Chapter 8
The tribe had become a form of life that the true universe could not comprehend. They had indeed transcended the physical dimensions, yet they could not achieve the theoretical state of success—namely, a high-level interference with the reality of the universe. It seemed they had attained immortality, existing within the fourth dimension of the cosmos, but the only impact they could have on the three-dimensional universe was a simple 'flicker,' a data fluctuation from 0 to 1.
The establishment of the Star Alliance was a result of two other powerful civilizations studying the data of the Floating Spirits tribe, which led to the creation of the Star Network interface, enabling real-time communication across the universe and thus ending the era of the Dark Forest.
All real-time data streams on the Star Network were essentially the tides of the Floating Spirits' activities. There were no servers, no AI masterminds; it was truly impervious to monitoring by any major power or hacking attempts, even by the two most powerful cosmic civilizations, the Ruìlán Empire and the Kǎiyīn Federation.
The only requirement was the energy to upgrade the interface, which explained the registration fee of ten thousand star coins.
As for the games on the Star Network… they were akin to 'islands' or 'reefs' in this vast ocean.
Not long after the Star Network emerged, the intelligent beings who had used it discovered that any individual from any tribe could choose to upload their consciousness and transform into a Floating Spirit at any time.
Thus, many intelligent beings opted for this transformation when their lifespans reached their limits. To this day, the Star Network remains the largest 'cosmic cemetery,' giving rise to the concept of 'Cyber Ghosts'—after hearing this, Ye Bai couldn't help but think of a dark joke: when she was nearing the end of her life, if she transformed, at least the six hundred years of Aurora could offer her electronic incense.
Simultaneously, as a large number of interstellar tribes transformed into Floating Spirits, games on the Star Network began to emerge one after another.
These games, diverse in form, are widely understood in the universe as a convergence of collective subconscious. The activities of the groups that had transformed into Floating Spirits and those that had not underwent a marvelous qualitative change on the Star Network, becoming unique virtual digital worlds that every intelligent being who accessed the Star Network could explore and enjoy.
Therefore, all Star Network games lacked production companies and publishers.
This is why, when Ye Bai first saw the myriad worlds become Star Network games, her immediate reaction was to dive into the game to understand its contents, rather than investigate who had created it.
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It didn't take long for Ye Bai to adapt to the usage of the Star Network, as it was all controlled by consciousness, not much different from personal terminals.
After Ye Bai 'asked a question,' a flood of information quickly surged in. Since she had also added a requirement for 'reliability,' the data that emerged was all verified material, ensuring its authenticity.
Among this information were some publicly disclosed materials from the civilizations that had first entered "Myriad Worlds," dating back three years, but more were from the recent months. After the role of Myriad Worlds became widely known among the cosmic civilizations, not only did countless new players join, but scholars also began to study the game content.
When interstellar players entered the game, they encountered the same login interface as Ye Bai.
Although there were no guides, many Star Network games were similar, with character models resembling a common type of carbon-based life form, Type IV.
Then came the login step, and here arose the problem.
Other Star Network games did not have a 'login' concept; entering the game automatically completed registration. Thus, when the interstellar players saw the tightly shut stone door, their first instinct was that this was a game background level, and they needed to find a way to get out.
However, "Myriad Worlds" was fully destructible, even the initial login interface.
So, after discovering that the stone door was firmly shut, players began to unleash their creativity, attacking the door with fists and feet, smashing it with debris from the stone platform nearby, prying it open with a lighting column… and so on.
Among these players who attempted to enter the game, aside from the differences in attributes due to varying character models, their personal panels did not show Ye Bai's identity as a 'Divine Blooded,' but rather as 'Vagrants.'
Seeing this, Ye Bai finally understood and couldn't help but facepalm—
Due to the unique format of Star Network games, the interstellar players had entered the game through this unconventional method, not as normal player accounts, thus becoming tourist accounts.
