While the two data terminals were happily exchanging sentiments, Hao Ren was already busy with his work.
Originally, the Petrachelys only had one set of equipment to analyze the vengeful spirit. But after learning about Saint Sur IV, he immediately ordered the shipboard factory to work overtime to build a new set. Considering the efficiency of the shipboard factory, it did not take much time to build such a device with the blueprints. Hao Ren took out the new set of equipment from the Dimensional Pocket, installed the energy core and debugged it. The device immediately emitted a soft buzzing sound, and the bowl-shaped groove in the center of the device began to glow.
"Now, put the vengeful spirit into this, and you can read its data," Hao Ren pointed to the device. "But according to our several tests, the data will be very messy. It not only contains the vengeful spirit's memory, but also its own 'existence data'. It's like a messy hard disk. All the storage files and system files are scrambled into bytes. Even if you read it out, it will be meaningless."
Galazur looked at the device that Hao Ren took out with great interest. "What an exquisite thing... It's never a bad idea to try."
As she said, she controlled the magic stones to float over. The strong magnetic field formed by the magic stones was like an invisible container that dragged the vengeful spirit to the top of the analyzer. After carefully docking, the irascible light was transferred into the groove without any danger.
The analysis module of the device immediately went online. With a buzzing sound, it began to read the information of the vengeful spirit.
Nangong Wuyue watched nervously. Every time something related to the vengeful spirit, it would remind her of her missing parents, and she was particularly nervous every time it happened. The people around her already knew the siren girl's problem. Before this, they had already run away. This time, no one was caught by Wuyue's tail...
Rollie swayed restlessly on one leg, staring at the glimmer of the device. The static environment here made her inexplicably nervous and restrained. Hao Ren noticed the cat girl's reaction. He reached out and patted the latter's head. "Don't move."
With the previous vengeful spirit reading program, the device ran more smoothly. In addition, the vengeful spirit sample provided by Galazur was "healthier" than the one Hao Ren caught. Soon, some data was extracted. The holographic projection of the analyzer began to show some strange images and strings of characters. They quickly refreshed, full of high-tech feeling, and as usual, useless.
"I knew it would be like this." Hao Ren shrugged. "It was the same when I read the other vengeful spirit. Only garbled characters."
Galazur looked thoughtfully at the garbled characters and suddenly muttered, "Wait... it might not be garbled."
Hao Ren immediately looked up at her.
"Although I don't have as much experience in dealing with vengeful spirits as you, I have more experience than you in other aspects." Galazur pointed to the garbled characters. "Look at these symbols... Although there is no pattern, some things appear repeatedly, just like markings. And these images, it's a mess, but these chaotic images are continuous. They should be able to form some kind of... image. "
Hao Ren scratched his chin. "Well, I've thought about what you said, but it doesn't make sense to mark and connect these continuous and repetitive parts. It's still a mess. At most, it will change from a static mosaic to a dynamic mosaic. There's no difference."
Galazur shook her head. "This at least proves that the information is not meaningless. The existence of a pattern means the existence of data. The problem is not the data, but the way we read it. "
Hao Ren quietly waited for her to continue while Galazur closed her eyes and meditated. The giant dragon had been an inspector for thousands of years and had seen many worlds and races. Her vast knowledge was the most valuable asset she had. After a while, the dragon queen opened her eyes. "I remember a strange race I met a long time ago. They would be infected with a very special disease called nonlinear memory disorder."
Lily's ears pricked up. "Nonlinear?"
She had a straight head, so when she heard the word "nonlinear", she was particularly sensitive.
"Yes, nonlinear," Galazur nodded. "It can also be called 'disordered memory disorder.' There is no order in memory, and there is no concept of time. The memory of the patient is like a plane, and all the information is placed on the same layer. Yesterday's events and today's events are mixed together, and childhood and adulthood are also mixed together. In mild cases, you can still distinguish the memory in units of years, but in severe cases, it is a complete mess. Even the memory of a second before and after will be mixed together, byte by byte. Do you know what this will cause? "
Hao Ren imagined for a moment and broke out in a cold sweat. "They can't think at all."
"Yes, the essence of this disease is the loss of the ability to organize memories. So the patient will feel that everything is happening at the same time, from the first time they fell to the time they gave birth to their children. Every piece of memory is piled up together. In the late stage, the patient is like a vegetable lying on the bed, unable to move. Their brain is full of memories, but because of the lack of an index, they can't do anything. They don't even know what they are thinking. "
Hao Ren thought of the files on the computer hard disk: the files that were originally arranged according to the date of creation suddenly lost all the time, and the whole folder would be a mess. He knew what Galazur wanted to say. "You said that the memory of the vengeful spirit is nonlinear?"
"I suspect so, but I'm not sure." Galazur frowned. "The race I mentioned developed nonlinear memory because of the disease. If the vengeful spirit is born like this... how do they live? I can't imagine how non-linear memory can produce thinking activities. "
"Don't forget that they are 'vengeful spirits'," Hao Ren said quickly. "They are actually dead. The First Born destroyed the self-consciousness of these spiritual creatures... I understand what's going on. When the First Born destroyed the self-consciousness of the vengeful spirit, it also destroyed the sequencing of their memory, causing all the information to pile up in a disorderly manner. We should first find a way to build an index for the vengeful spirit, and then we can reorganize the useful information, instead of burying our heads in deciphering the code. "
"How do we start?" Galazur looked at Hao Ren. "Reorganizing the information without an index is as difficult as reorganizing a city from a desert."
Hao Ren did not know how to do it. In this field, his knowledge was not as good as Galazur's. But the MDT suddenly floated over. "We don't have to use a timetable as an index. I can try some other algorithms. At least now we have an idea. "
Hao Ren immediately moved away from the console. "Okay, you try."
The MDT embedded itself on the console of the analyzer. Its surface quickly glowed blue, and then the data and images on the holographic projections began to refresh at an alarming rate and gradually changed. Some symbols were extracted separately, and then new entries were created under them. Hao Ren did not understand what was going on, but he knew that the MDT was trying to compile a catalog of the vengeful spirit's memory.
This catalog was not necessarily arranged in chronological order, but it could also be arranged according to the size of the data package or the similarity of the data. For a creature that had been dead for more than 10,000 years, there was no need to know the exact time of every event it had experienced. It just needed to know what it had experienced and list them all.
"It seems to work," Nangong Sanba suddenly said with a serious expression.
Hao Ren stared at the holographic projection. "You can tell?"
"No, I guessed. I'm just showing off."
"..."
But Nangong Sanba was right. The new algorithm did work.
The blue light on the surface of the MDT dissipated. It popped out of the groove and said in a cheerful tone, "It's done. I've reset the retrieval method. There was a problem with our previous decoding idea. What it needed was not decoding at all. "
Hao Ren looked at the analyzer in surprise. "Can you read it now?"
"Reading. Since the algorithm is still not perfect, the reading speed and accuracy are not very high. But at least it can read something useful. It's much better than before," the MDT said happily and proudly. "Now we can start on sample number one."
(Xi Yan has started a new book. The title is' Echoes of the Wall of Heart '. I think some readers should know her... I hope you all can support her. Readers who like a delicate style of writing and a bold and imaginative world can have a look. Also, I hope I haven't forgotten this time!)
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