At dusk, the earth was gently covered. The magic lamp in the study room was already lit. Gao Wen signed his name on a document and handed it to Hetty waiting across the table: "Economic revitalization and industry in the eastern region You must pay attention to the construction, especially the economic trials on the Suram platform. You must guard against secret collusion between the local businessmen and the old aristocracy, drive up the price of food, and impact the new currency. Once a similar situation occurs, you will be severely punished by the decree limit and Announced across the East. "

Hitty took the file with a serious expression: "Please rest assured, I understand the importance of economic pilots."

Gao Wen gave a sigh, and couldn't help but glance at Herty: "How have you been resting recently? Pay attention to your body."

"Let the ancestors care about you, my junior is ashamed ..." Herti immediately lowered her head. "Recently, the Office of Government Affairs is not very busy. After the winter, many projects affected by the season have slowed down or temporarily stopped. The department only needs to make year-end summaries and plans for the coming year, and interns who joined the Office of Government Affairs last year can now also come in handy. "

"That's good," Gao Wen nodded. "So what happened to the Magic Net Project in the North and West?"

"I have been synchronizing their progress with the two arch-rulers. At present, the main and second-tier cities in the two borders have built basic magic net facilities-mainly because these cities basically have mages. , There are also mage towers and mature extraordinary material processing systems that can complete the foundation laying faster, but as for lower-level cities and villages ... there is no progress. "

Speaking of which, Hetty shook her head: "In addition, due to the arrival of winter, it is difficult to construct areas outside the city, and the magic nets between the northern and western cities have not been connected. The relay device has barely realized communication, and because the number of relay stations is scarce and power is insufficient, communications in various cities are often interrupted, and it can be said that it has not yet entered a practical state. "

"Understandable," Gao Wen is not surprised. "After all, relatively large construction machinery and vehicles are still scarce. The southern border is inadequate for its own use. Many areas in the northern and western borders can only rely on manpower for construction. Winter is insurmountable. Hom."

The magic net can only exert its maximum value when it becomes a "net."

The communication network throughout the country, the dynamic energy system, the cornerstone of industry, and the skeleton of society all need to be built on the basis of the entire network of the magic net, and from the perspective of "empire", Gao Wen also needs to integrate the entire country Each region of China is connected as a tighter whole, so as to avoid the counterattack of those old forces in the distance, and to prevent some difficult-to-see provinces from returning to the closed and divided state of the Kingdom.

But this is not so easy to achieve.

It is relatively simple to build the basic magic net facilities in a city, but it is more than double the difficulty to build enough magic sites in the sparsely populated wilderness, not to mention that many projects will also face extremely harsh environments-Chongshanjunling , Rapids quagmire, permafrost in the north, swamps in the west ... even with the help of magic, it is very difficult to challenge these.

A small relay device can only allow two magic nets to run at the lowest power. To enable the magic nets to achieve full power and information transmission, a relatively large hub tower or hub station must be constructed. At that time, Gao Wen relied on the power of the unified war to implement large-scale population migration, urban integration, and military management in the border areas, so as to achieve the "net" of the magic net in a short time, but now the entire empire has been unified. The country is out of the state of war, and the entire territory of the empire is much larger than the original southern territory. Of course, similar methods can no longer be used. Even if you want to use them, you must make considerable adjustments.

On this basis, he can only go step by step, waiting for this huge project to be completed slowly.

"Except for the main hub in the south, only the main hub of the Eastern Holy Spirit Plain has been successfully launched," said Herty. "The giant tree of Solin helped us to start the hub of the Eastern Plain in advance. The hub, the northern hub, and the Santa Sunil hub have all been shut down due to winter. "

"... In fact, if the project is separated, you can have a chance to find some hidden problems, so that the entire country's magic net will not suffer too much damage," Gao Wen said half-heartedly and half-heartedly. "You just Pay more attention to the news from the giant tree of Solin. The experience accumulated there should greatly help our construction after the beginning of spring next year. "

Hetty bowed her head and ordered, "Yes, the ancestor."

Then she took a quick look at Gao Wen and confirmed that all the documents and reports had been handed over. Then she took a step back: "If there is nothing else, I will go back to the office first-there are still a few reports waiting. I review. "

Gao Wen was about to think, nodded when he heard that there was no problem, and just nodded on his side, Hetty had quickly left the room.

I don't know if it's an illusion, Gao Wen even felt that when Hetty stepped out of the study, she had a residual image ...

"It seems that the pressure of work has been heavy recently," Gao Wen could not help but touched his chin, said quietly, "I still have to find her someone who can share the pressure ..."

As soon as his voice fell, there was a little amber in the air beside him: "Do you really not know why she has been hiding from you recently?"

Gao Wen glanced at the half-elves: "Isn't it fun for the elderly?"

During his speech, he suddenly felt a layer of ripples deep in his spirit, and a special identification mark came to call in his consciousness.

"Daniel seems to be looking for me urgently," he immediately looked at Amber, "guard here."

Amber froze and waved his hand: "Hey, I know ..."

As soon as her voice fell, Gao Wen was already sitting on the large backrest chair, and he was in a state of spiritual connection.

