Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 366 Mechanical Sanctuary
Chen Yan looked at the building standing in the pale Internet world, and based on his previous understanding of the Internet, he thought in his heart:

'This thing is a building in front of me, but in front of those network managers, it's a bunch of data running on the screen. '

'If I enter this building openly, it will more or less cause the data to change——

If I [walk into] this building in a normal way, will I see a [visitor data without ip address] on the screen of the network administrator? '

In order to avoid this from happening, Chen Yan decided to find other ways to enter the building.

He "floated" to the roof of the building and saw the ventilation ducts on the roof.

'If [the normal space in the building] is regarded as [the web page presented to ordinary users],
Then, [the secret space where the ventilation duct is located] is equivalent to [the underlying operating data on the web page] - this part of the data exists, but it cannot be presented to ordinary users. '

'They can see the changes in the visitor data on the web page, but they can't keep an eye on the underlying operating data at any time. What's so good about a bunch of messy codes? '

’ That is, if I get into the air duct, I can probably find the address of the server. '

Chen Yan thought about it carefully, and found that with his half-baked network knowledge, he could analyze it to this level at most.

'I feel like this is probably the case, but whether it is... just try it. '

'let me see……'

Chen Yan, as the "ghost" in this network, only "exists" and has no "body", which allows him to easily pass through the narrow vent outside the ventilation duct and enter the space inside the ventilation duct.

The moment he entered the ventilation duct, Chen Yan knew that he had guessed right——

This is not a simple "ventilation duct", and there is no wind in the duct, but is full of dense and complex blue data flow.

The thickness of each bundled data flow is different, and it is clearly divided into two types: "uplink" and "downlink".

Now there are a lot of downstream data streams, and it should be transmitting a large amount of data to the web page.

However, the "uplink" data flow is obviously less, because the user has not yet entered the web page and has not fed back data to the server.

Chen Yan distinguished the upward and downward directions, and proceeded along the "upward" direction.

During the period, he saw some forks in the main data flow, and those forked data seemed to flow to the various cabins in the building-the director's network administrators were filling each room with data.

What makes Chen Yan interesting is that there is also an "uplink" data stream in each room - this data stream should be used to feed back the user's actions on the web page.

'The director is really monitoring his users... But this is expected, if you can't even do this kind of thing, there is no point in spending so much money to build a server. '

Now, the principal's users, the first batch of visitors in the network, have not yet entered the building—Chen Yan did not see any more data streams appearing.

He followed the data flow all the way up, and finally reached the end of the ventilation duct——

A huge halo appeared at the end of the field of vision, just like the sun during a solar eclipse, the center has been swallowed by darkness, and the periphery is surrounded by a circle of brilliant dazzling light.

'This... should be the [gateway] from the web page to the server. '

Chen Yan continued to move forward, and then plunged into the solar eclipse.

A sense of weightlessness as if traveling upwards into the clouds came, and with the sound of explosions in his ears, the vision in front of Chen Yan suddenly changed:
A huge square-like hall came into view.

In the center of the square, a huge tower-like server stands here.

The outer wall made entirely of brass is inlaid with a complex loom structure, and the tower body composed of various gears and metal arms of various sizes is moving slowly, which makes the whole tower look like a living thing at first glance.

The tower is like a miracle, as long as you look at it, you will be in awe.

Especially the bottom of the tower - this tower seems to have been standing here for a long time, so that the circle at the bottom of the tower has been covered with weeds, even creepers - I don't know what the purple creeper is It's not that it has mutated, but it actually climbed up the tower for a long distance.

But the staff here did not clean up the weeds around the tower. What is the reason?Because the weeds haven't grown to the point where the server is running?

Against the backdrop of the lush weeds, the tower and its edges bathed in sunlight are like a sanctuary in a forest, looking pure and sacred.

The moment he saw the huge tower, Chen Yan's eyes were in a daze, and he subconsciously thought, isn't this the giant version of those [Lighthouses] in Yanan City?

Although the appearance is slightly different, in terms of use and symbolism, there is no difference at all between the two.

Only the bottom part of the huge [Lighthouse] tower is in the hall, while the upper part has exceeded the ceiling of the hall and reached a higher part of the hall.

