Chapter 2110 First Encounter with the Beta Version <TOC> Chapter 2112 Privacy
Translator: SumTLMan
“Simply talking about it might not convey its full mystery. I happen to bring the first-generation version of the Mother Tree Interconnector. Why don’t you try it out?” Jon opened the mahogany drawer and took out a small box.
When the box was opened, what appeared was a thin black disc.
“This is the first-generation Mother Tree Interconnector,” Jon said, picking up the disc. “It’s made from stone, still quite rudimentary in design. I planned to consider the design more seriously in the upgraded or first-generation version, to introduce a more complete version to you. But, unpredictable as life is, it got leaked early, so let’s just make do with this for now.”
“The future versions will definitely be more portable, and the material will change from stone to something else, like glass or ceramic.”
As Jon spoke, he quickly tapped on the disc, seemingly controlling something. But to Angel and Sanders, the black stone disc showed nothing, just a pitch-black surface.
“Because entering the Mother Tree Network requires the power of self-awareness, it appears blank to you. But to me, it’s already displaying its contents,” Jon said, continuing to tap the disc for a while before handing it to Sanders.
“Give it a try.”
Sanders took the disc, hesitated for a moment, then started to tap it like Jon. As his fingertips touched the disc, a subtle change appeared in his puzzled gaze.
For the next ten minutes, Sanders was silent, occasionally tapping the disc.
Angel watched, full of questions, but didn’t dare to ask, just waiting.
After another five minutes, Sanders put down the disc. He didn’t immediately comment but passed the disc to Angel.
The moment Angel touched the disc, he immediately sensed its structure. As Jon said, it was a black stone slice, polished but not entirely rough. Inside the black stone were some hollowed-out carvings, invisible from the outside.
In the hollowed parts of the black stone, Angel felt they were filled with a fine powder.
This powder had a familiar scent. With a bit of sensing, Angel understood its origin——it was the powder of ground Mother Tree branches.
Angel had experienced it before; touching the powder with the center of his forehead would allow entry into the wondrous Mother Tree Network.
But this time was different; he didn’t use his forehead, just his fingers touching the disc, and an odd sensation emerged.
He didn’t enter the deeper layers of the Mother Tree Network but saw its surface appearance.
It was displayed on the black stone disc like a page.
It kind of… reminded Angel of a deactivated projection module on the holographic tablet, purely flat operation, like the Earth technology he saw on a tablet: a smartphone.
The page displayed on the black stone disc had clear instruction buttons, seemingly reminding Angel to press them.
However, Angel didn’t immediately click the buttons because he was already familiar with this step, too similar to the interface of the holographic tablet.
What he was most curious about now was how it appeared?
Angel raised his head and voiced his confusion.
Sanders also looked at Jon; his previous journey through the Mother Tree Network was entirely different from this experience, so he was curious about how Jon did it.
Jon smiled and explained, “You should know that to enter the Mother Tree Network, you need to bring the branches close to your consciousness core——your forehead.”
Angel and Sanders both understood this point and had indeed done so before.
Moreover, Angel knew more. The reason for placing it close to the forehead was simply because the connection between the forehead and the Mother Tree Network was the strongest, which in other words, meant the least delay and the fastest entry speed.
If placed near other parts of the body, it was also possible to enter the Mother Tree Network, just not as quickly as through the forehead.
As Angel was thinking this, Jon expressed his thoughts: “However, our observations show that touching other parts of the body can also lead to entry into the Mother Tree Network, though the speed varies.”
“But that’s not the main point. The key is that the Mother Tree Network accessed through consciousness is a world of interconnected minds.”
“You have previously entered the Mother Tree Network and walked the Path of Light, so you should be familiar with this interconnected world.”
“In this world of interconnected consciousness, many things can be done, such as telepathic communication, or using the Path of Light to travel to various areas of the Mother Tree Network, engaging in face-to-face conversations with Dream Plant Fairies located at other nodes…”
Both Angel and Sanders had experienced the sensation of entering this interconnected world of consciousness, just as Jon described.
