Patty seemed very happy with the arrival of "Uncle Gaowen".

She hadn't seen Uncle Gaowen for a long time, and hadn't heard Uncle Gaowen tell her stories about the pioneering period, the Gondor period, and various other wonderful ideas.

Even though she is almost fifteen years old this year, even among ordinary aristocratic children, children of her age have even begun to appear in social situations and learn to handle family affairs. However, in the eyes of outsiders, she is still a child, even her appearance is younger than her peers. As for the knowledge she knows, she is even lagging behind many aristocratic children of her peers.

Years-long serious injuries made her miss almost the entire childhood. Patty didn't start learning about knowledge again until this year. Many of the questions she raised did not seem to fit her age in Gao Wen's opinion.

But on the other hand, the special experience made Patty more mentally than her peers. Perhaps because she lost the ability to move freely and relied entirely on the care of others, she could always keenly detect the emotional changes of the people around her.

"Uncle Gao Wen, are you a little unhappy?" She noticed a subtle emotional change in Gao Wenyan's conversation, and immediately stopped her nagging questions and asked carefully.

Gao Wen was stunned for a moment, and his eyes fell on the little girl in front of him.

The other party was able to sit in a wheelchair well and his neck could be raised with his own strength. The big eyes were looking at this side without blinking, with curiosity and a little worry in his eyes.

"No, I'm not unhappy," after a moment, Gao Wen smiled and shook his head, "I just suddenly remembered something else and got distracted."

"It's not good to be distracted," Patty said seriously, "but you are an adult. You usually have a lot of things that need to be thought about, right?"

"I do have a lot of things, but it's okay to take time to tell you a story." Gao Wen said with a smile, but at the same time he had already divided some of his attention and quietly activated the secret port that could be connected to the spiritual network. After so long of his familiarity, he was able to retract and release these powers from the Eternal Sleeper. Even if he did not completely immerse his consciousness in the network, he could use his special permissions to call network resources and perform some secret operations.

After connecting his shallow consciousness with the network, he looked at Patty again.

Patty was still Patty, her face neither turned into Selena Gerfon, nor did she appear next to her.

But Gao Wen was able to confirm that Selena was indeed "here", and was closely linked to Patty in some strange state.

Because next to Patty's small wheelchair, a lantern was quietly hanging in the air that ordinary people could not see with their naked eyes.

...

Patty needs to sleep enough every day to repair her lost spirit and further exert the effect of "limb regeneration" and before meeting Gao Wen, she had watched the magic drama for more than two hours, and then listened to Gao Wen telling many stories, and it was soon time to take a lunch break.

Gao Wen watched the close maid bring Patty to the next room, gently placed the little girl in a special immersion cabin. After confirming that Patty had fallen asleep peacefully, he left the room and came to the reception room of the castle, and met Viscount Penny Roppenni waiting here.

The Viscountess got up from the high-back chair and bowed to Gaowen to pay tribute: "Your Majesty, thank you for your care for Patty. She will definitely be very happy today."

"I feel relieved after her health has improved a lot," Gao Wen nodded, and as he said, he came to a chair near the window to sit down. "I saw Patty already hibernating in the immersion cabin - has she been using the immersion cabin for a while?"

"Yes," Viscount Roppeni nodded, "It's been almost a month."

"Are there any adverse reactions? Is she used to it?"

These problems sound just normal concern, and Viscountess didn't think anything was wrong: "No, the immersion cabin was very useful, and the technicians you sent were also very conscientious. They stayed here for four days and confirmed that there was no abnormality during Patty's use before leaving. Before leaving, they handed over the technical information of the immersion cabin to the local magic technician. As for Patty... she was not used to it at first, but she was just because she couldn't sleep with the strange bed. Now she is very adaptable."

Have you been using immersion cabins?

Gao Wen touched his chin and asked again: "Where is the former head crown of Eternal Sleeper now?"

"I have placed it in the basement of the castle, with some extraordinary collections," replied the Viscountess, "because I don't plan to use it again in the future, I'm considering whether to seal it with some means - after all, it has something to do with the Eternal Sleeper."

For this lady, caution has become her habit.

But when dealing with the Eternal Sleeper, this level of caution seems far from enough.

"You don't have to think about any seal anymore. I'm going to take the crown away," said Gao Wen, "for... research."

Viscount Roppeni's eyes changed slightly. Although Gao Wen's tone and expression did not show any abnormality, the mother's intuition suddenly jumped. She stared at Gao Wen's eyes tightly: "Your Majesty... Is there something wrong with the crown? Patty..."

"Don't be too nervous," Gao Wen waved his hand immediately, "It's just technical research. As for Patty, she's in a good condition."

Penny Rodriguez then showed a sigh of relief: "That's fine. Sorry, I'm always too nervous about Patty's question..."

The viscount woman left. As Glen's consul, she still had a lot of official duties to deal with. Gao Wen also returned to the room specially prepared for him. He closed the door and saw a short winter melon popping out in the shadows near the curtains.

After confirming that there were no outsiders around, Amber was relieved and boldly jumped out of the shadow world and smiled at Gao Wen: "According to the information, the Viscount Roppeni is a person who is difficult to trust others easily, but she trusts you very much - if you say Patty is okay, she really feels relieved to work."