Chen Yan could tell that it was the server because the cables all over the floor of the hall eventually lead to the huge [Lighthouse], and some mechanically beautiful [black linear grooves] on the tower body, On the other hand, ice-blue lights flashed regularly—that must be the embodiment of some kind of signal.

And outside the huge [Lighthouse], on the other side of the hall, a dozen or so programmers were concentrating on their computer screens, awkwardly typing codes on the brass keyboard.

The keyboard was really hard. Chen Yan even saw that a female programmer had to poke her fingers at the brass keyboard to press down the brass keys.

Chen Yan was shocked.

'Hold the grass, is it really okay to do this?The director can make a computer, but can't make a decent keyboard?It's outrageous...'

Chen Yan quickly figured out that maybe it wasn't that the principal didn't want to make a keyboard suitable for typing codes, but that the level of light industry in today's society was not yet able to make a decent keyboard.

'Is it really a steam-style keyboard... It's really hardcore. '

The computers used by the programmers were still old-fashioned big machines in Chen Yan's memory, and they were even more backward - the screen was only the size of a normal adult's head, which caused them to have to stretch their necks to see clearly what was on the black and white screen. data flow.

Chen Yan reckoned that this computer remained in such a primitive state, also because the society has not yet mastered more advanced light industrial technology.

His current perspective is very interesting, just in front of all the employees in the lobby.

'I'm supposed to be inside a surveillance camera? '

Chen Yan tried it and found that he could not control the movement of his vision.

'Well... it must be some kind of very old-fashioned camera, the lens is fixed and there is no way to move it. '

At this moment, he suddenly heard two low voices.

To his surprise, he felt that these two voices were very familiar.

"The load on the server seems to be reduced."

"you sure?"

"Well... I also accidentally discovered that the current load capacity of the server is a little less than what we calculated at the beginning... Although it is only a little bit, it is indeed less."

"Damn it, how could it be less? Where is it less?"

"I checked, it seems that the lack of running memory..."

"Talking nonsense! We are the ones to move the memory cable... We went there and laid it by ourselves, how could it be missing!"

"It is indeed missing. It should be that one of the pipelines we laid is not connected..."

"You still say! Do you want to go to that ghost place yourself and check the pipeline again!"

"No...I don't even want to go to that ghostly place again!"

Chen Yan finally remembered the voices of these two people. They should be the construction team that went to the zoo to lay the lines, that is, the [Server Maintenance Section] established by the director.

The conversation between the two is still going on.

"Lessing some running memory will definitely have an impact on computing power, but how much impact will it have... If you don't tell me, I won't tell you, no one knows, do you understand?"

"But captain, let's do this, in case the boss finds out..."

"Damn it, are you stupid in reading? The boss is such a busy man, how could he find this kind of thing? How could he go to the screen to see the code that makes people vomit just by looking at it? As long as we don't Say, this matter is over like this!"

"The others..."

"Trust me, no one wants to go back to... that damn place."

"I... still don't feel right..."

"Think about it, once you tell the story, you're going to go back to repair the network cable, you're going to that damned place.

But if you don't say anything, there is a high probability that you can get away with it—even if you are really unlucky in the end and you are discovered, you will be fired at most—at worst, you will spend a few years in prison, and it is better than going back to that ghost place! "

"It makes sense!"

Chen Yan knew that the "running memory" they said was not enough, and the computing power was insufficient, which meant that the three parts in the rabbit area were missing-the memory stick represented by the missionary hymn 13, and the two parts represented by Vivian and Baldy. A component like a capacitor.

He had some concerns about this at first, but now, the last trace of worry has been dispelled.

As the conversation between the two ended, the voices of other programmers came from the other side of the hall.

"The first batch of visitors are in place, ready to open the external access on the web page."

The programmers in the hall immediately became nervous. This visit is related to the follow-up investment of the entire [New Dawn] project, and it is also directly related to their jobs and salaries, so everyone is on the alert.

At this moment, what Chen Yan didn't know was that outside the online world, beside the bus platform in this world, Messiah had already stood up and stood in front of him.

The sky around the bus stop turned dark at some point, as if shrouded in a night full of moonlight.

Pedestrians passing by the bus stop seem to be completely invisible to the night, and completely bypass the bus stop "inadvertently".

Looking at the street that was getting farther and farther away from the bus stop in the night, Messiah pulled out the wedge pill from Chen Yan's waist.

(End of this chapter)