Chapter 287 Time Amber

What is in cyberspace?

Malware that can kill people in a few nanoseconds, AI that can reach the brain through network connections, and data vortexes that can turn normal people into lunatics in an instant.

Who is in cyberspace?

Corporate hackers wearing cryosuits, full of prosthetics, fully armed, and occupying half of the power grid, they are full of malice towards all cyberwalkers, cyber madmen lying in ice baths with wires stuck in their heads, they can attack anyone for profit, in short, there are no normal people.

Entering cyberspace is more like being entered than entering.

To put it bluntly, this is a data flow that can directly enter the human brain. It will bypass all ordinary senses. Vision, touch, hearing, etc. are all useless here. Only the brain can help humans understand its essence.

Therefore, if there is no professional equipment, there is no need to wait until the brain is burned. In the face of huge data flows, the human brain will directly implode, and the internal pressure in the head will instantly increase several times, which is simply not something humans can bear.

After entering cyberspace, can you resist the surge in brain pressure and travel in it without any scruples?

Of course not. This is not a directly concrete world. When you open your eyes, you will see that cyberspace is full of 0s and 1s, and pixels falling like rain.

If you don't have the ability, you can't move in it, and you can't even move. If you move reluctantly, you may plunge into a data fortress and be crushed into broken data fragments by the defense system.

A network walker must have the ability to visualize everything in cyberspace. You must be able to distinguish the essence of a group of data streams.

A group of data streams may be a heavily defended data fortress, a violent data whirlwind, a dangerous AI, a malicious hacker, and everything is a raw data stream. You have to distinguish and visualize it yourself.

In short, this cyberspace is not a place that ordinary people can play with. Equipment is only secondary. First of all, you must have the ability and knowledge, otherwise it will be useless no matter how good the equipment is.

Having equipment but no ability is like holding a nuclear bomb in your hand but not knowing how to use it, or having a strong body but not knowing how to punch or kick.

For Ke Ling, it is not difficult to distinguish. He has a strong understanding and learning ability, a large amount of knowledge reserves, and an exaggerated data processing ability. The messy data stream is divided into various vivid concrete images in his eyes.

Ke Ling is in a war fortress. He is standing on the wall of the fortress. The war fortress under his feet was built by Song Zhaomei and his team. This is the core area of ​​the entire "Shadow Realm Cyberspace". This data fortress stores all the research results of the "Shadow Realm".

Standing on the wall and looking out, there are two smaller fortresses not far away. Apart from that, there are not too many messy things.

The "Shadow Realm", a cyberspace that has just been built, cannot be very messy. The more conspicuous places are the data fortresses built by "Arasaka" and "Military Technology" on both sides. They each store their own research results.

Although all research results must be reported to the headquarters in the end, there is competition between everyone. Where there are people, there will be differences and factions. What's more, two parties that don't deal with each other must be on guard against each other.

Of course, "war fortresses" and "fortresses and city walls" are all scenes that are visualized in Ke Ling's eyes. Different people may visualize different things.

Some data fortresses will also put on a coat to make people retreat. Data fortresses of large companies usually do this.

Personal data flows can of course be disguised and put on a layer of skin, a bit like a network vest, or Cosplay, disguised as all kinds of things, such as spaceships, apocalypse knights, superheroes, cartoon characters, and fantasy creatures.

Ke Ling didn't do anything fancy. His image in cyberspace is his own appearance, and he goes online with his real name!

Entering the "Shadow Realm" data fortress, Ke Ling found the "God's Paladin". This cyber soul prison was naturally embedded in the data fortress, located at the bottom of the heavily defended fortress, just like going from the ground to the underground prison of the castle.

"God's Paladin", in Ke Ling's eyes, this thing is like a separate prison, which supervises all the copied and captured electronic souls one by one.

These prison cells are all highly closed, and the electronic souls inside cannot communicate with the outside world at all, nor can they communicate with other electronic souls. They all exist in isolation.

Johnny Silverhand was imprisoned in it before, but unlike the outside world, the electronic souls in this "God's Paladin" seem to be not very active, or in a state of "inertness".

This state of imprisonment does not seem to have much impact on them, at least it is much better than the state of Ott Cunningham wandering outside the "Black Wall". They look very honest and calm, as if they have completely adapted to this state.

Think about Johnny Silverhand. Given that guy's personality, if this kind of imprisonment really had a strong sense of reality, Johnny Silverhand would definitely go crazy before Otto Cunningham.

In fact, Johnny Silverhand's evaluation of this period of time is just uncomfortable and unbearable to look back on, but if you ask him to really say it, he can't really say what he feels.

Come to think of it, these electronic souls "stored" in the "God's Paladin" are really not known when they will be used.

If they are really imprisoned like this, and there is no special treatment, then when they are needed, I am afraid that they will have gone crazy a long time ago, which is definitely unacceptable.

"That's good."

Ke Ling began to deconstruct the source code of the "God's Paladin". This ability to "inert" electronic souls is simply the essence of the essence.

If there is no such ability, the role of this "God's Paladin" will be greatly reduced. Anyone can make an "electronic prison", but an "electronic prison" with this effect is not.

"Let's call you Time Amber."

Soon, Ke Ling deconstructed the ability of "Time Amber" from the source code. He has the highest authority in the "God's Paladin", and it is still very simple to separate this ability.

In fact, there is a simpler method, which is to get data directly from the headquarters of "Arasaka", but it is better to practice it in practice.

