Star Empire

"...You didn't set the reminder intensity? Do you still need to set this?! Ahhhh... I really fell asleep!!" Kriz finally knew why he was attending class in a dream - it was not that he dreamed of relevant knowledge. , but the school and teachers used some method to directly project the course content into their dreams!

"Are you too tired... Have you never had such a schedule before? New class... Tomorrow is the time for the new class, right? Speaking of which, days, months and years... these time scales and time regulations How did it come about..."

When he looked out of the window again, Kriz once again saw the vast sea of ​​​​stars. At this time, the main star of the current limited-core galaxy was on the back of the planet, which made the sea of ​​​​stars more obvious and the overall sky more beautiful. A little darker.

"Among this... I'm afraid there may be other transformation relationships..."

…

"Kriz, I heard that you overslept? Are you feeling okay?"

"Have you missed anything? I have recorded enough content and written down my own understanding. If you need it, I can pass the information to you..."

"Thank you everyone, I'm fine..."

"...Okay, let's come to class." When the flurry of words in the class subsided to a certain level, the teacher standing on the podium stopped him: "This class can be said to be the kind of class you use in the intermediate education stage. This is the last lesson in form. Well... I hope you can cherish every part of your experience and don't let them only appear beautiful in memories."

"In the last lesson, we learned about nodes. There are two types of nodes: hard nodes and random nodes. What we are going to talk about in this lesson is the existential network - nodes and networks complement each other and completely connect everything in the entire empire. That way we can access everything we know today.”

"If all nodes are compared to the reality that we can intuitively feel, such as stars, then the network is space and time - running through everything and everywhere."

"We stand on a high foundation built up by countless achievements of countless predecessors. Therefore, what we learn is often updated, added, deleted, modified or even overthrown and reorganized after an unexpected number of times before it can be presented in this way. The face appears before us.”

"This is exactly what the imperial network is like - the earliest imperial network could not reach such a level. At that time, the imperial network still relied on nodes, and the entire network was closer to the literal meaning of "net". Various changes in the network, like It is a continuous operation of connecting and cutting lines between many points."

"The first major change in the Empire Network occurred in the Leap Era - we will learn the specific content in the subsequent movie viewing classes. What everyone needs to know now is that since then, the Empire has begun to introduce "existence" "Relevant concepts, the empire's network has also begun to rely on "existence" to further build."

"Although the equipment is still the basis for supporting the empire's network, the empire's network has been able to penetrate into the "existence attribute" of the empire itself. This means that the network and the empire itself can be fully integrated, and can follow the empire's development." The body "expands and contracts to make whatever changes are required."

"This is the first major change in the imperial network, and it is also the most important and decisive step. In the long years that followed, field resonance, information release and capture relay technology, narrative compensation technology, and insect swarm thinking More and more technologies such as transformation technology are gradually integrated into the imperial network, allowing the network structure to become more complete and stronger, but all of this is based on the foundation laid by the initial step."

"...I believe that everyone has begun to think about this question: "Since the empire network has been integrated with the empire's existence attributes, how to ensure the security of the empire network?"

After finishing the above content, the teacher paused for a while. It was not until she saw thoughtful expressions on the faces of the students under the podium that she began to talk about the next content.

"Exactly as you think - the security of the empire's network is very important, especially after the empire's network no longer only exists at the device level. With the introduction of existence into the network, while the convenience is greatly improved, it involves the entire empire , The security of the empire’s network, which involves all living beings in the empire and all things in the empire, must be given the highest degree of attention. However..."

"This emphasis only started in the chronology of the expedition, that is, in the chronology of your birth."

"What?"

"Before that, I vaguely saw that the history before this era is at least tens of billions of years..."

"Don't our predecessors and ancestors pay attention to their own and overall safety?"

"Quiet, everyone, be quiet -" the teacher signaled everyone to stop arguing, "Everyone's questions can still be answered in detail in the next movie viewing class. In this class, what I want to tell you is: the security of the Empire Network There are many measures, including the stability and resistance brought by the empire's powerful existence attributes, encryption algorithms, extraordinary power traversal and erasure, meme detection encryption, field life disturbance and traversal, and regional insect swarm mind encryption. and reinforcement, narrative analysis, and compensation. In addition, there are more protective measures that are still being developed or discussed..."

"Ah... I have regained the pressure brought by the powerful information suppression and noun flow during the previous information bombing..."

"Actually, if you are willing to understand each word and combine the contents represented by these words, it should not be too difficult to understand. We have all studied these contents before, and the main focus is to connect them into a whole sentence... …”

"... As for the security issues you mentioned before, the teacher can tell you here: It's not that the ancestors at that time didn't pay attention to network security, but other influencing factors from the outside world were too powerful. They were so powerful that the ancestors at that time could no longer consider themselves. its safety, its own nature and even its own survival.”

"..."

"What...what factors would force the ancestors back then to be like this?!"

"This is simply unbelievable..."

"There is more than one civilization or group of us in the void. In short, during that period, the "imperial civilization" that was weak compared to now encountered a civilization that was much more powerful than us now and was contaminated by the death tide. The enemy... it’s just that the enemy at that time seemed to have other demands or ideas, and the part of these ideas that has been analyzed is "reverse inheritance."

