User "High-Speed Deer" entered the Neural Network pre-connection area.
Amun felt a voice ring directly in his mind—it startled him at first, for it had been a long time since he had heard anything echo directly in the depths of his consciousness. For a moment, he even thought he had accidentally connected to the mortal believers in the real world again. But he quickly calmed down and became puzzled by the term "High-Speed Deer" mentioned by the voice.
...He understood every one of those words, but what was going on when they were put together? Why did the phrase feel vaguely strange? And who was speaking? The legendary network administrator, or some automatically operating intelligence?
Amun pondered in confusion, but before he could make sense of anything, the shifting lights and shadows before him rapidly sharpened, drawing away his attention. The Former Nature God opened his "eyes" in cyberspace for the first time and found himself standing in an almost pure-white space. It was vast, though not boundless. Far in the distance, snow-white walls rose from the ground and stretched upward into infinitely lofty light. Beneath his feet, the grayish-white floor was covered in neatly arranged, faintly glowing blue grids. From time to time, runes could be seen plummeting through the air around him, appearing like raindrops, falling swiftly, and dissolving into the grid lines of the floor.
What a strange place... It looked completely empty. Was this the so-called "Neural Network mindspace"? That seemed to be its name... It didn't look very interesting...
More and more doubts welled up in Amun's mind. He vaguely remembered Milmina having told him some basic knowledge about this place before, and the nervous mortal technicians who had come to install the equipment seemed to have explained some things as well. Yet