Forty kilometers northeast of Bamo City, there is a research institute buried deep underground.
Wang Zhifan rushed here all the way from the city underground. Thanks to the accurate intelligence of AI Xiaohong, he arrived at his destination very smoothly.
At first, he had the idea of officially visiting this place, but after a secret on-site inspection for a while, he determined that the other party was a secretive and closed organization that did not receive outside visitors at all.
Therefore, he had to change his strategy and sneaked directly into the research institute by relying on his shadow shoes, space teleportation and other abilities, and put on a wind-hiding hat to conduct investigations in an invisible state.
At this time, he focused on a middle-aged man who was doing experiments, and planned to obtain information through him.
Hearing that several of this man's assistants called him director, he must have a high status in this research institute and may know more important information. Wang Zhifan observed and patiently waited for the opportunity.
Suddenly, the door of the research room was opened again, and a seemingly ordinary researcher in a white coat walked in from the outside, but the invisible Wang Zhifan frowned.
“The strength of this person’s aura is wrong. He is much stronger than other NPCs... There is something wrong!”
Just when Wang Zhifan, who was invisible, was alarmed, the researchers who came in left the research room. The assistants said that they were asked by other laboratories to provide temporary help, and the assistants quickly left.
But the person who was noticed by Wang Zhifan had a problem, but after others left, he closed the door of the research room and walked slowly to the middle-aged director who was still busy.
The middle-aged director didn't notice anything unusual. He was focused on his experiment until the researcher in the white coat raised one of his palms and stretched it out to him.
As a miniature human face emerged from this palm, the face's eyes stared forward and emitted an energy so dim that it was difficult to detect. The middle-aged director who was conducting the experiment was suddenly shaken and his eyes became confused. Without focus, it's like entering a semi-sleep state.
“What is the messenger?”
The researcher in the white coat, who raised his face and used his hands to perform his methods, then spoke calmly and his voice was very abrupt.
"The messenger is...a...mysterious...incomprehensible...unknown existence..."
The middle-aged director, who seemed to be hypnotized, immediately answered intermittently, and the voice of his speech showed that he was indeed in a state of control.
"Be specific, for example, what are the characteristics of their appearance? What attack methods do they have? How much damage can they cause? What attacks can hurt or kill them?"
The one with a human face on its palm. The researcher was obviously not satisfied with this answer and immediately asked.
"I... don't know..."
The middle-aged director, whose eyes were blurred and lost most of himself, answered slowly.
This made the researcher who raised his palm look a little irritated and muttered:
"Another answer like this...there is definitely something wrong with the NPC here!"
" Master, I have completely controlled his consciousness, he really doesn’t know.”
The miniature human face in the palm immediately spoke, indicating that it was not because of his lack of effort.
"Well, if you keep insisting, I'll try to get him to answer a few other questions."
The researcher then began to ask questions such as when the messenger would appear and what relevant physical information was available. He was very patient.
Wang Zhifan stayed nearby and eavesdropped in an invisible state throughout the whole process, which was equivalent to eliminating the need for personal investigation.
At present, he has already realized that the researcher who just came in is actually a player disguised, with the purpose of obtaining information about the envoy, and it seems that he has investigated more than one NPC.
“By the way, there seems to be a little thing eavesdropping outside the door. It must be a summon or clone sent by a player, or simply a player in disguise... I didn’t expect that the place I chose is so lively. . ”
After Wang Zhifan dispersed his perception a little, he noticed something unusual, namely a fly lying outside the door with an unusual aura.
It has to be said that the disguise methods of these two players are quite superb. If it weren't for his incredible mental attributes, it would be difficult to find that there are two other colleagues gathered in this small place. At most, they can see through the fake people who are investigating intelligence. researcher.
He quietly remained invisible, without revealing any flaws, and witnessed the entire process of this player gathering intelligence.
But the result was the same as the information he got from Xiaohong before. He could hardly get detailed information about the messenger from the NPC, and could only get some scrap information, which was very different from his expectations for this research institute.
