I'm having fun in Tokyo

Professor Schneider frowned, then nodded.

"Yes, but you are not allowed to act on your own."

Fingel nodded quickly: "Of course, I'm just going to paddle around, I definitely won't run around."

"Then let's go."

Professor Schneider waved.

He walked toward the library, and the students quickly followed him.

Soon, they arrived at the entrance to the underground passage.

Because EVA stopped operating, many of the lights and surveillance cameras in the underground passage were turned off, leaving only some emergency lights.

Professor Schneider made a gesture.

The combat team students following behind him quickly turned on the tactical flashlights on their rifles, formed combat formations, and advanced.

Lu Mingfei, carrying a sniper rifle, followed at the back.

When they reached the door of the central control room, Professor Schneider raised his hand and said, "Stop."

He frowned as he looked at the unclosed passageway and the nine metal doors that were open within it.

The infrared sensors and the tunnel current were both not working, which indicates that someone did indeed use a high-authority ID card to disable EVA's security protection devices.

"Walk."

He walked through the passageway and arrived at the central control room.

In the pitch-black control room, there was a faint light and a few figures.

He looked over and saw that the person in the lead was Professor Alan Turing from the college.

"Mr. Turing."

Professor Schneider called out.

The other party was Alan Turing, a tenured professor at the college and the father of the computer in history.

Tenured professors like the one mentioned typically conduct their scientific research in the "ice cellar" beneath the college.

Unless it's something extremely important, nothing can disturb them enough to make them leave their underground location and appear before others.

Mr. Turing looked at Professor Schneider, nodded to him, and then looked at the central control room.

"EVA has disappeared."

Professor Schneider was taken aback: "EVA disappeared?"

He followed Mr. Turing's gaze and discovered that the enormous central mainframe in the vast control room had vanished without a trace.

How can it be! ?

A profound sense of absurdity washed over Professor Schneider.

He thought EVA had stopped working because it had been forcibly shut down or destroyed, but he never expected it to simply disappear.

He looked at Mr. Turing, seeking an answer.

But Mr. Turing frowned and simply shook his head.

"I just discovered that EVA had stopped working, so I came up from under the 'ice cellar' to see what was going on, but when I got here, I found that the main unit of EVA had disappeared."

Mr. Turing walked to the wall of the central control room, turned on his flashlight, and illuminated a passageway corresponding to the door of the control room.

The passageway is very narrow, and only a portion of it is open to pedestrians.

Because a large portion of the space is occupied by numerous electrical wires.

Those were the power cables that supplied power to the mainframe and the fiber optic cables that transmitted data, leading to a hub deeper underground within the academy.

But now those millions of densely packed lines are broken.

The broken edge was perfectly smooth, like a mirror, reflecting the light from the flashlight.

"You suspect...?" Professor Schneider whispered.

"I suspect someone took EVA away."

"I just don't know how he did it."

Mr. Turing turned his gaze back to the center of the central mainframe, looking at the area where the EVA mainframe should have been.

"The main unit of EVA is larger than a library on the ground, occupying the entire underground floor from the first to the sixth floor."

"As a result, it disappeared here in just a few minutes."

Professor Schneider remained silent.

After a long silence, he finally asked, "Mr. Turing, do you think it might be Professor Morikawa?"

Thinking of Morikawa Yu's recent attempt to go to the academy's underground area.

Although he didn't know how Morikawa Yu managed to use Word of Power to hide himself and enter the underground passage and central control room under the suppression of the discipline, he immediately suspected Morikawa Yu.

"Perhaps," Mr. Turing shrugged.

"Before EVA stopped working, I read the report she had compiled about Professor Morikawa."

"In just one day, he caused such great losses to the academy and also demonstrated a power beyond the imagination of ordinary people."

“I’m not surprised at all that you’re telling me he took EVA away.”

"If EVA really was taken away by him, what will the academy do?" Schneider couldn't help but ask.

EVA is the eyes of the Academy, its strongest weapon, and when EVA mode is activated, it is also the world's most advanced supercomputer and artificial intelligence.

Without EVA, the Academy is practically blind.

"Two methods." Mr. Turing turned off his flashlight.

He looked at Schneider and glanced at the two combat group students behind Professor Schneider.

“Rebuild EVA, or stop the fighting, negotiate with Professor Morikawa, ask him what he really wants, and then redeem EVA from him.”

"Rebuild EVA? Peace talks?"

Professor Schneider paused for a moment.

"Can the academy rebuild EVA? And isn't it a bit too late to negotiate with Professor Morikawa now?"

