APTnovel Chapter 228: Comeback
Chapter 228: Comeback
Near the sun, there are many giant strip-shaped objects. Between these strips, warships, spaceships, and drones come and go, and various solar energy creations are constantly being manufactured and transmitted.
As the sun slowly rose, the blue planet turned golden, and on this land stood many giant towers, where large intelligent machines were digging and mining.
On the ground, various intelligent robots are busy at work, such as transport robots, operation robots, and maintenance robots. These mineral deposits are transported to a huge smelter via conveyor belts. Then, at one exit of the smelter, a batch of intelligent robots emerges, and at another exit, various types of intelligent machinery of different sizes emerge. These robots and intelligent machinery have already been teleported by warships waiting above the smelter. The warships take off and quickly arrive at another mineral deposit on Earth. These intelligent machinery and intelligent robots begin to build the smelter and then develop and mine the mineral deposits. After a period of time, another batch of intelligent machinery and intelligent robots emerges from the smelter's exit.
Elsewhere on the blue planet, there are countless factories producing equipment modules, materials, weapons, metal-devouring replicants, and so on. In short, the surface of this planet is covered in machinery and factories, but there isn't a single living person.
Above the blue planet, the shipyard was also working non-stop. A large number of warship modules flew out from inside, then automatically attached and assembled outside the shipyard, and then these warships gathered around a giant golden warship.
On the golden warship, an AI female voice rang out, "Sage, planetary teleportation initiated, please confirm."
"Nana, let's begin."
"Yes, sage."
In the solar system, a shockwave appeared, followed by the emergence of a terrestrial planet. Together with the blue planet and seven other terrestrial planets, it began to orbit the sun. A large number of warships near the golden giant warship set sail and arrived above the terrestrial planet in a short time. Countless intelligent machines and robots were transferred from these warships and landed on the ground. These intelligent machines and robots then began to build smelting plants, various factories, and so on.
Zhou Yuan sat alone in the command room, facing a spherical holographic screen. On this holographic screen, a strange manifold distorted spatial pattern was rotating. The pattern would sometimes become a long strip, sometimes an ellipsoid, and sometimes a strange shape with concave and convex holes. Deep within this ever-changing image were five pancake-like halos. Zhou Yuan tapped his finger, and the pancake halos split. Outside the strange pattern, a ring of energy shot towards the pattern, and the distorted pattern was rapidly compressed into a point. Suddenly, it exploded, and the entire screen was filled with a world of light, and then the screen went black.
Zhou Yuan stared blankly at the black screen, then nodded thoughtfully.
"Sage, Consciousness Memory No. 10000000000 is complete."
"Yes, thank you for your hard work. Nana, what would you do if I gave you human consciousness?"
"Sage, are you referring to pairing quantum or photonic consciousness in the electronic ocean world?"
"Yes."
"Sage, my understanding is based on the understanding of reality. If I combine this with consciousness in the electronic world, wouldn't I be even more powerful? But how can the electronic world be separate from the physical world?"
Nana's question is also the question Zhou Yuan wants to ask. In this virtual universe, no matter how strong one's own consciousness is, no matter how strong human consciousness is, all consciousness is just a stream of illusory particles (Zhou Yuan calls them virtual particles) in this virtual universe virtual machine, and it is impossible to separate from the virtual machine.
Another problem is that I once tried to exploit the cloning time fleet bug to continuously replicate myself in this virtual universe, destroying it from the inside and attempting to crash the virtual machine of this virtual universe. However, it was completely ineffective. Instead, the humans of my home world on Earth were buried by the attack from the strange space.
The virtual machine in this virtual universe seems to harbor some kind of entity in the shadows. This entity is like antivirus software for computers, specializing in killing viruses and fixing bugs. And this entity is not bound by the three major mechanisms of this virtual universe, as if the virtual machine has given it special management rights and opened a backdoor for it.
Zhou Yuan is currently trying to eliminate this entity. If a virtual machine antivirus software stops working, the system is very likely to crash.
What is this being? That strange space was probably deliberately created by this being. This being is very likely the overlord of the replicator fleet. The overlord should be omnipresent, or rather, everything I do is under its surveillance, just like the "star eye" in the star in the source world constantly monitoring the situation of other civilization fleets.
Although the Earth Empire's Nine-Star Orbiting Sun System activated the time machine and entered a higher-dimensional space, this might not have been due to the time machine itself, or perhaps the time machine did function, and the Overlord used this function to increase the spatial dimension. Zhou Yuan and Huo Jing later checked the data on the time machine's activation. At that time, the time machine could only open up to four-dimensional space at most, but the Nine-Star Orbiting Sun System entered six-dimensional space (those hundred-plus scientists, based on the manifestations of the strange manifold space, believed it to be six-dimensional space).
