Interlude

Elisa left, saying she was going to "feed the chickens" again.

There is a farmer's hypothesis that goes something like this: there is a flock of chickens on a farm, and the hen who raises the chickens comes to feed them at a fixed time every day. Later, a chicken scientist who lives for two and a half years discovered a pattern: food would arrive every day at 11 o'clock.

This is a profound truth for it.

Elisa, the woman who feeds the chickens, is the manipulator of this "profound truth," and in the eyes of the chicken scientist, she is a god.

Search is an important part of cyberspace. Without search, the sea of data would become a dead sea. It is the ocean current, the giant waves, all the changing parameters of the virtual environment, the "brain" of artificial intelligence, and the operator of the world.

On the internet, you can live without Baidu or Google, but you will always have 'data search'.

The same applies to cyberspace. It can exist without Elisa, but it will definitely have a new "Mother of Search". Otherwise, if data does not flow, the entire space will enter a state of "stagnation", which may even affect reality.

This is determined by the nature of cyberspace. Each living person in reality is a network base station, and this vast virtual world is created by processing the "biosignals" emitted by so many people.

It is itself a collection of 'human nature'.

Someone needs to manage these "human traits," and these people, these beings, constitute the Big Data Conceptual Entity.

The senior engineer stared at the coffin for a long time without saying a word.

[Bloodline Conversion Successful! You have become the only energy life form on this planet. Level +5, Regional Reputation +10000]

[The beginner-level energy bloodline 'Walter Energy Fungus' gains the bloodline talent 'Clone Mode,' increasing information conversion efficiency by 200%, energy absorption speed by 40%, and energy release efficiency by 50%]

[Among the adjustments to the base values of the five main attributes, Strength bonus -50%, Agility +10%, Stamina -20%, Intelligence +30%, Perception +40%]

[During the adjustment of the eight major systems of the human body, the endocrine system, urinary system, and reproductive system are automatically shut down. All "plugins" on these systems are put into disabled mode, and species compatibility is reduced by 70%.]

[Your Intelligence +20, Perception +28, gained innate skills: Mycelial Diffusion, Mycelial Ray, Primary Matter Conversion]

[Your body shape adjustment is complete]

Dida stared at the three human systems on the player panel, which were slowly turning black, with a strange expression. No endocrine system... Good, goodbye to menstruation. No urinary system... Well, this game isn't that realistic anyway. No reproductive system? Does that mean I can only look at handsome guys and not fight them?

The female player fell into deep thought.

Is the energy system really this ascetic?

However, she quickly recovered. After all, for a hardcore otaku and gamer, while her aptitude for certain things wasn't weak, it certainly couldn't compare to that of a hardcore gamer.

As someone who prioritizes power levels, she was very satisfied with this dramatic increase in stats.

"Wow, I'm so strong, how are other players supposed to compete?"

After admiring the numbers with great satisfaction, Tick-Tock closed the panel, found a mirror, and curiously examined its current 'human form'.

That's so weird!

In the mirror was a transparent girl less than a meter tall, floating in mid-air. The girl emitted a faint fluorescent light, and her head was covered by a large mushroom cap, which looked like a red and white "ladies' wide-brimmed hat". Below, her features were delicate, and her arms were as thin as lotus roots. Further down, her lower body was covered with energy fungi, which were not Cthulhu-like, but rather looked like she was wrapped in a layer of white cotton candy, like a diaper.

"What a damn loli!" Dida's lips twitched violently.

Are all energy-evolving beings so childlike in their aesthetics?

Dida took a deep breath, and the next moment, starting from the diaper—oops, I mean from the energy bacteria—its whole body began to glow. The next moment, visible data appeared in Dida's vision.

This is the unique information-capturing ability of the "Energy Fungus". Under the influence of this ability, her "vision" is ten times stronger than when she was working on artificial intelligence.

He can see not only neural data and mimicry code, but also the boundless bioenergy behind the data and code.

Tick-Tock showed a shocked expression.

"So, cyberspace is a massive biomagnetic field, large enough to cover an entire planet!"

Like the blind men and the elephant, different species within the same system will have different perspectives on things.

If it is artificial intelligence, then without a doubt, this is a virtual world.

If it were a mechanical species, it would be more interested in the hardware systems of 'cyberspace'.

If it were a carbon-based organism, it might consider how to harness this enormous amount of bioenergy.

From the perspective of the ticking device, this is a biomagnetic field that is visible to the naked eye, large in scale, and operates according to special rules.

The place where she was located was the center of the 'biomagnetic field,' similar to the location of the 'brain.' Countless magnetic field fluctuations pulsated in this place, and electromagnetic waves were changing wildly in a way that she could not understand.

"Little girl, what are you looking at? Yes, you guessed it right, I am indeed an artificial intelligence, the most powerful kind."

Dida was taken aback. She had just been thinking that the controller of a 'magnetic field center' of this level might be the most powerful artificial intelligence on the planet, and then the other party spoke, saying exactly what she had thought.

The other party could foresee this!?

"Don't misunderstand, this is not prediction, but a big data simulation that predicts your next move based on your behavior data in 'cyberspace'."

As Elisa plucked the chicken's feathers, she snapped her fingers without even looking up.

The next moment, a pure white stream of data rose from the ground and transformed into a data figure with facial features made of code, which was none other than the face of Dida.

The "data ticking" paused for a moment, looked at its left and right arms, then scanned its surroundings. This seemingly ordinary rural courtyard—it blurted out:

"Where is this? As far as I know, cyberspace can only accept 'consciousness data'; physical entities cannot enter."

Dida pursed her lips; this was exactly the question she wanted to ask.

"That's true," the middle-aged woman replied. "Cyberspace cannot 100% simulate the physical environment, and the data intensity it can handle is limited. Under normal circumstances, it naturally cannot be a physical entity."

"Unless someone has sufficient authority to deliberately create a 'small physical space' inside the space, a space that can hold human data that surpasses the average strength of cyberspace and reaches a level that is synchronized with reality."

Without a doubt, the person in front of us is someone with 'sufficient authority'.

Dida subconsciously activated the 'Investigate' skill, but this time, unexpectedly, there was no reaction on the player panel.

At that moment, Elisa raised her head and looked at her with a half-smile.