Chapter 1,260 Physical Examination

After the body scan, Xiling was moved to a larger observation room next door, because her life form and network access form were so special that conventional scanning equipment could only figure out where her entity came from. But we don't understand what impact her activities will have, so we need more efficient equipment.

This large-scale observation room has been used many times recently. It is most commonly used to test the power of Sister Sister and Little Crow after they have been deified. It has the most comprehensive information flow detection and information snapshot functions, and can record all information that occurs in the observation area. Changes are reflected truthfully, and there will be no delay beyond Planck time: only with this sensitivity can we ensure that every communication between Xiling and the entire spiritual network is recorded completely and without error.

The observation area is a square closed space, which is isolated from the outside environment by a layer of extremely strong energy shield and a layer of transparent reinforced charging crystal. The activity space inside is very large, even enough for a behemoth like a little crow. Transform into god form. Outside this square "huge coffin" is a series of terminal platforms where testers work. We can directly see the situation inside through the transparent barrier, and we can also understand the current environmental changes inside through the terminal at hand. I looked around and suddenly thought: "Do you think this scene looks like the place where evil scientists conduct inhumane experiments in movies? The victims are locked inside..."

As soon as he finished speaking, a circle of imperial scientists around him choked. Tavel adjusted his decorative gold-rimmed glasses, twitched the corner of his mouth, and let out a slight sigh. My sister came up and gave me a shock: "I have been thinking wildly all day long!"

I remembered that my sister seemed to have been in that observation area as well. So I was immediately embarrassed...

"Okay, the system is ready and the recording device is working fine," Tavel said to break my wandering state. She pressed her hand on the crystal panel of the main console and operated it a few times quickly, "Xiling, you can move freely, um. You can do whatever you want. We need to collect the communication signals between you and the spiritual network. And your own life response.”

"You can do anything?" Xiling ran to the edge of the observation area, lying on the transparent barrier and looking at us curiously. The speaker device amplified her voice to the entire hall, so she was immediately startled, "Wow !The sound suddenly became so loud!”

"Uh... you can do anything," Sandora put her hand on her forehead. As if tired, he said, "Only routine data will be collected today. Just relax and move in your usual, most natural way..."

"Oh, then I want to eat." Xiling had no idea about the current environment that would make ordinary people nervous. She was just thinking about the dinner she had not been able to achieve so far, "You said you would bring food. , I want the chocolate cake from that store. The triangular kind."

Shandora was stunned for a moment, then wiped the corners of her mouth fiercely: "This is definitely my nemesis - someone call Sylvia. Ask her to bring all the pastries in the store. Today the institute will give She’s rounded.”

"I can't eat that much." Xiling quickly waved her hand.

Sandora wiped the corners of her mouth again: "The rest are mine!"

So the first phase of the test started in such a speechless state: the top scientists in the empire gathered in a circle, watching our mental network avatar eating there, and dropping the dregs on the floor. Of course, considering that Shandora was making a lot of noise, no one complained about it. Tavel continued the work at hand with a very subtle expression: recording data, analyzing information fluctuations in the observation area, and communicating with assistants. And gave me a helpless look.

However, the information collection went smoothly until Xiling finally finished eating. We have confirmed that there is indeed an unlimited and non-delayed communication channel between her and the spiritual network, and it has also been confirmed. There is absolutely no need for her to eat...

Because this guy's body structure does not need to digest food at all, what she eats is directly dispersed into elementary particles and dissipated in the air, and her desire to eat may just be out of habit or imitating others...

Next, we tested Xiling's control of the mental network. Sandora still remembered her initial worries: whether Xiling had the ability to destroy this network. Because Bubble's declaration that Xi Ling is harmless is entirely based on her reasoning based on the underlying agreement, and the specific situation of the latter needs to be tested. This test process took a long time. It was not that there was any problem with the test steps, but that we spent nearly half an hour explaining to Xiling how she came about. This is simply too disappointing: As the incarnation of the spiritual network, Xiling herself knows nothing about this network. She even doesn't even know what spiritual connection is.

"The authorities are obsessed with it," Sandora sighed as she watched Xiling try very hard to understand the information Tavel gave her. "Because she is a spiritual network herself, she is not aware of the existence of this network at all. Human beings are leaving Before going to space, I never realized what the space view of my own planet looked like. Without a second perspective, humans would never be able to see what their whole body looks like."

It is quite difficult for Xiling to understand what the spiritual network is and her own life form. Even if she can directly access these things from the empire's database, she said that she has no intuitive understanding and can only be unaware of it. After being troubled like this for a long time, Tavel finally came up with an idea: she decided to completely open her information chain and let Xiling share everything she perceived.

