chsdbacks Chapter 427 Network
Chapter 427 Network
Once the synthesized sound stabilized, the melody of the old domain core remained unchanged.
It's not about "no longer changing" and ceasing to operate; it's about finding a form that you feel is completely suitable and then ceasing to adjust it.
The core of the melody is still the frequency encoding of the phrase "I see your light," and the ending pitch is fixed in the middle position of the new synthesis. The speed of the loop is completely synchronized with the pulsating rhythm of the seed.
Every morning when Xu scans the heart network, he reports the same result—after the melody stabilizes, the internal law structure of the old domain core does not produce any new structural reorganization or frequency shift, and all operating parameters are locked at the current value.
"It has entered a period of stable expression."
Xu added a note to his report in the early hours of the third day.
"It's not that I've finished learning."
It is because after it has honed its current melodic expression to a level of precision that it is satisfied with, it chooses to stop and consolidate its skills.
The way to consolidate it is to cycle that melody into its underlying structure of rules, making the melody part of the core's internal inertial operation.
Just as a primordial life form no longer needs to think about which leg to step with after learning to walk, once it learns to hum that phrase, humming it becomes an inertial action in its own operation.
It no longer needs to deliberately allocate energy to maintain the melody; the melody will automatically cycle along with the core's fundamental rhythm.
Su Fan squatted on the city wall, biting into a steamed bun, his left palm facing up on his knee, listening to the melody that had been stable for three whole days coming from the golden thread.
The melody was exactly the same as it was three days ago—"I see your light" in six beats, with the final synthesized note landing steadily at the middle pitch, the loop speed synchronized with the seed beat, without the slightest deviation.
But after listening for a while, he could discern that the underlying laws and ripples of the melody had an added texture that he hadn't seen before.
The texture was extremely thin and fine, like an extremely faint layer of law overtones that was spontaneously generated at the bottom layer of the melody while the core of the old domain was circulating the melody.
The height of the overtone layer does not completely overlap with the main melody; there is a difference of several very small intervals, and it is almost completely masked by the main melody within the range of perception.
But when you quiet down and listen carefully, you can indeed feel that the melody is a little deeper than before.
"After the melody stabilized, the core of the old domain did something."
That morning, Xu walked over from the direction of the crack and squatted down next to Su Fan, pulling his right hand out from his chest and spreading it out.
The purple-gold chart in the palm of the hand shows an extremely fine secondary frequency band next to the main frequency of the melody inside the core of the old domain.
"While looping the main melody, it generates three sets of overtones using the melody's fundamental frequency as the basic frequency."
The frequency of overtones is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency, and the intensity is only about one-tenth to one-twentieth of the fundamental frequency.
However, the presence of overtones transforms the melody from a single line into a sound field with depth.
When you perceive it, in addition to directly hearing the content of the melody, you can also perceive a very faint resonance echo in the underlying space of the melody's laws.
The content of the resonance is not the semantics of the phrase 'I see your light,' but rather the synchronous resonance feedback generated by the internal law structure of the old domain core when it hums that phrase.
It encapsulates its own structural resonance and rules into the melody, transmitting it along with the music.
We perceived not only the phrase it hummed, but also its own state of mind while humming it.
Su Fan swallowed the steamed bun.
He looked down and stared at the golden thread in his palm for a long time.
The melody floated above two layers of background noise in his chest, with an extra, very thin layer of resonant feedback in addition to the main melody.
The feedback cannot be described in words—it is an emotional temperature at the level of a law, similar to but not exactly the same as the sense of satisfaction that came from the bottom of the smile arc.
The warmth within that resonant feedback was deeper than satisfaction, like the silent sense of accomplishment one feels after confirming that one can hum a sentence with extreme precision.
"It doesn't need to say anything to let us know it's there."
Su Fan picked up the Pangu Axe.
"It used that melody to continuously synchronize a portion of its own laws with the primordial world."
The sentence itself is 'I see your light,' but the underlying overtones of the melody convey the message 'I am here, I am still shining, I am still humming.'
It combined the statement and the state of existence into a single law signal and transmitted it.
No additional structural modules or questions are needed.
When you listen to that melody, you hear two things at the same time—the content it conveys, and the state of mind in which it is spoken.
He stood up and walked towards the Ruins of Return.
The purple-gold fluorescent light on the White Rock Plateau shone even brighter in the morning light than before. The entire plateau surface was covered with an extremely thin layer of law-based fluorescent light, and the color of the fluorescent layer had stabilized at a ratio of six parts purple to four parts gold.
