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Tie Lao Ghost King was stunned by this news.

Why did Wanyan Ghost King escape from Chaofu Mountain? Is he no longer interested in that doll?

What to do now? Wanyan Ghost King escaped from Chaofu Mountain, so Lin Yuan Ghost King will definitely hide. Although Lin Yuan Ghost King couldn’t come to help him with work temporarily due to Unlimited’s matters, it was still a hope after all.

But now that Wanyan Ghost King is out, even this hope is gone.

Tie Lao Ghost King was overcome with sorrow. Ah, can’t this cold and ruthless world give a sad corporate slave a little hope?

Styx Ghost King felt Tie Lao Ghost King was truly too pitiful and felt slightly guilty. She had also forgotten about the exit to the human world at the top of the Wenyu Tree.

Styx Ghost King thought for a moment and pulled out the “Lin Yuan” doll: “Can it help you with work?”

This doll was made quite well; it could withstand Wanyan’s torment and had high intelligence. Now that Wanyan was uninterested in it, perhaps it could be utilized again?

Tie Lao Ghost King experimented with an attitude of indifference.

He took a simple document and gave it to the “Lin Yuan” doll: “Can you handle this?”

The “Lin Yuan” doll glanced at it: “Heh, you come to ask me about such a trivial matter? Just kill this troublemaker and it’s solved.”

Tie Lao Ghost King: …

Styx Ghost King: …

Styx Ghost King switched the “Lin Yuan” doll to another mode.

The Cat-Loving Mode “Lin Yuan” doll looked around, very disappointed: “No kitty?”

Tie Lao Ghost King: “…Can you handle this?”

The “Lin Yuan” doll finished handling it swiftly: “Not hard.”

Tie Lao Ghost King’s eyes lit up, pulling out a stack of documents: “Come! Handle these too!”

The “Lin Yuan” doll refused: “I won’t work without a kitty.”

Tie Lao Ghost King found a cat ghost for him.

Experiments proved that the initial mode of the “Lin Yuan” doll was suitable for jobs requiring martial force, while the Cat-Loving Mode made a very good assistant as long as it was paired with a cat—later Tie Lao Ghost King swapped in a cat demon ghost to prevent him from getting addicted to petting cats and not working.

Zhan Yan saw their daily life in the gossip system.

[“Lin Yuan” doll’s break time ended, the cat demon ghost turned into human form.

“Lin Yuan” doll said angrily: “Change back quickly!”

The cat demon ghost lay lazily on the sofa playing with a netherworld phone: “Break time over, wait until you finish this batch of documents.”]

Tie Lao Ghost King really had the Cat-Loving Mode doll under control.

Lin Yuan Ghost King didn’t know yet that Wanyan Ghost King had escaped from Chaofu Mountain. Previously he hid too well, always contacting Tie Lao Ghost King unilaterally. Now Tie Lao Ghost King wanted to tell him but couldn’t reach him.

Therefore, Lin Yuan Ghost King didn’t know his leisurely days were coming to an end.

Zhan Yan gloated a little, just wondering why Deep Shadow suddenly became very dispirited, but seeing him still investigating Unlimited normally, it shouldn’t be a big problem.

Zhan Yan reassuredly continued to research network types with Nie Yu. They discussed that among those currently determined to help Unlimited recover, the strongest and most difficult to deal with were Monster Doctor and Record of Worlds.

Among them, Monster Doctor’s ability and concealment were stronger than Record of Worlds—Zhan Yan confirmed this through the gossip system. To this day, searching for Monster Doctor resulted in a string of [Loading…], but searching for Record of Worlds yielded some melon strips.

It was only because Deep Shadow was suspicious of Monster Doctor that his existence was found out first. And Record of Worlds, formerly ranked twenty-first, temporarily escaped because he wasn’t deemed important enough by Big Boss Deep Shadow.

Among current clues, these two were secretly causing trouble. One was online, and the other continued to target Lin Yuan Ghost King.

