Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 740 Small Theater: Another Storyline
"Things are very troublesome. The problem that people encounter is electricity, but due to the contradictions that are constantly fermenting, the problem goes beyond electricity and moves towards... a deeper problem."

In Cyborg Quinn's subsequent narration, Chen Yan learned some things, some hidden secrets that are as frightening as fog, and so vulgar and disgusting that they will dirty your ears if you listen to them.

All problems originate with computers.

Different from what Chen Yan knew, the first computer of this era appeared as early as 20 years ago, but this computer is not the one that Chen Yan imagined. It has 1 electronic tubes, covers an area of ​​8 square meters, consumes A behemoth with 170 kilowatts of electrical power.

But a small [brain]——

The first computer that appeared in the world was a [brain].

No one knows how the [brain] came about, only that when the [brain] was discovered, research on it had already begun.

The empire 20 years ago had no normal computers or mobile phones. A programmable device [brain] emerged from nowhere, and it seemed unbelievable——

[Brain] is something that looks like a brain. This thing has almost the same physical structure as a normal human brain, cerebrum, cerebellum, brainstem, brain groove...

The identity of the original researchers has been untestable due to complicated historical reasons. Later, people only know that the original researchers have determined the stable operating voltage of the [brain] through thrilling experiments, and successfully achieved it through self-made signal receiving equipment. Obtained the information flow processed by the [brain]——

Input a relatively complex electrical signal, [brain] will process the electrical signal, and then output a result.

For example, when inputting "today's weather, temperature, air pressure", the [brain] will output all information related to these data.

If earlier, the [brain] would be regarded as some kind of god by people—a god who can get the gift of information by praying with information.

But the times are different. Science has developed for some years. Although people still fear the gods, they no longer attribute everything to the gifts of the gods.

[Brain] was soon used to calculate some complex mathematical problems, and soon derived from mathematical problems to other subjects, even astronomy and geography...

[Brain] Like a normal computer, it makes all the processes that require complex calculations easier.

Therefore, people have become dependent on the [brain], but there is only one [brain] and it cannot be shared.

Therefore, based on some considerations that are difficult for future generations to understand, people at that time cut up the only [brain], studied its structure, and attempted to imitate it.

People fail quickly.

The structure of this thing is unbelievably complicated, let alone copying, people can't even imitate even a small organizational structure, they can only make barely inferior imitations.

People screw things up.

After investing a lot of manpower and material resources in the disassembled [brain], people can only remove the incomprehensible parts of this thing, and simplify this thing again and again until it becomes a part that people can understand——

"This is how the world's first generation of computers came about. "

After the first generation of computers, small local area networks—some kind of Internet-like local area network appeared 20 years before countless [lighthouses] towering over the land and sea, sending wireless signals to the world—are also beyond Chen Yan's cognition.

Cyborg Quinn still tells the unknown past.

"A certain part of the [brain] has been simplified to the simplest point, but people still don't know whether this part of the function is the basic function of the [brain]... In short, the first generation of computers was born like this. "

The functions realized by the computers currently existing in the empire are only a very small part of all the functions of the [brain].

Due to incomplete functions and poor imitation methods, the computer simplified from the "brain" has hundreds of times higher power consumption than the "brain". Even the simplest artificial computer wants to load all the hardware functions. It also requires at least a 300W power supply.

When Chen Yan heard this, he suddenly thought of the mobile phone—as a bioelectronic device, as a part of the body, the current required for the mobile phone to operate is very small, and the load is not large, but it can process a lot of information.

Chen Yan once wondered, how could such a small power consumption of a mobile phone be able to drive the hardware with so many functions?
Listening to what Cyborg Quinn said now, I thought to myself, I feel that things like mobile phones are somewhat similar to the [brain] back then.

When he posed this question to Cyborg Quinn, the latter gave a clear response.