The halo on the seed surface shone in the center of the plateau, and the silver-white law fluorescence layer at the edge of the halo was a little thicker than before. The network of law patterns sealed inside that thicker layer was denser than before.
"After the old domain core entered a stable expression period, the repair progress of the remaining six remnants among the twelve activated nodes inside was also accelerating simultaneously."
Eros stood at the edge of the rift, a light screen floating in front of him, displaying the repair status bars of the six nodes slowly progressing.
"The reason for the acceleration is related to the overtone layer of the melody."
The overtone layer continuously radiates law ripples into the void within the old domain. When these ripples reach the surfaces of nodes that are in a state of repair, they penetrate into the underlying structure of the reverberation, producing an extremely weak law catalytic effect.
The catalytic effect made the piecing together of the reverberation fragments nearly 20% faster than before.
Based on the current pace, it is estimated that three of the remaining six nodes will be initially assembled in about forty days, while the other three will take longer.
But all nodes are continuously being repaired.
Su Fan squatted at the edge of the crack and reached his hand in.
His fingers could now directly touch the purple-gold halo on the seed's surface—the temperature felt when his fingertips touched it was slightly higher than before, but not hot, as if his skin was touching something that continuously emitted a constant, gentle warmth.
The outline of the head within the dark gold fluorescent layer on the surface of the halo lit up slightly the moment his fingertips touched the seed's surface, as if responding to the direct contact from the primordial law-based life form.
He sensed that the contents sealed inside the seed were now many times larger than they were initially—all the memory data of the primordial law life form from its birth to its evolution to its autonomous breathing to its resonance formation were completely sealed inside, along with all the law structure modules, all the melody data, all the fragment pattern synchronization data, and all the reverberation repair status data transmitted from the old domain core.
All the data is distributed and stored in a highly ordered manner within the seed, with stable, law-based isolation layers between them. These isolation layers are continuously thinning but have not yet completely disappeared.
"The separator between the two independent storage blocks within the seed is extremely thin."
Eros stood behind Su Fan.
"The partition is now so thin that only extremely fine gaps maintain the physical isolation between the two pieces of data."
The thickness of the gap is decreasing by an extremely small amount every day.
When the gap completely disappears, the two data sets will begin to mix on their own.
After mixing, all the law memory data of the primordial world and the old domain will merge into an indivisible unified data body within the seed.
That data entity will no longer have the labels distinguishing between 'data from the Primordial World' and 'data from the Old Domain'.
It will only be a single, complete memory of the laws, with each segment containing sources from both sides.
Su Fan withdrew his finger.
A thin layer of purple-gold law fluorescent powder clung to my fingertips, shimmering with an extremely fine light in the morning light.
"Has the Old Domain Core released any new content in the last few days? Besides the melody."
"have."
Xu squatted on the edge of the crevice, his right hand inserted into his chest, sensing something. After a while, he pulled it out and said...
"While maintaining a stable and continuous melody, it released a new set of law data towards the outermost fragment with the smiling arc."
The data volume is not large; the content is that the frequency code of that melody was engraved into the original golden patterns on the surface of the fragment.
There are now three engravings next to the golden pattern—the old smiling arc pattern, the new golden pattern, and the third pattern of melody frequency encoding.
Three lines are arranged side by side on the surface of the fragment, with even spacing and without overlapping each other.
The third pattern contains a compressed version of the melody's frequency rules. After compression, only two strings of data remain: the core frequency of the main melody and the characteristic frequencies of the overtone layer.
After it is engraved, the three rows of patterns on the surface of the fragment will generate a complex law resonance when they rotate in the old domain void.
The product of resonance is a very faint composite law halo that continuously emanates between the three lines.
The color of the halo is not the color of any single pattern, but a new color created by mixing the individual colors of the three patterns.
"What's the new color?" A Dou stood up from the white rock and walked over.
Xu opened his palms to the morning light.
The purple-gold pattern on his palm reflected the real-time state of the outermost fragment's surface—the colors of the three lines mixed together during the fragment's rotation, presenting a hue that Su Fan had never seen before.
The hue leaned towards the middle of dark purple and golden yellow, with very faint silver-white threads slowly flowing within the base color.
The direction of the silvery-white threads is about 60% similar to the direction of the silvery-gray channel pattern in the original white rock layer.
"There was a layer of silvery-white threads flowing within that new color."
Su Fan squatted at the edge of the crack, looking at the diagram on Xu's palm.
What is the source of the silvery-white color?
