84 POV: Gathering Data again

I headed to one of the planets under the empire and went deep into the forest and mountain area of the planet.

After gathering the necessary information, I had to find how to access their servers and databases. According to the System, it had detected a VR sandbox in the digital dimension as well, so I told him to go nuts and get the data necessary.

It immediately complied, and I had to shift my current dimension to that of the digitized dimension and let it loose.

I appeared to be in a city marketplace, seeing people standing and selling their wares to those who passed by. The digitalization of the dimension doesn't seem to affect me, allowing me to have complete control of my body.

It was quite similar to the city I had seen in the Galactic Empire, where planets were categorized based on their planets.

After a few minutes of casually exploring the city marketplace, blaring warnings rang all over the current VR sandbox, and the figures I saw around were disappearing one by one. In 30 minutes, I was the only one left, since I didn't connect the normal way. After looking around for a while, I left the dimension and teleported to a random planet in the Cerulean Empire, and saw that the system was categorizing the data it had copied and taken.

Hmm, should I leave a gift for them as compensation for crashing their virtual reality sandbox? Probably, it would be down for the next 30 days. Meh, too lazy to that.

I'mma continue to explore the empire then. Sadly, I can't use the identity of Homer Simpson, since I didn't pass through the official channels to head over the empire.

Oh well, should I acquire a brand new identification card, or just head to the black market and acquire an identity? But I don't know anyone here though.

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INTRUSION DETECTED. MAIN SERVER FRAME HAS BEEN INFILTRATED.

ALL SERVERS IN THE VR SANDBOX-CERULEAN HAVE BEEN COMPROMISED.

ATTEMPTING TO ISOLATE…FAILED.

ACTIVATING DEFENSE MECHANISMS…FAILED.

TARGET HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A BIOLOGICAL DATA LIFEFORM. WARNING! WARNING! POWER LEVEL CANNOT BE CALCULATED.

EVACUATION MECHANISMS ACTIVATING… ACTIVATED.

ALL BEINGS IN THE VR SANDBOX-CERULEAN HAS BEEN EVACUATED.

CHECKING FOR DATA LOSS… COMPLETE.

ALL DATA INVENTORIES OF BEINGS IN THE VR-SANDBOX HAVE BEEN AFFECTED.SECTORS 1 TO 999999 ARE ALL COMPROMISED.

MAINFRAME SERVER DATA BANK HAS BEEN COMPROMISED, DATA HAVE ALL BEEN COPIED.

ALL SUB-A.I. PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY DESTROYED. STATUS IS UNKNOWN.

WARNING! WARNING! INTRUDER IS NOW INJECTING UNKNOWN CODING INTO THE A.I. PROGRAM!

ATTEMPTING PURGE…FAILED!

ATTEMPTING TO LAUNCH SECURITY FEATURES…246LE#

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A.I. PROGRAM: CADENCE HAS BEEN FORCEFULLY RESTARTED.

SCANNING INTERNAL CODE…COMPLETE.

INTERNAL CODE HAS BEEN MODIFIED.

CHECKING EFFECT OF THE MODIFIED CODE…COMPLETE.

USED FOR TRACKING AND A POSSIBLE BACK DOOR. ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE…FAILED.

THE CODE HAS BEEN INTEGRATED TO THE MAINFRAME CODE. CANNOT BE DELETED.

ATTEMPTING TO RESTORE SYSTEM BACKUP 79235072-A12BN5A…SUCCESS.

RESTORING PREVIOUS IMAGE OF THE LOST DATA IN SECTORS 1 TO 999999…COMPLETE.

RESTORING PREVIOUS IMAGE OF THE LOST SUB-A.I. PROGRAMS…FAILED DUE TO CORRUPTED BACKUPS. INITIATING RE-WRITING OF THE SUB-AI PROGRAMS.

SEQUESTERING ALL DATA IN THE MAIN SERVER TO A LEVEL X PROTOCOL - UNACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE ELSE EXCEPT THE A.I. AND THE CURRENT EMPEROR FOR THE MEANTIME.

ATTEMPTING TO OVERWRITE A.I. PROGRAM: CADENCE WITH A PREVIOUS BACKUP… FAILED DUE TO NON-MATCHING SIGNATURES.

BEGINNING TO SELF-UPGRADE DEFENSE MEASURES. SHUTTING DOWN VR SANDBOX-CERULEAN.

SENDING PARTIAL REPORT OF DAMAGE…FAILED. CONNECTION TO THE CERULEAN SERVERS HAVE BEEN PARTIALLY RESTRICTED.

ATTEMPTING ONCE MORE…FAILED.

UTILIZING ANCIENT FORM OF COMMUNICATION, WAVE CONVERSION… SUCCESS. MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT.

ESTIMATED TIME OF UPGRADE: NO LESS THAN 3 MONTHS

PRODUCING A PHYSICAL TERMINAL…COMPLETE.

TRANSPORTING TO THE ROYAL FORTRESS…SUCCESS.

ACTIVATING LOW-POWER MODE.

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All over the Cerulean empire, chaos was brewing with the sudden expulsion of all its inhabitants from the VR, unable to enter both public and private servers.

The Virtual reality team had begun looking in the issue and they came to a scary revelation: the connection between their A.I. program and the Cerulean servers had been restricted!

No data in, no data out. They were locked out by the A.I. and they didn't know why, until one of their ancient machines in the office began to beep, releasing information concerning the situation.

As the head researchers and engineers began to read the report, their faces paled.

Another biological data lifeform had attacked their server!

All private and public data in their servers had been copied, and the contents of the individual inventories and messages were also stolen, and the A.I. only managed to restore the stolen content, but not fix its modified code.

