The appearance of Xiling was still yesterday. Many people still vividly remember the martial law that was more or less oolong in the city, but the martial law came and went quickly. Now the shadow city has returned to normal order. The aftermath of the martial law only caused a little bit of gossip among the citizens. This city, which is used to all kinds of big movements, didn't take the martial law seriously at all. Now it has quickly returned to its stable daily life. The impact of the incident on the citizens was not even greater than the last time when the Zhujidan Wholesale Market in the west of the city was celebrating its anniversary and the whole city was rushing to buy it—Shadow City is such a high-end, western-style, high-grade, unaware high-tech place.
However, although ordinary citizens have returned to their daily work and life, the Xiling apostles are just about to get busy: they have to adapt to the suddenly strengthened data network. Now Bubble and Tavel have started to transform the empire network based on Xiling's current strength. It can be confirmed that after Xiling re-merged into the spiritual network, the latter's overall load capacity has nearly doubled, and if There is a better structure, and there is still room for improvement in this level of improvement. In response to this situation, Bubbles redefines the segmentation method of the spiritual network, expands the original small subnet to reduce resource waste, and makes full use of the load capacity of the more robust backbone network. This transformation may take half a month to complete, but now the imperial soldiers in Shadow City can already access the new network after transformation. The network in other areas will be restructured later. Now every Xiling apostle in Shadow City can call more computing resources from the network, and the response speed of this network has also become faster. That's a good thing, but it takes getting used to. Although in my opinion, increasing a 10PB per second network to 100PB per second (probably that's what it means) is simply beyond my understanding...
Because it followed Tavel's suggestion, Bubbles did not "erase" all the old network architecture, but used it as a backup connection to sink to the bottom layer of the network. If necessary, the old connection can be used in the shortest time to reactivate. This is to prevent accidents: We are not familiar with Xiling, a new unit, although she can be effective as long as she is connected to the Internet, and theoretically as long as the Internet exists, she will not disappear, but God knows this confused "child" "Will there be a time when the chain is lost? In order to prevent Xiling from accidentally going offline and causing the new network to be paralyzed, Bubbles will keep the old network. Anyway, these old connections do not take up resources if they are not enabled. They are like some temporarily suspended listening ports, which do not affect the system at all when there is no data flow.
Anyway, Bubble explained it to me in this way, so I'll take it as if I understood it...
Speaking of which, recently, the soldiers of the Empire have been bombarded with heavy news one after another: the reunification of the sky area, the legacy of the empire, the suppression of traitors, and Xiling who doesn’t know whether it should be regarded as racial awareness or the imperial version of "Skynet" appear. Even with a race like the Apostles of Xiling who can think in a purely logical state, it is difficult to be calm in the face of so many shocking events. Recently, I can often feel a high atmosphere from the spiritual network. This atmosphere From every confident and uplifting heart of the entire race, and it seems to affect the incarnation of the spiritual network in turn: Xiling appears very energetic and seems to be quite happy every moment. We have already got a general understanding of the character of this Xiling. She is not rigid like most Xiling apostles, but a smart guy. She is like a little girl who is new to the world outside the door. She is full of curiosity about everything and always wants to run around to see. She doesn't know much about the work she has to undertake, and she doesn't even know what the military regulations are. But at the same time, the soul of the apostle Xiling also took effect on her. She is very obedient and obeys orders. If it is a task, she will happily complete it even if she does not understand it—in fact, she is very happy about this all the time. For children, the work itself is also something to be happy about.
Therefore, although this immature guy still has many unsatisfactory places, Sandora is already relatively satisfied with the status quo. She said this: "Clumsy soldiers are better than soldiers who don't obey orders-Sandora? Kelvy? Ulasses."
... I'm basically used to that girl's behavior of quoting her famous quotes for granted.
It's about ten o'clock in the morning, and I just came back from Shadow City half an hour ago. In the past, apart from making routine appearances to show that His Majesty the Emperor was still busy with state affairs, he just wanted to see the situation of that "Xi Ling". It seems that the other party is quite satisfied with her new residence, and is also very happy to have a new neighbor: she and Tavel live in a dormitory area. But I think Xiling doesn't care about the environment where she lives at all. Her body is a spiritual network, that is to say, her body is as big as the entire empire, and the place where she really lives is also the entire empire: this is a girl carrying a house like a snail, and the one she appeared in front of us The image of the blond girl is actually just a terminal interface used by "Xi Ling" to communicate with the real world. Where the terminal interface is projected should make no difference to the entire network.
Now Xiling is working hard to learn a lot of information left by Tavel and Sandora to understand the history of the empire and the sense of mission of the apostles of Xiling—well, roughly these things. These materials compiled from a third-party perspective are very difficult for Xi Ling, who is a "fan of the authorities", because she is not used to understanding the Imperial Network from the perspective of a bystander. A person understands that the earth under his feet is actually a ball. But if you don't do this, Xi Ling will see even less things from her own perspective: the empire is a house, and she lives in the house. This is the only thing that Xi Ling has understood in the past tens of thousands of years through his own understanding...
