Chapter 1167 Intelligentization

The latest website: In the lower reaches of the Baishui River, in the Gelan area, the newly established large-scale factory stands like a majestic fortress on the former wasteland. The main body of the building is made of off-white artificial materials with rigid and straight lines for practical The design style makes it completely different from the complicated and exquisite magician workshops of the old days, but it also has a rough and powerful "industrial aesthetic".

On the edge of the factory area, a towering magic power monitoring tower is monitoring the magic fluctuations in the entire area to prevent unauthorized spellcasting from interfering with the operation of the machines and communication systems in the factory, and there are security personnel wearing light equipment at various intersections Patrol and stand guard, defending this key facility with the background of the government affairs office. An avenue extending from the river bank passed straight through the entire factory area. On the avenue, a black magic guided vehicle was stopping steadily in front of one of the workshops.

The car door opened, and the tall and thin Countess Ropeni Grande, who was wearing a dark fringed dress with her hair rolled up, came out, and turned her gaze to the large workshop in front of her. Behind her, another figure followed from the magic workshop. Stepping out of the guide car, it was the "Saint with the Lamp" Selina Gerfen who looked like a ghost.

"Is this the main production area of ​​Glenn Heavy Industry..." Selina raised her head, and saw the large fortress-like workshop standing in front of her. The material pipelines and liquid and gas pipelines extending from the top of the workshop extend out like the blood vessels and nerves of giant beasts, connecting other nearby workshops and storage tanks in the distance. The industrial power contained in this makes her unable to resist. He narrowed his eyes, "As expected, it is one of the largest industrial bases in the southern region... I think I can understand why His Majesty chose this place as the test site for the 'Wetware Smart Workshop'."

"The empire has invested a lot of money and preferential policies here. His Majesty ordered me to use these things to build an industrial base that can support the southeast. What you see is actually just a part of this large plan-for the overall situation, this Everything is in its infancy, and there will be larger-scale facilities and more factories in this area in the future," the Countess Luo Penny introduced her achievements over the years to the guests with a proud look on her face, "except In addition to the inhabited urban areas and the legally stipulated land, woods, and water retention areas, there is still a lot of wasteland in the north of Gulen City, and now these desolate lands can finally be used."

While talking, the Viscount couldn't help but glanced at Selena again, her gaze fell on the other's lap, and she asked curiously: "Although it's a bit impolite to ask, it seems that you don't need to talk to me about it." Come here together by car... As an Internet resident, you just need to appear in front of me when I arrive at the destination, right?"

"Life needs a sense of ritual - this is a sentence His Majesty said, and I think it makes sense," Selina smiled, her tone seemed very relaxed, "Occasionally let yourself be like a 'living person' in the real world 'Living in the same way helps to maintain a clear self-awareness and prevent mental aging and dullness. This is the experience I have summed up over the past few hundred years."

"...Actually, I just find it a little strange,

Especially when you think that you are actually just sitting on a chair and flying in sync with the magic vehicle..." Luo Penny's expression was somewhat strange.

"...Well, I didn't think carefully about this." Selena was a little embarrassed, but quickly waved her hand to change the topic, "Let's not pay attention to these details—the workshop is ready Is it?"

"Of course," Luo Penny nodded with a smile, "I made preparations yesterday."

Until now, the person in charge of the factory area who came to greet her confirmed that the two ladies had finished chatting, and led the technicians to greet them. Luo Peini had a brief chat with them, and then made an invitation gesture towards 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 being opened steadily driven by the magic device, and a brightly lit workshop gradually appeared in front of her eyes.

Coming to inspect the new workshop of Glenn Heavy Industries was one of the main tasks of her visit to the Glenn region this time. It was equally important to observe Patty's situation and confirm the effect of the anti-divinity barrier. As for why a person like her In this way, the "node bachelor" who focuses on the neural and network fields will be linked to the heavy industry workshop, which is related to the cutting-edge technologies that will be used here: wetware hosts, magical machines, neural networks, Cecil Empire is proud of it The three major technologies will be integrated here.

With anticipation, she followed Viscount Luo Penny, and stepped across the alloy gate driven by the magical machine. After passing through a short connecting bridge and undergoing identity verification and entry and exit registration, she was finally in the Between those huge machines and pipes and cables.

In the unusually spacious and bright large workshop, processing machines two to three meters high and more than ten meters long are neatly arranged on both sides of the aisle like steel behemoths. The large-scale and complex transmission mechanisms are connected behind the large processing machines, and these things are intertwined together to form the arteries and branches of this "steel palace" - all of which are unimaginable in the era of traditional magic workshops Spectacles, however, were not enough to surprise Selena on their own.

Because she has visited factories in other places, and factories in other places also have magic machines similar to this one, at most smaller in scale and fewer in number.

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

Between the "arteries" intertwined by those material pipelines and transportation mechanisms, another complex network structure came into her eyes, which was the pipelines and cables wrapped by a thick and strong composite protective layer. The interior of each machine extends out, some go deep into the ground, and some extend out along the beams on the upper floor of the workshop, leading to the outside of the workshop or a certain area inside the workshop. These pipelines have dark red marks on the surface, and there are The shimmering enchanted paint covers every important interface or inspection point, and some kind of shimmer slowly flows and flickers inside them, making these things seem to be alive.

In fact they are indeed alive - even sentient.

"All the machines here are actually modified from the existing equipment. Their main working structure is still the same, but a new control unit has been added—this has reduced the upgrade cost of the workshop by at least half. Countess Luo Penny stepped forward and tapped the metal cover on the side of one of the large processing machines with her fingers. It is used for manual takeover or emergency shutdown if necessary. Mr. Pluman, please help to open the cover."

