Patty was very happy to see "Uncle Gwen."
She had not seen Gwen for a long time. She had not heard Gwen tell her about the pioneering period, the Gondor period, and other wonderful stories.
Even though she was almost fifteen years old this year, even though she had already begun to formally appear in social situations and learn how to deal with family affairs, in the eyes of outsiders, she was still a child. Even her appearance and age were younger than her peers, and as for the knowledge she knew, she was far behind the other noble children of her age.
Years of serious injuries had caused her to miss almost the entire childhood period. Patty did not start learning until this year. Many of the questions she asked were not in line with her age in Gwen's view.
But on the other hand, special experiences made Patty more mature mentally than her peers. Perhaps because she had lost the ability to move freely, she was always keenly aware of the emotional changes of the people around her.
"Uncle Gwen, are you a little unhappy?" Patty noticed a slight emotional change in Gwen's words. She immediately stopped her long-winded questions and asked carefully.
Gwen was startled. His eyes fell on the little girl in front of him.
She could sit in the wheelchair very well, and her neck could be raised by her own strength. Her big eyes were looking at him without blinking, full of curiosity and a little worry.
"No, I'm not unhappy." After a moment, Gwen smiled and shook his head. "I just suddenly thought of something else, and my mind wandered for a while."
"It's not good to wander off," Patty said seriously. "But you are an adult. You have a lot of things to think about, right?"
"I do have a lot of things to do, but I can still spare some time to tell you a story." Gwen said with a smile. At the same time, he had diverted part of his attention and quietly activated the secret port that could connect to the mental network. After such a long time of familiarity, he had long been able to freely control the power of the Eternal Sleeper. Even if he did not fully immerse his consciousness into the network, he could use his special authority to access network resources and perform some secret operations.
After connecting his shallow consciousness to the network, he looked at Patty again.
Patty was still Patty. Her face did not change into Selena Gerfen's, and there was no extra figure beside her.
However, Gwen could already confirm that Selena was indeed "here" and was closely connected to Patty in a strange state.
This was because beside Patty's small wheelchair, there was a lantern hanging in the air that was invisible to the naked eye.
…
Patty needed enough sleep every day to recover her lost spirit and further enhance the effect of the [Limb Regeneration Spell]. Before meeting Gwen, she had already watched more than two hours of magic TV series and listened to Gwen's stories. Soon, it was time for lunch.
Gwen watched the maid take Patty to the next room and gently put the little girl in a special immersion pod. After making sure that Patty had fallen asleep, he left the room and went to the castle's reception room to see Countess Luo Peini, who was waiting there.
The countess got up from the high-back chair and bowed to Gwen. "Your Majesty, thank you for taking care of Patty. She will be very happy today."
"She's much better now. I'm relieved." Gawain nodded and sat down on a chair near the window. "I saw that Patty has been using the immersion pod to hibernate. Has she been using the immersion pod all this time?"
"Yes." Countess Luo Peini nodded. "She has been using it for almost a month."
"Is there any adverse reaction? Is she used to it? "
These questions sounded normal, and the countess did not think there was anything wrong with them. "No, the immersion pod is very useful. The technicians you sent are also very conscientious. They stayed here for four days and left after making sure that Patty did not have any abnormalities. Before they left, they also handed over the technical information of the immersion pod to the local magician. As for Patty … she was not used to it at first, but she was not used to sleeping in a strange bed. Now she is used to it. "
Has she been using the immersion pod?
Gwen touched his chin and asked, "Where is the crown of the Eternal Sleeper now?"
"I put it in the basement of the castle, together with some extraordinary collections," the countess replied. "Because I don't plan to use it in the future, I am considering whether to seal it in some way. After all, it is related to the Eternal Sleeper."
For the countess, caution had become her habit.
But when dealing with the Eternal Sleeper, this degree of caution seemed to be far from enough.
"You don't have to think about sealing it. I am going to take the crown," Gwen said. "For … research."
Countess Luo Peini's eyes slightly changed. Although Gwen's tone and expression did not show any abnormality, the mother's intuition suddenly jumped. She stared at Gwen's eyes and asked, "Your Majesty … is there something wrong with the crown? Patty … "
"Don't be too nervous." Gwen immediately waved his hand. "It's just a technical research. As for Patty, she is fine. "
Luo Peini let out a sigh of relief. "That's good. Sorry, I am always too nervous when it comes to Patty. "
The countess left. As the governor of Gilan, she had a lot of official business to deal with. Gawain also returned to the room that had been specially prepared for him. He closed the door and saw a short wintermelon poking his head out from the shadows near the curtains.
After confirming that there were no outsiders around, Amber boldly jumped out of the Shadow Realm and smiled at Gwen. "According to the information, Countess Luo Peini is a person who hardly trusts others, but she trusts you very much. When you said that Patty was fine, she really felt relieved and went to work."
"I just don't want her to bear unnecessary pressure. After all, things are not clear yet," Gwen said casually. "And we have to avoid alerting the enemy."
