Alien Hotel.

Chapter 486 The Depths of the Internet
Anyway, in this muddled way, now in addition to Sun Gong's construction team and disciples of Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain like Xuan Che, there is now a snake demon among the "outsiders" who frequently come and go in the valley.

Snake Princess didn't really understand how far the border was from the Taixu Spiritual Pivot, nor did she understand what "light-year scale" and "alternate dimension" were. She seemed to think very simply that this valley was somewhere near Thousand Peaks Spiritual Mountain—because it was just a door away and very convenient to go home.

Yu Sheng exchanged a few words with the monster and then readily gave up on the idea of ​​explaining it to her.

Now that the children have been called back to class by Teacher Su, the snake demon began to wander around aimlessly. The fairy tale town wasn't big, and she quickly crawled from one end of the town to the other. Then she ran from the town to the nearby farmland, where she nibbled on some seedlings. After being beaten up by Luna, she ran back and hung herself on the king's cat tree, swaying and sunbathing.

She basked in the sun for more than ten minutes before realizing that there was no sun in the valley, but it was still hanging there.

Little Red Riding Hood thought she was about to get a beating from the king.

Yu Sheng was quite surprised by the snake queen's current mental state and lifestyle—her almost wild-like carefree state even had a hint of "following the natural way," but if you had to call her a wild animal... she would also use a magic mirror to watch short videos while hanging there sunbathing, and even like reptile videos...

Yu Sheng, Hu Li, and Little Red Riding Hood sat together on the high wall of the castle, watching from afar the snake demon stubbornly clinging to the giant cat tree. After a while, Hu Li suddenly asked curiously, "Where does she live?"

“Actually, there are several empty houses in town—they are all extras we built,” Little Red Riding Hood said, “but she has seen them all and said she doesn’t like them, so it seems she will still live in the grove of trees to the north.”

“I’ve seen her ‘cave’,” Yu Sheng said casually. “It’s just a messy little grassy hut with a huge pile of stones collected from the riverbank and hillside… I’ll give her some building materials later. If she really wants to build her own house, let her build it herself. Besides, this place is connected to Qianfeng Lingshan anyway, so she can go back to her hometown to sleep when she’s had enough fun.”

Hu Li said "Oh," then suddenly his ears twitched, and he stared wide-eyed in the direction of the cat tree: "Hey, hey, the king has woken up... The king has discovered a snake on the cat tree!"

Little Red Riding Hood's eyes widened in surprise: "The king leaned over... he breathed on him! They both breathed on him at the same time! The king raised his paw... Oh my god, the Royal Guard!"

Then the two of them stared at the battle on the cat tree, commenting on it. After a while, they both sighed in unison, and Little Red Riding Hood shook her head: "She was thrown down as expected."

Yu Sheng watched as Hu Li and Little Red Riding Hood huddled together, enjoying the spectacle. He was filled with mixed emotions, but he hesitated to utter the words "bad friends"—mainly because he was afraid of upsetting Little Red Riding Hood.

After all, this girl's embarrassing past of being seen with Hu Li is still stored in Rapunzel's cloud drive...

Thinking of this, Yu Sheng suddenly remembered something else and asked curiously, "By the way, how did your driving test go?"

Little Red Riding Hood, who was watching the commotion with Hu Li, froze upon hearing this, then visibly became embarrassed.

“…I failed the driving test (Part 2),” she muttered. “I just took the retest the day before yesterday—but I failed that too.”

"Well, the second part of the driving test is quite difficult," Yu Sheng had only asked casually, but he hadn't expected this situation. He could only quickly offer some comfort, and then casually asked, "Where are you stuck?"

Little Red Riding Hood blushed, lowered her head, and remained silent.

Yu Sheng hesitated for a moment: "Fell into the ditch again?"

Little Red Riding Hood kept her head down.

Yu Sheng understood immediately, and after a moment he sighed, "You... try harder next time."

……

At the same time, in the border area, a large villa is located on a broken floating island.

The circular hall was brightly lit, with countless cables extending down from above, intertwining on the roof like a tree canopy, and converging in the center of the hall to form a "trunk" that connects to a large base on the floor. Countless tiny flashes of light flickered and moved inside this "tree," as if vibrant life was flowing through the interwoven trunk and branches.

A deep, pleasant hum echoed throughout the hall, along with tiny, chiming sounds that occasionally emanated from the depths of the "tree canopy."

Marlene sat on the base of the "tree," a cable extending from behind her neck and merging into the tree trunk behind her. The wind-up maid Marise sat beside her, leaning against her. Several other cables extended from around Marise's wind-up hole and connected to several grooves in the base.

This is the data processing center of the outpost, and also a "node" where the "Garden" matrix network is set at the intersection.

Normally, the Alice doll doesn't need physical contact to connect with the "garden," but today's situation is clearly somewhat special.

