As a slight coldness spread in his mind, Daniel's slightly chaotic thoughts quickly became awake.

The safety springboard is normal, the ports in the brain have led to a controlled shallow sea of ​​consciousness, memory disguises and multiple shells are operating as usual, praising the rogues outside the domain - their own minds are heavily armed, and no one can see a slight abnormality from the flawless spiritual barrier.

Even if the other party is a powerful archbishop.

Daniel calmed down, knowing that he had entered the spiritual world, and in this spiritual world, the expression on his face was not at all abnormal.

"Which archbishop are you?" he asked with just the right amount of respect and calmness.

The woman opposite used a strange face, which was probably temporarily generated for the conversation. This was an act of concealing identity, but Daniel still asked, this was the normal reaction of a open-minded Sleeper believer when he opened his heart to talk to a strange archbishop.

"Don't care about this. This face is just a medium of interaction. Now the Supreme Bishops are talking to you," said the woman opposite. "Please be prepared and answer our questions."

Daniel showed his obedience: "Yes, I will not hide it."

The woman opposite nodded with satisfaction and asked: "In recent times, you have been investigating your fellow church members in the Aldernan area. Is this happening?"

"This is indeed the case."

"This is not your duty as a security supervisor. What is the reason for conducting the above investigation?"

"Recently, there have been many rumors about the failure of the mind network, and the security system has also detected abnormal fluctuations in some nodes. I am worried that the network security will be threatened, so I launched an investigation."

"Why didn't you take the initiative to report, but choose to do private activities?"

"I am not sure about the details of the situation, so I want to confirm first whether the problem lies in the security system. If the problem is related to the security system, I will deal with it myself according to the regulations. If it has nothing to do with the security system, I will naturally report it to the Supreme Bishops. This is to save the staff of the church and improve the efficiency of the investigation."

"This explanation is reasonable..." The woman said, and her words paused for a moment, as if the Supreme Bishops behind her were conducting quick discussions. She continued, "You mentioned just now that the security system detected abnormal fluctuations in some nodes. What is the specific situation?"

Daniel immediately took out the speech that had been prepared: "I found a 'blank connection'. Some nodes kept connecting to the spiritual network, but there was no record of data transmission. I suspected that a large number of computing resources were being transferred out of monitoring in a secret way, or being 'swallowed' by vulnerabilities in the network..."

He said it very calmly, because this is indeed an abnormal phenomenon discovered by his security team in the spiritual network recently!

And he was very sure: the computing power lost abnormally was by no means swallowed by the master's "original space", because the computing power quota required by the latter had long been "reasonably allocated" from the bottom of the spiritual network, and it was not considered "abnormal loss" in any case. What he and his security team observed was indeed a real "abnormal situation".

These calculation powers with unknown destinations are probably part of the situation that the Supreme Bishops have been trying to cover up recently. Daniel chose to say it at this moment, in addition to judging that the time is ripe and that it needs to show its own strength and value, there is also a very important point-

He is the security supervisor of the spiritual network and the most authoritative person in the bishop class. If the vicious situation in the spiritual network has developed to the point where the highest bishops cannot hide it, then he must be the first person to detect the abnormality!

If he said at this time that he had not found any sensitive information, it was not a protection for himself, but rather a statement that he had a problem!

The room became quiet for a while.

Daniel suddenly felt a faint feeling - he felt that the whole world outside the room disappeared in his perception in an instant, as if there was only such a quiet room left in the world, which was blocked, blocked, and watched by every pair of eyes of the Supreme Bishops.

The woman in front of her just looked at him quietly.

Daniel knew that the final scrutiny began, and if he failed to pass, his perception of this room would no longer be an illusion—the only "room" in the world would immediately become his own spiritual cage, and his mind would be trapped in this room forever.

The conclusion soon came to him-the woman smiled.

"Mr. Daniel, are you willing to make greater contributions to the Order?"

"Greater contribution?" Daniel pretended to show a puzzled look, "You mean..."

"You have the opportunity to enter the Supreme Bishops' Order and become a member of the Archbishop. Your talents in cybersecurity and network architecture are crucial to us - and the questions you are concerned about the recent abnormal fluctuations in the spiritual network will also be answered as you gain higher access to information," the woman said calmly, with Daniel's figure reflected in her eyes. "Mr. Daniel, we will also remind you one thing--a higher status means greater responsibility. Once you face the deeper secrets of the Order, you will not have the chance to look back.

"So, now you still have a chance to choose - what is your choice?"

Daniel spent a moment thinking with a solemn expression, then raised his head and said solemnly: "For the benefit of the ecclesiastical group, I have already put my personal life and death aside."

As soon as this sentence fell, the whole room was "closed" and the feeling of "only" disappeared immediately. The stagnant sunlight and dust split into pieces like cracked mirrors, disintegrating and disappearing everywhere. The original bedroom turned into a magnificent hall in the blink of an eye, and Daniel himself was sitting next to a huge round table in the hall.

At the round table, many figures in white or black robes were sat. Those depicting silent stars and spiral patterns represent "waking dreams" and "a peaceful deep sleep" respectively. These figures stood up from their respective seats and applauded Daniel.

