The road underfoot was dark green, extending to the endless end, while the rest of the place was empty. Except for the front and rear, the extreme distances in all directions were shrouded in dark blue things, like some kind of wonderful force field.
There is a huge round thing floating in the sky. Compared with it, it is much smaller than a basketball is to human beings.
"Where is this?" Dong Linhai asked. Like everyone else, he kept looking around. The strange and eerie sight made him feel both inexplicable fear and curiosity.
"Information highway." Dong Zheng replied, "The dark blue is the shielding field, and those round things are security phages, responsible for anti-virus."
Lin Hangzhi's eyes widened: "What about us?"
"We are data." Dong Zheng turned around and said to everyone, "Very lucky, thanks to Allen, we were able to enter Kether's computer program directly from the emergency channel. Originally, my plan was much more troublesome."
"It feels amazing." Wang Que leaned over and touched the road under her feet, and the place touched by her fingertips turned into a half-illusion, and she could vaguely see the data that made it up.
Dong Zheng: "Don't let the security phage find it, it will directly swallow the abnormal data, but the emergency channel we take should be fine."
Under the leadership of Dong Zheng, everyone walked along the endless information highway. The road was sometimes twisted, and sometimes it rose or fell vertically. Even when they were walking, they suddenly found that the road they had walked before was just above their heads. Unconsciously, the mirror turned over.
If it wasn't for Dong Zheng, everyone would have lost their way. In this data space, they couldn't feel the temperature and air flow, and they wouldn't be tired, hungry or thirsty. It seems that the five senses are presented in another form. This is It's a rather weird feeling, as if... they've lost their human bodies, and only their consciousness remains.
They walked silently. Cui Zuojing had entered Dong Zheng's core, and intuitively felt that this place was much more open and huge than his, and couldn't help asking: "How long will it take to go."
"Now we are still in the emergency channel and have not entered the program." Dong Zheng raised his finger and pointed to the huge barrier standing miraculously in the distance, and said, "That is the firewall. After passing through the firewall, we will officially enter the kernel."
"Looks like it will take a long time."
"Then use a quicker method." Dong Zheng stood still, he closed his eyes, spiritual power slowly poured out from the core, and gradually formed a reptile.
The spider-like thing made everyone look uncomfortable. Dong Zheng touched the reptile's head and said, "Data reptile, it will be a little faster to travel with this."
They climbed up one after another, and Victor turned into a cat and was held in his arms by the dog. Driven by Dong Zheng, the reptile moved quickly along the information highway, so that the surrounding scenery was pulled into a virtual shadow, and he could only look at the firewall and the sky that were getting closer and closer in front of him. Go to the security phage at the back, so that you won't be dizzy.
It took about five minutes, and they finally got to the firewall and got close. Everyone could clearly feel that this thing seemed to completely split the space in two, half the outside world and half the inner core.
All the data you want to enter needs to be detected by the firewall, harmful blocking, harmless release. Just when Cui Zuojing was nervous about whether they would be stopped, the reptile whizzed through the firewall and quickly left the high wall behind.
Xia Qiongyun: "Does the emergency channel need data verification?"
"Yes, I wrapped the crawler with the key given by Allen in advance, so it didn't recognize us as abnormal data." Dong Zheng explained, "It's just that the firewall's recognition speed is very fast, and you didn't notice it. "
They entered the kernel smoothly, and a brand new world unfolded in front of everyone's eyes. No other data was encountered on the road before. It was entirely because of the emergency passage they took. Now they have entered the computer kernel of Kether. On the information highway, dashing past them.
The shielding stand hangs overhead, and the number of security phages increases exponentially. In addition, there are more peculiarly shaped suspended objects that do not know what to do. Many crawlers are running, grabbing data and packing them for transportation.
The speed of the crawler under him slowed down under Dong Zheng's control. Dong Zheng observed the surroundings. They needed to find the memory or cpu and achieve the real purpose of this trip by interfering with the operation.
Back then, the afternoon tea party suffered a disastrous defeat in the final battle against the queen. It was unfortunate and inevitable. The team couldn't solve Kether, so all the information was clearly spied on. No matter what the response was, the queen would know.
And this time, they must solve this big trouble.
Except for Dong Zheng and Cui Zuojing, the others were whispering. They were amazed at the scene presented in this completely different world, and they were discussing curiously. Cui Zuojing sat next to Dong Zheng and asked him, "What are you going to do now?"
