Chapter 1,340 Rift Valley, Xiling, and Fox

When wandering around the Shadow City, I often meet Xiling - this super consciousness that is a little confused and always seems to be wandering around with nothing to do seems to appear in several specific places unconsciously, and these places are basically The places where Sandora and I usually like to visit are probably related to her life form: as the group consciousness of the Xiling group, she is more inclined to pay attention to the movements of the leader of the group. The coordinates of where Sandora and I usually stay are roughly This is the place that Xi Ling is most familiar with.

This can explain why Xiling always stays in Sylvia's dessert shop: this place is simply Sandora's second paradise - by the way, Sandora's first paradise is the kitchen at home.

Speaking of Xiling, her life in Shadow City is very comfortable. This girl always walks around in a leisurely manner. In addition to going to the research center to cooperate with Tavel's various experiments, she has nearly twenty tasks every day. The hours are spent in idleness, and I really envy her such a leisurely life. However, according to Pao Pao, the workload that Xiling has to bear every day is actually extremely huge: basically every Xiling apostle hanging in the spiritual network is constantly uploading and downloading data through her, but Xiling herself It seems that she has never realized that she still has these jobs: all data exchanges at this level are handled by the underlying protocols of the spiritual network. As the highest level consciousness of this network, Xiling can't even feel those things. This is the reason why Xi Ling has been wandering outside for so many years, and the spiritual network of Xi Ling's apostle can operate normally: most of the work is taken care of by the "subconscious side" of this mental network. As a conscious person, Xi Ling leisurely follows The same goes for veteran cadres who have retired for seven or eight years - no. As soon as I saw her silly, unmotivated face, I couldn't help but think of the pile of reports on my desk, and I had to quickly divert my attention.

"Hey. Long time no see." I shook my head, put the little doll on the table, and then reacted instantly and put the little guy on the chair (the little doll was very careful about her image outside, she felt that she was being It is very shameful to treat a person like a doll and place it on a table or similar place, but I don’t have this concern at home), while raising his hand to greet Xi Ling. "Changed another image?"

The tall girl with long black hair and straight hair had her eyes completely on Sylvia from just now. When she heard the voice, she suddenly raised her head and noticed my arrival. She stood up in a panic and walked awkwardly. A decent military salute: "Hey, hello, Your Majesty. I saw an image in the shared data link that I really like. Once it becomes like this, I can't change it back. Report completed!"

Me: "...Well, it's very your style. By the way, how long has Sylvia been sleeping?"

My eyes fell on Sylvia. This silver-haired mole was still sleeping soundly on the table. She neither noticed my movements nor seemed to pay any attention to Xiling. As a store manager, her image is really unbearable to see: she always lives in her own little world. For her, the stimulation from the outside world must be filtered to 80 or 90%, right?

"I don't know, she was sleeping when I came here," Xi Ling replied seriously, "I'm waiting for her to wake up. When she wakes up, I can eat... Oh. I can also give it to Ta by the way. Vel brought some snacks back, and Tavel asked me to bring some snacks back."

I was surprised: "Huh? Tavel eats too?"

Then I felt that this question was strange. It took ten seconds to realize: Tavel’s image as an iron man who usually works day and night, with thousands of threads engaged in scientific research, has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The man who can lead the quality projection of several basketball courts and work three shifts with himself. Madman has almost become a special species in my mind. I suddenly learned that she can eat and drink normally. This shock to me is definitely no less than that of ordinary people who see their parents pouring lubricant into their ankles at work. Oil……

Xi Ling was also stunned by this wonderful rhetorical question, but she is the type who easily forgets things she doesn't understand. She was soon diverted by my words: "Speaking of which, these two days How does it feel to have a batch of special 'nodes' merged into your network?"

The special "nodes" in my mouth are none other than a large group of fallen apostles headed by Haran.

Hundreds of thousands of fallen apostles were officially integrated into the new empire's spiritual network the afternoon before yesterday. Of course, since the purification of some fallen apostles has not yet been completed, they were separately mounted on an isolated network segment. The superior nodes are Xiaoxue and I. Through the information disturbance generated by the two void creatures, the low-level fallen apostles mounted in the network can be purified. This is the fastest way for us to reverse the transformation of the fallen apostles. Regardless of whether it is an isolated network segment or the main empire network, as long as it is based on the spiritual connection of the apostle node, it will definitely intersect with Xiling. This is determined by the network architecture, and there is no possibility of detours. "Xiling" is not strictly a "clear individual" that can be viewed independently. She is the aggregated will generated by tens of billions of Xiling apostles acting as nodes. Because the level of her will in the network is so high, there is no difference between a fallen apostle and a normal apostle to her: they can only be counted as one node, and the information that a node can represent is only "passable" and "unreachable" Two states. In the past, there was no "Xiling" individual in our network, and the fallen apostles connected to the network did not have any visible impact on the network itself. But now we have an additional "super network administrator" who cannot be blocked. There are so many captured soldiers, and I'm a little worried that Xiling will be polluted in some bad way.

