Resurrection Empire

Ren Zhong made a decision, and the next four years of the fleet became another theme, which was to continue to promote information flow technology and computing power programming technology.

The key research and development goal is to design a set of artificial intelligence algorithms and communication mechanisms based on the existing supernet nodes that are streamlined enough but capable of misleading the positioning of the fleet by the supernet nodes located in the Nanxiang star cluster.

This research and development will be led by Ren Zhong himself, assisted by Sun Ai, a special being who is half human and half intelligent. Hua Yuelan and Chen Qiao will be brought out of the freezer to serve as Ren Zhong's right and left hands respectively. Xiao Xingyue will Serve as technical advisor.

Ren Zhong's accomplishments in the field of programming and talent in the field of computing have already been proven in the Shenxun Group back then.

That is to say, he was always too busy and there were ready-made talents available, so he did not continue to go too far on this road. Otherwise, he himself would have had a chance to become a top programmer capable of dominating the Nanxiang Star Cluster.

At the beginning, Ma Zhongfei touted him as a "high-ranking aristocrat" who came from an ancient family and had gears and integrated circuit boards on his epaulettes as a super programmer. Although this matter seems to be a burden for Ma Zhongfei to please, it is actually not water without a source.

"The network does not use a binary algorithm, but a topological structure that simulates biological thinking. Each of its analysis processes will unfold countless possibilities like a human neural network."

"We want to deceive it and instill misleading misconceptions into it. The only way is not to directly tamper with its program, but to instill in it a more general suggestion just like a telepath guides humans. .”

"Of course, this is the ultimate goal, and it is very difficult. Let's start with something simple, analyze the lattice structure of the 'net' body, and then find the law of how the microcurrents representing computing power move through it and release new signals. .”

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"This matter is very important. We have to work together. From now on, we will transfer professionals from the original Shenxun Group and other departments, and then transfer students from the Fleet Academy who have shown talents in the fields of mathematical calculation, programming and information flow. Establish an artificial intelligence research institute. What we have to do may not have been done in nearly a million years. But you don’t have to be discouraged, because I have completed most of the preliminary work.”

Ren Zhong was not bragging.

In fact, as early as eleven years ago, when Liu An formed a special service fleet and expressed his intention to escort, Ren Zhong had already started making preparations.

Previously, he only announced his decision, but eleven years ago, when he began to have doubts in his heart, he began to seriously study the imperial system, Liu An's behavior, and the characteristics of the Black Mist Zone.

Then, he saw new images in his precognitive hallucinations.

When he tried to firm up his intention to enter the black fog area in his heart, he watched helplessly as the Pathfinder spacecraft was torn into pieces by the invisible and terrifying gravitational field that boiled and surged like huge waves. He also saw countless young ships with strengthened structures. Ships and armed battleships were twisted and deformed like twists and turns. The impact and distorted gravitational field formed when the dark energy cluster explodes cannot be described as terrifying. It is a force that destroys the world and destroys the earth. It is the power of the universe and cannot be competed by human beings.

Later, he changed his mind and decided to avoid the black fog area. Then he saw a new scene. He was sitting in the command module of the seeker spacecraft, looking at the tumbling and roaring gravitational waves below the simulated star map. The huge Source Star fleet traveled in formation, as if riding on waves, with smooth sailing. Then, the scene changed, and he didn't know how many years had passed in the prediction. He saw a large number of miscellaneous military fleets with different shapes but extremely ferocious coming from ahead. They must be active in the Nanxiang Star Cluster. space pirate alliance.

Immediately afterwards, Ren Zhong began to establish a new understanding in his heart, and decided to develop technical means to blind "Net" to prevent Liu An from discovering his movements. This time, the precognitive hallucination before his eyes became calm.

Since then, because the fleet internally needed to digest the results of the Imperial Ship Battle as the core, it was difficult to adjust the focus of fleet productivity, so we only started to establish a new artificial intelligence talent training system and research and development system on the Source Star, and Sun Ai's ready-made mole-level sample assisted in the development, and a lot of basic work has indeed been completed.

The remaining parts require some top talents beyond conventional knowledge to complete and supplement.

In any case, when the fleet set out, it did take away a large number of highly intelligent genetic talents.

Nearly 22 years have passed in total, and after a generation of reproduction, the high-level IQ level on the Source Star has still not caught up with the fleet. These top-level jobs still require some extraordinary genius and inspiration, and must be completed on the fleet.

As if in the blink of an eye, another four years have passed.

