Unexpectedly, I uploaded myself to the Internet, but I still couldn't escape the curse of Qian Qian's "immature ideas". Half of the invalid data cleared from the database was related to Qian Qian:
Impulse planning, far-fetched designs, short-term goals that are simply impossible to achieve... Due to Qian Qian's status as a high-ranking node and her 24-hour connection to the Empire's data network, whenever she has such an idea, it doesn't really matter.
If you intend to put it into action (for Qianqian, this is almost 100%), the Imperial Data Network will temporarily store it as a top instruction, but this information will basically be invalidated within 24 hours: some are
Qianqian suddenly lost interest, and some of them were remonstrated by me or my sister.※※
The result is that every time the database is self-maintained, a lot of such fragments will be generated: they have become Xiling's favorite gadgets to collect. Qianqian and Xiling formed a subtle supply and marketing system...
I studied the orange-red cubes that fell from the sky, but I didn’t have time to read them one by one: these cubes began to dissipate a few minutes after touching the ground. Sure enough, as Xiling said, in this online world,
The colorful fallen flowers are only a temporary beauty.
"The two databases above should be responsible for temporarily storing high-level node instructions." I looked up. If I didn't explain it this way, it would be difficult to understand why Qian Qian was mentally polluted (I have to use this word to describe that girl)
idea!) will be so concentrated in this area - unless she has reached the point where her thoughts are running rampant and spreading throughout the entire network.
"Yes," Xiling confirmed my guess, "They are specially used to process temporary information generated by nodes above senior officers."
I did the math and realized that Qian Qian alone had generated half the amount of data equivalent to Shandora, Lin Xue and others plus the entire headquarters - what a terrifying brain this is!
The only good thing now is that these Qianqian ideas will not have any impact other than just slipping around in the database: there will be no real actions. There will be no real projects, and there will be no problem of wasting people and money because they were shot.
The speed is as fast as the speed at which it is produced. Otherwise, the current GDP of the new empire may not be enough for her...
I shook my head, putting aside these irrelevant thoughts, and looked up at the road ahead. Now we still can't see where the rift valley in Xiling's mouth is. There are only endless plains. Plains, or plains, and occasionally
The strange and dazzling landscape that appears, this bizarre cyberspace may have no end at all. After all, a large number of new apostles come off the production line every minute. The speed of expansion of this network is extremely amazing, if it were not for a set of products that have gone through countless
With the support of a robust and reliable protocol system adjusted by ancestors, I am afraid that this expansion speed alone is enough to collapse the ordinary network. Tavel uses complex algorithms to convert abstract things on the network into information that can be understood by us, and allows us to
He Bingtis has the same "senses" as Xiling, but the nature of these senses may still be somewhat different. I feel that I cannot fully understand the world in Xiling's eyes.
The breeze blew through my ears, and there was light in my sight. I could feel the temperature and gravity - these things that are taken for granted in the real world, here all mean that there is a corresponding information environment. Perhaps a breeze is like thousands of people at a time
The common thoughts of the two apostles. Perhaps the surrounding temperature means the current average speed of the mental network. This information can be perceived but cannot be interpreted, at least not for creatures from the real world like us. I was suddenly confused:
In this way, can you solve the problem of the Rift Valley?
We don't even fully understand what it is.
"What are you thinking about? Are you still leaving?" Bingtis's whirring voice woke me up from my thoughts. I saw this female gangster raising her hand and pointing into the distance, "Follow the arrow." Xiling said there was something ahead.
Data hub, after crossing the first hub, we have completed half of the journey. The Rift Valley is very calm now, we have to hurry over before it moves anywhere."
I threw aside the thoughts in my heart, nodded and rushed out at once. Bingtis was stunned and quickly followed. Because the two of them were moving very fast, exceeding the speed of sound, so Bingtis could only use mental connection to follow.
I said: "I rely on you, uncle! It's scary to suddenly move so fast! Don't you know that I, 36e, start slowly?"
Me: "..." I decided not to speak. Anyway, this female gangster has something to say at any time. If I don't throw my face on the ground and step on it, I will never be able to defeat this invulnerable guy verbally.
Next, we concentrated on the road. There was nothing extra to attract attention along the way. We quickly arrived at the data hub that Xiling mentioned. This is another abstract thing that seems difficult to understand. It looks like a
The huge streamers glowed with alternating blue and gold colors. One end was connected to the ground, and the other end was flying high in the air. It was more than ten meters wide and probably more than a thousand meters high. This weird space
There is a breeze, but the direction in which this "streamer" dances is not consistent with the direction of the wind. Rather, it seems to be the kind of recurring background objects that appear as decorations in the game, with its own unique amplitude, recurring slightly.
