Dusk gently enveloped the earth, and the magic spar lamp in the study had been lit. Gao Wen casually signed his name on a document and handed it to Hetty who was waiting across the table: "Economic revitalization and industrial development in the Eastern Territory. You have to keep an eye on the construction, especially the economic experiment of the Sulam Terrace. You must strictly prevent the local businessmen and the old nobles from colluding secretly, driving up the price of food, and hitting the new currency. Announced throughout the Eastern Territory.”
Hetty took the document with a serious expression: "Please rest assured, I understand the importance of economic pilot."
Gao Wen hummed, and couldn't help but look at Heidi with concern: "How is your rest recently? Pay attention to your body."
"Let your ancestors care about this, I am ashamed as a junior..." Hetty immediately lowered her head, "Recently, the government affairs hall is not very busy. After winter, many projects that are more affected by the seasons have slowed down or temporarily stopped. The interior department We only need to make a good year-end summary and plan for the coming year, and the interns who joined the government affairs office last year can also come in handy now.”
"That's good," Gawain nodded, "Then how about the magic net projects in the northern and western regions?"
"I have been synchronizing with the two big consuls on their progress. At present, the main cities and sub-level cities of the two realms have established basic magic net facilities-mainly because these cities basically have mages in charge, There are also mage towers and a mature extraordinary material processing system, which can complete the laying of the foundation relatively quickly, but as for lower-level cities and villages and towns... there is no progress."
Speaking of this, Hetty couldn't help shaking his head: "In addition, due to the arrival of winter, construction outside the cities has become difficult, and the magic nets between the cities in the north and west have not been connected. The relay devices have barely achieved communication, and due to the scarcity of relay stations and insufficient power, communication in various cities is often interrupted, so it can be said that it has not yet entered a practical state."
"Understandable," Gao Wen was not surprised, "After all...the relatively large construction machinery and vehicles are still scarce, and the southern border is barely used by ourselves, and many areas in the northern border and western border can only rely on manpower for construction. Winter is a hurdle that cannot be crossed. .”
The magic net can only exert its greatest value when it becomes a "net".
The communication network throughout the country, the powerful energy system, the cornerstone of industry, and the skeleton of society all need to be established on the basis of the connection of the whole territory of the magic network. Moreover, from the perspective of "empire", Gao Wen also needs to integrate the entire country Every region in the country is connected into a closer whole, so as to avoid the counterattack of those old forces in the distance, and prevent some difficult-to-care provinces from returning to the closed and divided state of the kingdom era.
But this is not so easy to achieve.
It is relatively simple to build basic magic net facilities in a city, but it is more than twice as difficult to build enough magic net sites in those sparsely populated wilderness, not to mention that many projects will also face extremely harsh environments - high mountains, The rapids and quagmire, the frozen soil in the north, the swamp in the west... Even with the help of magic, it is very difficult to challenge these.
The small relay device can only allow the two magic nets to operate at the lowest power, but in order for the magic net to realize the full power transmission of energy and information, it is necessary to build a relatively large hub tower or hub station. At that time, Gao Wen relied on the power of the unified war to implement measures such as large-scale population migration, urban integration, and military management in border areas, so that the magic net "formed" in a short period of time, but now the entire empire has been unified. The country is out of a state of war, and the entire territory of the empire is much larger than the original southern border. Of course, similar methods cannot be used anymore. Even if they want to use it, considerable adjustments must be made.
On this basis, he can only proceed step by step, waiting for this huge project to be completed slowly.
"In addition to the main hub of the southern border, only the main hub of the East Holy Spirit Plain has been successfully launched," Hetty said, "The giant tree of Thorin helped us activate the hub of the Eastern Plain in advance. The hub, the northern main hub, and the San Sunil main hub have all been shut down due to winter."
"...Actually, it's also good. If the projects are assigned successively, we will have the opportunity to discover some hidden problems, so as not to cause too much damage to the magic network of the entire country," Gao Wen said half-relieved and half-sincerely, "You just need to worry about it." Pay attention to the news from the giant tree of Sorin, the experience accumulated there should be of great help to our construction after the beginning of spring next year."
Hetty bowed her head and took the order: "Yes, ancestor."
Then she took a quick look at Gao Wen, confirmed that all the documents and reports had been handed over, and took a half step back: "Then if there is nothing else, I will go back to the office first—there are still a few reports waiting for me Review."
Gao Wen was about to get lost in thought, but when he heard that there was no problem, he nodded. As soon as he nodded, Hetty left the room quickly.
I don't know if it's an illusion, but Gao Wen even felt that the moment Hetty walked out of the study, there was an afterimage...
"It seems that the work pressure is still high recently," Gao Wen couldn't help touching his chin, and said softly, "We still have to find someone who can share the pressure with her..."
As soon as he finished speaking, amber was released in the air beside him: "You really don't know why she is avoiding you recently?"
Gawain glanced at the half-elf: "Isn't this fun for the elderly?"
While speaking, he suddenly felt ripples in the depths of his mind, and a special identification mark called in his consciousness.
"Daniel seems to be looking for me urgently." He then looked at Amber, "Stay here."
Amber was stunned for a moment, then waved her hand: "Hey, I know..."
As soon as she finished speaking, Gawain was already sitting on the large armchair, entering a state of spiritual connection.
Looking at Gao Wen who had closed his eyes, Amber couldn't help but frowned, and after a little silence, she murmured to herself with a little sigh: "Ah... you're like this, I'm afraid you'll die of exhaustion in this life... just like Can't you get rid of 'tired to death'?"
