The first thousand two hundred and forty-nine chapters silent crystal
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As the most special and important planet in the shadow space, the home planet Gaia is rarely open to the outside world. For the ordinary people in the Shadow City, the inverted land hanging above their heads is just a beautiful background, something that is beyond their reach.
, it is said that there are many urban legends related to Gaia in the Shadow City. For example, the continent on the surface of Gaia is made of diamonds. For example, there is a goddess living on Gaia. For example, the current Shadow City is actually cut from Gaia.
These random thoughts without knowing the truth always give people a refreshing feeling. Although few of them are reliable, I think this is more or less a kind of culture in the Shadow City: when people of all races are bored, they are obsessed with those around them.
A culture in which the empire's facilities, which are not aware of their power, make up stories and then take back their own world and publish them into collections of fairy tales and monster novels to make money.
The day and night cycle on the surface of the home star follows the universal time of the empire. When Sandora and I left Avalon, the sky had just started to darken, so when we arrived on the home star, the place was also shrouded in sunset, because
It is not affected by the space environment, and there is a filtering mechanism of the planet shield. Therefore, the sky on the home planet is the same as the Shadow City, relying on simulation devices to artificially create it. Today, the administrator of this planet has set up a system for his home.
A beautiful theme package, the glow of the sky is perfect like a picture scroll, the silver-gray alloy earth under our feet spreads to the horizon, and at the end of the line of sight in the other direction are the lush mountains. The combination of these scenery is unexpectedly harmonious.
It even gives people a shock of desolation and vastness out of thin air.
Sandora always laughs at herself that the Xiling Apostles know nothing about art, but in my opinion, many of the things they created unintentionally are enough to be marveled at by shallow humans as magnificent miracles.
The current location where I and Sandora are located is near the equator of the home star. There is a small artificial continent that is roughly rectangular. The facility that Sister Gaia mentioned is underground on this continent. The square we are standing on now looks like
They are an extension of a large facility group. The alloy ground beneath our feet shows that they are the base of a standard empire base. A few kilometers behind us, we can see a huge silver-gray building pointing toward the sky like a neat sword.
"That's one of my redundant processing arrays. It was just established a few days ago." Just as his eyes fell on the buildings in the distance that were neatly arranged like sharp swords, a voice with an ethereal aura suddenly came from beside him.
I turned my head and saw a light blue translucent figure standing next to me. The slightly fluctuating halo of light behind her showed that this image had just been projected. "When I am idle and bored, I just
The home star needs to be improved to enhance its functions. There are many large-scale projects being carried out at the research center. Pao Pao said that her type of host is not good at handling huge amounts of repetitive tasks. It just so happens that my core architecture is specially designed for this kind of work.
It is designed for big data tasks, so it is planned to help her and her host network share some data pressure. More similar arrays are being built on the home planet. Well, I should have reported this to you."
I thought about it, and the report I saw two days ago really seemed to mention that Gaia was adding some modules to itself on its home planet. Then I suddenly realized: "Oh...that's what you were talking about, I remembered it.
I remember it, but I didn’t expect that those things would look like this after they were built. You know, my impression of host facilities has always been that of a pyramid. I thought you had built yourself a new group of brood nests."
Sister Gaia smiled, and the light on her body flickered slightly: "I can no longer use the standard brood nest, Your Majesty. Now I rely on these self-designed auxiliary equipment to work, which is probably a blessing in disguise. I have lost the constraints of the standard body.
, I feel that its scalability is many times stronger than that of ordinary consoles. I can cover the entire planet with my own plug-ins and use the planet's psionic energy wells to recharge myself without having to worry about overload problems. Well, the only drawback is
There is no way to use a universal socket, and an adapter is required to communicate with other hosts. Fortunately, there are only two models of hosts in the empire: me and Paopao, and the adapter is also very simple."
I looked at Gaia and felt that this topic was very delicate. From my own perspective, the condition of the beautiful phantom sister in front of me was really not good. She would lose her body forever and was not even allowed to use puppet prosthetics. She could only live in the state of a program and soul.
Being fixed on a planet is definitely not a happy thing for an intelligent creature. However, the Gaia in front of her seems not to care about this situation at all. She has survived in this state for countless thousands of years.
And it is possible that it will continue like this, but she just smiled and expressed that she was satisfied that she could still continue to work. Maybe she really felt that she had no regrets. After all, she had communicated with her on this topic more than once, and she knew
She will not force a smile on this matter to comfort anyone: this is not the style of the Xiling apostle. It can only be said that the way of thinking between different life forms is really different. As a person... okay
, as a void creature, with the remaining human worldview, it is really difficult to understand the thinking process of the Xiling Apostle.
