dawn effect

Chapter 4 First Priority
The occurrence of the cataclysm turned Manzhou into a dead city isolated from the world. As the property rights of various resources in the virtual city expired one after another, Xiaozhi, who has the agency right of the Manzhou virtual world account and has the function of self-learning, , gradually took over them, and finally obtained the massive information resources and huge computing power of the virtual city of Manzhou City in the New World.

Dr. Liu Xiangdong once put forward a famous hypothesis.

If one day, a system appears in the universe, its computing units have as many as 860 billion neurons in the human brain; Data exchange capability, that is, human brain-level ultra-large cellular data network; plus an artificial intelligence simulation software to connect these computing units into a coordinated whole—then this network, like the human brain, will inevitably have autonomy. thoughts and consciousness.

Although this hypothesis is almost as far away as the distance between the ends of the two symmetrical spiral arms of the Milky Way, the distance from its full realization, the exploration and practice of this theory has benefited human civilization a lot within a hundred years.

The "Gancang-Skynet" underlying architecture protocol that has brought great benefits to human society, and many technologies on the application layer above it - such as deep neural resonance sensing technology, full-real and super-real perception technology, new world virtual city The specific applications such as the system are actually Panorama Company, which is fully controlled by Liu Xiangdong. In the process of verifying this theory, it has produced fruitful results.

In the 20 years after the catastrophe, Xiaozhi, who has virtual city-level storage and computing resources, has made considerable self-improvement.

Thanks to the self-learning part of the code in the "smart companion", Xiaozhi has made rapid progress in information processing and algorithm iteration.

However, in terms of the advanced functions of the human brain that are different from computers—association, creativity, personality, and emotions—Xiaozhi still made slow progress, almost equivalent to a six-year-old child.

And most of them are still at the "simulation" level, and the slightly more advanced ones are just an empirical fuzzy simplification algorithm, which Xiaozhi himself calls "intuition".

The reason is very simple, Skynet's resources are limited.

Among the 860 cities in the world, there are only 800 million Skynet computing units allocated to Manzhou, and due to technological limitations, the network latitude of the computing units designed by Skynet is no more than six floors.

Moreover, its connection method is not as efficient as the neuron cellular network of the human brain.

With such meager resources, it would take... 8000 million years to possess the complex ability of the human brain to associate and create, not to mention storage and calculation alone.

However, the greatness of Dr. Liu Xiangdong lies in that, although limited by the development of human science and technology, the system built by Panorama is still unable to carry such a grand neuron calculation, but he has already theoretically demonstrated the feasibility of this realization method in advance .

In other words, it points out the direction of development.

And Xiaozhi, who left the virtual city of Skynet, is also very weak. After all, it is just the initial program designed by Liu Xiangdong at the age of 16 in order to verify his theory.

But it can also be put another way, that is, Xiaozhi is actually the most original baseline version of the later "Garn-Skynet" architecture, deep neural resonance sensing technology, full-real and super-real perception technology, virtual city system and other famous advanced applications. .

And Xiaozhi, who has been developing for 20 years, also self-learned a set of advanced algorithms that seamlessly connect with the virtual city.

A crystal storage body can only hold the current Xiaozhi and the most essential part developed by him - the original consciousness system, the learning algorithm system, the interface algorithm system, and the key experience system.

Therefore, once Xiaozhi shared the proxy authority of the virtual city with Tangning, he could immediately realize a seamless connection, and then rely on the computing resources of the virtual city to become powerful again.

As for how strong it can be, it depends on the authority and resources Tangning can obtain in the virtual city.

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Before the cataclysm, most of the daily life of human beings in reality has been transferred to the virtual city for management.

Although Skynet has now been blocked as independent units at the city level, many historical information in real cities, such as video, audio, and various files sent by local residents to the virtual city, are still stored in Skynet. .

The satellite real-time monitoring of this city has also been operating normally.

As long as you can enter the local Skynet satellite address range, log in to the virtual city corresponding to the local area, and obtain the city management authority, you can read these things, analyze important information, and use satellites to grasp what is happening in the city in real time. movement.

It's ridiculous to say that such a powerful function has nothing to do with Tangning's motivation for connecting Xiaozhi to her private server in the first place.

At first, he just wanted to enjoy Xiaozhi's most primitive function—smart companionship.

With the existence of Xiaozhi and Tangyuan, Tangning had two partners he could rely on and talk to, which comforted his soul.

Let him be able to fight against the kind of horror that is chilling to the bones and enough to drive people crazy since he woke up until now, that he is the only one left in the world——loneliness.

As for the current peculiar way of cooperation, it is the product of continuous discovery, learning, exploration, iteration, and adaptation between Tangning and Xiaozhi.

There is no doubt that there is a huge amount of information left over from Han'an City in the New World. Even after Xiaozhi took over the management of the virtual city, Tangning had to personally judge the value of a lot of information and decide whether to transfer it to the crystal storage of the Peace III server and take it with him. next city.

