Chapter 565

A few days later.

Jie Ming stood at the edge of the experimental area, looking at the bustling scene in front of him, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

After proposing the concept of network viruses, there was basically nothing for him to do later, after all, the research ability of this group of high-tier wizards is simply outrageously exaggerated.

Just relying on a concept proposed by Jie Ming, in just a few days, a dozen brand-new spell models were released simultaneously.

Those high-tier wizards were too lazy to test them one by one and directly made all the plans.

"Lord Jie Ming, you are here."

A Level 5 logistics-type wizard responsible for reception greeted him, with uncontrollable excitement on his face: "The experiment is about to start, Lord Ma Ding invites you to the observation deck."

Jie Ming nodded, followed him through layers of warning lines, and came to an observation deck with a wide view.

On the deck, "Heart of Ash" Ma Ding and a dozen Level 7 wizards were already in place.

In front of everyone was a huge light screen, showing the situation of that black crack in the distance in real-time.

"You're here?" Ma Ding looked at Jie Ming, a smile on his face, "Just in time, come over and take a look."

Jie Ming walked to the edge of the deck and looked toward the crack.

There, a team of cannon fodder units was gathering—elemental puppets, artificially cultivated war beasts, and hundreds of specially cultivated void organisms. Their bodies were engraved with dense runes; those were the carriers of the newly developed "virus wizardry."

"Twelve different spell models have been prepared." A Level 7 wizard next to him explained, "Some are good at consuming computing power, some are good at creating logical conflicts, and some can directly pollute the information core. Which one is effective, we'll know after trying."

Another Level 7 wizard from the destiny school opened his mouth to introduce: "Regarding how this spell should self-replicate, we also thought of many methods, and finally confirmed that it must be based on the opponent's computing power to self-replicate..."

"We also changed our thinking; the activation of this spell does not require additional elemental power or spiritual power, but relies on pure information and computing power operation..."

Jie Ming nodded, his gaze tightly fixed on those cannon fodder units.

"Deployment begins."

With an order from "Heart of Ash" Ma Ding, those cannon fodder units started simultaneously and rushed toward the crack in the sky.

They passed through the blockade layer and disappeared into the pure white light.

The picture on the light screen switched instantly—that was the real-time image transmitted by the visual sharing spell carried by the cannon fodder units.

Pure white sea of light.

Countless information-based organisms.

It was no different from the scene Jie Ming saw before.

As soon as the cannon fodder units entered the plane barrier, these information-based organisms discovered the intruders.

Jie Ming could clearly see that the outer energy of those information-based organisms began to fluctuate.

That was them reading the information of these cannon fodder units.

This is their instinct; any intruder entering their territory will be parsed in the first instance, and then erased or "ordered." Then, the virus broke out.

On the light screen, the movements of those information-based organisms suddenly stopped.

Their bodies began to flicker violently, and the pure white light flickered on and off, like a light bulb with poor contact.

"Success!"

Some people showed excitement, but more wizards looked even more solemn: "Wait, it's not certain yet what the specific effect is."

Jie Ming narrowed his eyes, staring at the screen.

He saw that the information-based organism that first read the cannon fodder information began to have its outer energy twist crazily.

It tried to parse those spells, but those spells themselves were designed for them—in the process of it processing these information viruses, those information viruses were also relying on its computing power and information to self-replicate.

Every computing power unit occupied would become a new virus production factory.

They split, proliferated, and spread, spreading crazily along the network connection of that information-based organism to other nodes.

So that information-based organism instinctively asked for help from surrounding companions.

This is a characteristic of a flattened network; when encountering problems that cannot be processed, it will automatically request shared computing power.

But it didn't know that this request itself was the best channel for virus transmission.

Those requested nodes were invaded by the virus as soon as they connected.

Then the surrounding uninfected information-based organisms also began to flicker and twist.

Immediately following, they also began to ask for help from their connection nodes, and thus the infection expanded again.

Jie Ming looked at the picture on the light screen, nervously licking his lips.

Now this situation... they could almost say they had succeeded.

This area on the outermost periphery of the Information Plane facing the ship plane, those densely gathered information-based organisms, were now falling down in batches, entering a "downtime" state.

Their bodies flickered crazily; some outer energy completely dissipated, exposing core information; some core information began to contradict itself, falling into a logical dead loop.

Others were even more miserable; those viruses directly polluted their information cores, making them start to attack their companions around them chaotically.

One piece after another.

One layer after another.

The originally solid defense line was now collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

On the observation deck, there was dead silence.

Everyone looked at the picture on the light screen, dumbfounded, unable to speak for a while.

Jie Ming even heard someone swallow a mouthful of saliva.

For a long time, a wizard's voice rang out, carrying a hint of imperceptible shock.

"If I remember correctly... we originally... just wanted to test it out?"

"Heart of Ash" Ma Ding turned to look at Jie Ming after hearing this, his eyes complex.

Jie Ming smiled awkwardly, not knowing what to say.

He did propose a concept, but he really didn't expect the effect to be so exaggerated.

Those information-based organisms' proud flattened network, quantum entanglement connection, and perfect consensus algorithm became the most fatal weaknesses in front of the virus.

Because it was too "flat."

No levels, no isolation, every node is directly connected to countless nodes.

Usually this is an advantage, capable of mobilizing full-network computing power instantly.

But encountering an information virus, this is a disaster.

There is simply no firewall, no isolation zone; one node is poisoned, and it can infect the entire network instantly.

"The outer defense line of these information-based organisms is broken." A Level 7 wizard muttered, "Just like that... broken?"

"It's not over yet."

Another wizard pointed at the light screen, his voice trembling, "Look, the virus is still spreading!"

Jie Ming looked at the light screen.

Those first batch of infected information-based organisms had completely collapsed; some turned into light spots and disappeared, while others lost their ability to act and floated in the pure white sea of light.

But the virus they left behind did not disappear.

Those virus programs were still running, still looking for new hosts.

Second batch, third batch, fourth batch...

More and more information-based organisms began to flicker, collapse into light spots, or go down.

And that speed was still accelerating.

"Damn..."

Jie Ming heard someone behind him swear.

He didn't look back, because he wanted to say that too.

On the light screen, the originally solid outer defense line had now become a shining ocean.

And those information-based organisms that had not yet been infected were retreating crazily.

They tried to sever the connection with the outer area, tried to establish an isolation zone, tried to stop the spread of the virus.

But it was too late.

The information virus had long spread to deeper areas along the network.

On the observation deck, everyone was watching that picture, silent for a long time.

Finally, it was Ma Ding who broke the silence.

He turned to look at Jie Ming, the corners of his mouth slowly parting into a smile.

"Jie Ming."

"Yes."

"You say... what should this thing be named?"

Jie Ming was stunned, then looked at the "plague" that was spreading crazily on the light screen.

"Just..."

He paused.

"Let's call it 'Information Plague'."