eye on me. If someone comes to give me a report or something, just accept it first. Anyway, you've been by my side all day long, you know how to file and record all kinds of information."
Amber thought for a moment and found that she should be able to handle this kind of work, so she nodded. Although she was still curious why Gwen, a Knight, suddenly said that he wanted to 'meditate', but seeing that the latter looked serious, the half-elf immediately stopped messing around and nodded in agreement.
Gwen did not waste any time. There was no bed in the study, but he did not really want to sleep, so he found a comfortable position on the spacious chair and prepared to dive into the mental network of the Eternal Sleeper. Before he started the connection, he took one last look at Amber. "If there's an emergency later, you can hit me hard, or use your shadow power to drag me into the Shadow Realm."
"Got it, got it. Don't worry."
After this last thing, Gwen completely let go of his mind and actively integrated his thoughts into the special mental frequency.
After a familiar trance, his spiritual vision passed through the hazy darkness, and a glorious, magnificent, and incredible world appeared in front of him. It was the "Fantasy World" that he had seen before — the Eternal Dream of the Eternal Sleeper.
Just like the first time he connected, he saw no one when he first entered this world. The wide and magnificent streets were empty, and the whole world was like a dead city. Gwen knew that this was some kind of 'loading' process, so he quickly changed his appearance when no one was looking, and then walked openly on the streets of the city of dreams.
After a while, figures began to appear on the streets. People came and went, and it was very lively.
Gwen walked toward the center of the city according to the route in his memory, but after just two steps, he felt that there seemed to be a faint voice echoing in his mind. This voice was impossible to ignore, so he had to find a deserted corner and then concentrate, trying to hear what the voice was saying.
Thanks to the part of knowledge that he had devoured, Gwen quickly locked on to the voice. The moment he focused his mind, a strange corresponding message suddenly appeared in Gwen's mind.
"Calling all middle and high-level nodes. Project Zero is gathering computing power. Connect as soon as you receive the message."
Gwen frowned.
This was a mass' notice '— and it was sent to him?
Was it because of this message that he suddenly felt fluctuations in the mental world before he connected?
What was Project Zero?
Gwen felt that he should have come into contact with another big secret of the Eternal Sleepers, but in the absence of sufficient information, he decided to act cautiously and first figure out what the so-called 'Project Zero' was.
After confirming that the voice in his mind was just a mass message, Gwen left the corner he was hiding in and then found the center of the city of dreams with ease.
Along the way, he also paid attention to the current appearance of the city and compared it to what he saw the last time he came here.
Just as he had expected, the city had changed.
Although the overall layout had not changed, during this period, the Eternal Sleepers had been perfecting their dream world. The last time he came here, many large buildings in the city were still 'empty' inside, as strange as the modeling of the game scene was not completed. But this time, he saw that many of the empty spaces had been filled, and some of the unreasonable and unrealistic building details had been repaired.
This city of dreams seemed to be constantly being perfected … The cultists were a bunch of hardworking fellows apart from tricking and harming people.
Gwen easily passed through the invisible barrier in the center of the city used to check access. In the square in the center of the city, he saw the large and small 'node crystals' and the avatars of the Eternal Sleepers who were establishing connections with the crystals.
To be honest, it felt a little weird to move openly in a city full of cultists. Even though Gwen had been in various game worlds in his previous life, this kind of fully immersive virtual reality was a little too advanced for him. But it did not matter. After all, he was wearing Charlie's face. Along the way, he saw more than a dozen Charlie's, and when he thought that they were all wearing avatars, Gwen felt a lot more comfortable.
Under this kind of psychological suggestion that even if something went wrong, he could mentally blame it on Charlie. Gwen calmly found a node crystal with not many people and then gently placed his hand on the surface of the crystal.
Data streams filled his mind in the next second, and the knowledge needed to manipulate these data streams emerged.
Those cultists really hadn't made any progress in this regard … Virtual reality was already so advanced, but they were still as clueless as before when it came to database management, authorization, and security. Was there no expert to guide them?
