Miss Witch Doesn't Want to be a Diva

After settling into the apartment, Tilan first took a bath, then soaked for a while before returning to her room to sleep.

In truth, ever since last year, she had been prone to drowsiness after wearing the ring bound to the Grey Dust Crystal singularity. Because the production of the "Rhythmic Crystal" actually relied on her innate ability, which meant that if the "Grey Dust Crystal" kept producing non-stop, her energy would be continually drained. This had led to Tilan needing over 12 hours of sleep each day.

Fortunately, as a Songstress, she had some small privileges. On ordinary days, she had the help of Annelli, Deloris, and Efnie in sharing the Academy's affairs, so she didn't need to work or study all the time and could find places to nap everywhere, such as the student union office of Yuanting Academy, the hill behind Yuanting Academy, during flight travel, and catching up on sleep in rest rooms, and so on.

These past few days after arriving in the Central Star Domain, she wasn't sleepy at the beginning because of the novelty, but today, after reaching the school and letting everything go, she couldn't hold back her tiredness any longer.

After closing the room's windows and lights, she lay on the soft bed, pulled up the star blue quilt, and this black-haired girl curled up on her side and soon entered dreamland; her breathing became even and tranquil.

As Tilan slept, Geyin in the adjacent bedroom began to log into the Aijeika network.

She applied the connection neuron patch on the back of her hand and then inserted her identity chip into the immersion pod. Pressing the button, the lid of the immersion pod closed, a faint blue mist filled the interior, and then her consciousness began to dive deeper, entering the higher-dimensional Aijeika network.

[Welcome back, 'Silver Creation']

Upon entering the Aijeika network, Geyin's figure transformed, her image changing into a Mechanical Puppet with a cold silver exterior. Its internal mechanisms and gears were conspicuously exposed, with only the facial area forming a complete silhouette like a mask.

Different from her slow and indifferent reactions in reality, the Geyin who entered the Aijeika network operated like an intricately designed engine, whirring at high speed.

In front of her, many complex logical formulas passed by, then continuously changed, twisted, refined, and were finally re-outputted, and so on. After several minutes, with the completion of encryption and puzzle-solving, a black door emerged in front of her.

Stepping through this door, the Mechanical Puppet that Geyin impersonated arrived at a round table council hall. There were seven seats, but three were vacant, leaving only four with chairs.

[You're back, Silver]

Sitting on the seat opposite was a grey-blue Puppet Bear, its head drooping, with only the screen in front of it constantly fluttering with words.

Apart from the welcoming Puppet Bear, the other two seats were occupied by a skull adorned with a crown of wisdom feathers, and a monkey with slender fingers.

Clearly, they all used virtual avatars to conceal their true identities, which was a common practice in the Aijeika network.

[Now that Silver has returned, let's start the meeting] the bony skull spoke.

Skull: [Since last year, a special force has begun to appear on the Aijeika network, and they're exceedingly covert]

Bear: [Are you sure you're not just being paranoid, Skull? There are countless strange forces on the Aijeika network, we are one of them.]

Skull: [No, they're very unique, so unique that they were able to infiltrate realms even we can't reach. You can ask Monkey.]

Monkey: [That's right, this month I used 3,471 different methods to track them, many of which even the seasoned Inspectors of the Court of Judgment have never seen, yet the Other Party escaped with ease]

Bear: [Even Monkey's tech can't track them? Now that's interesting.]

Monkey: [I feel like they're like monkeys—you know what I mean. I mean, they're like monkeys who can't read, yet they managed to type out a beautifully-formed poem on a keyboard.]

Monkey: [I can be very clear about this, their technical skill on the Aijeika network is just at a beginner level, they can't even hide themselves well, and they even left many basic vulnerabilities, which allowed me to easily filter out their traces from various complex data streams.]

Skull: [Yet their disappearances and appearances are still mysterious, and the clues and trails always break off in the final stages. Monkey and I analyzed it, and we believe it's not some High Rank logical algorithm or technique.]

Bear: [That's quite terrifying. It means that the other party has methods beyond our understanding and poses a huge threat to the various major security providers currently active on the network.]

Monkey: [If they fully grasp this 'ability', I dare say, they would have a ticket to 'giant corporate' levels. With this technology, once matured, they have the potential to change the entire industry environment.]

The Aijeika network is almost another world, where one can find all kinds of things not available in the market. One can also hack into the secret databases of large companies through the network world and find the information they want.

Compared to the stability of reality, the world within the Aijeika network is very chaotic, resulting in a significant need for security. Many large companies seek professional security services to build firewalls for their super AIs, isolate checks, and so on, to protect data from being leaked and reduce casualties.

Silver: [Do you need my help?]

Bear: [We do. With Silver's help, it would be a lot easier for Monkey to catch them.]

Monkey: [Thanks.]

For the whole next day, Tilan slept snugly under her covers, completely unaware of the sun rising and falling outside, and Geyin was similarly absorbed in the Aijeika network, oblivious to the passage of time outdoors.