novelraw Chapter 566: Entropy Brain
Chapter 566: Entropy Brain
Chapter 566: Entropy Brain
Jie Ming returned to his laboratory. The soundproofing arrays around him activated automatically, completely isolating the clamor of the battlefield outside.
He took out the blue crystals from his inner world and lined them up neatly on the experimental table.
There were one hundred and three in total.
They varied in size and shape, but every single one contained countless fine light points flowing slowly inside, like living things.
“Entropy Brain…”
Jie Ming murmured to himself.
This was the official name the expeditionary force had just announced.
The core crystals left behind after the information beings died were formally designated as “Entropy Brain.”
It meant “the brain of entropy-reduction beings,” which was quite fitting. He raised his right hand. A pale golden light slowly brightened in his eyes.
All-Purpose Eye.
Then golden light also shone at his brow.
Fate Subsystem.
The information-gathering ability of the All-Purpose Eye, combined with the computing power amplification of the Fate Subsystem, could see through the essence of most matter and energy.
Under the enveloping light, the internal structure of the Entropy Brains gradually became clear.
The first thing that met his eyes was a fact that was particularly surprising.
This blue crystal that appeared to contain a large amount of energy actually held almost none inside.
Jie Ming frowned and confirmed it three times before finally accepting the result.
There was indeed no form of energy storage within these crystals.
No free elemental fluctuations, no residual laws, and even the most basic heat was negligible.
Yet their information structure was astonishingly complex.
Jie Ming “saw” countless fine patterns, like the most precise integrated circuits, layered and intertwined within the crystal. Those light points were the carriers of information, flowing along fixed paths and continuously cycling and reorganizing.
There was no doubt that this was a natural biological data processing organ.
High-speed computation, massive storage, encrypted transmission… all functions integrated into one, and it didn’t even require consuming too much energy?
Jie Ming drew in a cold breath.
He continued his deep analysis, combining it with his previous understanding of the information beings. A vague picture gradually emerged in his mind:
The entire civilization of the information beings was likely a biological quantum network covering the whole plane.
Every individual was a node in the network, communicating silently through quantum entanglement.
Information transmission had no delay, no loss, and no boundaries.
Their social structure must have been perfectly flat, with no leaders and no hierarchy. All decisions were automatically generated by the network’s consensus algorithm.
What did this mean?
It meant that this race, in the course of its evolution, must have gone through countless internal splits and algorithmic wars.
Every conflict was a process of survival of the fittest among algorithms, ultimately evolving into this most efficient mode of existence.
And the Entropy Brain was the legacy left behind by this evolution.
Jie Ming stared at the blue crystals, a flash of realization in his eyes.
“This thing… can be used as the core material for data processing terminals.”
He murmured to himself as countless application scenarios already surfaced in his mind.
“If I use it as the foundation to create cannon fodder creatures, it would make quite a good experimental assistant… though using it directly to manufacture information processing terminals also seems excellent…”
After fantasizing for a while, Jie Ming began new research on the Entropy Brains.
Unfortunately, the subsequent research only confirmed his earlier thoughts.
“Is this the only use for this thing? Though it really is quite good…”
Jie Ming hesitated for a moment before making a bold decision.
“Let me try direct contact.”
Jie Ming closed the All-Purpose Eye and condensed his spiritual force into an extremely thin thread. He carefully extended it and gently touched the smallest Entropy Brain closest to him.
In that instant, a sudden change occurred.
The Entropy Brain violently disintegrated, transforming into countless fine light points that followed his spiritual force thread and surged madly into his brow.
Jie Ming’s entire body shook.
He didn’t even have time to react before those light points had already sunk into his spiritual sea and vanished without a trace.
“This…”
Jie Ming was stunned.
He instinctively checked his spiritual sea, his soul core, and his inner world…
There were no abnormalities.
Those light points had caused no damage and left behind no information.
But what had they done?
While Jie Ming was still puzzled, he suddenly felt something unusual.
In his mind, the knowledge that had accumulated over several hundred years began to “move.”
In the past few centuries, in order to make up for his fifth-ring wizard knowledge level, Jie Ming had learned far too many new things. This had created a new problem: although he could understand the knowledge, he had been temporarily unable to fully integrate and master it.
It was like a warehouse filled with books. The books were all there, but no one had organized them, so finding any particular one often required rummaging for a long time.
But now, those light points were helping him organize everything.
“So this is… I see. It maintained the instincts from when the creature was alive?”
Jie Ming immediately understood. After entering his soul, the Entropy Brain was instinctively making the knowledge in his mind more “orderly.”
He could clearly feel that the knowledge in his mind was being classified and archived.
The originally isolated rune principles and alchemy techniques began to resonate with each other. The vague wizard theories and cultivation knowledge started to corroborate one another. Even the fate-type and fate-subsystem knowledge that he had studied for decades without finding the proper entrance was now being digested with the help of some force.
It was not direct infusion, but “combing.”
It was as if there was a top-tier mentor personally going through all his knowledge again, breaking down the parts he “knew but did not understand,” dismantling them, grinding them fine, and then explaining them thoroughly.
He didn’t know how much time had passed.
When Jie Ming came back to his senses, he discovered that his understanding of fate knowledge had advanced by a huge margin.
He was only one final step away from true understanding.
And the fate-type knowledge, which had previously been a tangled mess, now had clear, distinct threads.
Jie Ming lowered his head and looked at the remaining Entropy Brains on the experimental table. His eyes suddenly lit up.
They truly lit up.
It was a manifestation of his spiritual force leaking outward due to excessive excitement.
“This thing…”
His voice trembled slightly, but after hesitating for a moment, Jie Ming didn’t know how to describe it.
The only resource that could truly be compared to it was probably planar origin, but planar origin was not even on the same level as this!
Jie Ming had used planar origin before and knew its limits very well.
Planar origin was indeed precious and could directly transmit massive amounts of knowledge to the user.
But that knowledge was disorganized, requiring the user to digest and understand it themselves, and most of it consisted of irrelevant fragments.
As for the Entropy Brain…
Although it could not increase one’s comprehension ability, it could comb through all the knowledge one already possessed.
It would re-present the things one had learned but not understood in a way that one could comprehend.
What did this equate to?
It was equivalent to having a top-tier mentor who tailored a complete combing plan specifically for one’s personal knowledge system.
Jie Ming took a deep breath and forcefully suppressed the impulse to try another one immediately.
He closed his eyes and savored the brand-new sense of clarity in his mind.
Then he opened his eyes again. Looking at the remaining Entropy Brains, a rational light flashed in his gaze.
“I cannot use them consecutively.”
The ability of the Entropy Brain was simply too effective.
But if used continuously, the effect would diminish.
It wasn’t due to any resistance or similar issue, but a more practical reason: combing through already-organized knowledge a second time might yield some gains, but they would definitely not be as great as before.
The best way to use them was to first learn a large batch of new knowledge, accumulate it to a certain degree, and then use an Entropy Brain for one major combing session.
Only then could the effect be maximized.
Jie Ming stared at the blue crystals, and the corners of his mouth slowly spread into a grin.
Right now, he really wanted to charge into the Information Plane, slaughter in all directions, and turn all those information beings into Entropy Brains.
Jie Ming took a deep breath, then another, forcefully suppressing that impulse.
Impulsiveness is the devil.
He looked up toward the window.
In the sky, white light churned madly behind the lockdown layer.
There would be plenty of time to harvest slowly in the future.
Jie Ming withdrew his gaze, sat down cross-legged, and began to close his eyes to digest his gains.