Arcane Lord

"The number of nodes in this plan is so large, what are the test results?" Sha Duo continued to ask.

Speaking of business, Niya also straightened herself out, took out a series of previous test and experiment reports, handed them to Sha Duo, and at the same time briefly introduced:

"Three rounds of testing have been completed so far. The main frame is very stable and no problems have been found yet. As for the cooperation with other functional components, because of previous experience, it is estimated that there will be no major problems."

"Really!"

Sha Duo quickly flipped through the experiment report that Niya handed over. It was indeed as Niya said. There were three rounds of more than 100 tests, and the results were mixed, but generally they were qualified.

"When will this new mystery lock be updated?"

"This -" Nia hesitated for a moment, "There are still some finishing touches that have not been completed. The most important thing is that the size of this mystery lock is too large, and the difficulty of casting the spell may be unimaginably high. The last step is to update the current There are user impacts, and I’m trying to figure out how to avoid this impact, but there’s no good way yet.”

Indeed, Xia Duo is also proficient in the field of myth locks. He was excited about Niya finally completing the million-level node design plan, but he ignored the specific implementation difficulty of this plan.

Now after being reminded by Niya, he finally remembered that the reason for abandoning this plan of stacking nodes was because the difficulty of subsequent updates would increase exponentially!

It may be possible to barely complete it once or twice. When the number of responsible nodes reaches hundreds of millions or even billions, can it still be possible to organize manpower to cast spells as now?

Not saying it is absolutely impossible, but the feasibility is almost wirelessly approaching zero.

In order to cope with such development constraints, Xia Duo continued the previous technical route of the Red Heart Alliance - the hot update of Mystery Lock, which means that every time you update the Mystery Lock, you do not need to start from scratch, but only need to update the parts that need to be changed. .

The current Mystery Update is not so much an update as it is a rebuild, but it will inherit the previous permission settings. If permission inheritance is not considered, it will even be a brand new Mystery after the update.

At the beginning of the Red Heart Alliance, the general consensus in the industry was that hot updates would be the mainstream of future MyLocker development, and MyLockers that did not have the hot update function were destined to be eliminated.

However, this key technology requires a few more steps in "variable control of mysterious lock communication rules" before it can be realized. This was the research direction of Sha Duo's mentor when he was at the Red Heart Alliance University.

Unfortunately, until Xia Duo left the Red Heart Alliance, no key breakthroughs were made in this area of ​​research.

But this is a big road, and there are also some smaller roads, such as the unified myth lock solution, which unifies several functional mystery locks under a relatively durable framework mystery lock, so that each update only needs to update a certain functional mystery lock. .

The framework mystery only requires regular maintenance and can go without substantial updates for a long time.

However, this solution essentially brings together multiple myth locks, and even because of the linkage of permissions, as long as a loophole in one mystery lock can be found, other mystery locks are equivalent to having back doors opened, and the security is low.

In addition, the unified puzzle also has its limits. It is impossible to stuff everything into the framework puzzle. Moreover, the more functions there are, the more complex the system will be, and the greater the probability of errors. This is also a risk that cannot be ignored.

In addition to the unified mystery lock solution, there is also the node mapping magic network array solution that Niya thought of before. Although this path is slightly wider than the unified mystery lock solution, it is still a small road.

Niya discovered that a large number of virtual nodes can be reversely created by reshaping the macrostructure of the magic network with fixed node mapping. In other words, a communication magic lock with a total number of 100,000 nodes can create millions or even tens of millions of virtual nodes.

These virtual nodes can also be used as communication tools.

Compared with the unified secret lock solution, this solution is more secure due to the unique system. However, compared with the large number of virtual nodes it brings, this security risk is still acceptable.

But everything has two sides. Although Niya's plan can create a large number of virtual nodes, the price is exchanged for the function of the mystery lock itself.

There are two extremes in this solution. One is not to shape virtual nodes, which is a normal distributed node communication puzzle. The other is to use all the resources of the puzzle to shape nodes. The result is——

This communication puzzle will not have any functions other than virtual nodes, which of course includes communication functions.

Of course, in this case, the number of virtual nodes locked will be directly filled up.

Generally speaking, the number of nodes in a puzzle determines the upper limit of its size, including the so-called nodeless puzzle, which only has no material nodes, and its energy flow still has more or less central areas, that is, nodes.

It's just that the energy center of the nodeless mystery locks that is usually thought of is actually built in the magic network. The size of these mystery locks is also related to the number of energy centers.

But if there are material nodes, it is equivalent to setting a natural upper limit for the mystery lock, that is, the upper limit of the material nodes.

Niya's virtual node solution cannot increase the number of real material nodes, nor can it change the size of the mystery lock itself.

Although there are such shackles on material node mystery locks, it is not without benefits. Otherwise, this kind of mystery locks would have been eliminated long ago.

The biggest advantage is of course that it is less difficult to build and maintain (the cost is higher and a large amount of materials are needed to make material nodes). This kind of mystery lock can be built by a senior mage who specializes in mystery locks.

And even most high-level mages cannot survive to complete a maze without material nodes.

Such benefits cannot be ignored in the elf world, and the reason why Xia Duo designed the communication maze with nodes is not that he cannot come up with a nodeless version.

Rather, it is because of the risk of the maze being invaded. You must know that the communication maze will face countless users in the future. Who knows if there are some saboteurs with bad intentions among those users.

In fact, there will definitely be.

In this case, if it is a nodeless maze, once the opponent finds a loophole, the entire maze may be destroyed.

If there is a node, and the communication maze is designed with distributed nodes, as long as the Tower of Time firmly grasps two-thirds of the nodes, no one can break through the authority.

Of course, it is not good to speak so absolutely. At least with Xia Duo's current ability, he can't even imagine how the enemy can seize the authority. He has blocked any imaginable way.

The essence of the node-based maze lies in the nodes. The macro part of the maze can be regarded as a mapping of the nodes. Fixed nodes are still at risk of being hacked, but for distributed nodes, who has the ability to collect all the node artifacts distributed in the hands of a large number of users as communication artifacts?

Even if they are collected, who would have thought that the actual number of nodes released by the Tower of Time is only one-third of the total? Even if one-third is collected, it is impossible to control the maze. Even in the process of collecting, the Tower of Time will detect the abnormal enrichment of nodes and force those nodes to be "offline".

In this way, the proportion of nodes controlled by the Tower of Time will rise again. Unless the enemy breaks through the Tower of Time, it will never be able to break through and seize the authority of the communication maze.