Chapter 524: Don’t worry, there will be absolutely no problem!
Exhausted, Mimili fell into a deep sleep in the large bedroom of the beach villa;
Boss Yang, who had only slightly consumed some of his physical strength, stroked her delicate skin with his fingers with a sense of lingering desire, turned his head and put on the holographic glasses.
Before officially invading the City of Light, Yang Ming naturally wanted to learn more about this place.
He is not an avid gamer, nor does he have any habit of being abused by bosses. If he is given the power to cheat, Yang Ming will definitely lock health, aim automatically, make every sword hit critically, see through the entire map, explode the enemy crystal with one click... and check all the boxes that can be checked.
Pragmatism is an excellent quality of Boss Yang.
Yang Ming first quickly filtered the images he had seen last time, and then followed Labdo's perspective to appreciate this "one-star world".
After traveling to so many places in the Milky Way, Yang Ming rarely expresses admiration for surface buildings.
After mastering energy that is almost endless for individual humans, humans in the Milky Way always like to create some magnificent architectural wonders.
For example, the huge star ring on Yaha. Six artificial ring structures wrap the entire planet, using their bodies to draw the specific location of the near-stellar orbit, and also activate the full potential of Yaha as a transit center for imperial trade.
Another example is the scroll-shaped artificial space settlement of the Guell Confederation;
There are also those deep space ports that are used for military purposes;
And of course there's that giant 'Transformer' on Dixing... Each of them is so spectacular.
But in this virtual city of light, after Yang Ming put himself in Labdo’s perspective, what he saw and heard made him feel shocked again.
What shocked him was the complexity, complexity and disorder of this place.
Hundreds of billions of virtual minds live in irregular square-shaped urban areas. Apart from anything else, how huge and complex are the communication signals they generate every moment?
This is simply unimaginable.
In this virtual world, "human beings" are like cancer cells of this planet, spreading madly until they fill the entire virtual planet inside and out.
No district or street is repeated.
The development of various urban areas is not balanced, and this imbalance is also reflected in the gap between the rich and the poor and the class division.
Here is the most classic comparison:
Some urban areas seem to be financial and economic centers, where white-collar workers who do not produce much labor ride on various high-end hovercrafts and travel through buildings with rich design languages.
Some urban areas are mainly based on labor production. Workers rush into the production line and produce goods through repetitive labor. These goods are then labeled and become the source of the financial industry. After going through a series of bends and levers, they support a group of financial practitioners who do not need to work but can still earn super high incomes.
Obviously, the City of Light is not an utopia where everyone is like a dragon. It is just a complicated and magnified real world.
What puzzled Labdo was that, although it was such an advanced city, the proportion of automated production was extremely low, and there was even a complex assembly line for manually assembling precision mechanical guards.
But Labdo quickly figured out the key here.
[In order to ensure employment data and maintain social stability here. ]
Similarly, the City of Light contains an extremely large amount of cultural information, and these virtual thinking entities that think they are "human" have dazzling and colorful spiritual entertainment projects.
If we regard this place as a real world, the people here generally live a comfortable life.
Labdo transformed into a little crab and visited several urban areas, and soon entered an old urban area with a dirty and messy environment.
Compared with the prosperous or quiet urban areas in all directions, this old urban area looks dilapidated.
There are also normal residential areas here, but the flow of people on the streets is not that large. Many homeless people can be seen wandering on the streets, and most of the amusement facilities are very old.
Labdo soon discovered that there were many damaged buildings here, as if they had experienced wars and had not yet been repaired.
[If this is a virtual world created by the Imperial Guard System, and the purpose of this virtual world is to provide for the mechanical thinking bodies used by the Levi Fleet, then why did a battle break out here? ]
Labdo thought about it.
He began to search for the answer to this question.
The translucent little crab began to wander around.
Following Labdo's perspective, Yang Ming began to explore the buildings that still bore traces of battle. Many places looked like fires had broken out or vehicles had spontaneously combusted.
He was also a little confused, so he asked directly: "Lv , what's going on here?"
"Boss, please continue watching," Lu said with a smile, "The City of Light is divided into levels, from Lv01 to Lv99. This is actually a division of force value."
Boss Yang wondered, "But from what we've seen, most of the minds are in the state of ordinary people. There's no fighting going on."
"Most of them are below level 10. The history and culture here is set to prepare the whole nation for war, so everyone must undergo basic military training while in school... Look down, it will appear soon!"
Yang Ming became more and more curious and continued to observe attentively.
