Star Empire

"Continue to follow the requirements in the course design...well, it can't be said that there is a problem with their attitude."

Recalling his reaction when he first saw the strange request in the mission book, Kriz thought about it and finally ended the topic with a few wry smiles.

Seeing his classmates busy around because of this unreasonable task, and recalling the powerful bombardment of information he had received in class, Kriz suddenly understood a question: why does it become harder to love the more you love civilization as a whole? Specific individuals in civilization?

Don’t the rulers of the empire love the empire and all this?

The answer is no, of course they love the empire, and they also love the lives and beings of the empire. This cannot be questioned.

It is precisely because they love the empire and all the beings in the empire that they have to issue a series of orders that are unbelievable to outsiders. When these orders are applied to the most ordinary and ordinary grassroots lives, the specific form they take is that they require the vast grassroots of the empire to go through these bizarre learning processes and learn a large amount of seemingly meaningless knowledge.

There is no doubt that such an experience can hardly be considered "happy."

But the rulers of the empire had to constantly add these unpleasant experiences to their citizens, because these unpleasant experiences and seemingly messy knowledge were countermeasures against the invisible enemy.

In this regard, Kriz has no better way.

Just how powerful a giant malicious metameme will be when fully manifested is anyone's guess. But the impact and disturbance it brought before it appeared was already terrifying.

The empire needs to prepare for the worst and deal with all possible emergencies.

"I hope that the positivity and uplift created by the Emergence Ceremony is stable enough to withstand consumption." Kriz recited this sentence silently in his heart, and then he slightly shifted his gaze and shifted his attention to the school. other parts.

As one of the countless schools that provide advanced education to the beings of the Empire, the school that Kriz once attended was nothing special among the many schools at the same level.

The school as a whole is a huge group of floating islands connected by traffic bridges. The scenery on these floating islands is different - some floating islands are surrounded by mountains and rugged rocks, and some are covered by some kind of exotic primitive ecology. Others are filled with familiar high-rise buildings.

A variety of scenes make the islands seem like a rough outline of an orderly environment. While illustrating the many possibilities of order, the archipelago also provides a venue for students to study almost any subject.

"I can only say that everyone's current learning experience may be somewhat unhappy."

Kriz shook his head. He saw the learning experience accumulated by the students: they need to undergo a long period of knowledge infusion, they need to learn to avoid the pursuit of strange giant beasts in the dark and deep canyons and wild and primitive woods, and they need to To learn how to re-develop civilization alone in an environment that subverts cognition requires constant repetition of topics that have been studied countless times.

"yuyg91074 to friends: Dear uuyl90798 and uuji87987, how are you doing recently? I need to tell you that my class will organize a course practice in the next time, and we need to survive in a strange city for a period of time. If we want to survive in this city, we need to abide by many rules, and these rules are very likely to be contradictory to each other. We need to discover the details and deeper connections by ourselves before we can get out of this city. Next I won’t be able to contact you during the time I come down. My name is yuyg91074, don’t forget me.”

"Huh?" Kriz suddenly caught an email, an email that seemed to be written to a classmate or friend.

"You also need to realize that ghost stories are very likely to rise from paper to reality, and be prepared to face "weird stories in reality." In other words, why do you need to write a special email to convey such information? Is it true that the real-time capabilities of the Imperial Network The messaging function is not easy to use. The delivery address of the mail is across the quadrant and is on the other side of the empire. That’s okay. It’s really hard for him. He still has to travel so far to study.”

Seeing this, seeing this specific person's experience, Kriz once again felt the huge gap between the "grand narrative" and the "minutiae".

From an overall perspective, the current empire is indeed developing and the entire empire is thriving. There is no problem with this. But if you look at the details, while the empire is developing rapidly and achieving a series of impressive achievements, you also need to notice that countless specific beings are making more efforts towards this end.

When the empire formulated a series of big plans at a macro level, the tasks assigned to specific individuals have become an infinitely small part, but even such a part requires specific individuals, that is, specific It takes a lot of people's time and effort to complete it.

For example, why would some students cross several quadrants and come to the "other side" of the empire to learn knowledge that they can obviously learn at home?

Because this is also part of the empire's security plan. The empire will carry out periodic large-scale migrations, using this process to test whether the various systems of the empire can afford large-scale transfer operations, whether the reserves in various parts of the empire are sufficient to cope with the large-scale migration of life, and whether the empire system can be better It supports problems such as large-scale location changes of objects receiving services.

In practice, the empire had to really let countless individuals migrate again and again. Because many situations are difficult to calculate clearly based on theoretical calculations alone, the natural environment is more sophisticated and thoughtful than any modeler. Only by truly practicing can the empire discover possible problems that may arise in the plan and make repairs.

