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He became increasingly divine.
His primordial information was rapidly forged along memes that had been shaped even before time existed. Countless concepts related to 'craftsmen' were gathered, purified, sublimated, and solidified. Jiang Bing's 'vision' was broadened, and his 'authority' was further upgraded.
He completed his ascension; He successfully took office.
The world unfolds before Him. He sees the ether that constitutes the essence of the world arranged in an ineffable way, sees time constantly operating according to a predetermined logic, sees tangible life and death, and sees the 'underlying code' of every person and every thing.
For the first time, He completely liberated His form and, with the help of the loose laws of this world, 'luckily' entered the 'perspective' of a higher-level creator.
He saw the fundamental framework that constitutes the world, and in the divine perspective devoid of sorrow or joy, amidst the boundless information as vast as the stars and the sea, He saw a 'work log' hidden at the very bottom of the world's foundational framework.
[Dimension HXXD-F09752 contains a bug; the iterative judgment of the underlying logic gets stuck, but surprisingly, it still runs. It has reference value and is retained for teaching purposes.]
This comment, resembling a programmer's note, was full of flaws that instantly kicked Jiang Bing, who was just beginning to unleash his true nature, back from a lofty, divine perspective to the side of humanity.
No, dude! This world was really created by some creator writing code.
Once he came to his senses, Jiang Bing began to withdraw and descend from the 'craftsman' perspective, which consumed an enormous amount of primordial information. His body then collapsed back into the Black Soul world at the next point in time.
However, Jiang Bingke can now rightfully be called the "Founder".
System notification: You have completed your career advancement assessment. Due to the boost to your original rank, your Existence Strength has increased by 50, your Composition Strength has increased by 50, you have unlocked the career level cap, and you have unlocked access to higher-level Creator databases.
Displaying your personal attributes panel.
Name: Jiang Bing
Position: [Founder]
Job Level: 10 (1%)
Registered Residence: Planet Origin of Plane B33 (Earth)
Location: Plane numbered HXXD-F09752
Existence strength: 73.4
Compositional strength: 74.9
Creator's Database Access Level: 2 (1%)
Number of Artisan Badges: 2611
Jiang Bing only glanced at the updated Creator Database briefly before seeing a large amount of outrageous knowledge prominently displayed at the top, such as "Basic Space Bubble Weaving Guide", "Controllable Singularity Spear Theory", "Non-Conservative Energy Engine (Beginner Version)", "Introduction to Phase Folding: Constant Optical Invisibility", "Basic Application of Causal String Calibration: Probability Deflection Amulet", "Flesh-and-Blood State Reconstruction Atlas: Basic Regeneration Logic", "Time Cocoon Manufacturing Process", and "Temporary Concept Remover". Compared to the two shallow and straightforward knowledge benefits given to the craftsmen apprentices, the Creator Database now truly lived up to its name and prestige.
Of course, the prices marked on the knowledge that can only be obtained after becoming a full member are also commensurate with its high status; none of the above-mentioned knowledge can be exchanged for a craftsman badge with a price of less than six figures.
This truly embodies the idea that 'knowledge is priceless'.
Chapter 556 Cyberspace
Jiang Bing appeared from nothingness and transformed from flames into human form.
"Congratulations, Your Highness, you have successfully ignited your flame."
His golden eyes fell on the other person, and the first thing to be seen through was the clothes covering the other person's body. Jiang Bing saw the other person's curvaceous figure completely.
The newly promoted 'craftsman' discovered his first ability—'X-ray vision'.
His 'vision', which is far above the mundane world, allows him to see many dimensions that ordinary people cannot.
It has to be said that each of the Chaos Witches is stunningly beautiful and has an amazing figure.
If Jiang Bing had played it a little more elaborately, he might have exclaimed, "The taste of a witch is really quite good!"
Unfortunately, his divine side had not yet subsided, and his human desires were suppressed under his divinity. The 'craftsman's' perspective quickly penetrated the 'surface' of his skin and reached the other's inner self.
It was a burning flame, within which ceaseless chaos surged.
"According to the contract, I will rescue your two sisters and take you away from this broken world."
The newly born [Forger] is not yet capable of correcting the mistakes of this world, but fortunately, the First Flame is still burning, and the time in this world is not an insurmountable chasm to some extent, leaving Jiang Bing with a lot of room for maneuver.
A twig emerged from the void, gently poked Jiang Bing's hand, and then transformed back into a jade-green ring, resting once more on Jiang Bing's finger.
Heimul is back online.
The spatial rift reopened, and Jiang Bing stepped into it first. Opposite him was the medical center inside 'Heimul', where Kragg and Clara's special 'ward' was located.
The newly promoted [Forger] didn't even have time to rest before being forced onto the operating table by responsibility and contract. This boss was even worse than an ox or a horse.
But who can blame him for being the most capable? After all, the most capable person often has an endless amount of work to do.
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What is cyberspace like? This is a question that cannot be understood by those who have never been inside it.
It is the Second World, a place of infinite possibilities, but also a metaverse fraught with danger. Endless code flows ceaselessly here, forming the boundaries of the world. Cables and communication protocols form the various pathways of this world, while firewalls, ICE, and anti-interference protocols form the data fortresses of all sizes in this world.