The chaotic and flickering light and shadow spread out in the field of vision, and Gawain could faintly hear Amber's low voice bb, but he didn't pay much attention to it.
The scene in his vision has gradually stabilized.
On the endless expanse of water, huge metal platforms are arranged one after another. In the sky, there are gigantic geometrical figures and digital symbols running silently. In the center of the sky and the water, Daniel in a black robe is already standing beside the white round table.
"My lord," the old mage bowed immediately after seeing Gao Wen, "I have become the archbishop of the Eternal Sleep Sect."
"You have passed the test and been promoted smoothly?" Gawain immediately looked Daniel up and down, then nodded slightly with a smile, "That's really good news, congratulations."
"This identity is no longer important to me," Daniel immediately bowed his head and said with sincerity, "The knowledge and health you bestow are invaluable."
Gao Wen could feel that the old mage's words came from the heart.
In the beginning, the "loyalty" of this old mage from Typhon and from the Order of the Eternal Sleepers to the "outsider wanderers" might really be just because of fear, and loyalty stemming from fear often cannot stand the test, but as time goes by , as more and more things happened, this loyalty has obviously changed quietly.
Knowledge and health, as well as the real changes in the real world life after getting these two, all of this cannot be ignored.
The old mage lowered his head in front of the "Wanderer outside the territory", the respect in his heart was already greater than the fear.
He knew that he probably wasn't a good person—even if he had been, he wasn't any more.
But at least he remembered to be grateful.
He once fell into despair due to talent problems, was driven crazy by imperfect biochemical transformation, almost completely lost his mind, and was ruled by those endless whispers and hallucinations in his heart. He once lost almost everything, even most of his humanity.
It was the gift of the "Wanderer outside the Territory", which gave him the opportunity to find all those things back.
Perhaps in the eyes of wanderers outside the territory, He just gave him some inconspicuous knowledge and some simple healing methods, but this "tiny" help from a "high existence" is enough to change the entire fate of a mortal.
The gift of fate needs to be repaid with loyalty.
"My lord," Daniel said respectfully, "After becoming the archbishop, I have gained higher authority—I have investigated the truth of 'Project Zero', and I have initially contacted the root cause of the current spiritual network crisis!"
Gao Wen's gaze became serious: "Project No. 0...what's going on?"
"They're trying to remove the 'spirit stamp'!" Daniel replied immediately, "and they're not trying to remove one or two people—they intend to remove all the spiritual seals imposed on mortals by connecting the dreams of every mortal!! "
Daniel's answer made Gawain almost miss a beat of his breath, and the dignified and solemn image he tried to maintain almost lost control.
Two seconds later, he adjusted his mentality and stared into Daniel's eyes: "Do they know the 'Spirit Stamp'?"
"Yes, but they call it 'shackles' or 'chains of the gods,'" Daniel nodded. "I don't know how they first heard about this phenomenon, but it is clear that the study of the mortal mind and consciousness The Sleepers of the Realm know more about the 'Mind Seal' than the Doom Society..."
"The research on the Doom Society is still limited to the 'flesh.body'. The Eternal Sleepers have obviously entered the realm of the mind and even the soul..." Gawain nodded slightly, "So what exactly are they going to do? How does the No. 0 project work? "
Daniel nodded and began to report in detail: "First of all, build a huge, independent spiritual world, which they call a 'sandbox'. This sandbox is a more complex and advanced space than the Dream City, except for the necessary monitoring measures. In addition, it is completely isolated from the outside real world;
"The human mind is introduced into this kind of sandbox world, and before entering the sandbox world, it undergoes thorough hypnosis and memory removal to delete all memories and concepts related to gods, and the sandbox world itself does not have any information related to gods. information;
"When the sandbox starts to operate in a closed manner, it will form a closed system, which can be self-consistent and self-sustaining, because it does not exchange any information with the outside world, and its interior has been thoroughly 'sterilized', so it should be a In a completely godless world, people who "survive" in the sandbox world will not remember what the outside world looks like, but will only think that everything in the sandbox is real;
"Finally, through the 'time iteration', the time passage in the sandbox world is accelerated, and it is completely out of touch with the outside real world, so that it can run for more than a thousand years, and let its internal mind experience dozens or even hundreds of 'reincarnations' Remodeling'…”
"Time iteration?" Gao Wen immediately grasped a key word in Daniel's report, "Speeding up the flow of time in the sandbox world? Does this require a huge amount of computing power?"
Daniel nodded with a serious expression: "Yes, very huge computing power, and not only huge computing power is required, but also a human brain that can be permanently connected to the network as an 'operating substrate', because the sandbox must be completely isolated, no As long as isolation is achieved on the network, isolation must also be performed in the real world, and ordinary eternal sleepers are floating on the Internet, and each node is constantly changing, which does not meet this condition... "
The mystery was finally solved, and the question that had troubled Gao Wen for a long time was answered.
"That's why they need brain servants!"
The spiritual network itself does not need a fixed "server". According to Gao Wen's understanding, its entire operation process is actually based on the "cloud" technology: as long as a certain number of users remain connected to the network, only a small amount of The computing power task is distributed to those users, and the entire network can run, not to say that it needs some hardware foundation, that is, some terminals used to connect to the network (most of the eternal sleepers also use their own ability to omit this step) , and the equipment required for debugging and monitoring the network.
So, there is no need for the Sleepers to convert anyone into a "brain servant" to maintain their network.
But their "sandbox" requires.