Dimensional Hotel-Chapter 574: Abnormal Data Structure

Listening to Marin’s words, Yu Sheng was momentarily taken aback, "What do you mean by the mind operation efficiency being somewhat abnormal?"

Marin pondered for a few seconds and explained to Yu Sheng, "Maris discovered a large number of inexplicable and useless threads during Erin’s mind operation process, and also found a certain data structure occupying a vast amount of storage space that couldn’t be identified. These things are severely slowing down her thinking efficiency and might even..."

The lady puppet hesitated for a moment, leaned slightly forward, and whispered, "Have you ever noticed that occasionally Erin does some inexplicable things..."

"It’s not just occasionally, she’s doing inexplicable things almost every day," Yu Sheng now understood what the other party meant, and his brows furrowed, "And she’s acting foolishly... You mean her brain is actually... broken?"

"The living doll doesn’t have a brain, but you might consider that there is indeed something wrong within her mind structure."

Marin looked serious, and she casually waved her hand, causing a clear holographic projection to appear in the air beside her, displaying Erin’s mind operation status—complex graphs and data were dizzying, and Yu Sheng couldn’t understand any of it, but he immediately recognized the numerous, rapidly refreshing red error markers.

Yu Sheng’s eyebrows knitted tightly, and with astonishment accompanied by a flood of uncontrolled thoughts, he muttered subconsciously, "...Could it be that her ’amalgamation’ with the Omen Goddess is not yet complete? Is it stuck?!"

"Doesn’t seem like it," Marin shook her head before Yu Sheng finished, "If it were indeed a mind failure caused by asynchronous consciousness, you would detect significantly misaligned waveforms, and Maris would be the first to scan mind data not belonging to the Alice Puppet, but now Erin’s situation seems more like..."

Yu Sheng leaned forward instinctively, with tension on his face, "More like what?"

"More like there is a giant ’foreign body’ ’encapsulated’ within her memories," Marin’s finger swept across the holographic projection, and the complex graphs and data streams instantly reassembled into a hazy mist-like dot matrix map, where a huge red cube structure floated, tightly sealed by a layer of data labeled as "Unable to Deconstruct," "Maris used part of the Garden Network’s computing power, and still couldn’t unravel the encapsulating structure of this thing—considering that forcibly calling forth more computing power might damage the normal parts of the mind, I didn’t let her continue."

This time, even Hu Li, who was drowsy nearby, and Luna, who was staring blankly, immediately crowded over, with Hu Li’s eyes wide, filled with surprise and curiosity: "...This, has always been in Erin’s ’mind’?"

Yu Sheng also immediately asked, "How long has it been there? Can you tell?"

"For a long time—at least long before this ’World Bridge Crisis’," Marin’s face was serious, "Erin herself apparently hasn’t realized the existence of this thing, yet at the mind’s underlying level, it’s been engaging in high-intensity interaction with that massive data structure, Maris scanned a massive log fragment and error information from her mind—but besides ’ancient,’ we could barely analyze anything useful."

Yu Sheng listened attentively, contemplated for a while after the other party finished, and then spoke while stroking his chin, "So, you mean it might even date back to three thousand seven hundred years ago, when Erin first attempted to amalgamate with the Omen Goddess..."

He stopped mumbling halfway, as if a memory flashed in some corner of his mind.

Suddenly Yu Sheng recalled something: After he entered the large hollow in the center of the Black Spot Laboratory, when he saw that ’plush little bear’ containing Erin’s final memory, golden-haired Erin had made a statement in the last log—

"He agreed to my amalgamation suggestion and chose to voluntarily abandon most of his consciousness, merely hoping I could retain a set of special data from his memory. The size of that data is astounding, but harmless—I couldn’t understand what it was, but it evidently held exceptional importance to him."

A set of special data... astonishing in size... harmless but incomprehensible...

Yu Sheng’s gaze subtly shifted, and some intel that had been subconsciously ignored after the event came back into focus during the restructuring process.

Hu Li immediately noticed the change in Yu Sheng’s expression, "Savior, did you think of something?"

"There is one thing..." Yu Sheng wasted no time and immediately shared what he knew with the people present.

After speaking, he paused for a moment and added, "At the time, I even thought that the ’special data’ mentioned in Erin’s log might be the memory fragments of the Omen Goddess about her homeland that I saw later."

"Memory fragments are not of such a large scale, nor would they have a complete data structure and tightly sealed ’shell,’" Marin said immediately, "This thing is clearly meticulously crafted."

"Yes, meticulously crafted..." Yu Sheng said softly, his gaze returning to the holographic projection beside him, with the prominent red cube floating in the ’fog’ symbolizing memory and consciousness, occupying nearly half of the projection space, countless tiny light spots flickering and moving at the junction of the cube and the ’consciousness fog’."