The person in charge of the workshop called Pullman stepped forward immediately, and used a special key to open the steel cover that looked very strong. Selena leaned forward, and the structure under the cover entered her body. line of sight.

She saw a "rune palette" with exquisite partitions installed on the internal rack, but the ends of the rune units were connected with dark red biological tissues. It grew out of the pipeline and differentiated into nerve threads, which merged with the entire "Palette" device like vines spreading and growing in the soil, and in the depths of those runes, nerves, and pipelines, she also saw other nerves. A conduit for transporting nutrients, the thin biomass is slowly flowing through the conduit, nourishing the nerve nodes inside the machine.

At this moment, in Selena's eyes, one of the nerve lines seemed to have suddenly received a signal from the superior, and the runes connected to it lit up, and there was a low buzzing sound from inside the machine. After a few seconds, everything returned to calm .

Viscount Luo Penny's voice came from the side: "The system is checking itself-the neural network in the workshop will check itself every once in a while, just like the usual workshop supervisor patrolling the machine, but human eyes are not as sharp as these nerves. , These nerves can feel the situation of each machine as clearly as humans perceive their own fingers, and all faults and potential faults can be discovered and uploaded at the first time."

Selena nodded, and got up and left from the machine's "neural control unit". She raised her head and saw a neural pipeline extending from above, connecting and merging with several other neural pipelines, and disappearing into a higher layer. Inside the girder.

"There are several kilometers of nervous systems and supporting biomass pipelines here. They communicate and connect between machines, exchange data between nerve nodes, draw nutrients from underground circulation pumps and splitting pools, and reserve connections 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 network hub," the Viscount Luo Penny introduced, pointing to a facility deep in the workshop, " Next we're going to the workshop's 'brain', um... the actual brain."

Led by Luo Penny and the person in charge of the workshop, Selina 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 large one in an alchemy factory. The lower half of the distillation tower is buried in a large hole underground in the workshop, and the upper half is connected to the dome of the workshop. A large number of pipes and nerve cords converge above it, like the blood vessels connected to the heart, into the tower. A connecting bridge controlled by a mechanical device connects the middle of the tower with the main road of the workshop.

In front of this high tower, Selena closed her eyes slightly, but then opened another vision—that is a scene that ordinary people cannot perceive with the naked eye, and it is something that only eternal sleepers like her can see .

The river of thinking formed by nerve impulses flows quietly and interweaves into a net in this cold workshop made of steel.

In her field of vision, in the darkness, all the machines gradually emerged with light, tiny spots of light emerged inside them, and converged and flowed along the artificially customized veins, they converged in the air and underground, like the veins of life. It was as big as a river, and finally connected to the common source—that source was right in front of her eyes, an artificial brain that emitted a strong thought pulse and was composed of countless nerve nodes... And it seemed that there was more than one brain?

She opened her eyes, and the picture formed by the extraordinary perception was replaced by reality. She saw Countess Luo Penny stepping forward, and the high tower carrying the consciousness of the factory was opening the gate.

The tower is brightly lit, and three tubular devices with a diameter of two or three meters are fixed on the floor in the center of the room. There are several meters between each device, and there are countless pipes neatly connected from top to bottom. At the top of those devices, and in the center of these three tube-shaped devices arranged in a zigzag shape, Selina saw something half buried in the floor, which was shaped like some kind of insect's carapace, with a rounded arc on the upper part , the lower part is the base made of alloy - the strongest thought pulse is emanating from it.

"This is the mastermind of the workshop—it will also become the mastermind of the entire industrial area after passing the acceptance test. Next to it are the backup and servo brains. They have different functions and can quickly take over when any one of the brains has a problem. System," the technical director of the workshop came forward, this is a senior druid, with thinning hair and deep-set eye sockets showing his professionalism and reliability, "Theoretically, unless all brains die at the same time, as long as one is still alive In normal operation, the entire system will not shut down, at most the efficiency will drop..."

Countess Luo Penny took a few steps forward, and tapped the shell of the "Master Brain" lightly with her fingers. With a crisp sound, the shell opened slowly and immediately, revealing the crystal container filled with biomass solution, and the soaking water. Artificial brain in a container.

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

A large number of artificial nerve cords, metal needles, and fiber conduits are connected to those brains. If ordinary people see this scene, they will probably feel...very exciting.

But those who have worked here for a long time are obviously no strangers to all this—just as druids and doctors are also very used to the appearance of corpses.

"These are the neural connection units, which also include the monitoring poles. The wetware host sends orders to the neural network in the workshop through these connection units, perceives and controls all the machines, and the monitoring poles allow our main control center to keep abreast of each The situation of a servo brain is also used to give instructions to these servo brains," the technical director introduced this complex and advanced system next to it, "according to the deepest instructions of the servo brain, they can only receive the monitoring pole signal and identify The commands will be released only when the operator is authorized, and if any part of the whole process is abnormal, they will cut off the neural network and prompt the workers in the workshop to take over the machine manually through the broadcast system."

"This is to prevent someone from stealing the command power of the factory," Viscount Luo Penny added, "According to His Majesty, when a system achieves a high degree of integration and command concentration, it will also have the possibility of being stolen. The risk that, in the near future, taking over a factory might just take one wrongly authorized order — a risk we have to guard against."

"Ah... Your Majesty is really good at this kind of network-level infiltration and authority manipulation..." Perhaps recalling something that made people sweat, Selena's expression was a little strange for a moment, and then her eyes noticed the room The artificial console in one corner, on that console, there is a big red button that is particularly eye-catching, "What is that?"

"The one-key overclocking button is used to improve the operating efficiency of the system in a short period of time. It is usually used when overtime production is required or when the system needs to be reset quickly," the technical director replied immediately. "The main working mechanism is to automatically Inject syrup into the biomass pipeline..."