Chapter 760 The Truth of Project No. 0

Dusk softly enveloped the earth, and the magic spar lamp in the study had been lit. Gawain signed his name on a document and handed it to Heidi, who was waiting across the table: "Economic revitalization and industrialization in the Eastern Region. You have to keep an eye on the construction, especially the economic pilot project in the Sulam platform, to strictly prevent the local businessmen and the old nobles from secretly colluding, driving up the price of food, and impacting the new currency. The entire Eastern Territory will be announced."

Hetty took the document with a serious expression: "Please rest assured, I understand the importance of the economic pilot."

Gao Wen snorted, and couldn't help but look at Heidi with concern: "How has your rest been recently? Pay attention to your body."

"I'm ashamed to let you care about this, my ancestor..." Heidi lowered his head suddenly, "Recently, the government affairs hall has not been very busy. After the winter, many projects that are relatively affected by the season have slowed down or temporarily stopped, and the internal affairs The department only needs to do a year-end summary and plans for the coming year, and the interns who were recruited into the Department of State Affairs last year can now also come in handy.”

"That's good," Gawain nodded. "So what happened to the magic web project in the north and west?"

"I have been synchronizing the progress on their side with the two grand consuls. At present, the main cities and the second-level cities of the two realms have built basic magic net facilities mainly because these cities basically have mages in town, and some The mage tower and the mature supernatural material processing system can complete the laying of the foundation faster, but as for the lower-level cities and villages... there is no progress."

Speaking of this, Hetty couldn't help shaking his head: "In addition, due to the arrival of winter, the areas outside the city have become difficult to construct. The relay device has barely achieved communication, and due to the scarcity of relay stations and insufficient power, communication in various cities is often interrupted, and it can be said that it has not yet entered a practical state.”

"Understandable," Gao Wen was not surprised, "after all... relatively large construction machinery and vehicles are still scarce, and the southern borders are stretched for their own use. Many areas in the northern and western borders can only rely on manpower for construction, and winter is difficult to overcome. Hom."

The magic net can exert its greatest value only when it becomes a "net".

The communication network throughout the country, the surging energy system, the cornerstone of industry, and the skeleton of society all need to be built on the basis of the connectivity of the magic net. Moreover, from the perspective of an "empire", Gawain also needs to connect the entire country. Each region of the country is connected into a tighter whole, so as to avoid the counterattack of the old forces in the distance, and to prevent some difficult-to-care provinces from returning to the closed and divided state of the kingdom era.

But this is not so easy to achieve.

It is relatively simple to establish basic magic net facilities in a city, but it is more than double the difficulty to establish enough magic net sites in those sparsely populated wilderness, not to mention that many projects will face extremely harsh environments, mountains and rapids. The quagmire, the permafrost in the north, the swamp in the west... Even with the help of magic, it is very difficult to challenge these.

The small relay device can only make the two magic nets operate at the lowest power, and in order for the magic net to achieve full power transmission of energy and information, it is necessary to build a relatively large hub tower or hub station. At that time, Gawain relied on the remnants of the unification war to implement measures such as large-scale population migration, urban integration, and military control in the border areas. Only in a short period of time did the magic net "form a net", but now the entire empire has been unified.

The country has been out of the state of war, and the entire empire is much larger than the original southern border. Of course, similar methods can no longer be used. Even if you want to use it, you must make considerable adjustments.

On this basis, he can only proceed step by step, waiting for this huge project to be completed slowly.

"Besides the main hub of the southern border, only the main hub of the Eastern Holy Spirit Plain has been successfully activated," Hetty said, "The Thorin Giant Tree helped us start the hub of the Eastern Plain in advance. The hub, the main hub in the north, and the main hub in San Sunil have all been shut down for winter."

"...Actually, it's good. If the projects are separated one after another, you can have the opportunity to discover some hidden problems, so as not to cause the entire country's magic net to suffer too much loss," Gao Wen said, half relieved and half sincere, "You just Pay more attention to the news from the Thorin Giant Tree, the experience accumulated there should be of great help to our construction after the spring of next year."

Heidi bowed his head and ordered: "Yes, ancestor."

Afterwards, she glanced at Gao Wen quickly and confirmed that all the documents and reports had been handed over, and then took a half step back: "Then if there is nothing else, I will go back to the office first and there are a few reports waiting for me to review. ."

Just as Gawain was about to ponder, he nodded when he heard that there was no problem, and as soon as he nodded, Heidi quickly left the room.

I don't know if it was an illusion, but Gawain even felt that the moment Heidi walked out of the study, the afterimage was dragged out...

"It seems that the work pressure is still high recently," Gao Wen couldn't help rubbing his chin, and said softly, "I still have to find her someone who can share the pressure..."

As soon as he finished his words, a little bit of amber appeared in the air beside him: "You really don't know why she is avoiding you recently?"

Gawain glanced at the half-elf: "Isn't it enough for the elderly to have fun?"

While speaking, he suddenly felt layers of ripples in the depths of his spirit, and a special identification mark called out in his consciousness.

"Daniel is looking for me, it seems a little urgent," he immediately looked at Amber, "I'll be watching here."

Amber froze for a moment, then waved his hand: "Hey, I'm familiar..."

As soon as she finished speaking, Gao Wen was already sitting on the large back chair, entering a state of spiritual connection.

