Elder Yin stood at the podium, holding a yellowed rune tablet like an antique. He tapped the tablet as he explained, "The basic logic of psychic runes is... ahem... uh, everyone, remember this rune chain..."
His tone was so monotonous it felt like hypnosis. The only sounds in the classroom were the occasional flipping of pages and the faint flow of spiritual energy. Most of the students dozed off with their heads propped up by their hands, and some even snored quietly over their desks.
Xiang Fan, sitting in the back row, lazily leaned back in his chair, fiddling with a spirit fruit. He'd long lost interest in these uninspiring theoretical classes, but today, surprisingly, he seemed to stay awake. His eyes fell on the debugging screen in front of him, and he was thinking about what to eat for dinner to save some spirit stones.
"This mecha class is so useless." Xiang Fan muttered to himself, and casually clicked on the debugging interface. A line of task prompts popped up on the screen:
"Debug the basic virtual mecha and optimize the parameters of psychic energy flow."
He curled his lips and nonchalantly fiddled with his psychic adjustment tool. "This basic virtual mecha is really shabby. The psychic shield is like a piece of rag. They can't even be bothered to give it a name."
Just as he was about to perfunctorily complete the task, a red warning suddenly flashed across the screen:
"The flow of spiritual energy is interrupted... Abnormal runes detected..."
Xiang Fan froze for a moment, nearly dropping the spiritual fruit in his hand. He quickly clicked on the display of the abnormal runes, and a strange chain of runes appeared before his eyes. Like living creatures, the runes twisted and squirmed in the psychic energy, occasionally splitting into smaller rune fragments, as if attempting to invade the entire mecha's psychic network.
"What the hell is this?" Xiang Fan's eyes widened, and he leaned in closer to examine the screen. The fluctuations of the abnormal runes were completely different from those of ordinary psychic runes. They seemed like a kind of conscious, self-operating code.
He instinctively wanted to shut down this unusual rune, but its movement stopped him. The fluctuations in the rune chain seemed strangely familiar, as if they bore some resemblance to the Gu programs he had encountered in the Spirit Realm battlefield.
"This thing doesn't look simple." Xiang Fan muttered to himself, touched his chin, and clicked on the detailed analysis interface of the rune chain, wanting to see how these things actually work.
The data chain jumped rapidly, and the flow of runes seemed to weave some complex grid. Xiang Fan watched, a sly smile curling his lips. "Interesting! It's rare to encounter something so challenging. Elder Yin's class can be considered a foil. This is the protagonist today."
Elder Yin's voice still hummed in his ears: "Psychic stability is the foundation of rune calculations... Everyone, remember, you must achieve 100% accuracy..."
Xiang Fan casually adjusted the flow of spiritual energy while shrugged off Elder Yin's theory: "One hundred percent accurate? This rune chain can be so accurate that it would make your hair fall out, but you, old man, can't tell."
He quickly tried to adjust his psychic energy supply, isolating some of the abnormal runes in a separate space to observe their reactions. Unexpectedly, the runes seemed to be stimulated and expanded wildly, trying to break through the isolation area.
"Tsk, what a difficult little thing." Xiang Fan's interest became even stronger. He simply devoted himself to the research and completely ignored Elder Yin's lessons.
A few minutes later, his screen was already filled with rune analysis data and flow models. He looked at the wildly expanding rune chains and couldn't help but laugh. "Haha, isn't this the legendary poison program? Sure enough, your shadow is everywhere."
The classmate next to him was awakened by his laughter and asked dazedly, "Brother Fan, what are you laughing at?"
"Nothing, just a little technical surprise." Xiang Fan replied without even looking up, his fingers moving quickly on the screen.
At this moment, the abnormal runes suddenly spread violently, and the psychic screen burst out with a dazzling white light, and the entire classroom was instantly bright as day.
Elder Yin walked over to Xiang Fan with an expressionless face. He glanced at the screen casually and frowned slightly. "What's going on? Did the debugging go wrong?"
Xiang Fan pointed innocently at the rune chain on the screen and said, "Elder, this rune looks a little off. It looks like some kind of intrusion program. Look, it's even moving on its own."
Elder Yin followed his finger for a few seconds, then showed an impatient expression. He waved his hand and said, "The simulation system is old, and it's normal for the spiritual energy to fluctuate unstably. Don't worry about it. Quickly debug your task."
Xiang Fan suddenly felt a little aggrieved: "But, Elder, this abnormal rune is not too old, right? It's almost become a spirit."
Elder Yin didn't bother to pay attention to him at all. He said "Don't waste your time" and turned away, leaving Xiang Fan speechless.
"Tsk, what a careless old man!" Xiang Fan muttered, staring back at the rune chain on the screen. Something seemed to be amiss. He couldn't help but touch his chin, muttering to himself, "Is the simulation system so old that it's infested with bugs? If that's the case, I could restore the elder's hair today."
A sly smile curled his lips as he quickly copied the unusual rune data to his personal storage device. Although the elders seemed completely unconcerned, he couldn't help but feel curious. This thing was so strange, completely different from ordinary psychic runes, it was like a mystery waiting to be solved.
Of course, Xiang Fan wasn't some savior with noble intentions; he was simply interested in the fun of solving puzzles. For someone like him who dismantled and reassembled the psychic network as a daily pastime, this anomaly was a godsend for research.
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