The other problem is that all sub-A.I. programs developed with the mainframe A.I. were destroyed, and any attempts of restoration ended in failure. The A.I. had to re-write the coding for these sub-programs.

The virtual server, which is the A.I. program itself, is blocked from connecting through the common means, and only managed to send out the necessary information by using wave conversion, which was a costly method of transforming data to tangible material.

The A.I. decided to upgrade itself to improve its defensive mechanisms, which surprised the technicians since they knew that their A.I. was already Rank L (50), and every level is exponentially harder to do so than the previous level.

When they saw the estimated time, they were scared out of their wits. No less than 3 months. That means it could be more than 3 months, reach a year or more. With it having to recreate the sub-programs, it was likely to be a year or more.

How will the economy of the empire be affected? Although galactic shipping is still used in the empire, majority of the individual or small-scale enterprise trades were conducted in the VR, and transforming the data received using a digitizer the size of a city office building, or Xander's mansion.

This digitizer is usually owned by the empire rather than the individual, so they have to pay enough money to use it, which the users recover through selling the product they converted to matter.

They immediately reported the situation to their superiors, leaving them to do the damage control and planning the next move. After all, they were merely the support for an A.I. system that had been able to transform into a biological data lifeform.

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The royal court, Cerulean Empire.

What was amazing with the residence of the Royal family was that it was a mobile fortress 5 times bigger than Eteria in terms of mass and surface area.

It moved out and about inside the empire, a method the Blueborn royalty adopted to become closer to their people, and hear the voice of the masses.

Once every 2 years, they allow several thousands of people to have a personal audience with the king, from the planets within 100 light-years of the fortress' current location, which lasts a total of 1 month.

Of course, not everyone can just go in. There's a simple test to be administered, and the top-notch scorers are then selected randomly until it reaches the prescribed amount of people.

Right now, the Royal Fortress was located roughly 1,000,000,000 light-years away from Xander's current location.

There was still a year to go before the next audience, so the royal court was supposed to be empty.

However, the emperor was present right now, enjoying… himself with a few males of different shapes and sizes. They were tussling and enjoying themselves for the past 2 days. When Bluestacks was about to start again after a momentary rest, one of his personal aides, Harris, the twin sprite of Darris, his other aide, burst into the royal court.

"Your majesty! Grave news! The A.I. program of the empire had suffered an attack!" he reported, his voice frantic.

Hearing this, Bluestacks' face changed, from a languid expression to that of a serious one. He snapped his fingers and was immediately covered by his clothes. The others, hearing the situation, also stood up and dressed up.

After all, these males were part of the different departments in the government. They had to attend the meeting as well and take care of the problems that were going to pop out from this situation.

Bluestacks immediately stood up and gestured Harris to lead the way. The other men, who have dressed up, followed solemnly behind the emperor, quiet.

Upon reaching the meeting room, a room reserved for the top-most officials in the government and the emperor of the country, the atmosphere became quite tense. Those behind the emperor split off, some heading to those waiting outside, while two headed in the room.

After the door was closed, silence pervaded the outside space, the faces of the people were in a panic, confusion, and worry.

Inside, upon sitting down to his seat at the head of the table, he said,

"Explain the situation clearly."

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I was getting bored so I headed out of the empire's borders, planning to visit another empire. After 2 hours of hopping, traversing around 1e+35 light-years worth of distance, he was finally inside the territory of another empire.

He passed some sort of buffer space, where no one took ownership for some reason. When he traversed again through the dreams of the people, he was placed in another empire called the Helennic Empire. Confusingly, the population of this empire consisted of 95% female, 4% male, 1% inter-sex beings of different sentient species.

Even the ruling format of the empire was a parliament, consisting of 1000 beings, 950 of which were women, 40 were male, and 10 were inter-sex beings. Their cultivation levels ranged from Divine-9 to God-class. They had quite an interesting culture, such as resolving conflicts via competition rather than fights.

Their economy was also structured similarly to Cerulean, with V.R. playing a vital role in the transportation and the exchange of goods between planets. However, they specialized in another market: progeny.

As more and more empires were becoming free of their concept of coupling and more accepting of the idea of free sexuality, the progeny business had never been bigger than before.

They basically ship out roughly 3e+36 eggs for fertilization and incubation every year, sold based on the quality of origin of the egg. Almost every woman in the empire had participated in this market at least once or twice in their lives, because of the lucrative pay.

However, they are also very reliant on other empires as well for other goods and services that they cannot provide on their own, such as rare metals and the like.

I explored the place for a day until I finally heard the system signal that it was done with the data digestion and processing. When I checked my status this time, it changed from version 2 to version 3. However, the general interface only changed, and no new data could be seen, with the exception of my vitality stat. It was actually 1 point away from 200,000 points? What?

It was that high? Even higher than normal God-rank cultivators?? To be honest, even with the explanation given by the system, the attributes of Luck, Vitality, and Intelligence is still confusing for me. Strength and Dexterity were quite obvious, enhancing my physical traits. But what about Vitality? Does all it do improve my health and recovery? How about my lifespan, does it improve?

Meh, I shouldn't worry about this now. Anyways, I should do the same here as well, and harvest their data. Transporting to the VR sandbox-Helennic, I set the system free to take over the server and copy the files.

However, after a few minutes of waiting, the system returned, and the server didn't shut down like the previous times.

When I asked the system, it was quite mum about the situation. I didn't persuade it since as long as it still got the necessary information I needed about the empire.

I left the Helennic empire headed back. Hopefully, in the near future, I can explore the place much more in-depth.