The howling continued for half an hour, and then finally subsided.

In the Imperial Hub Control Center, the technicians are still tense with all their nerves, everyone is busy checking the status of the system, repairing the faulty nodes, restarting the equipment that was offline before, the sound of commands and reports is constantly sounding every minute and every second, although there is no gunsmoke in the huge hall, it is like a battlefield.

The power ridge of the entire facility had come back online, the hub tower on the surface had been back up and running, and within minutes of the howling was over, more than 90 percent of the nodes and facilities were back to normal, and the magicians in charge of monitoring the system were surprised to find that the terrible chaos had done little to no hardware damage - it was like an illusory storm, blowing through the entire network at a rapid pace, but in the end nothing was taken away, not even traces were rapidly fading.

Only the other nodes in the empire, which are still in a state of disruption, remind everyone that the previous anomaly is not an illusion.

Rebecca looked nervously at the center of the hall, where a silvery-white metal pillar stood as if it ran through the entire facility, and a karmel with arcane brilliance was floating beside it, his body had nearly doubled, standing there like a radiant giant, and countless arcane streams of arcane light burst out from the cracks in his rune armor pieces, connecting the large number of runes and guide nodes on the metal pillars— The Arcane Master from a thousand years ago was perceiving the remaining energy noise in the web in his own way, a risky act that was the most efficient and reliable of all that time.

After a few moments, Kamel finally finished connecting, his body slowly recovering, and drifting towards the commander's seat at the front of the hall.

"Master Carmel," Gawain asked before Rebecca could speak, "How's it going?" Have you found out why? ”

"It's certain that a very powerful energy body has entered our network - the traces left by the neural network show that this energy body is larger than we imagined, and if it gets out of control, it can almost burn the entire magic web!" With a hint of palpitation, Carmel said something that made everyone in the scene feel the urge to gasp, "However, this energy body has cleverly 'self-splitted' countless times as it passes through the network - it spreads itself and flows through those nodes in pieces, causing no damage, and like flowing water...... 'seeps' into the bottom of our network, and disappears there. ”

Gawain felt that he was listening to the Arabian Nights, and Rao couldn't understand what Kamel described for a while with the "worldview of this world", and even Rebecca, who had always had a big heart next to him, was dumbfounded: "Mom...... What's that...... How do I hear what you mean, that thing seems to be ...... Some kind of living thing?! ”

"It's a bit beyond common sense, but it seems ...... It was alive, even sane," Carmel said in a deep voice, "I tried to trace its traces, but all traces were cleverly erased, and this is not at all a phenomenon that unconscious energy turbulence can cause. ”

Gao Wen's brows were tightened, all kinds of speculations were surging in his heart, he felt as if he had some ideas, and subconsciously asked, "...... Is that energy body 'apportioning' itself in order to avoid destroying the network? ”

"Not sure, if it is really something with intelligence, then it is possible that the behavior of the ta's division is also to avoid self-destruction - although that thing can indeed burn the magic web, it itself will definitely be hit hard in the process, and may even be directly annihilated - it is a magical energy that spans the entire empire, and its power is far beyond the imagination of mortals, I don't think even a god should take the initiative to attack such a powerful energy......"

The scene described by Carmel made Gawain more serious, the accident that happened today exceeded any previous plan, and even gave him a long-lost sense of powerlessness, but just as he was about to ask for more details, a technician in a nearby listening seat suddenly shouted, interrupting the conversation of everyone on the podium:

"Received a signal from Ten Forest City!"

Rebecca, Gawain and Carmell almost said in unison: "Connect!" ”

In the next second, the information from Ten Forests City was presented through the holographic projection at the front of the hall, and Gawain saw Grand Archon Badwin Franklin standing there, with the Hub Control Hall in the middle of the busy background behind him, and the Ten Forests City side had obviously experienced a serious chaos, but everything seemed to have calmed down.

"Your Majesty," said Bodwin Franklin as soon as the communication was connected, "we have just experienced an unusual accident here, with a total communication outage, an energy failure, and ......."

"It's the same here, but things seem to have calmed down here," Gawain interrupted, "How's it going on your side?" ”

"Ah...... It's back to normal here," Bai Dewen was stunned for a moment, and quickly reacted, "We are restarting the nodes, and now we have reconnected to the main hub of Saint-Sunil and the Imperial Capital......

As the Duke of the Western Realm spoke, Gawain saw that the image of the map of the entire territory had resurfaced above the largest projection device at the end of the hall, and some bright light was gradually emerging from the nodes of the magic net that had been completely dimmed above, and in a few jumps and fluctuations, the nodes in the radiation range of the Ten Forest City and Saint Sunil lit up one after another.

Soon, the other listeners heard the technician's report: "Signal from Wintercastle received!" "Communication with the Wind Fortress has been restored!" "The Solimburg channel is open!"

"Looks like ...... Everything is recovering," Gawain breathed a sigh of relief, but the intense doubts and uneasiness in his heart did not dissipate at all, "but we still haven't figured out why......"

"What the hell is that energy body that suddenly invaded the network......" Rebecca also muttered subconsciously, "It's a pity that I didn't catch it and let it run ......"

Rebecca was halfway through her muttering when a small magic net terminal on the podium suddenly lit up, and a slightly older voice came out of it: "No, Your Highness Princess, that thing hasn't run away yet—we've grabbed him by the tail." ”

"Duvalt?" Rebecca immediately looked over the terminal, and Duvalt, dressed in black, had emerged from the holographic projection, "You said you caught it?" ”

"Grabbing," Duval nodded, "the thing isn't completely out of the network, it's moving rapidly along the 'unconscious zone' of the neural network, and Naretil is tracking it in the border area - we need more compute nodes to strengthen Naritil's sensing range and speed of action." ”

"Inform the Computing Center," Gawain immediately looked up at Kamel, "All standby personnel who have no task yet enter the immersion pod!" ”

……

Neural networks, "unconscious zones".