Judging by their past abilities, Monster Doctor didn’t have network-type abilities and was more adept in flesh and blood directions, also matching the “Cursed Scales” researched against Lin Yuan Ghost King previously and the “Drunken Soul Incense” discovered now. Record of Worlds had previously conducted research targeting network-type anomalies.

According to normal logical deduction, the clues Lin Yuan Ghost King and Deep Shadow were investigating should ultimately point to Monster Doctor, while the growth-type anomalies Zhan Yan and Nie Yu were tracking online should be Record of Worlds’ handiwork.

But what Mystery Book and Pure White Puzzle found was Monster Doctor’s traces appearing online.

There was something strange in this. Unfortunately, there were too few clues, and they needed to continue investigating to reach a reliable conclusion.

For Zhan Yan, using network-type abilities consumed more than searching with the gossip system—he hadn’t felt unable to scroll through melon strips for a long time, but after several high-intensity practice sessions with Nie Yu, he started showing similar symptoms again.

Because the information flow on the network was too much and too complex, while the gossip system’s retrieval function was very clean, plus the fuzzy search function adjusted by Zhan Yan, it was very smooth to use now.

Nie Yu comforted him: “Don’t be greedy. Being able to train for this long now is already super strong. You feel the consumption because you are not skilled with the techniques yet. After you become skilled, the time you can stay online will definitely be longer than me.”

Their network-type actions after entering the net were all shuttling through information flows. No fool would forcefully push open a path in the information flow like a curtain as Approaching Science did. It was too normal for him to have high consumption.

During break time, the two started gossiping.

They stayed in a “lounge” built on the network.

This lounge was a secret base built by Nie Yu. For network-type superpowered individuals, such specially constructed spaces were equivalent to rooms in reality. Lounges in reality were for the body to rest, while lounges in the network were for the spirit to rest.

Zhan Yan looked at this lounge curiously. It was like a room in reality, arranged warmly and comfortably, except all walls and furniture were semi-transparent, allowing one to see data constantly flowing inside.

After entering this space, Nie Yu’s consciousness also manifested into a humanoid form composed of semi-transparent light.

She threw herself into a sofa made of data. The wide and soft sofa sank a little, then bounced back some. Zhan Yan noticed that when the sofa underwent these changes, the speed and direction of the data flowing inside it changed.

“Come, don’t be polite, sit anywhere.” Nie Yu turned over holding a pillow rather proudly, “Not every network-type superpowered individual can build a lounge. Only network types reaching B-level ability can establish a secret space. Network types with insufficient ability can at most build an empty room.”

Zhan Yan picked another sofa to sit on. He tried moving a bit; the physical sensation was no different from a sofa in reality.

Nie Yu hooked her finger: “Do you like it harder or softer?”

The tactile sensation of the sofa changed with her adjustment, and the internal data shifted accordingly.

“It’s fine like this now.” Zhan Yan felt it was novel, “Are they all built with data?”

“Yes. You can do it too.” Nie Yu explained, “We usually build more than a single-digit number of spaces on the network as our own lounges and secret bases. These private lounges and secret bases will also be equipped with all possible protections. So after discovering a space in the network world, it’s best not to intrude casually. It might be a secret base hidden by some network type, and uninvited guests will face the fiercest attacks.”

“Are there public lounges?” Zhan Yan asked.

“Yes. I built some public spaces with familiar network types; that’s where we communicate. Actually, you also know a public space…” Nie Yu blinked slyly.

“I know…” Zhan Yan thought for a moment, suddenly enlightened, “Chaofan Forum?”

“Right.” Nie Yu said, “But King Kong Wisdom King is checking the forum’s ‘Immovable as a Mountain’ defense these two days, so the forum’s public space is temporarily inaccessible. If you want to see, I can take you to other public lounges to have a look first.”

Zhan Yan paralyzed like a salted fish on the data sofa: “No thanks, I’ll rest for a while first.”

Nie Yu chatted gossip with him, mentioning two network types built a super large space together recently.

