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Nie Yu thought for a long time but just couldn’t recall it.

She felt this should be something deducible by logic, and the word should be right on the tip of her tongue. Her head spun around, but she could only think of “Network”.

She tried to seek help from Approaching Science.

Administrator Lingyu: “What do you think the power we use when moving should be called?”

Zhan Yan was confused by Nie Yu’s question.

Approaching Science: “The power used in the network, shouldn’t it be the network?”

Administrator Lingyu: “No, the network is data. If we have an action in the network that doesn’t rely on data, then it should be using another kind of power.”

Approaching Science: “Ah…”

“Network data is composed of electrical signals. Maybe the power of internet types isn’t data, but electrical signals?”

Zhan Yan pondered hard.

He didn’t understand this much. Zhan Yan never felt he could count as a complete transcendent; he defined himself more as an ordinary person. After all, he couldn’t even open his Yin-Yang eyes, just using the system functions to eat melons like this. Only after he could enter the net did he vaguely feel that he seemed to possess some power outside the system, but his entry into the net still relied on the system.

So he had absolutely no research or understanding of superpowers, let alone studied any superpower theories. Shouldn’t superpowers be called superpowers because they are magical?

Nie Yu was persuaded by him. But she still felt something was a little off.

Is internet type the power of electrical signals? Why does it feel weird?

Unable to figure it out, Nie Yu started to get distracted, looking absent-minded for several days in a row. Seeing his sister looking troubled, Nie Ling took the initiative to ask her what was wrong.

Nie Yu: “You’re not an internet type, you won’t understand even if I tell you.”

Nie Ling: …

Receiving the death glare from her brother, Nie Yu started to explain, and after explaining, began to look at her brother with expectant eyes.

Nie Ling: …

Bad news, he really doesn’t understand.

As Nie Yu’s twin brother, he could understand Nie Yu’s feelings, but he had absolutely no concept of some more professional things within their internet type.

But it doesn’t matter, he can find outside help.

Nie Ling dragged his sister to find Deputy Director Ning Xi.

Although the Deputy Director is very busy, since this matter involves both Approaching Science and Red Crystal, who are both important figures registered with the Deputy Director, it is completely fine to go ask him.

The two went to find Ning Xi together, and Ji Yueming happened to be there too.

The Heavenly Master boss’s desire for battle was rising linearly with time. The occasional small tasks assigned to her weren’t even enough for a snack. How long had it been since she cleared the Infinite Research Institute? Almost half a year, right? This observation period is too long!

She wants to make a move! She’s about to grow mold from idleness!

“Captain, didn’t you just complete a B-level anomaly mission?” Seeing Ji Yueming, Nie Yu automatically entered earnest persuasion mode.

“Wasn’t that B-level anomaly arranged by you guys to amuse me?” Ji Yueming didn’t buy it.

That B-level anomaly had been thoroughly investigated, clearing it was very safe. This kind of mission, which would usually be assigned to the sub-teams below to complete, would never fall into her hands at all.

Nie Yu: “Uh…”

Nie Ling stepped up: “There was also an A-level anomaly mission last month.”

Ji Yueming: “That A-level anomaly was too brittle too.”

Ning Xi: “You just want to go hit the Black Nest, right?”

Ji Yueming: “Yes.”

Ning Xi: “No.”

Ji Yueming: “Old Ning, let me tell you, this won’t work. Do you know how much harm a Black Nest can cause? You can’t hold me back from solving it just because of concerns about my almost non-existent safety issues.”

Ning Xi didn’t buy it: “Those Black Nests only appear near the Linyuan Ghost King and Shen Ying. They are specifically placed there by Infinite. Whether you go to those Black Nests or not won’t affect other places. Your going might even cause Infinite to change plans and design an ambush.”

Ji Yueming didn’t know yet that over there might be specifically designed by Infinite, only hearing up to the point where Black Nests appeared.

“OK, we’ll talk about this later.” Ji Yueming turned to Nie Ling and Nie Yu, “Do you have something?”

Nie Yu repeated her conversation with Approaching Science and expressed her confusion.

Ji Yueming didn’t understand the exclusive terminology of internet types either, but she caught something.

The network is composed of electrical signals.

Power belonging to oneself…

Lightning flickered in Ji Yueming’s pupils.

“Captain!” Nie Yu screamed.

Ji Yueming came back to her senses: “What’s wrong?”

“Did your… power go out of control just now?” Nie Ling asked carefully.

Ning Xi was also looking at her.

“No, just lost in thought.” Ji Yueming smiled at them reassuringly, “I’m very sure I’m fine.”

“It wasn’t out of control.” Ning Xi said slowly.

