Chapter 1375: Chapter 1237: 10% Progress!
Wall of Life!
Chapter 1375: Chapter 1237: 10% Progress!
Wall of Life!
Virtual Office, Mirage 3.0, installnt paynts, second-hand consoles, global lifting of bans…
Under the combination of various factors, whether it was the total number of users in the virtual world or the daily average user online count, a significant rising curve was apparent.
Correspondingly, Mavis’s decryption efficiency also steadily climbed.
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However, before this, the decrypted items were the sa as before, all being incomprehensible fragnts.
“Mining” efficiency had indeed increased significantly, but what was mined turned out to be “waste ore.”
This was sowhat discouraging.
But now, the situation had finally changed—Mavis had dug up a “big thing”!
Lincoln imdiately beca expectant.
He quickly joined Mavis aboard the Spaceship, materializing that splendid sun emitting countless data ribbons.
“Here,” Mavis said, reaching out her small hand to grab a ribbon made of light, gesturing to Lincoln.
Lincoln looked and instantly understood what Mavis ant—
Other data ribbons were very thin, looking only a bit thicker than strands of hair, but the one Mavis held was like a soft satin ribbon, the volu alone was more than a hundred tis that of other data!
This was definitely a “big guy”!
But—
“Not decrypted yet?” Lincoln was stunned.
“Not yet,” Mavis said with an embarrassed smile, pulling on the ribbon with all her might as if she were in a tug-of-war while complaining, “This one is really huge!”
Lincoln didn’t go over to help pull.
Because Mavis’s actions were only a visual representation, similar to a “loading bar”.
What she was truly doing was deploying the massive computational power of players to decrypt this huge data cluster.
Lincoln switched to the data world, attempting to analyze this “big thing.”
But it was difficult.
Because he found that this “big thing” had a huge difference compared to those fragnts—it seed to be wrapped in a layer of sothing.
Was this layer for protection?
Or was it due to the use of a special folding technique, which resulted in its being compressed multiple tis, increasing the difficulty of unveiling while also ensuring its integrity?
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Lincoln couldn’t be sure.
But the importance of this “big guy” was undeniable.
——Even through layers of protection, Lincoln saw so things that were different from the rest.
His brain was now operating at full capacity, and his sensitivity to data was almost inhuman, allowing him to feel that this “big guy” showed so structural similarities in data representation with “data remnants,” “artificial intelligence,” “digital life,” and “hibernators.”
There were even traits of intelligent life that only Mavis exhibited!
Of course, this was the least.
Based on intuition, Lincoln judged that the “tier” of this “big guy” in terms of technology—or to put it more dramatically, its “rank” on the path of digital ascension—should be above conventional artificial intelligence but below the hibernators.
Yet, the amount of data it carried far exceeded the hibernators, and even the digital lives Lincoln had seen to date!
Looking at this sowhat paradoxical “big guy,” Lincoln had a strong premonition:
This “big guy”…
could it be possible to communicate with it?
No matter how one looked at it, this “big guy” was much stronger than secondary artificial intelligence, right?
If it really could communicate, it would be able to answer many of Lincoln’s questions—whether it was about technology or Mavis, neither could have co from nothing, and he was too eager to understand what was going on.
With this thought, Lincoln imdiately developed a strong sense of anticipation!
However, he did not rush Mavis, but instead went over to pick up Mavis, who was heaving and ho’ing in a tug-of-war with the light ribbon, “Alright, alright, don’t tire yourself out.
Let’s just keep encouraging the players.”
“Okay!” Mavis raised her hands in agreent.
Lincoln hadn’t co up with this on the spur of the mont.
When planning the [Return to the Stars] world mission, he had arranged Easter eggs to inspire the players’ enthusiasm.
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It was just a matter of tweaking the order a bit to stir up the players’ enthusiasm even more.
So at 7:21 AM the next morning, the mont the progress bar for [Return to the Stars] was filled to 10%, a promotional piece was unlocked—
On the two massive screens where players had accepted the [Return to the Stars] mission, all tasks vanished instantly, and a progress bar appeared at the center of the screen, quickly advancing to 10%.
Then, that progress bar also disappeared, leaving only two pitch-black screens.
Players who were grinding tasks had no choice but to stop in their tracks, gathering under the giant display, looking at the dark screen with puzzled faces.
Then, the sound of lengthy music slowly began to rise.
A lush green planet rapidly zood in amidst the dark screen.
“Oh!!!”
Cheers erupted from the crowd on the spot.
The players had not expected an Easter egg when the progress reached 10%, and were imdiately thrilled with the surprise.
Especially the players who had stayed up all night because they didn’t have to go to work or attend classes on Sunday—they beca fully alert at once!
Many even couldn’t help but shout out their guesses—
“Monster Hunter!”
It was not strange for them to think so, considering there were still many players battling on the other side of the rift, and this ga was the only one at present for which Cloud Dream had not released any promotional material.
The timing seed just right for this announcent.
But they were wrong.
As the lens zood in, what appeared was not a variety of strange and enormous fierce beasts, but—
An infinitely vast and magnificent cliff.
Against this boundless and grand cliff, a spaceship capable of interstellar travel seed as insignificant as a fly.
Now, this spaceship, dragging a smoking tail, traced a long streak in the sky and plunged diagonally towards the cliff.
“Boom!”
The lens suddenly zood in as the spaceship slamd into the sturdy cliff, raising smoke and dust and scattering debris and iron fragnts.
When the dust settled, the front half of a shuttle-shaped spaceship was seen stuck into the cliffside, immovable.
“Bang!”
The twisted and deford hatch blew open, and several astronauts dressed in full spacesuits walked out.
Standing on the edge of the spaceship, they looked down at the abyss swirling with clouds and mist, bottomless, and cursed the heavens in despair.
But in the next shot, they cald down, tidied their equipnt, and began constructing a temporary shelter inside the cliff using portable excavators.
In another shot, an astronaut inside the dark cave hoisted up a naturally occurring blue cubic crystal, excitedly shouting to his teammates.
What followed was a mine of rhombus-shaped crystals glowing with pure gold light.
As the pile of minerals grew larger, the damage to the spaceship was gradually repaired, and everything seed to move in a positive direction.
But soon, giant spider-like monsters erged in the darkness; they moved effortlessly on the vertical cliff, launching an attack on the survivors!
In the darkness, the sounds of gunfire, collisions, eerie shrieks, and the wailing of the spaceship’s twisted outer shell echoed…
By daybreak the next day, the spaceship beca even more broken, and two astronauts were missing.
Thus, the astronauts started to enhance the spaceship’s weapons and defenses, but the monsters that erged were more and more nurous and powerful, escalating the intensity of the battle!
The last combat scene was a landscape engulfed in flas!
However, the film did not show the outco of the battle, but instead revealed the na of the ga—
“Wall of Life”!
The last sequence was the usual fast montage—pyramids growing out of the great wall, primitive settlents left among creepers and trees, vast yet decaying chanical constructs, and the technological marvels deep within the wall…
And finally, the release date—
[On the day we Return to the Stars, we et at the great wall!]
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