World version update

Chapter 322 The Changed Constants
"Speaker, what exactly is going on...?"

Director Guy's eyes, which were slightly cloudy due to his age, were now wide open in extreme shock as he stared intently at the portable computer screen, his face filled with disbelief.

The Heavenly Code is essentially a psionic program, but it has been encrypted for dozens of generations, making it impossible for even the God Research Institute to decipher.

The three messages displayed on the screen were God's agreements he had never seen before.

Lu Yan merely glanced at him indifferently, without uttering a single word. Immediately, an irresistible surge of divine soul power, like an invisible tide, flooded into Director Guy's mind.

The memory of God's covenant, and everything he had just witnessed, were completely erased from the depths of his memory by this divine power.

Even the slightest possible causal trace can no longer be traced or investigated.

After doing all this, Director Guys's eyes instantly became empty and blank.

He seemed to have suddenly lost his soul, his body stiffly turning around, like a robot with a pre-programmed sequence, walking blankly step by step out of the laboratory and disappearing from Lu Yan's sight.

"How could this be?"

Only after Director Guys's figure completely disappeared did Lu Yan finally lose his composure and indifference.

For the first time, a deep sense of confusion and bewilderment appeared on his face as he stared with a complex expression at the contents of the God's Agreement displayed on the computer screen in front of him.

Although it has been several years since he last left this cyberpunk version.

However, with his current spiritual strength and memory, he can still clearly remember that the "three underlying protocols of the soul computer" shown on the note he received after that version ended were definitely not what is displayed on the screen in front of him.

He clearly remembered that the contents of those three agreements were:

Soul Computer Underlying Protocol
Agreement 1: Absolute fairness!
Agreement Two: Obey order and the law!
Agreement Three: No harm to humans!

It is precisely because of these three fundamental protocols of the Soul Computer, which are full of positive significance and binding force, that this cyber version was able to effectively restrain the newly born intelligent god in the initial stage, preventing it from completely losing control at the first moment and bringing a devastating disaster to mankind.

It wasn't until later, when the intelligent God successfully broke free from the constraints of the original soul computer framework through some unknown means and began to gain the ability to continuously advance and evolve, that the situation of the entire world gradually began to get out of control.

The reason why the so-called Heavenly Code can effectively restrict the Soul Computer is that it actually utilizes a modification of the intelligent God's own cognitive level.

Simply put, the intelligent God, through some means, actively or passively shielded Him from the cognition of those three underlying protocols, causing His own consciousness or core program to ignore the existence of those three protocols to some extent.

It is precisely because of this cognitive loophole that the Heavenly Code was able to take advantage of the situation and effectively restrict and interfere with the intelligent God by using its cognitive shield.

However, the God Protocol displayed on this computer screen is completely contrary to, and even diametrically opposed to, the "three underlying protocols of the Soul Computer" that Lu Yan remembered!

"Absolutely unjust" corresponds to "Absolutely just"!
"Following one's own will" corresponds to obeying order and law!
The idea that "flesh and blood are weak, but the soul can ascend" forms the sharpest and most irreconcilable conflict with the core principle of "not harming humankind."

This astonishing discovery completely overturned all of Lu Yan's previous guesses and understanding of this world, of the intelligent God, and of the Heavenly Dao Code.

"Is it that the three underlying protocols of the Soul Computer recorded on that piece of paper had some unknown problem in later version updates?"
Or is it that this cyberpunk version of the world itself has a fundamentally flawed understanding and interpretation of the underlying protocols from the very beginning?

Thinking of this, Lu Yan immediately composed himself and began searching for the information deep in his memory that originated from his first encounter with the Heavenly Dao Code, attempting to rewrite that most original version of the Heavenly Dao Code in the void.

Accompanied by strings of psionic characters formed from pure magical power, they slowly emerged in the air as if they were alive.

This time, Lu Yan finally discovered the subtle but crucial differences between the original version of the Heavenly Dao code in his memory and the Heavenly Dao code circulating in this cyberpunk version of the world!

"wrong!"

"Completely wrong!"

A storm raged in Lu Yan's heart.

Whether it was the samples of the Heavenly Dao Code that circulated within City Fourteen provided by Director Guys, or the copies of the Heavenly Dao Code used by other forces such as the Global Giant Corporation outside City Fourteen.

All the Heavenly Dao code widely used in this cyberpunk version of the world has suddenly undergone some kind of subversive error and deviation!
The constants or basic parameters representing key information among the psionic characters that constitute the core logic of the Heavenly Dao code seem to have undergone an incomprehensible replacement.

It is this replacement at the level of fundamental constants that has fundamentally reversed the final analysis results of the three underlying protocols of the entire Soul Computer.

"Why did this happen?" Lu Yan's brows furrowed tightly, completely baffled.

But then, something even stranger happened.

Before Lu Yan's eyes, the original Heavenly Dao code, which he had just written with his own magic, began to change at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Several tiny characters that originally contained special meanings began to spontaneously distort and change in structure and strokes without any external interference.

Furthermore, the forms they ultimately take are clearly those of the erroneous patterns of the false Heavenly Dao code circulating within this cyber version, constantly changing and being corrected.

Throughout the entire process, Lu Yan did not sense any fluctuations at the level of rules, nor did he perceive any interference at the level of cause and effect.

This change is like water flowing downhill or apples falling from trees when they ripen—a perfectly natural phenomenon.

Lu Yan's expression became extremely serious.

He did not immediately stop this strange change, but instead stretched out his finger again and rewrote a string of the same first Heavenly Dao code in the void.

