Shilin might have looked a little vacant and silly, but never mistake her for some airheaded girl. Everyone who thought that way ended up getting their face plastered with the intellectual gap created by Shilin's true logical ability and thinking speed. Shilin usually seemed a little slow-witted, even clumsy, but that was entirely determined by her life form. Though she could stand before us, her true body was still the Spiritual Network. The place where she truly existed every moment was actually within the network. The Shilin in the material world was merely an interface for advanced communication with us. She could upload or download that interface to anywhere covered by the Empire network at any time. In other words, she had never truly focused her attention on the outside world.
Consequently, such an interface always had some trouble responding to the real world. Shilin was still unaccustomed to the various logic of reality, and she herself had little interest in it. She concentrated most of her attention on the immense volume of information within the network. To her, the Spiritual Network was the world that truly existed, while reality was a "virtual space" that had to be translated many times before she could understand it.
So if you saw Shilin wandering around in a daze somewhere again, or saw her casually turn into another appearance because she had forgotten what she looked like, do not assume she was an idiot. In places we creatures of the real world could not see, the logical thought she conducted every second was beyond imagining.
The only reason I suddenly thought of all this was that she had unexpectedly mentioned the Great Rift Valley within the Spiritual Network, something no one else had noticed but she had somehow detected.
To notice such an