Chapter 119

Now...

It was just a matter of passing through a few "star gates."

That's right.

The technology of the Anywhere Door was made into something similar to a "star gate."

However, the teleportation locations of these large Anywhere Doors were generally fixed, both for safety considerations and to improve efficiency.

After all, if a ship came and changed to a different place, with the trade volume of the spaceport, the efficiency would be too low.

In addition.

There were also small Anywhere Doors specifically for individuals.

It's just that the use of these Anywhere Doors required application, and the teleportation locations were restricted, unable to choose core locations, and could only reach some public areas.

However, even so, it was enough to greatly improve the efficiency of the Jarilo star system.

At the same time.

It also made Jarilo more famous.

After all, this was the first place in the universe to truly roll out the "Anywhere Door" on a large scale.

Although the company headquarters was also one, the scale couldn't compare.

The key was that it wasn't very open to the outside world.

So.

Forces that wanted to observe, or rather, wanted to inspect the Anywhere Door project, whether willing or not, came to the Jarilo star system.

For a time.

The people on the Jarilo star system became complex again.

At this time.

A passenger ship passed the preliminary certification at the outermost spaceport and was heading towards the first "Anywhere Door."

In a cabin on the passenger ship, there were several people who looked difficult to mix together.

A purple-haired woman, a deadpan man, a person wearing a mech.

And...

A little girl blowing bubbles?

Of course.

This was judged by body shape; the real age was hard to say.

"Silver Wolf? Are you sure you can change the teleportation location?" Firefly asked.

"Are you questioning my ability? I already said, after this Anywhere Door came out, our Punklorde hackers

"But what you're cracking is the IPC's Waygate, not that genius's," Firefly said again.

"I know! But they're all built by the IPC, how much difference can there be?"

In Silver Wolf's view, her hacking skills were enough to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with any genius.

It was just a Waygate; it wasn't as if she hadn't studied them before.

Besides, the script for this trip was just to deliver someone, not to cause destruction—was there really a need to be so cautious?

Wasn't it just a matter of typing a few lines of code and making an Aether Edit?

"Huh?"

The moment she executed the Aether Edit, Silver Wolf froze completely.

She suddenly discovered that the code she had altered seemed to have encountered a problem during execution.

The code that was supposed to change the passenger ship's teleportation coordinates had instead executed on her.

It teleported her to a very strange place.

"A pixel world? Or a virtual world?"

"That's not right!"

"Where did Aether Edit dump me?"

79. The Room of Spirit and Time! Technology that controls the flow of time!

At this moment.

Silver Wolf was a bit bewildered.

The main reason was that she never expected her own code to backfire on her.

This was something she had never experienced before.

Even when clashing with the most formidable hackers of Punklorde, it had never been like this.

Even...

When invading the IPC, she had never encountered this situation.

More importantly.

The scene before her eyes felt both familiar and strange.

What was familiar was that the pixel art style here looked exactly like the scenes in the games she played.

It was just that now, she had entered it herself.

That was why she thought.

Perhaps this was a virtual world.

"So..."

"I've transmigrated into a game?"

"Wait, my Aether Edit ability is still here?"

Silver Wolf watched the pixel monster lunging at her and tried to perform an Aether Edit.

-512!

A damage number popped up above the monster's head.

And then.

The monster vanished.

Looking closely, there were even "materials" dropped on the spot.

"No way?"

"It really is a game?"

"Where did Aether Edit dump me?"

After confirming that this world was indeed a "game world," Silver Wolf felt both bewildered and pleasantly surprised.

Because the reason she left Punklorde was that she had already cleared it.

The people of Punklorde treated many things as games.

She, Silver Wolf, was the quintessential example of this.

So after clearing it, she had to seek out new thrills.

"Coincidentally," the Stellaron Hunters came looking for her, so she simply joined them.

After joining, it did indeed bring many challenges to her life, but she still hadn't forgotten about games.

She kept breaking records over and over again.

For this reason.

She had even monopolized the record rankings for many of the IPC's games.

One can imagine how much she loved playing games when she wasn't on missions.

Although she didn't know exactly where she was now, as long as she could play games, there was nothing to panic about.

After all, no matter how difficult...

She would clear it eventually, right?

But what she didn't know was that the others on the passenger ship were already bewildered at this moment.

Even Blade, who usually had no expression, couldn't help but frown.

"Eh?"

Firefly's tone was somewhat shocked, "How did she just pass out? Is this part of the script too? How are your scripts written?"

Kafka also shook her head, "There was no mention of Silver Wolf passing out; it only said she would lead us into Jarilo smoothly and then complete the handover."

"Neither did I." Blade was a man of few words, but this time he also spoke up, which was rare.

Obviously.

Silver Wolf’s reaction caught them all by surprise.

Who would be incredibly confident one second and then faint the next?

That was a slap in the face a little too quickly.

What surprised them even more was that after fainting, for some reason, Silver Wolf suddenly started smiling.

It was as if...

She had found a beloved toy.

