Chapter 416 External Network and Intranet

In a hall of the control center, nearly a hundred necromancers were celebrating the successful completion of the undead mining project.

Standing on a high platform, Roland looked at the necromancers celebrating below through the glass and nodded slightly.

As a necromancer of the committee, Roland would naturally not let them be affected by dark elements and negative energy when training necromancers. He forced them to learn positive energy spells to maintain the balance of positive and negative energy in their bodies.

When positive and negative energy are balanced, necromancers can avoid being affected and eroded by negative energy and maintain normal emotional fluctuations. Therefore, Roland can see that the necromancers in the hall all have obvious smiles on their faces.

The necromancers of the committee are not the gloomy and terrifying necromancers in black robes as people traditionally stereotype. In fact, the necromancers with balanced positive and negative energy look no different from ordinary spellcasters.

At most, because they have been in areas with strong dark elements for a long time, they have more or less been stained with the breath of dark elements.

Of course, this is not a big problem. Just take a shower and change clothes.

So, although the existence of necromancers is not public, they can still walk in public places as regular spellcasters. Therefore, they will participate in the New Year celebrations in previous years.

They are not discriminated against. It’s just that the undead mine was about to be completed at the beginning of the year, so they did not participate in the celebration.

In fact, necromancers with normal emotional fluctuations also like to be lively. According to Roland’s record book from the project leader, Roland learned that after the completion of the undead mine, the project leader originally planned to spend some money to hold a celebration party.

However, because the New Year celebration had just ended and Gangqiu was relatively remote, the necromancers who went out to purchase goods went to more than a dozen towns and could not buy much. The celebration funds approved by the committee were not even spent one-fiftieth. In the case of severe shortage of materials, the celebration party prepared by the project leader was also cancelled.

As for the fact that there are sufficient supplies now, the celebration party can be held. Naturally, it is because Roland transferred a batch of supplies from Apocalypse and put them into the space bracelet after knowing this, and gave them to them as comfort items.

Since the New Year celebration has just ended, the consumption on the Apocalypse side is not small, especially sweets such as desserts and cakes, which have been made by the people of Apocalypse. Therefore, Roland also used the skills he has cultivated in recent months and spent half a day making a large number of desserts and cakes.

Roland turned his head and looked at the necromancer behind him and said.

"Brody, you don't have to wait here, go down, this is your banquet."

Listening to Roland's words, Brody opened his mouth and was about to say something, but Roland interrupted him and continued.

"If it's not a matter of life and death, then everything will be discussed during work tomorrow."

"You must learn to combine work and rest. You have worked hard these past few months. Take a good rest first."

As he said, Roland walked in front of him and patted his shoulder.

After saying that, Roland walked out of the platform alone. Brody, who stayed on the platform, also turned around and watched Roland walk out of the platform. Then he turned his head and looked at the celebration party below.

After hesitating for a while, Brody finally put away the report in his hand.

Just as the necromancers were holding a celebration party, Roland also came to the highest point of the building under his feet. The building under Roland's feet is the core of the Undead Mine, called: Control Center.

It is a multifunctional building responsible for adjusting and controlling all undead activities in the entire Undead Mine. Relying on the built-in energy system and computing unit, the control center can amplify the operating limit of the necromancer, assist him in precise operation of a large number of undead, and can also bear the energy and computing needs of controlling the undead.

There are a total of four control centers in the Undead Mine, one is the main control center under Roland's feet, and the other three are sub-control centers located in various parts of the mine.

Although there are four control centers, the minimum number of staff in the Undead Mine is not four. Under extreme conditions,

two spellcasters running back and forth can make the Undead Mine operate normally.

Of course, it is impossible to arrange only a few necromancers. Even with the assistance of the control center, more people are needed to make the undead mine fully operational.

Standing at the highest point of the main control center, Roland looked down at the entire undead mine from high to low through the glass on the top of the tower.

In addition to the three sub-control centers erected in different directions, which are slightly shorter than the main control center, a large number of warehouses have been built inside the undead mine. Under Roland's gaze, a large number of undead slaves are pushing mine carts to transport minerals into the warehouses.

In addition to the warehouses, the necromancers are also gathering a large number of dark elements and building a burial ground on the side of the mine.

Under the restraint of the magic circle, the thick dark elements calmly gather and float on the burial ground. Under the urging of the built-in magic circle, the burial ground absorbs the elements around the environment and generates natural undead at a slow speed.

However, the natural undead generation rate is too slow, so the Boneyard currently mainly uses the mineral residues and undead bodies dumped by the undead slaves as raw materials to quickly transform new undead slaves.

With the new undead being produced in the Boneyard, the number of undead slaves in the undead mining area can be maintained at a relatively stable number.

Currently, more than 80% of the undead slaves controlled by the War Council are transformed from the bodies of green-skinned orcs, nearly 10% are naturally undead formed by the dark element or pulled from the dark elemental world, and the remaining They are undead transformed through various other messy methods.

Neat and wide roads connect every building in the mining area and converge into a spacious avenue leading outside the mining area. The output of the subsequent mining area will be continuously transported to various parts of the committee through this road.

Inject new impetus into the development of the committee.

However, this road is now isolated by a gate. The undead mining area adopts a sealed mining method. The tall city wall wraps up the entire mining area, coupled with the warning array on the wall, it is enough to block most threats from the outside world. and peeked out.

Most of the undead slave workers are ordinary undead. After specialization in mining, although the mining ability is stronger and easier to be controlled by the control center, the combat effectiveness is better than nothing. Just bring in a large beast and you can get by without the undead. The undead slaves controlled by the mage killed seven in and seven out.

