in the central control room.

Steve bowed his head and joined the crowd in a moment of silence.

They failed, it was a definite failure, they couldn't repair the damage to the arena in such a short time.

"We failed, Chai. But don't be discouraged, the gods are above, we've done our best......" Steve looked at Director Chai's workbench.

His eyes widened suddenly.

The crowd also noticed something unusual, and everyone gathered around. I saw that Director Chai was smoking all over his body, convulsing on his chair, and the data was densely packed around his workbench, forming a network, running at a speed that was difficult to observe.

He's still repairing the arena's systems, he's been severely overworked, the high-speed operation has exceeded his limits, and his brain has burned out.

"That's enough!chai!you've done your best!" Steve tried to put his hand on his shoulder, but found that his body was as hot as coals, and it was not the temperature that a human should have.

"Ahh

"Ah!!h

"Ah!!!!h

He convulsed painfully in his chair, and the robe made of special material had been melted through the heat with large holes. Everyone who heard his howl could relate to his pain.

He collapsed, and what defeated him was defeat, this one, a painful defeat. This was the biggest failure of his career of more than ten years. He had his own pride in the field of data, but that pride was completely shattered in this attack. It's like a stack of toy blocks that have been smashed to pieces with a single blow.

"Enough! Stop, you've done your best, if it weren't for your efficient response, we'd be in chaos at the beginning of the attack! You've done a good job, it's not your fault!"

Everyone's eyes were moist, everyone knew Director Chai, although he was lustful and careless, but in the field of data management in Jerusalem, he was an undoubted expert, and he was very conscientious, often waiting in the central control room twenty-four hours a day, and Jerusalem had become his home.

Now the enemy is wreaking havoc right under his nose, just like smashing and looting in his house, and he can't do anything about it. He racked his brains and tried his best, but he couldn't save the students in the arena. His sense of responsibility forced himself to go beyond his limits, to surpass again, to surpass again, to get to this point.

"Quick, get ice cubes and cool him down......"

Director Chai had shrunk into a ball of pain, and the data cables connected to his mask were shaken like waves.

Just when everyone was rescuing him, he suddenly broke out with the most terrible howl, and then suddenly the whole person burst out with a violent light, a dazzling light seemed to burn him through from the inside, from the inside out, making his whole person a ball of light.

After that, it dissipated and disappeared.

Director Chai is gone, he is gone. It was in this central control room that it dissipated.

What does it mean to disappear in Jerusalem? It means that he has either withdrawn from Jerusalem or is dead.

"No!" Steve shouted.

The scene in front of you does not seem to be an exit from Jerusalem, but it is likely to be the latter.

"Why...... Why is this happening......" Steve was stunned.

The memory of meeting Director Chai came to mind, Steve and Chai were the same year of Nian, and Chai was a year younger than him. They have similar types of telekinesis, and they have both chosen the field of virtual data, they used to be the most incompatible competitors, at the age of twenty, they were all incompatible, but at the age of thirty, Steve had already seen that Chai's talent was far above himself, so he strongly recommended Chai to be the director of the central control room, and he was willing to be his deputy, originally this position could only be managed by the management group- It was Steve's strong recommendation that allowed Chai to break the rules and become the director, and in this position, he showed his strength and really showed his talent.

But did it help him, or did it hurt him?

He would have the kind of philosophical thinking he had mentioned, doubts about the meaning of his own existence, doubts about the whole real world, which he probably only had after he came into contact with the world in Jerusalem. The confidence and sense of responsibility in the field of data also came after he became a director. Now, he is dying for this self-confidence and sense of responsibility.

Steve was a little unacceptable, and Jerusalem lost a genius data administrator, and he, in turn, lost his best classmates, colleagues, and friends.

Steve shed tears of grief.

However, at this time, Steve found something even stranger, on Director Chai's workbench, the data stream was still running at high speed on its own, the runes were extinguished, and the joystick was automatically triggered, as if there was an invisible person manipulating, what was going on?

Could it be ...... Steve wiped away his tears, and he understood that there was another possibility of disappearing in Jerusalem - he entered the inner world.

But he is in the world, which will be sliced. It was not a place that humans could enter.

But the data shows that he is not dead.

What's going on here?

At this moment, a striking piece of data appeared on the data display in the center of the central control room:

"Steve, I'm Chai Baojian, I'm going to die with the virus! Five seconds! Restart the arena in five seconds!

Director Chai is not dead! he is in the inner world, and he has not been sliced.

Steve instantly understood that he was an "incarnation"! The ability of the affinity ability can break through again when it reaches a certain level, obtain this unique ability, and incarnate as the object of his affinity. Director Chai is an affinity ability, and the object of his affinity ability is precisely these data in Jerusalem, so he can have such a high attainment in data management.

The great pain allowed him to break through the bottleneck and gain the ability to avatar, and he has now incarnated as data, entering the inner world, where he can process data extremely efficiently.

If the virus can really be solved within five seconds, and the arena system is hot-restarted, then the resurrection system will take effect, and the hot-reboot of the student's soul before it dissipates may be able to save his life!

The difficulty in doing this now is that the arena is made up of countless subsystems, and a normal restart is to restart these systems in turn, which takes more than 5 seconds, and Director Chai is an expert in this area, and he knows this very well. So there must be a way to shorten the restart time, yes! Feed more computing power from Jerusalem to the arena and restart all the systems in parallel! This will reduce the time to less than one second, but to make this plan happen, all the staff will have to work together.

Steve's thoughts flashed, and he figured it out in less than a second.

The next second, he shouted in the form of data: "All in place!

