I Was Once a Legend

The road under the feet is dark green, extending towards the endless end, while other places are empty, except for the front and back, the extreme distance in all directions is covered by dark blue things, like some kind of wonderful force field.

There is an incomparably huge circular thing floating in the sky. Compared with it, human beings are like basketballs to human beings, much smaller.

"Where is this?" Dong Linhai asked, like everyone else, he kept looking around, the strange and treacherous scene made him feel both inexplicable fear and curiosity.

"Information superhighway." Dong Zheng replied, "The dark blue ones are shielding fields, and those round things are security phages, which are responsible for killing viruses."

Lin Hangzhi's eyes widened: "What about us?"

"We are data." Dong Zheng turned his head and said to everyone, "Very fortunately, thanks to Allen, we can directly enter Kether's computer program from the emergency channel. My plan was much more troublesome."

"It feels so wonderful." Wang Que leaned over and touched the road under her feet. The place touched by her fingertips turned into a semi-illusion, and she could faintly see the data that made it up.

Dong Zheng: "Don't let the security phage find out, it will directly swallow the abnormal data, but we should be fine through the emergency channel."

Under the leadership of Dong Zheng, the crowd walked along the endless information highway. The road surface was sometimes twisted, and sometimes it rose or fell vertically. Even as they walked, they suddenly found that the road they walked before was directly above their heads. Unknowingly, the mirror image turned over.

If it weren't for Dong Zheng, everyone would have lost their way. In this data space, they would not feel the temperature and air flow, and would not be tired, hungry or thirsty. It seems that the five senses are presented in another form. This is A rather weird feeling, as if...they lost their human bodies, only their consciousness remained.

They walked silently, Cui Zuojing had entered Dong Zheng's inner core, and intuitively felt that this place was much wider than his, so he couldn't help asking: "How long do we have to go?"

"Now we are still in the emergency passage, and have not entered the program." Dong Zheng raised his finger and pointed to the huge barrier standing miraculously in the distance, and said, "That is the firewall. After passing through the firewall, we will officially enter the kernel."

"It looks like it will take a long time."

"Then use a faster method." Dong Zheng stood still, he closed his eyes, and his mental power slowly gushed out from the core, gradually forming a reptile.

The spider-like thing made everyone feel uncomfortable. Dong Zheng touched the reptile's head and said, "Data crawler, it will be a little faster to travel with this."

They climbed up one after another, and Victor turned into a cat and was hugged by Wang Que. The reptile was not small, and it was more than enough for six of them and one cat to sit on it.Driven by Dong Zheng, the crawler moved along the information highway so quickly that the surrounding scenery was drawn into a phantom, and it could only look at the firewall and the sky that were getting closer and closer to being thrown one after another. It is not dizzy until the security phage behind.

After about 5 minutes, they finally arrived in front of the firewall, and when they got close, everyone could clearly feel that this thing had completely split the space into two halves, half outside and half inside.

All data that wants to enter needs to be detected by the firewall, harmful blocking, and harmless release.Just as Cui Zuojing was nervous about whether they would be stopped, the crawler whizzed through the firewall and quickly left the high wall behind.

Xia Qiongyun: "Don't emergency passages require data verification?"

"Need, I wrapped the crawler with the key given by Allen in advance, so it didn't recognize us as abnormal data." Dong Zheng explained, "It's just that the firewall's recognition speed is very fast, and you didn't notice it. "

Entering the core smoothly, a brand new world unfolds in front of everyone. I didn’t meet other data on the road before, it’s all because of the emergency passage they took. Now they have entered Kether’s computer core, and the endless mass of data is driving in the intertwined and woven space. On the information superhighway, they flew past them.

The shielding stand hangs high above the head, and the number of security phages increases exponentially. In addition, there are more suspended objects with strange shapes and unknown uses. Many crawlers are running, grabbing data and packaging them for delivery.

The running speed of the reptiles under him slowed down under Dong Zheng's control. Dong Zheng observed the surroundings. They needed to find the memory or CPU to achieve the real purpose of this trip by interfering with the operation.

Back then, the afternoon tea club suffered a disastrous defeat in the final battle against the queen. It was unfortunate and inevitable. The team was unable to deal with Kether, and as a result, all the information was clearly snooped out. No matter what response they made, the queen would know.

And this time, they have to solve this big trouble.

Except for Dong Zheng and Cui Zuojing, the others were talking in low voices. They were amazed at the scene presented in this completely different world, and were discussing curiously.Cui Zuojing sat next to Dong Zheng and asked him, "What are you going to do now?"

"Judging the location of the core structure according to the direction of the data flow." Dong Zheng explained in a low voice, "The computer is mainly composed of memory, controller and arithmetic unit, and the controller and arithmetic unit are what we usually call the central processing unit. cpu, they are the core part of the computer, they are indispensable, as long as one of them is destroyed, it should be able to interfere with the operation of Kether."