"It is speculated that they hope that we can understand and inherit some of their achievements to a certain extent before they "do this" to the empire at that time. This speculation was directly confirmed by the old emperors. As for other speculations, there are many , most of these guesses are supplements to this basic guess. After all, the flow of information between huge civilizations is multidimensional, multi-level, and multi-stage. Behind a mainstream guess, countless auxiliary ideas are needed to fill in the details."

"And there are some relatively niche conjectures - there are so many civilizations in the void, why do we need to complete these things? Because we are somewhat special? Do we have some just-right basic conditions? Or is it? Is there anything else we need to do?”

"We can't be sure. The most direct reason is that the existence has almost disappeared, and we are unlikely to ask that entity that we can't contact what its purpose is. And the most fundamental reason is that there is currently a controversy in the academic circles of the empire. ——The focus of the dispute is: the interrelationship between cause and effect. Does the existing cause have an effect? ​​Or does the appearance of the effect reversely consolidate the necessary cause? Or is it both..."

"...Huh?" Just when Kriz was wondering if he had not rested yet and was falling asleep, the scenery in front of him suddenly changed dramatically - the entire empire seemed to appear in front of him, and the entire empire seemed to appear in front of him. It seems to have become an endless piece of paper, with countless light spots jumping and moving on this paper. Between the light spots, countless lines appear and disappear. The fluctuation of each line seems to cause tiny ripples in the originally empty background...

"Teacher? Everyone? Where are you? Wait, this is..." Kriz wanted to determine what was happening around him, but he immediately discovered that his problem had not left his body.

"...Is this my special power? Or something else?" Kriz tentatively observed the light spots moving on the paper. Gradually, he discovered some abnormalities - in some cases Between the light spots, there are some very weird-looking things that are growing slowly. It seems to be pink "light", but it does not seem to be pure light. The light seems to be very sticky, and when the eyes come into contact with them, For a moment, even the gaze itself seemed to tremble and melt...

"...Therefore, we must always pay attention to the fact that we have initially understood the "system" of the empire. In the future, everyone can observe and think more, as a most basic node, as a person with an independent body and self-will Entity, how should "I" interact with this network, and what can I do..."

"With the improvement of their own authority, everyone may not be like now in the future. They only need to learn and follow the general arrangements. In the future, everyone needs to pay attention to the responsibilities they need to bear, and when they see their rights, they also need to Thinking of the corresponding obligations..."

"...Is this a normal environment? The Hume value is normal, and the story continuity is good. It should be right..." Kriz sighed slightly in private - during this period of time, he could see himself, and He could see part of the life trajectories of the people around him. He could see that the life trajectories of the people around him seemed to be much simpler than his own, but in comparison, they were more stable and quiet...

How would they feel about an "ordinary person", an ordinary individual who does not receive special attention and does not have such a special physique and special power? How do they view everything around them, and how do they view themselves?

I can put together such a story, but I can't empathize with it.

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"Emergency situations."

"The void survey radar array monitoring the individual xs4028 has detected abnormal fluctuations - after analyzing the results given by the void survey radar, we believe that... the individual xs4028 may have initially noticed the existence of a giant hostile entity in the void. ——Although we are not sure whether he knows the "truth" of all this, at least he has noticed some of the abnormalities caused by that entity."

Deep in the scorching sun where the never-ending information storm is churning, in an isolated conference room buried deep at the bottom of the thick troposphere, several figures began a new round of emergency talks.

"At present, we are not sure how strongly the individual xs4028 will be affected by this. We can only classify him as one of the most important "uncertain factors" in the empire."

"Hmm..." Vidoville frowned, "Wheeler, what's the progress of the safety parameter modification plan?"

"The last revision is being pushed forward and there is resistance, but no matter what, all resistance will eventually be overcome."

"What about the network structure?" Vidoville turned his attention to Zhai Cahir and Zerg Emperor Movilla: "The design and manufacturing progress of the new emergency takeover channel and emergency authority annexation tower?"

"It is proceeding in an orderly manner and the progress is in line with expectations."

"Now it seems...the only uncertain factor at the moment is the "Kriz"."

"Um……"

Everyone let out a slight sigh almost at the same time.

This is a war that requires strength, but the truth cannot be told easily.

"...Wood, do you believe that there is a cause first and then an effect, or an effect first and then a cause, or... both?" After the meeting, the other figures dispersed, leaving only two people in the conference room.

"I prefer to believe the first one. This has always been an objective law that we think of, and everything we do, see and hear follows it." Vidoville said.

"However, the latter possibilities... it is not up to us to believe it or not. After all, we even know that there are gods, and we even know that at some point in the future, we will contact and even co-exist with them? Them? …We also know many things that have not happened yet and are far from existing…the so-called iron laws of cause and effect that we acquiesced to have been torn to pieces by them a long time ago.”

"I didn't find a warning or warning that Kriz was out of control. On the contrary - in my feeling, Kriz had already assumed important responsibilities very early on." Weisrifan revealed in his words A bit relaxed: "Although the details are not clear, I think we don't always have to carry such a heavy baggage to face everything."

"...But even so, we cannot relax our vigilance. Even if the future is beautiful, and the beautiful future modifies and improves the past, thereby reducing the unknowns and difficulties in the past, we cannot relax our vigilance. After all, in our current view , none of this has happened yet - everything is still unknown. What we do determines whether we have a "future"."

"Um……"