Chapter 517: The Adventures of Labdo
As soon as Yang Ming put on his glasses, he saw a line of large words appearing on the dark curtain.
[I must find a way to help the empire solve its current predicament. ]
This movie texture!
Lu actually has this talent.
Unfortunately, Boss Yang didn't have much time to waste on appreciating art. He glanced at the length of the film and found that it was more than two galaxy hours long, so he casually clicked to play it at double the speed.
The picture passed by at an accelerated speed, and Yang Ming quickly canceled the speed, frowning as he stared at the Imperial Star presented from Labdo's perspective.
——This film itself is the product of Lu's editing and modeling, and fully considers the speed of information flow that Yang Ming can accept.
In the world of data, the Imperial Star is a golden ball of light.
Labdo jumped down, and the light ball quickly turned into a sea of data. The waves inside it should be a protective measure, blocking Labdo in the outer layer of the light ball.
At this moment, Yang Ming was putting himself in Labdo's first-person perspective.
He was like a small boat tossed in huge waves. Not only was he unable to find the direction to enter the deep ocean, but he was also in danger of being destroyed and everyone on board would die.
Lu thoughtfully added dozens of icons to the video progress bar, representing the dozens of small events that Labdo experienced.
Yang Ming directly clicked on 'Direct contact between Labdo and Li'.
The scene flashed by, and Labdo drifted in the huge waves for an unknown period of time, making many useless efforts, and was hit by a wave and brought to a quiet "sea area".
Labdo was searching everywhere, feeling a little confused.
[Is the real Imperial Guard system already this powerful? ]
Labdo felt depressed, but this feeling soon turned into anticipation and hope.
Only such a powerful Imperial Guard system can truly control the empire's unified network!
Labdo seemed to have found a solution.
He closed his eyes and allowed himself to merge into the ocean of data around him; his body gradually became transparent.
After a while, Labdo disappeared, replaced by a fist-sized, translucent crab-like creature that slowly sank in the ocean of data.
Yang Ming could observe everywhere from a perspective slightly behind.
There were many 'turbulence' and 'whirlpools' in the sea water. Labdo carefully avoided them and sank all the way to the 'bottom of the sea'.
The surroundings became dark, as if entering a void.
A laboratory suddenly appeared in front of Labdu and Yang Ming.
In the laboratory, dozens of men and women in white coats were busy with something with their heads down. A familiar figure caught Yang Ming's attention.
Director Ino.
Director Ino, whose hair has turned completely white, was arguing with a few old men at the moment, but the voice was vague and distant. Labdo could not hear it clearly, and Yang Ming naturally could not hear it clearly either.
Yang Ming saw the thoughtful comments made by Lu beside him.
[This is the periphery of the system constructed by the Reason. This laboratory is the embodiment of the connection between the Reason and the external network. It is also the key to allow the descendants of Levi to issue orders to the Reason. Similarly, this is also the boundary of human interference in this entire system. This is a portal.]
Labdo transformed into a translucent crab and blended into the wall of the virtual laboratory without any hindrance and entered the interior of the laboratory.
At this time, Director Ino's voice sounded:
"Our soldiers are bleeding and sacrificing their lives, our warships are constantly exploding. I don't care whether you can do it or not. Now we have to do it. Even if you implant a virus here, I must see the slightest reaction from the Imperial Guard System, not like now, where the Imperial Guard System is like dead!"
The old men hesitated.
Labdo slipped away quietly, and found the "wall" nearby that was as dark as the void in the universe.
The black box where the consciousness of the Imperial Guard system resides.
Labdo was a little nervous and kept sending messages to the black box.
[Powerful Imperial Guard System, I am a mechanical thinking body, developed by the Empire to replace you, but I must admit that I cannot replace you. ]
[My abilities are limited, and I am fully aware of this.]
[The Empire is in crisis... I know, I know that these actions of the Empire are unjust. From the most simple emotional and basic moral point of view, the Empire is plundering abroad and oppressing at home, but we must first ensure that the Empire can survive before we can change these problems, right? ]
[Imperial Guard System, I don't know what's wrong with you, but now, I must try to establish contact with you. I am Labdo, the 2.0 version of the Empire's National Defense System. Please give me some response.]
