Arcane Lord

Yongle City.

In the temporary warehouse, Xia Duo finally saw the captured Illuminati members up close, including the only high-level wizard. They were all wearing a standard gray cloak, and some were wearing masks.

In Xia Duo's view, this was the classic image of an evil organization.

Of course, the identities of these Illuminati members in reality may be very normal.

For example, the "chicken" Person he controlled was the logistics wizard of Terminus, the current border city of Sruvende, responsible for the maintenance of infrastructure in a fixed area in the city.

"Why do you have to join the Illuminati when you can do nothing else! Now it's good, not only can you not protect yourself, but also your family and friends behind you!"

Xia Duo removed the disguises of these Illuminati members one by one. Most of the elves were unfamiliar faces, but there were one or two he knew, or even familiar with. This discovery made him sigh even more!

But no matter what the reason, the fact that these elves appeared in the secret base of the Illuminati was enough to make their families and friends behind them suffer.

If the connection is deep enough, it will be even more troublesome. It is not impossible for the whole family and the whole clan to go together.

After saving the images of these elves and passing them to Doom, Shado began to make copies of consciousness for these guys. After dealing with the Illuminati for so long, his skills in making copies of consciousness have really improved a lot.

This is all because the Illuminati fed him experience again and again.

The first thing he made was the copy of the consciousness of the only high-level mage who was caught this time. This high-level mage was a golden elf, and his expression when he was imprisoned was perfectly frozen in a look of horror.

At the critical moment of life and death, high-level mages may not necessarily behave more calmly than ordinary people, and Shado is not unfamiliar with this high-level mage in front of him, and can even be said to be familiar.

This is a Yeerlan elf. Shado has had contact with him several times before. Although the communication process is not very harmonious, it at least exceeds the attitude of most elf mages towards humans.

Shado even had the idea of ​​inviting him to join the Lingsi Network Research Center, but because of their shallow friendship, he was not able to really implement it.

"Hippocrates, I didn't expect that we would meet again in such an occasion!"

Although the two sides didn't have much friendship, they had met and communicated after all. Xia Duo couldn't help but sigh that he really didn't realize that this guy was a member of the Illuminati before.

This was after a comprehensive examination of the demons, which showed that this guy was not a demon, and as a high-level wizard, this guy really had no compelling reason to join the Illuminati.

This further explained the real attitude of this guy. There is no doubt that he believed in the Illuminati's rhetoric-wanting Elan to be reborn and wanting to create a new world.

He is just a Yeerlan elf, why does he have such a strong obsession with Elan?

Xiao Duo really couldn't figure it out, so he became more interested in this guy's memory.

However, considering that the Alliance should soon ask to take over this batch of captives, Xia Duo did not immediately explore Hippocrates' memory, but continued to make copies of the consciousness of other elves.

During this period, he completely blocked the outside news, and waited until all the copies of consciousness were completed before he lifted the blockade.

The next moment, a large number of messages came pouring in, not only direct messages directed at him, but even his communication device was almost blown up.

It took Shado almost an hour to check all the messages, and he selected some of them that he thought were important and replied.

These messages are mainly divided into three categories. One category is asking what happened before, including the war wizard of the floating city asking whether there are new tasks next.

One category is the questioning of him by the Alliance, including the request for him to hand over the captives immediately, and the identity background information that Dumu found based on the images of these elf captives he provided before.

The third category is mainly from the Tower of Time, including the concern of people around Nia and others, as well as the work reports of Leighton, the secretary, and the Institute of Advancement.

In the end, Shado only replied to Nia and others around him and Dumu. The main reason for replying to the latter was that the other party provided him with a lot of useful information, which saved him time.

…

Efreska

After the Peak Intercepting Operation, Xia Duo finally returned to Evereska. Now the gravity environment of Evereska has stabilized, and there is no chaos in various urban areas, but——

Walking in Evereska, Xia Duo still saw the depression of the city with his naked eyes.

There are few tourists on the street, and pedestrians are in a hurry to come and go, and they seem to be in a hurry. According to the feedback from [Wide Area Exploration], Evereska’s portal has not stopped since it was restored yesterday.

The evacuation of a large number of tourists and even merchants has made the city quickly deserted. This is the first time that Xia Duo has seen Evereska in such a state.

Soon, Xia Duo came to the Alliance Headquarters. As soon as he arrived here, he couldn't help but smile knowingly. It was still as lively as ever, as if the previous Peak Intercepting Operation had never happened.

But the tense expressions on the faces of the staff at the headquarters still revealed an unusual atmosphere. Indeed, how could there be no reaction to such a big thing!

"Good day, Consultant Xia Duo!"

"Good day."

Xia Duo smiled and greeted the staff members who passed by. What he was most concerned about now was not how to respond to the inquiries from representatives of various countries, but the situation of the computing power pool.

Theoretically, no matter where Everiska flies to, as long as it is still in the main plane, it will not affect the normal operation of the computing power pool.

But that is only theory. It is almost impossible for the actual computing power pool to be unaffected.

It is not because of Everiska's own movement, but more because of the magic network vibration caused by the peak cutting technique and the changes in Everiska's maze lock.

It's just that the impact is big and small, and Xia Duo now wants to confirm how big the impact is.

…

Quickly came to the Lingsi Network Research Center. Outside the gateway control hall, Xia Duo met Charles, who had contacted him on the way. He kept walking and asked him to follow, and asked:

"You just said that everything is normal. Do you mean the current state of the computing power pool, or has it always been like this?"

"It's the current state. There was a momentary pause in the response of the sub-networks of various countries before, but it recovered quickly later, and then I know that there is no abnormality now."

"Is it just that momentary pause?"

"Yes."

Charles gave an affirmative answer, and Xia Duo didn't ask anything else, because he had already met Christa, and the other party was about to report to him.

Xia Duo spoke first: "I heard that the computing pool had a momentary pause yesterday. Tell me the details."

"Yes."

Hrista was a little surprised that Xia Duo was so concerned about the pause, but he immediately explained, "According to what we learned later, the computing pool pause should have occurred at the moment when Everiska moved.

"Affected by the rapidly vibrating magic network environment, the connection between the sub-network and the main network produced a momentary hysteresis effect, but only for this moment, and then it was restored.

"For computing pool users, only some users who use advanced functions can feel it, and ordinary users can hardly feel the pause at that moment.

"In addition, we conducted a surprise inspection of all gateway instruments and translation devices afterwards, and no abnormal damage was found.

"Now we can basically judge that the impact of this incident only stayed at that moment yesterday. If there is no similar situation in the future, this kind of pause should not happen again."