“Of course we can,” Mr. Turing said calmly. “The mainframe of EVA was designed and built by me and several other computer science professors. We have its complete set of design drawings and logic library.”

"However, rebuilding it will take a considerable amount of time."

"Because those drawings were just prototypes, and the logic library was also the initial logic library."

"Over the past few decades, we have continuously enhanced it with the latest technologies, adding various operational logic and system patches."

"It is no longer what it used to be."

"In other words, even if we spend a huge amount of time to successfully rebuild EVA, it will not be the original EVA."

"Then what should we do...?" Professor Schneider's face was grim.

He was the head of the executive department, more skilled in combat and command than in scientific research.

Even so, he realized the seriousness of the problem.

“Therefore, I tend to favor the second option: to negotiate with Professor Morikawa.” Mr. Turing’s gaze returned to the empty center of the mainframe room.

"Offer him a price that satisfies him, and redeem the Dragon King's Egg and EVA."

Professor Schneider frowned: "At this point, is there still any possibility for us to negotiate with Professor Morikawa?"

"He injured so many students and severely damaged the principal."

"The Dragon King's egg is also in his hands."

“That’s precisely why we need to negotiate with him,” Mr. Turing said in a deep voice.

"Although he injured many students and seriously injured the principal, as far as I know, he only injured those students and did not kill them."

"After knocking down Principal Angers, he didn't kill him, but left directly."

"From this perspective, Professor Morikawa is different from dragons."

"Dragons have never shown any mercy to humans."

“I felt from the beginning that Principal Angers’s conclusion that he was a dragon and his hasty actions to capture him were inappropriate, but the principal wouldn’t listen to us.”

After he finished speaking, Mr. Turing looked at him again.

"Is Principal Angers still unconscious?"

Schneider fell silent, then shook his head: "I don't know."

For security reasons, the academy has always blocked cell phone signals and relied on EVA's encrypted channels for communication. Now that EVA has stopped operating, they have lost their private and effective means of communication.

Mr. Turing frowned.

He lowered his head, raised his hand, and glanced at his watch: "It's time."

Professor Schneider paused for a moment, then asked, "What should be coming?"

"The backup system should be here soon." Mr. Turing took out his phone and opened a chat window.

“When EVA was first designed, we considered the possibility that it might stop working and become inoperable, so we prepared a backup main unit and hid it in the ‘ice cellar’.”

"Although its computing power and the communication channels it provides are much simpler than EVA's, it also uses multiple computational encryption methods and can be used for current communication."

Professor Schneider asked instinctively, "Then can we use it to replace EVA?"

Mr. Turing shook his head: "It's difficult."

"It's just a backup system, it hasn't been updated much, and it's almost a generation behind EVA."

"You can think of EVA as a war leader with the appearance of a young girl, who can turn the world's processors into her army and command thousands of troops at will."

"And it was a baby who was still learning to walk."

"EVA can solve it in an instant."

Mr. Turing spoke while looking at his phone.

"I asked, the principal is still asleep. Let's go."

Professor Schneider: "Where to?"

“Go to the meeting.” Mr. Turing turned around.

"Then we'll discuss with those guys who only know how to shout about fighting and killing how the academy should deal with the mess they've made."

......

The college's underground area, the hub area.

Morikawa Yu looked at the huge and cluttered space in front of her.

It was much larger than the mainframe room where the EVA mainframe was located, making one wonder if the Secret Society and the Academy had hollowed out the entire mountain beneath the Academy.

Tsurumaru also floated out from Tsurumaru Kuninaga.

She couldn't help but ask, "Master, you're not going to move all these old antiques into the Imperial Seal Pavilion, are you?"

Before Morikawa Yu and her were millions of wires of various colors.

They intertwined and headed in different directions, connecting to the massive old-fashioned computers on all four walls.

The ancient transistors gleamed faintly in the darkness, and the magnetic tape memory spun, making a soft clicking sound.

Morikawa Yuya glanced around.

He nodded: "Of course."

After all, only by taking all of these with us can it be the true EVA.

He walked to the control panel in the center of the rows of server racks, lifted the dust cover, and waved his hand to disperse the dust with a slight breeze.

Beneath the dust cover was an old console with a monitor that looked like a monochrome screen from the 80s, only it had stopped working.

The sword maiden followed behind Morikawa Yu.

Morikawa Yu told her to be careful and watch out for the direction he came from, then reached out and activated the spatial power of the Goshuincho.

Although his spatial abilities are insufficient to cover such a vast area, he can move these lines and cabinets in multiple trips.