Selena Gerfen, holding a lantern, stood quietly in front of the fireplace, with a gentle and kind smile on her face, and a faint white halo escaped from the outline of her figure, and the connection between the halo and the body showed a slight translucency. This was not because Selena had a problem with her "psychological projection", but the traces she deliberately created, so that people in the real world could distinguish the boundaries of the illusion in front of her.

After the official promulgation of the "Regulations on the Management of Neural Networks and Derivative Technologies (Interim)", "Unless of applying in advance, network residents who use psychological projection to operate in the material world should actively mark their projection range to prevent them from affecting the lives of residents in the material world or interfering with the judgment of law enforcement departments" has become a formal law. Selena Gerfen herself is one of the drafters of this law. She follows the rules and is managed with her. Other old priests, senior neural network technicians, and members of the Immortals Association.

The official title of these people is "Internet Residents", but Patty also heard that the great Majesty Gowen Cecil gave these people who could live on the Internet for a long time and even upload their souls to the Internet. His Majesty called them "Internet Residents"... They were completely unsure of what this weird word meant.

It sounds like a "magic capacitor" that makes scholars have headaches and big heads and hair loss.

Some strange thoughts popped up in her mind, and a happy smile appeared on Patty's face. She stretched out her arms to the armrests on the side of the immersion cabin. The slightly thin arms still had mottled scars. The muscle groups rebuilt with regeneration technology, the active bones and artificial nerve bundles implanted in the surgically operated at the same time, making her hold the silver-white alloy with a little difficulty and slowly supported her upper body from the seat.

All this is still difficult for her. Although the flesh-and-blood regeneration technology from the end of everything and the modern artificial neural technology have almost reconstructed more than half of the damaged tissue in the body, humans' understanding in the field of soul and the microscopic field of brain is still too superficial. Scholars cannot let a person who has been paralyzed for nearly ten years learn how to direct a body pieced together with biochemical technology in a short time - it is extremely difficult for healthy people to do this, and it is even more so for Patty.

What's more, these pieced together body structures have countless flaws in their mutual coordination... It is difficult to integrate with each other and match to a level that is no longer mutually exclusive and can maintain operation.

After a rusty and slow operation, Patty finally sat up with her own efforts. She breathed a little, showed a winning smile on her face, and looked at the wheelchair parked in the corner of the wall. Behind her neck, a silver-white artificial spine was closely connected to the surface of the skin. The neatly arranged alloy rune armor received the host's nerve signal. The dense light lit up in the gap. A pleasant buzzing sound came from the inside of the strange-shaped wheelchair in the corner. Driven by a small engine and a series of gears and connecting rods, it lightly drove towards the immersion cabin.

Selena watched all this quietly, until then she broke the silence: "Do you need help?"

"No, I can." Patty waved her hand immediately, and then began to slowly move her body out of the immersion compartment. With the help of a series of handrails, she struggled to "translate" herself to the special wheelchair. Such a few simple movements had already caused a layer of sweat to appear on her forehead.

But she finally completed all the movements with her own efforts - these movements that she didn't even dare to think about several years ago. The wounds on her body no longer hurt and itchy, and breathing and turning her head became painless. She felt a moment of joy for her "success". She then adjusted her sitting position in the wheelchair, then raised her hand and reached the back of her head, and fumbled to the end of the "nerve thorn", pulling this metal "spine" that seemed hard but was very flexible due to the large number of hinges to the side. After fumbled a few times, it connected it to a nerve node on the back of the wheelchair.

In an instant, the cold and stiff machine that had just happened to come alive the previous second. A series of subsystem activation sounds were made inside it, and some locked mechanisms were unlocked in sequence under Patty's command. The wheelchair was spinning lightly in place for half a circle, and then came to Selena lightly. The girl sitting on it had a bright smile on her face, and she deliberately greeted in an exaggerated tone: "Long time no see, 'Sister Selena'~~"

Selena's face showed a look of embarrassment in an instant: "Patty, don't use this title..."

It was obviously a very accomplished thing for Patty to make a person like Selena show such an embarrassing look. The smile on her face became brighter, but she also knew how to stop when she saw it: "Okay OK, okay, it's just a joke... But why did you come here suddenly? Isn't the computing center very busy recently?"

"I'll come to your mother to discuss some things, and also come to see your situation," Selena smiled gently, while carefully looking at the girl in front of her. "How is it? Have you been in good health recently?"

"I'm very good, much better than before," Patty looked down at herself, responding in a brisk tone, then she frowned again and said uncertainly, "And I don't know if it's an illusion... I seem to feel my body suddenly became a little lighter? It was just when I came out of the immersion cabin just now, a finger that was not very instructive suddenly became useful..."

Selena's eyes changed slightly in an instant, but her smile quickly covered everything up. She seemed very happy and even reached out to touch Patty's hair - a touch that was almost the same as the real one passed through the illusion spell into Patty's perception: "This is really good news, which means that your soul has finally begun to accept this body, and it also means that these new biological tissues in your body are finally about to merge into a real whole."

"Is that?" Patty blinked, a little disbelief, "but Grandpa Pitman said that this situation is basically impossible... He said that my current state is basically the best..."

"Patty," Selena pressed her hand on the girl's head with a faint smile on her face, "Sometimes some miracles happen."

Patty seemed to understand, she always felt that Selena's performance today was a bit strange, but she couldn't tell where this feeling came from, so she had to nod: "Although I don't understand it very much, it sounds like a good thing..."

"Of course it's a good thing," Selena smiled and straightened her waist, then asked casually, "By the way, have you encountered any interesting people and things in the neural network today?"

