Chapter 1387 - Rounding It Off (1/2)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Hao Ren knew that Raven 12345 had good judgment. But still, he could not help but interject with a question. “Is your intuition sound at all?”
Raven 12345 rolled her eyes at Hao Ren. “Crap! With the intuition of a woman and a god, what do you think?”
Hao Ren thought for a moment. The goddess should have added the “intuition of a neurotic” too , he said in his mind. “In your opinion, what’s missing from this network? What is it for?”
“Didn’t I tell you earlier. I have no idea.” Raven 12345 frowned. “What I know is that the network is not functioning properly. It’s not because you haven’t excited it hard enough but because it’s fundamentally incomplete. Just look at the proliferation and forwarding process of the information: all data exchanges are meaningless. It just follows the physical structure of the network to perform some copy and paste actions between the nodes. After passing on the data through a certain number of nodes, the data dies out. There is no effective data processing and no storage links in the whole process.”
Hao Ren seemed to be in thought before he said, “That’s why I couldn’t decipher the network.”
“Well, it is the key to the problem,” Raven 12345 said. “The network is missing a ‘program’ or an ‘operating system.’ It lacks something that coordinates the overall operation, a source code that issues instructions to the nodes, or an automatically validated set of calculation rules. But I am not sure whether the source code exists physically or virtually.”
“What is the difference between the two?” Hao Ren was curious.
“If it is in physical form, it could be a specific node, such as a planet or a giant computing center in space, functioning as a CPU. If it exists virtually, it could be a special set of code stored in the network. But now there is no trace of the two. It is hard to tell whether the source code was destroyed or simply that the goddess of creation had no time to build this thing before she was killed.”
While speaking, Raven 12345 shook her head. “But in any case, there are doubts about the network. The main way for the goddess of creation to communicate with the universe was the network of the First Borns. By monitoring the information sent back by each First Born, she was able to monitor most part of the universe. She had no reason to build a new information network, all the more so when she had to do it behind the back of the guardians.”
Hao Ren’s heart missed a beat. “Maybe she had begun to lose trust in the First Born spiritual network. Or she had noticed that someone was working on the First Born spiritual network to interfere with the external communication of the divine realm. So she had to secretly establish an alternative. This would also explain why all nodes of the divine burst network are located away from any ecospheres. This way, she could physically isolate the network from those of the First Borns.”
Raven 12345 pondered for a moment. At last, she still shook her head. “Unlikely. The actions of the goddess of creation at the end of the deicidal war suggested that she did not realize that someone had compromised the spiritual link of the First Borns. And the structure of this divine burst network is far too complex simply for data transmission. It should not be a substitute for the First Born spiritual network but something with a new purpose.”
Hao Ren sighed. “Unfortunately, we have too little information and no way to analyze for what this stuff is.”
“As long as you keep your eyes open, the truth will resurface one day. Let’s think of it this way: it is better to do something than doing nothing at all.”
Hao Ren looked at the goddess in amazement. “Whoa, I’ve never heard you saying something so philosophical and sensible at the same time.”
Raven 12345 raised her hand and summoned a Lightning Ball. “You have three seconds to rephrase your sentence. When was I not sensible?”
Just when the goddess summoned the Lightning Ball and before Hao Ren could say anything, a cluster of bright electric lights appeared out of nowhere in the hall. Numerous figures began to emerge before materializing into physical bodies. Very quickly, the ten volunteers, including White Flame and Lorissa came back from the super-dimensional state to the main material world. They all appeared disoriented for a while. When the volunteers finally recovered, the first thing they saw was that the goddess was about to slam the Light Ball that burst in lightning down on Hao Ren.
Raven 12345 quickly put the Lightning Ball out and looked at the volunteers in embarrassment. “Hey, you all are back!”
White Flame was curious and wanting to ask what was going on between them both. But the female demon hunter held back her curiosity at last. “Yeah, we are back. Is the examination over?”
“It is over,” Hao Ren said quickly when he noticed that Raven 12345 seemed to have forgotten what he just said. “How do you feel? What was it like to be in the transformed state?”
He was very curious about the super-dimensional sensory that Raven 12345 mentioned.
“It is an unforgettable experience. Wonderful but hard to describe in words,” Lorissa said. The empress clone was the most experienced person in occultism as well as an experimental subject; naturally, her words were more authoritative. “I feel like I have lost my body. My soul floated in this building, and I lost my bodily senses. I did not feel claustrophobic or fearful. Instead, I gained the ability to see my soul from a higher perspective. Even though I lost the ability to look at the outside world, I could observe myself from a third-party perspective. It was incredible.”