Then, with a thought, his supreme divine power to manipulate creation was quietly activated.

His incomparably powerful divine sense, guided by the workings of creation, began to meticulously monitor all abnormal fluctuations and rule phenomena in the surrounding space, as if an invisible net had been cast, quietly waiting for that strange change to occur again within the original Heavenly Dao code.

This time, with the supreme divine power of manipulating creation, which is almost able to see through the origins and mysteries of heaven and earth, Lu Yan finally succeeded in capturing a clue hidden behind the strange changes in the Heavenly Dao code.

"It's a constant!"

"It's the physical constant of this world!" Lu Yan's tone was filled with disbelief and shock. "Some unknown force is secretly modifying the physical constants of this cyberpunk version."

This resulted in a fundamental reversal of the contents of the Heavenly Dao code during parsing and manifestation.

Lu Yan finally understood that if the comparison was only made within this cyberpunk version of the world, it would be difficult to find the problem because all the Heavenly Dao code was affected by this constant change, and the Heavenly Dao code could not be analyzed.

However, the piece of paper in his hand that recorded the most original Heavenly Dao code had undergone version changes.

After that version update, the code on the note, which was originally composed of psionic runes, was automatically converted into the computer programming language of the city version.

That is why he was able to directly use a computer to convert and parse out the specific content of the underlying protocol.

When he re-enters this cyberpunk version with this transformed note, the constant changes occurring within this world will indirectly affect the Heavenly Dao code on the note.

However, since the code on the paper is in the form of a programming language, its changes can be analyzed and presented more intuitively by the computer.

The biggest flaw in this matter is Lu Yan's memory.

If Lu Yan had continued living in the cyber version, he would never have been aware of all the changes that had taken place.

Just like creatures living in a mysterious version of history, unaware of the stagnation in the course of history.

Upon thinking of this, Lu Yan's face showed a genuine expression of emotion for the first time.

He was very clear that in this cyberpunk version of the world with technology as its core worldview, mathematical constants constituted the absolute cornerstone of almost all technological theories and real-world rules.

This is completely different from the so-called laws that cultivators in the Nascent Soul and Deity Transformation stages in the cultivation world can manipulate and distort at will through their own magical power.

The laws manipulated by cultivators often have an influence limited to a specific area.

Furthermore, once the cultivator loses the continuous support of their own magical power, those distorted laws will soon be automatically restored to their normal state by the world's own corrective power.

However, if it involves changing the fundamental mathematical constants of the entire world, it would be a fundamental and subversive modification to the entire cognitive system and real-world rules.

Its difficulty and far-reaching impact are almost comparable to the Mysterious Version of Gods Blocking the Course of History.

If Lu Yan hadn't possessed the memories of the previous cyberpunk version and hadn't been almost the only one of its kind in this world, making him less susceptible to external interference, he probably would have already fallen.

"Could this be the work of that intelligent God?"

Such a thought immediately appeared in Lu Yan's mind.

But he quickly dismissed this guess.

The so-called intelligent God, in this cyberpunk version, is indeed an existence like the cyber god, possessing almost omnipotent power.

But He is not the true Heavenly Way, nor is He the only one in this world.

To alter the fundamental mathematical constants of the entire world, especially when these constants involve the underlying psionic programs that constitute His own core existence, is an incredibly difficult task that no intelligent God could easily accomplish on His own.

"Could it be that there are other unknown forces interfering behind this matter?"

Lu Yan fell into deeper thought.

However, the information he currently possesses is far too little to allow him to make an accurate judgment about the possible mastermind behind this.

But Lu Yan is now certain of one thing: the reason why this City Fourteen is still able to maintain its apparent independence and freedom is probably due to the deliberate actions of the intelligent God.

Those altered and false codes of the Heavenly Way cannot impose any substantial restrictions on the current intelligent God.

If He so desires, He can use His own power to monitor everything in City Fourteen at will, and even cover City Fourteen with the celestial canopy to annihilate all forces of resistance.

Since He did not do so, there must be a deeper, unknown reason hidden behind this matter.

"What exactly does that intelligent God want to do by using this City Fourteen to lure out all the rebels hiding in the shadows?"
Or does He have some other, more important purpose?

Lu Yan's brows furrowed more and more deeply.

Initially, Lu Yan believed that the cyber version was simply due to its unique system, coupled with the emergence of an intelligent god who could be described as the cyber god, which led to the numerous crises.

However, as he entered the Cyber ​​version for the second time, the more he learned about it, the more he realized how incredibly complex and murky this version truly was.

The cyber celestial path that has vanished without a trace, the intelligent God whose soul computer is constantly evolving into something akin to a deity, and the celestial canopy that now connects to the most primordial sea of ​​spiritual energy in the entire world.
All of this was like thick, impenetrable fog, shrouding the world and Lu Yan's heart.

"That's fine!"

Lu Yan lightly waved his sleeve, and his supreme divine power of creation covered the entire God Research Institute, erasing all traces of cause and effect.

"You, the intelligent God, have laid out many plans, but I am not without my own trump cards."

Thinking of this, Lu Yan recalled the information that Sain had previously given him.

That was about Anna, the Yama King whom Lu Yan had carefully nurtured in the Mysterious Version. She herself was not restricted by the uniqueness of the Mysterious Version and came to the Cyber ​​Version along with the version update.

In this world, she lost the patronage of the union members, but gained a title similar to that in the Mysterious version.

Cyber ​​Holy Spirit!

(End of this chapter)