Sun Ai: "Alright."

"Second, the time is ripe. Get ready to resume communication with the Empire, and remember to disguise well."

"Got it!"

Ren Zhong touched the Level Nine Wrist watch on his hand, slowly lay back on the chair, and then reclined the chair, "Third, use the wrist watch to hypnotize me, I need to have a good sleep."

Sun Ai asked, "Do you want to enter the hibernation space?"

Ren Zhong thought for a moment, "Yes, see you in the dream. After all, I can handle work in my dreams as well."

"Okay."

Ren Zhong had just settled in.

The camera located above the conference room swiveled with a buzzing sound, aiming at him.

A soft and comfortable cotton blanket was grabbed by a robotic arm and extended from the corner of the wall.

The robotic arm shook the blanket like a human, gently covering it over Ren Zhong.

Three minutes later, Ren Zhong was already breathing steadily, snoring like thunder.

The room echoed with Sun Ai's long sigh, followed by her incoherent mumblings.

"I lied to you once too, Uncle, not letting you into the hibernation space. Just have a good sleep. This can't go on forever, can't keep you awake all the time. You're the one who should be frozen. Oh, if only Dad were still alive. He would surely understand your intentions completely, wouldn't question you, wouldn't make things difficult for you, and might even help you guide others, without exposing any secrets. But Uncle, don't worry, I've got Li Yang's sample, I still have your cancer cell gene bank, Dad's research can finally continue. Wait for me."

...

Yet just five minutes later, Sun Ai reverted to her form as a three-year-old girl, hurriedly appearing in Ren Zhong's hibernation space, shouting in surprise, "Uncle! I have two major discoveries!"

Even in the dream hibernation space, Ren Zhong felt a bit dizzy, still rubbing his temples, asking, "What's the matter?"

Sun Ai gestured excitedly, "Just now I tried, like the past 'Net', to use the wrist watch to read the cosmic hash value provided while you slept, and guess what?"

Ren Zhong replied grumpily, "Don't keep me in suspense, just say it."

Sun Ai waved her hands, "You know, once anyone enters the hibernation state, their brainpower is inevitably squeezed to produce the cosmic hash value. What others give me are very standard large data packages. Yours too. But when I analyzed your package, it turned out to be empty information, filled with constantly repeating chaotic bytes."

Ren Zhong frowned, "Does that mean my brainpower isn't being squeezed?"

Sun Ai: "Yes. The previous 'Net' was fooled by you, and you freeloaded a lot of Contribution Points."

"The Contribution Points don't matter," Ren Zhong instantly became tense, "This seems like good news on the surface, but the issue is will I be exposed?"

Sun Ai shook her head: "No. Because verifying these packages isn't the job of the 'Net' or mine, nor the Empire Super Network's, only the Quasar Supercomputer shared by the four nations analyzes these packages. The Quasar Supercomputer only provides results, not publicizing each data segment. Even if yours is garbled, the 'Net' would assume it's a complex cosmic hash formula representing special content, without any doubts. It's just because I'm a human, not a true intelligent program, that I jumped out of the original program constraints, feeling something was amiss."

Upon hearing this, Ren Zhong pondered for a while, "That's good. What's the other major discovery? More important than the previous one?"

"Yes. When I just tried to re-establish a link with the Empire Super Network, I first sent a request for timeline synchronization as usual. I needed to do a time correction with the Empire's standard time to sync into the network."

Ren Zhong: "And then?"

"After receiving my request, the Empire Super Network sent back information."

Ren Zhong waved his hand, "Wait, does that mean the communication method is you sending data over first, the other party receives it, processes it quickly, and then returns it?"

Sun Ai: "Yes. Of course, absolute complete synchronization isn't possible, all communication works like this."

Ren Zhong furrowed his brows, "Wait, let me think. Theoretically, if it's quantum entanglement resonance, then no matter how far apart the resonating quanta are, they should achieve real-time synchronization resonance. According to your description, the so-called information flow, or the Ghost Particle isn't quantum resonance, it still requires some kind of vibration, or wave, or something else to propagate through the universe, only this transmission is incredibly fast, so fast that within the Source Star System it seems to be instantaneous. From the moment you sent out the information to when it was received, how much time passed in total?"