A clear holographic projection appeared above the silver-white column, and Ophelia's figure appeared in front of Gao Wen. This time she still used the "position" she had at the conference site: a "carrier" that looked almost exactly the same as the real "Ophelia Norton", sitting on a light golden throne, with a large number of pipes and cables extending behind and around the throne.

"Ye'an," Ophelia's voice came out of the screen, sounding as calm as ever, "I hope I haven't disturbed you to rest."

Tyr and Tyr, who were standing next to him, looked at Princess Gondor who appeared in the holographic projection, looked at Gao Wen again, and asked hesitantly: "Should I avoid it? Are you planning to talk about confidential topics?"

When Gao Wen heard this, he suddenly looked at the deep-sea salted fish in surprise. Perhaps Tyre usually acted too frequently, so that when he heard a reliable word from the other party, he felt a strange feeling...

"No," Ophelia's voice came from the picture immediately. Although her body was still expressionless, it sounded obviously a little smile. "It's not something that needs to be kept secret - Miss Tyre, don't treat me as a stranger. I am Veronica, you are familiar with. We discussed many things together when we were in Cecil."

"...so," Tyr blinked, "but I was really uncomfortable all of a sudden... I usually get used to dealing with 'Veronica', and now I suddenly see your form..."

"Okay, a guy who usually changes himself around and can cut his tail and pinch six clones when he is idle, don't talk about others," Gao Wen couldn't help but look at Tyre, and then looked at Ophelia, "Is there something wrong with you?"

"The Deep Blue Well core control system has been re-launched," Ophelia said, with a serious tone. "After initially repairing the perimeter pipeline monitoring system, I found some...that I had not discovered before, may be related to the previous Sentinel's activities."

"A situation that has not been discovered before? It has something to do with the sentry?" Gao Wen's brow frowned instantly, "Tell me specifically."

"I found that several energy conduits were invaded and intercepted, and the output logs in the relevant areas did not correspond to them. In addition, some iron soldiers disappeared mysteriously. The date of their signal disappearance was before the war broke out. Because of some system errors, these data were hidden from my monitoring. It was not until now that they were discovered - these intercepted energy and missing soldiers should be the reasons why the dark priests suddenly increased their strength and collectively "evolved", and the subsequent creeping disaster successfully drew huge energy from the depths of the strata around the Deep Blue Well.

"But these are not big problems. The Sentinel's conspiracy has been thwarted now, and all system failures are being gradually repaired. The real key is... I received some signals when I was monitoring the 'pulse flow', from the deep area of ​​the Deep Blue Network."

"Some signals? In the deep blue network channel?" Gao Wen seemed to think of something, "Is it..."

"I suspect it was the 'rune stones' that sentries had put on the Internet before," Ophelia's voice sounded more and more serious. "It seems that the deaths of the sentry and the creeping disaster did not make these rune stones automatically invalid, they are still operating."

Gao Wen and Amber looked at each other instant, and both of them saw the same shock and tension from each other's sight - what Ophelia discovered was undoubtedly the blind spot of everyone's vision before. The war was so large that this victory was really exciting, so when the war ended, almost everyone fell into the joy of finally winning. No one expected that the rune stones placed in the deep blue network were still running!!

In addition to this tension, Gao Wen suddenly felt extremely grateful: when almost everyone had already set his sights on the complicated affairs after the victory of the war, fortunately there was the conscientious ancient artificial intelligence of the Ophelia Matrix that was meticulously performing its duties. If there were no such pair of alert eyes always staring at the Deep Blue Net, God knows when the world would remember those rune stones!

"Can those rune stones continue to execute the instructions left by the sentry?" Amber suddenly asked.

"According to the data we have now, there should be no need to worry," Ophelia replied. "The signals collected at present are just regular sending and responses. Although the specific communication content still needs to be deciphered, it can be roughly determined that they are regular signals released when communication between runestones. They have no signs of large-scale activities for the time being."

