Chapter 14 [Abyss]
The current appearance of the Internet can be traced back to ninety years ago.
The "Seven Soil War" ninety years ago was a de facto world war.
The wars between various forces are fought from the earth to the sky, and from the sky to the sea - cyberspace is no exception.
Rather, in this era of highly developed technology, the "World Wide Internet" has long been inseparable and closely related to human beings.
Because of this, during the "Seven Lands War", major forces launched a protracted and ultra-intense war on the Internet, causing almost irreversible damage to cyberspace.
Memetic viruses, vicious programs, artificial intelligence that has fallen into madness, and distorted cognitive fragments.
The "online world" has been reduced from the paradise of freedom brought about by the technological revolution to a hell.
Just by linking to the Internet, you may be hacked and hijacked by the crazy artificial intelligence that circulates; when you enter a website, the hidden domain virus can trace the source and contaminate it, paralyze or even explode the login device-it is common among people In the era of Internet access through brain-computer interfaces, this is an extremely fatal attack.
When using virtual reality services to log into the network, various "traps" may be triggered or "cognitive distortion fragments" may be encountered.
The most common form of the former is the "cage trap", which forcibly imprisons a person's consciousness in a cage room, making it impossible to exit the network. The real body has since become a vegetative state without blood or tears.
The latter is a malignant meme that can tamper with and affect personal cognition - at least a drastic change in temperament, split personality, confused memory, or at worst a "cyber psychosis".
When the "Seven Lands War" that lasted for twenty years ended, the victors of the war finally had time to clean up the devastated world.
In order to save the fragmented cyberspace and for their own future use, they joined forces to divide and clean up a pure network domain. At the same time, they built a giant wonder called [Domain Firewall] to degrade the rest of the network. The domain is isolated from the outside world and saves the current cyberspace.
——The above are the official statements of the major forces.
The same is true for [Enterprise Alliance].
“How can it be so simple?”
Song Shi shook his head in his heart.
While looking for the entrance address of [Thousand Stars City], he fell into memories.
In his previous life, he also believed in this rhetoric. It was not until he stepped into the third ring of psychic energy that he knew the real truth.
The information provided by the officials of various forces was not wrong - but at the same time, they also concealed a little bit.
That’s the part about [Psychic Power].
Few people can explain clearly what the nature of psychic energy is.
But there is only one thing that can be confirmed, "psionic energy" is a power that represents oneself.
Theoretically, everyone has the possibility of awakening psychic powers. Of course, due to various reasons, the current proportion of psychics is only one in three thousand.
Because of the desire to continuously become stronger and defeat all opponents, the path of [Transcendence] of "continuously strengthening oneself" was born; because of the desire to understand the hearts of others and listen to the whispers of all things, the path of "Consensus" of "going deep into the spiritual realm" emerged. ; Because of the attempt to control the nature of heaven, earth, and nature, the [Great Source] path of "mastering the power of the Great Source" was born -
[Revelation], [Balance], and [Truth] are the same principle.
——A large part of the collapse of the past network domain was caused by [Psychic Power]!
Theoretically, everyone has a potential spiritual energy, but some people can call it out and use it through "awakening", while more people keep it buried deep in their hearts until they die, even themselves. Know.
And the network.
It was difficult for people in ancient times to imagine that something like the "network" would one day appear in the future, and the entire world would be connected, and a huge amount of information would be transmitted and interacted every moment.
At the same time, the network environment is irreversibly deteriorating.
From initial exploration and curiosity, to familiar use, and even the evolution of various cultures unique to the Internet. "Anonymity" allows users to have no scruples. When the first person starts insulting, the rest of the people will join the line involuntarily.
It’s much more than that.
Uncomfortable bloody pictures, bad rumors, fabricated news just to play with emotions and swallow traffic, echo chamber effect, nipple music, extreme views, fragmented ideological trends
These things all trigger people's "negative emotions" originating from instinct.
With the huge and uncountable "negative emotions", in the day-to-day use of the Internet, following the transmission of huge amounts of information, these "negative emotions" are subtly put into the Internet - in this world with [psionic power] ] world, under the guidance of "negative emotions", everyone's hidden spiritual energy is touched, and they are also thrown into the network.
