The room was dark, with only a moderate light coming from near the desk, illuminating this corner.
Ronan was sitting in front of his desk. The paper-like soft screen placed on the desk reflected the shimmer and formed a virtual workspace. It displayed the latest three-dimensional map of Xia City. It not only showed the streets, buildings, and traffic layers on the surface, but also It even shows the stratigraphic structure at a depth of one kilometer, as well as the continental shelf structure in the surrounding sea areas, which is the result of combining satellite images and association survey information.
The map is zoomed and suspended in the work area, like a floating city in the clouds and mist, small but spectacular.
A map like this is naturally expensive, priced at 1 Honor Point. However, Ronan quickly pointed out two errors on the map, and with the help of his soul cloak ability, he got the points back in a blink of an eye, and also made a small profit.
But even so, his points debt has still firmly crossed the -130 point mark, and is still accumulating further.
Right now, hundreds of flashing red dots are marked on this extremely detailed three-dimensional map. Each red dot corresponds to the picture of Summer City covered by the soul cloak; to the specific sketch of life in the starry sky of life; and to the lives of specific people under these complicated pictures.
Ronan flicked his fingers, and the "Xia City" in the clouds and mist began to rotate. It looked like it could be grabbed with one hand and then crushed into pieces.
He couldn't crush Xia Cheng, but these red dots and their corresponding heads could be slaughtered at any time if he wanted.
Since meeting with His Majesty Emperor Wu, things have been progressing smoothly inexplicably. That person's guidance was really accurate and ruthless, and Ronan saw that the sharp methods at the level of extraordinary beings hit the key points of some greedy capital and Xia City officials.
If the role of capital is compared to the elements of spiritual practice, it may be regarded as the power of the soul. They also need to have entities as media in order to have a real impact on the real world. Otherwise, they are just beating numbers, and at most they can only stir up waves in people's hearts.
Originally, the parliamentarians, officials and representatives of capital represented by these red dots were distributed throughout Xia City. They did not have to stand out on their own, but they could build an invisible network through capital, power and interpersonal relationships, and use this to drive the real-level changes. strength.
However, after the "fortunate meeting" at the art museum, although part of the network that was originally intertwined in Xia City did not collapse suddenly, it was like the fragile nerves of those congressmen and brokers, teetering on the verge of collapse at any time.
Moreover, Ronan's side can follow the clues and continue to expand the scope of the inspection, covering more structural areas of the net, and also revealing the fat and bulky bodies of the slugs hiding in the shadow of money and power.
This also made Ronan feel that the intelligence service that consumes two honor points every day is really worth the money.
Moreover, Ronan is not just relying on the power of the association. Just like the magic talisman at this time, that ugly and powerful dark side species is climbing in the sky of life, passing through the soul windows of those congressmen, brokers, and capital representatives again and again. , spitting out invisible poisonous threads, leaving a special mark.
As time goes by, magic symbols will appear in those people's subconsciousness and dreams from time to time, exploring the rules of their consciousness flow, and doing deeper penetration work.
This "spider" is also weaving a web, a poisonous web that abrades people's hearts. For it, it is an endless pleasure to invade the minds of higher beings and corrode their wills. It can also gain nourishment from it, and the more it works, the more energetic it becomes, just like it did with Jack.
Ronan can completely control the movements of those slugs through this poisonous net, knead their will, and seize their lives.
Of course, compared to these simple and direct actions, sophisticated intelligence collection is not the strength of the magic talisman.
It can identify the nature of a certain thought or emotion, understand its positive or negative tendencies, and even capture some clearer fragments of consciousness, but it cannot understand the complex meaning of social relationships within it.
The above complex social factors must be further summarized and sorted out by Ronan.
Working in this way, even if Ronan has an excited brain that is constantly stimulated by drugs, has a life starry sky-style overview mode, and has a gradually improving prototype of coordination skills, he also has the support of Liu Er's "calculation space" and the Xia City branch's intelligence system , it is by no means easy to do.
It was impossible to organize it purely by brain, so he also took notes in writing, including pure text, tables, and more accustomed sketches.
After returning home, Ronan stayed up all night and drew a total of more than 400 drafts, which were all reflections of his ideas. Some of them are extremely valuable and even have the tendency to be "spiritual pictures"; some of them are so messed up that even Ronan himself can't understand them.
Of course, this kind of thing cannot be done on a physical notebook. Ronan wrote it in the soft-screen drawing software.
After a night's sleep and the effects of hormones, in such a harsh environment, his biological clock, which had gradually stabilized in the past month, was still able to hold on and conscientiously sent out messages to remind him that it was time for morning classes.
Ronan did not move. Given his current special situation, it would not be a good thing to forcefully maintain the pace of practice. The most he can do is maintain the habit of running in the morning, so as not to make the change seem too sudden.