However, this requires enough individuals as migrants to actually participate in these actions, which will inevitably have an impact on them.

There are many, many similar situations, but all of these have to be done. As giant malevolent meta-memes continue to seep into reality, the Empire must prepare to confront this invisible and unspeakable enemy.

While it had to do it, the empire also faced further difficulties: the specific details of these things could not be announced to everyone, or even mentioned in a vague way - it would be best not to have them anywhere, the fewer people would know about them. The better, the less content related to it, the better. Even if it is history, memory, or classics, it is best to erase all the content related to it, all of it.

Even if doing so makes everything look bad later.

Because the enemy is a meme.

The act of informing everyone of the existence of this meme is equivalent to passing on this meme, equivalent to exposing more individuals to the dangers posed by giant malicious meta-memes, and equivalent to attracting "it" to come here. More attention.

But the problem is equally obvious - because it cannot inform all citizens of these things, the empire has no way to unite everyone and share the same hatred. After losing this part of its power, the image of the empire in the eyes of everyone will probably be much lower due to these "misunderstandings".

But in the end, there is no better way to solve the current situation.

"Students need to receive different forms of advanced education many times, and they need to go through a variety of seemingly weird exams. It is difficult to maintain the friendship between the existences of the empire, and they will forget each other as long as they leave for a little longer. The empire's The regulations are full of weird safety factors, and the empire's historical books use jerky words to repeat knowledge and memories over and over again. This is already the case. I wonder what the empire will formulate again when the "big enemy" is closer to reality. What kind of plan and what kind of policy should be implemented?"

While murmuring his thoughts, Kriz kept his eyes locked on the somewhat sentimental email. He saw the email being delivered outside the space-time structure, seeing the email being received by a tower-shaped facility lying on the world barrier, and then being sent into the void.

"Isn't the sending direction wrong?" Kriz scratched his head. As he continued to trace the delivery path of the email, he felt very confused: "The target shouldn't be on that side, and it hasn't crossed the quadrant yet. This How do you plan to send it to the destination?"

Kriz tracked down a building. This building, or rather this tower, looks very similar to the scepter on the imperial emblem, as if one of the two such scepters was rotated 90° and then the two scepters were superimposed. .

Compared with the pattern of the imperial scepter, the difference of the tower is mainly reflected in the top of the tower: the top of the scepter originally represented the crown of rule. But in its counterpart in the tower, the crown was replaced by a base that resembled a truncated cone, a shape that reminded Krizi of a "volcanic cone." In the depression in the center of the base, there is a brilliant beam of light that is similar to the Zenith of the world's branches and points directly to the edge of the order field.

And that email was delivered into this beam of light.

"I have never seen or heard of the existence of such a building before." Kriz tilted his head and thought about it, and found that he really didn't know much about it: he was sure that it was not a military building, but a civilian building. As for architecture, the feeling it brings to you is... strange.

There are various indications that it should be a new type of building that has not been around for too long.

"Found it - the Void Tianji Tower was established and developed in the Expedition Year 1 168 546 013 211. The No. 0 Test Tower conducted preliminary pre-service testing in the Expedition Year 1 168 546 176 181. The No. 1 Tower was launched in the Expedition Year 1 168 546 176 181. 1 168 546 178 After being approved by relevant departments in 291, it entered the trial operation stage. This is indeed a new building."

Kriz found the exact information related to this tower from the pile of knowledge that was poured into his mind: "The working principle of this tower is probably, in short, this tower can enhance the information transmitted through it. , and let the information find its target by itself? That’s probably it.”

[You are already a mature email, you should learn to send it yourself. 】

"Well, no, no, the email is still too special. If it were more general."

[You are already a mature message, you should learn to send it yourself. 】

"It seems that the functions of the Sacred Music Praise Fortress Group and the Node Trident Network have also been extended to non-military fields? That's right. There is a huge amount of information undergoing complex interactions in the empire network at all times. If the information can be If you learn to send your own words, the pressure on the empire's communication facilities will indeed be much less."

After thinking of the Sacred Music Praise Fortress Group and the Trident Network of Nodes in the Void, Kriz quickly understood the significance of this building. The functions of the Sacred Music Praise Fortress Group, the Node Trident Network and the Void Tianji Tower (which should also be formed into a network in the future) are to allow the information that needs to be transmitted to learn to transmit itself.

However, the forms of information that the three of them are responsible for transmitting are different: Praise of the Holy Sound is responsible for transmitting the fleet, Node Trident is responsible for maintaining the empire's military network, and Void Tianji Tower is an important information center for the future of the empire's civilian network.

Kriz's eyes swept along the majestic tower several times, and he noticed that there were a series of offices and workshops inside the tower. There is no problem with this, but there is a big problem with the workers moving in these offices and workrooms: all their movements are very slight, and each of their movements is extremely fast, so fast that their body movements leave traces of The afterimages below have almost become part of their bodies!