The undead mining area is destined to have a large number of undead slave workers in the future, but the number of necromancers will be very small. Therefore, it is a better choice to build a wall to directly isolate the intrusion of wild beasts.

After scanning the undead mining area for a few times, Roland also raised his head slightly and looked in the direction of the Dragon's Back Mountain Range.

In the direction of Steel Mound, Roland looked northwest. He could see the road leading to the Silver Gate on the Dragon's Back Mountains.

Based on the distance between Steel Hill and Silver Gate, it is possible for an intermediate-level transcendent to see the Undead Mining Area from the Dragon's Back Mountains if they observe specifically.

Roland thought for a while and decided to ask the necromancers to add a layer of barrier to the undead mining area to prevent outsiders from peeking.

He looked down at the hundreds of thousands of undead slave workers in the mining area running around the ground like ants in dense numbers, and recalled the report on the trial operation of the mining area.

If the undead mining area operates normally, Roland will prepare to expand the undead mining area and cover and utilize the entire steel mound.

If all goes well, the committee will not only be able to stop the traditional undead mines and save more manpower and necromancers, but the mineral output will also be significantly improved.

While calculating the benefits brought by the undead mining area, Roland stretched out his right hand and pressed it against the glass. He looked at himself reflected in the glass.

Looking through his still young reflection, Roland's red eyes reflected the dense forest in the distance.

His eyes were also slightly absent-minded.

It has been almost five years since Roland killed Kan Aozu. Time flies so fast.

Standing there, Roland was silent for a while, took out his communication equipment, and began to deal with government affairs. He spent a peaceful night alone on the top floor of the control center.

It wasn't until the next day, after the necromancers had held a celebration banquet and had all reworked, that Roland calmly walked down from the top floor.

As the committee's first undead mine, Roland still had to witness the situation here with his own eyes.

Therefore, after entering working hours, the necromancers quickly activated the four control centers. As the surrounding elements began to gather on the top floor of the control center, the undead coming and going seemed to have pressed the accelerator button, and their movements were obvious. It's a lot faster.

Subsequently, under the leadership of Brody, Roland personally inspected all aspects of the undead mining area.

Although Roland was not involved in the design of the Undead Mining Area, it was, after all, the crystallization of wisdom jointly designed by nearly a hundred spellcasters. Since it was the first design project, the design of the Undead Mining Area was inherently conservative. Therefore, even Roland, after inspecting and After stopping by to express my condolences, I couldn't find any major problems.

So, Roland stayed here, using the Crown of Control to stay behind to avoid accidents, while also watching the operation of the undead mining area.

According to the suggestions of the necromancers, the number of permanent personnel in the undead mining area has been set at ten people, mainly low-level spellcasters. According to the average level of casters in each rotation, the number of people will be increased or decreased as appropriate, and the number will be increased or decreased every six months. .

After it was settled, the first ten necromancers stationed here began work in the undead mining area. The remaining necromancers operated normally in the mining area for a few days and found no major problems before they all left the steel industry. mound.

Compared with the mighty team when they came, there were only more than ninety spellcasters who returned this time, and all the undead they brought before were left in the undead mining area.

Although they left, Roland himself was naturally still here.

While handling government affairs remotely, Roland also silently watched the operation of the Undead Mining Area. He stayed here for more than a month. After confirming that everything in the Undead Mining Area was running smoothly, Roland returned to the Undead Mining Area because of a new piece of news. Apocalypse.

After the official data network was successfully built, now, with the hard work of the Engineering Department, a trial civilian data network has also been successfully built.

According to the objects served, the committee divided the data network into an internal network and an external network. The official network is naturally the internal network, which has a strict hierarchical authority system. Each official can only browse content related to his or her position and authority. At the same time, the intranet settings are relatively simple and do not have many bells and whistles.

The civilian network is the external network. As a civilian network, the external network has fewer restrictions. Inspired by Roland, the mechanics wrote a simple and easy-to-understand operating system based on the civilian network and installed it into the civilian communication mechanics to connect to the civilian network. Even ordinary people can use the external network normally.

Of course, even so, there is still a threshold for the external network. At least you have to be literate, otherwise you can't use it.

However, this is not a particularly big problem. The committee's compulsory literacy education is still very smooth. Except for newborns, the committee can basically understand 500 common characters at least now.

In addition, considering that the external network serves the committee's huge population, the external network did not directly establish a data network covering the entire committee like the internal network.

The information flow of the internal network requires the timeliness and accuracy of the entire committee, but the external network is different. It doesn't matter if the speed is a little slower. The main consideration of the mechanics is how to ensure that the external network can withstand the huge amount of information.

After discussion, the mechanics came up with a plan that suited the current situation of the committee: first, set up an external network in each province, and set up seven unconnected external networks in each of the seven provinces. Then, based on the seven external networks, set up a general external network that connects the seven external networks.

Although the civilian communication mechanics in each province can browse all external networks, they can only speak in the external network of their own province, and all civilian mechanics must undergo mandatory identity authentication. According to the weekly information flow of the external network, the number of speeches per person per week is limited.

In addition to the number of registered accounts on the data network, identity authentication is also to prevent possible cybercrime. Since the external network is to be set up, how could Roland not be prepared at all?

At the same time, in order to reduce data accumulation, the accumulated data on the external network will be cleaned up regularly to ensure the smoothness of the data network.

As for the general external network, the public is only allowed to use it through official fixed communication mechanics, and a fee must be paid each time it is used. The frequency of public use of the general external network is reduced as much as possible through charging.

Dividing the external network into eight external networks means that there is no need to consider the stability and security issues brought about by building a large-scale data network and the overall connection of the external networks between provinces. This naturally greatly reduces the cost and difficulty of building the external network.