"I just don't want her to take unnecessary pressure, after all, things have not been figured out yet," Gao Wen said casually, "and we must avoid alarming the snake."

"Shocking the snake? This is an interesting word, I've recorded it," Amber's eyes lit up, and he recorded the new word with ease, adding another stroke to the "Sacred Sayings of Emperor Gowen Cecil" she collected and compiled in private. Then he looked at Gowen curiously, "After that, is Patty really a problem?"

Gao Wen pondered for a moment and whispered: "In the spiritual vision, there is a lantern beside her."

“…Mom.”

"But the situation is still better than I expected," Gowen continued. "Selina Gerfen did not invade Patty's soul, and the latter showed no sign of damage. They might be living in peace, and even Patty herself didn't know anything unusual in her..."

Amber stared at her eyes: "Everyone saw that she was still so optimistic when she was holding a lantern. What would be the 'bad situation' you expected before?"

"In the worst case... Patty is Selena Gerson," Gowen glanced at Amber. "She was dead long before we met Patty, and when Patty came into contact with the crown, she was already dead. In the years that followed, Selena was in that shell."

Amber imagined the scene and suddenly shivered: "...Mom!"

Gao Wen successfully scared this brave half-elf and felt a little happy: "It's really terrifying, isn't it? When it comes to the horror of the mind, the eternal sleeper is obviously better than the end of everything..."

"I'm not because of this," Amber waved his hand. "I just think a woman in her seven hundred pretends to be a teenage girl, and calls you Uncle Gaowen when she meets her, and calls a young woman in her twenties mother for several years. This is really terrifying. She deserves to be a sleeper..."

Gao Wen: "…"

After realizing that continuing to discuss the shame of this elf was a way to die, he decisively cut off the topic and returned to the right track: "It is not yet certain that Patty and Selena are in contact. In order to avoid alarming the snake and to control the situation on the Eternal Sleeper, we cannot take any open action on Glen's side - we can only maintain the most peripheral surveillance."

Amber slapped his chest and said, "I understand, I'm good at this."

Then she noticed that Gao Wen still had a thoughtful look on his face, and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong? What else is going on?"

"I was wondering... how many things we have been exposed to Selena Gerfen's eyes, and what is the reason for her silence to this day," Gao Wen exhaled softly and shook his head helplessly. "Patty is now using the immersion cabin produced by Cecil to fall asleep. At the same time, our Magic Net communication technology is not a secret. It has been promoted in the Glen area, and a veteran Eternal Sleeper can easily see the shadow of the spiritual network technology from the Magic Net communication... If Selena Gerfen is really hidden deep in Patty's consciousness, she can see all this through the eyes of the "host"... Even if this evidence is not enough to directly prove that the "extraterritorial wanderers" can invade the spiritual network, it should be enough to arouse the vigilance and attention of Eternal Sleeper... But Selena Gerfen did nothing, and many of the plans made by Daniel and I have not yet come in handy."

"Hiss... the more strange and silent people are, the more alert they make people feel," Amber bared her teeth, "Any destruction has countermeasures and remedies, and what I am afraid of is that I don't say anything."

Then she paused and shook her head: "But then again, as long as we develop Magic Network communication technology, the Eternal Sleeper will not notice that things will always surface when they develop to a certain extent. This is the necessity after the scale is expanded. In this confrontation, 'We hide everything, they can't see anything' can only be considered a low-level stage, 'We have everything public, they see nothing' is the advanced stage - now, it is time to prepare for the end of the first stage."

Gao Wen looked at Amber who was talking nonsense until he made the other party look awkward and twisted his neck: "Hey, what are you watching me?"

"It's nothing, I just think what you said makes sense," Gao Wen smiled and said casually, "Indeed, our own spiritual network technology is gradually maturing, and the Eternal Sleeper... will definitely notice it. And if you recall carefully, when I first met Patty, I considered that Selena often stayed with each other in Dream City, so I did not reveal any information about the "extraterritorial wanderer" in front of Patty. Selena Gerfen can at most see our technological development in Magic Network communication with Patty's eyes.

"I'm curious about one thing now. When Patty was using the immersion cabin, she just used it to sleep. She no longer connected to the mind network of the sleeper. This is to prevent the exposure of our 'network intrusion' behavior. Since Patty no longer entered the 'spiritual network', then Selena, who was hiding in Patty's 'side'...how did she maintain her connection with the psycho network?"

Amber scratched her hair.

She couldn't understand the question raised by Gao Wen.

...

At the foot of the snow-capped mountains in the East, a breeze shield shone with glittering lights isolates the wind and snow from the wilderness. The charged rails shrouded by the shield extend on the ground and gradually disappear in the depths of the wind and snow in the distance.

The wheels rolled, and the mechanical device played the melody of steel. A magic train hanging from the Cecil Empire emblem roared past the charged rails wrapped in shields, running on the ground like a giant steel python.

The unknown mountains retreated on the side of the train, and the plants and railings near the rails were connected into a vague area due to the rapid retreat.

It was a winter when the wind was howling outside, but the train was warm and comfortable inside. It was a wonderful experience to travel across the wilderness in the belly of a steel beast.

Matilda Augustus sat upright on the spacious and comfortable train seat, looking at the exotic scenery outside through the crystal glass embedded in the side wall of the car, with a slightly raised corner of his mouth.
Chapter completed!