Start with a Mechanical Hunter

 ‘Going online’ in the interstellar network is completely different from that in cyberspace.

In cyberspace, you will feel the crowds of people. Internet viruses, personality fragments, rogue programs, emotional plug-ins, natural AI, etc. These network monsters come and go. Even cyber hackers must be careful. , if you accidentally download the virus, your body in reality will be occupied.

 At that time, you can only spend money to carry out physical disinfection.

 In the interstellar network, the first feeling of virtual gravity is that it is so big, so empty, and the network signal is so slow!

Using a virtual program to generate a page is like using free circumvention software to circumvent the firewall. The speed is so slow that it hurts your head.

The speed of optical signals is naturally the speed of light, but the speed of electrical signals and chemical signals generated by the human brain is definitely not as fast as the speed of light, so there are network access warehouses.

One of the functions of the network access warehouse is to convert light signals into pseudo-sensory signals that can be accepted by the human brain.

From a certain point of view, the role of the network access warehouse is similar to that of the interstellar space station, except that one is to slow down and the other is to speed up.

 But what about the speed of light? It takes at least 100,000 years for the speed of light to travel through a galaxy.

Although there is a local area network inside the interstellar space station, it is inevitably interfered by external signals.

For a hacker, this kind of interference greatly reduces the network speed. Virtual Gravity has to spend a lot of effort editing network acceleration software to accelerate its own brain.

Fortunately, the second-level neuroeditor profession is in the direction of 'host consciousness', which is different from cyber hackers. Cyber ​​hackers transform virtual lives. The latter is more free and can travel to different dimensional spaces and virtual lives. world.

Although ‘host consciousness’ is inseparable from hardware, the advantage is that the computing power has been greatly improved.

Although Virtual Gravity has not yet found a host that is suitable for his "consciousness uploading", the computing power is several times stronger than when it was still on the Mecha Star.

If you simply compare computing power, it is now equivalent to an advanced AI with a large processing center.

 The only thing that can limit his potential now is his body's "human hardware".

 Once the consumption is too high, the 'CPU', that is, the brain, begins to overload, cerebral blood vessels burst, foaming at the mouth, and 'human graphics cards', such as eyes, ears, and noses, will also produce a large number of illusory confusions.

Now, thin blood streaks are flowing out of Virtual Gravity’s ears, nostrils, and corners of the eyes.

But this price is not paid in vain.

 Because of the difficulty in passing through the "interstellar blank pages", the virtual gravity finally succeeded in flipping through and entering the data space of this Star Thief ship.

Players who take the virtual stream have an advantage, that is, they can freely shape their faces in the virtual world. At this time, a young man who resembles 'Yanzu' broke through the starship firewall and stepped into the starship in the data stream. The ship's data center.

Virtual Gravity looked serious, and the electronic light in his left eye flashed, and a row of network acceleration software appeared. However, he glanced at the network speed that had already slowed down to 1kb/m. Even for a second-order virtual flow master like him, Dude, I couldn't help but twitch the corners of my eyes.

 It turns out that the only way to prevent hackers from intruding is to unplug the network cable and reduce the network speed.

 Forget it, hack in quickly.

And in the garbage room of the Star Pirate Ship, the virtual gravity opened and closed its mouth and began to dictate the cracking code, but only for a moment, which seemed to be a bit stuck.

  Operation plug-ins have been implanted one after another, and code instructions have been tampered with. Especially the main system of the spacecraft engine has been hacked into the hardest hit area.

The network signal is not good, and some advanced methods of virtual gravity cannot be used, but fortunately, the electronic defense system of this starship is not very good either.

 So the hacking process quickly reached 47%. Once it exceeded 50%, he would initially take control of the spacecraft.

 ‘Tsk, tsk, although I can’t buy a flying car in real life, on the Internet, I am still a man who can drive a spaceship. ’

Just when the virtual gravity was yy, all the codes suddenly stopped, and then, the hacking software began to lose control and was hacked in reverse.

Like a river pouring into the human body, first white smoke rose from the network implantation chamber, and then a large amount of blood spurted out from the facial features. The blood volume of the virtual gravity suddenly fell below the warning line.

'How is this going? ! ’

From the network perspective, the pages generated by the engine control system quickly collapsed and turned into garbled code, and the whole world seemed to be collapsing.

It's not like he has never seen this kind of situation before. When he was on the Split Star, he cooperated with some hackers to invade the servers of large enterprises. As a result, he was counter-tracked by the will of the enterprise. The overwhelming computing power destroyed each virtual node, the image collapsed, and the network The information has been erased, the avatar has been killed, and the account has been ravaged by a large number of electronic guards.

 At this time, it’s time to run away!

But while running, there was still a doubt in Virtual Gravity's mind. How could this interstellar relay station with extremely poor network signals have such a strong network defense force?

