Cyber Era Witch
Chapter 559 - 479: Assistant

Chapter 559: Chapter 479: Assistant

Rinne’s consciousness was two-thirds extracted from her body, leaving a part within to become chaos.

Xu Yang could flawlessly convert his brain consciousness into digital signals and enter the space of Helis Sea.

He still maintained a multitude of connections with his original body, unlike during the hacker wars when he became a perfect digital life—a rarity in this world, extremely difficult to replicate.

"...This is the Helis Sea." Rinne’s consciousness gradually entered deep into the system, "Legend has it that the Cyber Specter is here, but I can’t see anything."

"You can’t see it yet," Xu Yang followed beside Rinne.

"When will I be able to see it?"

"When you’re capable of diving in alone, when you don’t need someone to accompany and guide you into the Helis Sea, you’ll see the Cyber Specter," Xu Yang said.

Indeed, she was still far from that realm, and the Cyber Specter was unwilling to reveal itself. Rinne longed for the day she could dive independently. She silently experienced the new changes in the way data presented itself.

Every inch of her thought was gradually peeling off, being compiled and transformed into digital signals.

"It’s amazing..." she had to admit, "...in the Helis Sea... I felt... something completely different from before."

Just as the Cyber Specter once showed to Rinne, now she experienced it.

Her consciousness turned into digital signals, dwelling above the firmware, yet capable of easily extending, moving freely in Information Space.

She would not age, would not slow down, the biological cage had been broken.

Her thinking, once crawling within the cramped neural center, now flashed through communication links as electrical signals, hurtling at the speed of light in communication pathways, moving across different network cores!

Like a dream, an illusion...

It was not easy to resist such a sensation.

But the good times were short-lived, as Cyanoacrylate Solution was automatically injected into Rinne’s body, activating her original body’s nerves. She suddenly felt as if her brain was being pulled back and dragged away.

Her brain, angry and tense, feared that the consciousness it had painstakingly cultivated would flee forever, so it punished her with feelings of loss and irritation.

Rinne opened her eyes, exceptionally annoyed.

"What did you—," Rinne forcefully pushed open the lid of the tech pod, "—what did you inject me with?"

"The medicine that saved you," Xu Yang sat up from the tech pod, "Otherwise, you’d get lost in the Helis Sea, turn into a string of code that could be deleted at will, just like those hackers who were killed. That’s the terror of the Helis Sea; it traps consciousness that dives too deep. What I showed you just now wasn’t even truly diving in, just the edge of the system."

"..." Rinne sat on the closed pod, deep in thought. She suddenly felt extremely weak, confused, and hungry, showing signs of distress, "...is this feeling... also the effect of your medicine?"

"No, you feel terrible because it’s been 10 hours," Xu Yang glancing at the time.

"10 hours?" Rinne looked up in astonishment, realizing how time had flown, "I... didn’t feel it at all. How about you?"

"I did what I’m supposed to do," said Xu Yang, "did my work."

"But I felt like it was only a short while."

"To me, you were mostly completely still, and indeed, the total active time was only about ten seconds," Xu Yang explained.

"Then I was in great danger..."

"Yes, like a drowning person, a little later and you would’ve died. That’s why I say, you can’t yet grasp the Helis Sea," he said.

Rinne took a deep breath, savoring an unprecedented feeling.

Her attitude towards Xu Yang had changed significantly; at least she now knew things weren’t that simple.

Xu Yang’s technical prowess was so strong, he could crack Rinne’s brain in a second, burn it, and take control, turning Rinne into a puppet, a toy, but he didn’t do that. Instead, he sincerely passed his knowledge on to her.

Rinne took a deep breath, recognizing the rare opportunity before her that she must seize.

"If one had a Digital Mind... one could dive faster, deeper, clearer, without even being aware of the passage of time," Rinne murmured, having had a taste and now craving more.

"Of course," Xu Yang walked outside, "I’ll go prepare some food for you."

"Is it really just the two of us in this building?"

"Yes, and the Synthetic Maid as well," Xu Yang replied.

Rinne picked up her clothes from the floor and dressed.

This might be the first time he has dived with someone. Rinne thought to herself.

After two days of intensive training, Xu Yang corrected the bad habits Rinne had acquired during hacking. He discovered that Rinne had been professionally trained but lacked long-term technical norms, suggesting she originated from a large company before fleeing.

Rinne immediately felt like an expert, aware of the significant difference between having guidance and lacking it, and in the art of hacking, Xu Yang was the best teacher Rinne could have.

Xu Yang and Rinne spent the night in Shijin Mansion, and until she completed her training, Xu Yang locked the doors to the lower floors to prevent Rinne from wandering off, confining her to the top floor of the mansion.

If she went downstairs, saw the rooms where the Witches had lived, noticed the Blanket Castle left by the Young Witches, and the abandoned furniture, ornaments, hair clips, and dolls, she might regard Xu Yang as the ultimate lunatic who imprisoned the Witches, and then nothing would be explainable.

Rinne lay in the bathtub with the air conditioning on, continuing to battle with the set of hacker exercises from anonymous networks; she had done many over the two days, and soon she would solve all 100 scenarios.

Occasionally, she would throw a question out to Xu Yang, seeking his advice, and he would always resolve it effortlessly, providing her with additional techniques that rapidly advanced her hacking skills.