Resurrection Empire-Chapter 835 - 320: Gold Shines Anywhere, Turning the Tide

Ma Xiaocheng's First Level alert can only control people, it cannot control the "Network".

Humans can't truly prevent problems, only remedy them promptly after they occur.

After the First Level alert command was issued, on the other side, the load on the "Network" continued to climb uncontrollably, edging from 95% to 96%, then 99%, then 99.99%…

By evening, after enduring prolonged high-intensity computation, the "Network" finally crashed.

The center indicating high load, the red block, first turned black.

Subsequently, the black block spread out like a spider web until it occupied more than 20% of the area before it finally stopped.

Immediately afterward, numerous red modules began to shift from red to yellow or green.

Previously green modules gradually turned yellow.

It was clear the "Network" couldn't handle it anymore and slightly relaxed its analysis and observation of Ren Zhong.

At the moment of the "Network's" mutation, Ren Zhong clearly felt the hairs on his body stand up as if electrified, then quickly lay back down. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

Ren Zhong observed the changes in the computational power distribution of the "Network" on his operation terminal.

Almost simultaneously, he received a command from Ma Xiaocheng.

"Attention all teams. The computation demands have been issued, frontline personnel are rapidly getting in position. You must produce shielding plan results within five minutes. This is difficult, but you must do it. The first group to perfectly complete the task will receive a special commendation for all members."

The number of malfunctioning blocks appeared simultaneously, almost reaching one and a half million, vastly different from the usual situation where computational teams deal with at most dozens to hundreds.

The last time this situation occurred was about one hundred and fifty years ago, when the response was a failure.

The "Network" didn't sustain significant damage, but humanity did.

Deep Communication Group failed to replace the bad blocks in time, the consequence being the activation of the "Network's" biological processing mechanism. In the subsequent fifty years, humanity lost 20% of the "Network's" computational power.

It wasn't until the "Network" completed its entire biological processing that the then-generation Deep Communication Group, along with eight other leading enterprises, paid a huge price to fully repair it.

During those fifty years, Source Star humanity, accustomed to having the "Network" assist in everything, suffered greatly as a large number of scientific computational requests were rejected by the "Network".

Progress in autonomous technology for Source Star humanity hit an invisible wall, halting and entering a prolonged era of scientific depression.

Source Star humanity was forced to halt much independent R&D, redirecting scientific development towards an auxiliary path focused on digesting and absorbing Empire products and shared technologies.

Even after full restoration, Source Star humanity continued to utilize the "Network" at a low load degree for a long time.

Even with a large number of computational demands, top-tier researchers among Source Star citizens preferred to barely manage using self-developed chip arrays, whose performance is only a billionth of the "Network".

The impact of that incident is long-term and profound, until now Source Star humanity has not been able to forge a truly independent scientific path.

Even more unfortunate is that, despite a one hundred fifty-year-long investigation, Deep Communication Group has still not identified the cause of the incident.

This situation is strikingly similar to that one, Ma Xiaocheng, as the heir of Deep Communication Group, can access a vast amount of information, and has the aid of a dedicated monitoring department, yet he still doesn't know why the "Network" suddenly operated under ultra-high load, and can only respond passively.

If the final handling fails, Source Star humanity will pay a painful price once again, and Ma Xiaocheng will lose his eligibility as the heir.

Ma Xiaocheng has already done enough. In the afternoon, he foresaw the risk and mobilized all frontline operators to be on standby at any moment.

The efficiency of information retrieval is also high, confirming the positions of all bad blocks in less than five seconds, though the sheer number is overwhelming.

What remains is the work of the algorithm project team.

Ren Zhong and others immediately started working.

With sweat on his forehead, Ma Xiaocheng said in the command system, "Although the number of bad blocks is huge this time, the calculations themselves do not differ from the usual rules. It is only a quantitative change, not a qualitative one. I have given you five minutes, which should be ample. Keep pushing everyone."

By the end of Ma Xiaocheng's words, he was already somewhat lacking in energy.

Everyone understands that quantitative change is not qualitative change, but execution is another matter entirely.