So she still has to learn the knowledge of the real world through those obscure materials.
Fortunately, although "Xiling" doesn't know much, she is very patient. She is still immature, but she already has the tenacity of the apostles of Xiling who never stop, just like every apostle has no concept of "failure". Ling himself also firmly believes that she can always understand those messy knowledge. When I went to see her in Shadow City, the blonde girl was gnashing her teeth and dealing with the information at hand, and a large data terminal circled around her. Those devices were installed by Tavel in her room in the morning, because the bandwidth of Xiling himself is amazing, and the response speed of conventional data terminals can't even keep up with the browsing speed of the latter, so Tavel can only use this A large number of devices come to barely treat each other as "browsers".
This should only be regarded as an emergency plan. I always feel that if Xiling really learns how to study, she will not need those data terminals as foreign objects. She has the ability to directly download information from the Internet into her mind—it can even be said that the information is already in her head. Now she just can't figure out how to use her power and wisdom. As long as she matures, we will get a "super consciousness" with an infinitely fast learning speed. Although Xiling may not have the ability to create new information, she is definitely historical. The fastest database read and write program ever.
Tavel is quite looking forward to this. An infinitely high-speed database reading and writing program, which can simultaneously integrate all the knowledge of the new empire and provide accurate indexes. Only these two capabilities are destined to make Xiling the treasure of the imperial scientific research center. I knew it from the enthusiastic eyes of the coffin-controlling glasses girl. If I didn't care, she would take a stamp and print a line on Xiling's forehead sooner or later: For the exclusive use of the research center, please do not move when idle...
The report at hand was finally processed, and the morning work came to an end. There are actually not many things to deal with today. Except for some extra affairs and observation reports brought by the appearance of Xiling, only the daily reports of the various legions and empire ruled areas need to be reviewed. Even if I hand over professional matters to professional people, I don't interfere much in many of them, at least I have to know how my territory is running.
The fox is sitting by the small round table by the window, with her hands resting on her face, looking at the bright sunshine outside and thinking about it, a bunch of fluffy tails hang down from behind the backless square stool, gently swinging with her mood , swept the floor very clean. The demon fox girl probably heard some movement here, her ears perked up sharply, and she turned her head: "Are you done?"
I stretched my waist, this fox came in a few minutes ago, she seemed to have something to do with me, but seeing that I was dealing with business, she waited obediently in front of the window: this guy is getting more and more self-conscious . I smiled at her: "Um, just at the critical point, now it's over. Are you busy? Why didn't you go out to fight with the dog today?"
"Don't insult the dignity of a thousand-year-old demon fox, I'm just teaching those unruly juniors!" The fluff on the fox's ears exploded, showing a very angry look, but her appearance... Anyway, it can't bear it to me What kind of coercion, so she sighed resignedly, and soon became happy again, and took out a small thing from her skirt pocket, "Hey, hey, this was made by Little Bubble yesterday and given to me, your sister It is said that this is a very popular thing for humans, how to use this?"
I was dumbfounded when I saw it: the fox was holding a mobile phone in his hand.
"It feels so strange to use this. I've seen humans use this thing, but it doesn't seem to work very well," the fox girl muttered, while pressing the receiver of the mobile phone on her fox ear, with the whole mobile phone horizontally on top of her head, "You have to speak very loudly for the other party to hear..."
Me: "... Are your human ears a decoration?!"
The fox nodded: "It's just a decoration, just to look like a human being, only the pair of ears on the top of the head can hear the sound... I tried the four-channel world when I transformed, and I couldn't bear the dizziness... "
The corner of my mouth twitched: "Go find Little Bubbles and make you a pair of earphones..."
Then the fox said oh, and ran out happily. Seeing that big group of tails disappearing before my eyes, I think that this guy's life is not bad now: no need to take care of her troublesome fellow monsters, and live his favorite eating and sleeping every day. In the days of sleeping and eating, if you miss the days when you were a wild animal, there are still places like Avalon and Motherland where you can see primitive jungles everywhere, except that it is occasionally used as pillows and cushions by the bear children at home, which is a bit annoying Apart from distress, she should have nothing else to ask for in this day.
I also yearn for the time of eating and waiting to die, but unfortunately this time ended four years ago... no, it was over five years ago.
Yes, it's over: just when I started to lament how relaxed the fox's life is, an extranet communication came from the spiritual connection. I don't usually receive external network communications, which means that the caller is a certain force other than the Xiling Apostle, and these forces generally do not bother the head of the empire. But when I connected, I understood what was going on: the communication was from the "Council", and she had already done the work that was assigned to her.
The voice of the parliament can only enter the empire's communication system through several transfers through the external network. Although there is no delay, it seems to be a little out of tune, which makes me even more eager to hope that those exiles... Well, the network of the complex can be improved quickly, It is better to reach a direct connection with the Imperial communication system. The other party sounded in a good mood, and it seemed that the matter was completed smoothly: "His Majesty the Emperor of Xiling, all the brain array hosts that you sent and sent after you have been processed, and now we have Thousands of spirit creatures, when will you come to check and accept them?"