Data poured into the brains of all staff members at the speed of light, and with Steve's thinking and planning, people understood what he was thinking in an instant. This is Steve's ability to create connections, he can create invisible data bridges with his minds, realize the air connection of data, and all the staff in the central control room can directly accept data because of their work, so it realizes the high-speed transmission of information.

In the third second, all the staff members showed their skills and remotely operated their respective systems with data to prepare for the restart. All kinds of mechanical gears in the entire central control room snap rapidly, the civilization is extinguished, the lights flicker, and the holographic image on the workbench is played at high speed, like a burning flame. Decades of maintenance seem to be just for this second of full fire. At this moment, the central control room came to life like a hundred-armed giant, precise, accurate, and high-speed, responding to the instructions of the deputy director.

In the fourth second, ninety percent of Jerusalem's computing power poured into the arena, and a total of 27 people in the entire central control room, including Deputy Director Steve, were in place, each responsible for multiple subsystems, and the restart began.

The data calculus proceeds at high speed and methodically at the invisible level.

In the fifth second, the hot reboot is complete. The arena was switched in an instant, and the people in it only felt that the scene changed instantly.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, they had just completed the feat of a hot restart of the arena system in 5 seconds under the instructions of Director Chai.

But will this save the lives of the students?

In these 5 seconds, can Director Chai complete the feat of killing the virus?

If the virus is still there, then the arena after the restart will still be in chaos, and this operation will be considered a failure.

And the virus has already penetrated deep into the system, intertwined, can Director Chai really kill it within 5 seconds?

5 seconds before Jerusalem was in the world.

It's an empty and vast world. A view beneath the depths of the ocean.

In the void, a man and a snake stood opposite each other.

The director faced the big snake and made a bold statement to the central control room to kill the virus within 5 seconds.

This is an extremely thick and large snake. This big snake is a virus, and only in the inner world can we see its full picture and true face. His nine tails are embedded in the deep layers of the data like tree roots, sucking nutrients, which is why it is so difficult to kill.

4 seconds.

The superintendent brandished his homemade weapon, the Machete of the Plus Sixteen Chase Twenty Excellence Lucky Dragon Slayer, and charged towards the Great Snake.

3 seconds.

The serpent bit his machete and bit the upper half of the director's body, leaving him with only two legs left to kick outside the snake's mouth.

2 seconds.

The director was completely swallowed by the big snake of data, and the director failed, and the defeat was crisp and swift.

1 second.

The snake of data has woken up, and it has just eaten the director. He got his wisdom. It has a concept of self, and from this moment on, he is no longer a simple virus, but a creature that lives forever in the inner world, and in this vast inner world, he will be the first to settle, he will expand his territory, replicate himself, and create an army.

What he had eaten just now was very nutritious, and he was even more difficult to kill than before. Because all the methods of the people against him, he got it from the director's head, he has obtained all the information of the enemy, and he has also eliminated the supreme commander of the other side.

He looked around the empty and vast inner world, which was his new home. He began to replicate himself, and the copied self continued to replicate, one, two, four, eight, doubling each time, at first it was only a few few, but the exponential effect was terrible, and by the thirtieth time he was self-replicating, the army of 530 million serpents was already densely packed, and there was no end in sight.

This is an army unimaginable in the human world, and if it is placed in the real world, no country can compete with it.

Who else can match?

The surging tide of data suddenly came from all directions, like the waves of the sea engulfing an ant colony on the beach, and in just an instant, 530 million large snakes were sliced into countless slices.

The snakes didn't even struggle, they didn't hiss, they didn't fight back, they didn't fight back.

Slices of snakes flying like snowflakes. They are born like summer flowers, and die like winter snow.

This is the horror of Jerusalem, where one percent of the world's defenses are forced.

This is what happens when immigrants from the Castoan world meet the aborigines. Not all immigrants can behave as recklessly as white people come to South American soil.

In the heavy snow, Natalie, with a light veil, held a black umbrella and walked slowly from a distance.

With a swipe of the hand, some unique parts automatically flew out of all the slices, reforming the director of Chai.

"Is it worth sacrificing a person for the sake of one person?"

"Not for others, but for myself, I want to protect my home. "Director Chai escaped death and was in shock.

"I was really surprised when you found me, I didn't expect new residents from this world. ”

This was the director's plan, and the first thing he did when he entered the inner world was to find Natalie. He knew that even if he could incarnate, he would still not be an opponent of this virus, but in the inner world, he had powerful allies.

He finds Natalie in the midst of the ice crystals and convinces her to let her get back out of the mountain. He knew that the power of the virus was to be able to dodge Natalie, but after devouring him, he could no longer dodge, he was like a firefly in the night, shining in the night of the world here.

One of the rules of this world is that there are gains and losses, and while gaining stronger strength, you also gain new weaknesses. And for the virus, this weakness is fatal.

The Superintendent helps Natalie find the snake, and Natalie helps the Superintendent eliminate it.

"Thank you, Natalie, for saving my life again. ”

"Again?"

"The last time I came, I was almost sliced, and you threw me out. ”

"Oh I remember, that was a few years ago, yes, you were naïve like a hairy kid back then, why did you break in? You weren't incarnate back then. ”

"Then why are you sealing yourself in ice crystals?"

"System upgrade. ”

"Hehe, I know, it's loneliness and boredom. Me too. Sometimes I can't tell which is real, and I don't even know who I am, but no matter what, we have to protect our home. You're not alone, Natalie, and you have a family. I am your family. ”

The waves of data rippled silently, and the waves changed from small to large, spreading out in circles around them.

Natalie didn't speak, just shook the snow off her umbrella in silence.