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How big is this gap?

The average student's mobile phone has the processing power of one second, while ENIAC would need to run continuously for millions of years to achieve the same level.

But mysticism never talks about science... Mysticism has always been more powerful the older it is.

As the concept of "the first known 'computer' in the world"... its extreme purity of concept gave ENIAC a terrifying computing power that could even cleanse the sea of ​​the mind.

This description might not be very meaningful... To put it in a more understandable way, ENIAC, as a Persona, can truly lock onto and force overload any connected device simply by 'looking' at it, achieving 'whoever he stares at dies' in a purely device-centric sense.

Of course... even if you achieve this level, you still can't directly 'synaptic melt'.

To attack living beings, ENIAC needs to use computing power to construct weapons that can inflict physical or magical damage.

"So... from a realistic technological perspective, that primitive, bulky ENIAC had a pitiful computing power that was less than one hundred millionth of that of the most ordinary student mobile phone today."

"However, in the other world, when it is used as a Persona, it can be so 'all-powerful'."

Upon hearing this, the members of Fox Team also felt a strange sense of 'sigh'.

"Hmm... Even though Sensei said that, it's still a bit hard to understand."

After pondering in silence for a while, Otoko raised her hand and asked, "Are there any other... easier-to-understand examples of Sensei?"

Amamiya thought for a moment, then stroked his chin and said, "Millennium Tech Academy has very strong network security and a dense concentration of computing power, right? However, ENIAC, controlled by the Persona wielder at its peak, can easily 'take over' all network devices and then create a terrifying disaster."

Hu Tao crossed her arms, still somewhat skeptical: "That's an exaggeration..."

Amamiya smiled but remained silent, offering no further explanation.

Activating the Persona requires consuming the personal mental energy of the Persona user.

The reason for mentioning Personas at their 'peak' is mainly because ordinary Personas don't have such a terrifying reserve of mental energy that ENIAC can mobilize and deplete.

Alternatively, one could enter and connect to the deepest levels of the 'collective unconscious,' using the mental power of all intelligent beings to 'cloudify'...

This requires the foundation of 'all intelligent beings understanding you, trusting you, and being willing to contribute their spiritual power to you'.

Either you have to have the mental strength yourself.

This 'peak' specifically refers to Amamiya.

It's impossible for a regular Persona user to go to such an exaggerated extent as 'taking over the entire city'... but if they really put in the effort, they could at least take over a small neighborhood.

While Amamiya was explaining 'computing power' to the Fox team members, the Rabbit team members also completed the tedious task of searching and downloading files.

Leaning against the wall, yawning, Moe began to activate the telepathic communication channel of the Ariadne Line.

"This is Rabbit3. Critical data in the server room has been stolen."

How's it going at the archives?

Gongzi's voice came almost immediately from the other end of the "thread".

"This is Rabbit1. The archives have been infiltrated, and all valuable documents, including logistics and accounting records, have been copied."

"Key objective accomplished. Now, erase all traces of infiltration and prepare for withdrawal."

Having seen this, the girls of the Fox team could almost give a final verdict on the Rabbit team's "Clover" operation.

Nothing particularly unusual... The true 'silence' of infiltration is indeed excellent, but that's under the 'mysticism' of the Persona.

Without the influence of mysticism, their performance could be described as mediocre... and even had quite a few flaws.

But the task was completed in a barely passable manner...

Having seen everything they needed to see, the Fox team members saw no reason to stay any longer.

Nico, sitting in the driver's seat, started the car, and then Yukino opened the passenger door.

Amamiya stood up, bent over and got out of the car from the passenger seat, then took out a 'rating board' and handed it to Yukino.

"We've seen everything we needed to see... Fox team's 'seniors,' please give your juniors an evaluation of their performance in this mission."

Chapter Seventeen: The Episode the Bureau Chief Most Looks Forward to Taking Administrative Leave

A night destined to be anything but peaceful... will also be greeted by the rising of a new sun.

Ye Zhu yawned as she was woken up by her alarm clock, and began her usual routine of 'washing up to welcome the new day'.

After heating up his food, changing his clothes, and getting himself ready, Ye Zhu arrived at the headquarters of the Valkyrie Public Security Bureau.

First, we checked the situation with the students who were on night duty last night...

Then, depending on the situation, handle the backlog of events from yesterday or the events that occurred today according to priority...

Recalling the unusual situation of 'Xia Lai Sensei's visit' that he encountered at this time yesterday morning, Ye Zhu couldn't help but try to imagine what would happen.

'Sensei, what exactly will you do to Hanaya Shiranui...'

'I should show weakness, even play the victim…'

'But in the end...'

Taking the elevator, Ye Zhu arrived at the floor where the director's office was located. Standing in front of the door, Ye Zhu was about to take out his key when he suddenly noticed something unusual about the door lock.

The door to the director's office, which is usually locked, was ajar.

The door was not only open... but something unexpected had also happened.

It seemed to have decayed for hundreds or thousands of years overnight.

Although it looks almost the same as yesterday, the 'clarity' is noticeably lower to the naked eye. The texture feels much rougher to the touch.

The paint chipping and rust spots are not very noticeable... they look like they suddenly 'grew' out.

Ye Zhu raised an eyebrow, hesitated for a moment, pressed his body against the wall, and then 'push' open the office door that seemed to have been corroded by some extraordinary means.