Finally, I decided not to worry about the world view for the time being, and mentioned the crystal to Gaia: "Sandora and I came to see the big stone. I heard that you have already installed it?"
Gaia showed a very happy smile: "Yes, Your Majesty, thanks to your efforts, the Heart of the World has returned to its original position. I will lead the way for you. The resettlement facility is down here..."
As soon as the words fell, Gaia's projected body turned into a series of streams of light and quickly sank to the bottom of the alloy earth. Sandora and I looked at each other: "...Did she forget something?"
After a moment, Gaia came up again. While opening the portal, she smiled awkwardly at Sandora and me: "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, I haven't led anyone into this place for tens of thousands of years... I
Forgot."
I chuckled: "It's okay, actually I'm used to it. When I'm at home, Anweina pulls me to see her new dishes. Basically, she pulls me against the kitchen wall every time..."
Gaia's face was stunned, and a line of words appeared on her head: "nowloading..."
I think this is another manifestation of racial segregation!
The security facility for storing crystals is deep underground and should have entered part of the mantle. The home planet Gaia is a customized planet, and its mantle itself exists as a storage point for various facilities with relatively high security requirements. In this
The layer actually has factories and data processing cores that are denser than the surface of the home star. We entered the underground world of the home star through the surface portal. What came face to face was an unprecedentedly vast mantle space. Above our heads
A few kilometers away is an alloy dome with a slight internal curvature. On the dome, you can see sparsely distributed lights and a slowly changing network of nether energy pipes, which should be the physical part of the energy network that supplies energy to surface facilities. And in
Under the dome, there is a huge hole in the mantle that cannot be seen at all. The height of this hole is probably more than ten kilometers, and dark red magma is surging very deep under the feet. Ordinary people would faint if they looked down in such an environment.
.I can't see that there is a "ground" here that can isolate people from the underground magma below, but I am indeed stepping on something down-to-earth. This should be a transparent mask. I feel that this design is quite evil.
Interesting, especially for those who suffer from acrophobia, claustrophobia, fall phobia, pyrophobia and agoraphobia, this place magically combines all the thrilling landscapes into one place
It can only be said that Gaia does not have human psychology. When she transformed the planet, she followed the standard of practicality and convenience.
On the invisible "earth" below, there are a series of huge buildings lined up. Gaia introduced the situation here to us: "This is the No. 1 Big Hole, and there are a total of twenty of them in the mantle.
Of the holes, Hole No. 1 is actually the smallest one. What is stored here is the main part of the Tian District Data Center. Of course, this data center now needs to be transformed because the Fifteen Days District has been disintegrated. The structure of this data center does not meet the requirements.
The current demand for use in the empire's ruling area, so I plan to reorganize it completely. It can be used as a backup database for the research center in the future. As for the current data center in the new empire's ruling area, it is still maintained by Pao Pao. Well, this project is very
It will be completed soon, I have already started construction, look over there..."
Gaia led us up into the air, quickly passing through huge data centers that looked like erected dominoes, then suddenly slowed down and pointed at a rectangular building not far away. I saw the shell of that building
It has been dismantled, revealing its complex internal crystallized structure. The dim psionic energy is slowly flowing between the dazzling crystal grids. It seems that the facility is still operating, but it has entered the minimum standby state.
Status. And on this "construction site", what is busy is a group of autonomous machines.
Autonomous machines are the largest number of "residents" on the home planet Gaia. Gaia regards them as its own children. I noticed a faint smile on Gaia's face when she looked at those busy robots.
, then she pointed at one of the largest autonomous machines that seemed to be the commander of the team and said: "Your Majesty, do you still remember it?"
"This is..." I was a little stunned for a moment, but after seeing the modification plug-in that had not been completely removed from the autonomous machine, I immediately reacted, "Ah, it was brought out from the ruins of the old empire's deep dive port.
!It’s working again?”
"It asked for it," Gaia smiled. "Autonomous machines have very simple thinking, but they also have basic thinking. Even if they don't have personality, they still like to work. This child applied for restart on the third day he came here, and now it
One of the best performers.”
I looked at the small robot that was flying around excitedly on the construction site below, helping to dismantle the data center. Well, maybe I should call it a big robot, and I felt relieved. It seemed that it had returned to its favorite way of life.
"You are really busy every day." I glanced at Gaia and couldn't help but say.
To be honest, Gaia's presence around him is usually not high. She cannot leave her home planet, and naturally cannot participate in any meetings. The only thing that can appear in the headquarters office is her report, which will probably give
People who don't know why have some misconceptions: Gaia is not active in the empire's ruling class. But this is completely a wrong impression. On the contrary, Gaia is as busy every day as workaholics like Sivis and Tavel. She is
She took care of the mother star by herself, and at the same time completed the project of reorganizing the ancient mother star and the various central facilities of the new empire. As a super Xiling host with powerful functions and expanded a large number of components, she also provided support for Bubble.
