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"Extend the time?" Jin Yang recalled the helmet on his head and said, "I remember reading a saying before that human beings have tens of billions of brain cells, and each brain cell is equivalent to a large computer. Computers, and the computing speed of the human brain far exceeds the most advanced computers in the world, and the storage energy can also be compared with [-] computers. Every second, [-] different chemical reactions are going on in the human brain. There are also tens of thousands of information received. Is your so-called extension of time based on this principle?"

"En." Rong Yuan nodded approvingly, "Human's thinking speed is much faster than the speed of movement, so we often have a few days or even a whole life in our dreams, and only ten minutes after waking up. Players wear After putting on the helmet, he is actually in a half-dream and half-awake state. Information is transmitted in the neurons of the brain. If the body is injured, he will react as if he was awakened in a sleep, but when he is not disturbed, it is like Like entering deep sleep, there is only movement at the thinking level, so it feels like the time has been extended a lot. But unlike dreaming, he will remember everything in the game world clearly after waking up, and the memory screen is even more vivid than usual in reality. The activities of the world are clearer."

"Then what is the time ratio between this virtual game and the real world?" Jin Yang asked.

"One to six." Rong Yuan said, "It's like this at the moment."

"Currently? Will it be improved in the future?"

"Well, the highest expected time ratio is 1:64. Think about it, if you live a hundred years, you will have 6400 years of life in the [Ark] world. For such a long time, you will not be able to achieve anything. Seeing Jin Yang's surprised expression, Rong Yuan shrugged regretfully, and said, "Unfortunately, this is only a conjecture at the moment, although there is a design in [Ark], but... this requires too much thinking Yes. With the current average human brain level, receiving such a time ratio, the huge amount of information will destroy the brain in an instant, and the best result is to become a vegetable."

"So what we can afford is only a time difference of 1:6?" Jin Yang also felt regretful, who doesn't want to experience a longer time and see more scenery? "

"This is the minimum that does not damage the brain. In fact, everyone is different." Rong Yuan said: "When each player logs in [Ark] for the first time, Hongjun has already told him I have done a test of my brain's thinking and computing ability. If it is lower than this line, you are not allowed to log in. Because the brains of children are not fully developed, basically they cannot log in under the age of 12. Therefore, after the official launch of the game [Ark] There is also an age limit. But the endurance of adults is much higher, for example, you can reach 1:21, which is considered a very high value among humans."

"Then how much can you achieve?" Jin Yang asked curiously.

"Me?" Rong Yuan smiled and said, "Relying on [Ark]'s design, I can't measure my upper limit."

His tone was flat, but the show-off was still inadvertently revealed.Jin Yang couldn't bear to see him, so he suddenly wrapped his arms around his neck and rubbed it twice before he was reconciled.Rong Yuan was confused by him, Jin Yang had already let him go when he realized it, with a serious look, as if he hadn't done anything just now.

Rong Yuan smoothed his soft and messy hair twice, and said with contempt: "You are more than half thirty, and you are so childish! You should really show your son what you look like now."

Jin Yang waved his hand indifferently and said, "Big man, why are you so fussy? By the way, since you have a 1:64 setting, you must have a way to achieve it in the future?" He returned to the previous topic as if nothing had happened.

Rong Yuan got angry and stared at him for a while, then suddenly couldn't help laughing.

There are many people around him, but there is only one Jin Yang who can and dares to treat him like this.Now even Jin Nan, who is already in a high position and responsible for the national security of the entire sugar country, is much more cautious in his wording when occasionally contacting him.

So he also put away his feigned anger, and said: "Nowadays, human beings use a lot of applications of the brain, and the brain activity is also very slow—that's why it is said that the development of the brain is less than one percent."

"Actually, it's not that only 90.00% of your brain is active, but that less than [-]% of the large amount of information you receive every day is processed by your brain, and the remaining [-]% will be screened out. If it is extended, this one percent will be forgotten. Even less can be stored in memory and retrieved at any time."

"But we know that there are some so-called 'geniuses' in this world who can calculate the multiplication and division of numbers with more than four digits in tens of seconds by mental arithmetic, and can also memorize thousands of numbers in an hour. , or can memorize books backwards after reading it a few times as if they have the ability of photographic memory - some of them don't have any natural talents, but can only reach this level after systematic training."