Looking at Gao Wen, who had closed his eyes, Amber could not help frowning. After a moment of silence, he whispered to himself with a little sigh: "Well ... you, in this life, I'm afraid I might have died in exhaustion ... Can't it be solved with 'tired death'? "

The chaotic flickering light and shadow spread out in the field of vision, and Gao Wen could still faintly hear the amber whispering bb, but he didn't care much.

The sight in his field of vision had gradually stabilized.

On the endless expanses of water, huge metal platforms line up in order. There are colossal geometry and digital symbols running silently in the sky. In the center of the sky and water, Daniel in a black robe is already standing beside a white round table.

"My lord," the old mage immediately bowed down after seeing Gao Wen. "I have become the archbishop of the Perpetual Mission."

"You have passed the test and been promoted successfully?" Gao Wen immediately looked up and down Daniel, then nodded slightly with a smile, "That's really good news, congratulations."

"This identity is no longer important to me," Daniel immediately bowed his head, saying sincerely, "the knowledge and health you give cannot be measured by value."

Gao Wen could feel that the words of the old mage came from his heart.

In the beginning, the "loyalty" of this old mage from Tifeng and the Perpetual Order was really just because of fear, and the loyalty originating from fear often could not stand the test, but over time With more and more things happening, this loyalty has apparently changed quietly.

Knowledge and health, and the real changes in real-world living conditions after having both, cannot be ignored.

The old mage bowed his head in front of the "Wanderers Outside the Territory", and the respect in his heart was already greater than the fear.

He knew that he probably wasn't a good person-even if he was, he isn't.

But he still remembers being grateful.

He had fallen into despair because of talent problems, had been driven to insanity by imperfect biochemical transformation, had almost lost his mind, and was ruled by endless whispers and hallucinations. He had lost almost everything, including most of humanity.

It was a gift from the "outland wanderer", which gave him the opportunity to find those things in the same way.

Perhaps in the eyes of the extravagant wanderer, He just gave him some humble knowledge and some simple treatments, but this "minor" help from the "high presence" is enough to change the whole destiny of a mortal.

The gift of fate needs to be repaid with loyalty.

"My lord," Daniel said respectfully, "After becoming an archbishop, I gained higher authority-I investigated the truth of Project Zero and also came into initial contact with the root cause of the crisis of the current spiritual network!"

Gao Wen's gaze became serious: "What is going on with Project Zero ...?"

"They are trying to lift the 'steel seal of the mind'!" Daniel replied immediately, "and not to lift one or two people-they intend to lift all the gods' seals on the mortal by connecting the dreams of every mortal! ! "

Daniel's answer made Gao Wen's breath almost miss a beat, and the solemn image he tried to maintain was almost out of control.

Two seconds later, he adjusted his mindset and stared into Daniel's eyes: "They know the 'Steel Seal of the Mind'?"

"Yes, but they call it by the shackles or the chains of God," Daniel nodded, "I don't know where they first learned about this phenomenon, but it's clear that they specialize in mortal minds and consciousness The dormant in the field know more about the 'steel seal of the mind' than all things will die ... "

"The research on the death of all things still stops at 'flesh. Body'. The eternal sleeper has obviously entered the realm of soul and soul ..." Gao Wen nodded slightly. "So what are they going to do? How does Project Zero work? ? "

Daniel nodded and started to report in detail: "First of all, build a large and independent spiritual world, which they call a" sandbox ". This sandbox is a more complex and advanced space than the city of dreams, except for the necessary monitoring measures In addition, it is completely isolated from the outside real world;

"Human minds are introduced into this kind of sandbox world, and undergo thorough hypnosis and memory elimination before entering the sandbox world, deleting all memories and concepts about the gods, and the sandbox world itself does not have any god-related information;

"When the sandbox starts to run closed, it will form a closed system. This system can achieve self-consistency and self-sustainment. Because it does not exchange any information with the outside world, its interior has been thoroughly 'disinfected', so it should be a In a completely godless world, people who 'survive' in the sandbox world will not remember what the outside world looks like, but will only think that everything in the sandbox is true;

"Finally, through the" time iteration ", the time lapse in the sandbox world is accelerated, and it is completely out of touch with the outside real world, allowing it to run internally for more than a thousand years, and allowing its internal mind to experience dozens or even hundreds of reincarnation Reinventing '...'

"Time iteration?" Gao Wen immediately grasped a key word in the Daniel report, "Accelerate the time flow of the sandbox world? Does this require a very large amount of computing power?"

Daniel nodded solemnly: "Yes, it has a huge amount of computing power, and not only a huge amount of computing power, but also a human brain that can always be connected to the network as the" operational matrix ", because the sandbox must be completely isolated. As long as isolation is achieved on the network, isolation in the real world is also required, and ordinary eternal sleepers are floating and networked. Each node is constantly changing and does not meet this condition ... "

The mystery was finally solved, and Gao Wen's question, which had long puzzled him, was answered.

"So they need brain servants!"

The mental network itself does not need a fixed "server". Its entire operating process, as understood by Gao Wen, is actually based on "cloud" technology: as long as a certain number of users remain connected to the network, only a small number of The computing power is distributed to those users, and the entire network can run, not to mention what hardware foundation it requires, that is, some terminals for connecting to the network (most of the eternal sleepers also use the extraordinary ability of this person to omit this step) , And the equipment needed to debug and monitor the network.

Therefore, there is no need for the everlasting person to turn anyone into a "brain servant" to maintain their network.

But their "sandbox" needs.