"So fast?" I replied in surprise. It's nothing else, but the work efficiency of the other party has exceeded my expectations: I thought she would be busy for at least half a month. nailed it.
"Actually, as long as there is a breakthrough point, resurrecting one and resurrecting a thousand are just the difference between individual production and mass production." The voice of the council sounded relaxed and confident, "In fact, the operation is actually simpler than I expected before. A lot. Those rebels you mentioned... Although it is not appropriate to say this, but thanks to their brainwashing and weakening of those newborn souls, the latter lost their self-concept. After we resurrected the soul aggregates in the human brain array host When they encountered almost negligible resistance, they were easily reborn with a few core consciousnesses as the main body, and retained a lot of ancient memories. Those weak newer souls were also weak in resistance, so they did not participate in this process. Extinct. Originally we thought that there would be at least a 10% soul extinction rate, but now it seems that the extinction rate is only one-tenth of the expected one-tenth, which can be said to be a perfect result."
"Very good, very good," I replied with satisfaction, "I will send someone over to pick up those spirit bodies. This is a gift, and I want to give them to a new friend."
"Is it those slave races?" The council knew what was going on as soon as she heard it, and there seemed to be a smile in her voice, "You are a Xiling ruler that I admire very much, really, and I remember you Those predecessors were different... well, you can take 'them' away anytime, and by the way, the Senate of the Avengers has already voted on sending new students to the Imperial Military Academy."
"What's the result?" Although I felt that I already knew the ending, I still asked casually.
"With an absolute majority vote, we will send the most talented young people to the Empire for further studies. They can be regarded as the pioneers of normal exchanges between us former exiles and the Empire. These young people come from every race in the Avengers, every The race sent at least five—you promised to provide enough admissions."
What I promised at the beginning was to provide a "large number" of enrollment places, but I didn't say "enough". little tricks. But this trick is harmless. The Imperial Military Academy is huge. Although it is always in a state of sufficient students, the extra students from a mere complex will not be unable to absorb. At worst, I will open an affiliated academy next to it... okay , This doesn't seem appropriate, so it would be nice to expand the enrollment scale this year. Anyway, with the expansion of the empire's territory and the development of the macro world, this college will be expanded sooner or later. Didn't that child Xiaoxue say that she When he was born, the Imperial Military Academy had already moved out of the shadow, and had three stars exclusively.
"I have already made arrangements here. I will give you the number of Teacher Kai from the Admissions Office later. It is best for you to set up an exchange student administration or something like that. We need long-term cooperation in this area in the future. Can there be one?" A normalized management organization is very necessary," I quickly opened the data terminal on the table, and told the council while calling up the admission process table of the Imperial Military Academy, "By the way, let me inform you that students are now required to order winter programs in advance. School uniforms, of course, this expense is free, but I want you to provide the size of the students, how many arms they have, whether they are arthropods, if they are molluscs and spirit creatures, they also need a body extension parameter, they The school uniform needs to be specially made. Give me the data in advance so that the school logistics can catch up with the summer enrollment and prepare it for you. In addition, if there are crustacean students, you can apply for body waxing subsidies in advance, students You don’t need to bring these things with you. The last time a Zerg student came to study in the capital world, he didn’t know about it and brought more than 300 catties of organic wax. By the way, do you have a meal card? The school cafeteria can pay for student meals Meals are free with the card, but many students prefer to buy and eat at the door. They think it is troublesome to use the meal card, so now it is voluntary to apply for the card... "
After I finished speaking, I realized that the parliament had been silent for a long time: "Then what... are you still listening?"
"... um... I might need to set up an Exchange Student Administration first..."
After the parliament hung up the communication, I still felt weird, as if the other party had been stimulated by something. The problem is that what I said was correct, I followed the admissions process completely, and as the honorary chairman of the Imperial Military Academy, it was hard for me to do a serious business...
His eyes fell on the enrollment process table projected by the data terminal.
Registration process for new students of Imperial Military Academy:
Freshmen from all walks of life must report the temporary identification code of Shadow City before reporting, and the person in charge is the college registration center Kadilla? Lieutenant Sinthoda.
Freshmen from all walks of life must order a college-style imperial uniform to root discipline in their hearts. According to different races, freshmen must declare in advance the dress material and structure requirements of their respective races.
Freshmen from all walks of life can apply for the material distribution crystal card in the school district. The material distribution crystal card and the identification card can be used interchangeably. The distribution crystal card can also receive unlimited food. The crystal card can be applied voluntarily, and students without a crystal card can still receive the rationed materials with the identification card, but they cannot receive unlimited materials (see the student handbook for the list of materials).
Well, looking at this form, I feel that my introduction just now is quite in place, but it is a bit more popular. In addition, for the sake of understanding, the material distribution crystal card has been translated into a meal card... That's right.
Forget it, don't worry about this. I closed the registration process form casually, and I turned on the communicator of the information terminal, and connected to another channel that was just established and could not be connected mentally: "This is the Xiling royal line, I'm looking for... By the way, who are you now?" Head? Forget it, I'll find Anu Lili... "RS