"Alerting the enemy? That's an interesting word. I'll remember it. "Amber's eyes lit up. She wrote down the new word and added it to the" Holy Words of Emperor Gwen Cecil "that she had collected in private. She then looked at Gwen curiously." By the way, is there really a problem with Patty? "
Gwen pondered for a moment and whispered, "In the Mind Realm, there is a lantern beside her."
"Oh my god."
"But the situation is still better than I expected," Gwen continued. "Selena Geerfen did not invade Patty's soul, and the latter showed no signs of damage. They may be coexisting peacefully, and even Patty herself doesn't know what's wrong with her. "
Amber's eyes widened. "You're still so optimistic after seeing the lantern. What's the 'bad situation' you expected?"
"In the worst-case scenario … Patty is Selena Geerfen." Gwen glanced at Amber. "Long before we met Patty, when Patty touched the crown, she was already dead. In the years after that, the body was Selena."
Amber imagined the scene and suddenly shuddered. "Oh my god!"
Gwen succeeded in scaring the audacious half-elf. He felt a little better. "It's really scary, isn't it? When it comes to the horror of the mind, the Eternal Sleeper is obviously better than the All End Society. "
"I'm not worried about that." Amber waved her hand. "I just think that a 700-year-old woman pretending to be a teenage girl, calling you Uncle Gwen, and calling a woman in her twenties mom for several years, it's really scary. No wonder she's the Eternal Sleeper."
Gwen was speechless.
After realizing that continuing to discuss with the disgrace of the elf was suicide, he decisively cut off the topic and got back on track. "We still can't confirm the connection between Patty and Selena. To avoid alerting the enemy and to control the situation on the Eternal Sleeper's side, we can't take any action in Galen. We can only keep the peripheral surveillance."
Amber patted her chest. "I understand. I'm good at this."
Then she noticed that Gwen was still thinking. She could not help but ask, "What's wrong? What's the situation? "
"I'm thinking … how much of us have been exposed to Selena Gehrfen, and why she's been silent until now." Gwen sighed softly and shook his head helplessly. "Patty is now using the immersion pod produced by Cecil to sleep. At the same time, our magic network communication technology is not a secret. It has already been popularized in Galen, and a senior Eternal Sleeper can easily see the shadow of the mental network technology from the magic network communication. If Selena Gehrfen is really hiding in the depths of Patty's consciousness, she can see all this through the eyes of the 'host'. Even if this evidence is not enough to directly prove that the 'extraterrestrial wanderers' can invade the mental network, it should be enough to alert the Eternal Sleeper. But Selena Gehrfen did nothing. Many of the plans that Daniel and I have made have not been put to use."
"Hiss … The more strange and silent a person is, the more vigilant it is." Amber clenched her teeth. "There are countermeasures and remedies for any kind of damage. This kind of person who doesn't say anything is the scariest."
She then paused and shook her head. "But then again, as long as we develop the Weave communication technology, it's impossible for the Eternal Sleeper to not notice. When things develop to a certain extent, they will eventually surface. This is inevitable after the scale of the expansion. In this kind of confrontation, 'we hide everything, and they can't see anything' is only the low-level stage. 'we expose everything, and they can't do anything about it' is the high-level stage. Now, it's time to prepare for the end of the first stage. "
Gwen looked at Amber, who was talking with confidence until she felt awkward. He twisted his neck and asked, "Hey, why are you looking at me?"
"Nothing, I just feel that what you said is quite reasonable." Gwen smiled and said casually, "Indeed, our own mental network technology is gradually maturing. The Eternal Sleeper … will definitely notice it. And thinking back, when I first contacted Patty, I took into account that Selena would often be with her in the City of Dreams, so I did not reveal any information about the 'wanderers' in front of Patty. At most, Selena Geerfen could see our technological development on the magic network through Patty's eyes.
"I'm curious about one thing now. When Patty used the immersion pod, she just used it to sleep. She no longer connected to the mental network of the Eternal Sleeper to prevent exposing our 'network intrusion'. Since Patty no longer entered the mental network, how did Selena, who was hiding 'beside' Patty, maintain a connection to the mental network?"
Amber scratched her head.
She could not figure out Gwen's question.
…
At the foot of the snow-capped mountains in the Eastern Region, a glimmering Breeze Shield shielded them from the wind and snow from the wilderness. Under the shield, the rechargeable tracks extended on the ground and gradually disappeared into the depths of the distant snow.
The wheels rolled, and the mechanical device played a steel melody. A magical train with the emblem of the Cecil Empire roared on the rechargeable railway under the shield like a steel python running on the ground.
The unknown mountains retreated on the side of the train, and the vegetation and railings near the railway became a blur due to the rapid retreat.
It was winter outside, but the inside of the train was warm and comfortable. It was a wonderful experience to travel across the wilderness in the belly of a steel behemoth.
Mathilda Augustus sat upright on the spacious and comfortable seat of the train. She looked at the exotic scenery outside through the crystal glass embedded in the side wall of the carriage, and the corners of her mouth slightly curled up.
A strange country …
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