Sword of Dawn

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Although the overall layout has not changed in any way, during this period of time, the Eternal Sleepers have obviously been perfecting their dream world. When he came here last time, many large buildings in the city were still "empty". It was as weird as the game scene where the modeling was not completed, but this time he saw that many holes had been filled, and some unreasonable and unreal building details had also been repaired.

This city of dreams seems to be constantly being perfected... In addition to cheating and harming people, those cultists are really a bunch of hardworking guys.

Gao Wen easily passed through the invisible barrier in the central area of ​​the city that was used to detect permissions. On the square in the central area, he saw the large and small "node crystals" and the eternal sleepers who were establishing a connection with the crystals. Avatars.

To be honest, it feels a bit weird to act in a city full of cultists. Even Gao Wen has been in various game worlds in his previous life. This kind of fully immersive virtual reality is very important to him. The level is a bit too high, but it doesn't matter, anyway, it's Charlie's face—and he saw more than a dozen Charlies along the way. When he thought that everyone was wearing vests, Gao Wen felt much more comfortable. up.

Under the psychological hint of "even if something goes wrong, you can psychologically throw the blame on Charlie", Gawain calmly found a node crystal with not many people, and then gently placed his hand on the surface of the crystal.

Streams of data flooded his mind in a second, and the knowledge needed to manipulate them flooded with him.

Those cultists really haven't made much progress in this area... Even though virtual reality has become so powerful, database management, authorization authentication, and security protection are still as messy as before, and there is no expert to guide them? ?

While joking in his heart, Gao Wen began to search for key information about "Project No. [-]".

Soon, he got feedback, but the content of the feedback made him frown even more tightly:

"Project No. [-], belonging to: the initial planning group, a confidential project, and can only be viewed by the bishop or above."

In this mental network where the database structure is chaotic and security precautions are basically zero, only a few things are carefully organized and encrypted. Gao Wen did not expect that the "No. [-] Project" that he accidentally learned would have such a high value. Class of confidentiality.

Only bishops and above can check it... Has the authority you devoured reached this standard?

Gao Wen hesitated for a moment, and then decided to give it a try with the mentality of "It's a big deal to be banned, anyway, those cultists can't hack me along the WiFi".

Facts have proved that his decision is correct - after sending out the instruction to read further, some information about the No. [-] item quickly entered his mind, but what he saw is still confusing :

Memory segmentation project (not completed);

Consciousness full immersion project (completed);

time iteration (not done);

Perceptual bias calibration (not done);

Guardianship scheme (proposal);

Closed loop and open loop of dreams (under discussion by the bishops' conference, no new meeting yet)...

This seems to be just a directory. From the list alone, it seems that many things can be associated, but no valuable content can be analyzed. Of course, Gao Wen will not be satisfied with this, but when he wants to further expand these materials , but only see a special prompt:

Project No. [-] operates in isolation, and there is no information available on the surface consciousness network.

Gao Wen tried several keywords in his confusion, searched some relevant information, and finally confirmed that he could not see the entire content of No. For some extremely critical things, they still carried out a considerable degree of protection. Before knowing their encryption rules, Gao Wen didn't dare to try to crack them casually.

And he probably figured out one thing: the dream world he saw didn't seem to be the whole of the "eternal dream" created by the eternal sleepers. This entire space seems to be just a "surface consciousness network"?

Gao Wen couldn't help feeling a little bit emotional: This mental network appears rough and crude in many places, full of loopholes, but overall it is very advanced and complex. It uses a rather simple and crude method to realize an incredible virtual reality world... Is this also a technical feature of the wizarding world?

After putting away his curiosity about "Project No. [-]", Gao Wen began to browse various materials in the mind network, and gradually confirmed one thing:

This spiritual network has not just been launched. Judging from the logs that can be consulted, it seems that the eternal sleepers restarted this virtual world a few days after closing the virtual world last time. In theory, he can already connect to this network.

It's just that he is not a real and complete "eternal sleeper" after all, so he has never known the restart of the network. Until today, a group message was sent out in the eternal sleeper network for all middle and upper nodes. Just re-entered here.

