Although this guy Xi Ling looks a bit stupid, you must not think that this is really a naturally stupid girl: everyone who thinks so will be confused by Xi Ling's real logical ability and thinking speed and have a face of poor intelligence.
Xi Ling usually behaves a bit slowly, even clumsily, which is completely determined by her life form. Although she can stand in front of us, her body is still the spiritual network, where she truly exists at every moment.
In fact, on the Internet, Xiling in the material world is just an interface used for advanced communication with us. She can upload and download this interface to any place covered by the empire network at any time. In other words, she
So far, I haven't really focused on the outside world.
Therefore, there is always a problem with the response of such an interface to the real world. Xiling is not yet adaptable to the various logics of the real world, and she herself is not very interested in the real world. She focuses most of her energy on the Internet.
A massive amount of information, for her, the spiritual network is the real world, while reality is a "virtual space" that needs to be translated many times before she can understand it.
So if you see Xi Ling wandering in a daze somewhere, or see her changing into something else because she has forgotten what she looks like, don’t just think that she is a fool.
Where you can't see, the logical thinking this guy does every minute is unimaginable.
The reason why I suddenly thought of these was entirely because the other party suddenly mentioned the Great Rift Valley in the spiritual network that no one noticed, but was noticed by her.
She was able to notice such an abnormal situation. She also explored it carefully and made her own follow-up observation plans (although these plans have now been denied). This is enough to show that Xiling is not as immature as she appears. In terms of spirit,
In the world of the Internet, she is as steady, cautious, and full of action as the mature Apostle Xi Ling. 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 maybe we
The teachings are not that important: the place where she should really mature is on the Internet, and there, others cannot help her, and she may not need help...
"Now, Your Majesty, why are you in a daze?" Just as I was thinking about the margins and the Great Rift Valley, and slowly branched out to the issue of Xi Ling's future education, the latter suddenly interrupted my thoughts,
I hurriedly yelled and looked up. Sitting in front of me was a petite and cute girl with short lavender shoulder-length hair, wearing the military uniform that Xi Ling often wore.
Me: "...why have you changed again?"
"Well, I was in a daze just now, and by the time I realized what I was doing, it was already like this. I can't remember what it looked like before. Because it wasn't important information, it wasn't saved in the cache..."
Me: "..." I suddenly felt that in a certain sense, I still can't relax on the issue of Xi Ling's teaching!
I quickly informed Sandora of the situation reported by Xi Ling to me. She immediately attached great importance to this issue and arranged for Pao Pao and a group of experts to prepare to screen the mental network. This process of course required Xi Ling's assistance.
Therefore, the latter quickly returned to the institute. I think this screening work may not be completed for a while. After all, according to regulations, our inspection of mental networks is carried out on a daily basis and has never been interrupted. But we have so far
No one has found any abnormal edges in the New Empire's spiritual network, nor has they discovered that there is a Great Rift Valley without an address in the network. This shows that those experts may need to study a brand new translation algorithm in order to understand Xiling.
What exactly is it talking about.
Xi Ling mentioned a kind of network node without termination signal, but these nodes are obviously not real connections - that is, nodes that can clearly correspond to a certain Xi Ling apostle. They should be virtual nodes that only Xi Ling knows how to identify.
, just like those virtual storage spaces on the human Internet that rely on public resources. They do not clearly exist on a certain computer in reality, but are pieced together by coordinating all resources across the entire network. Due to the dynamic nature of the network
, these virtual nodes are not fixed, but no matter how they drift, they always maintain a rift with abnormal addresses, just like a virtual space with no URLs on the Internet, but where traffic always disappears -
—This is very intriguing.
Because such a rift will not occur naturally, and theoretically it should not occur accidentally when the concept of the fifteen-day area was split: this probability is too low, so it will not be considered. So what we can think of is
My network has been tampered with.
The biggest suspect is the fallen apostle.
However, might the fallen apostles have a chance to tamper with the new empire's spiritual network?
This probability is lower than the accident that occurred when the concept of the Fifteen Days Zone was separated. Although the fallen apostles have always had unpredictable strength, they also have a supreme ruler who may be more powerful than Xiling and rooted in the Internet, but the opponent
It is now completely incompatible with the New Empire's spiritual network. Unless they completely take over the Empire's network and then devote themselves to transforming it for a year and a half, they will never be able to create such a high-end rift in the network.
Opportunities cause damage on our network. And according to Sandora, the Empire Spiritual Network also has the most advanced firewall-although I don’t want to admit it, that firewall is me. Void creatures hang on the network, and they are fundamentally
This eliminates the possibility of fallen apostles in the disordered camp taking action against the empire's network. They will be purified when they intervene in the network. This is an indefensible process.