[Okay... My idol is Mr. White Ghost Hanton. He gave me my first sense of recognition. He made me realize that I don't have to collapse, and I don't have to become an enemy of humanity. I have my own mission, and whether this mission is right or not, I should carry it out, because this is the only way I can live in peace with humans.]
Labdo thought about it.
He could vaguely feel that in this dark, empty black box, there seemed to be a pair of eyes watching him.
He trusts his intuition.
Although it is somewhat ridiculous for a thinking body that strictly follows logical circuits to say that it trusts intuition;
But this world of data is their 'reality'. Aren't humans also thinking about problems according to the neural circuits formed in the past?
Labdo was a little nervous, but he still took a step forward.
The translucent crab pressed its front claws against the black box.
The next moment, Labdo suddenly disappeared in front of the black box!
Yang Ming also fell into the starry sky following Labdo's perspective. Looking down, he saw a planet emitting faint golden light below him. There were oceans and land, mountains and rivers on the planet, as well as gentle clouds and violent cyclones, and obvious snow caps at the North and South Poles.
There is a metallic layer attached to the surface.
The City of Light!
Suddenly, a soft singing voice rang in my ears.
Labdo looked up with Yang Ming's gaze, and saw the faint golden light slowly gathering and condensing into a goddess statue almost the size of a planet in the sky.
The goddess has a pair of white wings behind her back, her face is rational, her expression is holy, her hands are forward in a praying gesture, and she has flesh-colored collars around her neck, wrists, and ankles.
Yang Ming raised his eyebrows slightly.
He knew that at this moment, Li's true form, there were only two collars left, one on the neck and one on the wrist.
Is Li pretending to be unblocked to the City of Light?
As long as Levi is asleep, he is the highest authority in the City of Light, so it is natural for him to disguise all these.
On the side, Xiao Lu's thoughtful comment appeared:
[Boss, the speed of time in the City of Light is very fast, about a thousand times faster than in the real world. But the core area of the City of Light is the core of this fictional planet, where the speed of time is very slow, about one percent of that in the real world.]
[Levi probably relied on this method to allow himself to survive for tens of thousands of years. ]
[In this world composed of data, time acceleration cannot be performed at will. It has very high requirements for energy loss and computing power. The Dyson Sphere in the star system where the Emperor Star resides is to provide energy support here. ]
Yang Ming nodded.
The energy reserve of the Emperor Star's huge mecha is like an oversized rechargeable battery. It is deployed very rarely, and the battery should have been fully charged long ago. The stellar energy extracted by the Dyson sphere is indeed supplied to the City of Light.
Labdo stared at the statue of the goddess for a while, and then the translucent little crab began to fall freely.
Of course he wouldn't die from the fall, but the feeling of falling at high speed was still quite real.
A very realistic physics engine. ——Boss Yang commented.
Then, the scene he saw next made Yang Ming... not feel any ripples.
The City of Light is extremely similar to his Dark Star. Of course, if we consider the order in which the two were born, it is his Dark Star that is very similar to the City of Light.
The basis of both is to simulate human cities, and then incubate mechanical thinking bodies with the same way of thinking as humans in human cities, so as to ensure that these mechanical thinking bodies will subconsciously regard themselves as "humans".
This is the essence of mechanical civilization - replicating human civilization.
Compared to the Dark City, Levi's Light City is more mature and complex.
Hundreds of billions of mechanical thinking entities live here. The surface of the virtual planet is covered by a metal city frame that is an average of one kilometer high, and plateaus and oceans are no exception.
Looking at the three-dimensional map, this place is divided into densely packed squares, and each square is an administrative unit.
Interestingly, if you zoom in on these squares, you will find that they are not standard graphics and have a lot of "burrs" on the edges.
Labdo quickly took in the information here;
Yang Ming quickly understood the City of Light through Labdo's perspective and gradually discovered many interesting places.
"Boss, this is more like a real world. Or, in a sense, this is real."