The dangerous information that may have been hidden on the public network, and the "zombie databases" that may have been buried in the data settling layer with each iteration and upgrade of the "garden," require higher-privilege node authentication to find. The search has been going on for hours, but even with the computing power and bandwidth of high-level nodes, finding those data that may only have a few scattered fragments left in such a vast garden network is not an easy task.

Moreover, those scattered pieces of data may even be blocked by security systems with higher privileges.

Amidst the illusory world created by the deluge of information, Marlene's consciousness is sinking deeper into the Garden Network.

She had already traversed the bustling and noisy first-level access layer and the tense and busy second-level access layer. The surface structure of the "Garden" shone brightly above her "head" like a bizarre and boundless megacity. That megacity was bustling and noisy, with countless nodes filled with all sorts of strange and wonderful data that every Alice doll could capture and upload from every corner of the universe. Data ranged from military conflicts breaking out in a certain star sector to the launch of a hair oil that a certain city could use on dolls. The astonishing and complex data roared and flowed through the network, being written, refreshed, reorganized, and discarded in trillions of units...

In the lower level of this "giant city," there is a quiet and profound reflection. The prosperity of the upper network is now only a distant echo. Illusions of light and shadow float in Marlene's vision like a thin and fragile veil. Some beacons used to mark important information shuttle through the middle. Occasionally, other doll-like mental entities can be seen appearing on this level, each one blurry and coming and going in a hurry.

But the information Marlene needs to access may be located even deeper inside.

She used her privileges as a "regional envoy" to delve deeper into the Garden Network.

The surrounding light and shadow illusions dimmed further, and only a few hollow noises were transmitted from the upper network. There were no other Alice doll minds in the dimness, only occasional gray shadows that could be seen quickly moving through the darkness—those were patrol programs called "scavengers," which tirelessly traversed the depths of the garden network day and night, clearing away the polluting information that occasionally sank to this level, and always on alert for any "zombie database" that was blocked by the main network and had awakened without authorization.

Data can suddenly awaken, like a sleeping corpse waking up from its grave. Although the probability is small, it is always difficult to avoid the situation where a zombie database suddenly comes to life and develops its own personality. In some civilizations, locals regard this kind of data structure that rises from the depths of the network and causes trouble as the main reason for "machine soul displeasure". In the "garden" network, these awakened harmful data structures are basically unable to break through the defenses formed by the "cleaner".

Marlene stopped on this level, gazing down at the chaotic, deep, and seemingly endless abyss-like surging, invisible things—a projection of the Garden Network in her mind, reminding her that this was the end of her descent.

A dim ball of light floated beside her, and from within it came Maris's slightly distorted voice: "Access request submitted. Access keywords: Eileen, omen, goddess of omen, black star, dark planet, malfunctioning planet, spacetime defect, system boundary, supersystem event..."

"Well, hard work."

Marlene said calmly, glancing back at the ball of light beside her.

The servo robots produced by Alglade-Global United Industries are indeed very powerful. Maris's simulated mental entity can even accompany her to dive deep into the Garden Network and still function normally. This saves her a lot of effort and can also reduce the mental stress brought about by deep network diving to a considerable extent. Although Maris often acts more like a servo princess, compared to the role she can play... it's not a big problem.

...Anyway, I'm not going to become a member.

As Marlene was thinking this, she saw a grayish-white light suddenly swim out of the chaos, stop in front of her, and then circle around her like a fish.

It's a street cleaner.

Marlene was instinctively a little nervous, but fortunately, the standard scanning procedure went smoothly—the scavenger left quickly without even checking Marlene's glowing orb next to him.

“Why does it only scan you?” Marise asked.

“Because your simulated mind is too rudimentary here and not enough to pose any threat to this level,” Marlene said frankly. “Besides, you were thoroughly scanned when you passed through the upper area just now, so there’s no need to waste the Scavenger’s computing power here.”

“...To be honest, I’m a little hurt,” Maris said dejectedly. “I’m just a mass-produced and outdated industrial product after all. Despite trying my best to imitate you, I can’t change my inner nature.”

Marlene paused for a moment, then instinctively reached out her hand towards the ball of light in front of her: "Marilyn, actually..."

Before she could finish her sentence, the remaining part of the light burst forth: "So why don't you try the Mind Upgrade Expansion Pack specially designed for this situation by Universal United Industries? No need to purchase the entire framework, just one auxiliary unit, and your servo robot can install itself. Order now..."

"Shut up."

“Yes, Miss Marlene.”

Marlene shook her head and began to think about which of the more than one hundred messages she had set up when she turned on Marys's phone was the smart push notification.

Just then, she caught a glimpse of a grayish-white light out of the corner of her eye.

The cleaner program... why is it happening again?

(End of this chapter)