Any computer will crash, and users will probably take advantage of this time to make a cup of coffee or tea, rest with their legs crossed for a while, wait for the restart, and wait for the indifferent welcome from the Chusi system. No one will take this as much. Earth-shattering weeping ghosts and gods things.
But the central computer deep underground in the Charter Bureau will not crash, and it has not been restarted for countless years, so that day in the autumn, the huge two-dimensional light curtain in the ground suddenly turned black, and all processing was done separately. When all the workbenches fell into dead silence, the entire Charter Bureau was dumbfounded.
The word stupid is actually not enough to describe the scene and emotions at that time. From the director to the most basic data analysts, everyone stared at this darkness and listened to this silence. They felt like they would always shine on the capital. The stars in the star circle suddenly went out, and the billions of stars in the universe suddenly disappeared without a trace.
The Federal Central Computer has stopped working!
For the Federation and human society, no one knows better than the staff of the Charter Bureau. They know that once the central computer is lost, the imperial people can easily attack in a big way, and they don't even need to attack the imperial invaders at all. If it is torn apart, the entire human society will fall apart!
Without the brilliance of the Charter, what will human beings become? No one dared to conceive of this horrific problem. In the face of the sudden darkness and silence, the more than 1,000 staff members of the Charter Bureau on the ground and underground were silent, some folded their hands, and some female staff even shed tears in horror and helpless.
This kind of shocking accident, everyone's heart can't bear it, they don't know the Federal Central Computer... Is this existence that they affectionately call the old thing really come to the end of its life, or is it Just take a nap and wake up in no time.
This is not the loss of a parent, this is more sad than the loss of a family member; this is not a spring thunder, this is more powerful than the power of thunder and lightning.
Fortunately, it didn't take long for the computer in the middle of the ground to be suspended and suspended in suspended animation. After 7.13221 seconds, a tiny bright spot appeared in the center of the dark wide two-dimensional light curtain.
Then this bright spot suddenly exploded, emitting countless blazing white lines, but in an instant, it illuminated the vast underground space, and it seemed that countless nebulae filled it, forming condensed disillusionment. This time period is too short to be discerned with the naked eye, even with the highest speed video control system.
After the light, there is peace and tranquility. Countless pictures from all corners of the Federation reappeared on the light curtain. Countless messages flashed in sequence in complicated and incomprehensible mechanical sentences, but the speed of the flashing of those sentence lines seemed to be faster than that. Seems to be faster than usual.
A mechanically metallic voice sounded: "The upgrade is complete."
Other than that, it was business as usual, as if nothing had happened, as if these seven seconds never happened.
When the Federal Central Computer was plunged into darkness, the people in the Charter Bureau thought the whole world was broken, and when it returned to normal, they suddenly felt that this beautiful world was reborn. In the ancient mythology before the catastrophe, there seems to be a certain creator who took seven days to create this bizarre world, but the god in the minds of the Charter Bureau people, it seems that it took only seven seconds to rebuild the world in their hearts time.
Seven seconds is too short, so that the shock, fear and despair on the faces of many staff members have just begun to ripple, and the tears in the eyes of many female staff members have just flowed 1cm away. This process is over, and their emotions suddenly fall into a certain in a state of indescribable emptiness.
The underground central computer of the Charter Bureau will indeed upgrade itself in the charter rules, but people living in the Federation have never witnessed this scene with their own eyes, and according to the handbooks left behind, the upgrade of the federal central computer takes a very long time. , Gently carry out the self-replacement of hardware and related supporting software, no one ever imagined that this old thing would doze off so suddenly, scaring countless people, and then reopened his eyes, and indifferently announced the success of the upgrade .
What kind of upgrade is this? Nobody knows.
The accidental crash of the federal central computer, or an autonomous upgrade, was manually included in the second sequence of events and kept strictly confidential. Except for the core staff of the Charter Bureau, only President Pabble and Vice President Byron knew about it for the time being. The Parliament Hill side did not understand at all what a thrilling seven seconds the Charter Bureau had spent.
It took a long time for the Chartered Bureau to get rid of this shocking and complicated emotion, but there is a certain question in everyone's heart, a shadow that does not know the color is constantly floating and floating...
The old director and Cui Judong's eyes touched slightly, and they separated naturally, as if they didn't want to make further memories and analysis of those seven seconds.