Speaking of this, Ophelia seemed to have thought for a while, paused for a moment before speaking again: "The monitoring system of the Deep Blue Well has not been able to find these rune stones before. I suspect that under the conscious control of the sentry, these rune stones actively avoided my monitoring, or used some technical means to block my monitoring. But now the signal released when the Deep Blue Well received the rune may mean that these rune stones have entered a...unpreventive automatic operation state, which is a good thing in a sense."

"Are you standing by... It's really a good thing from the perspective of 'no trouble', but when you think of so many time bombs buried in the magic network deep in the planet, you can't sleep well..." Gao Wen muttered with a little toothache, "Is there any way to 'suck them out'?"

Speaking of this, he subconsciously glanced at Tyr next to him: "Just like the Siren did..."

"It's possible to try it, but it's not difficult," although Tyre didn't say anything, but she kept listening to Gao Wen and Ophelia's conversation carefully, and immediately spoke up. "Our sisters have tried it. Elemental bodies like Siren can indeed swim safely in the deep blue net. In theory, you can find the 'rune stones' that have drifted deep into the network, but the key is that the scale of the deep blue net... is too large."

Tyre's tone was a little difficult, and Gao Wen had to nodded: "Indeed, the Deep Blue Network is a 'planet dynamic system', and it not only spreads in the material world, but its tributaries run through all boundaries and elemental fields. It is not a small project to find all rune stones in such a large network, not to mention that we have no idea how to navigate in the network..."

"Actually, this is still a small problem," Tyr said while pinching his chin, "No matter how large the network channel is, it has its limits. No matter how difficult it is to navigate, it can slowly summarize the rules. The key is that it runs through all elemental fields. You know, our relationship with local elemental creatures is actually not very good..."

"Don't you just have a bad relationship with the local water elements? At most, the wind element that was pulled by the water elements to fight with you," Amber suddenly widened his eyes. The shadow assault goose keenly realized that the sirens' life might be more exciting than she thought, "Why does this bring all the elemental creatures..."

Tyre suddenly looked a little embarrassed and rubbed his hands while muttering: "...I haven't experienced the early elemental wars, but I heard that after trying to make the pissy, the queen created the pearls and hot drinks..."

"...Damn!" Gao Wen swore that he had never stared at such a big eye in his life. "I was shocked, what kind of elemental bullies are you fish?"

So in the eyes of the world, the gentle and friendly overall comedian is like a sirens like the entire tribe Deyun Club. In the elemental world, is there such an image of bullying and dominating the market and rampant?

Tyre herself was obviously quite embarrassed. She almost rubbed her hands into the afterimage as she heard Gao Wen’s complaints. If the Siren also had a higher body temperature, she might have approached the boiling point at this time: "Didn’t we know nothing at the beginning? The elemental creatures on this planet are strange, and the communication methods between different element species are completely different. The way of survival is extremely autistic, so for a long time we didn’t know whether the ‘gategories’ that appear near elemental cracks or engine leakage points were natural phenomena or small animals at the bottom of the sea. Alas, when I was ignorant, I was really guilty..."

As he spoke, Tyre probably felt that the atmosphere at the scene became more and more strange, and immediately waved his hand and explained: "But we didn't fight too much with the earth element and the fire element. After having the experience of dealing with local water element, we had a little friction with other elemental worlds and then understood the situation. Later, the queen brought local specialties and sisters to apologize. Everyone understood each other and signed a peace agreement... But although the peace agreement was signed, the relationship was still a little nervous."

Gao Wen looked at the deep-sea salted fish with a trembling corner of his mouth: "Can I ask how you understand 'mutual understanding'?"

"I don't know the specific situation, but according to the description of the sisters who participated in the 'friendly visit' at that time, the elemental kings of earth elements and fire elements seemed to be quite... terrifying when they saw that we could enter and exit the elemental fields where attribute conflicts were at will?" Tyr thought for a while and said uncertainly, "They seemed to think this was a very shocking thing, and then they let us down... Why do you have a weird expression?"

"...I'm particularly glad you are friendly now," Gao Wen didn't know what his expression looked like at the moment. He felt that his head and teeth were so painful. He didn't feel as tired as chatting with this caterpillar after a day of the meeting. It was the feeling of violent san value fluctuating in seconds. "Okay, then let's not talk about this historical issue. Let's go back to those rune stones first, Ophelia... Ophelia? Are you listening?"