As Gawain joked inwardly, he began searching for key information regarding Project Zero.
Soon, he received feedback, but the content of the feedback made him frown even more.
"Project Zero, belonging to: Initial Project Group, confidential project, accessible only to Bishops or above."
In this mental network where the database structure was a mess and the security measures were basically zero, only a few things were carefully sorted and encrypted. Gawain did not expect that the 'Project Zero' that he accidentally learned of would have such a high security level.
Accessible only to Bishops and above … Did the access I got from devouring meet this standard?
Gwen hesitated for a moment, and then decided to give it a try with the mentality of "I'll just be banned. Anyway, the cultists can't hack me through the wifi."
It turned out that his decision was correct. After issuing the command to read further, some information about Project Zero quickly entered his mind, but what he saw was still confusing:
Memory Segmentation Project (Incomplete);
Consciousness Immersion Project (Complete);
Time Iteration (Incomplete);
Perceptual Deviation Calibration (Incomplete);
Guardian Plan (Proposal);
Dream Closed and Open Loop (Bishops in discussion, no new meeting for the time being) …
This seemed to be just a catalog, and a lot of things could be thought of from the list, but there was nothing of value to analyze. Of course, Gwen was not satisfied with this, but when he wanted to further explore the information, he only saw a special prompt:
Project Zero is operating in isolation. No information can be accessed on the surface of the consciousness network.
Gwen tried a few more keywords in confusion and searched for some relevant information, and finally confirmed that he could not see all the content of Project Zero here. Although the Eternal Sleepers did not have a mature concept of information encryption, they still had a considerable degree of protection for some extremely critical things. Before knowing their encryption rules, Gwen did not dare to try to crack it.
And he probably figured out one thing: the dream world he saw did not seem to be the whole of the "eternal dream" created by the Eternal Sleepers. If he was right … the entire space, including this dream city, seemed to be just the "surface of the consciousness network"?
Gwen could not help but feel a little emotional. This mental network was crude and full of loopholes in many places, but on the whole, it was very advanced and complex. It used a rather simple and crude method to achieve an incredible virtual reality world … Was this also a technical feature of the magic world?
After putting away his curiosity about Project Zero, Gwen began to browse all kinds of information in the mental network and gradually confirmed one thing:
This mental network was not just started. Judging from the available logs, it seemed that the Eternal Sleepers restarted this virtual world a few days after the last time they shut it down. In theory, he could have connected to this network long ago.
It was just that he wasn't a real, complete "Eternal Sleeper", so he didn't know about the reactivation of the network until today, when the Eternal Sleeper Network sent out a mass message to all the upper-middle level nodes. Only then did he reconnect here.
For the time being, Gwen did not know the situation of the "Project Zero". He decided to ignore the "gathering computing power" message for the time being, in case he accidentally got into danger. Anyway, the message was just a voluntary recruitment notice, so it should be fine to ignore it.
With Amber watching by his side, he did not have to worry about anything happening in the real world for the time being. Gwen decided to take this opportunity to dig out more useful information from the mental network of the Eternal Sleepers.
But before the "useful" information appeared, an interesting piece of information first jumped into his mind:
"Known information and temporary response plan about the" extraterrestrial wanderers "(temporary code name Gwen Cecil)."
Gwen looked at it with a puzzled face: "What is this?"
This message was hanging in the lowest place in the mental network. Basically, any Eternal Sleepers believer could read it after connecting to the network. Obviously, this was meant for everyone in the church. Gwen of course could not resist his curiosity. He immediately expanded it, and a line of big words came into his mind:
"First of all, a word of advice to all the church compatriots – Do not easily contact the extraterrestrial wanderers, they are far more dangerous than the Gondor wasteland!"
After that was the main text.
The more Gwen read, the more confused he was. He had a thought in his mind: I showed them a mixed music video last time, and it has evolved into this?
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