After repeatedly trying to unlock and close the door to check its sensitivity, Ye Zhu concluded that there was nothing particularly wrong with the door itself, and there were no traces of acidic liquid corrosion. It just looked like it had experienced thousands of years overnight and had obvious rust spots.

Um...that's all.

Ye Zhu cautiously refrained from immediately entering the office. Instead, he first used his experience to check whether the layout, structure, and arrangement of items in the room had changed.

'There are basically no obvious traces...'

After confirming the situation, Ye Zhu entered the room with a normal expression.

After searching through the keys that were deliberately left out and confirming that the keys had been tampered with, and even finding traces of his personal computer being accessed, Ye Zhu understood.

'Sensei's operation... has it already begun?'

Holding the USB drive with its special significance in his hand, Ye Zhu's expression was inscrutable.

Now that the operation has begun, a series of 'crises' targeting us will inevitably follow...

Upon realizing the 'change of circumstances,' Ye Zhu's first reaction was to put aside what he was doing and walk around to see if there was any evidence that he could 'cover up'.

Since this 'storm' has already begun to brew, determined to catch Shiranui Hikaru off guard, then we must not unleash a 'bolt from a clear sky' before the dark clouds gather.

After walking around the room, Ye Zhu headed straight for his first target to confirm, the monitoring room, with a mix of trepidation and excitement.

After quickly reviewing the surveillance equipment, Ye Zhu did not find any direct signs of infiltration.

The monitoring equipment displayed everything normally, and the file access records showed no suspicious activity.

After confirming the monitoring situation, Ye Zhu breathed a slight sigh of relief.

The fact that the surveillance was "silent" means that last night's infiltration operation ended in a fairly perfect way.

After confirming the surveillance situation, Ye Zhu casually picked up several surveillance room records and quickly walked through several corridors.

As Ye Zhu passed by an office, he suddenly overheard the members of the Life Safety Bureau discussing among themselves.

Fubuki and Kirino were gathered in front of a gate that also appeared to have 'obviously' decayed overnight.

Kirino stood awkwardly at the door, holding her keychain, while Fubuki stood languidly beside her, clutching a file.

Finding that her key wouldn't open the door, Kirino scratched her head, somewhat bewildered: "Huh? Was the door to our Valkyrie Public Security Bureau... like this before?"

Holding the documents, Fubuki seemed indifferent: "I don't really care what the door looked like before... I only care whether it can be opened or not."

"If that doesn't work, let's just use breaching explosives."

'...'

Is there something wrong with the door?

Ye Zhu slowed his pace slightly, and the beast ears on his head twitched sharply.

After focusing his attention, Ye Zhu heard a lot of noise about the students on night duty discussing the door of the Valkyrie Police Station.

"Hey, this door... I feel like something's off about it..."

"Is it strange? Wasn't it always like this?"

"Tsk...this door seems much harder to open now..."

"The door to this office seems to be... locked too, I can't open it no matter what I do..."

"The lock cylinder in this office is completely broken... Is it due to equipment aging?"

……

After walking around the buildings of the Valkyrie Public Security Bureau headquarters, Ye Zhu 'helplessly' discovered something that was clearly related to the infiltration traces, but was also quite funny.

— Almost overnight, at least ten cases of 'unexpected equipment aging causing abnormalities' occurred.

There have been several cases where doors simply couldn't be opened or closed due to decay.

In addition, other high-precision equipment such as surveillance cameras have also shown varying degrees of decay or malfunction.

Coincidence?

From Ye Zhu's perspective alone... it is indeed a coincidence.

But for the Valkyrie Public Security Bureau students, who were so poor they wanted to split a single credit point in two... it seemed like an entirely normal and unsurprising phenomenon.

Since the "disappearance" of the president of the Federal Student Union, the budget of the Valkyrie Public Security Bureau has been shrinking more and more dramatically.

No money to replace or repair equipment... what can we do? We'll just have to cut back on our spending.

Over time, the Valkyrie police officers, whose equipment was often inadequate, had come to expect unexpected breakdowns of equipment, including office water dispensers.

Such a situation, where a dozen or so pieces of equipment break at once, is a very common occurrence.

In Ye Zhu's view... it's both a 'coincidence' and not quite a coincidence.

Why is it that only the door to his own bureau chief's office receives such a corrupt "special treatment"?

Ye Zhu was fully aware of this.

'You need to realize that the operation has already begun...'

After rubbing his temples and wandering around outside, Ye Zhu returned to his director's office.

Door locks malfunction, some equipment suddenly breaks down...

For Valkyrie, this is the norm.

There's nothing to worry about.

Let's get started on today's official business...

Ye Zhu picked up a document at random and, with a nervous heart, began her work for the day.

After quickly dealing with a few urgent documents, feeling somewhat uneasy, she got up again, went to the window, and looked out at the bright summer morning light.

The sky outside the window was a clear blue, so clean that not a single cloud could be seen.

Leaning against the railing and looking out the window, Ye Zhu temporarily cleared his mind.

This 'storm'...

When exactly will it come?

Chapter Eighteen: Moe's belief is being tested... Overjoyed!

If you had to describe the present moment in a single sentence, Amamiya could find a very clear 'proverb'—

'Some are happy, some are sad.'

Regardless of what the bureau chief thinks...

At least, the first phase of Operation Clover has come to a relatively successful conclusion.