Compared with Cecil's existing network technicians, the biggest advantage of the Eternal Sleepers should be that they are very familiar with the process of thinking online and dealing with various unexpected situations—over the past many years, they have used the most dangerous methods to make Their own brains are directly exposed to a large-scale computing network. The lack of security mechanisms and the congenital defects of "human flesh connection" make the eternal sleepers have to face some dangerous situations from time to time, including but not limited to brain overload and mental damage. , memory streams, and various problems with the soul.
For them, it's all routine.
It is precisely because of this that the "immersion chamber" made by the Cecilians, which has a bunch of safety devices and a layer of physical insurance, seems to these eternal sleepers to be as safe as a fortress made of steel, which can protect the body and the body at the same time. The kind of mind, lying in there will have a sense of physical and mental relaxation - you don't have to spend your energy to maintain the network connection, and you don't have to worry about any mental noise directly shining into your head. Many bishops claim that they can lie in it for a lifetime.
Magnum was very surprised by the safety level of those immersion chambers at the beginning. He could see how much the Cecils spent more research and development costs for these safety measures, but soon he figured out the key—the Eternal Sleeper’s original The psychic network is for extraordinary people. Except for very few exceptions, everyone who is connected to the network has strong spiritual power. When encountering problems, they can overcome them by themselves. For those of the dark sect, it is also part of the traditional custom to hang up one or two occasionally
But Cecil is different. Their network is for ordinary people, and the fragile mind and body of ordinary people need more protection. As a responsible empire, they have an obligation to protect citizens. As a result, all the immersion chambers they manufactured have safety as the highest requirement, and even sacrificed part of the connection performance for this...
Which of the two technical ideas is right and which is wrong? Archbishops including Yuri and Magnum believe that there is no doubt about it—Emperor Cecil is a wanderer outside the territory, and the priests in this place carry a warhammer bigger than a human head , the locals are keen to use explosion and earthquake techniques to mine mountains.
The truth rests—and will always rest—in the hands of the Cecil Empire without a doubt.
Imperial Computing Center, Thinking Hall, in front of the Mind Hub.
The dense brilliance floats on the surface of the silver-white alloy pillars, and the veins formed by the arcane energy flicker like breathing in the gaps between the metal modules. The tall pillars connect the floor and the dome of the hall, and there are complex runes and geometric patterns from time to time. The figure emerges from the surface of the pillar and rises rapidly along its alloy shell. A pleasant low humming sound echoes softly in this bright hall, which seems to contain the vitality that is constantly awakening.
"The third test start, the base magic net has been stably supplied with energy," a technician from the Institute of Magic Technology stood in front of the nearby console and said loudly while looking at the many runes that lit up on it, "Mental Nexus begins outputting sequential signals—all signals confirmed!"
Standing in front of the silver-white alloy pillar, Yuri and Wendy listened to the magician's loud report on the progress. The former nodded slightly: "It seems to have started successfully."
"It's finally time to start..." Wendy seemed to be answering Yuri, and said softly as if she was talking to herself, then she took a step forward, gently placed her hand on the alloy shell of the large pillar, and began to release own spiritual strength.
In this era, in the field of research, "a transcendent can manipulate magic power without using additional tools when debugging certain equipment" has probably become their only advantage when facing ordinary researchers.
All eyes in the hall were focused on Wendy for a moment.
Cecil's local technicians are watching her, and they are also watching the mental hub in front of her—countless people have spent a lot of effort on this thing, and only those who often deal with immersion chambers and the Internet will understand what this thing means Looking at something, they watched this scene, as if they were watching the future of technology.
Several fellow Eternal Sleepers at the scene were also watching her, but they were watching the past of the Eternal Sleeper Order: an old era has come to an end, and a brand new magical technology will be used to take over everything they have created. The cold equipment is overlooking here, and inside it, seven hundred years of technology accumulation is waking up in an unprecedented way.
Some people look forward to it, some people feel it.
Ripples of magical power appeared in the mental hub, and Wendy let out a sigh of relief, showing a smile: "Hello, future."
Almost at the same time, a clear holographic projection appeared above the console of the mind hub, and Magnum's figure appeared in the holographic projection, his eyes were wide open, and his voice was as loud as ever: "Wow—I'm scared ! Have I entered the Nexus?"
The magician in front of the console seemed to have not seen the sudden appearance of Magnum, and still reported the situation meticulously with a straight face: "The mental hub began to output responses... all channels are open, we can 'see' the test group sending signal."
Magnum stared, looked around the hall, and then pointed at himself: "Is the 'signal' referring to me?"
Yuri immediately frowned: "That's enough, this is a serious occasion—we shouldn't have agreed to let you enter the Mind Nexus first!"
Magnum, who has been transferred to the mind hub, spread his hands when he heard the words: "Ms. Selena is monitoring the upload, Your Excellency Megall is at the Emperor's side, and I am the only mind in the network—do you want to upload yourself into it?" accompany me?"
Yuri pressed his forehead subconsciously: "... I shouldn't have argued with you... Anyway, how do you feel now?"
