Deep within the Information Plane.
The sea of pure white light surged wildly.
Within that network composed of countless Information Beings, an unprecedented fluctuation was spreading.
It was not some independent consciousness, but a "consensus."
Supreme Consensus Algorithm.
This was the core of Information Being civilization, the ultimate decision-making mechanism condensed through tens of millions of years of evolution.
When faced with a crisis that could not be handled individually, the computing power of all nodes would converge in an instant, reach a consensus in the shortest possible time, and then act. At this moment, the consensus had been reached.
[Plan: Isolate, abandon.]
Within the sea of light, the three virus-infected regions suddenly fell into dead silence.
All connections—physical, quantum, causal—were severed at the very same instant.
The millions of poisoned Information Beings that had crashed here were abandoned without hesitation.
They became "necrotic sectors."
Those Information Beings were still struggling, still trying to invoke computing power to analyze the virus, still instinctively calling for help from their surroundings.
But the network had been cut off. They had become isolated islands, left to face the madly proliferating Information Plague alone.
Then, they began to collapse.
One blue Entropy Brain after another precipitated from the cores of their collapse, floating in the sea of pure white light.
In only a few minutes, those three regions changed from pure white to pale blue, then from pale blue to deep blue.
Before long, in the wizards' sight, this region of the Information Plane near the Ship Plane had become a blue ocean.
At the same time, the entire Information Being network began frantically pushing updates.
"Malicious Information Blocking Patch"—all nodes scanned transmitted information in real time; once malicious characteristics were identified, they were immediately isolated and reported. "Connection Line Camouflage Protocol"—every