Not knowing the situation of the "No. [-] Project" for the time being, Gao Wen decided to ignore the message of "calling for computing power" for the time being, in case he accidentally fell into danger. Anyway, that message was just a voluntary call. Notice, it should be fine to ignore it.

With Amber watching by his side, he didn't have to worry about what might happen in the real world for the time being. Gao Wen decided to take this opportunity of connecting to dig out more useful things from the spiritual network of the Eternal Sleeper.

But before the "useful" information appeared, an interesting intelligence first jumped into his mind:

"Known information and temporary countermeasures about the 'Extraterritorial Wanderer' (temporarily codenamed Gawain Cecil)."

Gao Wen looked confused: "What is this?"

This message is hung in the place with the lowest reading authority in the psychic network. Basically, any believer of the Eternal Sleeper can read it after connecting to the network. Obviously, it is sent to everyone in the sect. Of course, Gao Wen couldn't help it. His own curiosity expanded it immediately, and a line of big characters came into his mind:

"First of all, I would like to advise all fellow church members—don't easily come into contact with rogues outside the territory. The danger is far greater than that of the wasteland of Gondor!"

After this comes the text.

The more Gao Wen watched, the more confused he became, and there was one thought in his mind: I showed them a mixed-cut MV last time, and it has evolved into this?

emmmmm... Is the inner drama of programming so rich?

Chapter 0291 Steal

"Extraterritorial Wanderer", with unknown nature, unknown purpose, and unknown life form, is an extremely mysterious unknown life form. It is speculated that it has special abilities such as traveling through the world, resurrection, and living in a sojourn body, but it cannot be confirmed for the time being.

According to the information obtained, there are multiple individuals of extraterrestrial wanderers, but only one individual will enter a certain real world at a time.

The purpose and behavior patterns of extraterrestrial rogues are difficult to understand. Sometimes they will save the world, and sometimes they will do the opposite, but in almost all cases, they will show great strength and growth - they It is almost destined to affect the development trajectory of a world, and even completely change the development process of the world, but the reason why they do so is still difficult to judge.

The mental structure of wanderers outside the territory is unknown. We can't be sure whether they have the same emotions as human beings, and we don't know whether they will feel emotional fluctuations in the process of traveling through the world, saving or destroying the world. But judging from the existing intelligence, they at least have the ability to "simulate" these emotional reactions, and use this to completely hide in the crowd.

Given that it has the above-mentioned abilities and can lurk in the human body, it is almost impossible for anyone to see through the other party's disguise from the perspective of the naked eye and psychological analysis when facing a wanderer outside the territory...

We have confirmed that the resurrected Duke Gawain Cecil is an "extraterritorial wanderer" occupying a human body, but in view of the particularity of extraterritorial wanderers, we temporarily prohibit anyone from contacting him rashly, but we should conduct long time attention...

It is recommended that fellow church members take the following measures to ensure their own safety when they come into contact with the target under certain unavoidable circumstances...

Gao Wen felt that he had rarely been in such a dazed state since time travel—the last time he was in such a dazed state was when he crawled out of a coffin, and there was a man who had just hit him with a stick standing next to him. N+1 great-granddaughter...

"It's all a mess..." Gao Wen looked at the information publicly released on the spiritual network, and after a long time in his mind, he finally matched it with the mixed-cut MV he left for the cultists last time, " Is this the brain supplement produced by different worldviews..."

But after a short period of astonishment, he still had to admit that this kind of development was reasonable.

In this world, the only person who has been brainwashed by the information explosion is himself. When an earth traveler sees such a bizarre scene, he will think of Hollywood, the scene stage, and the tricky show, but a person with three normal views What do locals think when they see something like that?

Of course, it’s based on their three views—what’s more, the Eternal Sleepers are a group of cultists. Is there any creature in the world who is better at using brain supplements to deceive themselves than the cultists?

Well, there are, for example, the 25th production and construction brigade that was just established a while ago...

"That's good... the effect is better than expected at the beginning." Gao Wen closed this part of the message dumbfounded, but he also felt a little comforted in his heart, "In this way, there should be no need to worry about the problem of the eternal sleeper in a short time. .”