About a minute later, Labdo transformed into a small crab and crawled out of a small building that was under renovation. All the glass in the building was shattered, and there were many burn marks inside, as if a violent explosion had occurred.
[How strange.]
Several question marks floated on the forehead of the little crab Labdo.
Sudden!
Without any warning, a loud bang was heard from the next block, and the entire street was shaking slightly. The workers working there seemed to have gotten used to it and immediately took shelter inside the buildings.
Labdo immediately ran towards the direction where the loud noise came from.
He soon saw a light red mushroom cloud rising from the area where the explosion occurred.
The shrill warning sounded throughout half of the city, and people on the streets began to move to the nearest building shelters.
By the time Labdo rushed through an alley and appeared in the neighborhood where the explosion occurred, more than a dozen suspended police cars had appeared in the air, and beams of searchlights were converging on the street.
[What is this? A monster?]
Labdo's "inner voice" appeared on the screen, and Yang Ming also saw the "monster" that caused the explosion.
The monster was supposed to be a girl in a school skirt, but at this moment, the skirt had been completely torn apart, and the girl turned into a tumorous monster with light red flames burning all over her body. Her facial features had undergone horrible changes, and she kept screaming in pain.
The...mutation of the thinking body?
Yang Ming was surprised along with Labdo.
The monster had begun to move towards the school not far away;
Its body was already more than three meters tall, and was still growing at a speed visible to the naked eye. Some twisted muscles began to appear on its back, and the flames were getting higher and higher.
There were bursts of screams in the school and the students quickly moved towards the indoor gymnasium.
The police hovercrafts in the air opened fire at the same time, but the rays they shot were completely unable to penetrate the monster's skin and could only create small gaps in the smoke and flames.
Just at this moment, a fast flying vehicle appeared in the air, and seven or eight figures flew down on hoverboards.
The attire of these people is completely different from that of the police. It cannot be said that their attire is without any rules, but it can be said that it is very individual.
The plump-butted boy in leather pants and dreadlocks, and the beautiful girl in military uniform with a firm figure, were the two guys that left the deepest impression on Yang Ming.
They immediately launched a siege on the monster, and the weapons in their hands were not laser pistols, but kinetic killing weapons with strong recoil and more backward principles - gunpowder pistols.
Following a few crisp gunshots, some bloody holes appeared on the monster's body.
Several concussion bombs exploded around the monster, creating ripples in the air. The monster was blown back and fell on the road.
Then, two girls holding the hilts of the lightsabers jumped down.
Just when Yang Ming thought that the next scene would be the lightsaber unfolding to kill the monster directly, he didn't expect that alloy sword bodies would pop out from the two sword handles. When the two combat girls approached the monster, the monster's body suddenly swelled up, and its left arm swung forward, knocking a young girl away.
The latter hit the wall so hard that he broke several ribs and fell into coma.
The monster raised its head and roared. The figures on the hoverboards dared not approach it anymore. They fought around it and used long-range weapons to inflict more damage to the monster.
After several minutes of fierce fighting, the monster, with only the lower half of its body left, finally fell to the ground, its body burning rapidly , leaving only a pool of black burnt marks on the ground.
The combat girl who was knocked away has been carried away on a stretcher and covered with a white cloth.
The little crab that Labdo transformed into hid in the corner, thinking quietly.
The picture pauses.
Ritsu jumped out from the corner of the screen with a smile on his face, wearing the school uniform that appeared in the school just now:
"Boss! What do you feel after reading this? Give me your first reaction!"
"First reaction?"
Yang Ming groaned for a few seconds, then murmured, "If you really want me to say it... the shock bomb is the eternal god!"
law:……
"No, Boss! I mean this battle, the fight!"
"What else can I feel?" Yang Ming shrugged. "These young people's fighting skills are terrible. This monster seems to be immune to laser beams, but not to more primitive kinetic energy firearms. This makes me feel incredible."
"This is indeed somewhat counterintuitive, but this is a reasonable setting."
Lu smiled and said:
"Then why do you think this phenomenon occurs?"
Yang Ming thought for a moment: "I don't like to use my brain... A mechanical thinking body will self-destruct? I remember you said that there will be various self-destructive mechanical thinking bodies on the Dark Star, and you will directly recycle and process them."
"Yes, boss," Lu said seriously, "However, the collapse in the City of Light is very different from the situation on our side of the Dark Star."
Yang Ming became interested: "Tell me in detail."
Lu snapped his fingers, and a small blackboard appeared in front of Yang Ming's eyes.
Law explained:
“Whether it is the Dark City created by me or the Light City created by Li, we must follow one principle, that is - we must believe that this is a real world.