"Ah, I'm here," I don't know if it's an illusion, Ophelia's voice obviously felt like she was awakened from the sluggishness, as if even the san value of such an artificial intelligence was washed by the Siren's worldview, "I'm listening."

"So about the salvage of those runes..."

"I happened to have a new idea about this," Ophelia spoke without waiting for Gao Wen to finish her speech. "It is almost impossible to salvage all rune stones from the deep blue network channel - even if the sirens think it can be 'completed', it is under their 'time scale'. This kind of thing that can be achieved in countless thousands of years has no reference value for ordinary mortal civilization, but from another perspective... leaving those rune stones in the network channel may also be an option."

"Stay in the internet?" Gao Wen vaguely guessed the other party's thoughts, "You mean, those rune stones can also come in handy for us?"

"This is a 'possibility'," Ophelia said seriously. Although this was an idea that she had just emerged, it was obvious that this "new idea" had been repeatedly deduced in her computing units many times. "Although the plan of the Sentinel and the Dark Priests almost destroyed the world, based on the rune stone samples salvaged by the Siren and the information we obtained from the captured dark priests, the rune stones they placed were essentially just a control node, and as a pure technology, these control nodes may not be used only in the destruction world."

This is an idea that sounds very feasible but also very unsettling. Gao Wen's tone couldn't help but become solemn: "... Do you think the 'control system' left by the sentry can be used safely in other fields?"

"In essence, these runes are derived from the technology of the Navigator. According to my deduction, other planets with suitable conditions should also have 'deep blue network channels' similar to our planet. The technology behind these runes may have been used in places such as planetary environment transformation," Ophelia said of her thoughts. "In the eyes of the Navigator, this is probably just a... 'reclaim', or a basic livelihood project like 'water conservancy engineering'."

"In the eyes of super civilizations, the 'water conservancy engineering' may be a doomsday flood for primitive civilizations," Gao Wen said in a deep voice. "I understand what you mean. The 'prototype' technology of runes may be just some basic civil facilities for high-level civilizations. It is beneficial and harmless to use it properly, but the key is whether we have reached the level of mastering this 'use method' - if we have the technology that can change the planetary environment at will, and this technology is so simple that it only requires a few buttons, it may not be a good thing for today's alliances."

Amber, who was standing beside him, nodded slightly and quickly understood Gao Wen's concerns: "After all, pressing the button is too simple - but the possible consequences after pressing the button are beyond our current capabilities."

"I have considered this," Ophelia said calmly, "so I said that this is just a 'possibility'. The reality we are facing now is that the control nodes left in the deep blue channel are almost impossible to be completely removed. For a long time in the foreseeable future, we have to face the fact that there is a bunch of 'bombs' buried in the planetary power system - since it is destined to be unable to dig it out, it is better to know more about them than to do nothing, and what I call 'control' and 'utilisation' are just by-products that will inevitably be produced by this research process."

"... And even if we don't conduct research, it's hard to guarantee that there will be no other dark sect like the Death of All Things or someone else who has come into contact with those 'stones' for one reason or another," Amber's mind became active at this time. She frowned slightly and said, "Don't many thriller say that in the thriller stories, a despairing black wizard fell into the sealed evil god forbidden area, and then obtained the power of the evil god to harm all directions. In the end, a lot of male and female supporting roles and the protagonist's family would kill such a demon king-but if the person who left the seal could directly slice the evil god and study it and leave instructions for future generations, maybe this wouldn't have happened at all..."

"Although the example you gave is very problematic, it seems to make sense," Gao Wen glanced at Amber, then lowered his head slightly, thinking while slowly speaking, "Indeed, those runes have almost sank into every corner of the Internet. Except for Ophelia who can now remotely receive the signals from them, it is almost impossible for us to fish them out. Since these things are destined to stay deep in our planet for a long time, it is always good to know more about them... Even if this is a bit of a risk, it is always better than being at a loss when an accident occurs.

"But then again, just based on the signals that Ophelia has received remotely, do we really have a way to 'control' those nodes?"
Chapter completed!