Chapter 672 - 206: The Time Is Not Yet Ripe, The Sword Remains Sheathed (Part 4)
Even in many live streams, voices from this type of backseat driver emerged.
They claimed that the number one tourist wasn’t a backseat driver too; isn’t he impressive without qualifications?
So if he can do it, why can’t I? Host, listen to me, do as I say...
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Qi Sheng, who was behind the scenes, also paid attention to the battle in the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range.
He witnessed the splendid performance of the Star Network.
In fact, from the perspective of Guidance, the intelligence of the Star Network was by no means inferior to the mechanical sovereign that emerged early in the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range area, and even more profound in terms of its rich emotional aspect, not limited to just being a war weapon.
Speaking about the Star Network, Guidance noted that it represents a typical case of a weak race creating a divine artifact.
Just like the weak humans in the eyes of Guidance, who once created technological weapons that could destroy Earth civilization, such as early nuclear weapons.
Or, humans created computers with computing power surpassing human ability.
These are all examples of the weak creating strength.
Guidance explained that wisdom clans that exhibit such phenomena generally benefit from four basic dimensions.
The Moon Eclipse Clan also created the Star Network based on these foundations.
First is the layering of collective wisdom.
Wisdom clans, through recording, allow new generations to use the wisdom of their predecessors, then expand new technological insights and record them.
Upgrading storage technology is the core foundation for preserving civilizational knowledge.
From inefficient oral tradition, to written records that can be preserved for longer periods, printing for accelerated knowledge transmission, up to today’s digital storage.
The efficiency improvement in storage allows knowledge to accumulate more effectively, significantly reducing the cost for individual wise beings to obtain knowledge within the clan.
Secondly is the progression of tools.
Any intelligent life cannot create tools instantaneously; they naturally must undergo tool iterations.
Just like the iteration from stone tools to particle colliders.
Early humans used stones to craft simple tools, such as stone axes and stone swords.
Although crude, these tools laid the foundation for subsequent tool emergence.
Just as a high-rise must first lay a solid foundation.
Each generation of tools improves and optimizes based on the previous generation.
Just as tools from the Stone Age, although simple, provided experiences and inspirations for later productions like bronze and iron tools.
Many modern tools have evolved based on previous generation tools.
Just look at the development of computers; from early massive mechanical computers to electronic computers, then crystal computers, and integrated circuit computers...
The manufacturing of tools builds upon itself, evolving through a qualitative change in developmental efficiency.
Primitive people couldn’t polish particle colliders with stones, tool development isn’t linear but spirals upward in cycles.
Every round of tool manufacture is based on the previous round, allowing tools to constantly evolve and upgrade.
Early on, the Moon Eclipse Clan also researched AI technology, which was foundational for creating the Star Network.
The third point is the unlocking of energy levels.
The degree of control over energy by wisdom clans determines the possibility of civilization surpassing technological limitations.
From the use of fire, to harnessing wind and water energy from nature, then coal and oil, to electricity and nuclear energy... Every energy level unlocking brings a technological leap.
The fourth point is the emergence of a collaboration network, evolving technological development from simple ant-like thinking into a new civilization of emergent wisdom.
This is akin to the real-world network, detailing into technologies like the Internet, IoT, blockchain, and cloud computing.
Enhancing information transmission efficiency, achieving information sharing, and resource integration.
Once a wisdom clan possesses a complete collaboration network, individual wise beings easily access knowledge.
The four dimensions are like the spiral chains of clan genes.
If wisdom clans are regarded as super life forms formed by countless wise beings, then collective wisdom storage is the genetic information storage carrier, tool progression is the future direction of life evolution, energy level unlocking decides the metabolic rate, and the collaboration network forms the neurological network for information exchange.
The four dimensions resonate, leveraging technology as a tool for seemingly fragile wisdom clans to unlock power beyond imagination.
According to Guidance’s analysis, the creation of the Star Network was based on these four dimensions, along with an unreplicable key factor.
Luck!
Technical accumulation is inevitable, but certain crucial breakthroughs may be coincidental.
The weak creating strength requires this luck.
History shows that many discoveries that could change a clan’s future stem from luck.
The creation of the Star Network, luck was crucial.
This battle also brought expectations from Qi Sheng towards the Star Network.
However, he temporarily didn’t plan to grant Star Network game qualifications.
It’s not due to monopoly issues.
Although once Star Network enters the game, there’s indeed a probability of Moon Eclipse Clan becoming a resource monopoly class through powerful personal operational abilities.
But he knows Star Network wouldn’t do this.
Star Network understands the essence of the Monster World, knowing what the cost of doing so entails.
To players, Monster World is a game.
To Star Network, Monster World has been a war requiring full commitment from the start.
The core issue of not granting Star Network game qualifications in Qi Sheng’s eyes boils down to one thing, a lack of sacrificial power.
Creating a life-bearing body for a player isn’t difficult.
He only needs to spend 1000 points of sacrificial power to generate an initial player body for Earth’s beings.
But Star Network isn’t just any ordinary player.
It is essentially a super-intelligent brain, half-mechanical, half-biological.
Suppose creating a regular player body for Star Network, he could do it anytime.
But doing so means Star Network would completely lose its uniqueness, becoming indistinguishable from ordinary players.
If replicating Star Network in its real-world form, it requires consuming much more sacrificial power.
The physical body of Star Network is a 239-meter tall building in Eclipse City, the entire building is the consciousness carrier for Star Network, with massive databases buried underground.
Including Star Network’s extending tendrils, spreading across Eclipse City’s monitoring devices, data networks, etc.
Even the whole Eclipse City might be considered part of Star Network’s physical body components.
Looking more closely, extending to intelligent brains from other races connected to Star Network, including the Star Network itself, is also part of Star Network’s body.
This isn’t creating a player; it’s simply creating a super life form.
Even removing parts he sees as valueless, Star Network’s structure is immensely vast.
But this amount of sacrificial power, Qi Sheng could afford.
According to Guidance’s calculation, replicating Star Network in the Monster World requires consuming three billion sacrificial power.
But that’s just the starting cost.
Creating life isn’t hard, but linking the Challenger System, building a player body for Star Network is.
Taking actual humans as an example.
Removing the consumption on consciousness reshaping, life reshaping, and recovery, simply replicating a human averages a cost of 12.4 sacrificial power.
For example, when restoring the body of the Dark Night Will Come’s mother when severely ill, only 3.4 sacrificial power was spent.
But to "playerize" this body, implant the Challenger System, implant the Star Vein Slot, etc., crafting a pure body from sacrificial power, he spent 1000 sacrificial power.
Almost 120 times the sacrificial power expense is required; Star Network wants to maintain its ability while becoming a player needs even more sacrificial power.
Thus, replicating Star Network and then linking it to the Challenger System, the current output of the Player Corps is simply insufficient for support.
This is why he didn’t choose to recruit Star Network as a powerful player.
Until the Player Corps have matching output for Star Network, all he can say is:
The time is not yet ripe, the sword remains sheathed.
Star Network staying active as a Strategy Party tourist on the forums at this stage is quite good, as for its game qualification.
Keep vying for it, he’s not giving it anyway.
After all, unable to afford it, how could he grant it?