Although Xiling looks a little silly, but you must not think that she is really a natural girl: everyone who thinks so will be confused by Xiling's real logical ability and thinking speed. . Xi Ling usually behaves a little slow, even clumsy, which is completely determined by her life form. Although she can stand in front of us, her body is still a spiritual network. The place where she really exists at all times is actually on the network. In the material world, Xiling is just a place for advanced communication with us. Interface interface only. She can upload and download this interface at any time to any place covered by the imperial network. In other words, she has not put her real energy on the outside world so far.
So there is always a bit of a problem with how such an interface responds to the real world. Xiling is still not used to the various logics of the real world, and she herself does not have much interest in the real world. She focuses most of her energy on the massive amount of information on the Internet. For her, the spiritual network really exists The world, reality, is a "virtual space" that needs to be translated many times before she can understand it.
So if you see Xiling wandering around in a daze again, or seeing her change into another look because she forgot what she looks like, don't think she is a fool because of this, in the real world like us Where you can't see, the logical thinking this guy is doing every minute is beyond your imagination.
The reason why I suddenly thought of this was entirely because the other party suddenly mentioned the great rift in the spiritual network that no one had noticed, but she had noticed it.
Being able to notice such an abnormal situation, and to explore it carefully, and to formulate follow-up observation plans (although these plans have now been denied), is enough to show that Xi Ling is not as immature as she has shown. In the world of the spiritual network, she is as stable, cautious, and full of action as the mature Xiling apostle. Before today's conversation, I had always regarded Xi Ling as a sister who needed to be taught slowly, but now I suddenly feel that perhaps our teaching is not so important: the place where she should really mature is on the Internet, and in that place , others can't help her, and maybe she doesn't need help...
"Hey, Your Majesty, why are you in a daze?" Just as I was thinking about the border and the Great Rift Valley, and slowly diverging to the education of Xiling in the future, the latter suddenly interrupted my thoughts, I hurriedly yelled, and looked up, and there was a petite girl with lavender shoulder-length short hair sitting in front of me, wearing the military uniform that Xi Ling often wore.
Me: "... why did you change again?"
"Well, I was in a daze just now, and it became like this when I realized it. I can't remember what it looked like before, because it wasn't important information, so it wasn't saved in the cache..."
Me: "..." I suddenly felt that in a sense, the issue of teaching Xiling still cannot be relaxed!
I quickly informed Sandora of the situation Xiling reported to me, and she immediately attached great importance to this issue, and arranged for Bubble and a group of experts to prepare to screen the spiritual network. Of course, this process required the assistance of Xi Ling, so the latter went back to the institute soon. I think this screening work may not be done for a while. After all, according to the regulations, our inspection of the spiritual network is carried out on a daily basis and has never been interrupted at all. However, we have not found anything abnormal in the spiritual network of the New Empire so far. In addition, there is no large rift valley without an address in the network, which means that those experts probably need to study a new translation algorithm to understand what Xiling is talking about.
Xiling mentioned a network node without a termination signal, but these nodes are obviously not real connections—that is, nodes that can clearly correspond to a certain Xiling apostle. They should be virtual nodes that only Xiling knows how to identify, just like the virtual storage spaces on the human Internet that rely on public resources. They do not explicitly exist on a computer in reality, but rely on the entire network to coordinate all the resources cobbled together. Due to the dynamic nature of the network, these virtual nodes are not fixed, but no matter how they are offset, they always maintain a rift with abnormal addresses, just like there is no URL on the Internet, but traffic always disappears in it The same virtual space as in our own — it's intriguing.
Because such a rift will not occur naturally, and theoretically, it should not have been accidentally created when the concept of the fifteen-day zone was split: this probability is too low, so it will not be considered. Then what we can think of is that our network has been tampered with.
The biggest suspect is the Fallen Apostle.
However, may the Fallen Apostle have the opportunity to tamper with the spiritual network of the New Empire
This probability is lower than that of an accident when the concept of the fifteen-day zone was split. Although the fallen apostles have always had unpredictable strength, they also have a supreme ruler who may be stronger than Xiling and rooted in the network, but the spiritual network of the other party and the new empire is now completely incompatible, unless They completely took over the Imperial Network, and then devoted themselves to transforming it for a year and a half before they could create such a high-end rift in the network, otherwise they would have absolutely no chance to cause damage on our network. And according to Sandora, the Imperial Spirit Network also has the most advanced firewall—although I don't want to admit it, but that firewall is me. Void creatures hang on the network, which fundamentally eliminates the possibility of the fallen apostles in the disorderly camp attacking the empire network. They will be purged as they intervene in the network, a process that cannot be defended.