Then he let go of his mind and began to search for information more extensively in the mind network.

Unlike the last time they entered this world, this time the Eternal Sleepers obviously opened the dream world after full preparation. This place is no longer a "trial run" space, but has a higher degree of completion, just a little search Looking at the surface of the mind network, Gao Wen discovered this.

A large amount of information circulates in the mental network, and there is an astonishingly large data exchange in places that cannot be seen by the naked eye. There are many unencrypted things that are being calculated and evolved in this network, and new nodes are added all the time. Come in, there are also nodes that are logged out and leave the network at any time.

If the dream world I saw last time was just a "test server" running internally, running only a few codes for testing, then this network has entered the stage of official use now—the Eternal Sleeper began to use It's time to handle the real instance.

Of course, this "magic network" based on spiritual spells is completely different from the World Wide Web that Gawain knows, and the data circulating in it is completely new in terms of structure and principle, but anyway, this It is a fact that the network has entered a working state.

It's just that Gao Wen couldn't see much from those huge data exchanges—even though he had permission, those data were not encrypted, but the hugeness and disorder of those data itself was the best encryption, as if human beings couldn't directly Looking at the computer bitmap from a lot of 0s and 1s, Gao Wen didn't know what was going on behind those huge calculations—probably only the initiators of those calculations could "see" what the results looked like.

But it doesn't matter, Gawain himself didn't intend to use this method to see through all the secrets of the Eternal Sleeper. He was just looking for data access points and understanding the rules of data exchange in the process.

It seems... can cause trouble?

After a little preparation, he moved himself from the surface layer of the network to the data exchange layer, and then completely immersed in it.

His senses were turned upside down in an instant, but reorganized in the next instant, and when the scene in front of him calmed down a little, he found that the environment around him had completely changed.

He was standing on a flat, open surface of water that was constantly rippling slightly. This water surface was extremely wide and boundless. Above the water surface was a clear blue sky that could not see any celestial light source but was quite bright.

He lowered his head and saw that the surface of the water he was stepping on was like a layer of transparent glass. Under the surface of the water was a world like wild sand dancing. There were countless tiny things surging and reorganizing in the space below the surface of the water. , death, rebirth, there seems to be an endless storm, and the storm will tear anyone who strays into it at any time.

"...Is that the underlying data environment of the psychic network... It's okay to be chaotic..."

Gao Wen frowned and muttered to himself, then raised his head and set his eyes on the endless water.

What he sees is not a real scene (of course, there is no real scene in this spiritual world), but a "virtual environment" constructed by Gao Wen in his brain using the knowledge he devoured. The environment is similar to the imaginary space created by the disciple of the Eternal Sleeper when he was pulled into the dream - of course, it is still blank because it has just been created by Gawain.

In the process of drilling around in the spiritual network of the Eternal Sleeper, Gawain was not without gains. He had roughly figured out how to use the "data interface" here, and he began to try to use these data interfaces to do some things. , rather than simply using it as a browser for querying data.

After the establishment of this space, Gao Wen has confirmed one thing:

The computing power distribution mechanism of this mind network is indeed flawed.

It seems that the Eternal Sleepers have never thought about the problem of someone coming to their background to steal computing power. There are almost no security measures in their computing power distribution. Each node "borrows" the amount of computing power...

Is this something that was forgotten at design time?Or do the Eternal Sleepers feel that the computing power of this network is always sufficient, so that there is no need to set this restriction at all?

Gao Wen didn't know, but he could understand - after all, this is a new thing, just like the earliest computer system of human beings on earth, it is unavoidable that it is simple and full of loopholes, but even if it is simple enough to be full of loopholes, any One still can't deny the greatness of these early products.

Gawain began to improve this virtual space little by little, connecting it to the data port of the mind network. The knowledge he used came from the believer of the Eternal Sleeper who was swallowed by him, but his thoughts when constructing all this came from an earth the traverser.

