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Zhan Yan opened the gossip feed his sister shared with him.

In a Dragon King Temple in Bince City, the Dragon King statue disappeared. After investigation, it turned out a believer felt it was too tiring to go to the temple to worship the Dragon King, so they secretly “invited” the Dragon King statue back home to worship.

Zhan Yan smelled a familiar scent from this news. He opened the Gossip System to search, and sure enough, this was adapted by the Zhenke News Agency.

[Little Black Dragon Yuan Jing took advantage of Dragon King Yuan Wei’s rotation shift to renovate the Dragon Palace into a disco style, and installed a flashing disco light on Prime Minister Turtle’s back. Prime Minister Turtle complained to Dragon King Yuan Wei, and Yuan Jing ran away from home and didn’t return. Dragon King Yuan Wei couldn’t leave his post without authorization, so he possessed the statue and found Yuan Jing, who was disguised as an ordinary person, to beat up his son.]

Pfft, hahahaha.

Thanks to my sister for sharing the joy! It’s a pity he can’t send the truth back to his sister to eat melons together.

Zhan Yan was in a good mood. He got up and went to the bathroom to wash up, only to find that he forgot to close the window last night. The valve of the sink was also closed, and a shallow layer of water had accumulated inside, with three little sparrows cheerfully splashing in it.

Oh, this is the little puddle they were talking about.

The sparrows were startled by Zhan Yan’s sudden entrance and flew out of the sink in panic. Two flew away from the window, but one was dizzy and couldn’t find the window, flying around the room chaotically.

“Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid.” Zhan Yan extended his arm and stood still, “I won’t hurt you, come, I’ll take you out.”

The sparrow gradually calmed down, landed on his arm, tilted its head to look at him, very curious. It boldly walked a few steps forward along Zhan Yan’s arm, lowered its head to peck at his sleeve, then looked up at him again.

A suppressed “Wocao!” came from behind.

Zhan Yan looked back, Chu Chengcheng was staring at him dumbfounded.

The little sparrow became restless again, so Zhan Yan quickly walked to the window and sent it out.

Only then did Chu Chengcheng dare to speak. He was incredibly excited and gave Zhan Yan a thumbs up: “Son of Nature, the reputation is well-deserved!”

He had heard about Zhan Yan’s animal-attracting constitution before, but he had never seen it with his own eyes.

Zhan Yan smiled shyly and pointed at himself: “Innate Veterinary Saint Body!”

He found that his constitution had unknowingly changed back, and was even more powerful than before. Before, he didn’t have the ability to make a panicked sparrow land on him.

Maybe because the system upgraded animal communication?

“Why are you up so early?” Zhan Yan asked.

Usually, these two would wait until he finished his morning exercise to get up.

Chu Chengcheng yawned: “Sigh, my eldest uncle woke me up. He said his son is sick and asked me how to treat him.”

Zhan Yan: “Cat son or dog son?”

Chu Chengcheng: “No, my cousin, human.”

Zhan Yan: “Ah?”

Chu Chengcheng: “He just heard I studied medicine, didn’t know it was veterinary medicine.”

Zhan Yan: “Pfft.”

After the internship, Zhan Yan continued to browse Red Crystal’s gossip feeds after returning at night.

[Red Crystal found an unmanned corner on the internet and secretly practiced how to use data to build a world.]

[Red Crystal failed to practice building a world with data, and switched to practicing how to build a room with data.]

[Red Crystal failed to practice building a room with data, and switched to practicing how to build a cube with data.]

[Red Crystal failed to practice building a cube with data, and angrily cleared a large area of network anomalies.]

Zhan Yan was confused by these gossip feeds.

What’s going on? Red Crystal can wipe out virus anomalies with a finger, caused a Red Crystal rain in the online world, and easily created a barrier that wrapped the entire game world. Being so strong, how could he/she not even know basic skills like building items with data?

Could it be… Red Crystal is like him, only recently discovered his/her outstanding talent as an internet type, so although strong, he/she doesn’t understand basic common sense? Looking at the gossip feeds, it’s very possible. Red Crystal’s gossip feeds first appeared during that virus anomaly clearing incident. It was the first time Zhan Yan had seen such severely fragmented gossip feeds. The past was completely blank, not that he couldn’t find it, which meant Red Crystal was a newly emerged identity. Cleaning up the virus anomalies was Red Crystal’s first time entering the net.

Zhan Yan watched the gossip feeds continue to refresh.

Red Crystal felt better after clearing a batch of anomalies and continued to practice basic internet type skills.

This is really a newbie!

But why, after discovering his/her internet type talent and knowing nothing, having to rely on others to teach, could Red Crystal directly clear internet type anomalies?!

Jealous, jealous! There is such a brilliant person in this world!

Zhan Yan remembered being scared by Red Crystal last night and decided to sneak onto the internet to the vicinity of Red Crystal’s practice place to avenge the teasing.

Seeing Red Crystal practicing secretly like this, he/she probably felt embarrassed to ask someone to teach. Hehe, after being discovered by him, he can propose to teach Red Crystal, and then ask Red Crystal about the relationship with the apocalypse, the Lord, and the Artisan.

Zhan Yan began to enter the net with anticipation.