Finally, this method worked. Through the perspective of a third party, Xiling clearly felt the existence of the spiritual network for the first time, and discovered that she was originally a collective consciousness distributed on every node of the entire network. She looked at her "self" from a new perspective in surprise. "Home" has become a vast virtual ocean, and she herself is dissipated in every node on this ocean, excited.

"Oh! So this is the network you are talking about! So I am this network?!" Xiling looked at the scientists around him happily, "Ah, thank you, you know so much!"

"Now let's officially test what kind of influence you can exert on this network." Tavel said seriously, asking Xiling to calm down from his overly active state.

And when this test starts. Sandora and I couldn't help but become nervous.

Judging whether Xiling poses a potential threat to the existing imperial spiritual network depends entirely on the results of this test. If Bubble's calculation is wrong and Xiling can destroy the mental network without a licensing agreement (although she may have done so accidentally), then we will have to find a way to restrict her - at least until she grows up be restricted. I know this isn't fair to her. Because this girl didn't do anything at all, but this was a measure that had to be taken. The spiritual network is almost one of the foundations for the survival and development of the Xiling Apostle race, and its status is even comparable to the empire's psionic technology. But this incarnation of the Internet is now in an extremely immature state. This is really what Sandora said: the key to the end of the world is in the hands of a child. So no wonder everyone is so nervous about this issue.

certainly. Even if the worst happens, Xiling will still receive the best care. She can be said to be our baby, but she is not mature enough for the time being. Just like the little crow who cannot control her own power, she just needs to be restricted. Action force.

"Permission test..."

"Network offline test..."

"Attempt to deactivate the virtual network that was the subject of the experiment..."

"Remotely shut down online device testing..."

Tavel is thoughtful, and she designed a series of test projects with the seriousness of a scientific researcher, hoping to fully determine the extent of the impact that Xiling can have on the network. As the test comes to an end, we can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

"It turns out that due to the birth mechanism, her actions must completely follow the normal underlying protocols, and in addition to the fact that arbitrary access rights cannot be cancelled, her other rights to the imperial facilities are the same as those of normal Xiling apostles, and they also need to be reviewed and granted by the emperor. So she can't operate any node without harming the network architecture, just like most humans can't lick their own elbows." Tavel looked at the terminal equipment in front of him, then raised his head and said with a smile Said to Sandora and me. But her expression soon changed, "Um... Your Majesty, please be more decent, I really can't lick..."

Me: "...Ahem, business matters, business matters. So there is no need to put a collar on Xi Ling."

"In fact. Even if you want to put a collar on her, it's impossible," Tavel sighed slightly and inconspicuously. "We can't restrain the entire empire's spiritual network. Now we can celebrate. The empire's spiritual network will be strengthened like never before. As long as Xiling is online, our network will be stronger than before. The rest... is to think Find a way to train her."

Everyone's attention turned back to the observation area, where Xiling was squatting on the ground doing nothing. She seemed to be finally tired of this series of inspections, but her introverted personality prevented her from protesting yet. She transformed another huge wing like Alaya, but this time she still couldn't transform the other half of the wings. Then she gave up trying to flap her wings to fly, and instead grew a ferocious and powerful wing from behind. Comes with a mechanical tail: this is the characteristic of the Armored Scorpion. She was just having fun playing like this until I knocked on the transparent barrier: "Xiling, where do you live now?"

"Where to live?" Xiling tilted her head in confusion, "Anywhere will do. Does the place of residence need to be fixed?"

I remembered that since Xiling inexplicably entered the real world from the crystal, she had no fixed residence at all. She had been wandering around for the past few days, so I became particularly curious about her daily life: "Are you here? Where did you stay when you left Monster Town and the Sky Island of Atlantis? Where did you sleep at night? Do you just wander around all the time?"

"Monster Town and Atlantis? Oh, I know what place you are talking about," Xiling ran over briskly and lay down on the transparent shield. "That is an interesting place, but what does sleeping mean?"

"The mental network never goes offline, so she theoretically never rests. The nodes on the network are maintained and refreshed in turn, so she never feels tired," Tavel explained on the side. "This is theoretically true."

"I want to go out." At this time, Xiling suddenly patted the barrier in the observation area, "I want to go out!"

I glanced at Tavel, who nodded, indicating that there were no more tests and that Xiling could move freely. So he ordered the barriers in the observation area to be turned off. As soon as the obstacle in front of him disappeared, Xiling jumped out happily, as agile as a rabbit. I suddenly felt a little strange: "You should be able to jump out regardless of the barrier, right?"

