Sword of Daybreaker

At the lower reaches of the Baishui River, in the Gelan area, the newly established large-scale factory stands like a towering fortress on the former wasteland. The main building made of gray-white artificial materials has rigid and straight lines. The practical design style allows It is completely different from the complex and exquisite magician workshops of the old age, but it also carries a certain rugged and powerful "industrial beauty".

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At the edge of the factory, a towering magic monitoring tower is monitoring the fluctuations of magic in the entire area to prevent unauthorized spellcasting from interfering with the operation of the factory’s machinery and communication systems. There are also security personnel wearing light equipment at intersections. Patrols and guards this key facility with the background of the Government Affairs Office. A avenue extending from the river bank straightly passed through the entire factory area. On the avenue, a black magic car was stopping smoothly in front of one of the workshops.

The car door opened, and the tall and thin Lady Lopenie Glenn, who was wearing a dark striped dress with her hair rolled up, walked out of it, and cast her gaze to the large workshop in front of her. Behind her, another figure followed the demon. Stepping out of the guided car, it was the ghostly "Lady of the Lantern" Selena Geerfen.

"Is this the main production area of ​​Glenn Heavy Industries..." Selena raised her head and saw the large fortress-like workshop standing in front of her. The hard and straight lines outside the workshop were cut like a sharp blade. In the sky, the material pipelines, liquid and gas pipelines that extend from the top of the workshop extend out like the blood and nerves of behemoths, connecting with other nearby workshops and storage tanks in the distance. The industrial power contained in this makes her unable to help her. Squinted his eyes, "It is indeed one of the largest industrial bases in the South...I think I can understand why your Majesty chose this place to be the test site of the "Wet Parts Intelligent Workshop"."

"The empire has invested a lot of money and policy preferential treatment here. His Majesty ordered me to use these things to build an industrial base that can support the southeast. What you see is actually only a part of this large-scale plan-for the overall picture, this Everything is in its infancy. In the future, there will be more large-scale facilities and more factories appearing in this area," the Lady Lopenie with a proud look on her face, introducing her achievements over the years to the guests, "except In addition to the inhabited urban areas and the cultivated land, woods, and water resources reserved by the law, the wasteland in the northern part of Gülen City is still large. Now these desolate land can finally be used."

While talking, the maiden could not help but glance at Selena, her eyes fell on the other's lap, and she asked curiously: "Although it is a bit rude to ask, you don't seem to need to talk to me. Come by car together... As an online resident, you just need to show up in front of me after I arrive at my destination, right?"

"Life needs a sense of ritual-this is a sentence your majesty said, and I think it makes sense," Selena smiled, her tone very relaxed, "occasionally let herself be like a'living person in the real world "Living the same way helps to maintain a clear self-awareness to prevent aging and slow mentality. This is the experience I have summed up over the past few hundred years."

   "...Actually, I just find it a bit strange, especially when I think that you are actually sitting in a chair and flying synchronously with the magic car..." Luo Pei Ni's face was somewhat weird.

"...Well, this is because I didn't think about it well," Selena was a little embarrassed, but she waved her hand to change the topic quickly, "Let's not pay attention to these details for now-the workshop is ready. Huh?"

   "Of course," Lopez nodded with a smile, "I was ready yesterday."

Up to this moment, the person in charge of the factory who came to greet confirmed that the two ladies had finished talking, and brought the technicians to greet them. Luo Peni had a brief conversation with them, and then made an invitation to Selena—— Selena had been looking forward to this moment for a long time. She raised her head and saw that the heavy mechanical gate in front of the large factory building was opened smoothly under the drive of the magical device, and a brightly lit workshop gradually appeared before her eyes.

Came to inspect the new workshop of Gülen Heavy Industries, which in itself is one of her main tasks in the Gülen area this time. It is as important as observing Patty’s situation and confirming the effect of the anti-divine barrier. As for why a person is like her In this way, the "node bachelor" who focuses on the field of neural and network will be connected with the workshop of heavy industry, and it is related to the cutting-edge technology that will be launched here: wet parts host, magic machinery, neural network, the Cecil Empire is proud of The three major technologies will be integrated here.

