Prosperous as the Xianzhou was, at three or four o'clock in the early morning, all was completely silent.
The Torch Dragon System used the Zhongshan Meteorological Sphere to absorb the excessive light emitted by all the stars near the Xianzhou's navigation route, converting the stars' radiance into other forms of energy. Only the ethereal starlight emitted by distant stars could pass through the profound canopy of the sky and enter the Luofu.
On the fifth floor of the Grotto-Dust Inn, the vermilion lanterns outside the overhanging corridor had long since been extinguished.
Inside Haxxor Bunny's room, five holographic projection Light Curtains hovered. The sci-fi blue light shone on the face of the girl sitting in the chair with bare, jade-like feet, carving a sharp dividing line at the bridge of her nose.
A standard broadcaster's voice transmitted from one of the screens.
"Welcome to today's Interastral Peace Broadcast. First, let us introduce the main content of today's program."
"The ice-sealed world of Jarilo-VI has transmitted communication signals once again. There is a possibility of survival for the planet's indigenous inhabitants."
"The Omen Vanguards have issued a warning to the Sigma-III galaxy. There is a trend of malignant silicon-eating bacteria spreading towards that region."
"At the beginning of the Amber Era 2158, the IPC proudly announces: Madam Herta, a renowned scholar of the Genius Society, has formally committed to establishing a long-term, friendly, and cooperative alliance with the Corporation."
"The gold standard of a Genius is actually this high!"
Normally, at this time, Haxxor Bunny and Cioara would probably be throwing out those guys who spent money just to get scolded by the two of them, cleaning up the bar, and then resting.
But there seemed to be a time difference between Arc City and the Xianzhou Luofu. Based on current intelligence deductions, it was probably around six or seven o'clock in the evening over in Arc City right now?
Regardless of whether there was a time difference or not, Miss Haxxor Bunny couldn't sleep anyway. An infinitely wonderful world had opened up to her.
At your age, at your stage!
How can you sleep?
Miss Haxxor Bunny directly chose to stay up all night, crawling on the Interastral Peace Network to admire this incomparably vast and wonderful new world.
Her hands rapidly tapped on the projection keyboard, and the content of one of the projection screens changed accordingly.
[Stellaron Hunter member, Silver Wolf, invades the planet of Genius Society member Screwllum, and a conflict erupts with the monarch of Planet Screwllum...]
"To be able to invade a Genius's planet and retreat completely unscathed... That's a planetary-level supercomputer. I just don't know how much processing power that Genius named Screwllum used. Even if he only used a fraction of it, I'm afraid it could instantly hack into all the electronic devices in the entire Arc City, right?"
Miss Haxxor Bunny was practically drooling.
Even the miniature quantum optical computer Caelus had given her was worlds apart from that so-called Difference Machine. The gap was so massive that Haxxor Bunny didn't even harbor any thoughts of envy.
"Silver Wolf really isn't simple at all."
Silver Wolf was the first hacker Haxxor Bunny had heard of after coming to this world, and a universe-level legendary hacker at that. As a hacker boss herself, Haxxor Bunny had already taken Silver Wolf as her first target to surpass.
Haxxor Bunny was confident that her talent in the hacking domain absolutely didn't lose to anyone!
"Yeah, just like my other self said, maybe I need to find a chance to take a trip to Punklorde, or think of other ways to make contact..."
Haxxor Bunny half-reclined on the wooden chair. Her lower half was only wearing panties, exposing two plump, bouncy duck buttocks that would give anyone a hearty appetite at first glance. Her two slender, snow-white, tender legs were propped up high, resting on the table.
Punklorde, a planet filled with light pollution and electronic graffiti everywhere.
When Bronie first mentioned it to her, Haxxor Bunny wasn't very interested. She had already tasted enough cyberpunk culture in Arc City.
What was important wasn't that planet, but the unique power—or rather, technology—of Punklorde: Aether Editing.
A technology that could freely edit reality just like a program. This wasn't unique to Silver Wolf; the legendary hackers of Punklorde all possessed this same ability.
According to what Bronie said, she had a chance to learn it!
When the time came, Haxxor Bunny and Bronie, having mastered Aether Editing and the quantum youth version of the Herrscher of Reason's abilities, would have the potential to become hackers who surpassed Silver Wolf—referring to their comprehensive abilities.
Aether Editing and modifying reality weren't omnipotent.
There was no way Silver Wolf could manually craft a planetary Difference Machine out of thin air, but Haxxor Bunny was different.
If she had all the data of the Difference Machine, and then raised her abilities by a tiny 'hundred million' bits, she could definitely do it!
Even if Haxxor Bunny couldn't, once Bronie pulled the Herrscher of Reason character card in the future, using the Potara Earrings to fuse Herrscher of Reason Duck and Haxxor Bunny would give birth to the strongest hacker in the universe!
Let alone manually crafting a Difference Machine, I'd freaking mass-produce Imaginary Collapse Pulses directly!
Current Haxxor Bunny still didn't know about these plans of Bronie's, but she was indeed extremely interested in the Aether Editing technology.
"Speaking of which, my other self won't be in any trouble, right?"
Haxxor Bunny glanced at the time.
Previously, to avoid her body in the other world remaining in a prolonged comatose and unconscious state, Bronie had attempted to let her return to Arc City.
As a result, because she couldn't properly control the ability to shuttle her consciousness across parallel worlds, her consciousness ended up transferring into 'her own' body.
The mental connection between their consciousnesses had significantly weakened due to being separated by distant worlds. Only by focusing all their attention and concentrating their minds could they transmit information.
Not long after Haxxor Bunny's worried emotions arose, she sensed the strong connection state recovering.
"Other me, you're back!"
