What Matters Is the Thought!

As a new day began, the news bulletin that had been urgently aired in the middle of the night yesterday completely exploded across the internet. Nearly every media outlet reported on it!

This was huge news!

For a time, everyone waking up that morning was flooded by the news.

What was more, the internet itself erupted over it!

A certain well-known forum—

1st floor—"Holy shit! There really are idiots this brazen who would spend money buying things at random?"

7th floor—"Did this retard not consider that even if they bought it, they still couldn't summon the Divine Dragon without all twelve?"

8th floor—"The poster above is right. In this situation, having just one Golden Zodiac Palace is completely useless."

57th floor—"Σ(⊙▽⊙ I feel like you guys are talking about something else entirely."

97th floor—"You can do that?"

98th floor—"You really can do that!"

102nd floor—"Large male **friend website, everyone is welcome to join. URL: *******."

103rd floor—"That's quite a talent too."

104th floor—"Didn't you notice that something strange got mixed into the post above yours?"

Meanwhile, inside the mysterious government department building everyone had been talking about, on one floor of an office building, a breathtakingly beautiful figure sat on a sofa. The stunning woman was wearing sunglasses as she waited for someone.

Before long, an imposing middle-aged man walked in. He glanced at her, then took a seat behind the large desk. Looking at the woman in sunglasses—Ye Sheng—he frowned and said helplessly:

"Are you sure this will really work?"

Ye Sheng looked at him before slowly speaking.

"Public opinion is naturally useless against people who are also in Night Battles, but this is a warning!"

Ye Sheng's delicate brows furrowed as anger spread from the depths of her heart.

"This is to remind those people! They are opposing the Night Bureau!"

"These were clearly rewards we redeemed ourselves. The Night Bureau had clearly already posted a notice on the Night Web, yet so many people ignored it and forcibly interfered with the scenario's progress. There were even people who—"

As she said this, an intense unwillingness rose within her. Ye Sheng bit her lip slightly, remembering the figure who had stood before her at the end!

"Enough! Being angry won't help,"

Accustomed to holding a high position, the middle-aged man quickly calmed down. He shook his head and said,

"As for the pair of pants you got, the damage was too severe. There's no useful information to be found."

"Nothing at all?"

"There are plenty of fingerprints, but setting aside which ones belong to the owner of the pants," the middle-aged man looked at Ye Sheng, "can you find him among the entire world?"

Ye Sheng fell silent, then seemed to think of something. She stood and said,

"I'll ask Aunt Shui. If even Aunt Shui doesn't know, then I'll go find the angel of the Night Web."

"The Wandering Night Angel?"

Though he was only an ordinary person, the middle-aged man knew something about the world of Night Battles. He sighed with another headache.

"Do you think she'll help us?"

Ye Sheng was instantly speechless. As a legend of the Night Web, the Wandering Night Angel had always been elusive. On top of that, she had mysteriously vanished for a long time...

Seeing Ye Sheng's silence, the middle-aged man rubbed his brow and said in a deep voice,

"The Night Battles System is incredibly mysterious, and the Night Web—the only channel for obtaining information—can only be traced by the Wandering Night Angel. If the madam of the Shui Family has no leads either, then put this matter aside for now."

"No!"

Ye Sheng abruptly rose to her feet. Her tall figure carried an oppressive presence as she strode out.

"I will never give up. I must protect what belongs to our Night Bureau."

Night Web.

Though the name sounded ordinary, even giving people the mistaken impression of an internet café open late at night, it was in fact the only special online interface through which participants could obtain information, resources, and everything else from the mysterious Night Battles System hidden in the darkness.

That was the Night Web!

Moreover, it was a place that only Night Battle Participants could access through the system interface.

At this very moment, participants hidden across the globe were connecting to the Night Web to obtain information and resources from it.

Somewhere, an unruly young man with flames burning in his hand suddenly laughed, then threw a vicious punch. Several burly men in black holding guns were sent flying.

At a certain school, the dean of students slapped the podium and declared furiously with that classic line:

"You are the worst class of students I've ever taught!"

In the first row below, a ponytailed girl who had been studying diligently suddenly froze. She lowered her eyes, and a flash of electricity passed through her hand as a pale blue interface that only she could see appeared.

At a villa estate somewhere in the wilderness, within a classically splendidly decorated hall, the Middle-aged Gentleman frowned.

"Someone else actually got it!?"

At another estate, a young man wearing oversized headphones slowly walked toward the front gate.

Similar situations were happening all over the world. Just as no one knew when Night Battles had appeared, no one knew exactly how many Night Battle Participants there were in the world.

The Night Web simply existed on the surface of Night Battles, beyond interference.

However, there were exceptions to everything.

Once, someone had happened to draw a mysterious, technology-oriented special ability, becoming the only person capable of acting as a Hacker on the Night Web.

On the pale blue interface, countless strange streams of data flowed back and forth. Yet tiny, nearly imperceptible branches continually peeled away from them and traveled toward an unknown destination.

Inside an enormous room, a fully enclosed black metal case over ten meters tall stood in one corner. Complex, precision cables spread out from all directions and converged at the center of the room. If that were all, it would merely have been a somewhat oversized data center.

But—

"Bzzzz—"

A low, steady whirring came from inside the machine. Streamlined rails, a simulated biological form, a Gothic maid outfit, and an icy blue light flickering within its head—the Artificial Intelligence silently handled everything.

And in this room filled with science fiction, the least unbelievable thing was probably this Artificial Intelligence.

A curved projection screen over a meter wide, a Gas Conversion Core constantly opening and closing, metal buttons covered in patterns so complex they made one dizzy, unidentified symbols glowing with futuristic blue light—yet aside from that, every other piece of "furniture" shone with an ethereal blue glow straight out of futuristic technology.

At the top of the room floated a brilliant azure core. Only a single line made of light connected it to the whole room, yet all of the room's energy came from this tiny core.

Within this unreal, science-fiction-like room, there was only one living creature—or rather, one...

Little girl.

Before the curved projection screen over a meter wide, a little girl in a black-and-white Gothic dress curled up in an enormous chair. As she watched a stream of data suddenly appear before her, one brow lifted slightly.

"Oh? The final owner was neither the Night Bureau nor Wales?"

The little girl frowned slightly, her expression utterly unlike that of a child. Strange blue light flowed through her pupils, and a calmness and maturity far beyond her age appeared upon her, completely lacking anything appropriate for someone her age.

Her tone of voice, expression, and movements—nothing about her resembled a little girl.

Looking at the data before her, she suddenly reached out as if possessed and pressed a mysterious symbol, searching for someone's information.

Suddenly! An obscure encryption appeared before her. Her pale golden pupils paused slightly, and every science-fiction creation in the room stopped for one second.

"Hmm!? This is..."

She widened her pale golden eyes, then suddenly smiled the next second. In her distinctive voice, she made a sound of interest as a faint light flickered in her pale golden pupils.

"Heh, how interesting. Then I'll go take a look myself."