This means that he can not only use the technology of the eternal sleeper to construct an additional "space" in the "crack" of the eternal dream, but also encrypt this space so that the eternal sleeper cannot find it.

Gawain sat down on the flat "water surface", recalling the knowledge he had devoured, and trying to realize it. Beside him, the entire space of sky and water was quietly changing.

Clouds gradually emerged in the empty sky, and then the clouds turned into stars. The rain fell from the sky, and then turned into gentle wind before touching the water surface. Ripples appear, sometimes appearing on the land, sometimes frozen into a solid layer of ice...

But these are superficial changes, and the truly deep changes cannot be captured visually—Gao Wen is setting up encryption between this space and the connection of the spiritual network to ensure that the resources he has stolen will not be captured by those evil spirits. believers found.

"Distribute the data flow to the entire mind network, and distribute it in real time according to the real nodes that are performing connections in the network...Allocate all the computing pressure and storage space occupation to each node..."

"Establish a digital key that can be refreshed at any time, and all data exchanged with the mind network will be encrypted and disguised...

"Mapping wrong address, using different node characteristics each time to establish connection...

"Set up multi-layer jumps, and the connection with the spiritual network is performed through multiple springboards. The springboards are those node crystals in the city of dreams—they are essentially open data interfaces...

"Prepare a few fake signatures, hang them on the data boundary, and throw them out as bait if they are discovered.

"This should be able to fool those cultists and their eighteenth generation..."

Gawain conceived all possible encryption schemes in his mind, and used them bit by bit in his newly established space - at this time, he couldn't help but be very grateful for the convenience of magic, especially the Eternal Sleepers based on the original dream With the convenience of the "Dream Spell" developed by Shenshu, he can build what he wants extremely quickly without having to sit in front of an input device and type codes hard.

Of course, his efficiency is not only due to the convenience of magic, but another reason is that the spiritual network is really a useful thing-the connection at the spiritual level makes the efficiency of "human-computer interaction" so high that it is unimaginable. Basically, as long as the network can respond, as long as Gao Wen's brain can respond, then everything he conceived will be realized immediately after he conceived it.

Gradually, this encrypted space hidden in the depths of the eternal sleeper's spiritual network, which belongs to Gao Wen, took shape.

Chapter 0292 Simulation Experiment Field

Gao Wen didn't know how long he had been in this space isolated from the outside world.

Based on many previous experiences, he can determine that the virtual space created by the Eternal Sleeper has a different time flow rate from the outside world-this should be related to some kind of "perception bias" of the human brain, and he feels that he may have stayed here for several days. God, but in fact, the surface time flow may have only passed a few ten minutes - after all, Amber hasn't woken herself up yet.

That half-elf shouldn't watch him fall asleep...

Gawain stood up and stretched vigorously—even though he didn't feel physically tired in this virtual world, stretching was still a subconscious action—then he raised his head and looked at himself with satisfaction. this independent space.

This world is still open and empty, and Gawain did not add any meaningless decorations and buildings to it - because every piece of meaningless decoration means additional waste of storage space and data processing capabilities.Between the clear blue sky and the endless open water, all that can be seen are huge white metal platforms, most of which are vacant, and on a few platforms, devices similar to alchemy tables can be seen And all kinds of strange-shaped facilities - those were all created by Gao Wen to verify the "simulation" of this space.

From the outside, the change in this space is just the addition of those platforms, but its real and most important changes are actually invisible to the naked eye: Gao Wen paid a lot of attention to the secrecy of this space. He made a lot of effort, in order to make it completely "disappear" in the spiritual network of the eternal sleeper, he not only added a lot of camouflage and encryption to the space itself, but even tried to create layers of layers of magic in the spiritual network of the eternal sleeper protection, and hide all traces in the vast and chaotic information nodes at the bottom of the network.

He believes that with the current network security awareness of the Eternal Sleepers, it is impossible to find the space created by stealing their network resources.

In addition to confidentiality, he also set up a large number of preset "templates" here. Those templates are hidden in the underlying data of this space. When necessary, he can call them at any time to quickly build a suitable experimental environment. .

After finishing all this, Gao Wen had a thought, and the next moment he appeared on one of the metal platforms.

