Until this moment,
the Spirit Disaster Countermeasures Department of real Tokyo
had only belatedly sensed the immense energy fluctuations arriving from another world.
These departments, which specialized in handling supernatural disasters, swiftly mobilized and used advanced detection equipment to instantly pinpoint more than a dozen potentially dangerous areas,
preparing to investigate and deal with them further.
Su Wen, meanwhile, blinked and found that he and Natsume Chie had somehow returned to a train still speeding toward Tokyo.
It was as though nothing had happened,
yet the return mark Caroline had left in his palm vividly proved otherwise.
The little girl who had originally been leaning against him seemed to have encountered too many things beyond her understanding. She was still asleep.
Likewise,
the other ordinary passengers on the train had all fallen into deep slumber.
"During slow-wave sleep, or SWS, the hippocampus repeatedly activates memory fragments through 'sharp-wave ripples,' while the cortex draws upon existing knowledge networks to integrate new memories into the long-term system.
According to fMRI experiments published in the 2006 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, or PNAS,
this protective mechanism of the brain is indeed benign, but it also created an opportunity for me.
Caroline,
can you still hear me?
Help me erase the system data related to this train."
Su Wen gently adjusted his earpiece before speaking softly to Hacker Miss.
At the same time, in response to his request, Caroline—who had thoroughly hacked into the deep data network and gradually lowered her activity frequency to maintain security—finally had a chance to relax.
She lay on the sofa in that Cyber building from before, casually browsing through the data she had acquired, yet she could not help complaining to him in a coquettish whisper:
"Hey! That's Tokyo's rail transit data.
Rhine Mr.,
do you