"... In terms of general perception, it is no different from our own mental space," Magnum finally became serious, and began to answer Yuri's question, "It's just that this place is still very... 'barren', I was thrown into a void, here There are only some basic 'frames' and 'platforms', which should be the original space built into the mind hub. But I can feel the other people - those who are using the immersion chamber, and I can feel their minds around me, It's just that I can't see it for the time being... "
Wendy nodded slightly: "Several test groups are still waiting for the next order. Before all the channels are opened, it's normal that you can't see them."
"Well, I think so," Magnum said casually, "Also, I can still feel that this place is very... narrow. But I think this should be caused by the limited number of nodes."
Yuri nodded: "Currently counting the ordinary testers on shift, we can only guarantee a thousand nodes to maintain floating connections, and some of the nodes will be used for some additional test items, and the remaining nodes are of course not It may maintain the same scale as the previous psychic network. But everything will be fine soon-all immersion chambers have passed the test, and the second batch of connection volunteers, testers, and maintenance personnel are also ready. When the computing center is officially opened, the psychic The network will reappear…”
"It's the 'Neural Network of Narrators'," Magnum immediately corrected with a serious face, "Times have changed, my friend—ha, this sentence really feels inexplicably, I began to understand why Cecilians like it Chasing these 'hipster' words."
The corners of Yuri's eyes twitched slightly, and he resolutely ignored Magnum who appeared in the hall in the form of a holographic projection instead of a psychological projection. He turned his head slightly and said to Wendy beside him: "You can notify Semler —let him start the next step."
…
In the upper area of the computing center, in a large connected computer room, immersion cabins are neatly arranged one by one.
The silver-white hatches are being opened, and lying in the cabin are the former priests of the Eternal Sleeper—these people have changed into the white uniforms of Cecil's technicians, and everyone's expressions are calm and slightly dull.
They are currently in a shallow connection state, maintaining the operation of the mental hub in the form of pure computing power nodes. They are waiting for the next instruction, and the person in charge of this room is the former Archbishop of the Eternal Sleeper—Semler.
This middle-aged man with a serious expression stood next to the console in the center of the computer room, watching the column in the center of the room used to connect the mental hub, and seemed to be meditating on something.
Wendy's voice suddenly came from the spiritual connection, interrupting Semler's thoughts.
He raised his head, and a former bishop standing beside him immediately responded: "Shall we start?"
"The mental hub has stabilized, and Magnum is ready inside," Semler nodded slowly, and said in a deep voice, "Let the compatriots start—close the hatch, connect deeply, and sort out your memory and mind , let us... build the earth and the sky first."
The alloy hatches began to sink steadily under the action of the mechanical device, and the slight squeak of the hatches closing came into the ears continuously. Sammler closed his eyes slightly. In his mental perception, he can "see" that there are faint "lines" extending from this room.
The lines connect to form a net, and the streams converge to form a river.
And there is not only one room where the "line" spreads out.
In the entire computing center, in many rooms on the upper floor of the thinking hall, one torrent of thinking is being connected, and one individual brain floating point is being activated.
There are not only the former eternal sleepers, but also Cecil's original network technicians, as well as the "volunteers" recruited to provide computing power support.
Tonight, a thousand people will participate in this work in the computing center. They will build the prototype of the "narrative neural network" and carry out the initial "genesis" in this network.
What they created tonight will be stored in all nodes in the form of floating storage, and will be kept for a long time with the addition of more nodes and the rotation of old and new nodes, rapid evolution, and gradual improvement...
Among these technicians and volunteers, ordinary people account for the majority—hundreds of ordinary people are forming the initial nodes of this rudimentary network. on the starting line.
In the cyberspace formed by the human mind, everyone's thinking will no longer be distinguished from the extraordinary and the ordinary.
…
In the thinking hall, Magnum, who appeared in the hall in the form of a holographic projection, opened his eyes wide, describing what he saw in the online world with a hint of joy:
"Starting to shine and the basics of the earth - they're building an open virtual surface... oh! I see the sky! Simple, but beautiful!"
But Yuri no longer cared about Magnum's voice at this time.
Because the wise Cecil technicians thought of adding a volume adjustment function to Magnum's sound generating device in advance—after confirming that a guy with an extremely loud voice was not prepared to follow the friendly advice of the on-site staff about the experimental environment , the magician in front of the console directly turned the volume of Magnum to the minimum.
In order to complete the work, Magnum must stay in the mental hub at this moment, and the inability to move freely in the network means that he cannot project his consciousness onto other nodes, and he cannot form a "psychological projection" as usual. ", he can only communicate with the outside world through the sound and light equipment in the hall like a broadcast signal-praise the magic technology, now it only takes a few buttons to quiet this guy.
Yuri even felt that the whole world was better.
"Do you know, Ms. Wendy, as an Eternal Sleeper who only joined the order in the Rosetta era, my biggest regret was not being able to witness the scene where the order created a world from scratch in the spiritual network," He turned his head and couldn't help but talk about the emotion in his heart at the moment, "Now I have no regrets—we are witnessing history with our own eyes, and something destined to change the world is being born here."
Wendy showed a slight smile and said softly, "I hope that the wanderers outside the territory will be satisfied with our work."
"He will be satisfied," Yuri said briskly, "He will come to check and accept all this in a few days, and I hope that by then He will tell us what the 'narrator' in this 'narrator neural network' really represents. …”
Wendy's smile froze for a moment.
She touched the back of her neck subconsciously, and suddenly felt a little pain in the back of her neck...