Gate of Apocalypse

Chapter 518 [Tech House Saves the World]

This spiral-shaped staircase slides down for a while and stops steadily. Chen Xiaolian was surprised that when this staircase slipped down, people could not feel a tiny bit of shaking and dizziness standing on it.

He couldn't help but look at Gibbs. Gibbs didn't wait for Chen Xiaocai to ask, he said, “Zero City technology, don't ask me how it works, I can't explain it in one or two sentences. Anyway, Zero City's technology transcends our cognition too much, and it uses some technical means to eliminate spinning centrifugal forces and overcome the feeling of gravity, so... you know. ”

After walking down the stairs, the spinning staircase automatically rises back up and the ceiling slowly closes.

Surrounded by an empty prototype room.

The center is a console.

“This is over thirty meters underground.” Gibbs walks up to the console and operates on a fast track: “Simply put, the Rubik's Cube is nominally there as a reserve for a backup unit. All the units in Zero City —— of course, I'm talking about the ones we have, not Zero City programs —— like the eco-cycle units, the energy units, the electronic surveillance units, even the lighting units, and so on, all built a backup set here, and all the units are stored at the foot of where we stand now… you don't have to look down, it's a long way from here. The nearest lighting unit is 20 meters away. ”

Gibbs operates very quickly, and he also flies fast: “Actually, rather than being a reserve for a backup crew, it's better to say, Zero City Research Center. We have been working here to break through our technology. We tried to learn more about Zero City, understand the functionality of its programs, crack those technologies, and try to replicate them, and if we can't, we'll use the lower technology we have at our disposal to get as close as possible to the functionality, which, of course, has been unsuccessful. ”

Speaking of which, Gibbs's tone suddenly became very low, he shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I've been working in the Rubik's Cube for 11 years. But the more I end up, the more depressed I get. Those who work here, for a long time, will be struck with incompleteness. ”

“Why?” asked Chen Xiaocai.

“Because… as a technician, a researcher, here you will be completely shattered by the power and leadership of Zero City.” Gibbs laughed bitterly, “Can you imagine that after 11 years here, me and my colleagues didn't develop any results. ”

“No, didn't you say you replicated a lot...”

“It's just passively accepting Zero City technology, you know?” Gibbs suddenly got excited: “That's passive acceptance! Not technology R&D! None of this technology was developed by us!

How to put it, I think all the work we do is wait… wait for Zero City to open up a technology for us.

Until it opens up technology, we can't master, or even understand, any research.

But strangely, every time we get to a certain point, we can't study the technology that we understand, and Zero City opens up to us at a certain time.

Our efforts are useless, and in the end, just wait for Zero City to open up new technology, and we'll use it.

Eleven years, I haven't done any research here! All the results are passive, just wait for the Zero City to open up and we'll do it.

Sometimes I really feel like I'm in a game, just passively waiting, and when the level reaches, I can light the tech tree, and at some point, no matter how hard I try, I can't light the tech tree —— everything has to follow the steps of the Zero City system. I would even think, as if it were all planned: when to give us what technology, as if everything was in its arrangement. ”

eyebrows raised by Chen Xiaocai.

Everything is in its arrangement - I don't know why, when I heard this, Chen Xiaoliang's heart was touched hard somewhere.

“Well, there's no time to complain, so let's get on with your plan.” Guanshan glanced anxiously at the time.

“Achievement, if not success, haste is useless.” Gibbs sighed: “There is only one way, and there is no guarantee that it will work. ”

He said, as if he had finally finished working on the console and slapped a button hard.

A bang, soon, in the middle of this round room, a 3D projection flashed suddenly!

This is a handsome kid with light brown hair who looks a few years old and has a rounded face. When the projection appeared, the projecting child looked at Gibbs as if with joy.

“Mr. Gibbs, you're back! ”

The sound of the milk voice is also fully consistent with the child's appearance.

Guan Shan couldn't help but frown: “A virtual projection? What's so special about it? We also have one in our hive, and this level of intelligent programming, is your greatest hope? ”

“It's hard for me to explain to you with your IQ.” Gibbs hummed and walked over, squatting in front of the virtual projection child, as if he wasn't facing a virtual intelligence projection, but a real human child, smiling in a tone of joy: “Yes, I'm back. How have you been, Adam? ”

Adam?

When I heard the name, Chen Xiaoliang moved.