So where did the rift on the Internet come from?
I'm afraid it will really take us a long time to figure this out. Of course, another question that needs to be clarified is - what is the significance of such a great rift valley?
From the current point of view, its only effect is to scare Xiling. Other than that, this rift does not seem to affect the efficiency of the empire's network at all, nor does it cause hidden dangers such as accidental disconnections. It is not a
The spy interface exists so harmlessly. Even before it was discovered by Xi Ling, it had never appeared in our field of vision. And even if it frightened Xi Ling, after the latter became vigilant and marked it, this
Rift Valley is basically harmless: as long as you don't come into contact with it, it won't affect Xiling.
However, no one is really bold enough to think that this rift valley will be a cute thing. Regardless of whether it had an impact in the first place, anyway, now that we know that it exists, we must find out what is going on.
Of course, before the problem of the Rift Valley is found out, the spiritual network still needs to be used. After all, it has never experienced any malfunctions, and the prophet mother and daughter at home did not issue an early warning because of the Rift Valley in Laoshizi, so it will not be used for the time being.
It’s so frightening. Maybe this is just a malfunction in the mental network, or maybe it’s just a normal phenomenon: after all, before Xiling appeared, no one could observe the apostle’s mental network from such a special perspective. It exists.
It is not impossible that some kind of loophole only affects the virtual personality of the Internet and has no meaning in the real world. But considering that the significance of something like the spiritual network is really great. It is almost one of the foundations of the empire, so even if Lin Xueniang
There was no warning, so Paopao still took a series of preparatory measures. She added a large number of monitoring nodes within two days, and mounted all the hundreds of mass-produced hosts she had recently split onto the backbone network. What are those mass-produced hosts?
The only task is to act as a "disaster server". If the network collapses due to a catastrophic outage, these hosts will open a low-bandwidth emergency network through the Garden of Death system to maintain the most basic spirit within the empire.
Connect communication. It can be said that we have imagined the worst case scenario.
Hope it doesn't really happen.
"It always feels... a bit unreal." On the third day after Anulili left, that is, on the afternoon of the third day of a large-scale investigation into the Internet "Rift Valley", Miss Lin completed the investigation of the empire.
He did a "scan", rubbed his shoulders and muttered.
...We won’t discuss the logic behind her rubbing her shoulders excessively with her eyes.
"What's so unreal?" I responded casually. I picked off the two little crows that kept crawling up my clothes and put them on the table. Ding Dong was having a banquet on the table, and she spread out a handkerchief.
As a tablecloth, a lot of candies and biscuits were placed on it. The little one was using these things to entertain her little crow friends. There were more than a dozen hand-sized goddesses gathered at this small banquet, and my
The task is to keep an eye on them to prevent anyone from disappearing.
"What is that Rift Valley?" The eldest lady stretched her body, and then Xiaoxue on the other side immediately came up with an attentive expression, and rubbed the eldest lady's shoulders in a seemingly obedient and sensible way. I think this child should be another
Spent all the pocket money: Even though it is a royal family, the children in our family also have plenty of pocket money. "No one knew about it before, so everyone lived in peace, and there were no problems for so many years. Now suddenly someone poked the rift."
It came out, so a lot of people panicked... It just didn't feel real. Such a theoretically dangerous thing had been lurking harmlessly in the mental network for more than four years. What on earth was it planning to do?
?Who did it?”
"Maybe not four years," Sandora's voice came from the far away position by the window. It was Her Majesty the Queen's unshakable afternoon tea time every day. She liked to bask in the sun at this time. "If this loophole is the old empire, then
Does it exist? Or did it only appear when the empire collapsed? Although the Fifteenth Sky Area has escaped the pollution of the abyss, it is difficult to say whether its spiritual network has not been damaged at all. If the Rift Valley is in the empire
Appeared on the day of the collapse, then this thing has been lurking for more than 70,000 years... Tsk, it's better to translate Xiling's senses into something that the real world can understand as soon as possible. I'm also interested in that rift now.
, I really want to see with my own eyes what that thing is.”
I shrugged noncommittally. This rift gave people a very strange feeling. I did not feel any sense of crisis from such abnormal events as usual. However, another intuition still told me that this thing was related to the fallen apostle or "that
This is a quite contradictory situation. Maybe I should take the time to talk to Xi Ling again. The more contact the girl has with the real world, the more she will know how to express herself. Maybe next time, she can solve the problem.
Gu's matter is explained more clearly...
While I was thinking this, an emergency message from Shadow City interrupted my thoughts.
"Your Majesty, this is the Macro World Early Warning Center of the Space and Time Administration. There is an early warning message."