Looking at Gawain who had closed his eyes, Amber couldn't help frowning, and after being silent for a while, he muttered to himself with a little sigh: "Alas...you're like this, I'm afraid you'll still be exhausted and die in this life... Can't it be solved with 'death from exhaustion'?"

The chaotic flickering light and shadow spread out in the field of vision, and Gawain could vaguely hear Amber's low BB in his ears, but he didn't care much.

The scene in his field of vision has gradually stabilized.

On the endless expanse of water, huge metal platforms are arranged one after another, and there are huge geometric objects and digital symbols running silently in the sky. In the center of the sky and water, Daniel in a black robe is already standing beside the white round table.

"My lord," the old mage bowed and saluted immediately after seeing Gawain, "I have become the archbishop of the Eternal Sleep Religion."

"You have passed the test and have been promoted successfully?" Gawain immediately looked up and down at Daniel, then nodded slightly with a smile, "That's really good news, congratulations."

"This identity is no longer important to me," Daniel immediately lowered his head and said with sincerity, "The knowledge and health you bestow cannot be measured in value."

Gao Wen could feel that the old mage's words came from the bottom of his heart.

In the beginning, the "loyalty" of this old mage from Typhon and the Order of the Eternals to the "Outlanders" may really just be due to fear, and the loyalty derived from fear often cannot stand the test, but as time goes by , with more and more things happening, this loyalty has apparently changed quietly.

Knowledge and health, and the real change in the state of life in the real world after getting both, cannot be ignored.

The old mage bowed his head in front of the "foreign wanderer", and the respect in his heart has long been greater than fear.

He knew that he was probably not a good person, even if he used to be, and now he is not.

But at least he remembers being grateful.

He once fell into despair due to the problem of his talent, once was driven to madness by imperfect biochemical transformation, once almost completely lost his mind, and once ruled by those endless whispers and hallucinations, he once lost almost everything, even most of his humanity.

It was a gift from the "extraterritorial wanderer", which gave him the opportunity to find those things back.

Perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, He just gave him some humble knowledge and some simple treatments, but this "minor" help from a "high-ranking existence" is enough to change a mortal's entire destiny.

The gift of fate needs to be repaid with loyalty.

"My lord," Daniel said respectfully, "After I became an archbishop, I obtained higher authority to investigate the truth of 'Project No. 0', and also initially contacted the root of the current crisis of the spiritual network!"

Gawain's eyes became serious: "Project No. 0... what the hell is going on?"

"They're trying to remove the 'mind seal'!" Daniel replied immediately, "and instead of removing one or two people, they intend to remove all the spiritual seals that gods have placed on mortals by connecting the dreams of every mortal!!"

Daniel's answer made Gawain's breath almost miss a beat, and the dignified and solemn image he tried so hard to maintain almost lost control.

After two seconds, he adjusted his mind and stared at Daniel's eyes: "Do they know the 'Seal of the Mind'?"

"Yes, but they call it 'shackles' or 'chains of the gods'," Daniel nodded, "I don't know how they first learned about this phenomenon, but apparently, specializing in the study of mortal minds and consciousness The eternal sleepers of the realm know more about the 'spirit seal' than the death of all things..."

"The research on the Society for the End of All Things has stopped at 'flesh. Body', and the Eternal Sleeper has obviously entered the realm of the mind and even the soul..." Gawain nodded slightly, "So what are they going to do? How does Project No. 0 work? ?"

Daniel nodded and began to report in detail: "First build a huge, independent spiritual world, they call it a 'sandbox', this sandbox is a more complex and advanced space than Dream City, except for the necessary monitoring measures In addition, it is completely isolated from the real world outside;

"The human mind is introduced into this sandbox world, and before entering the sandbox world, it undergoes complete hypnosis and memory removal, deleting all memories and concepts related to gods, and the sandbox world itself does not have any related gods. information;

"When the sandbox starts to run in a closed manner, it will form a closed system, which can be self-consistent and self-sustaining, because it does not exchange any information with the outside world, and its interior has been thoroughly 'sanitized', so it should be a In a completely godless world, those who 'survive' in the sandbox world will not remember what the outside world looks like, but will only think that everything in the sandbox is real;

"Finally, through 'time iteration', the passage of time in the sandbox world is accelerated, completely disconnected from the real world outside, allowing it to run internally for more than a thousand years, and allowing its inner mind to experience dozens or even hundreds of 'reincarnations' Reshape'..."

"Time iteration?" Gawain immediately grasped a key point in Daniel's report, "Accelerating the flow of time in the sandbox world? Does this require huge computing power?"

Daniel nodded solemnly: "Yes, very large computing power, and not only large computing power, but also the human brain that can always be connected to the network as the 'running matrix', because the sandbox must be completely isolated, not As long as isolation is achieved on the network, isolation in the real world is also required, and ordinary sleepers are floating and networked, and each node is constantly changing, which does not meet this condition..."

The mystery was finally solved, and the question that had plagued Gawain for a long time was answered.

"That's why they need brain servants!"

The Mind Network itself does not need a fixed "server". According to Gao Wen's understanding, its entire operation process is actually based on "cloud" technology: as long as a certain number of users remain connected to the network, only a small amount of The computing power task is allocated to those users, and the entire network can run. If it does not need any hardware foundation, that is, some terminals for connecting to the network, as well as the equipment required for debugging and monitoring the network.

So there is no need for the Eternal Sleepers to convert anyone into a "brain servant" to maintain their network.

But their "sandbox" needs it.

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