It's not a good thing to say, but until Harlan's soldiers are completely purified, they are indeed the most dangerous source of contamination in the Empire. Hanging them online requires hundreds of security protocols. The potential harm of these pollution sources is obvious, but Xiling still maintains a direct connection with these fallen apostles - although the connection between the two is not a direct exchange of information, and there are also targeted The safety protocol for this kind of situation, theoretically, the chance of the latter infecting the former is zero, but this doesn't affect my concern, right?

Xiling's expression was a little dull for a moment, and I felt like there was static electricity all around. There was a feeling of being enveloped in a force field, knowing that the other party was comprehensively checking her core program. After a moment, Xiling shook his head with a smile: "It feels normal."

I was completely reassured, and then I looked at Sylvia with Xiling, wanting to see when this slow and comfortable silver-haired mole would wake up. Speaking of which, Xiling was really honest, she just sat like this. Have you watched it for who knows how long and haven’t thought about going anywhere else?

"Actually, it won't be long," Xiling smiled calmly, "It will be very relaxing here, and you can forget about the Rift Valley..."

Xiling once again mentioned the "rift valley", which is an information fault zone in the apostle's spiritual network. An unexplorable network vacuum zone, this thing is an unsolved mystery, and we didn't know the existence of the "rift" until Xiling appeared. Tavel is already running a project team specializing in detecting the "Rift Valley", but there has been no progress so far. Now that I heard Xiling taking the initiative to mention this matter, I suddenly became interested: "What changes have happened in the Rift Valley?"

I just asked casually, not expecting to hear anything new. But Xiling actually nodded: "It seems to have shrunk a little. A few days ago, I carefully observed the situation near the Rift Valley and found that the nodes it affected were reduced by about one percent... But sometimes in the Rift Valley It will fluctuate like this, but the fluctuation range in the past has not exceeded 0.5%, and the movement this time seems to be a bit bigger."

As a creature living in the real material world, I need some derivation to understand what Xiling means: she means. Is the Imperial Data Network's fracture zone shrinking? Are there fewer network nodes that are missing termination markers?

"Is this a good thing?" I scratched the back of my head uncertainly. It was a bit difficult to think of such a complicated question. "What did Tavel say?"

"She is trying to make an interface," a holographic projection appeared in front of Xiling. Shown above was some sort of complex and massive contraption that seemed to take up the entire room. There are several dormant cabin-like things in the center of the device. "You and I have different perception methods. I will explain to you about the Rift Valley. You will never be able to 100% understand what kind of place it is. So Tavel wants to create such a device to connect outsiders to The spirit is completely transferred to the Internet so that you can view the Rift from the same perspective as me."

I suddenly remembered that such a thing was mentioned in the technical report submitted by Tavel a while ago. She said that she was making a device that could share perception with Xiling and even transcode a person's soul into the apostle's spiritual network. , of course that's all I can remember. The report was quite detailed, but what I could understand was basically limited to the title and the conclusion at the end...

While Xiling and I were chatting, Sylvia, who was lying on the table, finally woke up. The silver-haired girl stood up and looked at the two guests in front of her in confusion: "Oh, Chen, And Xi Ling, are you here?"

"I want to eat." Xiling stretched out his hand and gestured in the air, creating a holographic projection of a lot of snacks. "That's it, two portions. Tavel also wants one."

Sylvia looked at the pile of pastries that needed to be processed on site, nodded, and then looked at me with a questioning look. I took the boring and dozing little doll next to her and gave her: "I am taking care of the child. Come on, you can get her whatever she wants."

Sylvia conveniently put the little doll under her arm and went to work behind the store. It is quite incredible to say that this silver-haired mole is usually slow to react to the point of being in the late stage of Parkinson's disease, but it only does not delay things when making snacks - of course, only when making snacks. You ask her to finish the snacks. It's basically enough to starve to death when you get out. According to Sylvia herself, she used to open a jewelry store and often make gadgets by hand, and things would not be delayed at that time - this is simply inexplicable.

I thought about this issue for a long time, and finally came to a conclusion: Sylvia's symptoms of retardation are probably limited to when she is communicating with others or focusing on the outside world. She seems to be a normal person when she is busy in her own little world.

Listening to the movement behind the store, Xiling smiled contentedly: "Okay, Tavel will have breakfast soon."

I was stunned and turned my neck stiffly ninety degrees, looking at the setting sun outside, and the afterglow of the setting sun filled the streets...

Xiling actually brought breakfast for Tavel! She watched Sylvia sleeping during the day here for a whole day!

I hope Tavel won’t be as stubborn as Xiling or Sylvia. She will starve to death sooner or later after dealing with these two living treasures...if the apostle can starve to death.

Looking at this small store, I suddenly remembered something Xiaoxue accidentally mentioned when she met Halan two days ago:

Harlan liked Sylvia's waterless round cakes very much.

