Deep in the narrator's neural network, in the corner of the "New Dream City" created by the imperial capital Cecil as the prototype, tall oak trees rose from the ground in the center of the square, and breeze and pleasant and faint wind chimes flowed under the magnificent canopy. The giant tree was covered with light golden fallen leaves, and the sun shone through the sparse gaps on the edges of the branches and leaves, leaving mottled traces of light and darkness, like an afternoon cut by light and shadow.

The square is quiet and the pedestrians are sparse. The residents of this city have not yet noticed such a quiet scenery in the corner of the city. Just under the oak trees, a small square table is placed on the ground covered with fallen leaves. Next to the table is the second of the only "regular guests" in the square - one is a "elf" with a beautiful hair and a handsome and kind face, and the other is a "human" lady wearing an elegant and solemn black palace dress, with a beautiful and mysterious temperament.

In front of the two gods, a chess game was hard to resolve. The chess pieces arranged with fate were fighting and moving in a small way, snatching the closest place in the chessboard with difficulty. The chess holder just looked calm and regarded these fights and struggles as leisurely pastime. This atmosphere lasted for a long time. The God of Nature, who was sitting at the table in the image of an old elf, suddenly raised his head and looked towards the direction of the entrance of the Golden Oak Square.

"It seems that we have guests here, Lao Lu," the black-haired lady also sensed the sudden appearance of aura. A smile appeared on her face, looking at the figure that was rapidly becoming physical at the edge of the square, "Gao Wen--Why did she suddenly think of coming to the Dream City to find us."

Gao Wen's figure condensed from a shaking light and shadow. After instantly adapting to the feeling of sensory resetting, he stepped towards the two gods who were playing chess, and sighed after hearing Milmina's voice: "Hey, I originally wanted to go and disobey the courtyard to find it, but as soon as I was about to set off, I suddenly felt that it would be better to look for you online directly - you spend twenty-four hours a day in the neural network!"

"Yes," Amoen nodded slightly, admitting in a calm tone, "We accepted the advice of the great craftsman Mr. Nicholas, to reduce the time of activity in the neural network, and to turn off the neural connector for at least an hour a day for rest..."

Gao Wen: "…"

He always felt that there was something wrong with the communication between him and the two retired gods in front of him, but the expressions of the two people in front of him were more calm than those of the other, so he couldn't speak for a while. In the end, he had to laugh twice and quickly and hardly turn the topic to the main thing: "Actually, I'm here today, because I want to discuss something with you..."

"You can see, and guess that - if you didn't encounter a difficult problem, you would rarely talk to us on your own initiative," Milmina smiled, raising her hand to drop the chess piece and said calmly, "I can feel that the 'anti-divine barrier' is running. It seems that the problem you prepared this time is not simple, so before you destroy your leisure time today, can we allow us to end this game of the gods? Don't worry, it won't take long."

While talking, Amoen, who was sitting opposite, also took a chess piece in his hand and fell a step. As the crisp sound of the chess piece colliding with the chess board, an ethereal sound happened to sound under the golden oak tree, as if the giant tree was also cheering for the god's chess.

"The chess game of the gods?" Gao Wen only noticed the chessboard in front of the two gods at this time. He couldn't help but open his eyes wide, and was stunned on the spot for a moment. It was not until the sound of the move sounded again that he finally coughed twice with a strange expression, "Cough cough, I have no objection to you playing chess online, but I'm here today to see you two playing checkers and regret chess..."

Amoen ignored Gao Wen's words and just pushed the chess piece forward again. Milmina next to him said casually: "You calm down first, the game will be over soon--we both have been fighting for several hours..."

Gao Wen was stunned. He could play a checkers together for a whole day. To be honest, this is not a level that ordinary mortals can reach. However, they called the checkers that were two bad chess pieces sitting together for a day "the game of the gods". Gao Wen was still deeply shocked. For a moment, he didn't know whether this was insulting the "gods" or the game of the "chess game"... After thinking about it, they were insulting the checkers...

