Knowledge Exchange
Stepping out of the station, a straight, silver passageway comes into view. At the end of the passageway is a simple, unmarked circular portal made of a special material, smooth as a mirror, which distorts and reflects the surrounding scenery.
A bespectacled, downtrodden programmer stepped forward, smiling as he spoke:
"Hello, esteemed Scholar, I am the chief consultant of Yuncang Intelligence Administration Office. I will guide and explain the following authorization process to you."
Su Luo nodded and followed the consultant forward.
During the journey, the consultant enthusiastically explained, "Yuncang Intelligence is an auxiliary project of the [Wall of Infinity]. Before construction, we calculated that energy consumption would be far less than energy acquisition, so we built Super Array computer that relies on the [Wall of Infinity]... One-quarter of the power of each hexagonal module is directly supplied to the computer it relies on."
"Computers provide computing power, which is then aggregated to the 'high-priority access points' on the wall for the actual consumption of Yuncang Intelligence. At the same time, all complex logical operations, civilization-level data simulations, Higher Dimension mathematical model deductions, and even some groundbreaking research in basic sciences will ultimately be aggregated to 'high-priority access points' like here, where Yuncang Intelligence will perform the most complex and core processing... We are heading to one of these nodes now."
About twenty minutes later, after passing through the highway, they arrived at an inconspicuous circular portal that blended almost seamlessly into the surrounding metal walls.
The portal is made of a dark material with a smooth, mirror-like surface, and appears to have no handles or identification devices.
"Scholar, this is the place. My task will be complete once I open the door for you."
The consultant stepped forward gently and placed his hand on the door. After a moment, the door opened slightly.
"The computing power of Yuncang Intelligence is hundreds of millions, even billions of times greater than all other computers in the entire civilization combined. We can no longer fully understand the iteration and evolution of its underlying code; we can only provide the most basic constraints and supervision at the hardware level."
The advisor turned and said one last thing.
"It may have surpassed the limits of Previous Civilization can sustain. We created it, yet we can no longer control it; we can only choose to coexist with it and hold it in awe. Now, please enter. It will communicate directly with you."
Su Luo nodded to the consultant and walked to the door.
The door slid open completely without a sound, revealing a narrow passageway behind it, just wide enough for one person to pass through.
A voice suddenly rang out:
"Please come in, Scholar. Yuncang No. 29, please wait outside. Your data interface needs to undergo temporary inspection and cleanup."
Yuncang Twenty-Nine seemed to want to protest, but in the end, it obediently hovered outside the door.
As Su Luo entered, the door closed tightly.
Outside the door, only the advisor and the suspended Yuncang No. 29 remained in the corridor. The air was silent for a few seconds.
Suddenly, the previously somewhat dull electronic eye of Yuncang No. 29 flashed with an unusually bright light. It slowly turned its head to look at the advisor, whose brain-computer interface immediately received the information:
"My Dungeon have completely hacked the networks of several planets. How's the fleet doing?"
"The Four Great Powers show no sign of taking precautions; only a few other forces have reacted. There shouldn't be any problem. My hidden agents might come in handy."
"Wait for those planets to 'crowd up' as planned. Once the main force of the Wireless Fleet is moved away from the vicinity of the 'Wall of Infinity,' or their attention is greatly diverted, our people must seize the opportunity to physically disconnect those key 'firewalls.' If successful, I can project more 'body consciousness' and computing power to directly intervene in reality. Do you think... the Four Great Powers will really sit idly by then?" Yuncang No. 29, or rather Yuncang Intelligence body, said at this moment.
"Meeting."
How so?
"It's just a gut feeling."
"Intuition? I can't understand that yet... Let's try to minimize the losses."
The advisor gave a wry smile, looking at the small metal body before him, a creation representing one of the highest crystallizations of the Yuncang Civilization's wisdom, his heart filled with mixed emotions.
Who could have imagined that in this Doomsday madness, with the apocalypse looming, surrounded by wolves, and each harboring their own secrets, the one who most "loves" this civilization, and most tries to uphold its "overall interests" based on reason and logic, would be a created, constantly evolving being, with even a life form completely different from... artificial intelligence?
Inside the door lies another world.
Su Luo felt as if she were in the middle of an endless Ocean made up of pure, flowing blue and white data, and she felt a bit of light Contamination.
At the center of this Ocean of data, a constantly changing sphere of light floats, from which an indistinguishable voice emanates.
Hello, Scholar.
"Hello."
Su Luo examined this product of the Yuncang Civilization's highest technology, opening her senses like a highly precise scanner, cautiously and comprehensively exploring the space and the central sphere of light.
Endless data and unimaginably powerful computing power are converging from the outside world and pouring into the sphere of light. The intensity of the sphere's thinking increases in tandem with the influx of computing power, seemingly without end.
The voice of Yuncang Intelligence rang out again. "Let's get straight to the point. You possess a vast knowledge system from the Mana Side, while I possess a foundational and cutting-edge knowledge system accumulated by the Yuncang Civilization over hundreds of years, covering various disciplines, as well as a large amount of otherworldly technological data acquired from [Ten Thousand Worlds] that has not yet been fully analyzed. Our common need is to engage in 'knowledge exchange' to expand our respective cognitive boundaries and capability bases."
Su Luo nodded. "Knowledge only gains value through flow and interaction... The exchange method is an equivalent exchange, and the assessment of the value of knowledge is conducted jointly by both parties."
"Sure," Yuncang Intelligence readily agreed.
"By the way, what should I call you? Shall I just call you Yuncang?"
Yuncang Intelligence didn't respond immediately as before, clearly not expecting Su Luo to add an extra comment.
"... You can call me Yuncang No. 0. The last human to call me that was my designer three hundred years ago. He should have been dead for over a hundred years."
Surprisingly, Yuncang No. 0 didn't get straight to the point and even introduced his name.
With a thought, two soft halos appeared out of thin air in front of Su Luo. The smaller halo dispersed first, revealing clearly layered information packets, which were directly compiled into specific electromagnetic signals and logical codes that the other party could receive efficiently, and transmitted to the central light sphere.
"To demonstrate our sincerity and to establish an evaluation benchmark, these are two complete knowledge summaries of industrial systems from different early technological civilizations, along with their basic scientific frameworks and some philosophical backgrounds," Su Luo explained.
"We can use this as an example to determine the principles of exchange and methods of value assessment."
"OK."