How did the rift on the Internet come about
I'm afraid it will take us a really long time to figure this out. Of course, another question that needs to be understood is-what is the significance of such a great rift
From the current point of view, its only function is to startle Xiling. In addition, this rift does not seem to affect the efficiency of the empire network at all, nor does it cause hidden dangers such as accidental disconnection of personnel, let alone a rift. The spy interface, which exists so harmlessly to humans and animals, never appeared in our field of vision even before it was discovered by Xi Ling. And even if it startled Xiling, after the latter raised his vigilance and marked it, this rift was basically harmless: as long as he didn't touch it, it wouldn't affect Xiling.
However, no one is really confident and bold enough to think that this rift will be a cute thing. Regardless of whether it had an impact in the past, we now know that it exists, so we must find out what is going on.
Of course, before the problem of the rift is found out, the spiritual network still needs to be used. After all, it has not had any malfunctions, and the mother and daughter of the prophets at home have not issued an early warning because of the rift. It's too frightening. Maybe this is just a malfunction of the spiritual network, or even maybe it is a normal phenomenon at all: After all, before Xiling appeared, no one could observe the apostle's spiritual network from such a special perspective. It's not out of the question that holes in the personality that have implications and make no sense to the real world. Just considering the significance of such things as the spiritual network, which is almost one of the foundations of the empire, even if Lin Xueniang and Lin Xueniang did not warn, Bubble still adopted a series of preparatory measures. She added a large number of monitoring nodes in two days, and mounted all the hundreds of mass-produced hosts that she split off to the backbone network. Those mass-produced hosts did nothing, and their only task was to act as "disaster servers". If the network collapses due to catastrophic downtime, these hosts will deploy a low-bandwidth emergency network through the Death Garden system to maintain the most basic spiritual connection communication within the empire. It can be said that we have imagined the worst situation.
Let's hope it doesn't actually happen.
"It always feels... a little unreal." On the third day after Anulili left, that is, the third day of the investigation into the "Rift Valley" of the Internet, Miss Lin completed a routine inspection of the empire. "Glance", rubbed his shoulders and muttered.
... Let's not discuss the logic of her excessively rubbing her shoulders with her eyes.
"What's unreal?" I replied casually, while picking off two little crows that kept climbing up my clothes and putting them on the table. Jingle is holding a banquet on the table. She spread out a handkerchief as a tablecloth, and put a lot of candies and biscuits on it. Little Dot is using these things to entertain her little crow friends. Gathered at this small banquet. A dozen figure-sized goddesses, and my job is to keep an eye on them, in case someone disappears.
"What kind of rift?" The eldest lady stretched her waist, and then Xiaoxue on the other side immediately came up with a courteous expression, rubbing her shoulders for the eldest lady in an obedient and sensible way, I think this child should be another Spend all the pocket money: don’t look at the royal family, our children have plenty of pocket money, “No one knew about it before, so they lived in peace, and there was no problem for so many years, and now suddenly someone poked the rift It came out, and a large group of people panicked... It just doesn't feel real. Such a dangerous thing in theory has been lurking harmlessly in the spiritual network for more than four years. What is it planning to do? Who did it?"
"Maybe it's not four years," Sandora's voice came from a distance near the window. It's Her Majesty's daily afternoon tea time, and she likes to bask in the sun at this time. Did it exist? Or did it only appear when the empire collapsed? Although the Fifteen Sky Zone escaped the abyss pollution, it is hard to say whether its spiritual network is really not damaged at all. If the rift valley is in the empire It appeared on the day of the collapse, then this thing has been lurking for more than 70,000 years... Tsk, it is better to translate Xiling's senses into something that the real world can understand as soon as possible. I am also interested in that rift now. I really want to see with my own eyes what that is."
I shrugged my shoulders noncommittally. This rift feels very strange. I don’t feel any sense of crisis from such abnormal events as usual. However, another intuition still tells myself that this thing has nothing to do with the Fallen Apostles or “that This is a rather contradictory situation. Maybe I should take some time to talk to Xi Ling again. The more that girl gets in touch with the real world, the more she knows how to express herself. Maybe next time, she can explain the Rift Valley a little more clearly...
When I was thinking this way, an emergency communication from Shadow City interrupted my thoughts.
"Your Majesty, this is the Macroworld Early Warning Center of the Space-Time Administration, and there is an early warning message."
Sandora, Lin Xue, and Elder Sister looked stunned at the same time. It seemed that this message was of high urgency, so they sent it to them at the same time. After a while, there was a burst of crackling bare feet stepping on the floor from the second floor. With a loud voice, Qianqian's little head popped out from the corner of the stairs: "Ajun, Ajun! There is a situation! Macroworld alert!"