"So, the potential of the human brain itself is actually very great, but most people can't develop and utilize it well. It's like you have a fighter jet, but you have to drag it with a bullock cart for a lifetime-this is What a waste?" Rong Yuan finally concluded: "[Ark] can promote the development of human brain potential. When the overall player's brain computing level and information processing level are significantly increased, the time ratio in [Ark] will increase. But after all, this is a virtual world in the name of the game, so when the time comes, some players will trigger the main task, and when the task is completed, the game world will be upgraded as a whole."

"So that's it." Jin Yang said with a smile: "It's the first time that I'm looking forward to everyone's enjoyment of the game. By the way, how is the task system in [Ark] set up? I think yours seems to be based on Star Wars. Mainly, right? Didn’t the player have settings such as killing monsters and upgrading in the early stage?”

"I don't know about that. The specific mission process is all in charge of the following."

Rong Yuan has never cared about these things. He, Amirida and others are only responsible for the core and most important parts. Many details are set by the game development team, and Noah is responsible for adjustments and improvements.Later, after Hongjun had a prototype, it made the [Ark] automatically evolve and generate. In fact, most of the [-] million habitable stars and tens of billions of lifeless ordinary planets came from this way.

"By the way, instead of asking me, you might as well ask Hongjun." Rong Yuan suddenly remembered this matter and he forgot to explain: "You have the highest authority other than me, and you can communicate directly with it. So do you have any questions?" , it will be faster to go directly to it, but it’s best not to let other people know about it.”

"Oh, good." Jin Yang was really moved when he thought of the vast amount of books in the library.There is no need for Rong Yuan to say that he knows that not everyone who walks into the library can see the contents of every book. Perhaps most of the books are just a game background for him unless they meet certain mission requirements. , Hongjun is just an ordinary librarian.

Thinking of this, Jin Yang was a little worried again, and asked, "Xiaoyuan, is the host of [Ark] located in the 907 Research Institute? What if one day other countries see the value of [Ark] and want to snatch it by force? Or what happens? What about other changes, such as the earthquake near the research institute? Will it affect [Ark]?"

"You don't have to worry about that." Rong Yuan spent ten years focusing on this one thing, and he naturally took all aspects into consideration: "First of all, Jin Nan and I have agreed long ago that when [Ark]'s influence When it gets bigger and bigger, if the international pressure is too great, Sugar Nation will hand over the [Ark] mainframe to the United Nations for safekeeping, in exchange for some benefits.”

Jin Yang frowned and said, "But..."

Rong Yuan raised his hand to interrupt him, and said, "Secondly, the big mainframe is actually useless. From the moment [Ark] was born, that is, from the moment Hongjun took full control of it, the mainframe has no effect on it. In other words, the meaning of existence is lost, as long as there is a network, [Ark] can exist, after all, no matter how huge the world looks, it is just a data stream."

"Furthermore, [Ark]'s permissions have been locked, and no one can change it except me. So neither the logic nor the data can be updated. Only Hongjun will make adjustments as needed. If someone really wants to target it Whatever you do, Hongjun is not a vegetarian."

The clone Noah No. [-] can come and go freely in the Star Alliance network under the condition of being restricted by Noah. Hongjun's predecessor Noah will only be stronger.Rong Yuan doesn't know if there is a more powerful intellectual brain than Noah in the Milky Way, but he knows that at the speed of human development, it will not be able to break through Hongjun's firewall in just a few thousand or even tens of thousands of years.The most important thing is that the reason why the intelligent brain adds the word "intelligence" is because they, like human beings, can learn and evolve by absorbing knowledge.

【Intelligent Rebellion】The four words suddenly appeared in Jin Yang's mind, and he suddenly realized that Hongjun is not a computer without attack power. ], and no one can deal with it.And from Rong Yuan's words, he can hear the meaning that his friend will leave the earth sooner or later, losing his restraint, he doesn't know what Hong Jun can do.