“I refer to this interconnected world of consciousness as an immersive network, or ****.”
Jon paused: “The immersive network is like a virtual world. Although good, many of its functions are not necessary, somewhat cumbersome.”
“Therefore, after discussions with others and combining some extraordinary powers brought by virtual magic power, we have created a network that still centers around the Mother Tree Network but is actually just a page-based superficial network attached to the periphery of the immersive world.”
“Touching the disk with a finger does not lead to the immersive network but appears in the superficial network, the interface you see now.”
In short, when the finger touches the disk, it does not create as significant a wave of consciousness as the forehead. That means, the delay in connecting to the Mother Tree Network is the greatest, and the entry speed is like a crawl, hardly entering ****.
But ultimately, the user’s consciousness still touches the disk and establishes some connection with the Mother Tree Network. Although it’s not possible to enter ****, this weak connection, along with Jon’s and his team’s research, gave birth to the superficial network Jon described.
Jon: “However, if you place the disk near your forehead, you will still enter the immersive network. If I could modify the permissions of the Mother Tree Network, I would definitely eliminate this feature. After all, **** is the core. To truly enter ****, at least a new set of wearable equipment is needed.”
As Jon said this, his gaze turned to Angel, the implication clear.
“I will modify the permissions of the Mother Tree Network. The superficial network will be unrestricted, **** will require certain permissions. Then, even using the disk on the forehead, it will not be possible to enter ****.”
After Angel finished speaking, he looked at Jon with a contemplative gaze.
It must be said, Jon was extremely familiar with networks. Even without much authority, he quickly managed a general analysis of the Mother Tree Network and even discovered the method of the superficial network.
If Jon were equipped with someone who had authority over the Mother Tree Network, the transformation would likely be quicker!
Unfortunately, the one with the highest compatibility with the ‘Tree Civilization’ power is Raphaella, who is not suitable for authority.
As for the previously mentioned Babaya and Kudou, although their compatibility has not been tested yet, their experience and training are still insufficient.
Is there anyone else? A figure emerged in Angel’s mind… Is he suitable?
Angel shook his head, not dwelling on the thought.
After learning that what was displayed on the disk was the consciousness-activated superficial network, Angel once again focused his attention on the disk.
He had experienced the baptism of the holographic tablet, so he was not particularly surprised by this disc. However, Sanders didn’t know. Sanders still thought that Angel and him were both first-timers in handling the disc.
Therefore, even if it was a performance, Angel still had to go through the operation process, and it was best to pair it with some expressions of surprise.
As Angel was thinking this, he tapped a button on the page with his finger.
After clicking the button, what appeared before his eyes was a sprout breaking through the soil.
The sprout had two new green leaves with tiny fuzz, and these two new leaves corresponded to two buttons.
The button on the left new leaf was written in Common Language: “Tree Group First Look Development Version.”
The button on the right read: “Mother Tree Forum.”
“It’s quite rudimentary.” Angel muttered in his heart. Compared to the dazzling holographic tablet desktop, this was indeed too simple.
Angel pressed the “Tree Group First Look Development Version” button, and the page immediately switched.
The screen that switched over was still very, very basic, a dialogue box where not even a line could be seen.
Angel was thinking about how to show a surprised expression when faced with such a rudimentary dialogue box, when the next second, he was stunned.
It wasn’t that the dialogue box had any special functions, but rather, he was attracted by the content constantly popping up in the chat interface.
On the interface, a brownish-yellow bubble emerged: “Baruba didn’t expect that the Lord had his own unique ideas. By the way, who is the black bubble up there?”
Unique ideas? What’s that about?
Angel kept scrolling up the chat interface, and finally restored some truth.
Initially, a sky-blue bubble was speaking: “Is the wild boy there?”
Brownish-yellow bubble: “He’s not here, seems like he left the Wilderness of Dreams. Does the Lord need him for something?”