The Deputy Director’s credibility on this matter was much more reliable than the Captain’s. Nie Ling and Nie Yu both felt relieved.

Ning Xi began to answer their questions: “Alright, it’s not an important issue. The essence of superpowers is fundamentally different from external things, and shouldn’t be equated with data or electrical signals. Superpower itself is a power different from them, different from all external things.”

Nie Yu circled it a few times in her mind, found no loopholes, and persuaded herself.

The Deputy Director still had work to do, so Nie Ling and Nie Yu left.

On the way back, Nie Yu asked: “What do you think the Captain thought of?”

Nie Ling was also thinking: “Don’t know.”

The Captain’s pupils, set off by the lightning, looked like another deep universe. Deep inside the pitch-black pupils, electric light shone, so bright that it gave the illusion that the lightning had overflowed from the eye sockets.

But indeed it was still under control, and they didn’t feel the power of the lightning overflowing.

They had never seen the Captain like this before. What could make the Captain so lost in thought?

“Don’t think about it.” Ning Xi said.

After Nie Ling and Nie Yu left, he immediately took out the Empty Nether Jade and put it in Ji Yueming’s hand.

The Empty Nether Jade was his former magical artifact, which could help consciousness enter an ethereal and tranquil meditative state. It was still useful after his Great Evolution Calculation was crippled, so he kept it with him.

Ji Yueming didn’t continue thinking further down. When she saw Ning Xi’s gaze earlier, she understood his meaning through years of tacit understanding.

She slowly held the Empty Nether Jade in her palm. Cool power like spring water washed over her, but even a top-level magical artifact had limited effect on the Body of Thunder. Fortunately, a Heavenly Master is inherently someone with extremely deep control over their own consciousness. She had emptied her mind, only, the things she had already thought of would not be forgotten again.

Ning Xi slowly let out a breath: “There is a reason why we don’t know some things.”

Ji Yueming teased: “This really doesn’t sound like something coming out of your mouth.”

“…You, forget it.” Ning Xi reminded again, “No matter what you thought of before, don’t say it out loud.”

Ji Yueming: “Don’t worry, I know the severity.”

Some things cannot be said, cannot be known, cannot be thought about. Even if known, they shouldn’t be expressed externally. This “external” even includes surface thoughts.

Because in this world, enemies are still lurking.

Human will, human spirit. Electrical signals, electric current, thunder.

In the summer twenty-six years ago, the Candle Dragon tied a knot on the world. Before that looping time ended, Ji Yueming invoked thunder she couldn’t withstand. She turned into charred bones in the thunder, and charred bones turned into dust and ashes.

Her will could bear the thunder, but her body couldn’t.

She could still feel the thunder she invoked, but they were about to go out of control soon. At most, she could guide them to fall where they should attack, and then, her divine soul, losing the body to rely on, would completely fall into death.

Just at that time, a small pushing force appeared.

Spirit = Network

Human spiritual power needs to be able to travel in a network composed of electrical signals.

The spirit of living beings can operate within lightning.

A small pushing force opened the door to a glimmer of life for her.

She grabbed it.

It was Bai Ze, right?

“Knowing” also implies “Power”.

Infinite desires to obtain Bai Ze. It grows by constantly capturing other worlds, plundering others’ things to become its own.

It has become omnipotent in this accumulation, but not yet omniscient. It craves the rules represented by Bai Ze.

After the Candle Dragon loop ended, Bai Ze’s whereabouts were unknown. Both his body in life and soul after death disappeared.

After a long search, almost everyone thought Bai Ze had completely perished along with his divine powers.

But he didn’t.

The world hid him, allowing no one to find him.

That’s really good.

Ji Yueming smiled from the bottom of her heart and pressed them into the deepest part of her consciousness.

“My rotation partner changed to Xiangliu, but the time hasn’t changed, right?” Ji Yueming calculated her rotation time, “If there’s nothing for me, I’m going home.”

The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau had passed the initial busy period, and the things needing her were already done. Since they started using B-level anomaly missions to amuse her now, might as well go home and take a look.

She hasn’t been back for over a month. Old Zhan has been busy filming recently too, and she wasn’t there the few times he took time to go home in between. The eldest son’s hobby of night fishing and the daughter living in the studio were all communicated remotely. Yanyan has started his internship. Ji Yueming felt deeply that she hadn’t cared enough for her family recently.

Ning Xi was happy to let her go home: “You just come back for half a day every week to help debug the formation.”

Ji Yueming sent a message in the family group chat.

At the same time, Zhan Yunkai was on rotation with the Great Dancer.

Lingzhou Wendi was very interested in the Chongming Demon King.