After the players left the laboratory, the flies outside the door also flew away. Wang Zhifan did not continue to follow them, and instead remained invisible and headed towards the host computer of the research institute.
"Xiaohong, how far have they made progress in conquering the database?"
In a deserted corner, Wang Zhifan asked the portable AI.
"Your Excellency, Mr. Qiu Zhang, it has reached 24.51%, but my cracking program seems to have fallen into a misunderstanding, and the cracking process may be delayed..."
For the first time, there was uncertainty in Xiaohong's words. Based on my judgment, it seems that the defense strength of this institute’s database makes it very stressful.
"Xiao Hong, maybe it's not that you can't crack it, but that there are other influencing factors. Let me go and have a look in person."
Wang Zhifan listened and followed the map guidance provided by Xiao Hong. , continue to move towards the host location of the institute.
He passed through wall after wall, used space to move past several automatic defense barriers similar to laser walls, and finally arrived at the main computer room of the research institute.
As a small research institute, it is obviously unusual for their computer room to have such a high defense, and it seems to be hiding some secret.
But after Wang Zhifan arrived at the location, he did not notice any obvious abnormality for the first time. It seemed that the place was filled with computers arranged neatly, running continuously and doing high-speed calculations.
"Xiaohong, the equipment around here doesn't look very advanced. Why is it so difficult for you to crack them? Do you want me to make some physical connections to improve your cracking efficiency?"
< br>Wang Zhifan immediately asked Xiaohong in the computer room, intending to help him.
But strangely, Xiaohong didn't respond to him this time, and the smart watch remained silent.
"Xiaohong? Xiaohong?"
Wang Zhifan suddenly became alert and checked his smart watch, but did not find any fault for a while. So he quickly evacuated the computer room and called Xiao Hong again, and Xiao Hong finally responded.
"Your Majesty, Captain, I have just been affected by some strange force and lost contact with the outside world, as if I was isolated by data."
Xiaohong immediately reported the situation and made Wang Zhifan aware of the problem.
"A strange force affected you? Then why didn't I feel anything? Was it because you were attacking that computer room that you were targeted?"
After thinking about it, Wang Zhifan took off his smart watch. Put it on the ground, give Xiaohong a few words of advice, and then sneak into the computer room again.
This time, he spread out his perception very carefully, not missing any detail, even though he didn't particularly understand the humming large computer around him.
But two minutes later, he still didn't find much. He only vaguely felt that something was wrong with this place, but he couldn't tell what was wrong specifically.
"Xiaohong! Can you see me?"
Looking up at a camera in the corner of the computer room, Wang Zhifan then waved his hand there.
Since it is known that Xiaohong has conquered most of the electronic equipment of this institute, he is very secretive in this computer room. After all, Xiaohong will cover up the traces of his appearance in real time, if nothing unexpected happens. words.
But the camera did not flash the lights as agreed between him and Xiao Hong, and showed no reaction at all, showing that he had lost contact with Xiao Hong in the outside world.
“It’s weird...what’s going on?”
By this time, Wang Zhifan was completely confused. He believed that what was going on was not Xiaohong's intention to trick him, but that there was really some force preventing the connection between them.
"Speaking of which, I carefully explored this place several times, and I did find something wrong...but I couldn't find where the problem was..."
While he was thinking hard When he had no clue, an unexpected situation occurred, that is, the Qingdi Sword hanging on his waist began to tremble, which meant that the legendary sword issued a communication request to it!
"Qingdi, have you discovered the problem?"
Wang Zhifan quickly pulled out the Qingdi Sword and started communicating with it.
As a high-grade spiritual weapon, the Qingdi Sword is fundamentally different from real living beings and cannot be completely regarded as an intelligent being. However, in many cases, its spiritual intuition as a weapon is much more useful than human wisdom.
This time, it discovered the fundamental problem and provided a solution.
"You are saying that there is a special rule that restricts this place? Breaking this rule can unlock the restriction?"
