Chapter 1,258 A Real Ghost

After Paopao told all the abnormalities she discovered, I still felt a little confused. After all, this seemed to be a quite abstract concept. Although I was in contact with the empire's spiritual network every day, what was my understanding of this powerful data network? How it works and how it is structured is still poorly understood. Of course, no matter what, I had been taught by Sandora all day long, so I wasn’t completely confused by what Bubble said. After analyzing it for a while, I finally came to my own understanding.

"In other words, she is a virtual person put together by the spare computing power of all Xiling apostles?" I looked at the blond woman who called herself Xiling and said this in surprise, and then suddenly felt that this seemed a bit impolite. : Talking about this kind of thing in front of the person involved is obviously disrespectful, but the girl named Xi Ling seems to lack common sense or is slow to react. She has no feeling at all about this unintentional "offense". He was busy chatting in a low voice with his sister, and it seemed that the two of them had something to talk about.

"It cannot be counted as a virtual person, because she already exists and has created her own body." Sandora's eyes also fell on Xiling. She is an expert in the mind and soul, and she quickly figured it out at this time. "In addition, the statement of spare computing power should be wrong. If she is a personality put together with the spare computing power of each Xiling apostle, it will not lead to the actual installed capacity of the spiritual network being increased out of thin air." When a person comes, the computing power is transferred from one process to another, just like a drop of water is transferred from the center of the lake to the edge of the lake, without any impact on the water level itself. She is added out of thin air, so it appears... It shouldn’t be the idle computing power on the Internet..."

"Now, I suddenly thought of something..." Bubbles suddenly spoke, seeing that everyone's attention was focused on him. She coughed twice to clear her throat, "First of all, I want to rule out the idea of ​​spare computing power, because I think I thought wrong at first. If you want to create a consciousness, you need a stable environment, just like a program needs to run. , at least the free system memory must be maintained to a certain extent and not be emptied casually, and the spare computing power on the spiritual network has never been stable, and apostles will continue to devote their computing power to new collective tasks, and The personal resources they invest every time are very random. I also said it just now. This...Xiling's consciousness is distributed throughout the network. Each Xiling apostle may have provided her with a certain number of 'neurons', so these Xiling Will the Spirit Apostles ensure that when they contribute computing power to the network, they will not use the 1kb of memory? There is no guarantee at all. I have calculated statistics on the current Spiritual Network, and each node will refresh once every twenty-four hours on average, that is It is said that each Xiling Apostle that provides system resources will complete a short-cycle computing task every twenty-four hours on average, and they often refresh on a large scale at the same time: this is because the host array will assign a team task to a considerable number of nodes. , after the task is completed. Of course, these nodes must refresh the system memory at the same time to release resources. In this case, the spare computing power environment is quite unstable. And what we are talking about here is the situation of the new empire, and the 'Xiling' in front of us ' was born in the old empire period. At that time, the entire empire was busy studying a lot of castle-like projects. Super-large-scale network refreshes were carried out almost every minute. In this case, relying on each It is even more impossible for the Xiling Apostle to provide 1kb of reserved space to generate a ghost individual. Don't forget, no one knows the existence of 'Xiling'. The Xiling Apostle on the Internet will not consciously reserve that 1kb space, nor There is no conscious system or network protocol to maintain this virtual space..."

"But one thing about the mental connection network is stable."

When Bubble paused for a moment, Sandora suddenly answered. It seemed like she had already thought of something.

Bubble glanced at Sandora with a tacit understanding: "Well, that's it, access volume. The access volume to the spiritual network is an indicator that is basically stable and will grow steadily as the number of apostles increases. As long as If a Xiling Apostle is still alive and has the conditions to connect to the spiritual network, he will always be online, of course. Soldiers killed on the battlefield will be offline, but compared with the entire race, the impact of this node loss on the stability of the network It is minimal, and the continuous increase in access points also makes the mental network very strong in its ability to withstand offline impacts. Even if the amount of mental network access fluctuates, it is infinitely more stable than "spare computing power". Times. Therefore, we may have overthought it at first. The source of Xiling is not the existing resources on the spiritual network at all, but the structure of this network... She is generated from the network itself!"

"Are you... talking about me?" The blonde girl heard her name being mentioned many times, and finally noticed it. She showed a troubled smile, "I don't know anything."

Me: "Um... Just keep chatting with my sister. Sister, just hold her steady. Okay, Paopao, you continue. I don't understand a little now. The access point of the network... This access point has nothing to do with What does it have to do with generating consciousness? It's just an access point, just a simple number... It's nothing, no capacity, no computing power, not even an entity. It's just a node..."