Zhan Yan: “Wan Shitong?”

Nie Yu: “You know?”

Zhan Yan said in his heart he not only knew, he also knew Wan Shitong used Deep Shadow as a prototype to make an NPC, but accidentally let the NPC run away, and was now chasing it all over the game world.

Zhan Yan: “Who is the other one?”

Nie Yu: “The other one is ‘Play Games With Me’.”

When these two started building the game space, no one noticed. Later when someone noticed this large space, they thought two network-type big shots were opening a new public space. Later, seeing this space was never finished, and the visible data became denser and more complex, they realized something was wrong.

Nie Yu patted the sofa, causing a series of data changes: “These are visible data, used to constitute the ‘sofa’. If you build according to it, you can create an identical sofa.”

Her hand glowed with fluorescence, penetrating into the sofa, stirring up the superficial 0s and 1s, revealing the huge hidden information flow below: “These are hidden data. They contain the foundation of this space, hidden defense systems, attack systems, transfer channels, and everything else you want to pile in.”

“Generally speaking, visible data won’t be too complex. They are bubbles floating on the sea of data. If visible data reaches a level that makes people feel complex, then the hidden data supporting it underneath will only be more vast.”

Zhan Yan: “So you discovered they are building a virtual game world?”

“Right!” Nie Yu said indignantly, “They didn’t include me in such a fun thing!”

Zhan Yan found it very interesting. Previously he wasn’t very interested in this virtual game world because only network types could enter it in a “holographic” state. But now he was also a network type! Once Wan Shitong and Play Games With Me opened this space, he could also go in to experience it.

Wonder how their progress is now. Zhan Yan searched with the gossip system.

Wan Shitong still hadn’t caught the Deep Shadow prototype NPC he designed himself.

No way around it, the world construction was too big. With the maxed-out attributes NPC hiding anywhere, finding him was no different from finding a needle in a haystack.

Couldn’t catch the NPC meant couldn’t proceed to the next step of debugging. Without the next step of debugging, the game couldn’t advance.

Zhan Yan: …So why did you use your own boss as a prototype to make a maxed-out data NPC?

The gossip system started struggling to flip; today’s consumption was almost at the limit.

“Let’s stop here for today.”

Zhan Yan separated from Nie Yu; he also had to log off for class.

Recently Gu Jiancheng was very depressed because of the internship arrangement matters. Zhan Yan had to comfort his boyfriend.

After class, the two strolled by the lake. The big geese raised by the school were swimming in the water. The goslings had hatched, swimming in the lake with their mother.

The big geese occasionally bent their necks to dive underwater for a mouthful of water plants, sometimes diving completely underwater and swimming a distance before emerging.

The goslings floated on the water surface, and upon seeing mother goose emerge not far away, they swam over one by one to snuggle close to mom.

The geese in the school were fed by dedicated personnel. Zhan Yan was familiar with them and sometimes snatched the job of feeding geese.

Tired from strolling by the lake, Zhan Yan and Gu Jiancheng found stone steps to sit on. Gu Jiancheng snuggled close to him.

Zhan Yan: “…Pfft.”

Gu Jiancheng: “What are you laughing at?”

Zhan Yan held the goose feed to tease the geese: “Come come come.”

The big goose brought a group of goslings ashore. Zhan Yan had successfully become familiar with them. The goslings weren’t afraid of him either, stepping on his shoes to look into the feed bucket.

Gu Jiancheng looked at the goslings snuggling close to the big goose, suddenly enlightened.

He leaned to Zhan Yan’s ear, about to say something.

Zhan Yan saw a familiar cat shadow not far away, turned his head, leaving the back of his head to Gu Jiancheng.

Gu Jiancheng: …

He followed Zhan Yan’s gaze.

Wanyan Ghost King?

Why did this mental patient come out?

Gu Jiancheng suddenly became alert.

He still remembered Wanyan pretending to be an ordinary wild cat to cheat food and drink from Yan Yan

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