"You are really right. The mobile phones issued by the North Bureau as external limbs are simplified from other parts of the [brain], and are themselves an application of the technology contained in the [brain]. "

"Research on the [brain] has not stopped in recent years, a lot of manpower and material resources have been invested in it, but the most useful part of the research is still only the mobile phone as a bioelectronic device. "

Then, the Mechanical Ascension Secret Society must be one of the [brain] research institutions, because Chen Yan's mobile phone was issued by the Mechanical Society.

Mobile phones can be used for communication, but they cannot be used for complex programming, so things like programming have to be done with a computer.

A large number of computers were put into use, so the power quickly ran out-the first thing that was paralyzed was the imperial capital.

On a certain day about 18 years ago, there was a power outage in the imperial capital for three whole days. It was because of the high-power consumption of the computer room that the fragile power network that was originally only used for daily power consumption suffered a serious burnout accident.

At that time, the imperial capital had already popularized electricity for civilian use, so this accident had a great impact, and it was recorded in the annals of history, which can be found in any documentary book.

Although the imperial capital has electricity, the reserves are not large. In addition to the need to supply civilian electricity, the electricity that can be used to run computers is seriously insufficient.

This serious shortage of electricity had a considerable impact on the development of computer technology later.

While the development of computer technology in the imperial capital was almost at a standstill, the empire discovered several large coal mines near the city of Yanan in the north. These coal mines were soon occupied by the northern federation and the imperial capital, and a steady stream of coal was transported to the empire by rail. All over the country, the situation of power shortage has been alleviated to a certain extent, but the energy gap is still serious.

The development of computer technology has been delayed by energy issues.

Until a few years ago, a group of smokey lake pirates from Yanan City went underground and discovered the greatest treasure of this century-the Alpha Mining Area of ​​the Snake's Kiss Lode.

The mining of snake kiss rock ore fundamentally solved the problem of insufficient power supply in the entire empire, and finally released the productivity of computers.

"The empire's computer technology has really started to develop rapidly, and it has only been a few years-from James Parrett and his pirates discovered the mine vein until now. "

Lines of small words of Cyborg Quinn appeared on the screen of the phone.

"Now, you have seen that lighthouses have been widely used in the empire, and the whole world has passed the era of wired networks and directly transitioned to the era of wireless networks - all this is not sudden, it is the inevitable result of the accumulation of technology in the past 20 years , is the product of accumulation. "

"The simplest example - those lighthouses all over the streets of Yanan City.

Those things cannot be done overnight, they are all strategic deployments adjusted by the Empire over a long period of time... You can definitely see that for the Conservative Party, which controls the Northern Federation, how could such a big move be a one-time move? Son decided?
The Conservative Party doesn't have that guts!
They wish that Yanan City would remain as it is for 100 years without changing! "

Chen Yan was deeply convinced.

Listening to Cyborg Quinn's words, Chen Yan recalled the rapid popularization of the Internet and mobile terminals in Yanan City these days, recalled the magical development speed of this world, and realized something in her heart.

All seemingly outrageous phenomena have reasons, and the accumulation of quantitative changes will produce qualitative changes.

The benefit chain generated by "Snake Kiss Rock is particularly exaggerated, and the effect that Snake Kiss Rock has on the development of science and technology is even more incredible!" "

The shackles of computer technology development were opened by Snake Kiss Rock, and technology companies that had accumulated a certain amount of computer technology technology ushered in a wave of "technological soaring".

"People's understanding of computer technology suddenly became very strong, and some people even started to use "computer thinking" to think about everything... This is actually not good, very bad... It's scary. "

"The expansion process of big companies is even bloodier than the empire's overseas colonization process. They need electricity to run more computers. After they have more computers, they need more electricity transmission... There is no end to greed. "

"When the pirates first discovered the ore of the Snake Kiss Rock underground in Yanan City, people carried out the first profit distribution of underground resources.

Many years later... that is, three years ago at this time, the underground situation has long been different from that of the past. The area of ​​the mining area has been hundreds of times larger than before, and it is still increasing. The Snake Kiss Rock that can be used There are more, and people's journey toward the center of the earth is longer.

But the vested interests are no longer the same people as before. Industrialization has destroyed all the old systems, and even swallowed up the new aristocracy of the industrial age... The new aristocracy of the technological age has stepped onto the stage of history.

