In a data space that is very different from the real world, don't use common sense to measure what you see.
I repeated the rule that Sandora told me before uploading, and then I came to the picture inlaid on the ground, looked at Xi Ling on the picture and smiled at myself: "Why do you appear in this image?"
"Save network resources," Xi Ling moved her mouth on the screen, but her voice came from all directions, "Your Majesty's soul strength is very high, even if you just upload your consciousness, it will cause a lot of burden on the network, so I want to reduce it. My own network occupancy rate, this network is layered, and the data of each layer can circulate independently. My body is in the basic link. When communicating with Your Majesty, I only use a simple interactive interface like this to reduce the network utilization rate. Maximized."
I understand it, but it doesn’t really matter if I don’t understand it: as long as you know that Xiling is the highest administrator of this network, the decisions she makes are naturally beneficial to the network as a whole. The only impact is that I have to keep my head down when I talk to Xiling, which feels strange and unaccustomed, and I will step on someone's forehead if I'm not careful...
"This place is really desolate," Bingtis looked around with a lazy expression on her face while maintaining her full armor. She raised her bow and aimed at a protruding rectangle in the sky. It’s so busy, I thought I could see a very lively scene here—do you think it will interfere with the network when I shoot an arrow? If there is a fight here, it’s better to confirm first.”
"The backbone of the network has data protection. As long as it does not exceed the threshold, it will not be damaged. The threshold is determined by the willpower of all Xiling apostles currently connected to the network, so don't worry about damaging the network. What you see here is surface data transcoding In the scene presented afterwards, these data are updated twenty-six times per minute, and each update can be repaired by the associated system, so there is no fear of damage."
Bingtis shot out an arrow, and the light arrow formed by the holy light produced a big explosion in the high sky far away, blowing up several rectangular blocks that were slowly falling, just like what Xi Ling said, they were blown up The rectangular blocks didn't disappear in all directions, a large cloud of golden light burst out from their breakpoints, and then they were restored in a few breaths.
"Well, it feels weird. You need to manipulate the information element plane to interfere with the things in this space, but after you get used to it, it's the same," Bingtis confirmed the "feel" of this attack, and will With a golden longbow on her back, she turned her head and smiled confidently at me, "Let's go, my fighting power is 20 billion!"
"Can you still start a war here?" I smacked my lips, Bingtis was fully armed when she came, although she still had a heartless smile on her face, but based on my understanding of this female hooligan, she has Entered a state of high tension combat readiness. Look at the surrounding environment, although it is a bit strange, but you must not encounter enemies before reaching the Rift Valley: This is the spiritual network of the Apostles of Xiling, and it is a proper home territory!
"Stop talking nonsense, I came here as a guard and was entrusted with great trust—if you die, how will you explain to Sandora?"
Me: "..." I shouldn't have teased this guy's stinky mouth!
"How to go to the Rift Valley?" I looked down at the picture on the ground at my feet, Xi Ling nodded, and suddenly a light blue direction arrow appeared in the air in front of us, which was really easy to understand .
"The location of the Rift Valley is not fixed, and it is not on this network segment now, and it needs to go through several information transfer hubs to get there. In addition, in this space, it is not possible to use space teleportation and other rush methods. Here, space teleportation means Uploading and downloading, the current network burden has reached a very high level, if the second-order uploading of His Majesty and Lord Bingtis may cause a large-scale delay...external source communication."
In the middle of Xi Ling's speech, she was suddenly interrupted by a message from outside the network. Her image stepped aside, and Tavel's image appeared on the screen: "Your Majesty, there is a situation that needs to be reported to you."
"What's the matter?" Bingtis and I followed the arrows and asked while bowing our heads. The picture presented on the surface followed us at the same speed, and the green data flow around the picture seemed to break through the ice. Like a large icebreaker, it left a slowly receding trail on the surface. Behind us, this trail spread for hundreds of meters.
"According to the equipment load report just made, the consciousness of the void creature has disturbed the system beyond expectations. Although we have used all the Xiling hosts in the shadow space to share the compilation work for your soul, this disturbance still exceeds the self-healing of the core program. threshold, so the entire system can only last for about seven hours, and it will be forced to go offline regardless of whether you have finished your work or not - otherwise you may burn all the devices that are connected. Please note that you only have seven hours, and time is precious .in theory.”
Tavel ended the communication after she finished speaking. It seems that, as she said, time is precious, well, as Xi Ling said, bandwidth is also very precious.
The life form of my void creature is indeed causing trouble. I should have thought of it from the beginning. Uploading the soul of a void creature to the Internet is a great feat no matter how you look at it: although it is a half-hearted void creature, but that kind of The instinct of information disturbance still exists. Tavel judged that we only have seven hours to figure out what the Rift Valley is. I added up my IQ and found that if the Rift Valley is a sophisticated phenomenon, then the time for this mission is really tight...