"Welcome to us, Mr. Daniel," said a woman in a white long dress with a gentle and quiet smile, standing up, "Your participation is very important to us."

Daniel instantly recognized the lady's identity and guessed that the other party should be the main personality of the "interface" that he had just talked to him. He then stood up and greeted: "Article Selena Gerfen."

"No need to be polite," Selena nodded to him, "Mr. Daniel, you have been promoted. To be honest, this promotion is a bit rushed. We didn't have time to prepare a more formal ceremony for you, and we couldn't even celebrate you in the real world. I hope you can understand all this.

"On the other hand, you should still be a little confused now, and you must be a little confused about your identity change after becoming the archbishop. We should have given you more time to adapt slowly, but now the situation is quite special. We need you to understand something as soon as possible and get into the state as soon as possible...

"The Pope's Coronation will explain to you in person."

Daniel kept a polite and calm expression, but when he heard the word "Pope Crown", he couldn't help but his nerves tense up instantly.

Almost the moment Selena finished speaking, an amorphous cloud of starlight appeared above the round table-

Daniel had no idea when the starry cloud appeared. In fact, he even suspected that the amorphous starlight actually floated in the center of the venue from beginning to end, but his senses completely ignored the latter's existence!

The next second, Daniel bowed his head instantly and saluted respectfully: "The Pope's Crown!"

"Raise your head," the starry clouds swelled and squirmed, and a voice rang directly in Daniel's mind, "I'll get to the point- do you still respect the gods?"

Daniel's answer seemed to have been practiced a thousand times: "I have no respect for Gods, and their existence is only terrifying."

This is the standard answer for a true follower of the Dark Sect.

Countless people in the world who do not understand the truth have only fear and misunderstandings about the three major dark sects. They always believe that those dark sects are extreme followers of gods. They fell to the dark side of human nature because of their excessive fanatical and distorted faith. Even some lower-level religious believers would have such wrong ideas when they first entered the church. However, as long as they have truly come into contact with those twisted depravity magic, truly received higher-level "baptism", and those hidden knowledge, any dark sect will know what their true "faith" is.

"Very good..." The Starlight Cloud seemed very satisfied with Daniel's answer, "Then, what I want to tell you next will be the truth that most people in the world can hardly imagine... Gods are not only terrifying, but also a shackle imposed on all mortals..."

Daniel blinked.

He knew this, and he also knew that the name of this lock was "Shunting the Mind". His owner had been studying this seal. In the origin space, hundreds of researchers with regular compilation were studying the issue of this seal.

He even suspected that knowledge about the "Spirit of the Mind" would appear in Cecil's junior textbooks several years later.

But here, he still had to show his shock appropriately: "A shackle?"

The pope's voice rang in his mind: "Yes, a shackle, and what the Sleeper Cult has been doing for seven hundred years is to find a way to break free from this shackle."

This time, Daniel was really a little surprised.

And he believed that even his master, the wanderer from the outside world, would definitely show an unexpected and curious look when he heard this information.

"The way to break free from the shackles..." He couldn't help but repeat, "How can mortals do this?"

"Let the mortal mind move in a sandbox world where there is no god until the mortal mind leaves the gods' sight, until the connection between the gods and the world is interrupted," the voice continued to echo in Daniel's mind, "This plan... is named 'Project No. 0'."

Project No. 0!

Daniel's breathing couldn't help but pause for a while, and then it was heartfelt joy that surged into his heart.

He finally came into contact with this project and finally understood its true appearance!

This project hidden in the fog and directly controlled by the Supreme Bishops' Order is actually related to the spiritual seal?

Immediately afterwards, he recalled many abnormalities that have occurred in the spiritual network in recent times, and connected many clues—

This made the expression on his face solemn and his tone became serious: "Is there something wrong with this project?"

"We doubt..." The answer was Selena Gerfen, the archbishop who has lived for seven hundred years and now coexisted with the spiritual network in the form of a spiritual body, shook his head, "We doubt that God's power appears in a sandbox of Project Zero."

...

In the quiet room in the afternoon, the dark-haired Mary was lowering her head and immersing herself in the ocean of high-major exercises.

As the last few numbers and symbols fell on the paper, the female mage who was obsessed with learning finally raised her head and looked at the instructor who was sleeping in the easy chair.

The instructor seemed to sleep heavily.

In the past many years, it was difficult for the mentor to have such a stable sleep. The unbearable neurological headaches and auditory hallucinations tortured the old master's spirit, which made him more irritable and irritable, and also deprived him of the right to sleep. This situation lasted for more than ten years.

It was the gift of that "master" that gave the mentor a chance to improve and indirectly saved every tortured apprentice around the mentor.

The "master" was terrible. Until now, every time Mary entered that "original space", she couldn't help but feel nervous and fearful, but at the same time, she also felt inevitably grateful to the "master".

The instructor suddenly moved, awakening Mary from her brief distraction.

She quickly got up and walked towards the easy chair: "Teacher, are you awake?"

Daniel slowly opened his eyes, saw the familiar room, and the familiar apprentice.
Chapter completed!