Each flash seemed to represent a massive data interaction operation."

Incomprehensible, challenging to grasp, proceeding in secrecy, endlessly; Erin had been processing this bewilderingly "anomalous data" at the underlying level of her mind, possibly never stopping even when she was sealed in the painting, and she herself knew nothing about it.

Luna stared at the holographic projection in midair, maintaining silence for a long time before stammering, "Erin, brain, not good, is it, because of this?"

Somehow, maybe it was an illusion, Yu Sheng even felt that Luna’s words seemed to carry a hint of concern.

"That’s... hard to say," Marin shook her head, her expression somewhat awkward as she spoke, "Such a huge anomalous data clearly occupies a vast amount of storage space, coupled with the mind power consumed handling this data around the clock, it’s definitely somewhat affecting Erin’s usual thinking, but on the other hand—Maris found that Erin’s mind has considerable redundancy, maintaining everyday life doesn’t actually consume much of her computing power, so even if this ’mind burden’ affects her, the impact is probably minimal."

Marin’s words were always so tactful that it took Yu Sheng a moment to comprehend her meaning: "Oh, you mean her situation is simply because she doesn’t use her brain regularly."

Beside him, Luna also nodded along: "Not that the brain is not enough, it is not used."

Marin blinked, seemingly trying hard to maintain her usual elegance, but it seemed she was starting to lose control: "You could also say it’s a free-spirited personality, a sort of carefree lifestyle..."

She couldn’t continue.

However, Yu Sheng’s face showed no hint of teasing.

He simply thought of the golden-haired figure that faced the out-of-control Alien God three thousand seven hundred years ago.

Thought of the ever-decaying divine corpse in the Omen Divine Temple.

The long journey of escape, death and decay, sealing and slumber.

Finally, he thought of the little puppet sitting on the roof in the sunset, holding a frying pan and gazing at the sky.

She said—

"Alright."

Then there’s no problem.

"As long as it doesn’t affect her, there’s no problem," Yu Sheng said, "Is this ’foreign object’ harmful to her?"

"It seems there’s no ’harm’ at the moment—if you ignore the mental resources it occupies," Marin thought for a moment and spoke cautiously, "The biggest problem is that it generates and accumulates some log data, but these things themselves will also be continuously cleaned by Erin’s underlying mind, and compared to the resources occupied by the ’abnormal data’, the impact of these logs is almost negligible."

"Then can this thing be dealt with?" Hu Li, standing nearby, curiously asked, pointing at the holographic projector, "Maybe transfer it somewhere else, or store it in your ’Garden Network’ or something... or just delete it?"

As soon as Hu Li finished speaking, Marin’s expression instantly turned serious: "I strongly advise against touching it."

Yu Sheng quickly reacted: "... If it can run, don’t mess with it, right?"

Marin gently nodded.

"This ’abnormal data’ may have existed in Erin’s underlying mind for three thousand seven hundred years," she said solemnly, "Even if it’s encapsulated and hasn’t interacted much with other mind data, its long-term existence has already subtly changed Erin’s mind structure, combined with Erin’s fusion with the Omen Goddess, this data may also have connections with the Omen Goddess...

"In short, the relationships involved are intricate; not to mention touching the ’abnormal data’ itself, I didn’t even dare to let Maris mess with the error messages and seemingly useless idle threads it generates."

Yu Sheng didn’t make a sound, just nodded silently.

A bug is a bug, a bunch of bugs can work.

It’s already quite unlikely that Erin’s chaotic mind is functioning normally; if tinkering leads to problems, it wouldn’t be as simple as getting nibbled a couple of times by an enraged little puppet...

As Yu Sheng pondered like this, Marin suddenly spoke again.

"Now we’ve retrieved Erin’s original shell, although it cannot directly affect the ’abnormal data’ in her mind, the reboot of this shell should alleviate her mental pressure to some extent."

Yu Sheng immediately raised his head: "How so?"

"Erin’s current condition is very unique—her mind isn’t stored in a specific body but is operating distributed in a large ’puppet network’," Marin patiently explained, "Though in my view, this ’puppet network’ you created together with her is somewhat... incredible, according to Maris’s examination, this network is indeed running stably.

"And if Maris’s further calculations are correct, Erin’s ’original shell’, once incorporated into the puppet network, would further increase the efficiency of the entire network. Although the specific impact is unknown, the enhancement of the network’s computing power surely implies a relative decrease in the mental pressure generated by the ’abnormal data’."

For a moment, Yu Sheng didn’t make a sound.

But suddenly he recalled something Erin had mentioned to him before—

Once the quantity of mass-produced shells exceeded a certain value, she seemed to feel her mind was much ’brighter’.

...So creating clones really does boost computational power!?