Cui Zuojing understood a little bit. Anyway, this is Dong Zheng's home field. The specific decision-making and implementation all depend on him alone.

Most of the data from inside the kernel gathers towards a certain center, and Dong Zheng drives the crawlers to follow them. As they get closer to a certain direction, more and more data are intertwined on the information highway, converging from different branches and running densely. to one place.

After 10 minutes, Cui Zuojing finally saw something different at the end of his sight. It was a glass room, square and square, and most of the data led to it, and finally disappeared.

The speed of the reptile slowed down, and it slowly approached the glass room. When it got close, Cui Zuojing clearly saw some plants planted in the square glass room, and a wooden table was hidden by the green branches and leaves. at the table.

"People?" Victor expressed the doubts in everyone's mind.

Dong Zheng pressed down with his palm to signal to be safe and not to be impatient. He jumped off the reptile, and the others followed suit.Dong Linhai reached out to take Wang Que, countless data passed by them, and the data that poured into the glass room disappeared without a trace.

"This is the memory." Dong Zheng whispered, and he roughly observed the situation in the glass room from the outside. The glass room was filled with flowers and plants, and flowers of various shapes and colors bloomed.

Under the cover of flowers and greenery, the man was wearing a red robe that would have been worn by European royal families in the Middle Ages. Layers of clothes hung down to the ground. His short chestnut hair was slightly curled, and a few colorful bird feathers stuck to his temples. A mask hangs around his waist, as if he could step onto a carnival dance floor by standing up.

Dong Zheng walked up to him and knocked on the glass.

The person who was writing something with his head down at the table raised his head when he heard the sound. He had a pair of amber eyes, and his facial features were so exquisite that they were not what humans could have. He couldn't tell the difference between a man and a woman. The golden pattern spread from his neck to his face, outlining his facial features. Draw the outline of a string of wind-ling flowers.

Seeing Dong Zheng was obviously a little surprised, he stood up and said, "Please come in."

His voice was also indistinguishable, and the glass room was not too big, so Dong Zheng and Cui Zuojing walked in, and the others stayed outside to wait.

"It's been a long time since no one has been here." The man paused his eyes on Dong Zheng and said with a smile, "I didn't expect to see anyone other than Kether."

That face is simply a collection of all human beings' understanding and feelings of beauty, and when it smiles, it is so dazzling that people dare not look directly at it.At this moment, Dong Zheng had already guessed his identity, and said: "Sorry, we just passed by here, what we are looking for is the CPU."

The memory is responsible for storing programs, data, various signals, commands and other information in the computer, and providing these information when needed. It has no anti-virus function, so it failed to recognize that they are not normal data, or he found it, but did not debunk.

Hearing that Dong Zheng was going to find the CPU, Memory's eyes lit up, and he said, "Are you going to find her? Can you bring me something?"

Cui Zuojing was taken aback: "What?"

Memory folded what he was writing just now on the table and stuffed it into an envelope, and said shyly, "This is a letter I wrote to CPU, can you bring it to her for me?"

Whether it's the pink envelope with rose wax or the memory's shy expression, they all tell Cui Zuojing that it's a love letter.

A love letter written by the memory to the CPU.

Cui Zuojing: "........."

Cui Zuojing suddenly realized the magic of the world, and it was messed up in the wind. Dong Zheng took the envelope, looked down, and said, "Okay, then can you tell us where she is?"

Memory pointed to an information highway behind the glass room: "Go straight along this road, and you will see her."

Cui Zuojing was so full of anger that he didn't know where to spit it out. He raised his hand and asked, "Why don't you go find her yourself?"

There was a wry smile on the corner of Memory's lips, he shook his head, and said: "I can't leave here, and she is the same. These days, I send a letter to me every day, expecting her to give me a response, but there has been no, so I just want to get rid of you and bring the letter to her with my own hands."

Cui Zuojing realized the point: "Have you seen her?"

"No, we can't leave our positions, but I have been imagining that she must be a very beautiful person, otherwise how can she handle so many things in an orderly manner?"

"I will try my best to bring it to her." Dong Zheng put the letter in his breast pocket, "Don't worry."

Accepting the request from the memory, the two walked out of the glass room and sat on the reptile again.And Memory stood at the door, watching the reptiles gradually drifting away along the endless information highway. There were still countless information entering his glass room in the form of data and being stored.

Memory exhaled lightly, turned around and sat down at the desk, pulled out a new letter paper from the drawer, and began to write the love letter that would be sent to the CPU tomorrow.

