Starry Sky Cloud Code
A database is a repository that organizes, stores, and manages data according to a data structure.
However, the "Database 0" is special in that its storage space does not contain millions, tens of millions, or hundreds of millions of data entries, but rather an endless stream of viruses.
Therefore, the moment the senior engineer stepped inside, the pervasive virus infiltrated its data layer.
When the engineer's simulated vision returned, the red light had already covered the field of vision in front of him, and countless strange symbols appeared, not only covering the pupils, but also overflowing out of the corners of the eyes. What overflowed was the original code of the engineer's data body.
His health started dropping rapidly.
Similarly, when the senior engineer regained his hearing, it was as if a hole had been opened in his ear, and a mercury-like substance poured in like it was free. Within a few breaths, it filled the senior engineer's brain, confusing all his senses. Under the influence of this mercury, various brain regions began to disintegrate, and a large amount of unconscious, discarded code appeared in the senior engineer's body system. This made his body behave like he was having a seizure. His hands and feet not only became uncontrollable, but also twisted 90 degrees, 180 degrees, and 360 degrees at any time, and his head also started spinning like an engine.
Besides, many other viruses are like wolves that have smelled blood. Those that have evolved senses laugh and howl wildly, while those that haven't evolved compete to infect human organs, delete the functions of human systems, and format a certain arm, eyeball, or thigh.
The system panel was constantly buzzing with attack alerts—
[You are under attack by a level 35 worm virus; your neural network is blocked.]
[You are under attack by a level 38 Trojan virus. Your respiratory and digestive systems are being invaded at 29%, 35%, 41%...]
[You have been attacked by a level 39 script virus, and your data personality has been modified...]
Unlike the damage caused by ordinary physical attacks, data-level attacks, if left unchecked, can be easily dealt with even by the most basic virus.
Especially here, the types of artificial viruses are incredibly diverse. Not to mention ordinary Electronic Barrier on the market, even enterprise-level Electronic Barrier cannot stop so many types of viruses, especially some new types of network viruses that have never appeared on the market before.
Therefore, since his reincarnation, this former Virtual Lord, Gao Gong, has shown his true skills for the first time. The Flame Code in his hands is like a nimble scalpel, or like a seamless suit of armor. It sometimes surges out along the nerve endings, miraculously modifying the 'virtual personality' invaded by the virus, cutting away some chaotic virus fragments that have been implanted from who knows where. With each small piece cut off, a distorted face screams and howls.
Or perhaps, it infiltrates the deepest layer of the human data layer, performing tasks that would require dozens or even hundreds of neural editors working simultaneously: cleaning up code, rewriting code, eating and drinking in the mountain of code, disappearing arms suddenly reappearing, and in its swollen belly, those wildly multiplying data worms are wiped out. The backdoor opened by the backdoor virus is like a yellow flower stamen blown by a strong wind, opening and closing.
Those second-tier viruses appeared in a frenzy, only to be quickly eliminated. Those with poor survival ability were simply wiped out, with even the underlying code not being preserved.
To be fair, if you disregard the hellish difficulty of this place, then it's actually a monster-farming paradise, the kind where monsters are endlessly spawning.
[You have expelled the script virus [Varianka], experience +30,000, hacker reputation +100]
[You have disabled the backdoor virus "Hasley," gaining 20,000 experience and 50 hacker reputation.]
[You killed the program virus "Silver Shell" - Experience +100,000, Hacker Reputation +1,000, Specialization Points +1]
[You...]
Just as advanced AI has its own "ID card," advanced viruses also mostly have their own names. These names are mostly nicknames they are given after they have wreaked havoc on countless data nodes and invaded countless personality chips.
Any virus released would be infamous and wreak havoc on a region.
Now, they are confined in the virus database, strangling, devouring, and evolving each other.
Soon, the senior engineer gained 2 million experience points and began to climb toward 3 million. If it weren't for the worry that his friend from his previous life, "Dida," couldn't handle reality, the senior engineer wouldn't have planned to leave until he had accumulated tens of millions of experience points—after all, this was probably the only chance he would have to break through a planet-level firewall and enter Database 0.
At this moment, under the frenzied manipulation of the flame code, the senior engineer had transformed into a humanoid flame body. Flames of code pulsed along his skin, and his facial features were frantically refreshing data streams, making him even more AI-like than AI itself.
He also "saw" the "Skull Mountain" and the dreamlike Saori that covered it.
It was this layer of "high-level information fog" that firmly trapped the "colorless fire," preventing even the slightest leakage of the fortress's firepower.
Almost the instant he encountered the "high-level information fog," the senior engineer decisively shut down all his sensory systems, including his visual, auditory, respiratory, and gustatory systems, and entered a state of "silence" at the data level.
It's no wonder he's so cautious. The knowledge of ascension that has been 'physicalized', the crystallization of advanced civilizations, and the confused laws of the universe—none of these are things he can currently withstand. Even a short period of contact with them would cause him to collapse instantly, or, in game terms, be instantly killed.
This level of gap is far beyond what can be bridged by mere manipulation; otherwise, the countless civilizations in the universe wouldn't all be pursuing ascension.
Without ascension, one remains an ant, no matter how powerful.
At this moment, the senior engineer, like an ant, is trying to grasp a power that does not belong to him.
Theoretically, this is impossible.
However, from a technical standpoint, it is indeed possible to achieve this, because this "high-level civilization fog" has already undergone security measures in the early stages.
Although the senior engineer couldn't understand why the memory matrix at this stage could create a fog of advanced civilization, he was very clear that if this thing hadn't been properly secured, anyone who used it would immediately go insane, whether they were carbon-based humans, mechanical life forms, or energy life forms—there would be no exceptions.
Now that it has been securely processed, the senior engineer can try to steal a sliver of the 'Mist's' power quietly, without alerting anyone. After all, its owner is still light-years away, possibly even outside a galaxy. Without a fully deployed interstellar network, even a high-level information life form like himself cannot travel light-years to come and beat someone up.
Therefore, what senior engineers have to face is only the danger of the 'high-level civilization fog' itself. Although it is very dangerous, this danger is controllable.
[You have been affected by the 'Artificial Laws of Physics,' all attributes -90% (temporary)]
The numbers on the system panel did not change the senior engineer's expression in the slightest, and the intense pressure that felt like his entire data body was about to fall apart also did not affect his emotions. After all, he had witnessed even more terrifying pressure before, and in his previous life, his own pressure could even directly virtualize the life of an entire planet.
However, this was only in the previous life.
At present, he is just a low-level hacker below level 20 in the virtual realm. As for the "Flame Code," one of the top codes on this planet, created by Paradise Bird and known for its terrifying antivirus capabilities, it is completely useless in the face of an existence of this level.
What he is using now is the method from his previous life, which is also one of the underlying codes of his editing of "Utopia," the high-level code—"Starry Sky Cloud Code."
The advantage of this code is that it can directly generate cloud servers using nebulae without relying on external objects. After upgrades, it can even seamlessly transform nebulae into galactic servers.
During the programming process, the rays, energy flux, and dark matter at the nebula level are stirred up, forming a magnificent "nebula vortex," a rare and beautiful sight in the universe.
But now, what the senior engineer has created is just a tiny 'glass bubble' that's smaller than the palm of your hand and feels like it could burst at any moment.
Even just making this glass bubble had pushed the engineer to his limit. He even felt a long-lost kidney deficiency, and his legs were trembling. The phantom of the rich woman's long white legs flashed before his eyes.
Finally, when the 'glass bubble' moved in front of the thin veil, slivers of light were inexplicably drawn into the glass bubble.