Swinging.
When I got close to the streamer, I heard the sound of hunting wind. Although this thing did not dance with the wind, it still made the sound of a flag being blown by the wind. The things in this space... were really weird.
Xi Ling's image moved from the ground to the surface of the streamer, and I finally didn't have to lower my head to talk to her. However, her face was swaying due to the dancing of the streamer, and was distorted into ridiculous shapes from time to time, making it look very funny.
"Let me check the network conditions nearby," Xiling said. "Being close to the Rift Valley requires a high degree of network stability. Sudden link disconnection or packet loss is not fun - although I don't know if you will be affected by packet loss.
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"No," as soon as Xiling finished speaking, another embedded picture suddenly appeared on the streamer, and Tavel appeared on the screen, "Don't worry, Your Majesty. The souls of you and Lord Bingtis are not completely attached to the Internet, but
It exists in the form of an independent individual, only borrowing bandwidth. If large-scale packet loss occurs, your soul will only be expelled at most, and will not die like the information that is attached to the network.
.Theoretically...well, that's actually the case."
This time she finally dared not say that this was the case in theory - otherwise Shandora and the others would definitely come after her desperately.
"That's good," Xiling nodded reassuringly, "I was just going to say that the network around the Rift Valley is not very stable. Should I postpone the action a little? Now we can continue on our way. Oh, wait a minute, I'll move this hub
Mark it so that if there is an emergency ahead, you can teleport back through this hub and run away."
"Speaking of which, what are these hubs?" I looked at the magnificent big streamer in front of me. This thing looked very beautiful, but its light and airy image was very different from the square things I saw along the way:
Most of the things in this space are square and angular, including the upside-down earth in the sky and the orange-red cubes before. These streamers are really an exception here.
"Host," Xi Ling said casually, "the data hub is where the host intervenes in the network. Just like a key control point, each such hub monitors a huge area of network space. The node in front of you is xl-34
, Next we are going to hub No.
.Well, it’s the one behind you on the horizon..."
It was the first time I heard such a magical thing. I turned my head and looked curiously, and sure enough I found a beam of light reaching all over the sky at the end of the horizon. I might have seen it before, but I didn't pay attention at all at the time. I never thought about the child.
Her mother is such a stunning natural sight in cyberspace!
It is so huge that it can be regarded as a natural landscape. You can imagine how spectacular the bubbles look here.
"Bubble, Bubble," I called my child's mother in a very fresh, excited, and eye-opening voice. Because the other party was one of the network servers, the call to her did not need to be transferred through Xiling, "I saw you! You are here
This place is so spectacular! From a distance, it looks thick and..."
"Dad, please don't do this..."
Me: "..." Just shut up and continue on our way.
The next few data hubs are relatively close to each other. Perhaps in order to improve network stability, the mass-produced hosts deliberately adjusted their working sections to protect this operation. Where there are data hubs, the network
The stability and impact resistance will be enhanced, and the large-capacity cache of the hosts can also effectively reduce the chance of packet loss. Although the last one has been proven to be harmless to Bingtis and me, after all, it can still affect the entire operation.
success rate.
As I continued to move forward, I finally felt that the atmosphere around me began to change: the ubiquitous breeze gradually weakened to almost imperceptible, the ground began to fade, and the originally beautiful lavender and blue were increasingly mixed with a sickly grayish white color.
, in the end the land even completely faded to almost a desert, and the undulating mountains and deep valleys in the sky seemed to be avoiding something in front of us. As we moved forward, the sky seemed flatter, and in the end it simply turned into a great plain like the ground.
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These phenomena all mean the same thing: there is an information desert area ahead. Under the automatic circumvention of network security protocols, data flowing to this area is blocked, and even the all-encompassing Imperial Database refuses to provide indexing services for this network segment.
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Xiling became increasingly silent: she had not spoken for a long time. As the collective consciousness of the network, she should have felt that danger was approaching.
"That, that is the Rift Valley!"
After walking around for a while, Xiling finally broke the silence. We stopped and looked at the scene in front of us.
The color has completely faded from the field of vision. Whether it is the plain beneath our feet or the other piece of land hanging upside down in the sky, they are completely pale, except for the image of Xiling following our feet, and the figures of Bingtis and I.
, there is no color around, the whole world seems to have become an uncolored plain model, looking around, it is monotonous and dry.
But in the distance, the darkness seemed to tear through the space and penetrated the pale world. It was a large circular hole that penetrated the sky and the earth, as if a huge spear had once pierced the heaven and the earth. It left a shocking legacy here.
The scars, darkness surged in the cavity, forming an extremely sharp contrast with the surrounding pale environment. Xiling no longer dared to take a step forward: In fact, when the surrounding colors faded, we had already entered the data avoidance defined by the security protocol.