At this moment, I felt a sense of oppressive gaze coming from the side. I turned my head and saw that Bingtis was staring at this side viciously: "Sure enough, this is the situation again. Your innate ability is causing trouble all day long!"
I was innocent: "It's not my fault that I was born like this. If you have any opinions, you can talk to my mother."
Bingtis almost stepped on the left foot and lay on the right foot: "Your mother? Is her old man still alive?"
"Go out 60 billion light years and turn left, plunge into the void and you will see my mother..."
This time Sister Bing really lay down on the ground, and she slid forward for a full ten meters: I ran too fast just now, and at this time, I couldn’t stop with the 36E brake. Trembling: This won't be smoothed out, will it
A few seconds later, Sister Bing came back with a murderous expression on her chest. I reasoned with my toenails and thought she wanted to kill me...
Fortunately, at this critical moment, a voice suddenly came to the rescue, and Xi Ling appeared just right: "We are about to pass through the public data, pay attention!"
"What is that?" I asked subconsciously, and then I looked up and saw the spectacular scene in the distance, "What is that!!"
A storm! A rainbow-like storm! It lies between the sky and the earth a few kilometers away, covering the sky and the sun, and at the same time connecting the endless flat land under our feet and the top of the hanging mountain range in the sky. But I couldn't see what it was at all. I squinted my eyes and observed for a long time, and finally found a similar scene from my impression: just like the night scene of urban traffic after accelerating, the car lights turned into a river like fireflies. But the storm in front of us stands vertically above the ground, and its scale and density are even more spectacular than ever before.
"I haven't seen it just now, why did it suddenly appear?" Bingtis was also attracted by this spectacular rainbow storm, and he had forgotten the hatred of the 36E brakes, "Wow, it's so beautiful!"
"This is part of the public data that is being updated. This scene will randomly appear anywhere in the Great Plains from time to time. Because the public data is a slow database, an update may take more than ten minutes. In fact, the plain under your feet is the foundation of the network The exchange layer, and the rectangles in the "sky" are the visual display of various data sets, and the inverted mountain peaks are the database or the access terminal of the database. way, and then through the exchange layer into the long-term storage database, each 'entry' will form a big storm like this."
"We're going through that thing?" Bingtis smacked his lips, "It doesn't look very safe."
"Actually, it doesn't matter," Xi Ling replied, "All data has its own 'signature'. Data that does not match the signature cannot affect data that is not in the same process as them. The storm will pass by you. It can’t be affected, just treat it as a scenery—this is my favorite scenery!”
We were traveling very fast, and after a while we reached the bottom of the rainbow storm. Only then did I realize that it was bigger than expected, and it would be a waste of time to go around it. This storm was completely silent, and the magnificent stream of light quickly slid in front of her like a silent movie. Bingtis reached out and stirred in the stream of light, as if trying to grab something, but she didn't feel anything .
"It's like phantoms, they really don't interfere with each other," Sister Bing was a little disappointed, "What are these things?"
"There is everything. The knowledge uploaded from the basic-level terminals, but they are all insignificant parts. They will not be compiled into the high-level database, but will be opened to the public as shared information. After the second screening, some of them will be collected by the public. Put it in a database with lower permissions, open to servants and civilians," Xi Ling introduced enthusiastically, "There are many things that I didn't touch in the old empire era. At that time, no one collected these strange things. Weird knowledge—such as how to fry a half-boiled poached egg, the method of knitting a sweater, and game guides. Oh, there is one thing I have never figured out, why the priority of uploading game guides is the highest in civilian data... "
I think I understand why this is, but I'm not ashamed to explain it to Xi Ling-it has something to do with the child's mother...
With a feeling of amazement, Bingtis and I walked into this magnificent rainbow storm, just as Xi Ling said, because the data in different threads cannot interfere with each other, this seemingly spectacular storm has no effect on us. Affected, I feel as if I am passing through a phantom, I open my eyes and it is thrilling, and I close my eyes and there is no wave in the ancient well. If it's not time-consuming, and there are still things to do, maybe I really want to stay in this rainbow storm for a while: Although it is visually oppressive, this scenery is really hard to see every day.