When he reached the place where the glass room was no longer visible, Cui Zuojing finally couldn't hold back anymore, and sighed: "Even computer parts are falling in love these days?"

Others heard him talk about their "adventurous encounter" in the glass room, and their reactions were not much different from Cui Zuojing's. A memory fell in love with a CPU?This is too cyberpunk.

"It's amazing to have such admiration without even meeting each other or even communicating with each other." Lin Hangzhi sighed, "At least online dating still chats every day."

All in all, none of the seven humans present can understand the memory's admiration for the CPU. They have never met each other, don't know their appearance and gender, and have never even exchanged information, yet they still have feelings of liking.

But those are not important, since Dong Zheng has agreed to the memory, Dong Zheng will try his best to bring his letter there.

Keep going along the road pointed by the memory, and the road is quite peaceful. They are mixed in a lot of normal data, and with the cover of the key, they have not attracted the attention of the security phages and anti-virus programs in the sky. The cyberpunk in the kernel At the beginning, the full-bodied scene made everyone look around as if their eyes were not enough, but it became less novel afterward.

Until an extremely huge trash can appeared at the end of the line of sight, the trash can was too big, with three blue arrows drawn on it, forming a triangle and forming a circle - it was an enlarged version of the trash bin on the computer desktop.

Cui Zuojing swears that it will definitely be selected as the largest trash can in the universe. Several wide highways are connected to the trash can, and countless information is thrown into it. The visual effect is simply shocking.

Victor asked softly, "Recycle bin?"

"right."

The crawler walked along the road and passed by the recycle bin. Numerous checkpoints detected the data on the way, and threw the useless ones into the trash can. The wonton splitter team and the crawlers were also detected, and Dong Zheng used the key to make a layer on them. Protected, passed the checkpoint without any risk.

"Is the key Alan gave us so easy to use?" Cui Zuojing wondered, "This is the inside of Kether. There is no reason to use a key to get unimpeded, right?"

Dong Zheng shook his head. This is a question he has been thinking about since he entered the computer world. With the kernel, he can see far more problems than others: "It has nothing to do with the key. This should not belong to Kether. Internally, or ... what we understand Kether to be is different from what it really is."

The emergence of memory has strengthened his thinking. If Kether is really the embodiment of the entire computer, then why does memory exist in the form of an independent entity?

These doubts may not be resolved until we actually see the CPU.

The reptiles kept going, no one knew how long they would go, and in a world where there was no sleepiness or hunger, the journey became very boring.

Dong Linhai yawned. Although he wasn't sleepy, the surrounding scene was too boring after getting used to it: "Is this computer so huge?"

Dong Zheng explained: "No, the time scale here is different from the outside. You think, at the speed of a supercomputer, the time it takes to send data from the memory to the CPU is so short that it cannot be calculated at all. Our current time scale is Infinitely magnified, so the journey will feel extraordinarily long.”

Cui Zuojing nodded: "Indeed, the time here is hardly passing."

"But it should be soon, be patient."

As Dong Zheng said, it was indeed almost there, and they saw a cage after a quarter of an hour.

Like a glass house, the cage is at the center of the convergence of countless information superhighways, where a massive amount of information flows in, processed and distributed, and goes down different paths.In the three-meter-high black birdcage, a person was sitting on the floor. Her silver hair hung down to her waist, and she was wearing a pure black dress, making her look slim.

Unlike the glass room where there were flowers, plants, tables and chairs, the entire cage was empty except for that person.

Wang Que asked softly, "Is that right there?"

"It should be." Going down with Cui Zuojing as usual, Dong Zheng walked to the side of the cage, and noticed the data fluctuations brought about by the two coming over, and the people in the cage looked up at them.

She has amber eyes that are exactly the same as those of the memory, and dark golden lines also rise from the side of her neck, outlining the outline of anemones on her cheeks. As the data continues to pour in, the lines light up or dim, and the number of flowers represents The number of CPUs being used.

Compared with the indistinguishable memory, she is more like a woman, and she also has an indescribable beauty. Seeing a stranger approaching, a trace of surprise flashed in her eyes.

"Who are you? How did you get here?" Unlike the memory, the CPU needs to be more vigilant.

"Someone asked me to give this to you." Dong Zheng took out the envelope.

The CPU didn't get up, she stretched out her hand and took the letter from Dong Zheng through the gap in the cage: "What is this?"

"The memory asked me to bring it to you."

"Really? This is the first time he sent me a letter." The CPU was obviously a little puzzled, she didn't rush to open the envelope in front of strangers, but put it on her lap, and continued to ask: "I can feel Seeing that you are not normal data, why do you appear here?"

"We used the key to enter through the emergency passage." Dong Zheng said, "I would like to ask, if I guessed correctly, you were locked here by Kether, right?"