Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 600 Transcoder

"Sphinx? Are you talking about the Sphinx of Egypt?" General Liao asked instinctively.

“Yes, but not the statue sitting next to the pyramid, but the living Sphinx.” Sun Hang nodded. “I think you all heard this riddle when you were young: What has four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening… The answer to this riddle is a human, and the creature that posed the riddle is the Sphinx, a monster with the body of a lion and the head of a man.”

"The Sphinx, a mysterious creature?" A high-ranking member of the Celestial Pivot Tower narrowed his eyes. "The Sphinx isn't listed in the known list of mysterious creatures... Although many creatures from legends appeared in the form of mysterious creatures during the First Mysterious Creature War, there are neither eyewitness accounts nor any evidence to prove its existence..."

Sun Hang ignored the senior executive and instead scanned the faces of everyone at the conference table. He noticed that a small number of people had subtle changes in their expressions and eyes.

Most of the people whose expressions changed had gray hair.

"It seems that some people do know the details of the mastermind." Sun Hang revealed a satisfied smile.

“Enough, young man, stop talking.” An elderly man wearing an old jacket, sitting in the corner and who hadn’t said a word since the meeting started, suddenly spoke up. “I don’t know why Elder Pei told you these things, but you shouldn’t tell more people… Haven’t you thought about the consequences of doing so?”

On the glasses worn by Sun Hang, the main brain used AR projection to display the information of the old man speaking—the old man's name was Ji Yaohua, the most senior computer engineer currently living in Tian Shu Tower, without exception.

Ji Yaohua's teacher and Pei Zongjun's group built the mainframe together. As one of the successors of that group, Ji Yaohua took over the maintenance of the mainframe's external facilities from his teacher, and also learned the secrets of the mainframe from his teacher.

The reason he didn't want Sun Hang to continue was simple: the main brain was now almost irreplaceable for the Tian Shu Tower and the Xia State Federation. If people knew that the core of the main brain was actually a "wet component" made from the brain of a strange creature, it would inevitably lead to a series of uncontrollable events.

Not everyone believes in the Sphinx's half-brain...

If we told them that the supercomputer "main brain" that controls all the affairs of the Federation is actually a monster... then perhaps before the Second Monster War officially breaks out, humanity will break out into civil war due to internal disagreements.

Even infected people find it difficult to integrate into modern human society, let alone this genuine super monster that has been placed in a top management position.

"So, how many people are... 'known'?" Sun Hang asked with a smile.

The crowd looked at each other, most of them with expressions of bewilderment and confusion.

“Those who already know, please stay. The rest of you may leave,” Sun Hang said. In fact, they didn’t need to make their own choice; everyone who didn’t know the details of the mainframe would receive a message advising them to leave—the task of identifying and sending the message was naturally handled by the mainframe.

A few minutes later, the previously full conference room was now empty except for Sun Hang and his group, leaving only six people from the upper echelons of the Tian Shu Tower.

"Young man... why did Elder Pei organize this expedition? Was it for the remaining half of the Sphinx's brain?" Ji Yaohua took a deep breath and asked.

"Yes." Sun Hang nodded.

"As the engineer responsible for maintaining the external hardware of the mainframe, I have something I hope you can convey to Elder Pei," Ji Yaohua said.

But when he said this, he wasn't looking at Sun Hang, but at the projection of the virtual image of the mainframe located in the center of the conference table.

The poor old man was unaware that Pei Zongjun's consciousness had long since dissipated—in his eyes, Sun Hang was merely an "executor," and the one manipulating the direction of this meeting was still Pei Zongjun, hidden behind the scenes.

“Go ahead and say it,” Sun Hang said.

"The Sphinx's prophetic abilities require enormous computing power. With the computing power we currently provide, we cannot support the full operation of the existing half of the brain... Even if you can find the other half of the Sphinx's brain, we cannot provide all the computing power required for the complete brain to make prophecies."

"Why does the Sphinx's ability require computing power?" Sun Hang wondered. "Before this half of the Sphinx's brain was taken out to build the main brain, if it wanted to use its prophetic abilities, wouldn't it have to carry around mountains of computers? Don't tell me that the pyramid next to the Sphinx is actually a super server room?"

“If it were the Sphinx itself, it wouldn’t be necessary,” Ji Yaohua shook his head. “But it’s different if we take the Sphinx’s brain out and make it into a supercomputer. In fact, this computing power isn’t consumed by the ability to predict the future, but rather used to analyze the Sphinx’s prophetic results.”

"Analysis?"

“That’s right. The Sphinx’s brain outputs information in the form of special neural electrical signals. This information is extremely complex, and converting it into a form that humans can understand requires a lot of computing power.” Ji Yaohua nodded. “The external hardware of the main brain that I am responsible for maintaining is actually a super transcoder.”

(End of this chapter)