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[Tech File: Top Secret] Kang Tao Experimental "Bai Ze" Network Interface Rig - Project Summary
Project ID: CT-SBS-Proto-01
Project Codename: [Bai Ze] (Bái Zé)
Project Status: Experimental Prototype (Unique) | Data Corrupted | Prototype Lost | Recovery Priority: Highest
R&D Background: To establish next-generation technological hegemony, Kang Tao aimed to develop a revolutionary network interface rig integrating prediction, analysis, and control, applied to cutting-edge R&D, special military operations, and global market strategy formulation.
I. Hardware Core Features
Superior Performance: RAM capacity and recovery speed are approximately 150% - 200% of the top-tier civilian/military interface rigs on the market, providing an unparalleled computational foundation.
Security Performance: With the built-in quantum-grade Data Fortress (ICE) and electromagnetic signal shielding provided by the structural materials, our company estimates its security performance will remain top-tier even in the next generation.
Biological Compatibility: The load on the user's nervous system is extremely high. Following an analysis of the user Lin Yi, it was determined that a highly specific "Twin Synchronization" brainwave pattern is required to withstand its full-power operation; otherwise, operation at full frequency will inevitably lead to severe brain damage or cyberpsychosis. (This is the fundamental reason why the protagonist can inherit and master its use after transmigrating.)
Next-Generation Data Nuke: Theoretical data processing limit for a single implanted cyberware is 32PB/s >>> The Cyberpunk world version of "one person is a nation."
Unique Prototype: All research data and backups have been destroyed by the original developer, Lin Wei. Currently, this device is the only existing physical unit in the world.
II. Built-in Software / Hacking Functions (Tips: The following power consumption ranges assume the carrier can perfectly utilize the device's performance)
Core Function: [Insight] (Dòng Xī)
Nature: Advanced AI-assisted decision-making system, based on massive data collection and real-time causal deduction.
Function: Provides the "probabilistic optimal solution" for the current situation (e.g., highlighting structural weaknesses, dynamic trajectory prediction, optimal path planning, key social option prompts).
Power Consumption: Dynamic range 1% - 100%.
Power consumption is positively correlated with the complexity of the computational target, the number of environmental variables, and the required computational precision.
Examples: Hacking simple access control (~1%) → Analyzing individual cyberware configuration (~3-20%) → Predicting squad tactical movements (~20%) → Simulating changes in large facility security systems (40-100%).
Forbidden Function: [Lockdown] (Fēng Suǒ) - [Experimental Function]
Nature: Extreme neural signal hacking and override command.
Function: Transmits specific composite signals to a designated target (requires networked implants), temporarily blocking the brain's motor nerve control over the body, causing a "conscious mind, paralyzed body" effect.
Power Consumption: 1% - 4% per target per second.
Power consumption is positively correlated with the target's neural impedance (training level, willpower, defense cyberware level, etc.).
Total Power Consumption = Number of targets × Duration × Power consumption per target per second. Locking onto multiple targets will trigger increased power consumption.
Risks:
Extremely High Load: A huge burden on both the user's brain and the interface rig, extremely prone to overloading.
Inhumane: The effect is comparable to a "Soulkiller" extraction, causing severe psychological trauma to the target.
Company Taboo: This function was locked in the original design; its very existence is the company's highest secret.
III. Narrative Function and Risks
Strategic Value: It is the "key" to Kang Tao's intention to rule the future, and the "Holy Grail" coveted by all factions.
Source of the Hunt: Kang Tao and its political rivals will stop at nothing to recover or destroy it, constituting the primary external pressure driving the main plot.
Character Double-Edged Sword:
Grants the protagonist strategic-level information advantages and tactical-level control capabilities.
Each use is an alienation of one's own humanity, accompanied by immense physical pain and ethical struggle, which is the core driving internal conflict.
The conflict and contradiction between the absolute rationality under "Insight" and the character's personality.
IV. Appearance Description
Overall Impression: The device discards the rugged, exposed industrial design common on the market. Its appearance presents an ultimate precision and mystery with an Eastern aesthetic charm. It does not look like a weapon, but more like a work of art or a sacred relic. Yet, its cold touch and the vaguely visible energy flow within all proclaim its inherent danger and power.
1. Shell (Outer Casing):
Material: Uses a Kang Tao exclusive nano-composite material called "suet" (Ningzhi Yu-Ceramic).
Visuals: The texture is warm and moist, presenting a soft, milky white like mutton-fat jade, with extremely fine, semi-transparent flocculent structures like natural jade veins. The surface feels cold and exceptionally smooth to the touch, possessing a skin-like affinity, yet is extremely sturdy, capable of effectively resisting physical impact and electromagnetic pulse interference.
Characteristics: This material has biological self-adaptive properties. Theoretically, after long-term implantation and use, its temperature and tactile feel will gradually approach the wearer's body temperature, reducing the sensation of a foreign object, and will undergo self-adaptive changes along with the host. During high-speed computation, internal heat is evenly diffused through the shell medium, causing it to emit a very gentle, restrained warm-white glow, rather than an overheating red light.
2. Core Processing Unit (Visible Part):
Location: Embedded in the center of the "suet" jade-ceramic shell is a visible core module called the "red core" (Chi Core).
Visuals: A deep red, semi-transparent crystal, made of a quantum diamond film doped with special rare elements. The interior is not static, but contains countless golden photonic circuits etched at the three-dimensional level, like neural networks or a galaxy. These circuits do not always glow; instead, they flow slowly and randomly in standby mode, like a sleeping brain. When performing computations, they respond to load intensity, ranging from starlight-like glimmers at low load to a rushing river of molten gold at high load, with a visually striking effect.
Heat Dissipation: Heat dissipation is achieved through a combination of passive heat diffusion via the "suet" jade-ceramic shell and the direct conversion of heat into controllable photon streams through the photonic lattice vibrations inside the "red core." It is efficient and silent, fundamentally avoiding the high-temperature risks brought by traditional cooling methods, providing care akin to the user's body temperature.
3. Interfaces and Details:
Data Interface: The side of the shell has several liquid metal self-adaptive interfaces. There is no need to distinguish front from back; upon contact, they automatically mold into the shape best suited for the connection cable, ensuring absolute stability and high speed in data transmission.
Identification: On the inconspicuous side edge of the device, a tiny Kang Tao logo, the project number "CT-SBS-Proto-01", and a Chinese seal-script character "Ze" (Ze) are laser-engraved in a light gray that almost blends into the material.
Summary Impression: The appearance of the "Bai Ze" interface rig perfectly embodies Kang Tao's technological philosophy—wrapping the most cutting-edge, violent computational core beneath a warm, restrained exterior full of cultural significance. When quiet, it is like an antique piece of jade; when activated, it is like a wide-open eye of taboo, flowing with molten gold and blood, both sacred and dangerous.