Online game: Hanging out in the beauty studio

"Very good, you finally grasped the key point..."

After hearing Li Qianfan's answer, the tree man BOSS nodded with satisfaction, and then continued:

"If you want to understand what [derivatives] are, first you have to understand the difference between 'data redundancy' and 'data backup'."

Hearing this, Li Qianfan couldn't help frowning, and quickly raised his hand to answer:

"Sorry, I'm a liberal arts student, I may not understand these science knowledge..."

As a result, before he finished speaking, the tree man BOSS interrupted him with a serious face:

"You don't need to understand, you just need to listen to me carefully."

"Oh, okay, please continue..."

The attitude of the tree man BOSS is very tough, always giving people a feeling of impatience inadvertently.

At the same time, perhaps because it was "out of the play" first, the affected Li Qianfan was obviously a little out of the play at this moment, so when talking to the tree man BOSS, he no longer nitpicked as usual.

Obviously, this is a conversation that breaks the fourth wall.

A very simple example is that the characters who originally belonged to a certain film or TV work suddenly turned their heads to complain to the audience sitting in front of the TV that the film was really bad. This behavior is a typical breaking of the fourth wall. For example, the Marvel superhero "Deadpool" often does this.

This situation may be intentional by the screenwriter, or it may be caused by a mistake in writing the script, or it may be caused by the actor's unprofessionalism.

What Li Qianfan needs to think about now is...

Is everything happening in front of him within the system's plan, or is there really an accident?

After all...

The topic of "artificial intelligence giving birth to self-awareness" has been very popular as early as a hundred years ago.

With the current technology, it is not impossible for a super AI similar to "Skynet" in "Terminator" to suddenly emerge one day, which is anti-human and anti-social, so it is difficult for Li Qianfan not to think about it.

In the end, it was unknown whether Li Qianfan's bad words came true. Just when he was thinking about it, the tree man BOSS suddenly threw out such a shocking sentence-

"As you can see..."

"Everything you see now is just virtual..."

"Including you and me, every tree, every grain of sand and stone, and even every person here is just a string of data written by code..."

"Everything in front of you is false, but..."

"Is falsehood also a kind of reality?"

It was a very shocking opening speech, so that Li Qianfan felt a headache immediately after hearing it.

However, out of caution, he did not interrupt the tree man BOSS, but listened attentively and tried to grasp every key point.

"You don't understand computers, so I will try to explain it in a way you can understand..."

"In short, 'data redundancy' and 'data backup' are both related to the word 'copy'..."

"Among them, data redundancy is to improve the reliability and security of data by storing multiple copies of data... and data backup is to copy data to other locations to prevent data loss or damage..."

"For large-scale virtual online games, simple backup is obviously not enough to deal with various emergencies..."

"For example, if the server reports an error and rolls back the file, causing the player's data to be lost, this situation cannot be solved by 'data backup' alone..."

"Because backup is performed regularly, if it has not been backed up before, then the player's data will never be recovered after it is lost..."

"Therefore, the concept of 'data redundancy' needs to be mentioned here..."

"Compared to regular backup, Data backup is carried out, and data redundancy is carried out all the time..."

"It's like the concept of the multiverse in the Marvel Cinematic Universe..."

"If a piece of data in the main universe is accidentally lost, the system can go to the parallel universe at any time and retrieve the piece of data that was accidentally lost in the main universe to achieve the purpose of 'data rollback'..."

At this point, the tree man BOSS suddenly paused, giving Li Qianfan a full ten seconds to digest it, and then continued:

"This game has hundreds of millions of players, and the system has to process huge amounts of data every moment..."

"In order to prevent malicious incidents such as 'server rollback' and 'player data loss', all data generated in this game needs to be recorded and backed up to ensure that there is no room for error..."

"At the same time, because the amount of data is too large, the system puts it in a specialIn the [Redundant Layer] used to store redundant data..."

"And this so-called [Redundant Layer] is almost similar to the 'parallel universe' I mentioned just now..."

Li Qianfan is not a fool.

Therefore, after hearing the tree man mention the concept of the multiverse, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and instantly got the point that the tree man wanted to express, so he asked tentatively:

"So, the derivatives you mentioned just now come from the redundant layer? !"

"Yes, you didn't misunderstand."

Looking at Li Qianfan who was gradually getting the point, the tree man boss nodded with satisfaction, and then continued:

"There is such an iron law in the computer field, that is-"

"BUGs can never be eliminated."

"And derivatives... are malicious bugs born from the redundant layer."

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