At this time, the fleet is still rushing straight towards the black fog area. It will arrive in a month and enter the stable shuttle orbit that has been used for thousands of years.

Most of the time, most of the dark energy clusters inside the black fog area are performing cross-regular revolutions around the geometric center.

The normal route will be a tangent line that gradually enters the black fog area, and then draws a curve with a large radius, traveling in the same direction as the revolution orbit inside the black fog area, and finally passes through this area.

Theoretically, as long as there is no problem with the relative position when entering and the safe route is successfully entered, the journey will be smooth and without any surprises.

But at this time, all the ships are ready to make temporary changes in direction. Just waiting for Ren Zhong's order, they will immediately begin to gradually change direction, and finally remain tangentially parallel to the olive-shaped black fog area.

The artificial intelligence algorithm used to deceive the Imperial Supernet was also developed, but new problems arose.

According to the final research results of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, it was determined that a vehicle with direct communication capabilities must sail stably along the original open route, and then use this as a relay point to transfer signals and link fleet nodes with the Imperial Supernet , in order to achieve the deception effect.

The previous plan was to dispatch several intelligent small work ships with strong communication capabilities into the black fog area.

However, subsequent frontline experiments jointly completed by shuttle ships and eye ships showed that dense dark energy clusters have an unstable shielding effect on information flow.

If the information flow signal has to continuously pass through the entire black fog area, it will inevitably be affected by obstruction, resulting in insufficient signal strength and instability, and it is easy to expose abnormalities in front of the Imperial Supernet.

This is the process of pursuing science. Only when you get to that point can you know what problems you will encounter and solve them in a targeted manner.

Subsequently, multiple departments including the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Military Industry Institute, Communications Institute, and Engineering Institute worked closely together to propose new feasible solutions.

The plan is as follows: increase the size of work ships from a few to 50,000.

These 50,000 work ships will start from the edge of the black fog area and extend inwards. The work ships will be divided into a thousand longitudinal rows, traveling along non-standard routes and across the intersecting areas of countless dark energy groups full of ups and downs and crises.

The data of one work ship after another will be connected in series and parallel, using a relay method, and relying on redundant bandwidth to ensure the stability of the information.

At first, Ren Zhong felt that the number of 50,000 ships was too much, and it was not necessary to obtain so much redundancy. He tried to reduce the size of the work ships to 10,000 ships, forming only 200 information transmission chains.

But Hua Yuelan, who was in charge of this matter, refuted Ren Zhong's proposal.

In the closed-door meeting between the two of them, after Hua Yuelan listened to Ren Zhong’s thoughts, she slapped the table with her hands and angrily said: “You were once more cold-blooded than anyone else, even if you had to sacrifice 18 billion people. You didn't hesitate to sacrifice your life to become a witness. But you seemed too kind at such a critical moment. At certain times, kindness is weakness, and weakness will lead to failure. Tell me, what are you thinking? What? What kind of person are you, Ren Zhong? I can’t understand you."

While speaking, Hua Yuelan, whose crow's feet were gradually showing, fixed her eyes firmly on Ren Zhong's face, her sharp gaze seeming to pierce the air and skin.

Ren Zhong felt secretly uncomfortable being stared at by her. He turned away, shook his head and said: "After calculation by 'Net', it is true that only 10,000 ships are needed to ensure an infinitely close to 100% success rate. A transport ship It requires a crew of fifteen people, and if there are 40,000 more ships, we will lose 600,000 more people. This is an unnecessary sacrifice."

"Nonsense!" Hua Yuelan shouted loudly: "You also know that it is only close to 100%, not a true 100%. But what we want must be 100%, because there is no error rate. You will Liu An's humanity The analysis is so thorough, you know what will definitely happen, so you can't take any chances. I agree with the simulation calculation of the black fog area by 'Net', but the calculation is based on outdated information from the Royal Academy of Sciences exploration team many years ago. Black Fog The waterways in the area have no significance to the Empire, so this data has never been updated."

"Even if its time unit is a cycle of hundreds of millions of years, too many things can happen in six million years, which will bring about too much change. Although there has not been a massive collision in the black fog area that would cause a major explosion, But small-scale and small-scale collisions and explosions have never stopped.”

"A collision outbreak will cover a large area. Our work ships may be swallowed up at any time and may be sacrificed at any time. If there are only 10,000 work ships and only two hundred branch communication links are established, there is always the possibility of being completely cut off. It must be 50,000 ships, it must be a thousand!”