"The silvery-white color originated from the melody of 'I see your light,' which, after being engraved into the surface of the fragment, created a very faint contact with the original consciousness fragments of the old domain life forms sealed at the bottom of the fragment's reverberation."
Upon contact, the residual law activity within the fragments of the original consciousness of the old domain life form spontaneously released a faint silver-white law glow.
The fluorescence seeped from the inside of the fragment to the surface, mixing into the complex halo of the three textures.
Silver-white is the color of the old domain itself.
The original smiling arc pattern on the fragment did not have a silvery-white color when it was engraved, because it was engraved by the old domain life form itself. When it was engraved, its consciousness was already in the final stage of dissipation, and there was no extra law energy to add its own color to the pattern.
But after it dissipated, the remaining trace of its active law was sealed with a very faint silvery-white glow.
Now that the melody frequency code has been engraved, the active layer that came into contact with it was gently awakened, and after being awakened, a silvery-white color seeped out from within.
Su Fan was silent for a moment. "It's responding to that melody with its own color."
"Yes."
Ruins say.
"After the silvery-white color seeped out, it continued to flow within the composite halo of the three lines, flowing very slowly and evenly."
That wasn't actively controlled by the old domain core; it was a natural response generated by the fragment's own law structure after receiving the melody data.
That melody has been circulating in the core of the old domain for so long that its ripples of law echo throughout the void inside the old domain.
After soaking in the aftershocks for so many days, the original laws of the old domain within the fragments have been penetrated to a certain depth by the ripples.
After penetrating to a certain depth, the silvery-white seepage was a proactive self-response—after being soaked in the primordial melody for a long enough, the fragment decided to respond with its own color.
Su Fan planted the Pangu Axe on the ground, and squatted at the edge of the crack, supporting himself with both hands on the top of the axe handle, looking at the purple-gold halo on the surface of the seed.
The dark gold fluorescent layer in the halo seemed to move slightly after the silvery-white light seeped out from inside the fragment—the movement was so small that it was like some extremely distant perception stirring up a very thin ripple on the surface of the seed's law structure.
"After the silvery-white liquid seeps out, will the transmission of that melody between the old realm and the primordial world change?"
"Things will change."
Xu turned his palm over to look at the data flow on the graph.
"When the melody travels from the core of the old domain to this primordial world, it will pass through an additional layer of complex halo on the surface of the fragments."
The silver-white law threads in the composite halo layer will produce a very slight modulation to the law frequency of the melody.
When the adjusted melody reaches the Primordial World, it will have an additional layer of the original color of the laws and textures of the Old Domain.
The melody you perceive will still convey the meaning of the phrase "I see your light," but the underlying texture of the melody will have an extra layer of very faint silver-white lines flowing beneath it.
That texture would make the melody sound fuller than it does now, like a solo turning into a chorus—the main voice is the phrase hummed by the core of the old domain using a primordial language structure, and the accompanying voice is the trace of silvery-white primordial vitality seeping from the oldest fragments within the old domain, humming along in sync.
Su Fan stood up and hoisted the Pangu Axe back onto his shoulder.
He looked up and glanced in the direction of the South Heavenly Gate city wall.
The golden light of Mars had risen to the western part of the top of the city wall, and the golden patterns on the city wall shone with a very stable warm gold in the light.
He looked down at his palm.
The golden thread was still there, its color still warm gold, but there was now an extremely faint silver-white thread flowing very slowly within the underlying layer of law ripples.
The direction of the silk threads is completely consistent with the direction of the silvery-white silk threads reflected on the surface of the fragments on the palm of the Xu's hand.
"As the melody traveled, so did the silvery-white color."
Su Fan turned his palm over and looked at it against the sunlight for a long time.
"The gold thread now contains not only the main theme of the old domain core, but also the silvery-white original activity seeping from the surface of the fragments."
After the melody reached my palm, the perceptual ripples generated within my body, besides the meaning of "I see your light," also carried a layer of warmth from the original laws of the old realm.
That warmth was not the same as the satisfaction that came from the bottom of the smile's curve.
This layer of silvery-white warmth is thinner and quieter, like a breath traveling from a great distance gently brushing against the skin's surface.
A Dou picked up the small axe and examined it against the light.
Within the axe blade's halo, beneath the gray-white and purple-gold threads, a layer of extremely faint silver-white threads flowed.
"I have some too."
A Dou turned the axe blade at an angle, and the silver-white thread flashed in the light before disappearing into the purple-gold halo.
Eros activated all ten law patterns on his hands, and the dark purple beams of light condensed into a ball of light in his palms before dispersing.