He still remembered when Ning Xi asked him to hook up with a kid, the reason being the other party was a fan of the Chongming Demon King, and his style was similar to the Chongming Demon King. He didn’t have much contact with the Chongming Demon King before, belonging to the relationship of having met, greeted, known but not familiar with each other.

If Lingzhou Wendi had any deep impression of the Chongming Demon King, it was twenty-six years ago, at the Mount Tai Grand Sacrifice, he stepped on the ground, looked up at the sky, and with every beat of the big drum, the vibration of heaven and earth spread throughout his body.

At that time, he saw the Chongming Demon King falling from the sky, fighting until his feathers were exhausted.

It was tragic, very tragic, and also not very good-looking.

Later when everything ended, what he saw again was the magnificent and majestic divine bird.

Lingzhou Wendi originally didn’t think he had any similarities with the Chongming Demon King. Just because he likes to wear flashy clothes and the Chongming Demon King is covered in colorful feathers, they are alike?

But ever since he suffered a loss at Approaching Science’s hands because of teasing the kid blindly, he started to become interested in the Chongming Demon King as well.

The more interested he was in someone, the more he wanted to be friends with them. But after two days of contact, he felt the Chongming Demon King was too serious and upright, with a coldness that kept people a thousand miles away.

Is it the sense of distance born from being a worshipped divine bird since ancient times? That clever kid Approaching Science who refuses to suffer a loss likes this kind of personality?

Something feels wrong somewhere.

Rotation every day with nothing to do, and can’t leave. Lingzhou Wendi felt bored, so he dedicated himself to making friends with the Chongming Demon King. Since he was idle anyway, so what if the Chongming Demon King was a bit cold? He could keep up even with awkward chatting.

Their rotation locations were not in the same place, all different nodes deduced based on the formation, created by Ning Xi.

The place they were rotating this time was a shallow seabed. Originally this was arranged for the Great Dancer and the Nine-Headed Demon King. Lingzhou Wendi was excellent in water, and Xiangliu was a great demon of the marsh; this place was very suitable for displaying their abilities.

But Xiangliu ran to swap shifts with the Chongming Demon King for some reason. Neither the order nor the location of the rotation could be easily changed, so the Chongming Demon King, a single bird, was pitted into the seabed.

Zhan Yunkai didn’t know his rotation location was the seabed when he agreed to Xiangliu. Now he was very unhappy.

Of course he wasn’t afraid of water, but by nature he didn’t like staying in a place like the seabed. Even with the Water Repelling Spell, he didn’t like it. The Water Repelling Spell only kept water from wetting the body surface, and Zhan Yunkai was a clean freak. He always felt the seawater made his feathers sticky.

And the Great Dancer. Xiangliu insisted on swapping shifts with him because the Great Dancer asked him if he could dance with snakes. Zhan Yunkai felt that someone who could ask Xiangliu, who grew nine heads, to dance with snakes was mentally abnormal, so he tried his best to avoid communicating with the Great Dancer to avoid the tragedy of beating up his colleague next door.

But the Great Dancer was too enthusiastic. Seeing that he didn’t like the seabed, he even helped him make a bubble. Now Zhan Yunkai was staying inside the bubble. He felt much more comfortable. Humans just like to make some strange magical artifacts and spells, sometimes quite useful.

Accepting the Great Dancer’s kindness, when he came to chat awkwardly again, Zhan Yunkai felt embarrassed to ignore him.

But Zhan Yunkai’s mood was really not good right now.

Wife sent a message saying she’s going home, but he has to rotate and can’t go back. Unhappy.

If he hadn’t swapped rotations with Xiangliu, he could go home now.

But he agreed to it himself, so he can’t blame Xiangliu.

Zhan Yunkai could only sulk by himself.

At this time, the Great Dancer, having had enough of teasing fish on the seabed, came to find him again.

Lingzhou Wendi had teased fish for several days and was really bored. He researched a tune that could control schools of fish and found it interesting, so he came to share it with the Chongming Demon King.

He took out a small short flute from his body and poked the Chongming Demon King’s bubble: “Chongming (Chongming), I’ll play a tune for you to listen.”

Zhan Yunkai stared at the small short flute in his hand: “I don’t dance.”

Lingzhou Wendi: “Ah?”

The two communicated for a while. Zhan Yunkai tried to express as euphemistically as possible that Xiangliu didn’t like “dancing with snakes”, and neither did he.

Lingzhou Wendi: ???

“He slandered me!!!”

He’s not sick, why would he ask Xiangliu to dance with snakes?!

Zhan Yunkai: “You didn’t say it?”

Lingzhou Wendi said decisively: “Of course not!”

One human and one demon exchanged a look, and both saw the same thought in each other’s eyes:

Wait until the rotation ends, go out and beat up Xiangliu!

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