Sharing massive and complex data tasks with the mass production bubbles. In many areas that are difficult for outsiders to notice, Gaia takes care of everything conscientiously. Only if you go to the mother planet in person and see those busy data centers and
Only when you see various reconstruction sites in factories can you really realize this.
However, in the face of my sigh, Gaia just said calmly: "My idle system resources have not been fully utilized. We should find ways to speed up the reconstruction of those ancient facilities on the home planet. The defense control center of the 15th Sky Zone was also
To synchronize with the Shadow City Command, it has many logical hosts that are still in good condition and cannot continue to be idle. Hmm. My work efficiency needs to be further improved..."
A standard Xiling apostle.
We came to the place where the crystals are stored.
This is located in the center of the underground cavity. The crystal storage facility is a building that looks similar to the surrounding data centers, but is nearly twice the size and has a more complex surface structure. Even though I have limited knowledge of these data centers, I
It can be guessed that this building and the surrounding facilities should belong to the same system. Gaia quickly confirmed this guess: the large rectangular building in front of it was the host of the Fifteenth Day District Data Center, which managed the entire cave.
One hundred and twenty-two servers neatly distributed receive information uploaded from all channels in the fifteen-day area that year, and after preliminary processing, send it to Gaia according to different priorities, each dedicated host array, and all levels.
The functional positioning of the command and administrative departments, as well as the emperor of the Tian District himself, is similar to the current mass-produced bubble host array in Shadow City. Of course, its capabilities are more powerful than the latter. After all, the Fifteen Tian District back then... But
It is larger than the entire New Empire territory today (excluding the macro world part).
"Because I lost the ability to make mass-produced hosts, I started making this huge server," Gaia told us about the origin of these square facilities. At the same time, this should also be the reason why the number of these square-shaped facilities on the mother planet far exceeds the standard.
The origin of various data processing facilities, "They are a little more troublesome to deploy, not as easy to use as mass-produced hosts, and do not have construction capabilities, but because I can be infinitely expanded, connecting to these servers can greatly improve them."
efficiency, so this system has been running very well, and its performance in certain batch repetitive data processing is even better than the general-purpose Xiling host. As for the construction project of the Fifteen Days District that year, it was handed over to those who had experienced
Specially designed autonomous machinery. Thinking about it now, the work back then was actually more arduous than it is now..."
Following Gaia's introduction, we arrived at the core of the data center. In front of us was a hall that looked nothing special, resembling some kind of computer room. This area was about the size of two basketball courts.
, in the center of the rectangular hall with a large number of cabinet-like equipment distributed on both sides, is the huge crystal that has just returned to its place. It is floating on a weightless platform that protrudes from the ground and is sunken in the middle, reflecting in its slow rotation.
With ever-changing light.
"This crystal was originally part of a data center."
Gaia must have activated some equipment in the hall. I heard a low humming sound coming from behind the wall. Then the slow rotation of the crystal gradually stopped, and some bright blue beams like scanning lines came from the weightless
The platform was projected onto the crystal. A moment later, a large number of holographic projections appeared in the mid-air in front of the gravity-free platform: complex diagrams, incomprehensible machinery, and large sections of text. This seemed to be something that had just happened.
Open database.
"Isn't this the heart of the world?" I asked a very idiotic question smoothly as my head cramped. Sure enough, before I could take it back, Sandora rolled her eyes: "So you really put us
I forgot what I told you. The Heart of the World is an invisible conceptual thing. It is an entangled point of information, but it is attached to a certain entity. This crystal is the carrier of the Heart of the World, but it
Why can’t I have my own functions?”
"Didn't I realize it for a moment?" I smiled coquettishly, and in order to relieve the embarrassment, I focused my attention on Gaia again, "Is this something like a database?"
There are two main functions of the data center. One is to temporarily store information from all over the sky, and the other is to process them. The first impression of the crystal in front of me is the former: there are indeed many databases in Xiling Technology
It looks like a piece of crystal on the outside.
Of course, the internal structure of these databases is not just as simple as the appearance.
"It has some core database functions, as well as second-level cache and basic source instruction calling functions," Gaia nodded, "It is one of the core components of the data center, and its functions are not limited to temporary data storage. You can see
It is a 'hard disk' with the power to filter information, so you should understand it better."
"Oh..." I agreed casually and slowly approached the crystal that was in direct reading state. I still remembered Sandora's guess at that time:
This crystal seems to be conscious and has chosen its own route to escape from the old empire.
I put my hand on the crystal, and it was cold and trembling slightly.
If you are really conscious, then now that you are home, can you communicate with us? (To be continued.)