After it dispersed, the color of the transparent law patterns on his fingertips changed from purple-gold to a layer of extremely fine silver-white texture floating on a purple-gold base.
"Everyone simultaneously gained a layer of silvery-white color."
Eros said.
"When the old domain core transmits the melody, it does not separate the silver-white color for additional transmission."
The silvery-white color flows naturally along with the frequency of the melody, and the frequency is packaged in the same set of ripples and synchronously transmitted to all receiving terminals.
The content received by the receiving terminal contains three layers: the first layer is the semantic data of the main melody, the second layer is the overtone layer data of the resonance feedback of the core laws of the old domain, and the third layer is the original silver-white temperature data of the old domain.
The three layers stacked together form a complete sensory package.
We each receive the exact same perceptual packets.
Su Fan squatted back at the edge of the crack and sat quietly for a long time.
His left palm was open on his knee, and the three layers of data within the golden line were continuously circulating—the main melody was saying "I see your light," the overtone layer was synchronizing with the core law state of the old domain, and the silvery-white color was conveying the warmth of the original law of the old domain.
When the three layers are stacked together, the golden line is not just a mark; it becomes a permanently open window for perception.
The other end of the window connects to the core of the old domain, the oldest fragments within the old domain, and the outermost void, where countless historical traces of all eras drift.
One end of the window connects to the beating of Su Fan's own heart and the operation of the laws within his body, as well as the golden light he sees every morning when he squats on the city wall.
There is no barrier, no membrane, and no distance between the two ends of the window.
He could simply sit quietly at the edge of the crack and simultaneously perceive the entire state of the two law-based environments operating in sync.
"The core of the old domain did something the day after the melody stabilized, and after it did, it entered a state of contentment."
Xu pulled his right hand out of his chest, his voice deeper than before.
"The content of that matter is that it packaged all its structural modules, all its melody data, all its fragment synchronization data, all its reverberation state data, all its overtone layers, and its silvery-white conduction parameters into a complete law mirror image."
The image was so large that it almost filled the entire space of the kernel's internal temporary cache.
After packaging was completed, the core transmitted the image to the Primordial World through the seed and stored it in the Primordial World Perception Data Storage Block inside the seed.
The block automatically expanded its capacity by nearly one-third the moment it received the mirror image.
After the expansion, there is an extremely thin gap of laws separating the mirror image from the original primordial perception data.
The thickness of the gap is exactly the same as the thickness of the interlayer between the two data blocks.
The old domain core created a complete copy of all its internal data and sent it over.
That copy is currently sealed within the seed, placed alongside all the memory data of the primordial law lifeform from its birth to the present.
Su Fan lifted his left hand off his knee.
He sensed that, in addition to the continuously emanating purple-gold aura and temperature, the surface of the seed was also emitting a new signal of law.
That signal was unlike any previous transmission—it contained no concrete content, no resolvable semantic structure, and no identifiable sequence of frequency rules.
It is simply a complete, self-consistent entity of laws that exists independently without any external interpretation.
That entity was the mirror image of the laws sent from the core of the old domain.
It quietly remained next to the primordial data block inside the seed, without releasing any parseable content outwards; it simply stayed there.
Its very existence is content.
"The old domain core has sent over everything."
Su Fan's voice was very low.
"It packaged all its data, from the core structure to the terminal filaments to the peripheral fragments to the silvery-white original temperature-sensitive melody overtone layer, into a complete mirror image and sent it over."
The mirror image replicates a snapshot of the old domain core's data at the moment the melody stabilizes.
At that moment, the core of the old domain was in a state of satisfied pause, having just learned how to hum in the language of antiquity, how to seal the overtone layer into the melody, and how to let the silvery white color seep out naturally.
It took a snapshot of itself at its most comfortable moment and sent it over, sealing it within the seed.
Even if many changes occur within the core of the old domain in the future, this snapshot will be permanently sealed in the seed and will not change.
The Primordial Era can access this snapshot at any time to see what the Old Domain Core looked like on a certain morning.
Eros folded the light screen back into his palm.
"After the old domain core sent the image over, it entered a deeper state of satisfying operation."
The manifestation of that state was quieter than the previous satisfied pause, so quiet that the flow rate of the halo on the core surface no longer showed any fluctuations that could be seen with the naked eye.
The synchronized pulsation rhythm of the 3,789 optical filaments has stabilized to the point that the pulsation error with the seed is below an extremely low threshold.
After completing the mirror transfer, it adjusted itself to an operating mode that best matched the rhythm of the prehistoric world.