"As long as it is a node, as long as it exists, it is enough. In the Xiling network, an access point expresses three pieces of data: uploading, downloading, and waiting for listening. These three modes go through three channels respectively, and there is a logical relationship. , we can therefore regard it as a simple logic gate." Paopao slowly sat opposite Xi Ling and looked into the other person's eyes. "The number of this logic gate is multiplied by the group of apostles in trillions, and every There is no delay in the connection speed of each logic gate. When this group commits to one thing for a long enough time, there will be a high probability of creating a suitable environment, and a new individual is born... This individual is nothing else. Things, but our spiritual network itself, the nodes of the spiritual network are your body and soul, you are not a Xiling apostle... you are a Xiling, right?"

"Oh, I'm Xiling." The blond girl smiled inexplicably, then nodded.

"It seems that this individual is immature, but if the speculation is correct, she should be the consciousness generated after the spiritual network of the old empire reaches a certain level." Pao Pao looked at the stunned group of people around him and said slowly, "Well, this It's just my guess, lacking the necessary evidence, so the research center may need to do a series of experiments to prove this conjecture. But based on the anomalies found on the data network, this should be almost certain - the old empire's The mental network mutated without anyone knowing, and we produced a..."

"Racial consciousness? Or a super spiritual community?" The expression on Shandora's face changed rapidly, and the most significant component was shock.

Bubble thought for a while. Shaking his head regretfully: "Similar to racial consciousness. It's a pity that from the perspective of the formation mechanism, she is still essentially just an ordinary intelligent individual with no special power. Otherwise, we would probably have an emperor-level one now." Combat power. Think about the basis of her creation: an individual created by using the access point of each Xiling apostle to the spiritual network as a 'neuron'. On the one hand, she can be regarded as the incarnation of the spiritual network, but on the other hand , it is made up of the accumulation of redundant resources of this network, just like arranging thousands of screens, and each screen is used as a pixel to play videos. It looks gorgeous. But what’s the point?”

"Meaning? What if she could control the mental network?" Sandora raised her index finger and tapped the table, "For example - making specific nodes offline from the network, or allocating unlimited system resources to specific nodes. . She is the embodiment of the spiritual network. If she matures to a certain level, she should learn how to control her body, and then she will also have the ability to control the network... It can be said that this child will be the most powerful in the spiritual network. Unit, she could make our network stronger, or she could...destroy it."

Sandora revealed a huge hidden danger. To the shock of most people present, I felt that the temperature in the store suddenly dropped by at least ten degrees: This is really a possible situation!

However, after calming down, I suddenly felt that there was something wrong with Sandora's worries. So it was brought up.

"Of course there is something wrong. To destroy the network is to destroy herself." Paopao was one of the people who did not show any worry after hearing Sandora's doubts. "And I have a guess that Xiling should not The method is to destroy the network. The spiritual network is a virtual space that relies on some underlying protocols to operate. These protocols can only be changed with the authorization of the supreme host, the world arbitration body and the emperor. The function of these basic protocols is to maintain the integrity and stability of the network. Do everything possible to eliminate the danger of accidental offline. These protocols are written in the underlying data, and their effective scope even includes the logical state of each access point. Therefore, as the incarnation of this network, one of her cornerstones is these protocols. In other words, her actions must be in accordance with the agreement and cannot destroy it, otherwise her operation will go wrong. Of course, if the three factors mentioned above authorize her to destroy part of the network, it is still okay, but... I guess No one here will take this risk, right? In my opinion, if these guesses are correct, then the most direct value of Xiling is to improve the stability of the mental network. Before she appeared, the mental network could not be Unified monitoring for a long time exceeds the performance of any Xiling host, so we can only monitor the network in segments and rely on the pyramid host architecture to control it level by level, but now, we should be able to find efficiency A higher level of surveillance."

"Really..." Shandora looked relieved. Paopao was an expert in this field. Of course, what the latter said has the highest credibility, "I'm used to imagining things in the worst direction, but now It seems that this is too much tension.”

I also breathed a sigh of relief. Although I didn’t understand it very well, it seemed that Xiling was harmless to the spiritual network. There is a reason why everyone is worried about this. It is not that we have any prejudice against this child who has done nothing, but that she is obviously too immature now and lacks the ability to be a spiritual apostle and a strategic spiritual apostle. Self-conscious, but she happens to hold the highest level of authority in the mental network, which is really disturbing. If she is really in danger of accidentally destroying the mental network, it is better to be prepared in advance - of course, no People will hurt this seemingly innocent guy. Maybe we can control the power of the little crow and put a collar on her.

Speaking of the little crow, that stupid bird is still planning to hatch eggs every day, although now she can’t hatch anything...

"Although we can temporarily confirm safety, we still have to be cautious." Sandora thought for a moment and waved her hand in front of Xiling to attract the other party's attention. "Can you help with a few inspections?"

"Check?" Xiling looked over with confusion, "I just want to sleep, oh, and eat. Where is the store manager here?"