As the two senior officials who have worked in the Charter Bureau for the longest time, have the highest authority, and know the most about the central computer, in fact, in the dull and monotonous work of this life, they have already developed a certain definite cognition - the underground central computer represents The level of civilization, in fact, has always been higher than the average level of civilization in the federal society. The wisdom of the great five-member group for human society, just in terms of being able to upgrade independently, is beyond the current scientific system. matter.
The human civilization before the catastrophe has developed to a certain amazing level. Although human beings have been making continuous progress and catching up for countless thousands of years, they have even surpassed their predecessors in some aspects, but after all, in some core aspects Still haven't been able to return to its former glory.
Mr. Tai reached out and listed all the files about Xu Le on the light curtain as top secret. He sat in the chair silently for a long time. Thinking of the planning committee under the Charter Bureau, thinking of those factories, he couldn't help but feel a certain kind of emotion in his heart. . After so many years, in fact, the Charter Bureau is still just the old service staff. They know what they can know, but they will never understand those things they cannot understand.
Accompanying a huge mechanical civilization crystal of a magnificent star for life, seeing its super power with your own eyes, in such a weird organization as the Charter Bureau, many staff will actually be subtly affected by some influences, they are not followers of Scientology , but somewhere in the deepest part of their hearts, it goes against the scientific spirit they should hold, and is extremely superstitious.
They obsessively believed in and worshipped that central computer, and saw that icy machine as the soul of the Federation, the last remnant of a great previous civilization, and they felt infinitely honored as the servants who took care of this relic. with pride.
This kind of superstition comes from the worship of human beings to the level of intelligence that they can achieve, from the dazzling deeds of the charter for countless thousands of years, and from the principle that machines will never fail. The staff of the Charter Bureau were superstitious about it, worshipped it, believed it as family, so they called it: old stuff.
The old chief is no exception. He silently looked at the fast flashing mechanical sentences on the light screen, and suddenly lost all interest in tracing Xu Le's identity. Since the old man has always refused to determine the identity of this guy, he always has his own precise and irreversible logic. reason.
There is an unwritten unwritten rule within the Charter Bureau. This rule does not seem to conform to the spirit of the Charter, but it has penetrated deep into the hearts of every staff member of this independent agency for countless years, making them irresistible, let alone resisting.
The rule is: one, old things never make mistakes; two, if old things make mistakes, see the first rule.
"From the first day I entered the game, I was thinking about a problem..." The old chief gave up thinking, picked up the golf club from behind the chair, and said with emotion, "I don't know if the old thing has life or not."
When Cui Judong heard this sentence, he felt a chill on his back, and it even felt a little painful. In fact, this is probably the doubt that every employee who has worked in the Charter Bureau for a long time will have doubts, because the central computer deep in the ground is really too versatile, although it has never shown any humanized emotions.
"When I was at the Seventh Research Institute, my doctoral dissertation was to study this." After a moment of silence, Cui Judong said, "According to the core logic program of the old thing and the charter rules designed by the five-person group, if it really produces Some kind of mind-set similar to carbon-based life, it just blows itself up."
Seemingly feeling that this was still not enough to stabilize his shaky heart, Cui Judong quickly added: "And from a philosophical point of view, this doesn't make sense."
"That's right." The old director coughed twice, opened his somewhat absent-minded eyes, and walked out of the office with a golf club in hand, and said, "And... what does this have to do with us? It We're going to live for millions or even hundreds of millions of years, and we're going to die."
"I never doubt that even if the entire federation is destroyed, the old things will still exist until the end of this universe."
"Since this is the case, how can we have the right to discuss it."
Probably only the staff of the Charter Bureau who have served the Federal Central Computer for life can talk about this kind of thing so easily, because their lives and even their breathing are connected with the cold computing machine underground, and they have an innate sense of intimacy. But if this conversation in the Charter Bureau office spreads out, I don't know how much disturbance it will cause.
In fact, Director Tai and Assistant Cui Judong were only talking in general terms. They were unable to find out what happened in those seven seconds, let alone the sudden crash of the federal central computer, just because it was investigating Xu Le's true identity and touched the When it came to a logical problem that made it feel difficult, at the same time, it came into contact with a little bit that made its mechanical program feel a little uncomfortable.
After seven seconds of crash, the federal central computer restarted, and no one noticed that at the end of the countless lines of program statements after the restart, at the end of the last sentence... there was a symbol mark representing a smiley face.