At first, there was only the endless wind blowing in the empty fields.
But soon, Yuri felt a strange presence gathering quickly. It was invisible, but its strong presence attracted everyone's attention. It was as if a huge creature invisible to the naked eye was slowly walking in front of them. The huge creature had hidden its body, but there was a constant low breathing sound and an instinctive sense of oppression from all directions.
Everyone opened their eyes wide with nervousness and confusion. Semler instinctively summoned his battle staff. Venti frowned. Magnum's figure suddenly appeared in the air. Before he could greet Yuri and the others with a loud voice, he had already looked at Gwen with his eyes wide open.
A translucent silhouette had appeared in front of Gwen and quickly condensed into a solid form in the next second.
It was a huge white spider.
She lay quietly on the flat grassland, covered in a layer of almost transparent white light cocoon. The wind blew the leaves on the edge of the light cocoon as if they were licking it. The moment the white spider appeared, Magnum's exclamation was already heard. "All my ancestors! Psionic Wind — "
Gawain casually pointed in Magnum's direction. "Shut up."
A huge stream of mental turbulence instantly hit Magnum's mental layer, and the latter exploded into a brilliant firework before he could finish his sentence. Of course, he was back to normal two seconds later. He immediately shut his mouth and stood where he was. It seemed that he would not be able to summon another psionic storm anytime soon.
Gawain had more or less fought side by side with Magnum before, so he was already prepared.
This sudden episode also woke everyone up. After a brief moment of shock and panic, Yuri was the first to calm down. He looked warily at the spider in the light cocoon. Although he had vaguely guessed that the 'god' was now in a state of control, he still gulped. "Your Majesty, this is —"
"The upper narrators, the preserved part," Gwen said casually and glanced at the eternal sleepers who were on high alert. "Relax, she is harmless. Even if you look directly at her, you will not be contaminated. Her divinity and humanity have been stripped and purified. Only the pure mind and 'personality' remain. She is essentially very similar to Magnum or Selena."
As he spoke, the transparent light cocoon that enveloped the entire white spider trembled slightly. Then, as though it was gradually waking up from a long slumber, the huge white spider suddenly moved, and the entire light cocoon instantly shattered and dissipated silently.
The 'upper narrators' woke up. Their amazing limbs moved in a daze before they gradually regained their balance. They propped themselves up, and their eyeless head turned in this strange world. Although they had no eyes, there was light flowing on the surface of the head, and a feeling of confusion seemed to be transmitted to everyone's mind through the light.
Almost at the same time when the white spider woke up, a black figure appeared out of thin air. The old man in a black robe, holding a shabby lantern, appeared at the feet of the white spider. He looked around in a daze and soon noticed Gwen and others standing not far away.
"Welcome to your awakening." Gwen smiled and nodded at them. "I hope this' deep sleep 'has not caused too much damage to you."
"We..." Duwalter finally opened his mouth hesitantly. He could feel the tense atmosphere around him, but he did not seem to care about it at all. He just whispered in confusion, the old lantern in his hand flickered. "We should have fallen into eternal darkness..."
"We should have died." Naretil in the form of a white spider finally got rid of her confusion. She turned her head and 'looked' at Gwen. "What happened?"
"You did die once." Gwen sighed and said helplessly. "But don't you know? As long as the conditions are right, the data can be 'restored'."
"Restored data?" Naretil sounded confused. "What is that?"
"It's complicated to explain. You only need to know one thing. At the last moment, I 'saved' you," Gwen said, raising his finger and pointing to his head. "It's a huge amount of data, but you should know very well that the data of the entire sandbox world added up is nothing to me."
Naretil was startled. She lowered her head slightly and looked at Duwalter. "Duwalter, do you understand?"
The old man in a black robe, holding a shabby lantern, looked at Gwen in shock. Suddenly, he seemed to have understood something. He sighed thoughtfully. "I think I know …"
He remembered what happened that day. He remembered everything that happened when he tried to corrupt Gwen's mind after he forcibly entered his deified form. At that time, he was defeated so quickly that he did not have time to analyze anything. But at this moment, he finally had the opportunity to sort out what happened at that time and figure out what happened to him and Naretil.
"I should have thought of it …" He had a complicated look on his face. "Corruption is mutual. Of course, the devouring of the mind can work too. Your memory and soul are so huge that even the gods would be terrified. If we rashly established a connection with your mind, the result would not be as simple as' failure. ' At that time, you … 'ate' me and Naretil! "
In an instant, almost everyone's eyes widened in shock. Even Yuri and Magnum, who had experienced the first half of the battle, could not help but look at each other. A few archbishops of the Eternal Rest looked at Gwen in awe. Veronica, who was silent at the side, had a deep look in her eyes. Heti, however, looked thoughtful. Only Gwen was still indifferent. He looked up at Naretil and spread out his hands. "Didn't I 'vomit' out again?"
If Amber was there, she would have immediately said, "Vomiting out is not eating. At most, it's just holding it for a while." However, the Elven Shame was busy sorting out the public opinion after the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Duchy of Holy Dragon. So, no one picked up on Gwen's joke.
The atmosphere was a little weird.
