Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

The last time Chen Yan went offline from the newspaper's server, the place where he went online this time is still in the newspaper's server, and the look and feel before him has fundamentally changed from the last time he went offline.

A large amount of surging data flow appeared in front of the quantum clone.

Countless data streams converged into lakes in front of him, forming a closed data world in front of him.

This is the server where "Strike Simulator" is located, and it is the fusion of all data uploaded and downloaded from the simulator client.

To Chen Yan's surprise, the data flow converging into the lake actually produced a certain degree of "concretization"—the cold data formed the appearance of some things:

Above the lake, there are streets, crowds, and three-dimensional event models that are in conflict...

As more and more data streams appear in the server, these appearances constitute all kinds of living things in the data lake inside the server.

These concrete and vivid things floated on the lake made of data, the scene was so weird and grotesque enough to stimulate Chen Yan's nerves.

’ That’s how the online world started out. '

Chen Yanruo realized something.

'Countless data edited by people are concretized into everything in the network world, and these things make up the city seen by the quantum clone. '

'Quantum avatars, as [residents] of the network world, have seen the materialized data, then, can the editors of those programs see such a majestic city? '

Combined with Chen Yan's previous life experience, most of them cannot be seen - programmers can't see the high-rise buildings they built, just like they can't see the mountains of code shit they compiled.

'The data gathered in the server has begun to materialize, which shows that there is enough data and rich enough, which means... the database is already beyond imagination. '

Chen Yan quickly found the hard drive where the game development terminal was stored.

The technology in Yanan City is still unable to make solid-state hard disks. Computer terminals use mechanical hard disks to store data. Now that the alloy technology is not developed enough, the maximum storage capacity of a single hard disk is only 4G.

And the capacity of the database on the game development side has reached 1 terabyte - counting the capacity of the computer system itself, at least nearly 300 such mechanical hard drives are needed to meet the storage requirements.

'Why is there only 1 T on the development side...how can it be possible to reach 1 T with simple text accumulation?The text information capacity of the entire civilization is less than 1 T...'

Chen Yan issued an instruction to search the database keywords, and immediately there were densely packed keywords like sardines jumping out of the server data lake.

While Chen Yan was dazzled, an unacceptable thought appeared in his head.

'According to the underlying logic I wrote, the entire "Strike Simulator" database... has completely become a mountain of data shit! '

He calmed down.

'Hmm... It's not accurate to say it's a mountain of data shit, it's more accurate to say it's an unclassified database. '

'The database is on the development side, and the client itself does not contain these data. The database is called from the server when the simulator is running, and the simulation is performed according to the established logic. '...

Chen Yan raised his head and looked at the center of the server's data ocean——

Countless uplink and download data streams were gathered and "flowed backwards" from each node in the data ocean of the server in front of Chen Yan.

'How could it flow backwards?Network card?No... this is...

Quantum doppelgänger increases visual refresh rate. '

As the pressure on Chen Yan's consciousness increases, the number of frames that can be discerned by the quantum avatar increases, and the "backflow" data in front of him suddenly becomes "downstream", and the transmission speed is faster than any data flow that Chen Yan has seen before. Much faster!

'This kind of backflow...it turns out that the data flow is too fast, resulting in the phenomenon of persistence of vision...what the hell, does the data obey the laws of physics? '

Chen Yan looked at the accelerated data flow in the entire server in front of him, and had some inexplicable thoughts in his heart.

'The data transmission speed has increased, and the size of the hard disk is getting bigger and bigger. The next step is to change to a solid state... When I saw them last time, they were still using a small storage hard disk.

However, in two or three days, a 4G mechanical hard drive has been used.

The world is still moving fast...'

In the data ocean of the entire server, a certain node exchanges data with the outside world the fastest.

Chen Yan entered the node, and immediately saw the end and end of the data stream - the game forum that continuously accumulates and feeds back information.

'The database capacity of 1 T originally came from here! '

Judging from the operation records of the forum background, the forum has just been added for about a day, and the rapid growth of data volume has caused the server to go down more than 30 times. Fortunately, each time it will be repaired quickly.

At the same time, out of consideration for future profits, the staff of the newspaper spent a lot of money to purchase more advanced switches and install broadband with higher traffic, so now, the frequency of forum downtime has become less and less.

Chen Yan only designed the forum at the beginning, but did not divide it into specific modules. Now the forum is not only divided into more than ten specific modules, but also has subdivided secondary sections under each module. Keyword search, you can easily find any posts related to keywords.

At this point in time, the most popular post on the largest board on the forum——[Future] board, has already reached more than [-] floors.

'This post was posted by a user named "Future Road"...'

Chen Yan easily found the user information of "Road to the Future" through the IP address. This person's name is Francis Underwood, a professor of statistics at Oxford University on High Street.

The name of this post is called "Data Analysis of Strike Simulators with Statistical Models".

There are many contents in the whole post, but it is simple to say that it is to apply scientific data and statistical models to strike simulators, and draw the conclusion that "simulators have strong practical significance".

But this post is difficult to understand, and Chen Yan doesn't recognize any of the mathematical formulas listed by Professor Francis Underwood, and they look like ghost symbols.

About 3 words of text formula derivation, the content is so hard-core that most people can’t accept it. It stands to reason that such posts should not be popular, and should even sink to the bottom. Why is something that the public doesn’t understand at all so big? What about traffic?

This is contrary to the traffic phenomenon in Chen Yan's worldview.

'Perhaps it is because the Internet is still in the stage of barbaric growth. The online world in this era has unlimited possibilities, and traffic has not been monopolized and controlled, so the situation that bad money drives out good money has not yet occurred on a large scale? '

Chen Yan was not sure.

What Chen Yan can know is that this Professor Francis Underwood affirmed the ending of [the rule of the William Adams group brought about the destruction of Yanan City] after deriving [the simulator has strong practical significance].

His scientific affirmation is also the fundamental reason why this post can reach more than [-] floors.