With anticipation, she followed behind the noble lady Luo Pei Ni, stepped across the alloy gate driven by the magical machinery, and after a short connecting bridge, identity verification and entry and exit registration, she finally placed herself in Between those huge machines and pipes and cables.

In the very spacious and bright large workshop, processing machinery two to three meters high and more than ten meters long are neatly arranged on both sides of the passage like steel giants. The thick material pipelines are connected to the tops of the machines from the upper level of the workshop. The large-scale and complex transmission mechanism is connected behind the large processing machine, and these things are intertwined together to form the arteries and branches in this "steel palace"-all of these are unimaginable in the era of traditional magic workshops Spectacles, but if they are alone, they are not enough to surprise Selena.

  Because she has visited factories in other places, and factories in other places also have magical machinery similar to this one, which is at best smaller in scale and smaller in number.

  What really deserves the attention of a technical expert like her is the "nerve line" that connects those machines——

Between the “arteries” intertwined by the material pipelines and transportation mechanisms, another complex network structure came into her eyes. It was the pipes and cables wrapped by a thick and strong composite protective layer. The inside of each machine extends out, some go deep into the ground, and some go out along the upper beam frame of the workshop, leading to a certain area outside the workshop or inside the workshop. The surfaces of these pipelines are all marked with dark red and there are Slightly luminous enchanting paint covers every important interface or overhaul point, and a certain kind of gleam flows slowly and brightly inside them, making these things seem to be alive.

  In fact, they are indeed alive—even conscious.

“All the machines here are actually modified on the basis of existing equipment. Their main working structure is still the original one, but with the addition of new control units-this has reduced the upgrade cost of the workshop by at least half. "Lady Luopeini walked forward and tapped the metal cover on the side of one of the large processing machines with her finger. "Here is the new control unit. Note that it is a new addition-the original manual control part is still retained. It is used for manual takeover or emergency shutdown if necessary. Mr. Prumman, please help open the cover."

The person in charge of the workshop called Prumman immediately stepped forward and opened the strong-looking steel cover with a special key. Selena leaned forward, and the structure under the cover entered her. Sight.

She saw a "rune palette" with delicate partitions installed on the internal frame, but the end of the rune unit was connected with dark red biological tissues, which were buried deep inside the machine from a The tube grows out and differentiates into a single nerve thread, which is like a vine spreading in the soil and merges with the entire "color plate" installation. In the depths of those runes, nerves, and channels, she also sees another A conduit for conveying nutrients. Thin biomass is flowing slowly in the conduit, nourishing the nerve nodes inside the machine.

At this moment, in Selena’s eyes, one of the nerve lines seemed to suddenly receive a signal from the superior, and the rune connected to it was lit up, and there was a low buzzing inside the machine. After a few seconds, everything was calm again. .

The voice of the noble lady Luo Pei Ni came from the side: "The system is self-checking-the neural network in the workshop will self-check like this every once in a while, just like the normal workshop supervisor patrolling the machine, but the human eye is not as sharp as these nerves These nerves can clearly perceive the situation of each machine as humans perceive their own fingers, and all faults and potential faults can be found and uploaded in the first time."

Selena nodded and got up from the "nerve control unit" of the machine to leave. She raised her head and saw a nerve channel extending from above, connecting and fusing with several other nerve channels, and disappearing into a higher layer. Root girders.

"Here is a kilometer-long nervous system and supporting biomass pipelines. They communicate and connect between machines, exchange data between neural nodes, draw nutrients from underground circulating pumps and split pools, and reserve access to other The external interface of the workshop-but if you want to transmit data to a farther place, you still need to forward it through the magic net hub," the Lady Lopenie introduced on the side, raising her finger to a facility deep in the workshop, " Next we are going to the "brain" of this workshop, um...the brain in the true sense."