Harlan is still in the process of returning to the factory for overhaul. Sandora and I worked together to open several holes in his body, and it is estimated that it will take two or three days to repair. I guess Harlan and Bella Villa know each other, but I don’t know what his expression will be when he sees Sylvia now. After he is “discharged”, maybe we should take him to this small shop to see it. He saw what the waterless round cake and Sylvia were - I maliciously began to speculate what the scene would be like when the two "former fallen emperors" met. Now this Sylvia is simply the original Bella Vera. The broken version of...

The little doll and I ate a full stomach of cakes, cookies and snacks before going back. Before leaving, I made an agreement with Xiling to play at her house next time - well, that is, after Tavel's conversion device is completed. Go to the spiritual network and see what the world looks like in Xiling's eyes. Before I left, I packed up all the snacks left by Sylvia and took them back as gifts for Sandora: Anyway, Sylvia could hardly sell anything all day long, so I almost sold them. Everything behind her windows and counters was moved out.

Xiling took away several boxes of pastries. Before leaving, he was still saying happily that Tavel could finally have breakfast - I don't want to complain about whether eating these things for breakfast will make me fat. Tavel is not a human being anyway. I just want to complain about Xi Ling's wonderful worldview: she lacks effective perception of the environment in which we "outsiders" live, and does not understand what people's work and rest habits are like in the real world. She still stubbornly believed that it was morning, because "Tavel hasn't had breakfast yet." I looked at the sky outside and it was almost dark, and I thought that Xi Ling was actually right: Tavel would at least have a good meal tomorrow morning. Found...

"You're a doll, what's the point of eating?" I carried the small lamp home and told my sister that we had eaten dinner outside today. Then I started researching the doll’s digestive problems—because she ate almost as much snacks as I did. I held the little girl's chin to study her neat white teeth. I didn't stop until she bit my thumb and chewed it hard twice.

"Idiot, this is alchemy technology, you don't understand." The doll-sized girl raised her chin with an impressive look. Then he jumped down and ran to the dining table to grab buns: She has a good appetite, will the doll grow taller too?

After dinner. As usual, Shandora would have some dessert after the meal, so I took out all the snacks I had packed and brought with Sylvia and shared them with the whole family - Shandora got 90% of the share alone. . When I was sharing snacks, I noticed that someone seemed to be missing from the house: the fox who had a strong presence in every sense of the word seemed to be missing.

"Where did the fox go?" I held a bag of animal biscuits and looked around. These biscuits were prepared for her. I felt like a poor guy holding up meat bones to call the husky at home. I deeply regretted doing this. Why did you raise a second-rate person...

"I don't know, I ran out before eating." Qianqian said without raising her head. She was busy soaking the biscuits in the milk. After the biscuits were almost soft, she picked them up with a spoon and ate them: this was how she ate the biscuits. Weird habits that haven’t changed since I was six years old.

Of course, her habit is completely incomparable when compared with Sandora's: Sandora is used to smearing mustard on biscuits and eating them with sweet flour sauce. She always has a cup of 1982-year-old pickle soup on hand. Her way of eating is popular. When I go to the world, I estimate that the spirit of great unity of the people of the world will immediately be reflected, which is a test of people's psychological quality.

Just when I was about to call that idiot fox home for dinner from my spiritual connection, a space door suddenly opened in the living room, and a messy golden fur ball rolled out of it.

In fact, she ran out, but you have to understand that the fox's tail occupies a larger area than her body. When she runs around, she looks like a rolling golden fur ball.

The fox ran out of the space door and ran straight to the direction where the food smelled. She looked completely dominated by animal instincts. I grabbed her tail and made the fox fairy realize that there was a circle of people around her. I noticed that her body was covered with mud, her tail was in a messy ball, and even a handful of hair on her ears had fallen out: she was in an unprecedented state of disarray.

"You went to fight with the dog again!"

My voice instantly rose an octave, and I was almost mad at this fox fairy who was becoming more and more degenerate as he lived.

The fox's ears drooped down - this was the default meaning.

I pinched her ears dumbfounded: "You are a thousand-year-old demon fox, and you won a fight with a dog without showing your face!"

The fox turned away: "...lost..."

I:"……"

The whole family: "..."

This guy went to fight with a dog and lost!

I asked with a shocked expression, but I figured I knew what was going on: The fox went to Avalon to find an old friend, and met a vicious dog wandering around the temple area. Of course, the key to the problem was not how vicious the dog was. , the key to the problem is——

The dog's name was Cerberus, and he was raised by Ding Dong to guard the garden area of ​​the temple.

The fox and the three-headed hellhound had been fighting for nearly two hours, with zero wins, two losses and three draws. She went home and planned to fill her stomach before challenging...

After working hard for a long time, I finally resisted the urge to put a collar around the fox fairy's neck, and I deeply realized that if I don't find something to do for this fox, she should go to Atlantis to find Zeus next. The three brothers have kicked out... (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users please read it.)