"The specific situation? The warning level? Is it the abyss or something else?"
I replied quickly, and at the same time opened the portal to Shadow City.
This is not the first time that the large-scale early warning network of the macro world has issued an alarm, but it is basically a routine warning because the subordinate world has discovered the abyss reaction. Sometimes the alarm level does not even need to notify Sandora and me. The military headquarters can solve it by itself: send a wave of expeditionary troops to solve the abyss reaction. This is the daily activity of the imperial army. Even if it is a small alarm, just send a few elite soldiers to cooperate with the local macro world review Officials can handle it. Alerts that are forwarded directly to all empire leaders as they are now... rarely appear in the macro world.
"The scale of the threat is currently kept at a very small level, but the threat is expected to be extremely high," the person in charge of the Space-Time Administration replied hastily, "It's not a conventional abyss response, it is probably the spaceship of the fallen apostle—if they head towards the macroworld If a member world directly enters, the threat level will rise to * level or even S level! It will be listed as an invasion level!"
Fuck? ! Fallen apostle? ! If they weren't wandering around the frontiers of the empire's direct jurisdiction, how could they go to the macro world!
The early warning section of the Shadow City Time and Space Management Bureau is rarely as busy as it is today. The most commonly dealt with here are routine alarms from the macro world, such as the abyss or race wars that may endanger the stability of the universe—events below this warning value are usually There will be local inspectors who will handle it on their own, and will not report it to the Space-Time Administration at all, and incidents higher than this warning value have only occurred once. That was last year, when the Gate of the Abyss appeared in a certain macro world, at that time we mobilized a third of the legion to suppress it, but that time we did not alert so many leader-level apostles.
This is because of the different nature.
The few spaceships of the Fallen Apostles may not be as destructive as an abyss gate, but their potential threat is far greater than the latter. Even if the Abyss Gate breaks out, its harm will always be limited and controllable, while the Fallen Apostle is a kind of enemy with initiative and variables. They appear in the macro world, they may just pass by by chance, or they may be the harbinger of a large-scale invasion. This variable is too great, and it should be dealt with at the highest level anyway.
When we came to the Early Warning Section of the Space-Time Administration, Sivis was already waiting here. She was checking more reports that had just been uploaded. When she saw us coming out of the portal, the conscientious female officer immediately stood up and saluted. : "Your Majesty, gentlemen!"
Sandora waved her hand: "How is the situation now? Is it an invasion? Or is it passing?"
"The enemy's motive cannot be determined yet, but it is 100% sure that it is the spaceship of the fallen apostles. They first appeared outside the barrier of the ER-335-K15 universe. According to the information offset detected at that time, they can already Observed that universe, but for some reason, they did not launch an attack, but Cho left there innocently, and then they appeared outside the barriers of universes ER-335-K12 and ER-336-K35, and in this Several landmarks are active."
"How many are there?" I said as I looked at the macro world network diagram of the Space-Time Management Bureau, which roughly represented each universe and the jump relationship between them with dots and lines, and according to each The "distance" between the worlds, or the information offset, is used to lay out the structure of those lattices. Most of the universes are currently colored white or light orange representing safety, but near the edge of the macro world, three universes are marked with shocking blood red, showing that they are already under the extreme threat of the end of the world at any time. All the jump passages directly connected to these three universes display the words temporarily blocked, and in their adjacent universes, there are also yellow warning signs flashing, which means that the threat source can be transferred to these universes within one jump.
"It's not clear yet, because the spaceships of the fallen apostles have been changing places, and the number of each time they appear is different. It is not sure whether they are a team or a few small troops acting independently. Now we can only confirm the size of these troops. It’s not too big, there are no spaceships above the mothership level, and most of the observed spaceships are small heavy-fire battleships or void reconnaissance ships.”
"Void reconnaissance ships and high-speed warships... It stands to reason that these are the most commonly used configurations for quickly raiding areas that are relatively weak behind the enemy and are relatively unfamiliar to you," Sandora frowned, "They have never launched an attack Is it?"
"Yes, this is also the most strange thing. They flashed around in those places, but they never attacked any world. They didn't seem to have any desire to attack at all—this didn't match the fallen apostles' usual behavior at all. "
"Wandering there for such a long time, it doesn't seem like they are passing by, but the troops with the raiding war didn't attack anyone, let alone prepare to invade," I twitched, "They seem to be looking for something... No matter, in short, increase troops immediately, but be careful not to let the local inspectors act rashly before the reinforcements are in place, to prevent the fallen apostles from taking action in advance... The local defense in that place is not used to deal with the army of the fallen apostles."
"Yes, your will!" RS