Chapter Twenty-Three: Snake Island

Through the information that the girl found on her mobile phone just now, I knew that the server of Sweet Memories was not in that building, that building was just the office building of this company, and the server was placed on an island called Shepan Island.

But when I found it, I realized that this is actually just a peninsula by the sea, not an island, and when you look down at this peninsula from a high place, it looks like a giant snake's head, and the location of this company's server is on the snake's eye.

Before I arrived, I couldn't imagine how big the server clusters could be to keep these virtual worlds running. But when I looked down from a high place, I was blown away!

I saw three huge towering circular buildings, two of which were emitting white smoke, arranged in equilateral triangles, with a huge hexagonal building sandwiched between the triangles.

The three huge circular buildings are the cooling towers of the nuclear power plant, and in order to keep these server clusters running, three fusion power stations have been built directly next to the servers to supply electricity.

And through public information, these servers are not the silicon-based computers of our time, but quantum computers, we all know that the energy consumption of quantum computers is relatively low, not as high as the energy consumption of ordinary computers, but this company's quantum computer server cluster actually needs three nuclear power plants to operate, you can imagine how amazing its scale is!

Am I really going to destroy it?

The world I live in and countless other virtual worlds are all in the hexagonal building below, and the three nuclear power plants next to it are constantly carrying out nuclear fusion, converting nuclear energy into electrical energy and transmitting it to the server, and then through complex programs to virtualize our world, countless virtual people in it from birth to death, and until they die, they will not realize that they have been living in this hexagonal building.

To be honest, I was a little hesitant, and I was shocked by the wisdom of human civilization.

Can I do this to destroy so many worlds and countless virtual people as innocent as I am for the sake of personal vendettas?

But if you don't do this, will this company enslave and manipulate the birth, aging, sickness and death of these virtual people to make huge profits?

While I was in a daze, I saw a small gray boat moving in the nearby sea, and flew down towards it.

This boat is a small wooden boat, I didn't think there was such a wooden boat in this era, there is a motor behind the boat, but it seems to be an electric motor, and I didn't hear the sudden sound of a diesel engine.

The captain of the boat was a thin old man, his skin copper-black from the sun.

Inside the boat there are two large white barrels, the kind that are leftover for latex paint.

Arriving on this ship seemed to bring me back to my world, forgetting about my revenge plan for a while, and I merged my consciousness with the ship's boss.

The captain of the boat squinted at the sea level in the distance, one hand steering the rudder of the motor, but his mind was quiet and had no thoughts.

When he reached a body of water, he stopped the boat, and I saw some floats on the water, and he threw an iron anchor into the sea, and then he started the motor to back the boat some distance before the boat was dragged by the anchor.

After anchoring the boat, the boat boss first turned off the boat motor, then took out a pack of cigarettes, took out a cigarette, took out a lighter and lit it, and took a few puffs hard, a choking smell of smoke made me very uncomfortable.

He fished out a relatively long bamboo pole from the boat, tied an iron hook to the top, and stretched out the bamboo pole and used the iron hook to hook the float on the sea.

There was a thin nylon rope tied to the float, and after hooking it, he recycled the bamboo pole, and then pulled the nylon rope up, the rope below was very long, and after pulling it for a while, a net cage was dragged out of the water.

It turned out to be a crab pot for catching crabs!

There are three big cyan pincer crabs in the crab pot, which look very fierce, but the boat boss is very skillful to put his hand into the crab pot, first press the crab's back with his middle finger and index finger to make the crab unable to move, and then use his thumb and ring finger to clamp the two ends of the crab shell, and catch the crab out, the crab's two big claws can only wave helplessly, and he can't hurt the boat boss's hand for half a minute.

After catching the crabs, he fished a few rotten fish from a black plastic bag and put them into a small plastic cylinder in the crab pot, then closed the lid and threw the crab pot back into the sea.

I saw crabs waving their pincers vigilantly in plastic vats, do these guys like to eat rotten stinky fish?

The harvest was good, the boat boss fished more than a dozen crab pots in a row, only two or three were empty cages, and the rest had crabs of all sizes, and he threw the smallest ones back into the sea, but when he threw them back, he always had to say: "Gaipi!"

I can't help but feel admiration and respect for him, he not only released the baby crabs, but also blessed them.

Seeing that he has harvested so many crabs, I estimate that he can sell them for a lot of money, and it seems that it is not bad to be a fisherman!

But looking at his withered face, it seems that life is not easy.

I'd like to talk to him.

"Hello, Boat Boss!" I greeted him in my head.

"Huh?" he noticed me right away, because the sea was on all sides.

"Hello, it's me. ”

"Gingen?" He spoke as if it were a local dialect, and I didn't understand it at all.

"Do you speak Mandarin?"

"Who are you?"

"I am the Sea Dragon King. ”

"Lord Dragon?"

"That's right, do you come to catch crabs every day?"

He stayed there and didn't answer me.

After a while he said, "Oh no, the hospital is similar!"

"Can you speak Mandarin?" he said, I didn't understand at all.

Silently, he went to start the motor, drove forward, and pulled the anchor up again.

Ignore me completely! I feel slighted!

"Aren't you afraid that I'll make a big wave and overturn your boat?" I threatened him.

He ignored me, and quickly turned the bow of the boat and headed to shore.

I feel so discouraged, it seems that impersonating God does not work every time.

"When was that power plant built?" I asked him again.

"It's been several years. I didn't think that this time he would answer in Mandarin.

"Have you been in?" I asked him again.

"If you can't get in, you're very strict. ”

"Do you know where the people who work here live?"

"I don't know, they all say it's a robot at work. ”

"Oh, why didn't you answer me just now?"

He was silent again, and I guess that fishermen at sea might not be able to talk about topics that they find sensitive and taboo.

The wooden boat cleaved the wind and waves briskly, and when it returned to shore, it was a headwind, and the sea breeze blew the waves against the bow of the ship and splashed continuously. I didn't think it would be interesting to stay any longer, so I left the ship's boss.

Anyway, since you're here, you have to go first to see what's going on.

I flew into the air and landed directly on the roof of the hexagonal building, which was about the height of a five-story building, and there were many vents on the roof, and I felt along the vents, and as soon as I entered the vents, I heard a loud buzzing sound, and the heat wave was coming in bursts, and although I couldn't feel the heat directly now, I could see the huge disturbance caused by the heat wave to the outside air when I approached the vents just now.