Magnan and Yuri both froze when they heard Gawain's words.
The boundless fog still churned around them, and invisible malicious minds seemed to fill the entire plain. Amid the omnipresent low murmurs and mental corruption, Gawain said without looking back, "Something is trying to bypass Sandbox One's defenses. If I'm not mistaken, the Upper Narrator's infiltration of the real world has already begun."
Whether it was spider-like Duvall or the endless fog and mental corruption, everything visible on the surface had only claimed half of Gawain's attention. The other half had been focused on changes at the "boundary" from beginning to end!
This boundary was the boundary of the Mind Network, formed by the countless backdoors, jump points, and hidden ports Gawain and Daniel had set up within it. These things were scattered throughout the entire network, covering every node except Sandbox One. They had once been tools Gawain used to infiltrate the Mind Network and monitor the Sleeper's activities, but at this moment, they had in a sense become a hidden line of defense for monitoring whether the network was functioning normally—
With Dream Control running at every node of the Mind Network and all computing power concentrated in Sandbox One, any unmarked information appearing within the network was, without exception, contamination from the Upper Narrator!
Just moments ago, Gawain had vaguely sensed that contamination. Some of the hidden ports within the Mind Network had "sniffed out" suspicious information. There was no doubt that an anomaly had appeared in the network outside the sandbox, and the real world... had most likely suffered an anomaly as well!
Magnan's eyes widened. Keeping watch on the shadows in the fog, he spoke rapidly. "But no warning signal came from the real world... Wait... Damn it!!"
He suddenly realized something, and his face