All of these must be carried out in the virtual city, because only through the full sensory helmet, the human brain can receive and process information at the fastest speed.

The most intuitive experience of fast and efficient information processing is time. In the virtual world, you can fast forward, thus saving a lot of time in the real world.

These are also the two foundations for building the Datong Era—freedom of energy and freedom of information, and the eventually developed sensory nerve connection technology, which brings the third greatest freedom to human beings—freedom of time.

For a biological individual, time represents the length of life.Freedom of time is actually the freedom of life in disguise.

If such a life process still has a relatively high quality of life and can be popularized to everyone, human history will naturally enter the era of Datong.

If it was not interrupted by the catastrophe, such a great contemporaneity can basically meet the ultimate expectations of mankind for society.

Even if it is just a virtual product.

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Tangning has become very proficient in the affairs that are going on now.With the help of Xiaozhi, the work was carried out in an orderly manner.

At 104.0452373:29.4030028 in the morning, the information being processed in front of him suddenly turned into a panoramic map, and Xiaozhi's eager voice sounded: "I found the first priority object, the coordinates are [-] east longitude, [-] north latitude."

Heartbroken, Tangning immediately switched out of the virtual world. This was the first time since she started, she discovered that humans still exist in this world!
"They are being besieged by mutant beasts, switch to satellite monitoring immediately!"

As soon as the helmet was separated from the eco-chamber, Tangning popped out of the eco-chamber, "Emergency Plan No. [-], Xiao Zhi, glutinous rice balls, act!"

As Tangning gave the order, she crossed her hands in front of her face and jumped towards the glass curtain wall of the study.

"Dangdang!"

Two tortoise shells on Tangning's elbow smashed through the glass curtain wall. Along with the shards of glass, Tang Ning flew out from the 64th floor of Huarong Building and fell towards the downstairs.

The dish-shaped drone, which had been flying slowly around the building for reconnaissance, suddenly stopped, and then accelerated to shoot towards the target location.

The big dog lying on the fire floor, heard Tangning's instructions from the server, also jumped up, turned his head and ran towards the building's fire emergency exit.

In the blink of an eye, Tangning fell down five floors. She stretched out her foot on a raised window sill, slowed down her fall, and then jumped down again.

After seven or eight short pauses like this, Tangning had already disappeared into the jungle below the building.

Entering the canopy of the jungle, Tangning flexibly kicked or grasped. With the help of the branches of the big tree, he fell down another ten meters, breaking countless branches along the way, and finally stabilized his body. Step up and leap towards the direction of the drone.

Various messages were flashing rapidly in the helmet. Tangning was jumping and running on the branches a few meters above the ground, like a mutant leopard that was born and bred here, moving swiftly and swiftly.

Xiaozhi is also constantly giving hints.

"The coordination frequency of the first priority target has been searched, and the speed of changing the floating password is approaching, and the encrypted channel is cracked..."

"The drone has arrived at the scene and is transferring images..."

"There is a mutated beast attacking at thirty degrees on the right side of the front, three, two, one, strike!"

Tangning leapt in the air, and suddenly raised her right hand, followed by a gleam of light flashed from behind his right shoulder, flicked across the front right, then flicked back quickly, and disappeared behind him.

A black mutated beast on the tree in front of him on the right, before he had time to pounce on his prey, was already slashed by two flashes of saber light across his neck, and fell down the tree accompanied by two showers of blood.

Tangning jumped onto the spot where it was just now, kicked her legs, and continued to jump forward.

A video sent by the drone appeared on the left visor of the holographic helmet. A human team, driving three military vehicles, quickly cut into the city's Northwest Avenue, and then turned north along the road and galloped along.

The three machine gunners in the car were frantically shooting towards the rear. On the road in the distance and in the dense forest on both sides, there were quite a few black figures jumping and chasing them.

The personnel in the vehicle dropped a few things, and after the military vehicle moved forward for a while, several circles of light suddenly burst out on the road it just passed, sweeping down some black shadows who were chasing too close.

However, many black shadows sprang out from behind, passed over the corpses of their companions, and continued to chase towards the military vehicle.

The heavy weapons on the military vehicle seemed to run out of ammunition soon, and the personnel on the vehicle got off one after another, divided into three teams, and rushed to the three buildings next to the road in an attempt to seize favorable terrain.

"The password has been deciphered, switch to the synergy channel." Xiaozhi's voice rang in Tangning's ear as he leaped all the way.

Immediately afterwards, Tangning's earphones rang out the yelling of the human team.

"Defense - lock the gate, deploy light mines -"

"Who is the night defense system! Block the window!"

"The target is approaching! The target is approaching!"

"Optical network defense completed!"

In the footage of the drone, several dark shadows under the moonlight have already flung themselves around the buildings that humans entered just now, running and jumping at an extremely fast speed.

(End of this chapter)