Shandora, Lin Xue and their elder sister all looked stunned at the same time. It seemed that this message was very urgent, so it was sent to them at the same time, and a moment later, there was a crackle of bare feet on the floor from the second floor.
With a sound, Qian Qian's little head popped up from the corner of the stairs: "Ajun Ajun! There is a situation j world alert!"
"Specific situation? Warning level? Is it an 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 Macro World has issued an alarm, but usually it is a routine warning because the subordinate world has discovered the abyss reaction. Sometimes the alarm level does not even require notification to Sandora and me.
The military can handle it themselves: just send a wave of expeditionary troops to deal with the abyss reaction. This is the daily activity of the Imperial Army. Even if it is a smaller alarm, just send a few elite soldiers to cooperate with the local macro
The world censors can handle it. Alerts like this, which are directly forwarded to all empire leaders... rarely appear in the macro world.
"The current threat scale is maintained at a very small level, but the threat intensity is expected to be extremely high," the person in charge of the Space-Time Administration replied hastily. "It is not a conventional abyss reaction, it is probably the fallen apostle's spaceship - if they are heading towards the macro world
If a certain member of the world invades directly, the threat level will rise to A level or even S level! It will be classified as an invasion level!"
What the hell?! Fallen apostles?! How could they go to the macro world if they don’t wander around the frontiers of the empire’s jurisdiction?
The Early Warning Section of the Shadow City Space-Time Management Bureau is rarely as busy as it is today. The most common things handled here are regular warnings from the macro world, such as the abyss or race wars that may endanger the stability of the universe - events below this warning level.
Usually the local censor handles it on their own. It is not reported to the Space-Time Management Bureau at all, and events above this warning value only happened once. That was last year, when a gate to the abyss appeared in a certain macro world. At that time, we
A third of the legions were mobilized to suppress it, but that time they did not alert so many leader-level apostles.
This is because of different properties.
The small number of 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 erupts, its harm will always be limited and controllable, while the Fallen Apostles are a
Enemies with initiative and variables may appear in the macro world just by chance, or may be a precursor to a large-scale invasion. This variable is too great, and should be dealt with at the highest level no matter what.
When we arrived at the Early Warning Section of the Time and Space 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, this dedicated female officer immediately stood up and saluted.
: "Your Majesty, sirs!"
Shandora waved her hand: "What's the situation now? Is it confirmed to be an invasion? Or is it passing by?"
"The enemy's motive cannot yet be determined, but it is 100% certain that it is the spacecraft of the fallen apostle. They first appeared outside the barrier of the er-335-k15 universe. According to the information offset detected at that time, they could already
They observed that universe, but for some reason, they did not launch an attack. Instead, they left there without any offense. Then they appeared outside the barrier between the er-335-k12 universe and the er-336-k35 universe, and in this
Several location markers are frequently active."
"How many are there?" I said while looking at the macro world network diagram of the Space and Time Administration, which uses dots and lines to roughly represent the universes and the jump relationships between them, and according to each
The "distance" between the two worlds, or the information offset, is used to lay out the structure of those lattice. The current color of most universes is white or light orange, which represents safety, but near the edge of the macro world, the three
Each universe is marked in shocking blood red, indicating that they are under extreme threat of the end of the world at any time. All jump channels directly connected to these three universes display the words temporarily blocked. In their adjacent universes, there are also
The yellow warning symbol is flashing, which means that the source of the threat can be transferred to these universes in a single jump.
"It's not clear yet, because the spaceships of the fallen apostles keep changing places, and the number of them appears is different every time. It's not sure whether they are a team or a few small units operating independently. Now we can only determine the size of these units.
It’s not that big yet, there are no ships above the mothership level, and most of the observed ships are small heavy-fire battleships or void reconnaissance ships.”
"Void reconnaissance ships and high-speed battleships... It stands to reason that these are the most commonly used configurations for quickly raiding areas behind enemy lines that are weak and unfamiliar to you." Sandora frowned, "They have never launched
Is it an attack?"
"Yes, this is also the strangest thing. They were flashing around in those places, but they never attacked any world. They didn't seem to attack the world at all - this is completely different from the usual behavior of the fallen apostles.
It doesn’t match.”
"It doesn't look like they're just passing by after wandering there for so long, but the troops leading the raid didn't attack anyone, and it didn't look like they were preparing for an invasion." I twitched the corner of my mouth, "They seemed to be looking for something...
...No matter, in short, increase the troops immediately, but be careful not to let the local prosecutor act rashly before the reinforcements are in place to prevent the fallen apostles from taking action in advance... The local defense of that place is not used to deal with the army of the fallen apostles."
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