Then, greed followed. "

"The second profit distribution is very bloody. People are different from before. Everyone has hot weapons, and everyone refuses to accept it. Damn it, technology turns people into beasts!" "

"At the beginning of this benefit distribution, it was just a simple bloody conflict. The miners who were agitated caused a lot of damage to the underground facilities... But it is still nothing, the industrial facilities can be rebuilt, and the workers died You can recruit again. "

"The turning point of everything, the intervention of Byron Weiss..."

No one knows where this oddly named company came from.

Byron Weiss.

Some people say that they floated up from the bottom of the sea, and they are abnormal biological tissues controlled by non-human creatures who have inherited some ancient technology.

Some people say that they are a group of young people with no moral bottom line. They got some resources by luck, formed their own company, and because they have no moral bottom line, they obtained more resources than normal people. It is said that they sold extraordinary Bio-modified organs started.

Some people say that they are containers projected by some kind of evil god in the mortal world, because they don't have the slightest reverence for life, and they don't have any bottom line as a technology company. Morality and ethics are just shit to them.

……

At first no one knew that they had joined the dispute, until after a certain dispute, people accidentally discovered a dead "person".

To be precise, it was a dead "brain robot".

"The discovery of that thing surprised many people. People were thinking, which company can already produce such a thing?"
The internal structure of that thing looks like a creation of industry, so people are shocked, thinking that this thing can be mass-produced...it's not.

I was sent underground by the North Bureau to investigate this matter. "

Cyborg Quinn was dispatched by the North Bureau to join Spyro Industries. His identity was an ordinary miner who came from the surface and was forced by life to immigrate. Such an identity is very common and will not be suspected.

He joined a certain mining team soon after entering the underground, but he did not experience his career as a miner, because the dispute had already begun at that time, and it intensified within a month of his entering the underground.

"I soon came into contact with a wind media named Baye Liang, as long as you call Baye Liang's name and say your request, if Baye Liang wants to do business with you, he will respond to you.

Damn it, I originally thought that Mr. Liang was also an evil god, big and small, but later I found out that he was actually a kind of "wish imp", some kind of distorted spirit body... How to explain it?It means that this Liang Baye itself is a kind of necromancer, a spirit body that is born only after death, but due to the special magnetic field and environment inside the mining area, this spirit body has been distorted, so it has become Liang Baye, and even started Communicate with normal creatures.

There are too many evil aspects of this ghostly place in the mining area...》

Cyborg Quinn paid a big price and learned a very crucial piece of information from Baye Liang: the underground people began to be transformed by some special means, and a "disease factor" spread like an infectious disease. Diffusion underground, turning people into a special form.

"How the hell do you say... that is, as long as you are infected with this pathogenic factor, human... human flesh will start to turn into something similar to metal. "

"It is not accurate to say it is metal. It is a material similar to metal. I still don't know what it is. I have seen this kind of thing in the body of the magpie, but this thing on the magpie is obviously controllable, but the underground Miners infected with this pathogenic factor, this thing in their body... this part of the diseased biological tissue cannot be controlled. "

The infection is going on quietly underground.

Cyborg Quinn said that due to a certain chance, he had seen the dissected corpse of this infected person. The "causative factor" infected them continuously, and the infection site spread quickly into the body. And the route is clear—from the body surface to the brain.

When the infection reaches the brain, the person is hopeless. At this time, the person looks no different from a normal person, but in fact his consciousness is controlled.

"It's as if the "brain" becomes some kind of computer after being infected—it becomes a kind of brain computer, a brain computer with low power consumption and low function. This kind of brain computer has the function of receiving wireless signals and can Being manipulated into doing things. "

Chen Yan looked at the narration of Cyborg Quinn on the screen of the mobile phone, and a thought popped into his head for no reason:

'Isn't this just a computer virus... no... not just a computer virus, but a biological virus that can infect biomass! '

In Chen Yan's pupils, reality and the Internet meet here.

(End of this chapter)