There was still some time before his morning run, so he stopped racking his brains and started to put the finishing touches.
There are hundreds of sketches of varying quality. The main focus is still on analyzing the negotiation between capital and bureaucracy, and they do not involve too many elements of the real world. But this is also the result of his efforts throughout the night.
When Dean Wanta taught him the planning technique, he encouraged him to use parallel thinking to process information. Regardless of whether the brain would restore it to a time-series array, the blending of information, bursts of inspiration, and fuzzy processing methods were always the same. The advantages of biological brain.
What's more, His Majesty Emperor Wu has made it very clear that with his rules and regulations, that is, format theory, as the core, he will make full use of all resources to detect and understand the external environment, make calculations and comparisons, and achieve a structure of "ten thousand enemies". That's the right way.
Ronan now has some outlines of inspiration. He does not need, and for the time being, cannot have the powerful explosiveness and lethality like Jin Tong, but he can do many things in advance through special effects such as magic talismans.
Therefore, Ronan also regarded these sketches as part of the overall design, a prelude to "Ten Thousand Enemies". He took it very seriously, classified and numbered them one by one, and after roughly figuring out the logic, he sunk them into the second level of the drawing software.
As the second layer of the software was opened, a deep and cold light came up, filling the entire screen of the paper-like soft screen and swallowing up the "floating city" in the work area.
The sketches drawn by Ronan drifted away and disappeared. Only the consciousness connected with external neurons can grasp their existence.
Ever since Ronan drew those inexplicable psychic drawings, the second layer of the drawing software has been a direct visual display of his accomplishments in format theory.
Unconsciously, wonderful changes have taken place here.
A pop-up window containing a set of unknown text appeared. After Ronan cleared it out of habit, the interface of Void Stars was completely displayed. In the center, there was a "virtual brain" - the latest display in the external neuron interface. The app icon and its UI interface.
Comparing the two, there is almost no difference.
Originally, this was simply the result of the "intercommunication" between the two softwares.
I don’t know when it was - Ronan estimated that it was when the virtual brain app appeared. Its UI interface inexplicably penetrated into the second level of the drawing software provided by the external neuron, and combined the previous gestalt and the upgraded self-format. The core star field map was all replaced.
But the other way round also makes sense.
The "virtual brain" that Ronan saw at first was just a few bright spots inside, connected by dotted lines, just like a sketch of life randomly picked from Ronan's life starry sky.
But now, inside the virtual brain area, the stars are bright and dense, like a bright galactic center, floating under the vast sky. Besides, the planet is a bit weak, it can be said to be full of galaxy style.
Ronan is also very familiar with such a star cluster scene. This is the "core star field" transformed from the gestalt form after his cognitive upgrade some time ago, and represents his "self-format".
However, upon closer inspection, the originally dense clusters of stars have now undergone some fine-tuning in layout, and appear sparse. There are some gaps up and down, left and right, and there seems to be some rules to follow in the meandering.
As for what the law is, or whether it is just a temporary illusion, it is not clear yet.
This is probably also the result of the interlocking influence of the two star charts.
In any case, it is an established fact that the two apps influence and collude with each other. Now open the Virtual Brain app and open the second layer of the drawing software. Both the interface and the kernel look exactly the same.
Moreover, the hundreds of sketches that Ronan sprinkled into it, including the thousands of drawings he accumulated over the years, are still there, but they are hidden deeper.
The two apps share the UI interface, exchange data, and the core seems to be in one place - Ronan doesn't know what this means.
Is this how it is originally, and it appears automatically when opportunity strikes? Or is there some kind of special intelligent logic that performs a magical integration?
What's the point? Based on what?
After much thought, Ronan could only start with the external neurons themselves and make some speculations around this magical little thing.
First, the external neurons changed and showed the virtual brain app after he received the coordination technique from Dean Wanta. Whether this is the orderly change of the brain that leads to the activation of new functions or the function of the coordination technique itself requires further verification.
Second, whether it is external neurons or coordination skills, they all maintain a certain degree of compatibility with his current practice system. This is a good phenomenon and deserves further exploration.
Third, the external neurons themselves seemed to maintain some connections with external resources. The two unreadable "satellites" made Ronan very concerned.
But in the end, Ronan was drowned in the puzzle that had troubled him from the beginning: this mysterious little thing looked like a movement and was a hundred times more powerful than the movement he knew. How did his biological father obtain such a valuable and rare thing? And why was it sent back to him in such a secret and tortuous way?
Just as I was thinking that the subsequent changes were simply a replica of the initial exploration, another translucent pop-up panel popped up. He was asked to make a choice between incomprehensible words and incomprehensible options.
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