"The position of the core structure is determined according to the direction of the data flow." Dong Zheng explained in a low voice, "The inside of the computer is mainly composed of memory, controller and arithmetic unit, and the controller and arithmetic unit are what we usually call the central processing unit. CPUs, they are the most core part of the computer, they are indispensable, and if you destroy one of them, it should be able to interfere with the operation of Kether."
Cui Zuojing understood a little, anyway, this is Dong Zheng's home court, and the specific decision-making and implementation all depend on him alone, and they are just trying their best to fight, and they may not even be able to fight, so they can only hold back.
Most of the data originating from inside the kernel converge toward a certain center, and Dong Zheng drives the crawler to follow them. As it approaches a certain direction, more and more data interweaves on the information highway, converging from different branches and running densely. to one place.
Ten minutes later, Cui Zuojing finally saw something different from what he was looking for at the end of his sight. It was a glass room, square and square, and most of the data was connected to it, and eventually disappeared.
The speed of the reptile slowed down, it slowly approached the glass room, and when it got closer, Cui Zuojing clearly saw that some plants were planted in the square glass room, green branches and leaves covered a wooden table, and someone was sitting at the table.
"People?" Victor said the doubts in everyone's heart.
Dong Zheng pressed his palm down to signal to be safe, he jumped off the reptile, and the others came down one after another. Dong Linhai reached out and took Wang Que, and countless data passed by them, and those that poured into the glass room disappeared without a trace.
"This is the storage." Dong Zheng whispered. He roughly observed the situation in the glass room outside. The glass room was filled with flowers and plants, and flowers of various colors and shapes bloomed.
Under the shade of flowers and greens, the man was wearing a red robe that would be worn by European royal families in the Middle Ages. The layers of the clothes were draped down to the ground. His short chestnut hair was slightly curly, and a few colorful bird feathers were attached to his temples. The mask hangs around his waist, as if standing on a carnival dance floor.
Dong Zheng walked over and knocked on the glass.
The person who was writing something down at the desk raised his head when he heard the sound. He had amber eyes, and his facial features were not as delicate as human beings. He could not distinguish between males and females. The golden pattern spread from his neck to his face. Out the outline of a string of wind ling flowers.
Seeing that Dong Zheng was obviously a little surprised, he stood up and said, "Please come in."
His voice was equally male and female, and the glass room was not too big, so Dong Zheng and Cui Zuojing only walked in, while the others stayed outside and waited.
"No one has been here for a long time." The man stared at Dong Zheng and smiled, "I didn't expect to see anyone other than Kether."
That face is a collection of all human beings' understanding and feelings of beauty. At this moment, Dong Zheng has guessed his identity and said, "Sorry, we just passed by here, we are looking for the CPU."
The memory is responsible for storing programs, data and various signals, commands and other information in the computer, and providing this information when needed. He has no anti-virus function, so he failed to recognize that they are not normal data, or that he found them, but did not debunked.
Hearing that Dong Zheng was going to find the CPU, the memory's eyes lit up and said, "Are you going to find her? Can you bring me something?"
Cui Zuojing was stunned: "What?"
The memory folded up what he was writing on the table and stuffed it into the envelope, and said a little shyly: "This is a letter I wrote to the CPU, can you help me bring it to her?"
Whether it was the pink envelope painted with rose lacquer, or the memory's shy expression, they all told Cui Zuojing that it was a love letter.
A love letter from memory to the CPU.
Cui Zuojing: "..."
Cui Zuojing suddenly realized the magic of the world, and it was messy in the wind, and Dong Zheng took the envelope, looked down, and said, "Okay, then can you tell us where she is?"
The memory pointed to an information highway behind the glass room: "Go straight along this road and you will see her."
Cui Zuojing's heart was full of spit, and he raised his hand and asked, "Why don't you go find her yourself?"
There was a wry smile on the corner of the memory's lips, he shook his head, and said, "I can't leave here, neither does she, these days, I send a letter every day, expecting her to respond to me, but never has, so I just wanted to get rid of you and bring the letter to her with my own hands."
Cui Zuojing realized the point: "Have you seen her?"
"No, we can't leave our position, but I keep imagining that she must be a very beautiful person, otherwise how can she manage so many things in an orderly manner?"
"I'll do my best to bring it to her." Dong Zheng put the letter in his chest pocket, "Don't worry."
After accepting the memory's request, the two walked out of the glass room and sat on the reptile again. The memory was standing at the door, watching the crawler drift away along the endless information highway, and there were still countless pieces of information that entered his glass room in the form of data and were stored.
The memory let out a light breath, turned back to the desk and sat down, took out a new piece of letter paper from the drawer, and started writing the love letter that will be sent to the CPU tomorrow.
