abnabooks Chapter 168 Computational Models
Chapter 168 Computational Models
Chapter 168 Computational Models
"What are the plans of the Holy Tower and the Empire?" Roland asked Master Veranika.
"The higher-ups have held an emergency meeting." Master Veronica's projection flickered.
Several points of consensus have been reached:
First, immediately strengthen the protection of known observer remains, especially Hub-2 and the Inferno Observation Tower, and attempt to repair the damaged parts to restore their monitoring and stabilization functions.
"Second, intensify the search for Ash Ring strongholds within the fragments and strike them before they are ready."
"Third, establish a dedicated tidal observation and weak point location team, jointly composed of the research and combat departments, to pinpoint the exact location and timing of the next weak point before the Ring of Ashes."
She looked at Rowling: "Wizard Rowling, in view of your unique abilities in analyzing ancient energy systems and interacting with relics, the Research Department officially appoints you as the deputy leader of the Tidal Observation Team, with Researcher Duden serving as the leader."
"Your group's task is to extract more accurate tidal prediction models and vulnerability location methods from the acquired observer data as soon as possible, and to share relevant technical information with the Empire and coordinate joint monitoring operations."
"Understood." Rowling did not refuse.
This task is crucial and will allow him to utilize his strengths.
"In addition," Master Veranica added.
"Regarding the [Civilization Stele] you brought back, the Research Department has decided to establish an independent, top-secret foundational project, which I will personally oversee. As a core researcher, you will have the highest access and retrieval privileges."
"The Holy Tower will spare no effort to support your research on the stone tablet."
"We have a feeling that the underlying rules and knowledge contained in the stone tablet may not only concern ancient observers, but may even pose a threat to our understanding of the world today."
"The corrupting energy used in the Ring of Ashes has fundamental implications."
A thought struck Luo Lin.
Master Veranica's premonition coincided with his own. The layers of the civilization stele seemed even older and more fundamental than the observer.
After receiving the assignment, Rowling and Duden immediately threw themselves into the intense work.
The tide observation team was quickly formed, including Duden and Rowling, as well as five first- and second-circle wizards specializing in astrology, energy mathematics, data modeling, and runic cryptography.
The Empire also sent two fire priests and a scholar well-versed in the Empire's ancient astronomical records as liaisons.
The work location is in a highly shielded, energy-stable sealed room deep within the analysis department.
At the center is a huge data processing terminal, connected to the data storage units brought back from "Hydrogen-2".
The surrounding walls are covered with constantly calculated formulas and star map projections.
The core of the work is to extract a precise mathematical description of the energy tides of the fragments of the Scorching Hell from a vast amount of observer data.
This requires extremely strong data cleaning, pattern recognition, and mathematical modeling capabilities.
Luo Lin was responsible for the most critical part, using the echo unit's extremely high sensitivity to energy and pattern learning ability, combined with the recording and analysis function of the Insight Ring, to directly extract the most essential periodic characteristics and related parameters from the raw energy fluctuation data.
He output these feature vectors and handed them over to the wizards in the group who were experts in mathematics to create a formulaic model.
This process is intricate and precise.
The observer's data records span thousands of years, resulting in a massive amount of data, which is also subject to various environmental noises and occasional event interference.
Lorin had to concentrate fully, as if he were trying to distinguish a specific frequency of a bell in a bustling market, with the aid of the reverberation unit.
Duden led the others to cross-validate and fit the features extracted by Rowling with the scattered descriptions of weak points in the observer's log, in an attempt to establish a mathematical model between tidal features and spatial weakness.
Scholars sent by the Empire provided numerous records of celestial phenomena and earthquakes from ancient imperial legends, some of which vaguely corresponded to certain long-term cycles in the observers' data, providing additional validation anchors for the model.
The work is progressing more smoothly than expected.
Rowling's profound understanding of the nature of energy and the powerful capabilities of the response unit enable feature extraction to be far more efficient and accurate than conventional methods.
Just one week later, the team had initially constructed a relatively rough but logically consistent "coupling model of energy tidal space stability in the seventh sector".
According to this model, the next significant trough in the energy tide is expected to occur in nine months and last for approximately fifteen to thirty days.
During this period, the overall stability of the fragmentation space membrane will decrease by about 40%, and the probability of weak points will increase significantly.
The model even identified several areas where the vulnerability was likely to occur. One of these areas was located at the border between Ash Plains and Burning Mountains, not too far from where they discovered "Nexus-2".
This initial finding was immediately reported.
The Holy Tower and the Imperial high command attached great importance to this, ordering the team to continue refining the model and begin deploying covert monitoring arrays and reconnaissance forces in the high-probability areas predicted by the model.
Just as the tidal observation work was making phased progress, the Cornerstone Project also made unexpected discoveries in its research on the Civilization Stele.
Under Master Veranika's coordination, Santa mobilized several state-of-the-art energy holographic scanners originally used for analyzing high-dimensional spell models and soul contracts.
Under absolute secrecy, Luo Lin collaborated with researchers to conduct an unprecedented in-depth scan of the stone tablet.
The scan results show that the complex structure of light spots and lines inside the stone tablet is not arranged randomly in space, but follows a very profound geometric law similar to a projection of a high-dimensional space onto a three-dimensional world.
Even more astonishing is that, under different energy frequencies, the internal structure of the stone tablet will show different cross-sections, like a three-dimensional book that can be read layer by layer.
During an attempt to stimulate the stone tablet by mixing highly purified star power with a sample of weak corrupting source energy, a specific layer of the tablet projected an extremely blurry but clearly structured energy structure diagram.
This structural diagram describes a basic framework principle that isolates and transforms highly ordered energy with highly chaotic energy!
Although it is only a fragment of the most basic theoretical framework and many details are incomprehensible, it is undoubtedly a breakthrough that points to the future!
The observer views the corrupting source as a threat, and this older stone tablet seems to record some underlying ideas for dealing with this chaotic threat.
Rowling reported this discovery separately to Master Veranica.
After a long silence, the master slowly said, "It seems that the corrupting force we are facing may be even older than the Observer civilization."
"And the maker of this stone tablet may have already dealt with it, and may have even left behind some basic knowledge on how to deal with it."
"Rolin, the significance of this research may be no less than finding ten ancient ruins."
"You must be careful; raise the confidentiality level to the highest level."
"Don't reveal this information to anyone other than me for now."
Luo Lin solemnly agreed.
He understood that this was not merely an academic discovery, but could be crucial to the future struggle against the Ring of Ashes and even the Corruption itself.
Time slipped by amidst busy research and occasional meditation breaks.
Another month has passed in the blink of an eye.