"Then on this basis, we set up the physical rules one by one, from simple to complex, to construct a basic world system.
"The real world is the best blueprint. The system cores of mine and Li are only at the level before the third test of Twilight. We do not have the ability to reconstruct a world with independent physical rules, so we can only copy the data of reality.
“That’s what the City of Light is like.
"Its operating logic still follows human society, and it's like an extension of human society, but it has existed for too long. Its hardware system has been in use for more than tens of thousands of years. Its core system has been operating for an astonishing millions of years under the influence of the surface time flow speed of the City of Light being accelerated by hundreds or thousands of times.
“Even the most perfect system will have loopholes, and when loopholes occur, there are two ways to deal with them.”
Yang Ming suddenly realized: "Either redesign it to fundamentally solve the loophole, or patch it."
"Yes, boss! Your knowledge is also growing rapidly!"
"That's right," Yang Ming raised his eyebrows, "Teacher Lu taught well... What he meant was that monsters are loopholes, and those combatants are patches?"
“It may seem so simple, but it’s actually more complicated!”
Lu smiled and said:
"In this system designed by Li, there is an underlying logic similar to reincarnation, which is to reuse the core data of these thinking bodies.
“The reason why this kind of monster appeared in the City of Light is because of the data flow. The normal thinking body was affected by the thinking body wandering at the bottom of the reincarnation system.
"Because of the recent defeat suffered by the Sherman Empire at the Falling Winds border, which resulted in the loss of a large number of Levi Fleet crew members, a large amount of data will need to be entered into the reincarnation system and returned to the City of Light. The system itself has accumulated vulnerabilities to an outrageous degree, so we will see frequent incidents of mind-body transformation monsters.
“Of course, in their eyes, humans have undergone a terrible mutation.
"The hardware of the core server of the City of Light has aged in many places. The Sherman Empire has not maintained it properly. The dilapidated urban area you see is the area where mutation incidents are frequent. It corresponds to the data partition of a hard disk server."
Yang Ming nodded, clicked on the screen and continued browsing.
He asked: "If I enter the City of Light, what can I do with this loophole?"
"Boss, look."
Lu showed an 'upgrade chart' and explained:
"Reason has made strict divisions for the City of Light.
"Have you seen these warriors fighting monsters? They are called awakened ones. They can increase their strength and directly obtain certain permissions in the core system. These permissions will be manifested as their own combat capabilities in the City of Light.
"To you, these battles are naturally child's play. You only need to become an awakener, awaken some abilities, and then let the system of the City of Light recognize you as a 'reincarnated person who died in battle', and you will receive many preferential treatments.
"When you reach Lv60 of this system, you'll have the chance to get close to Levi!"
Yang Ming asked: "Then how should I kill Levi?"
"The Faya people gave us a virtual virus," Lu opened his right hand, in which was a colorful fluttering moth, which was sleeping at the moment, "as long as you can get close to Levi and enter Levi's unique territory deep in the City of Light, and release it, you can end this journey."
Yang Ming leaned back slightly.
He still had some doubts.
In the picture, Labdo slowly crawled towards the ashes left by the monster and continued to think about something.
Yang Ming asked again: "Lv. How long do you think it will take me to reach Lv60?"
"In the real world, it's about three to six months."
Yang Ming glared and asked, "Does that mean I have to stay in the City of Light for at least thirty galactic years?"
"That's the theory, but once you get in, you'll see that they're not cheating, they're basically selling cheats!"
Lu smiled and said:
“I have every confidence in you.”
Labdo in the picture seemed to have discovered something, and the body of the little crab actually dissolved towards the ground.
The next moment, the light and shadow suddenly changed, and Labdo seemed to fall into a void. The falling process lasted for a few seconds and then stopped abruptly.
There was a figure in front of Labdo.
This is a girl with twin ponytails. Her neck and one wrist are bound by a collar. Her light blue eyes are staring at Labdo's figure.
Labdo cried out: "Emperor Guard System! I am!"
call out!
Labdo was kicked out of the City of Light, the Imperial Guard System began to wake up, and took over the entire Empire's unified network.
——This is the situation when the Levi Fleet was activated during the Battle of Xie Luo.
Yang Ming took off his glasses, threw them aside, looked up and sighed softly.
"Lv, I've thought about it carefully. In fact, the most troublesome thing is the process of entering the City of Light. As long as I successfully become the so-called awakener inside, upgrading should not be a problem."
"Boss, please rest assured!"
Lu patted his chest vigorously: "With me here, there will be absolutely no problem!"
Final Volume: Between Light and Darkness