…

Zhan Suiru hadn’t used her psychic power for too long. After picking it up again, she needed to readapt and practice. Psychic power is a very sensitive force; without sufficient control, one cannot perform precise operations. And in the exploration of the soul, precise operations are the most important. She was worried about causing trauma to Yang Ran’s soul again.

Adapting to the way internet type abilities are used is a very good practice for applying psychic power. But her practice didn’t go very smoothly.

She was used to using her psychic power directly. Her actions in the online world could be very smooth, and things like attacking anomalies and setting up defenses were things she used to do often. But she didn’t know how to interact with data.

The restrictions of the network were like a binding layer to her, and the ubiquitous data were like entangled ropes.

These tasks requiring her to interact with data were like making her work while tied up with ropes, while the internet types in this world could weave knots while playing cat’s cradle.

The practice went very unsmoothly, but Zhan Suiru felt it was okay, she could totally persist, not to mention there was a ready-made venting object here.

However… when this kind of practice was discovered by someone, it wasn’t so wonderful.

The internet type who slipped away yesterday popped out like a squirrel again.

And transmitted a message to her: “Yo! What are you doing?”

Asking for it.

Zhan Suiru clicked her tongue. Didn’t he run away as soon as he was scared yesterday? Why so bold today?

Discovered her practice and realized she was a “newbie”?

She isn’t a real “newbie”…

But Zhan Suiru didn’t mind continuing to tease the kid.

Zhan Suiru: “Pretending to be a cute newbie to fish for bites.”

Zhan Yan: …You’re lying to me, I saw it all in the gossip feeds, you just don’t know how!

Zhan Yan: “If you don’t want help, I’m leaving.”

Zhan Suiru: “Want. You willing to teach me?”

Zhan Yan: “Humph humph, let’s go, I’ll take you to another place.”

When he was practicing before, he built some rest rooms himself. Just right to use now.

Zhan Suiru happily followed the “squirrel”.

Look, didn’t the fish take the bait?

Not two days after Zhan Yan and Red Crystal hung out together, Nie Yu found him.

Administrator Lingyu: “Are you on pretty good terms with Red Crystal?”

Approaching Science: “Yeah, how did you know?”

He and Red Crystal hit it off quite well. Don’t know why, but getting along felt like there was a wonderful tacit understanding and relaxation.

After Red Crystal found out he couldn’t clear anomalies, he/she even actively taught him. The two are now exchanging skills.

Looking at Approaching Science’s answer, Nie Yu felt a bit numb.

The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau had been extremely busy these past few days because of Red Crystal, this suddenly appearing mysterious internet type. But Red Crystal was elusive. The only time they caught someone was when Approaching Science ran to research the barrier and happened to bump into Red Crystal.

After seeing the report, Nie Yu guessed that the one who dared to touch the barrier directly was Approaching Science.

Really reckless.

Not only reckless, but also very social.

How Approaching Science does it is truly a mystery. Those difficult-to-deal-with people all have good relationships with him one by one. Shen Ying is one, the Artisan is one, the Chongming Demon King also appreciates him, the Heavenly Masters in their bureau too, and now there’s Red Crystal.

Administrator Lingyu: “What do you think of Red Crystal? Reliable?”

Approaching Science: “Very reliable, super efficient at clearing anomalies, he/she even taught me.”

Administrator Lingyu: “…He/She even taught you?!”

Approaching Science: “Ah… that, it’s not that I don’t want to learn from you, it’s just that you’ve been busy recently. You teach super super well!”

Administrator Lingyu: “I don’t mind that… forget it.”

“Do you know how many internet types want to learn from Red Crystal?”

Approaching Science: “Ah?”

Zhan Yan was a little confused. He hadn’t cleared anomalies before, nor did he think there was anything special about the technique for clearing internet type anomalies. Isn’t it all the same method? Just with some differences based on everyone’s different ability characteristics.

Administrator Lingyu: “Red Crystal’s technique is very special. The barrier he/she set up is different from any internet type. We haven’t found analyzable data from it, yet it exists in the online world. You understand what this means, right?”

Zhan Yan understood.

The online world is made of data. Data is everything. Just like the real world is made of atoms. If something undetectable by data appears in the online world, it’s like an object appearing in the real world but not made of atoms.

This either means the appearance of another unknown new particle or simply another law of existence, or it means there are rules above “atoms” that people have not yet discovered, such as cathode rays composed of electrons.

Whichever reason it is, it means a big change is coming for internet types.

But when Zhan Yan was learning from Red Crystal, he didn’t feel anything special.

Part of the reason is that Zhan Yan is a pure newbie among internet types. He has no fixed mindset, like a blank sheet of paper, smoothly accepting what Red Crystal taught him. And the other reason is…

Approaching Science: “But when we move in the network, we don’t use data either.”

When he first entered the network, he didn’t use any data. He could see data streams like heavy rain, but data is data, and he is he. He travels through data, not using a body made of data. He feels data passing through his will, and doesn’t feel any similarity between himself and data.

Nie Yu was shocked.

She suddenly discovered a loophole in her cognition. Yes, when they act in the network, they don’t use data. They rely on their own power—they are living people, not virtual existences in the network. Their consciousness enters the network, which in itself belongs to their own power.

In other words, does Red Crystal rely entirely on his/her own power? Then what should this power be called, and how should it be used?

Nie Yu suddenly felt helpless confusion, along with accompanying anticipation and excitement.

What is this power?

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