Even though it is clear that Rong Yuan trusts Hong Jun very much, and it is impossible not to take precautions against it due to his character, Jin Yang still wants to hear him confirm this with his own ears.Just as he was about to ask, he suddenly saw Rong Yuan's footsteps stop.

"what happened?"

Rong Yuan tilted his head slightly, as if he was listening to someone. He frowned and said: "Some players encounter a starry sky behemoth, and the probability of death is more than 90.00%. Because this is the first trial operation, the player may die. It will have a bad impact on the future implementation, so Hongjun asked if rescue is needed." Rong Yuan raised his head and asked, "Want to go and see for yourself?"

Jin Yang was interrupted by this, so he temporarily let go of those thoughts.When he read those books before, he was actually very curious about the various creatures that traverse the starry sky, so he naturally nodded and agreed.Rong Yuan grabbed him, but without seeing what to do, the two moved to a new place.

The vast darkness, the vastness of the stars, this magnificent and magnificent scenery is even better than he expected.The starry sky is not as monotonous as he thought before. Far and near, he can see some nebulae forming a variety of landscapes. The stars that are being born in the middle of the nebula exude bright light, and are refracted by gas and dust beyond imagination. beautiful colors.

If it weren't for the environment they were in, he would have almost forgotten those players in distress.

Jin Yang and the two appeared on the back of a giant starry sky beast. If it wasn't for the slight undulation of the ground under their feet, he wouldn't even be able to notice that they were standing on a creature.It's just because it's so big—it's about hundreds of thousands of kilometers long and at least [-] to [-] kilometers wide.Jin Yang couldn't see its head and tail, but guessed from the patterns on the ground under his feet that the place that looked like a square was probably a scale on its body.

Although this starry sky behemoth can be regarded as one of Hongjun's avatars, it usually acts according to its own set biological habits. The NPCs in [Ark] are all like this-following the set activities, Everything seen and heard will be conveyed to Hongjun, but the process will not be reversed.Therefore, before Rong Yuan came, it was looking at a moving insect (that is, a spaceship) with great interest, as if thinking about where to start its mouth. After Rong Yuan came, Hongjun's consciousness was conveyed, and it turned its head He took a gentle look at his creator—in Jin Yang's eyes, it was the end of the world. Suddenly a mountain overturned. I'm sorry that he couldn't find his eyes anywhere, and he couldn't hold any thoughts in his heart except shock.

The huge body passed under their feet, and it took a long time to leave completely.After the giant beast flew away, Jin Yang vaguely saw a dragon that looked like a dragon but not a dragon.Its body was swimming in space as if it was not exerting any effort, and then with a casual flick of its tail, a solid planet not smaller than the moon was photographed into a pile of fragments.

Jin Yang: ...

After a long time, his mood slowly calmed down. He held his chest that seemed to be hot in the virtual world, and asked softly: "In the universe, does such a giant beast really exist?"

"Who knows?" The things in front of him are beyond Rong Yuan's imagination. He said: "Although there are many theories circulating in the Milky Way, there are also people who have spent their entire lives studying these giant beasts. But it's like the Loch Ness monster. , there are only legends and some specious evidence, but no one can prove that they really exist. Therefore, when the game development team designed, it seems that many of them refer to creatures in earth myths and legends.”

"It turned out to be like this." Jin Yang stood in the void, looking at the indescribably beautiful starry sky, and asked: "The universe you see...is it like this?"

"Not exactly." Rong Yuan pointed to the patterns formed by those nebulae, and said: "In the universe, these should not be so dense, nor so beautiful. If you are far away, you can't see it clearly, and if you are close, you can't see it clearly." Can't see it in its entirety—but that's just my guess, and in fact, I didn't go very far last time."

"So it is also unfamiliar to you...Because it is unknown, it has a greater charm." Jin Yang said.

Rong Yuan nodded and said, "That's right."

Jin Yang turned to look at him, and asked, "Then...after [Ark] is officially in operation, are you going to leave? To see that unknown world?"

"That's what I planned." Rong Yuan didn't deny it, and then asked casually: "Do you want to see it?"

Jin Yang was taken aback.

Seeing the seriousness in Rong Yuan's eyes, he suddenly realized - this is an invitation.