The earth was gently covered in dusk, and the magic crystal lantern in the study had been lit. Gao Wen casually signed his name on a document and handed it to Heti, who was waiting opposite the table: "You must personally keep an eye on the economic revitalization and industrial construction in the East Region, especially the economic pilot in Suram Terrace. We must strictly prevent local merchants and old nobles from secretly colluding, raising grain prices and impacting new coins. Once similar situations occur, severe punishment will be imposed by the upper limit of the law and announced throughout the East Region."

Hetty took the document with a serious expression: "Please rest assured, I understand the importance of economic pilot."

Gao Wen nodded, and couldn't help but look at Hetty with concern: "How is you resting recently? Be careful of your health."

"Let your ancestors care about these things, I am ashamed of me..." Herty immediately lowered his head, "The Government Affairs Department has not been very busy recently. After the winter, many projects that are more affected by the season have slowed down or temporarily suspended. The internal department only needs to make year-end summary and plans for the next year. Interns who added to the Government Affairs Department last year can now come in handy."

"That's good," Gao Wen nodded, "So what about the magic net project in the North and West?"

"I have been synchronizing their progress with the two great consuls. At present, the main cities and secondary cities of the two realms have built basic magic net facilities - mainly because these cities basically have mages in charge, mage towers and mature extraordinary material processing systems, which can complete the foundation laying faster, but as for lower-level cities and villages... there is no progress."

Speaking of this, Hedy couldn't help but shake his head: "In addition, due to the arrival of winter, areas outside the city have become difficult to construct. The magic networks between cities in the north and west have not been connected. Communications have been barely realized by relying solely on relay devices. Moreover, due to the sparse number of relay stations and insufficient power, communications in various cities are often interrupted, which can be said to have not yet entered a practical state."

"It can be understood," Gao Wen was not surprised. "After all,... relatively large construction machinery and vehicles are still scarce, and the southern border is difficult to use. Many areas in the northern border and western border can only rely on manpower to construct. Winter is a hurdle that cannot be overcome."

Magic Net can only be able to achieve its greatest value when it becomes a "net".

The communication networks throughout the country, the energy system with strong power, the cornerstone of industry, and the skeleton of society, all need to be based on the whole connection of the magic network. From the perspective of the "empire", Gao Wen also needs to connect every region of the entire country into a closer whole, so as to avoid the counterattack of old forces from afar and avoid some difficult-to-care provinces returning to the closed and divided state of the Kingdom Age.

But it is not that easy to achieve this.

Building a basic magic network facility in a city is relatively simple, but it is more than doubled to establish enough magic websites in those sparsely populated wildernesses, not to mention that many projects will face extremely harsh environments - mountains, steep rivers, quagmire, permafrost in the north, and swamps in the west... Even with the assistance of magic, it is very difficult to challenge these.

A small relay device can only allow two magic networks to operate at the lowest power. To enable magic network to achieve full power transmission of energy and information, it is necessary to build a relatively large hub tower or hub station. When building the Nanjie Magic Network, Gao Wen relied on the residual power of the war to implement large-scale population migration, urban integration, border military management and other measures to achieve the "network" of magic network in a short time. However, now the entire empire has been integrated, the country has been out of the state of war, and the entire empire is much larger than the original southern border. Of course, similar methods cannot be used anymore. Even if you want to use them, considerable adjustments must be made.

On this basis, he could only proceed step by step and wait for this huge project to be completed slowly.

"Now, except for the main hub of the South, only the main hub of the East Holy Spirit Plain was successfully launched," said Hetty. "The Thorin Tree helped us start the hub of the East Plain in advance. Others, such as the main hub of the West Holy Spirit Plain, the main hub of the West, the main hub of the North, and the main hub of the Saint Sunil, have all been suspended due to winter."

"... Actually, it's good. After the projects are divided, you can have the opportunity to discover some hidden problems so that the entire country's magic network will not suffer too much damage," Gao Wen said half comforting and half sincerely. "You should pay more attention to the news from the Thorin Giant Tree. The accumulated experience there should be a great help to our construction after the beginning of next spring."

Hetty bowed his head and took the order: "Yes, ancestor."

Then she quickly glanced at Gao Wen, confirmed that all the documents and reports had been handed over, and then took a step back: "Then if there is nothing else, I will go back to the office first - there are still several reports waiting for me to review."

Gao Wen was about to think, but when he heard this, he nodded and felt that there was nothing wrong. As soon as he nodded, Hedy quickly left the room.

I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but Gao Wen even felt that the moment Hetty walked out of the study was dragged out afterimage...

"It seems that the work pressure is still very high recently," Gao Wen couldn't help but touch his chin and said softly with some emotion, "I still have to find her someone who can share the pressure..."

As soon as he finished speaking, amber appeared in the air beside him: "Do you really don't know why she is hiding from you recently?"

Gao Wen glanced at the half-elf: "There is no more fun for the elderly?"

While he was speaking, he suddenly felt ripples appearing in his spirit, and a special identification mark called him in his consciousness.

"Daniel looks for me, it seems a little urgent," he looked at Amber immediately, "and guard here."

Amber was stunned for a moment and waved his hand: "Oh, I'm familiar..."

As soon as she finished speaking, Gao Wen was already sitting on the large backrest chair and entered a state of mental connection.