Even this little bit of psychic power is insignificant.
But quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes.
——This is the real reason for the collapse of the network domain in the past.
Countless people use the Internet day and night, and all kinds of messy things with "negative emotions" as the main theme are invested in it, making the Internet slowly become an unprecedented "redundant psychic aggregate", and it is the kind of extremely complex and confusing composition.
The various cyber warfare attacks during the "Seven Lands War" were equivalent to directly detonating the "cyberspace" that had long been overwhelmed.
Because of [Psychic Power], if we continue to sit back and watch the degradation of "cyberspace", the latter is likely to affect reality - no longer just indirectly interfering with reality through network means. Instead, cyberspace set off an unprecedented tsunami, shattering the barrier between the Internet and reality, and turning it into a "psychic shock" that swept across human consciousness!
So, the victors of the Seven Lands War gathered urgently, carved out a pure network domain, and jointly built a giant wonder, the [Network Firewall], to block and isolate the rest of the corrupted network domains.
now.
People named the lower fallen domain outside the firewall [the Abyss], which means that in ancient mythology, that piece of scorched earth filled with sulfur vapor and never-extinguishing magma that ordinary mortals could set foot on.
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At some point.
“——Found it.”
Song Shi slowly breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.
The cyberspace of twenty years ago seems to be no different from that of twenty years later.
Although network technology will definitely make further progress in the next twenty years, in Song Shi's memory, there is no such revolutionary technology as "brain-computer interface" or "virtual reality". The researchers only made the branches and leaves of existing trees more prosperous, rather than planting a new tree.
So, the method of finding the address entry in the memory is quite effective. After spending some time, I finally found an anchor point left by [Thousand Stars City] in the upper network domain.
Carefully avoiding several patrol procedures and defensive traps, Song Shi walked into a long corridor.
At the end of the long corridor, as Song Shi read out a string of secret keys, the original wall in front of him flickered, and a door appeared.
Swiping away the "Warning Warning——" pop-up window from the deep dive equipment in the network domain, Song Shi held the door handle.
Because the "Jack's Seed" network domain deep diving equipment is a mid- to low-end civilian product of the previous generation and has its own performance limitations, the fidelity of the virtual reality service is not high, only about 15%.
But this moment.
The moment Song Shi grasped the handle, the "fuzzy sense of reality" that was originally rough and uncomfortable disappeared, and was replaced by an obviously real touch.
——It seems that the place is right.
Song Shi thought.
The location of [Thousand Stars City] is in the lower fallen network domain [Abyss].
After being bombarded by various memetic viruses, vicious programs, crazy artificial intelligence, and the influence of psychic powers, everyone who steps into the [Abyss] will have their own realism affected. What is inhibited must be upregulated.
Even in theory, this person's device does not support such a high level of fidelity.
But it’s not a big problem. Psionics don’t make sense in the first place.
Song Shi concentrated his mind and opened the door directly without any hesitation.
Then, Song Shi began to fall——
Cracks of broken glass appeared on the surface of the surrounding walls, and countless crystal fragments peeled off from the wall, flying and dancing in the air.
With no supporting footing, Song Shi fell from the shattered floor, and a strong sense of weightlessness enveloped him from all directions.
The strong wind howled in my ears.
Song Shi opened his eyes and found that he was falling in the air.
The blue color above is shrinking rapidly, which means that he is moving away from the [Domain Firewall].
Song Shi raised his head again and stared in all directions.
It feels like you are in a bizarre dream.
Just like someone throwing a bucket of oil paint on the sky, the curtain that swept the world was filled with countless brilliant colors, bringing a dizzying impact.
Under the curtain, the outline of the city shrouded in the mask becomes increasingly clear.
Until the final end.
In silence, this stream of light from the sky fell into the gleaming city below, just like the thousands of visitors from yesterday and tomorrow that have long been commonplace, without causing a single ripple.
The lower level of the fallen network · [Abyss].
——Depth 1, [Thousand Star City].
(End of this chapter)