The ability of this "Time Amber" is to make the "electronic soul" inert, which may have a miraculous effect on crazy AI.

But this thing also has disadvantages, that is, the structure is complex, and it is really a bit lame to use it for attack. Unless the target is a chicken, it is difficult to hit it directly with this thing.

In cyberspace, fighting also depends on body skills. If you throw a "Time Amber" and can't hit someone, you can't wrap them up, so it's naturally useless. Amber Amber is to wrap people up to work.

Fighting in cyberspace may be a bit abstract. Everyone usually brings "magic puppets" and attacks mostly rely on "magic puppets".

This kind of "magic puppet" generally has a virtual image. For example, the netwalkers of the "Voodoo Gang" like to make them vampires, witches, etc., and the "magic puppets" will pounce on them and attack when fighting.

To describe it in a more vivid way, the battle in cyberspace looks like a space-time brawl in terms of visual effects, with all kinds of puppet battles, vampires, paladins, spaceships, magic, guns, and all sorts of things. Of course, these are essentially data packets.

Netrunners will hold up a "shield" to resist the enemy's attack, which is something like "ICE" and "firewall".

Particularly powerful netrunners, such as company dogs with company servers, can also rush up to fight directly and crush with powerful computing power, which is called "one force breaks all methods".

Although it seems very abstract, this is the cyberspace in the eyes of netrunners.

"You can optimize this space-time amber. It would be a pity if such a powerful effect cannot be used in battle."

Ke Ling put "optimizing time amber" on the schedule, but this matter is not very urgent. After all, there is no need to face the threat of the combat AI army for the time being, and even without "time amber", Ke Ling is not afraid of fighting in cyberspace.

Everyone is using the most advanced equipment, and there is no technological gap. With Ke Ling's own abilities, he doesn't believe that anyone can threaten him.

The intelligence attribute plus the characteristics of not being afraid of brainburning and the real killer "Soul Killer" directly make Ke Ling invincible. To be more arrogant, he even wants to stand in the cyberspace and shout "Who dares to kill me?"

In the cyberspace of the "Shadow Realm", naturally no one dares to attack Ke Ling, and in the outside world, whoever comes will die! Once the "Soul Killer" comes out, they will all be caught and put into the small black room in the middle of the Shenyu!

Ke Ling experimented with it, and it turned out that the original version of the "Soul Killer" was the most convenient to use, and it was also the most suitable for fighting.

The later versions have tended to be experimental, after all, Anderson Herman does not need to use the "Soul Killer" to fight.

After studying the "Soul Killer" and "Time Amber", Ke Ling shifted his attention to these copied electronic souls.

To be honest, everyone exists as a pile of data, so it doesn't seem difficult to devour them, especially when facing these "inert souls" who can hardly resist.

Netwalkers can directly connect to the brain of an individual like "Inception", and then enter the other party's brain to steal secrets. In cyberspace, they even skip the connection step and face each other directly.

As long as you break through the opponent's defense, you can basically do whatever you want, but generally you only extract some secrets. It seems that no one will really devour the defeated person.

The reason is simple. Such a huge data stream contains a person's life. The impact after swallowing directly is too great. Most people can't bear it. Even if the brain can bear it, who is the person after the swallowing and combination?

"That is to say, swallowing other electronic souls may really make you stronger, but most people can't afford the cost, so no one will do that, it's equivalent to suicide.

And Ott Cunningham doesn't care about this. It doesn't even care about the memory of its original identity, Ott Cunningham. It won't have any effect if it absorbs more."

Ke Ling made a guess, and this conclusion made his eyes light up.

Ott Cunningham can withstand the impact of swallowing other electronic souls, and he is not afraid of being affected by the memories of other electronic souls. He is the same!

Ke Ling is confident that he can handle these huge data streams, and these memories are even less likely to affect his mind. In terms of mental protection, the [Extreme System] is not ambiguous at all, and no one can affect his mind.

Thinking of this, Ke Ling thought he could give it a try. If it doesn't work, he can spit it out again. If there is a problem with swallowing, he can cut it at the speed of light.

Ke Ling randomly selected a lucky person. Looking at the nameplate, this guy is a regional executive of "Biotechnology". There are people from various companies in this "God's Portable". It is hard to say that these people have not contributed to the technological progress of "Arasaka".

This "Biotechnology" executive was pulled out of the cell, and the effect of "Time Amber" quickly began to fail. Ke Ling directly threw another one and put it on this guy.

After this amber was put on, the executive of the "Biotechnology" company immediately became honest. Ke Ling swallowed all the data into his own data without saying a word.

Unexpectedly, this "Time Amber" seemed to be working at this time. The huge group of data was particularly honest. Ke Ling's swallowing did not arouse much resistance from it. Ke Ling easily suppressed it completely.

"It actually has this effect."

Ke Ling was also stunned by this result. The swallowing went very smoothly. It was suppressed by the "Time Amber" and the [Extreme System]. Those messy memories were directly thrown into the trash can by Ke Ling. This time, even the pressure on the brain was reduced. The information that needed to be processed suddenly decreased sharply. Only some knowledge was left, which was classified and saved.

It's funny to say that a senior executive of a "biotechnology" company doesn't have many practical things in his mind, because this guy usually uses any knowledge and data from chips, networks, and databases.

If I have to say, this guy is probably the one with the smartest brains among these electronic souls. After all, "biotechnology" companies still value personal ability, which is a bit like "governing the country with technology". However, not all management positions in the company are technical talents. This guy is probably a professional manager.