Chapter 325
The scan wasn't an attack, but it inadvertently measured the size of the world.
Red Moon Castle.
The world's core display has been reduced to the minimum safe range.
The lingering echo of the old anchor hangs on the outermost layer of the boundary.
Like a broken lamp specifically designed to deceive passersby.
Jiang Luo sat on a table in the underground experimental area.
The results of all the tests were laid out in front of me.
[Unknown world-class order rules.]
Observable structure: 12%.
[Source: Deep within the World's Debris Cluster.]
[Actions: Scan, confirm, measure.]
The last two words.
This made Jiang Luo very unhappy.
"What does 'measurement' mean?"
Naya sat on the other side.
He was holding a cup of coffee he had brought back from the Federation.
I took a sip.
frown.
Why would anyone in the real world like to drink something so bitter?
Jiang Luo banged on the table.
"Don't change the subject."
"Literal meaning."
Naya put down the cup.
"It wasn't just confirming the world anchor; it also took the opportunity to read the boundary thickness, spatial stability, and rule density."
The crow's expression was strange.
"Like measuring a room?"
"almost."
Jiang Luo: "..."
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It's starting to look more and more like a reconnaissance mission.
Lin Xiao overlaid the data from the fifty nodes again.
soon.
A simplified world structure diagram emerges.
The grayscale scan passes through each location.
They all left very faint data gaps.
Boundary thickness.
Rule-based response speed.
Spatial delay between different regions.
Even which areas had suffered large-scale damage.
They've figured out the general outline of everything.
Jiang Luoyue looked at it more and more.
The darker the face.
"You call this no attack?"
"There was indeed no attack on the world."
Nyar answered calmly.
"It just looked."
"Peeping is also illegal."
"There are no laws outside of your home world."
"Now we have it."
Jiang Luo slammed her hand on the table.
"Article 1: Measuring the area of Lolo's house is not permitted without authorization."
The crow: "..."
Lin Xiao: "..."
Nyarlathotep: "..."
Isn't the scope of this law a bit too private?
Jiang Juechen ignored her nonsense.
Transfer the scan results directly to the fifty-node defense system.
[New anomaly detection type added: World-class Scan.]
[Identification criteria: The boundary is touched on a large scale outside the rules of this world.]
Solution 1: Reduce the visibility of the global anchor.
[Option 2: Activate the old anchor for guidance.]
[Option 3: Seal off any cross-border historical traces.]
Jiang Luo saw the third one.
"Didn't you say it couldn't be wiped off?"
"Blocking and erasing are not the same thing."
Jiang Juechen explained.
"In the future, unnecessary cross-border records will no longer retain long-term echoes at the boundary. Players' return and real-world channels will still be used normally, but old traces will be periodically eliminated."
"Can it reduce the probability of being tracked?"
"able."
"Then let's do it."
This time.
No one objected.
Over the past decade or so.
Both worlds treat cross-border collaboration as a normal, familiar process.
The player enters.
The players are back.
The instance is open.
The copy is closed.
No one ever thought of that.
Every time the door opens.
They will all leave a footprint on the world.
Now I know.
We can't keep trampling on the ground like this.
soon.
The first traces of cross-border collaboration are beginning to recede.
The actual return journey route.
Large instance entrance.
Fixed access route to Red Moon Castle.
A new layer of "boundary cleaning" has been added to all of them.
It's not about preventing its use.
Just wipe the footprints at the door after you're done using it.
Jiang Luo was very satisfied.
"This is good."
The crow looked at her.
"So you're thinking of charging again?"
"Is Lolo like that kind of person?"
The crows remained silent.
Like.
very alike.
Jiang Luo narrowed his eyes.
The crow immediately turned its head.
"I didn't say anything."
(￣ ▽ ￣)
Just then.
The mother plant suddenly swayed.
It's not a black leaf.
Instead, it represents the dark red leaf that symbolizes the global early warning network.
Fifty nodes.
Four of them lit up at the same time.
The second gate of Wusheng City.
The outskirts of the cemetery at dusk.
Buried deep within the canyon.
There is also an old battlefield on the world's edge.
Jiang Luo's smile vanished instantly.
"here we go again?"
No new scans detected.
An abnormal rule delay was detected.
Lin Xiao immediately zoomed in on the four nodes.
They were not contaminated.
It was not attacked.
It was just at the same time.
The rules were slow to run for 0.02 seconds.
very short.
The error is so short that the normal copy system won't even issue a warning.
A network of fifty nodes is already sensitive enough.
The crow frowned.
"What do you mean?"
Nyarlathotep did not answer immediately.
He walked up to the projector.
I watched it for a good ten seconds.
"It didn't scan again."
"What is that?"
"The aftereffects of that scan just now."
Jiang Luo didn't understand.
Naya raised his hand.
Connect the four nodes on the world map.
An arc appears.
It is located precisely on the weakest side of the world.
"After it has been measured, the world itself is readjusting."
"Adapt to what?"
"Touched by higher-level external rules".
Naya looked at Jiang Luo.
"You can think of the world's boundaries as skin. Before, it was just a matter of tiny needles pricking it, with pollution seeping in. But now it's different; a structure of rules, far larger than ordinary pollution, is pressing in from the outside."
Jiang Luo understood.
"He didn't hit her, but he touched her?"
"right."
"rogue."
"..."
Nyar decided not to accept the metaphor.
Lin Xiao, however, stared at those four nodes.
"If the boundary adapts to this contact, will it be easier to recognize the same rule in the future?"
Jiang Juechen answered.
"meeting."
Jiang Luo's eyes lit up.
"Didn't that mean I got resistance for free?"
"That's one way to understand it."
(ಡωಡ)
My mood suddenly improved.
Available in the next second.
"But the reverse is also true."
Jiang Luo's smile froze.
"What do you mean?"
"The other party also memorized some of the boundary feedback of the strange world through scanning just now."
The air was quiet.
Okay.
Learn from each other.
Nobody got something for free.
Just then.
The node of the second gate of the City of No Life.
Suddenly, an urgent communication came from the Thousand-Eyed Demon God.
The call just connected.
Dozens of eyes were open at the same time.
Not one of them was blinking.
"Jiang Luo".
Her voice was much lower than usual.
"There's something beyond the world's borders."
Jiang Luo suddenly stood up.
"That one just now?"
"no."
"What is that?"
The space behind the Thousand-Eyed Demon God slowly distorted.
She shared what she saw.
Beyond the borders of a dark world.
A location extremely far from the eerie world.
There is a tiny white dot.
It is moving slowly.
It's not pollution.
It wasn't a scan either.
It has a very clear entity.
The black leaves of the mother plant instantly lit up.
Unknown extraterrestrial matter detected.
[No erosion rules were carried.]
No vital signs detected.
[Direction of movement: A bizarre world.]
Jiang Luo stared at the white dot.
How big?
The Thousand-Eyed Demon God remained silent for two seconds.
"Based on the current distance, it's probably only the size of a box."
Underground experimental area.
Everyone fell silent at the same time.
The World Debris Cluster just glanced at this place.
just now.
There is already something real.
It is drifting towards the eerie world.