Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1388 Future
Shangluo counted the teams that might participate in the competition.

"Well, the future seems a little... a little exciting."

After listening to some briefings, he found that things did not seem so simple, because there seemed to be quite a lot of teams participating in the competition.

He seemed to have underestimated the popularity of this sport - after all, the dragon lantern sport only existed in a few areas in the south of his hometown. This sport was not even very popular in the city because not everyone had a bench at home.

Benches are furniture found in the countryside, mainly referring to long benches.

The bench has many uses. Anyone who comes to the house can sit on it, and as many people as possible can sit on it. The bench is also very easy to move around and move to where it is needed.

If a family is holding a wedding, funeral or something like that, it is normal for each family to borrow some benches, or for the people who are organizing these events to bring some benches with them.

This is why the dragon lantern activities that all members participate in are made of benches. Guangdong dragon boats have special maintenance methods. Some dragon boats are sunk in a fixed place all year round and only come out when the dragon boat race comes. As a ritual that only happens once a year, it is impossible to pile up a huge structure with more than 100 sections in one place at ordinary times. As an asset of the village community, it is impossible to keep it.

The only thing that each village community needs to maintain is the dragon head. Because the dragon head has a complex shape and can be used in other occasions besides dragon lanterns. When the New Year comes, other people in the village have to be mobilized to participate in the activities. The most suitable component for the dragon body is the benches of each family. Because every family has a bench, everyone who comes to participate can bring one. The bench brought by the participant will also directly become his prop in the event, and he can just carry his own bench.

However, benches are not so common after urbanization. Because there are not so many "unspecified groups" coming to sit at home, and families will not hold similar ceremonies on their own, the space reserved for ceremonies has been moved to places like hotels.

At this time, the seating in the house will be more refined and more stable - after all, a bench is just a piece of wood and is not suitable for sitting for a long time.

Shangluo didn't even know that there was a bench in his house. It was discovered by Phaethon.

"Yes. Your bench was in the attic. I only discovered it when I moved in. I didn't throw it away. I paid special attention to it and then moved it to the storage space."

"You actually know to preserve it well? I can't even recognize it when I see it. I might just throw it away as junk furniture."

"This is my intuition formed while doing the mission - there is only one object in the house, which is obviously different from the surrounding environment. It is obviously a mission prop. You see, my guess was right. This is indeed used to complete the mission every New Year."

[She is inexplicably reliable in inexplicable places]

"So, Shangluo." Director Huang happily confirmed the details with him, "Are you sure you want to participate in the competition and expand the scale?"

"Will this cause trouble?"

"No, no, no, this is a good thing. The bigger the event, the more it shows that our community's work is effective."

[This lady director seems to be too idle]

Phaethon asked in confusion: "By the way, why do I always feel like nothing is going on in her office?"

"Because everyone here is an acquaintance." Shang Luo shook his head and said, "Not only are they acquaintances, but they are also acquaintances in several Jinyiwei garrisons. Their families have been friends for several generations, or even more than ten generations. If there is any problem, everyone will solve it themselves and will not ask the police station for help at all."

Like many places in Yingtian City, the area where Shangluo is located is also a very old community. Among the blue bricks on the ground, it is possible that some were laid in the Wanli period or even the Yongle period.

Whatever conflicts there are in this place, they have long been settled under the blue bricks, and there won't be too many conflicts that need the police to resolve.

So when Phaethon passed by, he would always see that even the police dogs were bored out of their minds. Going out on patrol every day was like letting them go out for a walk.

For them, the most important and most difficult task every year is to catch wild boars, because wild boars may appear in any corner and come out of the bushes at any time to knock over a passerby.

"Okay." Director Huang put away his notebook, "Then I wish the event all the best."

She found fun - in this matter, she was a pure fun person. Although doing these extra jobs would not increase her salary, this kind of fun was something that could only be encountered by chance.

"Why do I feel like she is the happiest one?" Phaethon touched his head, "She is really too idle."

“Tsk tsk tsk.” Shang Luo shook his head. “I’m afraid there won’t be many more days of leisure like this. I wonder if she will regret telling me about this after the event officially starts.”

The police station is indeed very quiet now, because the local area has been settled for hundreds of years, and the number of years of peace has been so long that it is common for there to be no conflicts.

However, with the upcoming ascension, not only will everyone's lives ascend, but new conflicts will also arise.

Because in essence, the imperial court and the heavenly court are different. The life of mortals is not important to the heavenly beings. I am afraid that everything accumulated on earth may not be brought to heaven. This is a general reshuffle of social relations. All the old production relations, social relations, etc. will be reshaped in the process of ascension. An unsuccessful person may become successful overnight, and a successful person may become a nobody overnight. Because the standards for measuring everything in heaven and on earth are very different.

The first is cultivation. The difference in strength between people will reach an unprecedented level, because even the famous generals in ancient times could not really fight against 10,000 people at the same time. The closest one is Lu Bu.

Lu Bu once had a similar outrageous record - after killing Dong Zhuo, Lu Bu was excluded by Li Jue and Guo Si, and fled the chaos between Chang'an and Luoyang with hundreds of people, defected to the Yuan brothers, and assisted Yuan Shao in suppressing the Black Mountain bandits. The Black Mountain bandits with tens of thousands of people were originally a very difficult target, but Lu Bu defeated them in a wonderful way:
He led Cheng Lian, Wei Yue and dozens of his followers into the Black Mountain bandits' army of 10,000 people, hacking and slashing left and right, fighting back and forth as if they were in an empty space, and only fought their way out until their hands were tired. The Black Mountain bandits simply could not get close to an unparalleled warrior like Lu Bu, because once they got close, they would be shattered as if evaporated. This went on for more than ten days, sometimes once a day, sometimes three or four times a day, and the Black Mountain bandits' organization was directly broken by Lu Bu and his friends.