"Interesting people and things?" Patty thought for a while, organizing the language and counting it down, "Yes, at first I met a nervous mage apprentice. He secretly connected it in his mentor's immersion cabin. Because he didn't want to write math papers, he ran to the Dream City to hide in leisure. But he was discovered by the mentor shortly after he came in. I saw him being pressed on a chair in Triangle Square and wrote a big question for two hours... There was also a lady who used the Internet for the first time. When she was naming, she insisted on adding a lot of honorary titles and the titles she thought of, so it triggered the automatic optimization of the system. There was only a string of ellipsis on the head wherever she went..."

Patty said with great enthusiasm what he saw and heard in the neural network. At the end, she seemed to suddenly remember something and quickly added: "Ah, by the way, I met Mr. 'Hurricane Deer' again. This time he didn't play cards with people or quarrel with people. Instead, he learned how to create things in the Dream City with his own thoughts. He used a small flower he created as a gift, but before I could finish his thanks, he suddenly stepped down..."

"Mr. Lu, the expressway..." Selena couldn't help but show a slightly strange smile on her face, "So, have you accepted his gift?"

"Yes, but for some reason, the flower disappeared quickly," Patty blinked a little confused, "and he left the Internet very suddenly, I was a little worried... He felt like he was really an old man, Sister Selena, you said he was not in any trouble in the real world, right?"

"Don't worry, Patty, every immersion cabin has a monitoring device. If a user has problems, he will immediately call the nearest computing center," Selena seemed to be holding back her laugh and comforted her. "That highway Mr. Lu should have just left after a sudden thing - maybe he is playing cards with his friends at this time?"

...

In a lounge in Slitstone Castle, Ropeni Glen sat on a high-back chair next to the window. The sunlight that had gradually tilted through the window brought heat in midsummer. The sound of insects was blocked by double-layer crystal glass, which sounded as if it was coming from a long distance. The ventilation system was running in a low voice in the ceiling, and the cooling airflow kept the room comfortable.

Penny's eyes fell on the table, which was the report she had just read halfway through. In the slightly dim sunlight, lines of letters in the report were presented to her eyes:

…In summary, the neural cables arranged in the first phase of the project have been successfully integrated into the workshop’s embedded pipeline and achieved biological signal transmission… The operation efficiency of the biomass circulation tube reaches the design standard… The effective connection between the neural fiber network and the machine terminal… The main brain and auxiliary brain have good physiological conditions and have been simulated operation. The first experimental workshop can be inspected and accepted at any time and put into use…

Penny Ronaldinho read every word in the report carefully. The black crystal pendant in the earlobe trembled slightly in the air with the subtle movement of her gaze. The delicately cut crystal surface constantly reflected the magnificent sunlight. The quietness in the room was the sound of paper turning. This silence lasted for a long time before it was finally broken by a deliberate "steps".

Viscount Glen raised her head and saw Selena Gerfen, the node master holding a lantern, appearing at the door not far away. She seemed to have just pushed the door open - but in fact the door had never been opened, and the wanderer from the Internet world had never stepped on the corridor outside the door that should have been empty at present.

According to the formation mechanism of psychological projection, Penny Rodriguez knew that before she turned around, she was the only one in this room, and the other person's figure only emerged after her eyes were reached - this is the wonderful effect of the interaction between neural networks and human sensory systems.

The district consul had a smile on his face and nodded at Selena: "I thought you would stay at Patty for a little longer."

"She and I can meet in the New Dream City at any time, but a busy consul like you don't have much time to stay in the neural network," Selena smiled and walked towards Viscount Roppenni, "I hope I haven't disturbed your work."

Roppeni Glen's eyes fell on the lady who "survived in the world" in the form of a ghost in the Internet. At this moment, she suddenly felt the unpredictable fate - as if not long ago, the lady and the forces behind her were still a completely dark sect in her eyes. She needed to be vigilant and even hostile to a group of people. However, a huge change tore up the ancient sect and subverted everyone's understanding of gods and eternal sleepers. Now these surrendered eternal sleepers have become technicians of the Cecil Empire, and enemies who need to be vigilant in the past... At this time, they have also become their own people.

Even someone with pretty good relationships.

"Not disturbed," Roppeni nodded, "I just finished processing this report, and then I only have to go to the factory to check it out--and there is still some time before that."

"That's right," Selena said immediately, "we can talk about Patty,"

Speaking of Patty, the expression on Ropeni's face immediately became serious. She first signaled Selena to sit in the chair opposite (although a network ghost does not need to sit down, it can always make the conversation easier), and then asked with a serious look: "Have she...has she already contacted the target?"

"It is not appropriate to use 'contact'. They had already contacted it many days ago," Selena first corrected the Viscount's statement, and then nodded. "The last test has been completed. The God of Nature gave Patty a small 'gift'. Everything was as we expected - and both parties were not affected by any external will, and the information was kept closed throughout the process. The test was conducted in a pure state, and the results should be very reliable.

"Amoen has been temporarily isolated from the deeper level of the network by Naretiel, receiving the highest level of surveillance and isolation, while Patty knows nothing."

Penny Rodney nodded silently and asked a few seconds later: "What will happen to Patty after this?"

"The power of the God of Nature will play a role - although this power has now become much weaker and no longer has the power of the 'miracle' level, it is still enough to make a weak mortal girl healthy. The incongruous artificial tissues and primitive tissues in Patty will gradually adapt, her soul and spirit will be repaired, and she will heal... Of course, there may be a little trace left, but overall, she will enter adulthood healthily.

"You can even look forward to seeing herself stand up on her adult day, walk towards you, accept your blessings and hugs."

Viscount Roppeni's breathing became a little rapid and obvious. She took a deep breath and grabbed the armrest of the chair with her fingers to maintain her calmness. After calming down for a few seconds, she asked, "What do I need to do?"
Chapter completed!