Haxxor Bunny's eyes lit up, her brows relaxing. "How's the situation? Cioara didn't notice any abnormalities, right?"
[No. Although I can't say it went perfectly smoothly from start to finish—a few minor incidents happened—I settled them all.]
A casually spoken sentence, filled with a natural confidence and composure.
"Truly worthy of being my other self!"
Haxxor Bunny tapped the keyboard in a joyful mood, her face bearing a proud and radiant smile.
[Oh right, I also conveniently helped you smooth over your relationship with Cioara. Remember not to sulk anymore when you go back.]
Bronya could see the unfolded holographic screens through their shared field of vision, thinking to herself that this child had pulled an all-nighter.
"No problem!"
Haxxor Bunny patted her chest, agreeing crisply and decisively.
She actually knew clearly that everything she possessed in Arc City—perhaps certain things did come from her own talent, but even more so, they originated from what Cioara had given her.
Therefore, no matter how unwilling she was to obey Cioara's arrangements, she shouldn't get angry with her.
After all, Cioara was a very proud person.
However, Haxxor Bunny's personality was also very stubborn and headstrong!
The two of them's personalities could be said to be exactly like biological mother and daughter.
If it were in the past after arguing with Cioara, she would need at least two to three days of cold war before she would use hinting methods to show a willingness to bow her head and apologize like 'I was wrong'.
But, times were different now.
She could now use Bronie's body to adventure in the exquisitely beautiful Galaxy Universe. It didn't matter if she followed Cioara's demands over in Arc City. As long as she found a way to cover it up well and reduce her daytime activities, everything would be peachy!
"Other me... thank you!"
Haxxor Bunny's tone was sincere and earnest.
Her other self had truly helped her a lot.
Not only lending her a body to use, but also helping her communicate with Cioara. If it were anyone else, she wouldn't even know how to repay the favor.
[It's fine, we're the same person after all.]
Bronie's tone was gentle.
"Yeah! You're right."
Haxxor Bunny began to view things from a merged perspective of both of them. From now on, Bronie's business was her business!
"Over there, my body is currently...?"
[I went to the safe house at the location you told me previously.]
As a hacker and a mercenary, Haxxor Bunny naturally couldn't do without facilities like a safe house.
Though called a safe house, it was actually more like a base where Haxxor Bunny hid her little secrets, or perhaps an otaku den.
There was a massive pile of various high-end electronic devices—not used for launching hacker attacks, but rather mostly used for playing games. What Haxxor Bunny had told Bronie was her most secret place, hiding the physical comic books Haxxor Bunny had collected since she was little.
Bronie had looked through them for quite a while.
"That place should be absolutely safe. Excellent. This way, I can rest easy."
Haxxor Bunny clapped her hands together.
[Are you not in a hurry to go back?]
"No rush. Ah, if you need to use the body, just take it back anytime. Just let me watch."
Even just watching from here was better than staying in Arc City!
"Oh right, regarding learning Aether Editing, the Astral Express should be going to Punklorde, right?"
[It's certainly possible, but since we're new here and there's no particularly urgent matter, it's not appropriate to have them change their itinerary because of us. I think you can first ask Caelus if he has any channels.]
"Ask Caelus?" Haxxor Bunny tilted her head in confusion.
[That's right.]
While Bronie went to the Arc City Bubble Universe and had a warm mother-daughter chat with Mama Raven, Moonscar logged into Caelus's account after Li Sushang fell asleep. She chatted about Aether Editing with the wolf cub, who was also a night owl and frequently pulled all-nighters for days on end.
The reason why Aether Editing is a technology unique to Punklorde actually has to do with the planet itself.
Punklorde is essentially a planet constructed from data and characters. There, the boundary between reality and illusion is as blurred as its day and night.
That is why hackers can freely edit reality just like a program.
And once one becomes a Pathstrider, and their skills grow to a certain level, even if they leave the Punklorde region, they can still use this power to modify reality.
Theoretically, if one wants to learn Aether Editing, they must go to Planet Punklorde, which possesses these unique natural conditions.
After careful consideration and discussing it with Silver Wolf, Caelus confirmed that the only necessary condition was an environment where reality and data intertwined.
This provided room to maneuver.
Don't forget, the Herta Space Station also had a Curio called Punklorde Mentality.
The cartridge that Silver Wolf took was merely a replica that Herta and Screwllum had placed in the Simulated Universe as bait to fish for the wolf. Caelus had absolute means to get his hands on the authentic one.
Give the genuine Punklorde Mentality to Haxxor Bunny to help her come into contact with the power system. Then, use Caelus's identity to freeload the Aether Editing technology from Silver Wolf, and turn around to teach it to Haxxor Bunny.
A legendary hacker teacher of the entire universe, combined with Haxxor Bunny's hacking talent—the speed at which she would learn Aether Editing was self-evident!
When the time came, he could watch Haxxor Bunny, using the Silver Wolf technology she learned from his own hands, go find trouble with Silver Wolf!
Just thinking about that scene made Caelus immensely elated!
He felt like he had taken another step forward on the Elation Path!
"Other me, you seem to really... trust... him."
When Bronie mentioned this matter, Haxxor Bunny felt a bit of minor joy from their connected minds. She weighed her words for a moment before speaking.
Like him. She originally wanted to say.
Haxxor Bunny felt that Bronie seemed to have some affection for Caelus, but she found it hard to say out loud, afraid that Bronie would fly into a rage out of embarrassment.
[Yeah, consider it a kind of intuition.]
The joy Haxxor Bunny felt was, of course, the slight Elation seeping out from Bronie's heart.
[Alright, I'm sleepy. I'm going to rest first. You carry on.]
Director Caelus had already finished writing the script and was waiting for filming to start~!
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