Led by Luo Pei Ni and the person in charge of the workshop, Selena came to the depths of the workshop. At the end of the connecting passage, she saw a large tower-like facility-it looked a bit like the kind of large alchemy factory. The lower part of the distillation tower is buried in a large hole in the underground of the workshop, and the upper part is connected to the dome of the workshop. A large number of pipes and nerve cords converge on top of it and merge into the tower like blood vessels connected to the heart. A connecting bridge controlled by a mechanical device connects the center of the tower with the main road of the workshop.

In front of this tower, Selena closed her eyes slightly, but another layer of vision opened up-it was a sight that ordinary people could not detect with the naked eye, and it was something that only immortals like her could see. .

  The thinking river formed by nerve impulse, flows quietly in this cold steel workshop, intertwined into a net.

In her field of vision, in the darkness, all the machines gradually emerged with light, and the fine light spots emerged inside them, and flowed along the artificially customized veins. They met in the air and underground, like the life It grew like a river, and finally connected to the common source-that source was right in front of her eyes, an artificial brain that emits a strong thought pulse and is composed of countless nerve nodes... and it seems that there is more than one brain?

  She opened her eyes, and the picture formed by the transcendental perception was replaced by reality. She saw the Lady Lopenie step forward, and the tower carrying the factory consciousness was opening the door.

The high tower is brightly lit. Three tubular devices with a diameter of two or three meters are fixed on the floor in the center of the room. Each device is separated by a few meters, and there are countless pipes neatly connected from top to bottom. At the top of those devices, and in the center of the three tubular devices arranged in a fringe shape, Selena saw something half buried in the floor. It looked like a carapace of some kind of insect with a rounded arc on the upper part. , The lower part is the base made of alloy-the strongest thought pulse is emitted from inside it.

"This is the main brain of the workshop-after passing the inspection and acceptance, it will become the main brain of the entire industrial area. Next to it are the backup and servo brains. They have different functions and can quickly take over when any of the brains has problems. System," the technical director of the workshop stepped forward. This is a senior druid. Thin hair and deep eye sockets show his professionalism and reliability. "In theory, unless all brains die at the same time, as long as there is one In normal operation, the entire system will not be shut down, and at most efficiency will drop..."

The Lady Lopenie walked a few steps forward, curled her fingers and tapped on the shell of the "master brain". Accompanied by a crisp sound, the shell opened slowly, revealing the crystal container full of biomass solution and soaking Artificial brain in a container.

  Immediately afterwards, the surrounding three tubular devices also opened their shells. As the alloy protective shell slowly lowered, crystal tubes filled with biomass solution and floating brains immersed in the liquid were exposed inside those devices.

  A large number of artificial nerve cords, metal needles, and fiber catheters are connected to those brains. If you see this scene in ordinary people, I am afraid it will feel...very exciting.

  But people who have worked here for a long time are obviously no strangers to all of this-just like druids and physicians are also used to the appearance of corpses.

"These are neural connection units, which also include monitoring poles. The wetware host uses these connection units to order the neural network in the workshop, perceive and control all the machines. The monitoring poles allow our main control center to know every moment In the case of a servo brain, it is also used to give instructions to these servo brains.” The technical director introduced this complex and advanced system next to him. “According to the deepest instructions of the servo brain, they only receive the monitoring pole signal and recognize it. The command will not be released until the operator has the authority. If any part of the whole link is abnormal, they will cut off the neural network and remind the workers in the workshop to manually take over the machine through the broadcast system."

"This is to prevent someone from stealing the command power of the factory," the Lady Lopenie added. "According to your majesty, when a system is highly integrated and centralized, it will also have the authority to be stolen. Risks. In the near future, taking over a factory may only require a wrongly authorized order-this kind of risk we have to guard against."

"Ah... Your Majesty is really good at this kind of network-level infiltration and authority control..." Perhaps she recalled something that made people sweating, Selena's expression was a bit strange for a moment, and then her eyes noticed the room. In the corner of the manual console, on that console, there is a big red button that stands out, "What is that?"

"The one-key overclocking button is used to improve the operating efficiency of the system in the short term. It is usually used when overtime production or quick reset of the system is required," the technical director immediately replied, "The main working mechanism is automatically when the button is pressed. Pour syrup into the biomass pipeline..."