This virtual projection called Adam suddenly crossed Gibbs with his eyes and landed behind Gibbs on Chen Xiaolian Guanshan and Tina.

The child's eyeballs turned very sharply, asking with the child's peculiar curiosity: "Gibbs... behind you, that beautiful lady, is that your wife? ”

“Yes, she's my wife, and I promised you that if I had a wife, I would bring you to meet her, wouldn't I, Adam? That's our deal.” Gibbs is patient with Adam.

Gibbs turned around and looked at Tina. Tina immediately walked over and squatted in front of Adam. She said softly: "Hello, Adam, my name is Tina. I've heard Gibbs talk about you, and you're a very smart, very cute kid. ”

“You're also very cute.” Adam laughed.

Guanshan looked at the time with great anxiety, and Gibbs took a deep breath, usually with Adam's eyes, and slowly said, "Adam, before I left last time, did you continue with that thing you told me? ”

Adam blinked and blinked - I must say, the projection was very realistic and lifelike. And then laughed in the voice of the child: "Gibbs, after you left, they canceled your assignment… but you're my favorite person, and of course I'll help you. So I've been secretly calculating what you told me. Although I've hidden a lot of computing power, I've been very careful and they haven't noticed! ”

“… well, Adam is indeed the smartest child.” Gibbs laughed.

“Gibbs!” Guan Shan finally couldn't bear to say, "What are you doing?! Talk to a smart program? At this time?! ”

“Don't compare Adam to the kind of intelligent program you think.” Gibbs turned his head and glanced at Guanshan: “I know that artificial intelligence in your knife mountain fire beehive, and I even know that thing better than you do! I even participated in the writing of its generation of artificial intelligence! Hmm... but Adam is different! Adam is not the kind of artificial intelligence that simulates in computational mode, Adam, is a real virtual life! ”

Looking at Guanshan as if he wanted to say anything else, Chen Xiaoliang went up and pressed Guanshan's shoulder and shook his head. Then Chen Xiaocai said to Gibbs: "Okay Gibbs, now is not the time to argue, Guan Shan is in a bit of a hurry, but now the time is really pressing. ”

“… understood.” Gibbs stood up and glanced at Chen Xiaocai: “Adam is not an AI program, he can't simply give him instructions, he will do things for you... he is a self-conscious creature, so he has emotions, you know? Like a real kid, he gets emotional, he does one thing, he has to deal with him first, and then he comes in. ”

And after that, Gibbs said to Adam, "Okay, Adam, now, please, just give me the results of my request for help, and give me the results, okay? ”

Adam frowned and thought, and the kid seemed a little disappointed: "Gibbs, can't we tell a story first? Or can we sing a song? ”

Gibbs took a deep breath: "I'm sorry, Adam, but it's really urgent right now, and it's very important to me, too, to tell a story or something, next time, okay? Please.”

“… okay.” Adam nodded at last despite his disappointment: “Now that it's Gibbs, I certainly won't refuse - not someone else, after all, but my favorite Gibbs. ”

After that, the child suddenly sat on the ground, wrapping his legs, like a real child his age, lifted his fingers, and soon, he snapped his fingers, and then more projections appeared!

Projection after projection, but a bunch of formulas, all kinds of calculations, are going fast.

Chen Xiaoliang found that this room seemed to be a completely digital world. The room was full of projected numbers, and as the numbers changed, Chen Xiaoliang suddenly found that the location of these numbers in the room seemed to be hidden and familiar...

All these flowing numbers, if you look away... it's just like an overlooking...

Map of Zero City!!

No, not a map, but a three-dimensional projection!

A 3D 3D projection of a Zero City has been built with all sorts of flowing numbers!!

“What is he... calculating?” Col. Chen asked Gibbs.

“Calculate the position of the exit, no, to be precise, 'if there is an exit, the position where the exit should exist’.” Gibbs sighed.

Chen Xiaoliang felt that his brain was not enough.

“Adam, how long will it take? ”

“It takes about half a song, because ‘it’ is constantly changing, so it's hard to catch it every time.” Adam wriggled his fingers as if he was continuing to calculate something.

“Okay.” Gibbs nodded and looked back at Chen Xiaocai and others: “Okay, now I can explain my plan. ”

“What did you just say if there was an exit… what does that mean? ”

“This means that even if Zero City's 'External Corridor Program' is indeed cancelled, there should be other exits besides the 'Gate’ - of course, only theoretically. ”

“Speak human language! Say something that we can understand.” Chen Xiaolei sighed helplessly.