As the Qingdi Sword conveyed to Wang Zhifan what only he, the master, could understand Regarding spiritual thoughts, Wang Zhifan suddenly changed from confused to half-understood.
"Special rules? What special rules can this place have? This is just a room with computers... Are you talking about some kind of mysterious power? For example, the power from the messenger?"
With the awakening of the Qingdi Sword, Wang Zhifan quickly understood the essence of the matter. Holding the legendary Qingdi Sword, he suddenly closed his eyes and tried his best to perceive everything around him.
For a moment, the noise of the computer fan rotating, the sound of the hard disk reading, and even the extremely complicated current network were all taken into his mind, but the next moment he discarded them all and blocked them all, because none of them were That's the problem.
His perception then transcended the level of conventional matter and came to the level of the laws of space and time. After confirming that there were no obvious problems in these two aspects, he deflected slightly towards a more mysterious and illusory angle.
That is the system of rules mentioned by Qingdi Dao. It is lower-level and looser than the world laws of space and time, but it is a mysterious high-end power that may exist under special circumstances.
At this moment, Wang Zhifan's 273 points of spiritual attributes played a key role. If his spiritual attributes had not reached such an inhuman state, he would never have been able to discover what was hidden deep in the world.
"Found it! This strange power... it has always been there, restricting the flow of information in the form of rules! There are other rules that exist in this world, but they seem to be incomplete. This world is indeed very abnormal... ...But let’s cut it first!”
After noticing the existence of the target, Wang Zhifan immediately used all his skills, concentrated his mind and swung the Qingdi Sword in his hand, and slashed out with a very slow but determined will!
Because what he wants to kill is not a person or an object, but abstract and illusory rules! Powerful attacks limited to the physical level are meaningless!
It is difficult to explain in detail how to achieve this conceptual attack, but Wang Zhifan, as a person who has initially mastered the laws of time and space, has the strength foundation to do this. Of course, more importantly, he The Qingdi Sword in his hand provided incomparable help.
The ability to cut through nothing is a special property of the legendary Qingdi Sword, which gives this magical weapon the potential to cut through everything, whether it is actual matter or some abstract concept, the so-called Naturally there are no exceptions to the rules.
Time passed slowly, and with Wang Zhifan's extremely slow slash that could be compared to a hundred times slow motion, something in the void finally broke, and then quickly disintegrated and dissipated.
Wang Zhifan opened his eyes, sheathed the Qingdi Sword, looked around, and saw that everything in the computer room was the same as before, but also vaguely new.
"It should be fine."
His figure disappeared immediately, and through dreaming and breaking dreams, he arrived at the location of the smart watch. The watch is currently in the hands of a clone he placed here. .
"Your Excellency, Captain! The defense of the database just now suddenly completely disappeared! Did you do something in it?"
As an artificial intelligence, Xiaohong didn't need his reminder. It was attacking the computer room all the time. At this time, Wang Zhifan appeared. It had ended the battle and achieved overall victory.
"I did something, but let's talk about what you found in the database!"
Wang Zhifan is more concerned about the real gains now.
"There is a lot of experimental research information in the database, and a top-secret information is also hidden. I have cracked it. It seems to be about the messenger, and I will present it to you now."
< br>While answering, Xiaohong controlled the smart watch to emit 3D light and shadow, playing the top-secret images it found.
The beginning of the image is a patch of snowflake-like interference. There is no specific image content, but a man's deep voice sounds:
"Ladies and gentlemen, we think we have found a way to save the emissary's details.< br>
That is the highest level of encryption, encryption that even the person recording the information cannot decrypt, plus all The death of the insider.
This sounds ridiculous, but we have no better way. We can only choose to place our hope on future humans..."
"The messenger is detached. Without the existence of the physical world, they have no clear malice towards us humans, and no verifiable goodwill.
They only come occasionally and destroy matter and life when passing by this planet, just like when we step on the road and accidentally kill ants, leaving footprints one by one..." (End of Chapter)
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