According to my understanding, "Xiling" is the imperial spiritual network itself. The girl who appears in front of us is just a virtual body projected by the super consciousness at selected coordinates within the network coverage. This virtual image has infinite access rights. In fact, she cannot be blocked by anything: as long as there is Wherever the Imperial Spiritual Network covers, Xiling can upload herself anytime and anywhere. Then change the location and re-project it. This is what she relies on to appear and disappear in Atlantis and Monster Town, even running around under the noses of imperial sentries. And now she seems to be blocked by a mere protective shield...

"Because Sister Chen Qian said she wouldn't let me leave the shell just now."

"The virtual wall effect of the program," Tavel explained skillfully without waiting for me to ask, "Your Majesty. Think about the virtual partitions drawn on the memory. It seems that Xiling will write the superior's commands directly into his own logic. This is the only reason to restrict her actions. In terms of obeying orders, she is the same as other Xiling apostles."

I nodded with satisfaction: In this aspect, Xiling is much better than Little Bubble...

Because Xiling doesn't have a fixed place to live, and she doesn't seem to care where she lives, so we let her live here at the institute for the time being. The advantage of living with Tavel is that the latter will reveal more secrets about Xiling as soon as possible with the enthusiasm of a scientist. Because we personally arranged the residence for her. So this time, you don’t have to worry about Xi Ling running around all day, causing panic everywhere with a random appearance: she has fully proven herself in terms of obedience.

Of course, she also has full freedom of movement. Since we haven't been able to teach her how to abide by the imperial military regulations for a while, we allow her to move around as she pleases without causing trouble. As long as she knows how to do it at night when everyone else is resting. Just go home by yourself. And more importantly. Don't run too far: because Tavel soon proved through experiments that as long as it is covered by the spiritual network. Xiling can teleport at will, and the teleportation range covers the entire empire - as long as it is still within the empire. She can run around everywhere, and we must consider what will happen if she runs to the border and is discovered by the fallen apostle... Therefore, we must not let her continue to run around.

Of course, her teleportation ability has nothing to do with space teleportation. In fact, it is a process of uploading and downloading. Although it is strange, it is the fact.

After arranging things here, Sandora and I returned home.

In fact, the appearance of Xi Ling also brings us a little confusion: What level of apostle should she be?

Judging from the birth process of Xiling, she is the Imperial Spiritual Network itself, and the two are on the same level. However, the Imperial Spiritual Network has never been a clear unit with levels and authority, and no one has ever tried to regard this network as a Greek network. It belongs to the Spirit Apostle, so we cannot grade "Xiling" using conventional means. And if this network is not taken into account, Xiling is equivalent to the collective consciousness of the race of Xiling apostle, then she seems to have a super high level - because even the emperor of the empire is only one of the constituent nodes of "Xiling", then She should be the most senior apostle that has ever appeared.

But the fact is that in addition to Xiling having unlimited rights of passage within the network coverage due to her own talent, in other respects, her permissions are exactly the same as those of ordinary apostles who have not yet been graded. She has little combat power and doesn’t know how to use the imperial arsenal. She will obey the orders of apostles above the leader, and she is even limited to a bunch of basic network protocols. All these characteristics show that Xiling is not a person with super powers. of apostles.

The gap between this and her possible "other half" is simply huge.

There may be a cluster consciousness similar to Xiling on the fallen apostles. That cluster consciousness is not only the embodiment of the spiritual network, but also has risen to the level of racial will. She has even established absolute rule over all fallen apostles, including Any apostle, including the fallen emperor, can easily kill and seize them: but here we only know that we will be very comfortable after eating, and we will be happy to have someone to chat with... Although I don't want to say this, but Xiling on the New Empire side and Compared with that "sir" of the fallen apostle, he is nothing but a waste...

Although I don’t expect her to have the same “skills” as “that adult”.

Regarding the issue of Xi Ling's authority and apostle level, we also discussed it for a long time after we came back. My sister, Lin Xue and others are considered common sense. Based on Xi Ling's identity, they feel that the other party should be at least on the same level as the leader apostle. It is the rank of general, and Sandora and I are logicians. We tried to start with the birth mechanism of Xiling to understand why the other party behaved so "waste" in the empire, and then studied how to give her a new life. Set permissions. The two groups had a heated discussion for a long time, and my only emotion was: this is the first time our family has discussed such a serious national event within thirty minutes after dinner...

But at the end of the discussion, there was no conclusion on this topic. Xi Ling is Xi Ling. She is the strangest Xi Ling apostle in history. A Xi Ling apostle who doesn’t even know what the empire is and has no self-consciousness. Maybe we The significant things discussed here seemed to her to have no meaning: not even as much as a piece of cake in Sylvia's shop. Then let everything take its course and let her grow up slowly. I believe she just looks a little useless...

Well, that's the theory. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)