“Okay.” Gibbs grabbed his hair, and this guy seemed like he was reincarnated into a tech house, thinking two seconds later, Gibbs said: “Well, first of all, we need to understand, what exactly is the 'outer tunnel’ of Zero City?

You might think it's a lot of ways to connect the outside world? Or lots of doors that connect the outside world? A lot of transmission lines?

That's true, but it's not true!

If you have to make the most picturesque metaphor, the 'Zero City External Passage' thing is like a broadband.

Compare it to the home broadband that people in the outside world often use.

For example, the Zero City External Passage System is a 100-million-dollar broadband.

It has a total capacity of 100 trillion.

Among them, the initial design, the Central Square transmission array, the gate —— for example, it took up 90 trillion dollars of broadband.

But there is room for broadband, which is a reserved rule for the prevention of emergencies.

So, where does this extra 10 trillion broadband usually go?

Simply, our Angel Corps, and other resident teams, have developed their own names, but in essence, all these paths are ‘temporary', and there is only one real door, the one in Central Square.

And all those temporary tunnels, those 10 trillion weekdays of idle broadband.

But now, the Zero City External Corridor program disappeared.

Simply put, the external channel program, as if it were a management program, the management program disappeared, but... broadband didn't disappear!

The proof is that 90 trillion doors still exist! So, by the way, that 10 trillion extra bandwidth is definitely there!

Otherwise, broadband will disappear together and the gates will disappear! There can't be a hundred trillion in broadband, and somehow it's 90 trillion, which doesn't make any sense in theory.

So…… "

Gibbs glanced at Adam, who was still calculating, and said, “As for the presumption of 'bandwidth’, which I put forward when I was working in the Rubik's Cube, my theory was shared by some, but everyone thought it was reasonable but of little practical value. Everyone was dissatisfied with what I asked Adam to do to calculate these studies, because Adam, as a new intelligent life, had a lot of computational work to do, and my research would waste a lot of computational power, so... I had to let Adam help me study this matter secretly. ”

Chen Xiaocai's eyes lit up: “Since 10 trillion broadband hasn't disappeared... where is it now? Why did it disappear? ”

“No, not disappeared, but we couldn't find it. This 10 trillion bandwidth, which has always been managed by external channel programs, is the rule, so we can take advantage of it. But once the management program disappears, it loses control, it becomes irregular, not honestly where, waiting for us to use it at any time, but... it becomes an active data stream, flowing around, we can't see it, we can't touch it, but it's still real! ”

“Where does it exist? ”

“Everywhere!” Gibbs said: “This‘ broadband ’is actually a stream of data that flows all the time, it appears everywhere, flashes, then disappears, and moves elsewhere… it moves fast and slowly. ”

Gibbs pointed to the three-dimensional model of the Zero City in the room, which is made up of countless numbers, and said, "It turns into zero, and it exists in every part of the Zero City, maybe in every corner. And it moves all the time and doesn't stay in one place.

Maybe this second, it shows up in the arena, maybe the next second, it shows up in the House of Lords, maybe one percent of the time, it shows up at some coordinates of 20 meters in the sky in Zero City.

Every time it shows up, maybe it stays for an hour, maybe it stays for just one percent of a second, I don't know.

Have you ever played a game called "Playing the Mouse"?

You can look at this 10 trillion bandwidth as the rat in the game jumping out of a different hole, it's everywhere, moving around, and all we have to do is grab it! Then grab it! ”

“So? ”

“By massive calculations, you can find the Zero City, this 10 trillion bandwidth, hidden place, track its flow, flash, come out... and calculate where it will appear next, find a time node that suits us!

This is important and very difficult.

To calculate the trajectory of its flow, it is very difficult to figure out where it appears.

And find the right time and location!

If it appears somewhere in the sky - no, it can't be used!

If it shows up in the right place, but only stays a tenth of a second this time, it disappears - it doesn't work for us either!

So, to calculate, it's in the right place, the right time point, and there's enough time for us to take advantage of it...

This calculation is very troublesome. And only Adam would be able to do that. ”

Chen Xiaocai heard the dizziness and tried his best to make sure he understood only half of it. More can only be guessed.

However, looking at Gibbs' face, Chen Xiaoliang suddenly remembered a sentence.

Really...

Tech house, save the world!