While thinking about it, Amoen regretted another move. The battle seemed to be getting farther and farther away from the end. Gao Wen finally couldn't help but interrupt: "Stop, friends, I'm here today..."

"Why don't we change it?" Amoen seemed to have not heard Gao Wen's words. He pressed the chessboard casually, and the chessboard projected by thinking disappeared instantly. Instead, it was replaced by a set of cards with exquisite pictures. He looked at Gao Wen on the side with a smile on his face, "It's just enough people. Do you want a game of Gods? Although you have always insisted that you are a mortal, in our opinion, you have long crossed the threshold of playing against God..."

Gao Wen was about to interrupt the other party again, but suddenly realized something and showed a thoughtful look: "...you actually know what I'm here to ask."

Amoren, who was preparing to deal cards, immediately stopped his movements, and Milmina, who was beside him, spread her hands. After a moment of embarrassment, the former magic goddess finally broke the silence: "You have found the Kingdom of the God of War, right?"

"...How could you know?" Although Gao Wen had guessed just now, he still couldn't help but be surprised. "Apart from the neural network channel, you should no longer be able to perceive what is happening in the present world. The God of War is not currently disclosed in any channel in the neural network, including those confidential lines... How did you know about this?"

"We really don't know what happened in the 'present world'," Amoen slowly washed the cards in his hand, and the cards with gorgeous patterns kept changing in his hands. "But we lay in the courtyard of the shadow world - we could see some changes that took place deeper...although we could only see a little."

"There was a sudden echo in the already dead and silent God of War God Kingdom. Ripples spread in the deep sea and ripples in the deepest part of the shadow world. The dull gods trapped in their own kingdom may not have noticed it, but..." Milmina chuckled slightly, "How to say, I happen to be a 'idiot' who likes to run around in the shadow world, so I accidentally saw something when I was walking in the deepest part. And not long after that, you came, and all of this...is easy to associate."

"Deep in the Shadow World?" Gao Wen keenly noticed the keywords revealed in Milmina's words, "Are you saying that the experiment really connected the Kingdom of the God of War, and the 'ripples' created by this connection can even spread to the Shadow World? So is there a substantial connection between the deepest part of the Shadow World and the 'deep sea'?"

The response was Amoen who was shuffling the cards. He threw a card on the table, and the card surface was painted with layers of indescribable vortexes and phantoms. All lines and patterns were changing at all times: "I once said that the 'deep sea' is not a clear 'place', it... is the deep sea, the bottom layer of everything. Everything in the world can be mapped to the deep sea, and everything in the deep sea can naturally be mapped to the world, but in all these mappings, the 'distance' between the deep sea and the shadow world... is indeed a little closer than other places.

"The mortal thoughts form a projection in the deep sea, and the projection outlines the shadows of the gods. This process is invisible to the present world, but in a place like the shadow world... I just said that the 'distance' is closer."

Listening to Amoen's ambiguous description, Gao Wen's heart suddenly moved, almost immediately trying to leave the neural network to disobey the scene in the courtyard and look into the deep shadow world - but this was just a momentary impulse. He had not been to the shadow world, but he saw only the eternal and unchanging chaotic darkness. A large number of turbid masses that were difficult to describe their form floated and changed in the dim background. During this period, cracks that seemed like lightning flash appeared and dissipated instantly. There was only this monotonous and repeated scene, and in that monotonous sky, he had not discovered anything.

I have never seen the tide of thought, the brilliance of the Kingdom of God, the trajectory of the gods, and of course I have never seen the "deep sea" that seems to be hidden in the fog forever.

Of course, it may also be that he has seen it—but he cannot understand or deal with it.

"Do you want to go to the shadow world now?" Amoen seemed to see through Gao Wen's thoughts, and a smile appeared on his old face. "Don't think about it, you can't see it, even if you follow Milmina to a deeper place... That's not something that your visual organs and nervous system can recognize and understand now. It's a super-sensory information diffusing, requiring a way of perception beyond the senses - in short, you need the same perspective and life form as us."

