Chapter 1,269 Alarm
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 their poor intelligence. . Xiling usually behaves a bit slowly, even clumsily, which is entirely determined by her life form. Although she can stand in front of us, her body is still a spiritual network. The place where she really exists at every moment is actually on the network. The Xiling in the material world is just a network used for advanced communication with us. It's just an interface. She can upload and download this interface to any place covered by the empire network at any time. In other words, she has not yet focused her real energy 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 accustomed 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 massive information on the Internet. For her, the spiritual network is what really exists. The world, reality, is a "virtual space" that needs to be translated many times before it can be understood by her.
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 in the spiritual network that no one noticed, but was noticed by her.
Can notice such an anomaly. He also conducted exploration cautiously and made his 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 the world of the spiritual network, she is as steady, cautious, and full of action as a mature Xiling apostle. 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 our teaching is not so important: the place where she should really mature is on the Internet, and where . No one else could help her, and she probably didn't 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 quickly said "oh" and looked up. Sitting in front of him was a petite, cute girl with short lavender shoulder-length hair, wearing the military uniform that Xiling 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. We 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. Of course, this process required Xiling's assistance, so the latter quickly returned to the research institute. I feel that this screening work may not be completed in a while, after all, it is according to regulations. Our inspection of the mental network is carried out on a daily basis and never stops. However, we have not yet discovered any abnormal edges in the New Empire's spiritual network, nor have we 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 what Xiling is talking about.
Xiling 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 Xiling apostle. They should be virtual nodes that only Xiling knows how to identify, just like those virtual storage spaces on the human Internet that rely on public resources. They do not exist explicitly on a single computer in the real world, 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 there is a rift on the Internet without a URL, but there is always traffic disappearing into it. virtual space – that’s intriguing.
Because such a rift will not occur naturally, and theoretically it should not be accidentally created when the concept of the fifteen-day area was split: this probability is too low, so it will not be considered. Then all we can think of is that our network has been tampered with.
The biggest suspect is the fallen apostle.
However, might the fallen apostles have a chance to tamper with the spiritual network of the new empire?
This probability is lower than an accident when the concept of the fifteen-day zone is 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 network. However, the spiritual network of the other party and the new empire is now completely incompatible unless They completely took over the Imperial Network and then concentrated on transforming it for a year and a half before they could create such a high-end rift in the network. Otherwise, they would have absolutely no chance to cause damage to our network. And according to Shandora, the Empire's spiritual network also has the most advanced firewall - although I don't want to admit it, that firewall is me. The presence of void creatures on the network fundamentally 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 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 spy interface, it exists so harmlessly to humans and animals. Even before being discovered by Xiling, he had never appeared in our field of vision. And even if it scares Xiling, after the latter increases his vigilance and marks it, the rift is basically harmless: as long as he does not touch it, it will not affect Xiling.
However, no one is really so bold as to think that this rift valley will be a cute thing. Regardless of whether it had an impact in the first place, now that we know it exists, we have to find out what's going on.
That is, of course, before finding out what's wrong with the Rift. The spiritual network still needs to be used. After all, it has never experienced any malfunctions, and the prophet mother and daughter at home have not issued warnings because of the rift in Laoshizi, so there is no need to panic too much for the time being. Maybe this is just a malfunction in the mental network, or even maybe it is a normal phenomenon at all: after all, before Xi Ling appeared, no one could observe the apostle's mental network from such a special perspective. There is something virtual about it that is only for the network. It's not impossible to have holes in your personality that have no real-world meaning. Just considering 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 Xue and his wife did not give any warning, 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. Those mass-produced hosts did nothing and their only task was to act as "disaster servers." 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 spiritual connection and communication within the empire. It can be said that we have imagined the worst case scenario.
Let's hope it doesn't happen.
"It always feels... a little unreal." On the third day after Anulili left, it was also the afternoon of the third day of a major investigation into the Internet "rift". Miss Lin finished her routine "scan" of the empire, rubbed her shoulders and muttered.
...We won’t discuss the logic of her rubbing her shoulders excessively with her eyes.
"What's untrue?" I responded casually. At the same time, he picked off the two little crows that kept crawling up his clothes and put them on the table. Dingdang was having a banquet on the table. She spread out a handkerchief as a tablecloth and placed a lot of candies and cookies on it. Tiny Dot was using these things to entertain her little crow friends, who gathered at this small banquet. There are more than a dozen figurine-sized goddesses, and my job 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 All the pocket money has been spent: 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." 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 unbeatable 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... Hey, 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 it 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 "Adult", this is quite a 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 knows how to express herself. Maybe next time, she can explain the Rift Valley thing more clearly...
While I was thinking this, an emergency communication 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."
Sandora, 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. A moment later, there was a crackle of bare feet on the floor from the second floor, and Qian Qian's little head popped up from the corner of the stairs: "Arjun Arjun! There's a situation! Macro 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 department 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-world review. Officials can handle it. An alert forwarded directly to all empire leaders like this... rarely happens in the macro world.
"The current threat scale remains at a very small level, but the threat intensity is expected to be extremely high," the person in charge of the Space-Time Management Bureau replied hastily. "It's not a conventional abyss reaction, it's probably the fallen apostle's spaceship - if they head directly towards a certain member world of the macro world, the threat level will rise to A level or even S level! Classified as invasion level!"
Damn it? ! Fallen apostle? ! How could they go to the macro world if they weren't wandering around the frontiers of the empire's direct 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 examiner takes matters into his own hands. It will not be reported to the Space-Time Management Bureau at all, and an event higher than this warning value has only happened once. That was last year, when a gate to the abyss appeared in a certain macro world, and we mobilized a third of our legions to suppress it. But that time, so many leader-level apostles were not alarmed.
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 gate of the abyss breaks out. Their harm is always limited and controllable, but the fallen apostles are enemies with initiative and variables. When they appear in the macro world, they may just pass by by chance, or they may be the harbinger of a large-scale invasion. This variable is too great. It 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 just 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 Observed that universe, but for some reason, they did not launch an attack, but Qiu left there without any offense, and 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-Time Administration. Dots and lines are used to roughly represent the universes and the jump relationships between them. According to each The "distance" between 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, three universes are marked with shocking blood red, showing that they are already under extreme threats that may end 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 yellow warning symbols flashing, which means that the source of the threat can be transferred to these universes within one 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 several small units acting independently. Now we can only determine the size of these units. It’s not too big, 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 Attack?"
"Yes, this is also the strangest thing. They were flashing around in those places, but they never attacked any world. They seemed to have no desire to attack at all - this is completely inconsistent with the usual behavior of the fallen apostles. .”
"Wandering there for so long, it doesn't look like they're passing by, but the troops leading the raid didn't attack anyone, and it didn't look like they were preparing to invade." I twitched my lips, "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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