As for what happened at that time, it was indeed similar to what Duarte said. However, this was not the first time Gwen 'devoured' another mind. He had done it once a few years ago. At that time, the one he devoured was a regrettably reckless Eternal Sleeper. The Eternal Sleeper tried to invade the consciousness of 'Gwen Cecil' on the mental level, but was torn into pieces and disintegrated by Gwen's massive memory bank. It was also because of that devouring that Gwen had a lot of information about the Eternal Sleepers and eventually became an 'extraterrestrial wanderer' who invaded the mental network.
What he did to the Upper Narrators was essentially the same as that time. Although the difficulty and size were different, it was just a matter of download volume in front of the satellite database that could produce miracles.
It was difficult for Gwen to explain the specific principles behind it to outsiders, but he estimated that the people at the scene probably did not need any explanation. They would probably directly attribute it to the three main reasons: the ancestor was awesome, the extraterrestrial wanderer was awesome, and the Legendary pioneers were awesome …
Of course, 'devouring a deity' sounded wonderful, but Gwen estimated that he could only do it once. If he did not happen to be in the world of consciousness formed by the mental network, if he did not happen to encounter the Upper Narrators, a deity with a Body of Mind and Heart whom he could greatly restrain, and if the devoured party did not lack experience and was relatively weak, he would not have succeeded.
The perfect conditions required for the process were so harsh that it could not be replicated. In the end, the sirens were more powerful at 'devouring a deity' on the physical level.
Many thoughts flashed through his mind. Gawain coughed softly and looked at Nareltyr, breaking the silence again. "So I wanted to tell you that I have a better way. But you didn't listen and ran out. I almost couldn't 'drag' you back in time."
The giant spider's long limbs moved on the ground subconsciously. Naretil's soft voice directly entered everyone's mind. "I was … very anxious."
"I know." Gwen smiled. "I can understand."
"Your Majesty." At this time, Semler finally found a chance to speak. The serious-looking middle-aged man could not help but take two steps forward. He looked nervously at the giant white spider and said, "You've 'saved' the Upper Narrators. Do you want to …"
As Semler spoke, Naretil and Duwalter's attention fell on Gwen at the same time. Duwalter directly asked, "What do you want to do by keeping us here?"
"I want to do some follow-up research," Gawain said frankly. "Those of us here have a subtle relationship with the gods. We are very curious about the powers and weaknesses of the gods, so we need a 'Narrator from the upper echelons.' And I also want to verify some personal conjectures — a deity who has removed most of the deity's characteristics. I am very curious about the form of existence of you. "
He spoke his mind and looked at Naretil and Duwalter calmly and honestly. He did not hide the curiosity and inquiry in his eyes.
The Upper Narrators were the most precious treasure he had rescued from the mental network. This was a unique sample of the deities, containing the entire reincarnation of the birth, death, and rebirth of the deities. It also had the characteristics of stripping away divinity and humanity, eliminating mental pollution, and being safe and controllable. Therefore, Gwen tried his best to keep the Upper Narrators and even named the newborn imperial computing network as the Narrators' Neural Network.
Hearing Gwen's answer, Naretil slightly retracted some of her limbs. Her huge body swayed slightly. She sighed and said, "So, is this a new 'experimental' project?"
"This is indeed an experimental project." Gwen nodded. "But not all 'experimental projects' are bad. There are experiments that both parties agree and voluntarily participate in. There are harmless experiments, and there are experiments that help each other — "
"I know," Naretil interrupted Gwen. "I still know this knowledge."
Gwen raised his eyebrows. "What do you think?"
Duwalter closed his eyes slightly. After a few seconds of silence, Naretil said softly, "What does this mean to us? We are individuals who should die. As you once said, there is no place for us in the real world. Of course, if you insist on doing this, then let's do it. "
"But I hope that all this is based on fair cooperation rather than coercion." Gwen shook his head. "The Eternal Sleep Congregation no longer exists. This is Cecil, enforcing the order of Cecil. I don't want to force you."
Duwalter opened his eyes. "We need a reason."
Gwen looked at him quietly. After a few seconds, he said slowly, "Just think of it as remembering those who once lived in Sandbox No. 1."
Naretil moved her long limbs.
"The history of Sandbox No. 1 is over, and the former residents no longer exist. After a person dies in the real world, his relatives and friends will remember him, and his neighbors will remember him. Even if no one remembers him, his bones will always remain in the world. However, no one in the real world remembers the virtual personalities of those sandboxes, and there are no remains of them on the Internet, "Gwen said calmly." Naretil, Duwalter, you are the last things they left behind.
"I don't mean to hold you back with this statement, but I hope you can consider this: the 'Upper Storyteller' is the last memory of the entire sandbox world. If you are willing to stay here as citizens of Cecil, then for the former residents of Sandbox No. 1, this is also a continuation."
Neritir and Duwalter fell silent at the same time. Seeing this, Gawain didn't stop and continued, "Also, if you're willing to stay, I promise that I can let you come into contact with the 'real world' through certain means.
"You are now in a new network that is different from the mental network. There is no sandbox system here, and the new terminal technology allows you to interact with real reality to a certain extent. I can give you this part of the information so that you will know that I am telling the truth.
"In exchange, I hope you can be a part of this new network. Of course, you will be limited by the network rules. This restriction is mainly to protect the nodes of the network. I can promise that it is harmless to you.
"You can decide for yourself how to weigh the pros and cons."
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