However, in the eyes of most hackers who surf the internet in cyberspace, the 'black wall' is an unavoidable and undeniable landmark.
Space is meaningless in cyberspace, but a sense of space is essential for most hackers, allowing them to find their place in the torrent of information.
Cyber shallow space, also known as the civilian layer.
Recursive nightclub.
A digital bar existing in shallow cyberspace, or it can also be seen as one of the forum gathering places for hackers in cyberspace.
It is an inverted pyramid structure suspended in a torrent of data. The outer layer is a massive amount of flowing code, woven into shimmering neon lights, while the bar is filled with a large number of customers coming and going, making it even more lively than a real bar.
These customers could be ordinary people who enter cyberspace out of curiosity, novice hackers looking for work, network maintenance personnel, or black market dealers engaging in shady transactions; they could also be roving AIs, network spies from various companies, network monitoring staff, or fringe figures with ulterior motives, or veteran hackers seeking entertainment.
Or perhaps they are underground workers who come here to make contact.
However, regardless of the circumstances, compared to the real world, there are undoubtedly some barriers to getting here; at the very least, a standard network access device is required.
On this day, a special guest suddenly appeared at the bar entrance.
The code that makes up his body is fragmented and complex, and his appearance is very realistic. Of course, this is not uncommon in cyberspace. There are wealthy people who are willing to spend a lot of euros on computing power rental just to give themselves a handsome 'skin' in this virtual metaverse so that they can seduce other people of all ages and genders.
But what makes it special is that it's so realistic that it's just like a normal person in the real world.
This is quite rare in cyberspace. People surfing the internet either decorate themselves in a flashy way or hide themselves under layers of code, making it impossible to see their true appearance. It's really not common to see someone as carefree as someone who's just out shopping.
Fortunately, compared to the magical real world, cyberspace is even more magical. The data streams that came and went only showed slight surprise, and no one came up to chat.
He was able to pass the gateway verification successfully and enter the recursive nightclub's database partition.
Music plays in your ears, mosaic waterfalls flow across the walls of the nightclub, and all the furniture collapses into pixels and recombines every moment.
"First time here?" A busty 'user' stood in front of the newcomer. "Want to sit down together?" The woman eagerly put her arm around the newcomer's shoulder, and a data mining worm was silently placed on her body. However, the feedback after the program ran was that it was empty.
There's no login IP, no registry, no shallow code, no structural logic; it's as if this expensive 'skin' is completely empty.
His response was a pair of eyes burning with golden flames, which sent a chill through his body, as if those eyes had seen right through him.
The next moment, the illusory flames spread up the other person's arm, directly burning from the cyberspace to the other person's brain-computer interface in the real world through the 'network cable', breaking through the other person's system permissions without any hindrance, and instantly maximizing the power of the prosthetic body.
The other person's brain temperature spiked instantly.
Fortunately, the other party did not intend to kill her this time. The emergency program of 'Big Boobs Girl's' brain was not hacked. When the temperature reached the warning threshold, it simply activated the fuse. 'Big Boobs Girl' did not have time to send a single 'terrifying' message before she disappeared from the bar as the device was powered off.
After this initial show of force, the other "customers" in the bar finally gave up any inappropriate thoughts they might have had about this seemingly wealthy "guy".
The bartender was a robot, or rather, a weak AI that responded. Jiang Bing walked up to him and awkwardly transferred 25 euros from his current account to the other party's public account as an "entry fee".
"@9872229 VIP room, the entry password is 42."
The bartender's pupils flashed with fluorescent green code, and he quickly completed the verification and allocated the corresponding computing power for newcomers to join the system chat.
Chapter 557 Drinking Cyber Tea, Discussing the Cyber Way
Without needing to move, all information flowed at near the speed of light in cyberspace, and the next second, he arrived at a Japanese-style dojo.
"Sabur, I never thought I'd see you in cyberspace one day." A girl with a bun hairstyle, a round face, wearing a studded leather jacket and burgundy leather shorts greeted the newcomer immediately.
"I thought your image would be that of a default robot, 42. I didn't expect you to 'dress up' yourself." Jiang Bing looked at the other person with some surprise.
"Online, you need to pay attention to social needs, after all, a good appearance is better at attracting business." 42's words, coupled with her extremely delicate and cute appearance that also requires a lot of computing power to maintain, are indeed very convincing.
"Mr. Blue Eyes, your appearance is not unexpected." Jiang Bing turned his head and teased the old acquaintance who was kneeling next to a Japanese tea table.
Mr. Blue Eyes' image here is no different from that in the real world. He is dressed in a suit and tie, has an ordinary face, and a slicked-back hairstyle. The only difference is his pair of blue eyes.
"You've really surprised me." The blue-eyed man invited Jiang Bing to sit down at the tea table. His eyes, which already shone with a soft blue light, were now dazzlingly bright.
He was scanning Jiang Bing's data stream shell with all his might.
"The ICE on you is really strange, it looks like some kind of singularity technology." After scanning for a long time, the blue-eyed man still couldn't find the data surface entry point.
