After the meeting with Daniel, Gawain did not quit the network directly, but left the virtual space and returned to the consciousness level of the psychic network.

This layer is also known as the "visible zone" – as opposed to the visible zone, the data link layer deep within the network that goes unnoticed by the average visitor.

His virtual space was created by working on the data link layer.

"The whereabouts of the huge computing resources are unknown...... Walking on the streets of the central area of Dream City, Gawain whispered to himself, "The mental network is a network based on active nodes, and it does not need a fixed 'server' like a 'brain servant'......"

He raised his head and looked at the Eternal Sleepers walking in front of him, the figures were now living computing nodes in his eyes, and after completing the knowledge he had missed, he had a deeper understanding of the network, and he also had a better understanding of these cultists operating in the network.

The Order of the Sleepers is a large dark sect with a staggering number of members and a complex and secretive lineage, and not all Sleepers know the secrets of their own sect - in fact, like Viscountess Kant did, they were deceived and led astray by the Sleepers, but they did not know that the "marginal believers" of the Sleeper Organization abound in this sect.

The ability to escape from the eternal dreams of the real world has an unimaginable attraction for those who are miserable and desperate in reality, even nobles and great magicians can hardly resist its temptation under certain circumstances, and once you accept the temptation of the Eternal Sleeper and dedicate your mind to this vast network for the first time, then the beautiful illusion that the mental network brings is enough to confuse reality enough to make even the most determined people fall deeper and deeper.

How many of these Eternal Sleepers walking on the streets are veteran cultists, how many are unsatisfactory nobles, how many are extremely strong people who are in trouble, and will there be members of the Secret Law Society among them? Will there be believers from the southern part of the continent, or even from other races? Even...... Will there be some hopeless member of some other denomination?

The Eternal Sleepers have lost their faith and divine system, just like the druids after the fall of the White Star three thousand years ago, they are in fact a secular transcendent organization based on magical technology, so they can absorb "believers" without psychological pressure, they can bewitch nobles and mages, and even more so, they can bewitch those orthodox believers and priests who appear to be upright!

As soon as he thought of this, Gawain couldn't help but feel that the Eternal Sleeper was probably the most terrifying of the three dark sects......

Just walking with divergent thoughts, a small familiar figure suddenly flashed in the corner of his eye.

Gao Wen looked intently and saw a little girl in a beautiful white dress jumping on the fallen leaf path not far away, she jumped on the fallen leaves and stones, and from time to time she would step on the curb stone next to the path slightly above the ground and staggered along the "single-plank bridge", that carefree and innocent appearance was really impressive.

The little girl who calls herself Patti Gülen? How did it happen so coincidentally?

Gawain frowned, and his first thought was to pretend not to see the detour and walk away, but before he could lift his steps, the little girl had already seen him with sharp eyes.

"Ahh It's Uncle Selsey! ”

The little girl screamed happily, then jumped down from the curb, ran to Gawain with a snap, lifted her skirt, and performed a ladylike etiquette that was not very standard: "Hello uncle! ”

Her speech and temperament have the shadow of a good tutor, but the actual actions are quite clumsy.

It seemed too deliberate for Gawain to go offline directly at this time, so he could only respond with a dry smile, and then subconsciously looked around: the woman who was suspected of being Selena Gefen didn't seem to be around here.

"Are you looking for Sister Serena?" Patty noticed Gawain's actions and immediately spoke crisply, "Sister Serena is not here!" She's busy at home! ”

Gawain breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked at Patty's eyes with some curiosity, and he asked the question he wanted to ask in the morning: "By the way, how did you recognize me every time?" There must be a lot of people here who use the same appearance as me, right? ”

This is what he is most curious about - in this primitive network that has not yet realized the real-name system, nor has it realized that a username floats on everyone's head, there is no way for people to identify other people's identities at a glance, everyone can enter the sea by pinching a person casually, and the eternal sleepers are still completely satisfied with the "primary stage of the Internet for all" that is casually wandering around the Internet, but this little girl in front of her can recognize herself every time, which is really strange.

You know, Charles I's face is a hot skin on this network......

"Is it hard to recognize?" The little girl froze when she heard Gawain's question, blinked her eyes and looked dazed, "But I can just recognize it, although there are many people here who look the same, but everyone's 'feeling' is different......"

"It feels different...... Gawain couldn't help but laugh: what kind of answer is this?

He felt that the little girl in front of him was quite strange, and he couldn't help but be more vigilant in his heart, but after two or three contacts, he gradually dispelled his original thoughts: this little girl named "Patty" should really not be a middle-aged greasy foot picking cult behind her......

Sölderlin's kind of bigwig is not perverted to this level, and this "Patty", even if he is not such a young child in the real world, should not be too bad.

