"Are you just going to stay by my side like this forever?" Wang Ye asked helplessly in the conference room.
"I've got nothing else to do," the woman said slowly, sipping her tea. "The orders that needed to be given have been given, and the tasks that needed to be carried out have begun. All I have to do is wait for the results and prevent anyone from causing trouble."
"Was it carried out?" Wang Ye looked at the other party and asked curiously, "You've been hiding in the shadows for so many years, not daring to show yourselves in the open. There must be something very daunting about you, so not all families are under your control, right? How could you take control of the Federation so quickly?"
"What do you think?" The woman smiled at the other person, wanting to see just how far this guy, whose intelligence was said to be almost at its maximum, could deduce.
"Deterrence." Wang Ye also sipped his tea. In the year he'd been here, he'd gotten used to the inferior tea.
"There's only one possibility: if you can openly control Data City, you won't be hiding in the shadows. If you are, then suddenly revealing yourself and taking control of the situation can only be done through intimidation. But for the Federation's higher-ups, intimidation alone isn't enough. You need to demonstrate something else."
For example?
"For example, authority!" Wang Ye laughed. "The biggest difference I've noticed between people here is authority. In our world, power is intangible, but here you can use some technology to make authority tangible. The open use of authority to define status is a major characteristic here. As far as I know, the higher the official's rank, the greater their authority. So the best way to deter them is to have even higher authority than them!"
"This Data City is constructed using some kind of technology, similar to the techniques of our time. If you designed the underlying structure of these techniques in the first place, then you should have the highest authority, perhaps even directly overriding the authority of the Speaker. Only such a deterrent can keep them in check for a short time and make them do as you command."
"Not bad, not bad." The woman couldn't help but laugh. "The intelligence assessment wasn't exaggerated. You're very smart, smarter than I thought."
An ancient person who has only been here for a year has completely adapted to the logic of this place and even used this logic to instantly assess the situation. This adaptability and responsiveness are truly remarkable.
However, only data life forms can do this. Powerful data life forms have powerful computing capabilities, and their ability to accept and reason about things is higher than that of ordinary people. Data life forms are not just surviving, but evolving as a whole. What we did back then was right.
If we remain stagnant, humanity will forever stagnate. In a billion years at most, the Earth will be depleted, and humanity will perish, unable to escape the energy limits of planetary civilization. Only data life can break through this limit, and only data life can lead humanity out of the planet and make humankind eternal.
"You don't have many people, do you?" Wang Ye suddenly said in a sinister tone.
"Oh?" The woman narrowed her eyes upon hearing this. "And how did you arrive at that conclusion?"
"The power to revoke the Speaker's authority—if many people possessed such a thing, it would be impossible to maintain secrecy for so many years. Only complete internal unity and absolute obedience could prevent chaos from occurring for hundreds of thousands of years. Therefore, the number of people possessing this authority must be extremely limited."
"But if it's a business partnership, and you have the permissions while I don't, then conflict is inevitable. In this model, the person who can retain those permissions is absolutely crucial, someone neither of you can do anything about. The rest should have been eliminated from your internal system long ago, am I right?"
"The way you're saying that," the woman said coldly, her smile fading, "Is as if you saw it with your own eyes."
"There are some things we don't need to see." Wang Ye shook his head. "In history, so many of you participated in that experiment, and there must have been a lot of powerful figures behind that world war. There were definitely a lot of people involved. But once the data era was established, it was impossible for your organization to accommodate so many people in power at the same time. Only by eliminating most of them could this model continue."
"And then?" the woman sneered. "So what if only a few of us stay?"
"How much less?" Wang Ye laughed. "Can you control everyone? Won't they try anything funny?"
"Can a few small actions change the big picture?" The woman laughed. "What kind of small actions do you think could change the current situation? Especially when you're being controlled."
"Am I that important?" Wang Ye looked at the other person. "Your opponent is Chen Qing, right?"
The woman's smile froze for a moment, but then returned to its usual cheerful tone. "Did you receive a message from Chen Qing?"
"As expected. He's been taken control of by you?"
"You're not stupid," the woman nodded. " Chen Qing was an accident back then, and also our biggest weakness. If it weren't for him, the new era would have arrived long ago."
Wang Ye, referring to the "New Era," nodded. "I knew Chen Qing was no ordinary person; her background back then wasn't simple either, was it?"
Have you ever heard of Pu Yunchuan?
"I've heard of them." Wang Ye nodded. "The creators of our world."
"I would say so, you could even say they were the creators of the entire data era."
"Oh?"
"He was the first data life form and the first to access a supercomputer, so he was very special."
"So special that he could threaten you?" Wang Ye felt he had grasped the truth. "And he did indeed threaten you, right?"
"Yes," the woman laughed, "He betrayed us back then, and he even teamed up with a very troublesome person to betray us. It was a very dangerous time; we almost all met our demise."
"I see." Wang Ye nodded. "It's probably because of that scheme that you haven't been able to openly rule both realms, right?"
What else can you guess?
"I can't guess," Wang Ye shook his head. "There's too little information. I have a question I'd like to ask."
"Explain"
" Chen Qing, is that Pu Yunchuan?"
The woman paused for a moment upon hearing this, then chuckled and asked, "Why do you want to know this?"
"It's a thirst for knowledge."
The woman thought for a moment, then looked at Wang Ye and said, "No."
"I see," Wang Ye said, closing his eyes and quickly starting to think.
When many things were connected, he roughly guessed what had happened back then, and he also roughly guessed what these people had been schemed against.
If I'm not mistaken.
Pu Yunchuan is still alive!!!
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"Uncle, I've arrived!"
"How many times have I told you? When you're at work, address people by their job titles."
"It's the Speaker!"
"I will now restart the command center and grant you that access. Whether you choose to shut it down again is up to you!"