Tourist accounts were designed to capture those players too lazy to register, of course offering only a limited gaming experience. Their identity was uniformly that of despised vagrants by NPCs. Want to become a remarkable Divine Blooded? Go spend… cough, go register a formal account!
But as she continued to think, Ye Bai felt something was off. With so many interstellar players, and given that Myriad Worlds was said to enhance mental strength, how could they not have discovered the login method?
Then Ye Bai saw the next piece of information.
Indeed, not all players were so violent; some had explored the patterns on the stone door and achieved the correct 'login cutscene.'
At this point, the players' thought process took a turn.
With the emergence of the questions of [Identity] and [Key], the interstellar players, who had never needed to log in to play games, naturally assumed this was a puzzle to be solved, and answering correctly would yield extra game rewards.
This period saw the rise of the 'Cracking Faction,' who preferred to find the 'answers' to these two questions from the environmental hints around them.
Thus, among the myriad inputs, the Cracking Faction players discovered that no matter what they inputted, the door would open. Compared to those who had violently smashed the door, their personal panels showed no differences aside from the attribute variations from different character models.
Well, it turned out to be a freebie.
The Cracking Faction disbanded on the spot, as this effortless method of opening the door became the mainstream approach among interstellar players. After all, they had discovered that Myriad Worlds could enhance mental strength, and the entire universe was in a frenzy; not progressing meant falling behind. Why waste time on a direction that wouldn't yield results?
Only a very small portion of people, either out of personal obsession or for the research purposes of their factions, continued to persist in the decoding work, believing that success would yield greater rewards, and they were humorously dubbed the 'Persistent Cracking Faction'...
Upon reading this, Ye Bai furrowed her brows.
"This is the normal login method; how could it still be a tourist account? Input, decode..."
Suddenly, Ye Bai had a flash of inspiration; she realized where the difference lay!
It was the language logic!
Ye Bai would never forget a scene from her life, one that came from when she had just been excavated from Antarctica.
At that time, the newly awakened Ye Bai saw a remarkably beautiful new human female.
“@%#&￥*…”
The other party spoke a complex string of words that she couldn't comprehend. Ye Bai felt she couldn't even mimic the intonation. Upon seeing her bewildered expression, the other person seemed to remember something and took out a silver object resembling a watch battery, pressing it against Ye Bai's neck while she was frozen in terror.
Later, Ye Bai learned that it was a personal terminal, which, upon contact with her skin, disassembled into nanobots that entered through her pores into her neck, connecting to her nerves without any pain.
Only then could Ye Bai understand the other person's words.
“Hello, ancient human. I am TI8697, a staff member of the Blue Star Council. You are now in the year 10245 of your era. From now on, Blue Star will become a public planet of the Star Alliance…”
“...Finally, would you be willing to sell the property rights of Antarctica beneath you to us?”
The real world could not possibly be like web novels, where the entire universe spoke Huáxià language.
Language, at its root, is a carrier of information. As any civilization develops, the information carriers become increasingly complex, containing more information.
Even the Blue Star people of ten thousand years later had undergone significant changes in their language logic system. Not to mention the countless intelligent beings and civilizations across the universe, many did not communicate through vocal sounds or written words at all; different intelligent species had different foundational language logics.
In this era, the application of mental strength made cross-species communication seamless.
Under normal circumstances, biological communication involves converting the information in the brain into expressive forms through language logic, such as speaking or writing. However, with personal terminals, the input of information from the brain can directly transform into mental signals, transmitted to the personal terminals of the communicators, allowing for understanding.
Yet, the foundational language logics of different intelligent beings would not change. Thus, this issue manifested in the login process of "Myriad Worlds."
From Ye Bai's successful case, it seemed… it could only accept the voice logic input from ten thousand years ago from Blue Star to complete the registration.
And the information input by different interstellar players using their own voice logic became unrecognizable 'gibberish,' thus being classified as tourist accounts.
With this realization, Ye Bai took a deep breath.
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