Murphy headed straight for Paris, France. This time, he had to pass through an Underwater Optical Cable. Murphy went full speed, wanting to see just how fast he could move through the network. In any case, he had no physical body now, so there was no need to worry about anything else.
With a whoosh, Murphy shot away from Jarvis at full speed, following the route Jarvis had provided. The undersea cable should have been an utterly unobstructed highway.
With a hum, everything had been perfectly normal as Murphy raced forward at his maximum speed. He had no idea exactly how fast that was, but suddenly, the surrounding space trembled. The path ahead rippled like water. Murphy could clearly see the scene before him spreading outward in waves like ripples on water. It was something he had never encountered before.
Murphy was startled, but he had already passed through the "water ripples." He stopped and looked around. Nothing seemed different before or behind him, and the streams of light around him were still moving rapidly. After thinking it over, Murphy continued onward, though not as quickly this time. He felt there was something wrong with the "water ripples" he had just passed through, so he did not dare travel at full speed again.
Fortunately, he was still inside an Underwater Optical Cable, which calmed his unease somewhat. However, when he followed the established route to its endpoint, he discovered that this was not Paris's traffic monitoring center at all, but Paris Television Station.
"What's going on? Jarvis couldn't have made a mistake, and my route... was it those 'water ripples'?" Murphy was baffled. The information he possessed could not explain this phenomenon. If his route had simply changed, it would have been much easier to understand. So he found a