In this area, Xiling came to such a close place entirely because of her special nature of "being a network". Going forward, she was afraid that she would not be able to stop, and the rift valley was going on at any time in this pale area.
Regular movement, instantaneous expansion or contraction, are already too dangerous for a consciousness rooted in the Internet.
We let Xi Ling stop here and evacuate to a safe place as soon as possible. Of course, as the overall consciousness of the network, she actually doesn’t care whether to evacuate or not. What is always with us is just an interactive interface of Xi Ling. She
It will always be the entire network. Asking her to evacuate essentially means asking her to stop detecting the data on the Rift Valley. As long as her focus is not on the Rift Valley, the Rift Valley cannot swallow up any of her information.
Of course. In this way, the communication between us and Tavel will be cut off: because any data leading to the Rift Valley will be lost, and Xiling cannot survive in this area. This is the only absolute black place that the spiritual connection cannot reach.
barrier.
Tavel analyzed the data we detected as quickly as possible before Xiling left. I can imagine the tense and busy atmosphere in the laboratory outside now, but Tavel's analysis can only be superficial, measuring the network status.
Estimating the bandwidth near the rift valley, analyzing the safety factor, etc. - What is it like in the rift valley will only be known after Bingtis and I come back.
"Your Majesty, you and Mr. Bingtis have special souls that cannot be swallowed by the rift. Therefore, in theory, it is safe to approach or even enter the rift. However, the safety of the rift itself does not mean that there are no other dangerous things on the opposite side.
Whatever, once you encounter a situation, please directly explode your void power - this will cause the entire network to be down for a short time or even some nodes to be destroyed, but it is better than losing our leader." Tavel warned for the last time,
Then Lin Xue's image also appeared in front of us: "Wood, and Bingtis. I haven't seen anything bad yet, but there is unprecedented interference in the rift valley. There is definitely something incredible hidden in it. For the time being,
There is no malicious intention, but it has the ability to threaten you, understand what I mean?"
"If the situation is not good, just run away quickly," Bingtis still said carelessly, "Don't worry, I have already learned a lot of skills when I smashed the principal's window - well, I will take your husband with me."
"...I'm even more worried..."
After the communication ended, Xiling also retreated to a safe enough place. Bingtis and I stepped forward, and the last link in the spiritual connection was also interrupted: we entered the black barrier area.
"It's as quiet as death." Bingtis muttered unhappily as he quickly approached the large hollow in front, "There is no wind, no sound, and there is no real feeling when you step on the ground. I feel like this place is missing something.
"
"There is no way. After all, the data has been interrupted here. We are now jumping among a group of mutated nodes. Apart from ourselves and these nodes, there is nothing evolving here, not a byte."
Information that absolutely does not evolve is a pool of stagnant water, and the principle of being still equals death is perfectly explained here.
We finally came to the big hole and observed what it was from the edge. It went vertically deep into the ground and was a perfect circle with a radius of probably one kilometer (in this virtual space, is the unit of length reliable?). However,
I observed it carefully and felt that it was just a black round cake imprinted on the surface: the darkness inside this thing was so dense that it even reached a level that could not be described by the word "pure black", so that even at such a close distance,
You can't tell whether this "hole" has an inner wall or not. You can try to draw a pure black round cake on a piece of paper, and then use the same black to draw the inner wall of the cave in the round cake, and you will see
Found this to be completely impossible.
Rift Valley presents this situation.
"If I couldn't feel the aura of the abyss, I would really think this is the gate of the abyss." Bingtis expressed my inner thoughts.
I looked up and saw that there was a perfect black circle at the corresponding position in the sky. It was also deep and bottomless.
Of course, you can't tell anything just by looking at it, but when it comes to investigating the truth of this rift valley, with our abilities as laymen, Bingtis and I definitely don't know how to start, but fortunately we need to do something
It's very simple, and doesn't require much professional knowledge. Just jump into this thing...
Understand what is going on inside (or on the opposite side) of the rift: is there a powerful malignant tumor, or is it just a network failure, or is it the network interface of the fallen apostle? As long as we understand these, we don’t need to know the specific reasons. Bing and I
Even if Thies's task is overfulfilled, the remaining solutions are the responsibility of the scientists outside.
"Tavel just said that it should be no problem for us to jump in," I patted Bingtis on the shoulder, "We are not network data, Rift Valley cannot delete it, and if we are lucky, Rift Valley's capacity is limited
, it will even be 'suffocated to death' by the soul of the void creature, so it will be done in one step."
"Yes." Bingtis nodded slightly, suddenly looked over with an unprecedented seriousness on her face, and then she said in a rare soft tone: