At first, there was only an endless wind blowing through the empty fields.

But soon, Yuri felt a strange aura rapidly converging, incorporeal and substantial, but it attracted everyone's attention with a strong sense of presence - it was as if a huge creature invisible to the naked eye was slowly approaching everyone, this huge creature disappeared from its form, but there was a constant sound of muffled breathing and a sense of oppression from biological instinct coming from all directions.

Everyone's eyes widened with nervousness and confusion, Semler subconsciously summoned the battle staff, Wendy's brows furrowed instantly, and Magnum's figure suddenly emerged from the air, and before he could greet Yuri and the others in a loud voice, he had already stared in the direction of Gawain with wide eyes-

A vague translucent outline had appeared in front of Gawain, and in the next second, it quickly condensed into an entity.

It was a giant white spider.

She lay quietly on the flat grassland, surrounded by a layer of almost transparent white light cocoon, the wind-blown blades of grass swayed on the edge of the light cocoon, as if licking and surging, and the moment the white spider appeared, Magnum's exclamation was already sounding: "All my ancestors! Psychic wind—"

Gawain casually pointed in Magnum's direction: "Shut up." ”

A huge mental turbulence instantly hit Magnum's mental layer, and the latter exploded into a cloud of brilliant fireworks on the spot before he finished the four words of mental storm - of course, he reappeared after two seconds, and immediately closed his mouth and stood honestly in place, and he couldn't get up for a short time.

Gawain had more or less fought alongside Magnum, and he had been prepared.

After a short period of stunned and panicked, Yuri was the first to regain his composure, he looked at the spider in the light cocoon with a wary face, although he had vaguely guessed that this "god" should be in a state of accusation now, he still subconsciously swallowed his saliva: "Your Majesty, this is ......"

"Upper narrator, the preserved part," Gawain said casually, glancing at the Eternal Sleepers as if they were on the verge of greatness, "Relax, he's harmless, and won't be polluted even if he looks directly - the divinity and humanity have been stripped of and purified, and only the pure mind and 'personality' remain, similar in nature to Magnum or Selena." ”

As he spoke, the transparent light cocoon that enveloped the entire white spider had trembled slightly, and then as if he had gradually woken up from a long slumber, the huge white spider suddenly moved, and the entire light cocoon instantly shattered and dissipated silently.

The "upper narrator" awoke, his astonishing arthropods staggering in place twice, and then gradually gaining balance, he or she propped up his or her body, and his or her aimless head swirled between this strange world, although there were no eyes, but there was a light circulating on the surface of the skull, and a confused and dazed emotion seemed to reach everyone's mind through those rays.

And almost at the same time as the white spider woke up, a black figure also appeared out of thin air - Duvalt, a black-robed old man holding a dilapidated lantern, appeared at the feet of the white spider, he also looked around blankly, and quickly noticed Gawain and the others standing not far away.

"Welcome to wake up," Gawain smiled and nodded at them, "I hope this 'slumber' hasn't caused you too much damage." ”

"We ......" Duvalt finally hesitated, feeling the tense atmosphere around him, but as if he didn't care much about all this, he just whispered in confusion, the old lantern in his hand flickering on and off, "We should have fallen into eternal darkness......

"We should have died already," the white spider form of Naritiel finally got rid of her confusion, she turned her head and "stared" at Gawain, "What happened?" ”

"You did die once," Gawain sighed and said helplessly, "but don't you know that as long as the conditions are right, data can be 'data repaired'. ”

"Data repair?" There was confusion in Naretir's tone, "What's that?" ”

"It's complicated to explain, you only need to know one thing - at the last moment, I 'saved' you," Gawain said, geeving his head and gesturing his head, "That's a lot of data, but you should know that the data of the entire sandbox world doesn't add up to nothing to me. ”

Naretil was stunned, lowered her head slightly, and looked at Duvalt at her feet: "Duvalt, can you understand?" ”

The black-robed old man holding a shabby lantern was looking at Gawain with shocked eyes, and suddenly, as if he understood something, he sighed thoughtfully: "I think I know......"

He remembered what had happened that day, and what had happened to him when he had tried to pollute Gawain's mind after forcibly entering his apotheosis form—he had lost so quickly that he didn't have time to analyze anything, but at this moment he finally had a chance to sort out what had happened, and finally a chance to figure out what had happened to him and Naretir.

"I should have thought of ......," he said, with a complicated expression, "pollution is mutual, and of course the devouring of the mind can be...... Your memories and souls are so vast that even the gods are terrified, and if we rush to establish a connection with your mind, how can the end be as simple as 'failure'. You were ...... 'Eat' me and Naretir! ”

In an instant, almost everyone's eyes widened in shock, even Yuri and Magnum, who had personally experienced the first half of the battle at that time, couldn't help but look at each other, several Archbishops of the Eternal Sleeper looked at Gawain with more awe in their eyes, and the silent Veronica's eyes became deeper and deeper, but Herty showed a thoughtful look - only Gawain was still indifferent, he looked up at Naretir, and spread his hand: "Didn't I 'spit out' again." ”

If Amber was at the scene, he would definitely immediately pick up the stalk at this time and say, "Spit it out won't be considered eating, at most it will be counted for a while", but the elf's shame did not follow this time because he was busy sorting out the public opinion after the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Holy Dragon Principality, so no one at the scene answered Gawain's stalk.

The atmosphere is a little weird.