Sky-blue bubble: “That guy told Angel about the Tree Group…”
Sky-blue bubble: “I’ve repeatedly warned him not to leak the development version!”
Pink-green bubble: “So even Lord Pat can’t be told?”
Sky-blue bubble: “I was preparing a surprise for him, sigh, now it’s gone. Most importantly, this is such a rudimentary version!”
Brownish-yellow bubble: “Mr. Jon, I actually think it’s quite exquisite.”
Sky-blue bubble: “……Your aesthetics are on the same level as Tulas, I have nothing to say.”
The rest of the chat content was mostly the brownish-yellow bubble talking to itself, occasionally a pink-green bubble would join in the conversation.
From the chat record, Angel roughly understood that the sky-blue bubble was Jon, the brownish-yellow bubble was Kudou, and the pink-green bubble was Babaya.
Evidently, when Jon took out the disc and kept clicking earlier, he was probably complaining to Kudou and Babaya.
It’s worth mentioning that in this brief chat, there was a black bubble that appeared. The bubble with black background and white text was very conspicuous, but instead of text, there was a symbol representing a question.
From the timing of the black bubble’s appearance, Angel deduced that it was probably sent by Sanders.
“The Tree Group has not yet resolved the issue of registration, nor can it display codes, so it can only distinguish through colored bubbles. What color will be presented is decided by the Mother Tree Network… Although I don’t feel that the Mother Tree Network has its own consciousness, it seems to have some logic, and it is this logic that was sensitively captured by two Kulakuka tribespeople, leading to the current preliminary presentation of the Tree Group and forum functionality.” Jon mentioned this information when he saw Angel continuously scrolling up with his finger, guessing he was looking at the chat history.
He also mentioned the people represented by the different colored bubbles.
Angel tentatively sent a character with his consciousness.
The chat interface immediately popped up a golden bubble, which contained a symbol representing exclamation.
Different from the other colored bubbles, the golden bubble looked shiny and glittery, as if it had a sparkling effect.
Brown-yellow bubble: Who is this… I feel an extraordinary aura from the color, shivering.
Light green bubble: I feel, it might be…
Brown-yellow bubble: I also think it might be… Lord Pat…
Angel did not continue speaking, but closed the Tree Group chat and opened another leaf of the tender bud: the Mother Tree Forum.
The forum and chat interface were equally simple, still with rising bubbles. However, these bubbles were larger, accommodating more characters.
But in the entire forum, there was only one color of large bubble: sky blue.
Sky blue large bubbles, representing that only Jon had posted “threads” on the forum.
Angel opened a thread titled “Overview and Details of New City Planning” and found that it was a long article with some of Jon’s ideas about the new city and detailed descriptions.
There were comments below the article, with the top comment being Jon’s lament: unable to display pictures, too frustrating.
And the second comment was a dark blue bubble expressing gratitude. According to Jon’s earlier description, the dark blue bubble represented Baruba.
Obviously, this bubble post was written by Jon specifically for Baruba.
Angel looked at other bubbles, which were mostly Jon’s ideas about the surface network and some research topics he was working on. Under one mathematical topic, there was even a black bubble comment expressing admiration.
This admiration was probably left by Sanders during his previous browsing.
After Angel finished looking through the Tree Group and the Mother Tree Forum, he roughly understood the situation and was about to express his opinion when suddenly, two light spots floated in the interface of the tender bud.
One of the light spots entered the Tree Group, and the other entered the Forum.
Unsure of what these light spots were, Angel opened the Tree Group and saw a new light green bubble in the chat column.
The bubble was not written in a common language, but in a strange pattern.
Although he didn’t recognize the pattern, when he focused his consciousness on it, he could understand the meaning expressed by the pattern:
Light green bubble: Huh, what place is this?
After a while, the brown-yellow and light green bubbles silently typed a row of dots: ……
Chapter 2110 First Encounter with the Beta Version <TOC> Chapter 2112 Privacy