"???!!" Kriz felt like he was shocked - how fast did the staff have to be to create such a level of afterimage in front of him? His attention was immediately attracted by this unusual sight, but with the help of Kriz's powerful narrative analysis ability, what he saw was quickly explained:

This is a concrete form of utilization of spindle time.

Kriz recalled the part related to time among the large amount of knowledge he had been instilled before: in different places, the unit of time is not necessarily the same. A period of time can be cut into different parts if the total length is the same. In most places, the number of cuts of the unit main axis is consistent, that is, the "basic time tick" in these places is the same value, and this value is relatively conservative.

In some relatively special places, such as various central offices that need to process large amounts of information, the time required in these places is basically much smaller than that in ordinary areas of the empire. This also means that time in these places is more continuous. Under this premise, the equipment and beings working here can handle large-scale official business at a much faster speed. However, as a corresponding restriction, they need to reduce their range of movements as much as possible in order to make full use of such a small special time as the basic moment.

". So this is how time acceleration is used, to reduce the range of movements while increasing the number of movements and precision of movements? The practical knowledge about the "time moment" of spindle time has increased again - wait, what was I looking at before? !" After he had looked through this interesting new building, Kriz realized that he had strayed off topic from nowhere, and that he had strayed far beyond the point.

"Tsk." Kriz shook his head vigorously, preparing to draw his attention back. The "eye" with a long axis length of hundreds of millions of kilometers also swayed simultaneously with Kriz's sight.

Since the size difference between a person and an eye made up of void survey radar is so great, if outside observers saw this scene directly, they would probably only feel that a small person less than two meters in size was driving a group of people. The direction of an eye that is only a few hundred million kilometers long is really weird.

However, if they can observe the composition of the information, they will find that compared to these huge alloy frames, Kriz, located at the pupil position of the eye, is the most dazzling part. He can be regarded as the entire array. Core.

In the process of adjusting the void survey radar, Kriz's gaze swept across a relatively empty area. And just as he turned his gaze, he suddenly noticed that in another void area far away from his current observation range, the originally calm black ocean seemed to have some unstable ripples.

"Start turning the void survey radar array... The compensation correction coefficient has been adjusted. It is observed that the intensity of virtual information activity is increasing. Begin to analyze. Exclude the possibility of sky earthquakes and the possibility of the birth of abnormal life forms. The exclusion has been determined and this interval is about to occur. Creation phenomenon. Based on the available data, the virtual information intensity in this range can support no more than two creations."

"Speaking of which, I haven't directly observed Genesis activities. I'll take this opportunity to take a closer look." After confirming that this matter did not require him to report information or issue orders such as waterway control orders, Ke Riz confidently pointed the camera at the void area where unstable fluctuations were brewing.

"According to the literature of the empire, there will be two creation flashes during the creation of the world. Well, I was too confused before to appreciate them in detail. This time, let me take a closer look at these two creation flashes. What secrets are there in the flash?" Kriz murmured a few words in a low voice, and just as he was thinking about it, the first creation flash had already erupted in the void.

"The intensity of the first Creation Flash was lower, that's true." Kryz recorded this situation. "The intensity of the second Creation Flash will far exceed that of the first, and only the second Creation Flash can be regarded as the real Creation Big Bang. What is that?"

Just when the second Creation Flash that Kriz was looking forward to erupted, Kriz suddenly discovered that there was a vague, seemingly "above" place above the Creation Flash. Something like mist is crashing down. When the strange cloud and mist completely fell, the scale of the Creation Shining reached its maximum in an instant.

"What is that thing? It fell from "above", but" Kriz turned over the vocabulary in his mind. He was surprised to find that he could not find a word that could accurately explain why that The clouds and mist come from "above". Neither the natural dimensions nor the man-made order rules can take effect here. Logically speaking, there should be no concept of up and down in the void. But Kriz's instinct told him clearly that the cloud had indeed fallen, and that it did come from above.

"Why are the research records on this area missing? Or is there no research on this area?" Kriz could not find the information he wanted among the information he received during the "initiation". It seems that this is likely to be another piece of the puzzle that is beyond the reach of the empire's conventional technology system and that can only be discovered by relying on the "instinct" of its own narrative singularity. This part needs urgent research, but how do you convey these findings to others? Even if he could explain it clearly, how would the empire get involved in the research on this part?

"Write these down. If you have the opportunity in the future, you need to study this issue carefully, etc. What is my goal? What about such a big world that was just born in the void?" Kriz planned to take another look at what he had determined. As the target world, I wanted to see if I could find some new clues from the void area around the world.

However, the newly born world that has not yet cooled down has completely disappeared from his sight.