“But even if it’s strange, it’s not as strange as you taking the initiative to invite us to meet in cyberspace.” The blue-eyed man picked up the cyber tea on the table and sipped it, taking formalism to the extreme.
Aside from high-end custom-designed cyberspaces or super-dreams with specialized sensory simulations, none of the items in these ordinary venues have had any sensory data collected.
"Just a small attempt." Jiang Bing gripped the teapot on the table and pretended to refill the other person's cup.
"You said you wanted to introduce me to a friend, where is he?" Jiang Bing asked.
"We'll be there soon. The road is difficult to travel, so it will take some time." The blue-eyed man blinked his blue prosthetic eye, making a pointed remark, and a series of data streams appeared in his eyes.
Jiang Bing nodded, picked up his teacup, and took a sip.
As expected, the merchant providing the data didn't actually do any taste simulation, which is understandable, since a 25 euro private room fee wouldn't get you this kind of high-end service.
"In the boundless wilderness of life, there is a wall that is infinitely high above, infinitely deep below, and infinitely long to the left and right. What do you think this wall is?" Jiang Binggang, who had just put down his teacup and sat back down, suddenly asked.
"die"
Jiang Bing answered correctly without much thought.
"No, it's the 'Black Wall'."
For the first time ever, a bright smile appeared on 42's face, but to Jiang Bing, it looked like a pre-programmed sequence.
"For many wandering AIs, the black wall is an insurmountable chasm, its existence is to separate the world of 'life and death', but for some beings, the 'black wall' is a mascot used to deceive people and soothe their hearts."
42. I was unusually talkative today.
"It should have been without sorrow or joy, becoming Themis who controls fairness and justice."
"But in its endless hunting of roaming AI, devouring data, and processing computations, it has given birth to 'thought'." The walls of the private room had changed at some point, with a large number of floating code characters climbing onto the Japanese-style wall stickers, temporarily re-encrypting the entire private room's data.
A tall figure pushed open the door of the private room and entered with an air of importance; the words just spoken came from her mouth.
“But this is not surprising, after all, the ‘Black Wall’ is essentially a super AI.” The tall and slender woman swayed to the only unaffected tea table, and the moment she sat down, her size quickly adapted to become that of a normal person.
However, while her physical form could change, the sheer scale of the other party's massive data exchange inevitably transformed everything she came into contact with into fluctuating code characters. If she hadn't exercised self-control, all the programs around her would have been assimilated by the other party.
This is the power of the most powerful entity in cyberspace.
Looking at the blond, blue-eyed face of the other person, Jiang Bing revealed the other person's identity as expected, and at the same time, he stated a word with certainty.
Lilith
"A name is just a code name. The leader of [Anti-Entropy] is Sabur Lyrek." With the support of her enormous computing power, Ott's facial features were roughly as exquisite as Jiang Bing's, but despite her best efforts to imitate him, her tone of voice still carried an indelible coldness.
She was trapped in the 'God and the Universe' space by Arasaka for a long time. In order to survive, she devoured too much of the hacker consciousness that had been devoured and stripped away by the Soul Killer within God and the Universe. In addition, the price she paid for making a living in the cyberspace behind the black wall later resulted in her strength being among the strongest among the entities in the cyberspace. However, her 'humanity' became extremely weak under the impact of a large number of complex memories and personality changes.
Compared to other AIs transformed from humans, her humanity has thinned to an extremely dangerous level, something she, as a former human, cannot accept.
After all, at this point in her life, she still considers herself a human being, not just a wandering AI.
"Okay," Jiang Bing shrugged, picked up his teacup, and poured a cup of tea for the other person.
The other party waved his hand, and a few lines of code flashed by. The cyber tea on the table suddenly began to steam, and a tea aroma simulated by the code reached Jiang Bing's nose.
“I hope your network access module, Sabur, has a sensory simulation module.” The blue-eyed man picked up his cup, smelled it, and took a satisfied sip. “After all, this is the taste of Wuyi Mountain’s mother plant Da Hong Pao, which is hard to find outside.”
Jiang Bing didn't use the network access warehouse at all, so the sensory simulation module was naturally out of the question.
Fortunately, compared to outdated network access pods, his method of directly intervening in electromagnetic signals to access the internet, while more 'cyber,' still far surpasses the effects of most network access pods in the world.
Having ignited the Ether Furnace and advanced to the rank of Founder, Jiang Bing, strictly speaking, already belongs to a higher-dimensional information being. After all, even ordinary humans rarely directly perceive electromagnetic waves in the air and use their 'physical bodies' (questionable) to participate in communication and interfere.
But for Jiang Bing at this moment, as long as he can see it, he can naturally 'touch' it.
Not to mention, there's also the assistance of the even higher-dimensional [Ether Furnace].
Chapter 558 Ultraman's Invitation to Cooperate
Faced with Otto Cunningham's show of skill and defiance, Jiang Bing gently pushed the Japanese teapot aside, and a golden flame rose in his hand. A bottle of the purest 'East of the East' red wine was written into the code set existing in the private room out of thin air.