"...She might be thinking about going home soon." Sylvia's slow and silly face flashed through my mind, and I quickly shook my head, "Ahem. Don't be nervous. We won't hurt you, just I want to confirm what's going on with you. This must be your first time 'coming out' to live, so you have to register or something...forget it, I guess you don't know what registration is..."

"I don't know what you are talking about," Xiling fiddled with her hair, "But it seems that I should listen to you. Okay, how to check? Can I eat and sleep after the examination?"

"Okay, okay, we can send you the food," the other party was very cooperative, which made me happy. As I pulled Xi Ling up, I said to my elder sister, "Sister, I see that you two get along well with each other. You can take her there. First, take her to Tavel for a full-body scan to find out how she has the entity. Then check what other permissions she has besides the access permissions, and whether there is any way to control it."

My sister took Xiling to the research center. The rest of us fell silent for a while. Bingtis first felt that nothing happened to him. He waved his hands to indicate that Yiersen and the others were ready to retreat, while muttering in his mouth: "Damn, this seems like another miraculous moment... I was born to be a heroine..."

In your spare time, it is also relaxing to listen to this female gangster boasting some literary and artistic skills. But now we don't have that free time. After a few protoss left, Lin Xue looked at Paopao with a little worry: "Is that Xi Ling really okay? The incarnation of the Empire's spiritual network - this name sounds... It feels like a fortress!"

"Is there any problem that you can see more clearly than us?" Pao Pao lay on the table, looking listless. "I can only speak based on science and judge that she should have the instinct to maintain network stability and will be subject to security protocols. Limitations. Whether it is true or not depends on the results of the research center's examination. It is a pity to say that the special nature of Xiling Apostles on the Void Stairs determines that we cannot produce a higher than the current racial baseline. Racial awareness: Because only void creatures can sit in this position, we can only produce 'replacements' like 'Xiling'. If there were no restrictions on the void ladder, now we would have to increase the combat power of an emperor... Well, I don’t want to think about it anymore, now I’m thinking about how to make her as effective as possible. If such a special unit can only do network management work, it would be such a waste.”

Well, Pao Pao is a very dedicated Xiling apostle who maximizes the interests of the race at all times.

"Ajun, Ajun," Qianqian suddenly tugged on my sleeve with interest, "there is someone who is not very mature..."

The whole room almost shouted in unison: "Stop it!"

"Ahem, tell me, ignore these guys." Seeing Qian Qian's face suddenly turn cloudy, I quickly comforted this cute girl, "I will pick the more reliable ones among them."

She curled her lips slightly, but soon the "immature thoughts" in her heart diluted this depression: "Ajun, do you think something like that in a disaster movie will happen? Xiling is the incarnation of the spiritual network. , suddenly lost control and rebelled, and then controlled all the Xiling apostles, conquered the world and so on..."

...Do you think her threat value is not high enough?

However, Qianqian's endless random thoughts really made me feel a little creepy, because I have watched too many sci-fi disaster movies of this type. Isn't that what Skynet did back then? And the Maxx incident...

But this time, Paopao once again denied this bluffing hidden danger: "She can't control anyone, she doesn't have this authority. According to the information currently available, her basis is not the computing power of the Xiling Apostle. Or the system resources on the mental network, but the 'structure' of this network. You can think that she created her own consciousness by connecting the network cable plugs of one trillion computers. Through the network cable plugs, she can control the programs in the computer. How does it work? It's obviously impossible. That's something that only the data in the network cable has a chance to do. So she can't control anyone through a node. Well, at least she can't do it before she transcends her own life form. .”

Paopao began to explain the principles of the Xiling Apostle Spirit Network to everyone again, and tried to make Qian Qian understand the difference between connection point status and connection point data. I fell asleep under the impact of these dizzying knowledge, and other thoughts gradually emerged in my mind... At present, it seems that Xiling is just an extra personality accidentally generated in the spiritual network. She is the most special Xiling Apostle, but not a powerful individual. She is limited by her own underlying protocol and cannot destroy the network. So how can she bypass this protocol?

Perhaps it was Sandora's usual habit of "imagining the worst case scenario" that infected me. I couldn't help but start to imagine how this newly met special apostle could produce enough destructive power to threaten the stability of the empire if he lost control.

Of course, this worry is a bit excessive. We should not doubt a Xiling Apostle just because the other party has some special abilities and is relatively unfamiliar. Even if she does not have the consciousness of a Xiling Apostle for the time being, she cannot be so suspicious. I am just being a Assumption.

If Sandora loses control, if Qianqian loses control, if Bubble loses control...if Xiling loses control...these existences all have the possibility of losing control, but I don't know why, but Xiling alone makes me feel a strange kind of disobedience. feel.

Fallen Apostle.

A lightning-quick idea flashed through my mind.

Xiling's... abyss version...

(Oh, no one will guess this time, right? No one will guess Xiling, right?

Another thing, everyone knows about the Qidian show channel on the 15th of this month, right? Is there anyone going to watch me? ) (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.)