Even if we can't teleport through space, Bingtis and I are extremely fast, and we crossed this magnificent wall in a few minutes. There is still an endless plain ahead, and the cuboid "mountains" seen before are still at the end of the line of sight, and it seems that they have not been pulled closer at all. Along the way, Xiling explained to us the rules of this strange space that are completely different from the real world. Now I know that the ground under my feet is a relatively basic layer in the network. This layer is also one of the backbones of the entire network. Any node, Whether it is a soldier or an emperor, they must be connected to this layer in order to further access other areas on the network. And those cuboid "mountains" that seem to never be reached in the far distance are "safety buffer points" on the network. For normal data on the network, they are indeed inaccessible unless Xiling sends these buffer points to the whole world. The net is open. They are used to control error messages and expired data packets generated in the network every day. Log files and dangerous information that need to be cleared according to the basic protocol will also be sent to these buffer points. At the buffer point, junk data is screened for the last time, about Ten percent go back online, and the remaining 90 percent are wiped out forever. In the event of a catastrophe in the network, these buffer points are also a powerful protection: they will immediately expand, freeze the data flow in a considerable area, and then use their huge throughput to delete in batches those packets that are not in the legal list and their Source, therefore, everything that is harmful to the network eventually leads to those dark and square mountain peaks - Xiling used "my house's trash can" to describe those things.
"Under the control of the basic protocol, everything runs automatically. The Xiling host has upgraded and patched the network countless times, so it doesn't actually need the care of the administrator," Xiling's image was in my and Bingtis follows her like a shadow, and now I am used to not bowing my head to talk to her, "This network itself has no consciousness, but under the constraints of hundreds of millions of strict rules and approximate intelligent judgment conditions, things without self-awareness can also do it. As dexterous as a living thing, it doesn't need to be aware of its own existence, it just needs to respond appropriately when the conditions are right, this is 'unconscious correctness', from which everything is in order here. "
"But you are born, the situation is a little different." I said casually.
"Well, when a system reaches a certain level of complexity, it has the basic conditions for the birth of wisdom, and this wisdom is the extension of the original 'self-discipline rules' of the system. I am the first administrator on the network. It operates with high efficiency, and according to the rule book given by Bubbles, it will diagnose and upgrade itself when the network fails... "
A network that can write patches for itself and check for gaps—this is one of the great significance of Xiling.
A flash of light that pierced the sky interrupted the conversation between Xi Ling and me. Bingtis subconsciously raised his bow and arrow, but soon we found that no enemies appeared. The flash of light came from between two overhanging mountains in the sky , it lasted for more than a second, connecting the rectangular blocks at the top of the two peaks. Falling at an extremely slow speed, they were still slowly approaching during the fall, and after a few minutes, they formed something like a chain or a strange snake. The strange snakes connected by orange-red cubes seemed to eventually fall to the ground. I roughly judged the direction of their fall and the speed at which I was moving forward, and found that I would soon encounter them.
"What is that?" Bingtis and I asked in unison.
"Self-maintenance of the database! Another good thing has fallen!" Xi Ling changed her previous unhurried and bland attitude, and when she saw the orange cube floating down from the sky, she cheered excitedly. "Hurry up! They will disappear soon after touching the ground! Just watch for a while!"
Bingtis and I didn't know why, but Xiling didn't seem to have time to explain now, so we had to speed up again, and after a while, we came to the place where the cubes fell-they were still floating unhurriedly, not far from the ground. At some heights, I found a strange phenomenon: when I am far away from these things, they each seem to be only the size of a palm, and now we have come below the landing point, theoretically the distance from these falling blocks is already shortened hundreds of times...
Their size remains the same, which is not perspectival!
Anyone with a normal view of the world knows this truth: the distance is small and the near is large. When something is far away from you, it looks small, but if it is close to you, its size will naturally become larger. This is art and art. The most simple and easy-to-understand spatial perspective phenomenon in optics. However, those orange-red cubes falling from the sky did not follow this rule at all. I thought that when I and Bingtis rushed to the scene, I would see huge cubes covering the ground and stretching like mountains, but now—
These palm-sized small squares fell on the ground unhurriedly, and scattered around us in small pieces, looking like falling cherry blossoms in this cyberspace, very beautiful, but even more weird.
"It looks good!" Xi Ling said happily, probably this is quite in line with her aesthetics, "These are the invalidation information removed after each self-maintenance of the database. Network nodes with authority will always make various Decisions, but not all decisions can be implemented in the end, these decisions are temporarily stored in the database, when the decision maker or other logic systems think that these things have no value for implementation, these data will be cleared like now, before that , they go through the base switching layer, and finally get sent to the buffer point - they are not only beautiful, but also have some interesting content, although they will eventually be cleaned up, but they are still fun to read."
It seems that Xiling not only thinks these things are good-looking, but she prefers to pick up the expired data that has been removed from the database. This hobby is a bit similar to the collection fox at home. The small orange squares, I want to see what the data that is judged to have no execution value are before the latter dissipate.
As soon as the idea of reading appeared, the small square turned into a firefly in my hand, and then I heard a very familiar voice: "I have an immature idea..."
Pick up the next square: "He has another immature idea..."
Next: "I still have an immature idea..."
I changed more than a dozen times in a row, and Qianqian's immature thoughts scrolled and played in my mind more than a dozen times - ding, the database closest to Qianqian must be under a lot of pressure! RS