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"Mr. Prototype, please come this way."

Not long after, Tu Xiaoyu took them to visit the entire divine land world as agreed.

The shuttle between 'hardware' consumes a lot of 'traffic', that is, the life of digital life, but if you borrow the internal channels of the Diwang Group, there is no such consumption at all.

At this time, Tu Xiaoyu was walking along a submarine corridor with two senior engineers. In the eyes of digital beings, this was a 'corridor', but in fact, it was a submarine optical cable.

Tick ​​was looking around curiously.

The speed of the 'optical cable' is the speed of light. This speed cannot be accepted by any digital life. However, the Diwang Group has set a speed limit, which makes it feel like taking a tour bus. This kind of speed is between virtual and reality. The feeling made her very fresh.

Beyond both sides of the optical cable, there is a vast undersea project, where countless drones are working, laying networks and installing digital signal stations.

"Our goal is to allow all digital beings in the future to travel to every place on the planet at will."

"I thought you created the virtual world to completely leave reality."

Tu Xiaoyu shook her head, "On the contrary, creating a digital world is to better transform reality. After all, if the hardware can't keep up, how can we talk about immortality?"

"What is that?" Gao Gong looked at the source of light in the southeast direction. Relying on his instinct, he felt the powerful energy fluctuations.

"That's the crustal engine. It's a large construction platform that we jointly built with a company called Metal Slug."

Metal Slug, a member of the Skull and Bones Society, is not surprising at all when he points out the large buildings of level three civilization.

"Crustal engine, I heard that the ancient empire also had the same operation," Gao Gong said casually.

Tu Xiaoyu nodded and said: "Our research direction is different from theirs. The crustal engine of the ancient empire was more about extracting heat energy from the earth's core and using nuclear fusion reactions to convert it into kinetic energy for heavy machinery to carry out operations. But ours is more It’s more about energy storage.”

"Energy storage?"

"Maintaining a huge virtual world consumes a lot of money. In order to ensure that various 'hardware' will not go down due to natural disasters and man-made disasters, energy reserves are crucial."

Tick ​​looked at the senior engineer subconsciously. Did Mr. G already know this?

"It seems that you are not only deeply obsessed with building a virtual world, but also full of action," Gao Gong said with an admiring expression on his face, as if he was completely immersed in the beauty of the large building.

Tu Xiaoyu nodded and said with some pride: "If we can use reality to create illusion, we can also use illusion to pave the way to reality. This is the philosophy of our company."

"Ms. Tu, are you also a digital being?" Tick asked curiously.

Tu Xiaoyu didn’t hide it either: “I am the 30th generation digital being.”

"So you support our group's plan?"

"Of course, digital life is a loyal supporter of the group. To achieve the group's goals is also to open up our living environment."

Tick ​​thought of what Mr. G told him before. AI, that is, real artificial intelligence, will not support the Diwang Group’s plan. They have their own personality templates and their own bodies (hardware). They can operate in cyberspace. Being carefree on the Internet, they can also enjoy a superior status in reality. Compared with humans, they are more willing to maintain the current social structure.

But digital beings are different. They do not have exclusive processors, which means that they cannot log into cyberspace. Once logged in, the transformation of consciousness will destroy their already weak personality, and in reality, they can only rely on divine soil. The hardware survives, and once the hardware is destroyed, they are finished too.

Therefore, the so-called AI rebellion and AI independence are simply impossible to happen to digital life.

Dida somewhat understood that digital life is also a kind of "AI", and what Diwang Group does is to cultivate an "AI group" that supports itself.

When I think about it, the sense of 'mad scientist' disappears a lot in my mind, replaced by a wily politician.

"Let's go and see the real divine land. I'm quite curious about how pure 'digital life' was born."

The senior engineer took one last look at the crustal engine and said.

"Of course, please."

As a pioneer of an advanced virtual world, Gao Gong actually knows better. Many people, including some races in the universe, have certain misunderstandings about virtual civilization and information civilization.

When everyone talks about mechanical civilization, everyone immediately thinks of ‘infrastructure maniacs’, ‘planet transformers’ and ‘major cannon fodder producers’.

In fact, without illuminating advanced space theories such as ‘superstring theory’, ‘secret dimension of space’ and ‘quantum sea’, the primary ‘virtual civilization’ is also a ‘big player in infrastructure’.

A virtual civilization without various hardware protections is also very fragile. Let alone ascending, any slight disturbance will greatly affect the virtual world.

Gao Gong knew this and determined that the Ground Network Group was even stronger than some military groups in terms of reactor infrastructure and point energy technology.

Being a virtual human is not that easy.

A few days ago, Director Du also sent a rare message, saying that he wanted to inquire about knowledge related to 'energy technology', and that the Dugo Group had encountered a bottleneck.

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On the other side, David Hilbert is also constantly uploading data, or to be precise, uploading himself.

The virtual space of 'Divine Land' is not like cyberspace. It is a parallel structure. It is more like a 'pyramid'. The more iterations of digital life, the more qualified you are to enter a higher level of digital space. The higher the level of the digital space, the more stable the space structure will be.

For example, the fifth floor where he is now has reached the point of synchronization with reality, and changes in reality will be completely reflected in the virtual space.

On the radiation-polluted sea, a yacht was traveling quickly and soon reached its destination, a deserted island.

David Hilbert jumped ashore, and after being searched, walked directly toward the center of the island.

There is nothing special about the island. The only place that can be called different is the center of the island, which is a very huge and complex altar.

In addition to David, several executives from the Diwang Group had arrived in advance, and in addition to the Diwang Group, other superpowers of Shentu also sent prominent figures to participate.

Soon, a circle of people stood around the altar, and everyone here was a famous figure in the divine land.

What they were waiting for was an ordinary old woman. There were a lot of wrong numbers on her body, and she looked like she might collapse at any time.

However, such a low-level digital life is actually the first digital life of Shentu, and she also has another identity, the spokesperson of the Lord.

The old woman scanned around, and everyone around her held their breath and stared. The old woman opened her mouth and burst out a series of weird numbers. Then, the old woman's digital life ended.

She disintegrated into the most primitive digital signal.

The corner of David Hilbert's eye twitched violently, and the people around him were also shocked. The messenger of the Lord was gone! ?

And this string of numbers was quickly analyzed. Some people were ecstatic and some were crying.

Because the meaning of this string of numbers is——

In half a year, the Lord will come