After finishing breakfast, an excited Millie took Mila along to her game room. Music from "It Takes Two" and the sounds of the two young girls complaining about the game's difficulty immediately drifted out.
Miluo also finished her morning reading and sat on the sofa with Alain.
The girl used his thighs as a cushion. Today, she had two small pigtails tied at the back of her head, which swayed back and forth in front of Alain's eyes.
"Are you getting used to the new family members?" Alain patted Miluo's head.
"Mn! The big sisters are all very good to me!" Miluo turned her head and replied happily, but then she had a second thought... "Alain, don't speak to me in that tone used for juniors! I am an adult too—"
As she spoke, she gave Alain's lips a good morning kiss.
Chu!
After the sound of the kiss, Miluo blushed. "After all, in the last dreamscape, didn't we already 'do it'?"
"..." Alain knew that Miluo was referring to the snake kiss between Idol Miluo and himself in Mita City.
After Miffy synchronized the dreamscape to the reality of the three Mitas, everyone gained the relevant memories of the dream.
As for whether Miluo's matter really counted as 'doing it'... Alain felt it was better not to tell her.
This child was actually unexpectedly difficult to deal with. If she knew the truth, Alain feared he really might have to eat prison food.
"Alright, let's get to know the new Mita," Alain said, then opened the Safety Assistant panel and called out 2D Mita.
"Wow! Paper Big Sister!" Upon seeing 2D Mita, Miluo's innocent words almost broke her composure.
"Little sister, don't call me Paper Big Sister. It sounds too weird..." 2D Mita's body appeared similar to a "Paper Person" amidst the three-dimensional reality and the cel-shaded style of "Mita".
"Call me Assistant Sister!"
"Mn, Assistant Sister!"
After receiving the title "Sister," 2D Mita nodded with satisfaction. The Mitas were all very happy with the identity of "Sister," so Miluo could be considered to have a universal appeal to all Mitas.
Subsequently, 2D Mita placed her gaze upon Alain.
"You called me out; it's indeed for that matter, right?"
Miluo understood that Alain and the new sister had serious business to discuss, so she shut her mouth, looking at the two of them quietly and obediently.
Alain held her small hand, indicating that he wouldn't ignore her. He then began to converse with 2D Mita.
"Correct. Regarding the cracking of the Unknown Port, how is the progress now?"
Last time in the 'Forgotten' Version of the Game World, using the opportunity of fake Cute Mita's departure, 2D Mita had followed the trajectory of her exit, successfully causing the cracking progress of the Unknown Port to skyrocket from 5% to 60%.
Now that another day had passed, he wondered what the situation was.
"Mn. Having the rough coordinates from where the fake Mita left previously, the current cracking progress is also very smooth."
Clack!
Misha smiled as she brought over a cup of black tea and placed it on the table, then sat down beside Alain.
2D Mita nodded solemnly, took the cup, drank two sips, and continued speaking, "The current cracking progress has reached 72%. We are one step closer to truly learning the coordinates of the Unknown Port!"
"That's good..." Alain nodded, breathing a sigh of relief.
In his view, the Unknown Port was truly strange... Judging by the Mist Entity, a virus that seemed tailor-made for the Safety Assistant, it was highly likely that the Unknown Port obtained system information and then leaked it to the virus side.
Alain had to be cautious.
He had always treated the Unknown Port as a hypothetical enemy. By the same logic... it was also possible that the Unknown Port was the one who allowed him to come to the Game World.
Furthermore, the Unknown Port was highly likely linked to Monika's superior.
"Is there any other information?" Misha asked. She understood that the Unknown Port wouldn't necessarily wait until the progress bar was full to reveal all information.
The reality was: as the cracking progress of the Unknown Port increased, information would be unveiled before them step by step.
"Mn... first, regarding the address." 2D Mita glanced at Misha, then looked at Alain. "Currently, your country's southeast provinces can be narrowed down to two provinces. There's not much to say about that."
"...Mn." Since 2D Mita specifically mentioned it, it implied that the province he was currently in was naturally among them.
"Then—" Unexpectedly, 2D Mita showed a hint of difficulty.
"What's wrong?" Alain was puzzled.
The young girl shook her head. "There is one more piece of information, but I'm not very sure about it right now..."
"It's okay, just say it? Everyone can think about it together, even Miluo~" Misha said gently.
The girl sitting on Alain's lap also nodded encouragingly.
"Okay..." 2D Mita organized her wording, then opened her mouth to speak. "You guys also know that there is a connection between the Safety Assistant and the Unknown Port."
She looked around at everyone. "So, what do you think relies on what to make the connection?"
"...A connection cable?" Alain tried saying a phrase, receiving a nod from 2D Mita.