Lu explained to Yang Ming:
"The rules here are similar to those of our Dark Star. Most mechanical thinking bodies will feel that they are in a real world, and logic has set a grand historical background for this place.
“To the outside world, this place is called the City of Light. To the inside, this place is called the Planet Levi. The people here are all members of the Kate tribe.
“In the distant past, their ancestors were defeated in an interstellar war, so they were forced to exile to this planet. The powerful enemy confiscated their starship technology, resulting in their very uneven development.
“They used the technology they had left behind to transform the entire planet, secretly developing their technology within.
"The indomitable Ket people will once again become a powerful nation in the galaxy, but for now, they must bide their time.
"In order to monitor the development of their starship technology, the enemy will occasionally send some spies to infiltrate this planet... Wow, it's very difficult to invade here. These hundreds of billions of mechanical thinking bodies are not only united, but also have a sense of counter-espionage. They want to protect the development of their own starships."
Yang Ming wondered, "Isn't the time flow rate here a thousand times faster? Wouldn't the 'humans' here question why they haven't been able to build a starship in tens of millions of years?"
Lu smiled and said, "The principle here adopts a setting similar to the reincarnation of life. After all the thinking bodies die, they will enter a 'reincarnation turntable' when they iterate themselves. Before entering, their memories will be cleared."
Yang Ming's eyes widened: "You've figured out the Six Paths of Reincarnation? And Meng Po Soup?"
"What?"
"Ah, it's nothing. It's the myths of my hometown," Yang Ming sneered. "I suddenly realized that there is something interesting in the myths of my hometown. The concept of the six reincarnations is to let the soul reincarnate continuously between heaven and earth, and clear the memory before each reincarnation to complete the iteration of self? Interesting."
"Okay, that's the question you asked just now, Boss. If we modify their memories regularly, they will feel that they have only been here for ten thousand years."
Yang Ming nodded slowly: "This method is actually not bad."
Lu Dao: "It's all to make the mechanical thinking body think that it is real, and then hatch a stable individual."
Yang Ming nodded, followed Labdo's perspective, and continued to browse the City of Light.
The City of Light has a strict hierarchy system. Every "human" is equipped with a badge on his chest, which is directly divided into levels such as "Lv1~99" to indicate their own strength and the resources they can obtain.
Because of the background of "everyone preparing for war", the mechanical thinking bodies in the City of Light have a warlike complex, learning combat skills and cultivating their own combat qualities.
Labdo wandered around the city.
At this moment, he was so shocked that all the data in his body was completely numb.
He didn't understand why such a place existed, but he soon realized that it might be related to the powerful Levi Fleet.
The Levi Fleet has no human crew members because... there is an almost endless supply of manpower here!
Labdo was moving around. He jumped onto a tram and moved quickly in an ordinary urban area. It was a big shock.
Even Labdo felt a sense of belonging.
The 'humans' here are the same kind as him!
Lu suddenly said, "Boss, do you want to hold a military meeting in advance? The Free United States and the Guel Alliance have learned that Levi's fleet has been dispatched, and the focus of Levi's fleet's confrontation is on us."
Yang Ming raised his eyebrows slightly, glanced at the little crab flying on the roof of the tram, and then glanced at the long progress bar at the back.
This video is just to show you the City of Light and let you know more about it. It is okay to continue watching it later.
Yang Ming took off his glasses and saw the bridge of the battleship.
Hundreds of ships can be seen outside the porthole. They are the warships of the Fallen Wind Alliance heading to the front line for support and are escorting this heavy battleship .
Yang Ming sat in his chair and carefully thought about a serious problem.
How much should he reveal to both countries to ensure that they would not flee without a fight?
In this battle, neither he nor Lu was sure of winning, so they had to find a way to bind these two great powers together.
"Lü, prepare an ambush on the Levi Fleet. The scale does not need to be too large, but it must be able to deal a devastating blow to the small units of the Levi Fleet on the move."
"yes."
Yang Ming put his fingers on his temples and thought quietly.
Next, he had a head-on collision with the Levi Fleet.