Maybe genius really exists...... At the age of ten, you can connect to the Sleeper network or something.

Thinking of this, and seeing that there was no Selena Gerfen around, Gawain felt that it seemed okay to talk to this strange little girl, so he walked slowly on the boulevard with the little girl, and said seemingly casually: "You seem to come here often?" ”

Patty looked curious: "Uncle said you came to this garden?" Or is it in this dream? ”

Does this little girl simply regard this virtual space as a "dream"? Where do you have such dreams in the world......

Gao Wen muttered in his heart, but there was nothing unusual on his face: "I mean this 'dream'." ”

"I'm here a lot, especially at night, I'm definitely going to come here," Patty stuck out her tongue, "because I won't sleep well without this dream......"

"Can't sleep well?" Gawain frowned, "Why?" ”

Patty really seems to be a child who doesn't know anything about the world, and she almost answers whatever Gawain asks: "Because of the pain and itching ...... on my body"

When she said this, the little girl's face obviously showed a look of resistance and fear, and Gawain originally wanted to continue to ask, but when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed back again, and changed the next topic quite stiffly: "Speaking of which, I haven't seen your parents here—aren't they 'compatriots' of the church?" ”

Church "fellow citizens," a colloquial term used by believers to refer to themselves in private, Gawain believes that even if Patty were really innocent, she must have heard similar words a lot in her activities on the Internet.

The little girl shook her head: "Dad died a long time ago...... Mom is busy, and she doesn't like it here. ”

The father died, and the mother seemed to be the one who resisted the Eternal Sleeper? So how did this little girl get into the network?

Didn't she get brought into the Order because of her parents?

Gao Wen turned all kinds of speculations in his heart, and while silently sketching out the possible situation of this little girl in the real world, he asked, "Is that so...... So what does your mom do? Why doesn't she like it here? ”

"Mom says she doesn't like to be immersed in dreams, but I don't understand what that means," Patty said as she jumped on the curb next to her and staggered forward, "Mommy is a great person! Everyone in the castle listens to her! ”

Gawain's footsteps couldn't help but pause: "Castle? Do you live in a castle? ”

"Yes! A big, big castle! Patty said happily, "And my room has big, big windows!" ”

A castle with big windows? This kind of construction is not common in this era......

Gawain quickly guessed the identity of this little girl in the real world: she should be a nobleman, but judging from her speech and demeanor, she should not be a high-level noble heir, she lives in a castle with large windows, but the aristocratic castles of Ansu in this era all take into account the energy supply of military fortresses, basically only narrow windows and high skylights, so she may not be from Ansu...... But this is not necessarily, as new, more comfortable castles and manor houses have recently become popular in the Whitsundays, and some nobles in the south have imitated them......

Thinking so in his heart, Gao Wen took the opportunity to say, "Sounds great. By the way, is there a high mountain near your castle? Or are there rivers and forests? ”

He wanted to inquire about the features of the scene near the castle where Patty lived, and to determine what country the little girl might be from—though he probably couldn't tell anything, but he wanted to try it anyway.

But the little girl shook her head when she heard these questions: "I don't remember much...... From a very young age, my mother would not let me leave the castle, saying that it was dangerous outside. But let me tell you, uncle, I secretly asked the maid to take me to the terrace this morning! I could see a big snowfield underneath the castle! Don't tell anyone, my mother rarely lets me go up to the terrace...... But Mom went out the other day. ”

Gawain casually said perfunctorily while his thoughts diverged: "Oh, your mother is out." ”

"Well, Mom said she was going to Count Hossmann's house as a guest, and I've been out for a few days......"

"Oh, Count Hossman...... Count Hossmann?! ”

Gawain repeated a sentence without hesitation, but as soon as he finished repeating it, he reacted, and his eyes suddenly widened.

He'd heard the name!

Not so long ago, in Amber's report!

"Yes, Count Hossman," Patty seemed slightly startled by Gawain's reaction, "uncle...... Do you know the Earl? ”

“…… No, I just didn't expect your mother to be going to see someone so big and scared by the word 'earl'. Gawain casually made up a reason, anyway, children don't think too much, but his thoughts are surging in his heart.

Could there be another Earl of Horsman in this world? This Gawain doesn't dare to guarantee, maybe there will be, after all, the four countries of mankind are located in the four directions of the continent, each country has its own independent but huge aristocratic system, and there are countless landed nobles of all sizes, it is difficult to say whether there will be so many nobles with the same name and title in the north and south of the continent, but he believes that the "Horsman" Count mentioned by Patty is the one he knows!

The landed aristocrat of the southern border of Ansun, Karlof Hossman.

So Patty is actually the son of some nobleman in the South?

Her last name appears to be Gülen...... It seems that there is indeed a surname Glenn among the nobles of the southern border!