She seemed to be having an incredibly realistic dream. Even though she knew she was in a dream, there was an indescribable sense of "immersion".

"So Lingxi has devoted all of its computing power to this one meal?"

"No."

Lin Yu put down his chopsticks and replied:

"To be precise, it's both this relatively real city and this absolutely real meal."

"...Reasonable."

Ji Xing shook his head helplessly.

At this moment, Lin Yu suddenly said:

"We should talk about business now."

"For example, the truth about the ring that you all want to know."

"Okay."

Ji Xing put down his chopsticks, seemingly without a trace of regret for the food he hadn't yet tasted.

Lin Yu took a deep breath and slowly began to speak.

His speech wasn't fast, as if he was narrating while reminiscing.

From the origin of the ring, to the vibration of the pool, to the frozen "water sphere," to the shattering of the entire pool...

Then, there was only one opportunity, and during the last experiment, the massive adverse effects on humanity when the ring device failed to start.

It was only at this point that Ji Xing finally understood how such a "huge" plan failed.

Just as Lin Yu said, each generation only has one chance to activate the ring.

And after they activated it last time, they completely exposed themselves to the aftermath of the cataclysm.

It's even possible that they intensified the damage of the aftermath.

No one survived that experiment; they saw their own end and the end of this world...

As time continued to pass by second after second.

Ji Xing suddenly asked:

"How long has it been since I entered here?"

"Three hours."

Lin Yu glanced at the clock tower in the distance and then said:

"Don't worry, you can leave at any time."

"So, do you need me to... send a signal?"

"No need."

Ji Xing shook his head.

"Tell me more about the specifics of the equipment."

"Of course, and also about Lingxi's... Nuwa Plan..."

...

Meanwhile, on the ground in Mountain City.

Ji Xing was still in a deep sleep---- but actually, it couldn't be considered sleep, rather a coma-like state similar to sleep.

Through the cloned module connected to the Brain Machine, every output signal of the Brain Machine plugin was completely captured and then fed back into the Fu Xi's computing core.

It couldn't restore these data into real images, so it was impossible for outsiders to know what she was doing or discussing in that virtual city.

But through intensive data streams, it had begun analyzing the underlying program architecture of the city.

"The main program design of this virtual city is quite peculiar."

Fu Xi's voice echoed in the operations command room.

"It strives to create the most realistic city but lacks many key component elements."

"Such as weather, light, environment..."

"All these data were introduced from external sources."

"Lingxi, or rather the former residents of the virtual city, seem to still have a deep attachment to the external world, and can only achieve realism as much as possible through this method."

"This is human nature, an uncontrollable emotion..."

As Fu Xi finished speaking, Chen Jian nodded thoughtfully.

Looking at the sensor device, resembling a "streetlight," set up not far from himself, he finally understood what this thing was used for.

After pondering slightly, he asked:

"So, can we also use these environmental monitoring devices as a pathway for information injection?"

"Theoretically possible, but the practical difficulty is quite high."

Fu Xi's voice sounded again.

"If we inject through a single device, Lingxi will certainly identify it as abnormal data, quickly detect and intercept it."

"But calling all device interfaces would require an enormous amount of work."

"Additionally, the stability is extremely poor."

"Understood."

Chen Jian didn't say much, but instead switched topics and asked:

"How's the progress on Ji Xing's side?"

"Very smooth."

Fu Xi answered:

"The communication between the parties is likely quite smooth, and the data transmission is very stable at the moment."

"We still have plenty of time and can continue to broaden the scope of analysis."

Chen Jian glanced at his watch.

At this point, it had already been three and a half hours since Ji Xing entered the virtual city.

According to the plan, she would leave within six hours.

Only two and a half hours remained, and Fu Xi had not yet started preparing the injection program.

From a purely "human" perspective, this time was by no means sufficient.

But, Fu Xi's mindset was fundamentally different from humans.

In its own perspective, as long as it finds a sufficiently reliable, conspicuous flaw, as long as the architectural analysis is accurate, creating the corresponding program would take less than a second.

And the program injection wouldn't take more than a minute.

Therefore, it had all the patience to wait for the clone module to send back more data, to obtain the most detailed analysis possible for a "one-hit-kill" purpose.

Under such circumstances, Chen Jian couldn't possibly rush Fu Xi.

He could only wait with the utmost patience.

Sitting beside Ji Xing, Chen Jian kept a constant watch over her physical condition.

He knew very well that this was an exceptionally risky operation.

Once the operation failed, Ji Xing's probability of death was even higher than participating in combat with a level-one monster.

Perhaps she knew this as well?

But she ultimately showed no hesitation.

The team he led was truly well-trained.

Especially those few who joined the Huaxia Army in the early days, each one has become a key player on their own.

He hoped they could go a little farther.

At the very least, not fall before dawn.

Chen Jian let out a long breath.

And now, Fu Xi's voice reached his ears once again.

"Commander, there's new progress."

Chen Jian reflexively sat up straight and then said:

"Speak directly."

"Understood."

Fu Xi continued:

"Through the analysis of the returned information, I judged that Lingxi uses a bionics algorithm based on human neural networks in simulating personalities, rather than the traditional deep learning neural network algorithm."

"This algorithm can more closely approximate the thinking logic of humans while retaining the human peculiarities in emotion and subconscious."

"However, this algorithm also brings greater randomness and more blind spots that cannot be monitored."

"Of course, such blind spots are very difficult to reach."

"But we do have some methods to inject our needed information into these blind spots."

"But I need further analysis."

"Understood."

Chen Jian nodded slowly.

Fu Xi's words gave him a very familiar feeling.

But what specifically was familiar, he couldn't say.

Subconscious? Blind spots?

This kind of information injection... isn't it similar to hypnosis?

With that thought, he asked:

"Is it hypnosis?"

"Similar to hypnosis."

Fu Xi answered:

"But hypnosis requires bypassing the defense mechanism of the consciousness itself, whereas we need to bypass real-time monitoring from a third party."

"This makes it even more challenging. We cannot use a plaintext injection nor a ciphertext with obvious features."

"We need to... meticulously weave a set of commands that are not easily detected."

"We want to use these commands to prompt Lin Yu to generate a virus himself in the virtual world."

"Prompt him to generate a virus himself??"

Chen Jian was dumbfounded.

"Can this really be done? I mean, he doesn't have any programming skills..."

"That's not important."

Fu Xi's voice carried an almost human-like pride.

"We don't need a complex virus."

"What we need is just a simple loop that iterates indefinitely."

"Because essentially, he is still a program."

"This will consume a significant amount of computing power, and before Lingxi realizes it, this variant 'shockwave virus' will... completely destroy it."

Chen Jian let out a long breath.

He slowly said:

"I understand."

"What you're injecting isn't a virus."

"It's just a... meme!"

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