When he reached the place where he could no longer see the glass room, Cui Zuojing finally couldn't hold it in anymore and sighed, "Even computer parts are falling in love these days?"
Others heard him talk about the "adventure" of the two in the glass room, and their reactions were not much different from Cui Zuojing. A memory fell in love with the CPU? This is too cyberpunk.
"It's amazing to have such an admiration without even seeing each other or even communicating." Lin Hangzhi sighed, "Online dating at least chats every day."
All in all, none of the seven human beings here can understand the memory's love for the CPU. They have never met each other, don't know their appearance and gender, and have not even exchanged information, yet they still have feelings of liking.
But those are not important. Since he promised the memory, Dong Zheng will try his best to bring his letter.
Going along the road pointed by the memory, it is still peaceful along the way. They are mixed in many normal data, and the cover of the key has not attracted the attention of the security phages and anti-virus programs in the sky. The cyberpunk in the kernel The stylized scene made everyone look around as if their eyes were not enough at first, but later it was not so novel.
Until a huge trash can appeared at the end of the line of sight, the trash can was too big, and three blue arrows were drawn on it, in a triangle looping in a circle - an enlarged version of the recycle bin on the computer desktop.
Cui Zuojing swears that it can definitely be selected as the largest trash can in the universe. Several wide highways are connected to the trash can, and countless information is thrown into it. The visual effect is simply shocking.
Victor asked softly, "Recycle bin?"
"right."
The reptiles walked along the road and passed by the recycling station. Countless levels detected the data of the way, and threw the useless ones into the trash can. The wonton splitter team and the reptiles were also detected. Dong Zheng used the key to make a layer on them. Protected and passed the level without a hitch.
"Is the key that Allen gave us so easy to use?" Cui Zuojing wondered, "This is the inside of kether, there is no reason to use a key to unblock it, right?"
Dong Zheng shook his head. This is a question he has been thinking about since he entered the computer world. With the kernel, he can see far more problems than others: "It has little to do with the key, it should not be Kether's here. Internally, or...the Kether as we understand it is different from what it really is."
The emergence of memory has further strengthened his idea. If Kether is really the embodiment of the entire computer, why does memory exist in the form of an independent individual
These doubts may not be resolved until the CPU is actually seen.
The crawlers move on, no one knows how long they will go, and in a world where there is no sleepiness and no hunger, the journey becomes very boring.
Dong Linhai yawned, although he was not sleepy, but after getting used to the surrounding scene, it was really boring: "Is this computer so huge?"
Dong Zheng explained: "No, the time scale here is not the same as outside. You think, at the speed of a supercomputer, the time it takes to send data from memory to CPU is so short that it is impossible to calculate at all. Our current time scale is Infinitely zoomed in, so the journey feels extra long.”
Cui Zuojing nodded: "Indeed, the time here is hardly passing."
"But it should be soon, be patient."
Just like what Dong Zheng said, it was indeed almost there, and after a quarter of an hour they saw a cage.
Like a glass house, the cage is at the center of the convergence of countless information highways, where massive amounts of information pour in, processed and distributed to different paths. In the three-meter-high black birdcage, she sat alone on the ground, her silver hair fell to her waist, and she looked slender in a pure black dress.
Unlike the glass room where there are flowers, plants, tables and chairs, the entire cage is empty except for the man.
Wang Que asked in a low voice, "Is that there?"
"It should be." Going down with Cui Zuojing as usual, Dong Zheng walked to the cage and noticed the data fluctuations brought by the two when they came over, and the people in the cage looked up at them.
She has the same amber eyes as the memory, and the dark golden lines also rise from the side of the neck, and outline the outline of anemones on the cheeks. With the continuous influx of data, the lines light up or dim, and the number of flowers represents the number of CPUs in use.
Compared to the androgynous memory, she is more like a woman, and also has an indescribable beauty. Seeing a stranger approaching, a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes.
"Who are you? How did you get here?" Unlike the memory, the CPU needs to be more vigilant.
"Someone asked me to give this to you." Dong Zheng took out the envelope.
The CPU didn't get up, she stretched out her hand and took the letter from Dong Zheng from the gap in the cage: "What is this?"
"The memory asked me to bring it to you."
"Really? This is the first time he has sent me a letter." The CPU was obviously a little puzzled. She didn't rush to open the envelope in front of the stranger, but put it on her knee and continued to ask: "I can feel it. You are not normal data, why are you here?"
"We came in through the emergency passage with a key." Dong Zheng said, "I take the liberty to ask, if I guessed correctly, you were locked here by kether, right?"