Ten days later!
Electronic Information Research Institute!
On the surface, it was an ordinary institute for researching electronic information and network technology.
In reality, it was a special organization formed by the human leadership.
Beneath the institute, the human leadership had built a massive mainframe to monitor the state of the entire Information Realm at all times.
In the institute's main hall stood a gigantic screen.
It displayed a vast grid resembling a Go board, made up of 100 horizontal and 100 vertical lines.
All 9,801 small squares were filled with different colors.
Across the enormous grid, ordinary ash gray occupied 50 percent, bright white 15 percent, black iron 10 percent, and pure black 15 percent. Green covered another 3 percent, and red, 2 percent!
Ash gray occupied the very center of the grid, holding the dominant position and connecting to every other region.
Bright white lay in the upper left, and pure black in the upper right. Their territories touched, as if locked in a standoff.
Black iron lay in the lower left, bordering only ash gray.
In the lower right were the red and green regions. Their battle was fierce, and the pattern of their territories shifted from time to time.
Suddenly, black surged outward, swallowing 2 percent of the bright white squares. The unexpected change made the researchers in the hall look sharply alarmed.
"Something's wrong! The Dark Region's power is increasing, and the Angel Region is losing territory!" shouted a researcher seated at the front. "Notify the Network Department immediately. Activate the Purification Mechanism and reduce the negative emotions online!"
At the researcher's shout, another researcher nearby immediately snatched up the phone and made the call.
"This is the Electronic Information Research Institute. Begin purification at once!" the researcher said as soon as the call connected.