A sudden sense of fear gripped Zhou Yuan, because he considered one possibility:
Dimensional attack!
In the original world, the Earth Empire's black hole bombs could actually achieve a similar "dimensional reduction attack" effect (two-dimensional foil). In this virtual universe, there are no naturally formed black holes, so the Overlord or the virtual machine did not use the "gravitational trap" to carry out the "dimensional reduction attack".
If that strange space is indeed a form of dimensional attack, how should we deal with it? Zhou Yuan began to ponder this question.
Zhou Yuan created so many consciousness storage devices because his initial intention was simply to replicate the "Consciousness Matrix" function of the Matrix civilization in the Source World. Since this virtual universe uses the consciousness of humans from a billion minor worlds as virtual memory, working in conjunction with the virtual universe virtual machine for simulation calculations, Zhou Yuan's idea was to create a "Consciousness Matrix" to compete with this virtual universe virtual machine for the virtual memory of human consciousness.
His current work in this solar system, besides mass-producing advanced warships and various weapons, also involves creating consciousness storage devices. These devices are essentially equivalent to the human brain, but they store a person's quantum consciousness in a cold, mechanical electronic world.
Another problem is that Zhou Yuan feels that the stellar-level "halo garden" hyperspace travel method is still too slow. To achieve faster speeds, he must drive the galaxy for hyperspace travel. However, the mother world's human civilization once conducted hyperspace travel experiments using the Large Magellanic Cloud. At that time, the Large Magellanic Cloud seemed to have been cleaned up by this virtual universe virtual machine.
Zhou Yuan was also pondering how to conduct hyperspace travel for his galactic fleet while avoiding being eliminated by the virtual machine. The five nine-star orbiting systems, which were five stellar-level "halo gardens," had already undertaken hyperspace travel. Zhou Yuan believed that he hadn't even left a middle-thousand world (a middle-thousand world contains a thousand smaller worlds), let alone a great-thousand world. Deceiving the virtual machine and driving a galaxy for hyperspace travel seemed extremely difficult, because a galaxy has far more "parameters" than a single star. Driving a single star is equivalent to tampering with a single parameter, which is relatively easy to fool the virtual machine. However, driving a galaxy for hyperspace travel would be equivalent to tampering with the parameters of all the stars within a galaxy, even though these parameters would remain essentially constant or invariant over a long period.
Regardless, Zhou Yuan has done what he should have done: the productivity field generator, the super intelligent energy exchanger, the interstellar catapult, the cascaded Sheng Tian Bo, and so on. In Zhou Yuan's vision or plan, there was an idea to use the cascaded Sheng Tian Bo to destroy this virtual universe, but he has not yet made this worst-case scenario plan.
Since the strange space incident, Zhou Yuan's mindset has changed a lot, or rather, he is adjusting himself.
After making all the necessary arrangements, Zhou Yuan also entered a deep hibernation.
In parallel world number 762, the solar system and its adjacent interstellar space are bustling with activity. The technology and weapons of Zhou Yuanyuan's world and his mother world are being manufactured here. Zhou Yuanyuan is building his own intelligent fleet. Zhou Yuanyuan even boldly envisions that, at the appropriate time, he believes that, as the artificial intelligence Nana answered, he can endow the artificial intelligence with human consciousness.
After a period of time, five nine-star orbiting systems were formed. However, there were no people on each of the five nine-star orbiting systems. On the surface of these earths, there were towering trees everywhere. These towering trees were the "superpower star" magic trees of Zhou Yuanyuan's world!
After some time, a new system of five stars orbiting the sun was formed.
After some time, a new system of five stars orbiting the sun was formed.
. . . . . .
On the giant golden warship, the artificial intelligence Nana constantly replicates herself, giving those artificial intelligences similar computing and control capabilities, and then sends those cloned artificial intelligences to these nine-star orbiting sun systems for management and control.
In a corner of this tiny galaxy, Zhou Yuan's own super-intelligent fleet is developing at breakneck speed, like a cosmic Big Bang.
After some time, the artificial intelligence Nana launched the "Comeback" plan, so many nine-star orbiting systems, that is, single star-level "halo gardens", accelerated into hyperspace and automatically searched for human civilizations in various small worlds.
In a parallel world, all humanity on a blue planet collapsed simultaneously. Their consciousness was absorbed by the Demon Tree and stored in a consciousness memory. The stellar-level "Halo Garden" accelerated its departure, releasing the Heavenly Bowl, and the Milky Way galaxy in this parallel world suddenly vanished.
In another parallel world, all humanity on a blue planet collapsed at the same time, their consciousness absorbed by the Demon Tree and stored in a consciousness memory. This time, the stellar-class "Halo Garden" did not accelerate its departure but instead deployed force field generator modules. These modules rapidly assembled within the galaxy, and then this parallel world's Milky Way galaxy accelerated into hyperspace.