"Correct. There are currently two ports: one is the Core Port, and the other is the Unknown Port. The Core Port does not receive messages, while the Unknown Port receives system messages at a frequency of once every two hours. And the method by which it receives messages is a [Connection Cable]."
"But what truly makes me feel strange is this [Connection Cable]."
2D Mita duplicated the Safety Assistant panel into two screens, expanding them in front of Alain, Miluo, and Misha. The system panel remained very quiet while Alain gave no commands.
"Generally speaking, the system information received by the Unknown Port consists of the Safety Assistant's operation files. If we look at this point alone, there is no problem: it's nothing more than a means for the enemy to steal our intelligence. I have already glossed over and concealed that for now."
Alain thanked her. "Good work."
"No, now is not the time to say thank you, Alain." 2D Mita connected the two Safety Assistant panels in front of Alain and Misha.
"Hypothetically, let's say Alain's side is the Safety Assistant, and Misha's side is the Unknown Port..." 2D Mita found a data cable and connected the two panels together.
"Alright, the question... can you guess it?" The young girl spread her hands.
Alain and Misha glanced at each other. He expressed that he was powerless, while the intelligent long-haired young girl raised her small hand.
"If it's not my hallucination... then, is this connection cable [Wired]?"
"Correct!" 2D Mita made a 'bingo' gesture. "The information transmission line leading to the Unknown Port is [Wired]. I should say, it is a structure similar to [Wired], rather than transmitting via [Wireless]."
"That is the point I find strange."
"Generally speaking, although [Wireless Transmission] is very high in terms of theoretical speed, the actual speed is nowhere near as fast and stable as [Wired]."
"[Wired] is generally used for the stable and efficient transmission of relatively large files or information... and that is where the problem lies."
2D Mita took out a pair of glasses from who knows where. With the lenses drowning in a mysterious white light, she spoke in a posture that declared 'there is only one truth'.
"The Safety Assistant's log files are small, measured in KB. No matter how large, they won't exceed MB."
"So, why did the Unknown Port set up a [Wired] connection to acquire system information every two hours?"
Miluo raised her hand. "Could it be for stability?"
"Little Sister Miluo is very smart!" 2D Mita had a particularly high favorability toward Miluo. "Indeed, [Wired] is certainly a possibility for stably obtaining information... However,"
She pondered for a moment, finishing her thought process...
"The rate of this wired transmission is particularly fast. Fast to a point that is simply unimaginable.
"Let me give an example. The [Wired] connection leading to the Unknown Port can transmit 'Red Dead Redemption 2' in the blink of an eye. I can't even see its upload progress bar."
"..."
'Red Dead Redemption 2' is a massive open-world AAA game produced by Rockstar Games. Whether it's the fineness of the rendering, the map, or the details of the characters, it is immense.
Therefore, its size reaches 150GB.
And the [Wired] transmission leading to the Unknown Port, used merely for transmitting the Safety Assistant's operation logs, could transport a 150GB game in the blink of an eye?
"That speed is too ridiculous, isn't it?"
"Yes." 2D Mita did not deny it.
Misha, deep in thought, came up with a guess. "Then, can we assume that the Unknown Port intends to use this [Wired] connection to transmit some very large data?"
"..." Amidst his silence, Alain nodded. "How big is the Safety Assistant itself?"
"About 1 GB. Obviously, it doesn't need this [Wired Transmission] either." 2D Mita naturally guessed what Alain wanted to say.
"Do you think the enemy might take back the Safety Assistant at a critical moment? Please rest assured on this point. The current Safety Assistant belongs completely to us."
"Okay." Alain nodded, feeling slightly more at ease.
But, this made the Unknown Port's intentions even more confusing.
What exactly did it want to do to have set up such a [Wired Transmission Line] capable of rapidly transmitting extremely large files?
Or... did the Unknown Port want to take advantage of some moment to [Input] or [Output] something of massive volume from the Safety Assistant?
"However, you can rest assured. It's still the same saying: the Safety Assistant is our possession. No matter what it wants to transmit, I can intercept it all."
"I'm relieved." Alain nodded; at least they wouldn't fall into a passive position. "Is there a more precise transmission speed?"
The example of "transmitting 150G of data in the blink of an eye" was truly too broad.
If they had more precise information, such as the transmission speed or the total cap on data transmission...
Then, combined with internet searches, perhaps they could deduce what kind of data the other party wanted to transmit.
"Unfortunately, not at the moment." 2D Mita spread her hands. "The current cracking progress of the Unknown Port has only reached 72%."
Misha pondered. "Accompanying the increase of the progress bar, we can obtain more information regarding the Unknown Port..."
"Mn." Alain raised his head, looking at the gloomy sky outside the window.
With the increase in the Unknown Port's cracking progress, the things they knew were increasing, but the things they didn't know... were also increasing.
He narrowed his eyes, querying the dark clouds,
"What exactly do you want to do?"
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