Looking at Gao Wen who had closed his eyes, Amber couldn't help but frown. After a little silence, he began to mutter to himself with a little sigh: "Oh... I'm afraid you're going to die of exhaustion in this life... Isn't it like "too tired" to be able to solve it?"

The chaotic and flickering light spread out in the field of view, and Gao Wen could still vaguely hear Amber's low voice in his ears, but he didn't care much.

The scene in his vision has gradually stabilized.

On the endless vast water surface, huge metal platforms are arranged in sequence, and there are huge geometric bodies and numerical symbols in the sky running silently. In the center of the sky and the water, Daniel in a black robe is already standing next to the white round table.

"My Lord," the old master immediately bowed and bowed when he saw Gao Wen, "I have become the archbishop of the Eternal Mile Cult."

"You have passed the test and successfully promoted?" Gao Wen immediately looked up and down Daniel's eyes, then nodded slightly with a smile, "That's great news, congratulations."

"This identity is no longer important to me," Daniel said immediately with a sincere heart. "The knowledge and health you give cannot be measured by value."

Gao Wen could feel that the old wizard's words were from the heart.

In the beginning, the "loyalty" of the old wizard from Tifeng and the Eternal Midlander Order to the "outsider wanderers" may really be because of fear, and loyalty derived from fear often cannot stand the test, but as time goes by, as more and more things happen, this loyalty has obviously changed quietly.

Knowledge and health, and after obtaining both, the real life state of the real world cannot be ignored.

The old mage lowered his head in front of the "outdoor wanderer", and the respect in his heart had long exceeded his fear.

He knew that he was probably not a good person - even if he was, he was not now.

But he still remembers being grateful.

He once fell into despair due to his talent problem, was once forced into madness by imperfect biochemical transformation, had almost completely lost his mind, and was ruled by endless whispers and hallucinations. He had almost lost everything, even most of his humanity.

It was a gift from the "outsider wanderer" that gave him the opportunity to find all those things back.

Perhaps in the eyes of the outworld wanderers, He only gave him some inconspicuous knowledge and some simple healing methods, but this "small" help from "high existence" is enough to change the entire fate of a mortal.

The gift of destiny needs to be repaid with loyalty.

"My Lord," Daniel said respectfully, "After becoming the Archbishop, I gained higher authority - I investigated the truth about the 'Project Zero' and had initially contacted the source of the current crisis in the spiritual network!"

Gao Wen's eyes became serious: "What's going on in Project Zero...?"

"They are trying to remove the 'spirit seal'!" Daniel replied immediately, "and not to remove one or two people - they intend to remove all the spiritual seals imposed by the gods on the mortals by connecting each mortal's dream!!"

Daniel's answer almost made Gao Wen's breath miss, and the majestic and solemn image he tried hard to maintain was almost out of control.

It took two seconds before he adjusted his mindset and stared at Daniel's eyes: "Do they know the 'Sign of the Mind'?"

"Yes, but they call it "shackles" or "chains of God," Daniel nodded. "I don't know where they first learned about this phenomenon, but it is obvious that the sleepers who specialize in the realms of mortal minds and consciousness know more about the "sharp seals of minds" than the end of the death of all things..."

"The study of the end of all things has stopped at the 'meat. Body'. The eternal sleeper has obviously entered the realm of the mind and even the soul..." Gao Wen nodded slightly, "So what are they planning to do? How did Project Zero run?"

Daniel nodded and began to report in detail: "First build a huge, independent world of mind, which they call the "sandbox", which is a more complex and advanced space than the Dream City. In addition to the necessary monitoring measures, it is completely isolated from the outside real world;

“The human mind is introduced into this sandbox world and is subject to complete hypnosis and memory removal before entering the sandbox world, deleting all memories and concepts about the gods, and the sandbox world itself does not have any information related to the gods;

"When the sandbox starts to operate in a closed manner, it will form a closed system, which can achieve self-consistent self-sustainment. Because it does not exchange any information with the outside world, its internal content has been completely 'disinfected', so it should be a completely godless world. People who "survival" in the sandbox world will not remember what the outside world looks like, but will only think that everything in the sandbox is real;

"Finally, through 'time iteration', the passage of time in the sandbox world is accelerated and completely disconnected from the outside real world, allowing it to run internally for more than a thousand years, and allowing its internal mind to undergo dozens or even hundreds of 'reincarnation'..."

"Time iteration?" Gao Wen immediately grasped a keyword in Daniel's report, "Accelerating the time flow rate in the sandbox world? Does this require a lot of computing power?"

Daniel nodded seriously: "Yes, very huge computing power, and not only requires huge computing power, but also the human brain that can always be connected to the network as the "operation matrix", because the sandbox must be completely isolated, not only isolating on the network, but also in the real world. Ordinary sleepers are floating networked, and each node is constantly changing and does not meet this condition..."

The mystery was finally solved, and the questions that had troubled Gao Wen for a long time were answered.

"So, they need a brain!"

The spiritual network itself does not require a fixed "server". According to Gao Wen's understanding, its entire operation process is actually based on the "cloud" technology: as long as a certain number of users maintain connection with the network, and as long as a small amount of computing power tasks are distributed to those users, the entire network can run, not to mention what hardware foundation it needs, that is, some terminals used to connect to the network (most immortal sleepers also omit this step with the ability of the extraordinary), as well as the equipment required for debugging and monitoring the network.

Therefore, there is no need for the eternal sleeper to transform anyone into a "brain servant" to maintain their network.
Chapter completed!