He thought for a while, raised his right hand, and began to simulate something.

In the next second, a mobile phone appeared in his hand.

He pressed the power button, and as expected, the "phone" didn't respond.

Things that cannot be analyzed in principle, or cannot exist in this world due to contradictory rules, cannot be simulated.

He waved his hand, and the empty mobile phone turned into scattered fragments and disappeared into the air. A hexagonal rune substrate was formed in the next second. magic crystal.

Gawain switched on the rune trigger, and in an instant, a scorching beam pierced the air and hit the ground not far in front.

The calling of the basic template is smooth, and the simulation effect is perfect.

He dispersed the rune substrate again, and came to the edge of the metal platform - a huge device has been placed here: it has four metal guide rails arranged in parallel, fixed on a huge base, and the metal guide rail has two Arranged left and right, two arranged up and down, forming two "groups", in which a series of sparkling rune structures can be seen on the guide rails laid flat, and a large number of repulsion units at a certain angle can be seen inside the guide rails, while vertical The repulsion mechanism can also be seen on a group of guide rails arranged in a straight line, but those repulsion mechanisms are arranged in parallel on the guide rails: they do not participate in the acceleration of the projectile, but ensure that the projectile can be "suspended" during the entire acceleration process. ” in the device, so as to prevent the shells from hitting those repulsion organs on the left and right sides.

After all, the repulsion acceleration guide rail is different from any similar acceleration devices on the earth—not only is its inner side not smooth, but it is full of inclined and protruding repulsion points, and due to the particularity of the repulsion trick, these repulsion points cannot be blocked by things , so the accelerated object must be additionally fixed in the orbit in order to avoid collision.

The suspended cannonball can also avoid the frictional loss of kinetic energy with the firing mechanism to the greatest extent-this will further improve the range and energy utilization of the "cannon". This is the best solution that Gao Wen can think of based on the current technology. .

Gawain opened the protective cover on the initial section of the acceleration track, placed a "cannonball" with a groove in the middle of the guide rail, and after confirming that its upper and lower grooves were in good contact with the "suspension guide rail", he closed the protective cover , activated the total rune trigger of the entire device.

Accompanied by a strange hum, the shell broke away from the direct contact with the launching device under the action of the "suspension guide rail", and was pushed forward under the action of the first-stage repulsion mechanism, entering the acceleration zone of the guide rails on both sides, and then It accelerated rapidly during this process, and in just a split second, all the acceleration whistle was compressed into a piercing explosion - Gawain saw a metal object flying out from the front of the acceleration track, During the process of breaking through the air, there was a sharp scream. A few seconds later, a burst of flames exploded on the metal platform in the distance, and the loud noise was heard only afterward.

As he expected - the cannonball successfully completed the acceleration, but the "aerodynamic runes" scribbled on the cannonball did not work, so the flying distance of the cannonball was far from what he expected, and...

Gawain glanced at the acceleration tracks whose energy had been cut off. He could see that the four acceleration tracks were skewed and misaligned to varying degrees. Generate a strong thrust on other accelerating orbits - a large number of repulsion points interact at such a short distance, the resulting force is huge, and the guide rails that are not effectively reinforced will naturally inevitably produce misalignment.

In addition, the unreasonable arrangement of the repulsion points is also an important reason - if the position of the repulsion points can be readjusted, then the pressure on the guide rails can also be dispersed...

Looking at the results of such an experiment, Gao Wen's joy gradually cooled down, and he began to analyze the role that this simulated testing ground could play.

There is no doubt that this is the real use of the "virtual space" created by the Eternal Sleepers. It is a huge waste for those cultists to treat such a useful thing as a bluffing illusion and a dream to escape reality. This thing... ...should be used for scientific research!

But this virtual world is not everything.

Gawain could simulate his "Repulsion Railgun" here, but he couldn't make the randomly drawn runes on the shells work.

This shows that this space can only be used as a testing ground at the moment—bring in some conceptual items that have been roughly perfected for testing. With the highly realistic characteristics of time and space, he can collect a lot of effective data in the process.