As for what happened at that time, it is indeed similar to what Duvalt said, but this is not the first time that Gawain has "devoured" other minds - he did this once a few years ago, and what he devoured at that time was a reckless and regrettable Eternal Sleeper, who tried to invade the consciousness of "Gawain Cecil" from the spiritual level, but was torn to pieces by Gawain's massive memory bank and disintegrated and absorbed, and it was precisely because of that devouring that Gawain mastered a lot of information related to the Eternal Sleeper, and finally became an invasion of the psychic network" Extraterritorial loiters".

What he did to the upper-level narrator was essentially the same as it was back then—even though there was a difference in difficulty and volume, it was just a matter of downloads in the face of a satellite database that worked wonders mightily.

It is difficult for Gawain to explain the specific principle to outsiders, but he estimates that the people on the scene probably don't need any explanation: they roughly attribute this kind of thing directly to the three main reasons of the ancestors', the extraterritorial wanderer's, and the legendary pioneers......

Of course, "Devouring Gods" sounds wonderful, but Gawain estimates that he can only do this once—if he hadn't happened to be in the world of consciousness formed by the psychic network, if he hadn't happened to meet the "upper narrator", a mental and physical god who was extremely restrained by him, and if it weren't for the inexperience and relative weakness of the devoured party, he would not have succeeded.

The conditions of perfection required for this process are so demanding that they are not replicable - after all, the Krakens are more capable of "devouring the gods" on a physical level.

Gorwin coughed lightly twice, then looked at Naretir, and broke the silence again: "So I wanted to tell you that I could have done something better - but you didn't listen at the time, and ran out directly, and I almost didn't have time to 'drag' you back." ”

The giant spider's long arthropods swiped twice unconsciously on the ground, and Naretil's soft voice came directly into everyone's minds: "I was ...... Very anxious. ”

"I know," Gawain smiled, "understandable. ”

"Your Majesty," Semler finally found a chance to speak, and the serious middle-aged man couldn't help but take two steps forward, and said while looking nervously at the huge white spider, "You ...... 'preservation' of the upper narrator, do you want to ......?"

As Semler spoke, Naretil and Duvalt's attention also fell on Gawain, and Duvalt directly said his same confusion: "What do you want to do if you leave us behind?" ”

"I'd like to do some follow-up research," Gawain said calmly, "and the people we here have a delicate relationship with the gods, and we're all curious about the strengths and weaknesses of the gods, so we need 'upper narrators.'" And I'd like to test some personal suspicions about a 'god' that has removed most of the characteristics of the gods, and the very form of your existence intrigues me. ”

He spoke his thoughts, and looked at Naretil and Duvalt calmly and honestly, without hiding the curiosity and inquiry in his eyes.

The "upper narrator" is the most valuable wealth he rescued from the psychic network, this is a unique sample of the gods, containing the entire cycle of the birth, death, and rebirth of the gods, and has the irreproducible characteristics of stripping divinity and humanity, eliminating spiritual pollution, and being safe and controllable, so Gawain will try his best to leave "him", and even name the nascent imperial computing network "narrator neural network".

In the face of Gawain's answer, Naretil gathered some of her limbs slightly uneasily, her huge body shook slightly, and said with a sigh: "So, is this a new 'experimental' project again?" ”

"It's really an experimental project," Gawain nodded, "but not all 'experimental projects' are bad. There are also experiments in which both parties agree and participate voluntarily, there are harmless experiments, and there are experiments in which mutual assistance is ......"

"I know," Naritir interrupted Gawain, "this knowledge...... I still understand. ”

Gawain raised his eyebrows: "What about your opinion?" ”

Duvalt closed his eyes slightly, and Naretil whispered after a few seconds of silence, "What does this mean to us - we are individuals who should die, and as you once said, there is no place for us in the real world. Of course, if you insist on doing it, do it......"

"But I'd rather it all be based on fair cooperation than coercion," Gawain shook his head, "The Order of the Eternal Sleepers is gone, and this is Cecil, enforcing Cecil's order—I don't want to force you." ”

Duvalt opened his eyes: "We need a reason. ”

Gao Wen looked at the other party quietly, and after a few seconds, he said slowly: "It should be to remember those who once lived in the No. 1 sandbox." ”

Naretil moved his long knuckles.

"The history of Sandbox One is over, and the inhabitants inside no longer exist. After someone dies in the real world, there will be his relatives and friends who remember him, there will be his neighbors who remember him, and even if no one remembers, he always has bones left in the world, but those sandbox virtual personalities, no one remembers them in the real world, and there are no bones of them in the network," Gawain said calmly, "Naretil, Duvalt, you are the last thing they left behind.

"I don't intend to use this argument to kidnap your thoughts, but I want you to take this into account: the 'Upper Narrator' is the last memory of the entire sandbox world, and if you are willing to stay here as citizens of Cecil, then it will be a continuation for the former inhabitants of Sandbox One."

Naretil and Duvalt fell silent in unison, and Gawain did not pause when he saw this, and then continued: "Also, if you are willing to stay, I promise to give you access to the 'real world' in some way.

"You are now in a new kind of network that is different from the psychic web, where there is no sandbox system, and new terminal technology allows you to interact with real reality to a certain extent - I can give you this information to let you know that I am right.

"In exchange, I want you to be part of this modern network. Of course, you will be limited by the rules of the network - this restriction is mainly to protect the nodes of the network, and I can promise that it will not harm you.

"It's up to you to decide exactly how you weigh it."