A vast and chaotic fog shrouded the whole world, the sky light of unknown origin floated high in the sky, through the dense fog sprinkled strange and distorted beams of light, illuminating the gray-white water surface at the bottom of this world, countless strange-shaped clouds and whirlpools continued to condense and dissipate in the depths of the fog, so that the whole world was in an unstable state of change all the time, and there were empty winds from afar from time to time, making this place seem more and more strange and desolate.

This is the boundary zone of this huge and complex network, which is the symbolic state of the "chaos" in the deepest part of the neural network, which is the impassable region generated by the staggered mapping, interference, and iteration of a large number of mental nodes that make up the network.

Here, any ordered computation eventually leads to the result of disorder, where useless data is destroyed every minute and every second, and unformed "ideas" and "memories" are dissolved into nothingness here—those thoughts and memories are formed by the interaction of network connectors in dreams, the result of countless brains roaming together, and they are constantly forming and decomposing in this boundary zone, and what is presented is those clouds and vortices.

Normally connected to the neural network's mind will never access this area – more than a dozen layers of security protocols protect the user's brain from being swallowed up by the "unconscious zone", but today, this "frontier" that is supposed to be visited by no one has an uninvited guest.

A huge lilac phantom flashed in the depths of the mist, and the shadow was projected on the gray-white water surface at the bottom of the mist, reflecting countless bizarre runes and colored balls of light, and around this rapidly flashing phantom, fine spider silk and illusory spider arthropods continued to breed and extend like a dream.

A huge snow-white spider was moving rapidly above the mist, huge cobwebs quickly forming and spreading around her, her long knobs were stirring the thick fog below in a wild run, the power of the "border" was mobilized by the spider, constantly forming interfering barriers and false paths, and the aimless head of the white spider was always looking in one direction—

The lilac apparition was fast, but it had already fallen into the spider's web, and for the predator, any escape of the prey in the spider's web was just a recreation before the web was closed.

Naretir is a predator with little patience.

So when she decided that the time was right, she immediately curtailed all the flow of information in the border area.

The lilac phantom was instantly restrained by the invisible power in the mist, and countless runes and chaotic lines of light and shadow burst out from the surface of the ta, like a runaway spell model, showing a posture on the verge of collapse, but in the next second, this "runaway spell model" quickly stabilized itself and began to collapse inward - a large number of colorful balls of light and runes first spread outward, and then condensed inward, and in just a few seconds, this chaotic and weird shadow had an exact "appearance".

It was a woman—at least some of the features looked like a woman.

Her size was as huge as the bell tower, her face was beautiful but there was a trace of weirdness that was not like a human being, her pupils were like broken stars, there was no boundary between the whites of her eyes and her pupils, and her long black hair poured down from the back of her head, and her hair flashed with a lot of wandering light and fine lightning, but from the head down, her entire upper body showed an illusory, as if the clouds were condensed, and she could only vaguely see that there was a short black robe draped over her body. Beneath the robe was the outline of a woman's body, and the lower half of her body was only a thin cloud, which was constantly diffusing and converging, and there were no limbs inside, only endless and faint runes and orbs of light floating and moving there.

The "lady", who was as huge as a bell tower, finally stopped, and she looked up to see a huge white spider descending from the mist, dense cobwebs emerging around the spiders, and the cobwebs extended into the surrounding space, forming a fine enveloping web.

She finally shouted in annoyance, "Why do you keep chasing me?!" ”

The white spider stopped on the gray-white water, and she seemed to be stunned for a moment after hearing the oncoming shout, and then a small figure with white hair slowly came out of the fine fluff on the top of the spider's head, and Naritir looked at the "huge lady" not far away, with a serious face: "You broke the magic web, you pay." ”

"I didn't break anything!" The lady who was as huge as a bell tower seemed to grow even more annoyed, and she glared at the little girl on the spider in front of her—the girl and the spider were an obvious whole in her eyes, "I have done my calculations precisely, and I have been calculating since last year—nothing is broken!" I can't be mistaken! ”

Naretil blinked, and then nodded, as if to confirm with someone far away, "It seems that there is indeed no damage......"

"So you're mistaken—I don't bother with you, but I have to ......"

"But I still can't let you go," Naretir shook her head, "You've delayed the project, it's called 'economic loss'......"

“…… Damn it! ”

The bell tower-like lady couldn't help but curse after a moment of stunnedness, and then the whole figure suddenly became illusory, and in the momentary stunned of the white spider, she suddenly broke free from the shackles of those cobwebs and the surrounding fog, and became a ghostly phantom again, disappearing in place in an instant!

However, this sudden escape, which seemed to have a high probability of success, was unsuccessful, and she had barely moved a short distance when the white spider's arthropods teleported in all her paths—and she failed.

After a few unsuccessful breaches, the tower-like lady coalesced once more, and looked at Naretil with an angry expression: "This can't be...... How can you be so fast!? ”

Naretir thought seriously for a moment, and looked down at his spider body, and then looked up at the other party: "I have a lot of legs. ”

Then she looked at the "huge lady" seriously, her eyes fell on the mist that was constantly gathering and dispersing in the lower half of the other party's body, and shook her head with some regret: "You don't even have legs." ”

“？？？”