 In other words, how is such a huge information flow generated?

 The legendary quantum entanglement? Or some kind of electronic immortal came to the world?

There were doubts in my mind, but the speed of virtual gravity was not slow. Each access route was violently interrupted. The virtual personality 'Yanzu' directly drilled into the 'compressed file' and loaded it into the 'storage hard drive' in his head. At the same time, The electrode pads built into the network access compartment spring open.

 He endured severe pain and performed one operation, and at first glance he looked like an experienced operator in the underground world.

 “Just a little bit close!”

In the Star Pirate Ship, a hand that looked like it had Parkinson's syndrome clasped the top of the access chamber and pulled the access chamber down. At the temple area, the nerve connection line tore off two small pieces of flesh.

　　Virtual Gravity grinned and climbed up, looking out the window. The battle seemed to be continuing. However, it seemed as if a red-hot iron pliers had been inserted into his head. This was the result of reducing the pain. "This unscientific!"

　　Virtual gravity murmurs to itself.

 How could the opponent’s counterattack be so fast when the network signal was so poor? Still so strong?

“Carbon-based organisms, I suggest you stop thinking. The speed of your brain center has almost reached your physiological limit.”

The body froze due to the virtual gravity, and the 'self' reflected in the window was looking at him with interest.

 “Who are you? Why did you download it?!”

“I am not the electronic virus creature you imagined. Outsiders generally call me a strong signal creature.” “Virtual Gravity” paused, “For example, this.”

With the snap of the opponent's fingers, the next moment, the energy cannons, star shuttles, light, signals, and even the two third-order life forms in the distance outside the window were all frozen in place.

 “How is this possible!?” Virtual Gravity’s eyes were full of shock.

“From your point of view, the spatial coordinate signal in this place is extremely poor, and data programming is simply impossible. But to me, the entire universe is ‘cyberspace’ in your eyes. Data is signal, and signal is data.”

 “Well, from your memory, I found a term that fits well.”

 ‘Virtual Gravity’ paused.

 “Cosmic background radiation.”

With its words, starships exploded one after another, exploding into a wave of garbage data, from star shuttle to starship, and from starship to interstellar space station, like a brilliant fireworks.

 Finally, the star pirate ship is about to explode just under the feet of virtual gravity.

 A third-order virtual stream of light flashed past.

 Cracks on the hull surface heal quickly.

 At the same time, the light signal begins to rotate regularly.

The whole world seems to have become a sea of ​​data.

The data figure in the center of the storm waved his hand fiercely, and the white wall transformed by the Emmett protozoa began to rise rapidly, directly blocking the signal fluctuations overflowing from all directions.

 The walls of the prototype continue to expand upwards, as if there is no end at all. This method is as strong as the firewalls on the three planets on the Mechatronix.

"Huh?"

This time, it was the turn of ‘virtual gravity’ to be surprised.

　　Virtual Gravity suddenly noticed that on the other side of the glass, a flash of fire suddenly flashed in the enemy's eyes.

Just when the virtual gravity thought it was just an illusion, the next moment, the terrifying virtual flame overflowed from the opponent's body. The strong sense of danger this fire brought to him made him feel that his body would be burned in the next moment, and his mind His hard drive turned into ashes, and all his life-saving methods were of no use under such domineering flames.

 This is a higher level of digital authority!

 This is crushing strength!

 At this moment, Virtual Gravity has only two thoughts in his mind.

 ‘Damn it, third-level virtual life! ’

 ‘Holy shit, there is actually an NPC boss in our camp who has successfully achieved electronic ascension! ’

 Obviously, he had also heard about the legend of electronic ascension on the Mecha Star.

But then, his vision went dark and he went offline.

In the fierce electronic fire composed of galaxy codes, 'Yanzu' did not explode as the Bird of Paradise expected.

 The cracks in the human body composed of flames began to slowly heal under the influence of an inexplicable physical law at this moment.

"impossible!"

With a crisp bird song, the bird of paradise Heguanlan appeared and looked at the other party in astonishment.

With Gao Yuanyuan cutting off all data, she couldn't understand why the other party could still recover.

Although the data intensity emitted by the other party was the same as hers, it was also level three, but for some reason, she felt an inexplicable palpitation when she saw the other party.

“Madam, although the code you master can write more than 80% of all kinds of information in interstellar space, it does not mean everything, especially for a strong-signal life like me.”

Although the other party was talking to the Bird of Paradise, his attention fell on Gao Yuanyuan, or to be precise, behind Gao Yuanyuan, in the looming 'Thirteenth Floor Space'.

 “Why?” Bird of Paradise doesn’t like nonsense and goes straight to the core.

“This is related to the nature of my life, using a physical theory that is easier to explain.” The other party paused and said, “Wave-particle duality.”