"...Okay," Gao Wen nodded slowly, put this matter in his heart for the time being, and returned to the previous topic, "Anyway, judging from your attitude... you don't seem to support Tifengren's bold actions?"

"So that 'ripples' are the masterpiece of Tifeng people?" Milmina was a little surprised. "This is something I didn't expect... I thought that only you Cecil could do such a bold thing."

Amoen, who was standing by, answered Gao Wen's question: "We are more worried - we are worried that this overly risky move will bring unexpected changes. For this bold plan that has already involved in digging out the secrets of the Kingdom of God, even a little accident will mean a catastrophe... To put it bluntly, we dare not gamble."

"This is something we are not sure about," Milmina continued. "The gods cannot analyze themselves, so we have no idea what will happen if you really enter the God of War. We can do our best to provide advice and suggestions for other things, but in this matter... we can't think of any helpful answer."

Gao Wen's expression became a little bit serious: he had never seen Milmina and Amoen show such emotions. These two gods would always give some opinions even if they encountered difficult problems on weekdays, and they themselves never showed hesitation and weakness. Now their reaction only made Gao Wen realize one thing, that is, the risk of exploring the God of War God... may be greater than he thought.

After bowing his head and pondering for a long time, Gao Wen finally raised his head: "According to your guess, what will be the worst consequence of this matter?"

"This is really impossible to guess. This is our knowledge blind spot as gods," Milmina sighed helplessly, but after a few seconds of thinking, she still gave her own guess. "The worst situation may be worse than the Exploration Team's entire destruction on the spot - failure of exploration will not only bring death, but also more likely to bring back the fallen God of War. After all, the Kingdom of God is one and the God of God. Although the God of War is dead, the Kingdom of God in the realm of God of War... in a sense, it is still 'living'."

Gao Wen's eyes widened in an instant: "Can the mortal's exploration cause the re-energization of the Kingdom of God that is entering the death?"

"I just guessed..." Milmina immediately said, "Actually, this is unfounded..."

Gao Wen sighed softly: "Okay, anyway, no matter what, I will carefully consider Tifeng's plan..."

As soon as he was halfway through his words, a familiar voice suddenly came from a distance, interrupting his conversation with Amoen and Milmina: "In this matter, my attitude is completely opposite to these two juniors."

Gao Wen immediately looked in the sound. In the clear sky, he saw a figure covered by a light golden halo that was quickly becoming clear in the air. He saw the iconic long golden hair that could be dragged to his ankles, the gorgeous long dress with a beautiful but majestic face.

This is a figure that is not unfamiliar, but he was still stunned for a moment before he realized it.

After all, he was already used to the other party standing in the room in the form of an egg, reading newspapers and drinking tea. He was not used to seeing her true form suddenly...

Enya couldn't guess what Gao Wen was thinking at this time. She just came straight to the golden oak tree and sat opposite Gao Wen, between Amoen and Milmina. Then she looked around and looked at the two "juniors" in the true sense, and repeated her words again: "My attitude is completely opposite to these two juniors."

"You mean... Exploring the Kingdom of the God of War?" Gao Wen didn't expect that Enya would suddenly appear, but after a brief accident, he focused on the other party's words, "Do you think the risk of this matter is acceptable?"

"We need to be bold once," Enya said, looking at Milmina on the left, "Milmina, the magic goddess... You have both the courage and prudence of spellcasters when exploring the unknown, but in this matter, you and Amoen's prudence overwhelm reason. I know why, because you know how difficult it is for this season of civilization to get to this point in the matter of "analyzing the gods". You don't want to see the fire of hope that has finally risen is extinguished, but believe me, I don't want this season of civilization to fail than you.

“Because the time I’m waiting for is much longer than you combined.

"Milmina, you are worried that the mortal exploration will revitalize the kingdom of the God of War and even lead to the fallen God of War. At this point, I can assure you that the return of the gods is not that simple - especially when the body has fallen and the divinity has dissipated, a 'god' is not that easy to come back."

"...Are you so sure?" Milmina still seemed a little hesitant, "After all, we all know that the life form of 'God' is very special..."
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