Ren Zhong looked at Hua Yuelan and recalled how she would rather go to jail than surrender to the Shenxun Group when he first met her.

Being refuted to his face like this, or even scolded by his nose, he was not angry at all. He just thought about it anyway, and then reviewed it: "You are right, I didn't think carefully enough."

In fact, he was secretly alert.

It is indeed very dangerous. I failed to break away from the mentality of resurrection, and did not consider enough redundancy when making decisions.

"It's good to know." Seeing him taking the initiative to review, Hua Yuelan nodded, "Huh... If you still say the same thing as before and don't listen to other people's opinions at all, I don't know what to do. Alas, actually I know you What are you thinking about? You probably think that it would be better if fewer people died, and you are trying to avoid unnecessary sacrifices, right?"

Ren nodded, "Yes."

Hua Yuelan suddenly came up to Ren Zhong, stood on tiptoes, and stared at him with her big eyes blinking.

The tips of their noses were less than half a decimeter apart, so that they could even see the skin pores on each other's faces clearly.

Ren Zhong suddenly discovered that Hua Yuelan was old.

When the two first met, Hua Yuelan was already over thirty. Although she has used cryogenic slumber to avoid many blades of time over the years, she had to wake up many times because her position was too important and it was difficult to find a replacement.

For example, in the past four years, the person in charge of the project Ren Zhong has been frozen for most of the time, but Hua Yuelan has been activated for four consecutive years.

As of now, Hua Yuelan's biological age is already forty-two years old, which is the critical point where humans on Source Star are about to enter irreversible aging.

Even with the new anti-aging medicine, she never relaxed from exercising and took good care of herself, but her appearance was completely different from that of Ren Zhong, her peers.

Time has left marks on her face, disrupting time.

This is inevitable after the large-scale popularization of cryonics technology.

No matter how good friends are, once they are in different positions and have different responsibilities, they will have to face chaotic time.

Even in a married couple, it is impossible to synchronize the rhythm of freezing and activation unless one partner is completely attached to the other.

The so-called growing old together and having the same acupuncture point as a child has become the most difficult happiness to achieve.

Ren Zhong noticed Hua Yuelan's old age, but Hua Yuelan also noticed Ren Zhong's youth.

She seemed a little sentimental, took a step back, and sighed, "Oh."

Ren Zhong: "What's wrong?"

Hua Yuelan sighed quietly, "When I first met you, we were still the same age. In the blink of an eye, you were still young and handsome, but I have become this old. At that time, I actually thought about whether I should have sex with you. What, but I couldn’t say it out of reservation, and I also felt that exchanging body fluids was too low-level for people like us. Who would have thought that time is really unforgiving. I want to say it again now, and I have already said it. No more exports.”

Ren Zhong: "..."

He didn't know how to answer this.

"Forget it. I have nothing to regret. After all, my original dream has been realized with your hands."

"What dream?"

"Kill Shenxun Group. Of course, at that time, I thought this dream was unrealistic, and I never thought that after the nine major companies like Shenxun Group withdrew from the stage of history, you would become the most overbearing dictator. You don't need to explain, I know this It’s not what you want. I wasn’t sure before, but now I slowly understand more and more.”

Ren Zhong: "Well, thank you for your understanding."

"Oh, by the way, I have frozen some egg cells. You can use them when the time comes. If you can use them, give them a try. If you can't use them, don't waste them. I'm so smart, and my genes can't be wasted."

Ren Zhong felt that she meant to explain the funeral arrangements, and frowned: "What do you mean?"

Hua Yuelan smiled smartly: "My idea is to increase the number of work ships to 50,000, and 750,000 people will have to die. How can I stay behind with peace of mind?"

Seeing Ren Zhong opened his mouth to say something, Hua Yuelan raised her finger and pressed his lips, "No need to persuade me anymore. You are the leader of this project. You should know that there must be technical backbones. A thousand working ships moving along the original route make on-the-spot decisions, fix bugs at any time, and maintain the stable operation of the program. Apart from you and me, only Chen Qiao is suitable. But Chen Qiao is still young, and his upper limit is higher than mine. It is not his turn yet. It's time for her to take on this responsibility. I'm already forty-two years old. Even if I don't go, I can live for at most ten more years. It won't make any difference. You don't need to persuade me anymore. I have already contacted Biomedical Engineering before coming to see you. The laboratory injected me with a set of hormone drugs. This drug will keep my brain at the peak of my youth for the next four to six years. But once this period of time expires, I will be brain dead immediately. I did not give it Leave a way out for yourself. There is no need for a way out."