It couldn't be any more bizarre.

"Kafka, is this also part of the script?" Firefly couldn't help but ask.

"I don't know, let's just wait. There's no other way anyway, and the passenger ship will always reach its destination," Kafka said.

In fact, Elio didn't give the scripts to the few of them with much mutual clarity.

Because everyone only needs to play their own role well; there is no need to worry about the rest.

All along, they have been executing missions this way.

Only this time.

Even Blade couldn't help but be concerned.

There was no help for it; who could have known things would happen so suddenly?

And right now, there was no other good way.

They could only wait for now.

On the other side.

Lin Qi suddenly received a signal.

"Another intruder?"

Come to think of it.

Ever since Jarilo became famous, almost every moment, someone has wanted to break through the firewall of the Anywhere Door.

At first, Lin Qi still had the heart to deal with it, engaging in back-and-forth clashes on the interstellar dark web with these hackers from who knows where.

Later, he couldn't be bothered to do it himself.

He directly developed a dual firewall.

The first layer is traditional, meaning it works through code; this layer has nothing special, directly isolating hacker intrusions remotely.

The firewall that truly applies changes is the second layer.

Lin Qi used the Memetic material dug from Penacony and the Dreamscape as a foundation, linking it with the firewall.

As long as someone triggers the code of the Anywhere Door on Jarilo, their consciousness will directly enter the Dreamscape.

Because Lin Qi placed the core code inside it.

Anyone who wants to cause trouble, whether actively or passively, must come in.

Of course, the premise is that they must be on Jarilo.

At this moment.

Lin Qi sensed the information transmitted back from the Dreamscape.

And looking at the intrusion speed, it wasn't just a "small hacker."

At least from a technical level, that was the case.

It should be the kind that has some real skill.

"Pity you chose the wrong place; this isn't a place you can come and go as you please."

Lin Qi thought to himself.

Compared to a few years ago, the current Dreamscape has long since undergone earth-shaking changes.

Lin Qi not only further optimized it but also added many mazes and levels inside, further increasing the difficulty.

Crucially, there is also a Masked Fool inside, muddying the waters.

It must be said.

Sparkle is having a lot of fun in there.

At first, she was a bit bored, but ever since more and more "hackers" were trapped inside unable to get out, her fun began.

Her greatest pleasure is playing various NPCs and then speaking like a riddle-maker, making the hackers think this is right one moment and that is right the next.

Either way, they just can't get out.

Then she watches them scratch their heads in frustration.

Which is to say...

They cannot clear the level.

Regarding this.

Lin Qi even gave her rewards, or rather, KPIs.

That is, the lower she keeps the clearance rate, the higher her degree of freedom.

As of now, her authority in the Dreamscape is second only to Lin Qi.

To some extent, the fact that the "clearance rate" of this Dreamscape is so low is at least half her doing.

It can only be said that with a Masked Fool here who does whatever she wants, has extremely high authority, and aims to tease people, even the ancestor of hackers would be blind here.

Isn't that right...

This little hacker who just came in has been misled.

They are currently there frantically "chopping trees" and "mining," preparing to craft their own "weapons."

Little do they know, being addicted to the game makes it even harder to get out.

Of course.

It doesn't exclude the possibility that they just like the game.

And for Lin Qi, besides being able to contain hackers, this Dreamscape has another more important purpose.

That is collecting Memory Bubbles!

And expanding research into the spiritual realm.

The former goes without saying; although these hackers' Memory Bubbles are not the memories of the Fire Legion themselves, their quality is very high, after all, the memories here are too unforgettable.

So Lin Qi used this, combined with the Time Towel, to create a considerable number of high-quality Light Cones.

Allowing the Legion's strength to rise another level.

As for the latter...

It allowed one of Lin Qi's research projects to have a breakthrough.

That is the "Hyperbolic Time Chamber."

This is a special space that can control the flow of time, originating from the Dragon Ball world.

But Lin Qi didn't draw it from the gacha pool.

It was just something he figured out based on his own technology.

Through the time technology of the Time Towel and the spiritual technology of the Dreamscape, Lin Qi developed this technology that can control the flow of time within the Dreamscape.

This is also the reason why it is very difficult for hackers to get out.

Because they are in the Dreamscape and cannot perceive that their time flow is different from the outside world.

Currently, Lin Qi can adjust the time flow to ten times the real-time flow, or slow it down by ten times.

That is to say, one year passes in reality, and ten years might pass inside, or perhaps only a little over a month.

So much so that the hackers inside don't know how long they have actually spent inside.

They actually entered in the same batch, but some feel like years have passed, while others feel like only a few months.

As for what other uses this technology has...

That would be huge.

As long as the Dreamscape is constructed perfectly, Lin Qi can even move some experiments from reality into the Dreamscape.

Come to think of it.

"Dreamscape" is actually not accurate, because it doesn't essentially require dreaming, nor is it dreaming.

Rather, it is an individual with a soul projecting their consciousness into another world composed of Memetic material.

Just like the real world composed of matter.