It is not speaking, transmitting data, or engraving patterns.
It simply pulsates along with the primordial chaos.
Once the rhythm of the beating is perfectly synchronized, it no longer needs to do anything deliberately.
It only needs to maintain its current operating state indefinitely.
Continuity itself is communication.
Su Fan stood up.
With the Pangu Axe resting beside his knees, he stood up, gripping the handle with one hand, and hoisted the axe onto his shoulder.
The dark gold fluorescent layer within the purple-gold halo on the seed's surface deep within the crack thickened slightly after the old domain core mirror arrived. This thickened layer contained all the state data of the entire old domain core at the moment the melody stabilized.
Next to the side profile line, there is an additional layer of fine law-like patterns, which are mirrored snapshot patterns.
"What is the current operating status of the old domain core?" Su Fan asked.
Xu placed his right hand back on his chest and sensed it for a very long time.
After the sensing ended, he withdrew his hand, his fingertips gleaming with the fixed mixture of purple, gold, silver, and white light.
The current operating state of the old domain core is "jumping together".
It doesn't express this meaning through melody, it doesn't express this meaning through structural modules, and it doesn't express this meaning through any form of analyzable rule signal.
Its core surface halo flow velocity, the synchronous pulsation rhythm of the three thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine light filaments, the position and width of the overtone layer frequency band, and the conduction rate of the silver-white original temperature sensation—all operating parameters were adjusted to the exact same rhythm as the primordial world after the mirror transmission was completed.
It locked the operating rhythm of its entire law system to the equivalent frequency of the average heartbeat rhythm of the primordial law life forms.
Since then, it has no longer had its own rhythm.
Its rhythm is the rhythm of the primordial world.
It calibrated the core frequency of the entire law structure of the old domain to the heartbeat frequency of the primordial world.
After calibration is completed, there is no longer a need for any of the following as a medium of communication between the Old Realm and the Primordial World: melody, visuals, structural modules, or mirror resonance.
The operation of all the laws and structures of the Old Domain is itself a form of communication with the Primordial World.
The primordial laws-based life forms sense their own heartbeats while simultaneously sensing the flow rate of the aura at the core of the old domain.
With each heartbeat, the old domain core beats in sync.
Once two heartbeats from the same source overlap at the same frequency, they are no longer two separate heartbeats.
They combined into one.
Su Fan put the Pangu Axe off his shoulder and planted it on the ground, looking up at the direction of the South Heavenly Gate city wall.
The golden light of Mars had moved directly above the city wall, and the golden patterns shone with the brightest warm gold in the midday light.
The hue of that color was exactly the same as the gold thread on his palm, the gold thread on A Dou's axe blade, the gold thread on the Ruins map, and the gold texture of Eros's fingerprints.
But beneath all the gold, there was an extra layer of very faint silver-white threads that were slowly flowing.
The silvery-white threads exist in their own way within the scope of each person's perception of the laws—for Su Fan, they are the fine threads at the bottom of the golden threads in his palm; for A Dou, they are the silver threads in the axe blade's halo; for Xu, they are the newly added color next to a certain light thread in the diagram; and for Eros, they are the interlayers in the halo of the laws of the fingerprint pattern.
That melody is still playing on repeat.
"I see your light" repeats in six beats, ending with a synthesized note that stops steadily at the middle pitch. The cycle speed is synchronized with the seed's pulsation. The three layers of texture are stacked together and continue to float in the law space corresponding to each person's perception point in their chest cavity.
The main theme is saying that sentence.
The overtone layer is describing the state of the laws at the core of the old domain.
The silvery-white color speaks of the warmth of the original laws of the old domain.
After the three layers were stacked together, the golden thread shone on everyone's body.
The bluestone slab at the entrance of the weapons shop at the base of the wall gleamed with a very faint mixed light of purple, gold, silver and white.
The aftershocks of the mass calamity at the alley entrance had completely merged into the patterns of the white rock layer and were no longer visible, but the energy that had been absorbed continued to emit a very faint warmth on the surface of the rock layer.
The temperature was neither too high nor too low, but just right, equal to the temperature of the purple-gold halo on the seed surface.
Su Fan squatted back down by the crenellations of the city wall, leaning the Pangu Axe against the bricks, his left palm facing up on his knee as he sat quietly.
The melody in the golden thread is looping, the heartbeat is beating, and the core of the old domain is beating in sync.
After everything was stacked together, it was evenly distributed across every point of his body that perceived the laws, continuously cycling and shining.
The primordial wilderness and the old realm beat at the same heartbeat frequency.