This kind of record is very outrageous even in history books. If it appeared in the "Book of Jin", it would probably be regarded as part of many magic. But this is a record in the "Records of the Three Kingdoms", and Chen Shou would not cast magic casually.

This was not Lu Bu's unique skill. Many generals at that time were good at similar tactics, because these cavalry generals on horseback could observe opportunities on the battlefield, maneuver at high speed, and decide when to enter and exit the battlefield. If there were no corresponding generals to intercept, it would be easy for Guan Yu to rush in and stab Yan Liang and kill him off his horse.

That was the era of warriors. Because whenever they were killing thousands of enemies, only opponents of equal strength could stop them, and others would be vaporized.

And this situation will be displayed in front of everyone in the upcoming ascension - because now there are people who can really suppress others in terms of cultivation realm.

This has actually caused some problems in the current society of Qigong practitioners. For example, although Shangluo has never seen it, there are many crimes committed by Qigong practitioners. Those people are imprisoned in the Imperial Prison - this is the problem in itself, because many prisoners' martial arts have long been able to knead ordinary steel like plasticine. Only the Imperial Prison, which is also extraordinary, can imprison them. Only the Imperial Prison can gather so many extraordinary jailers to imprison criminals who are also extraordinary.

This is completely different from all the previous eras. Because even Lu Bu, after drinking a few pounds of wine, would be tied up with a hemp rope found anywhere. But now, hemp ropes can't tie up Qigong practitioners, so you have to find a fairy rope to do it - especially, because dragons are so changeable, so you have to use dragon ropes to tie up dragons.

In such a situation, where the social order has to be completely reshaped, all the contradictions that had long been eliminated in the past will resurface.

This is the daunting challenge that Shangluo knows it will face - it is overwhelming because it is unprecedented in Shangluo. Perhaps only the artificial intelligence revolution of the 21st century can rival it.

【By the way, has this kind of thing ever happened in Zhongguo? 】

"Similar, but different in nature - probably between the 21s and 20s of the 30st century, artificial intelligence models suddenly exploded. For the first time, everyone could easily deploy models at their fingertips using the equipment at hand. However, the models deployed locally have specifications such as 1.5B, 7B, 70B, and 671B. Models of different specifications have completely different breadth and depth of answers. At that time, it was also the first time that the indicator of 'computing power per capita' appeared when measuring national strength. Because when everyone has AI to assist, whoever can deploy more powerful AI can solve problems more effectively."

[Oh my god, is this going to happen here too? ]

"Some of it may happen. Not to mention the 671B entering the professional field, if the 70B model is deployed in a home environment, it will have a significant performance leap. It can handle complex tasks such as pictures and images. As for the 1.5B and 7B models, they are used to handle lightweight tasks - but if we talk about problems, I think the problems here are bigger. Because the model can be deployed in the cloud, but the mana can't be deployed in the cloud as well."

"Well," Victoria thought for a moment, "it's not impossible."

"Can mana be deployed in the cloud?"

"Magicians deploy their magic power in the cloud. So magicians themselves are very fragile. You should remember that I had a commander of the imperial guards who was hit by a car two years ago and died on the spot. In Rome, except for demigods like Phaethon, no matter how powerful the magicians are, they are actually unable to save their lives from physical damage. Because their magic power is deployed in the cloud."

"Don't tell me yet." Shangluo thought for a moment, "Then is there any problem in Rome?"

"Yes, it costs money. To obtain mana from nature, you have to pay for it. Learning magic is very expensive, and when resources are tight, it's all up to the highest bidder. Many mages who are particularly good at mobilizing mana can drain the surrounding magic resources, making it impossible for others to cast spells. And many black magicians will disrupt the magic network, and prevent others from casting spells by attacking the magic network."

"And," Phaethon added, "how to make requests of magic also requires long-term training. You not only need to understand the operating principles of magic itself, but also the areas in which you want magic to play a role. For example, if you want magic to help you draw, you must first learn to draw before you can make accurate requests of magic. If you want magic to help you design a building, the same principle applies. You can't let magic do everything for you without knowing anything about it."

"So, we still have to study hard, right?"

Phaethon nodded: "So as you said, this may indeed bring new challenges to the entire society."

“So, I don’t know what the specific challenges we are facing here are.”

[By the way, what is the main factor affecting computing power in your country? Chips? ]

"No, in fact, the most prominent contradiction is video memory. The popularity of artificial intelligence has changed the demand for electronic devices. Video memory was not very useful before, and many graphics cards would reduce the price by precisely cutting video memory. But after the popularization of artificial intelligence, everyone has to deploy AI, and everyone has computing power requirements, so the demand for video memory has also increased all of a sudden - to use an analogy from cultivating immortals, video memory is mana. Apart from anything else, if the mana bar is not enough, you can't cast many spells at all."

[Why is it so big? Is it because it has so many tasks to handle? ]

"Because everyone has to train their own AI assistant, after all, everyone's needs are different. At that time, everyone had one since childhood, and slowly got used to the AI. Everyone's tendency to train models is similar to the types of spiritual roots. And when everyone has deployed computing power, you can become stronger by spending money to increase computing power, so do you want to ask for it?"

[Hmm] Apollonia pondered for a moment, [Is this coming soon? ]

"It is actually difficult for people who are in history to feel the flow of history, just like water is too common for fish to feel. Only through some major events can people feel that history is happening. So I have always wanted to hold some festivals to enhance everyone's perception and sense of participation in history. So this time, it is a small surprise I prepared for Daming."

(End of this chapter)