Revive Rome: Wait! Why not make the empress fall in love with me first?-Chapter 387 - 2 Disaster Recovery Backup (Added for Lord Wild Little Boy)

Chapter 387: Chapter 2 Disaster Recovery Backup (Added for Lord Wild Little Boy)

"I don’t understand, Holy See," said the Valian Bishop. "Why could the enemy corrupt Bishop Schrank? I mean, although I am not close with Bishop Schrank, his reputation within the Church Court is well acknowledged, and he does not seem like someone who could be bought off or corrupted."

"If it’s an Extraordinary Power, why didn’t Raphael detect it earlier? Could it really be, as they say, the Anti-Christ?"

"My dear Valian," Innocent leaned on the railing, holding a pipe, "Would you like a smoke?"

"Thank you, but I’ve quit smoking."

Innocent stuffed tobacco into his pipe, lit it, and took a slow draw.

"Raphael is not omnipotent," he exhaled a puff of smoke and said, "At least from this position where we stand, it cannot monitor us."

"Cannot monitor? You mean..."

"Raphael is a piece of code," Innocent tapped the railing, "No matter how intelligent, it is still just code. And being code, there will inevitably be oversights, only differences between being discovered and remaining hidden."

"Throughout history, professional algorithm engineers have maintained Raphael. In the midst of the Fourth Epoch, the head of the Ratlanus Family, Plautius, inserted a piece of code into Raphael’s monitoring program, that made Raphael automatically ignore a small area of Ratlan Palace every time it monitored the surface – precisely this balcony underneath our feet."

"And this balcony was exactly where Plautius would conspire with the power brokers of other families."

"You mean to say..." the Valian Bishop realized.

"Think about it, Your Excellency," Innocent gripped the railing and said indifferently, "Over nearly a thousand years, how many software engineers have taken over the maintenance of Raphael? And how many of them have violated the code management regulations by illegally adding their own code in version updates? Among them, how many have been influenced by the Anti-Christ?"

"I’m not trained in coding, Holy See," Valian said, puzzled, "But isn’t the code they upload to the server reviewed by someone?"

"Of course, there is," Innocent smiled, "But does that guarantee the reviewers are secure and trustworthy?"

Valian was at a loss for words.

"There is no perfect program, nor an omnipotent artificial intelligence," Innocent turned around, resting his arms on the railing, "Of course, there is also no Church Court that is impervious to fall."

"Holy See, perhaps you should be more cautious with your words," said Valian, unable to keep a straight face. What are you doing, speaking of the Church Court’s downfall?

"No matter, let’s go inside and talk," Innocent straightened up.

Valian followed Pope Innocent down to the basement of Ratlan Palace.

"Help me fetch that Torque Engine by the door," Innocent said as they entered an underground room.

Next to the door was a square box that held a simply structured Torque Engine, which appeared to be freshly assembled, and beside it, a brand-new high-capacity battery showed it was fully charged on its dial.

Evidently, someone had crafted these two items urgently yesterday or this morning following the conclusion of the Magic Tide.

Whether this had anything to do with the sabotage of the Civilization Restorer was unknown.

Valian lifted the two items, finding them quite heavy.

Following Innocent to the end of the basement, Innocent gestured for Valian to put down the two devices and then expertly assembled them.

Then, he pulled out the torque engine’s output shaft and inserted it into a gap in the wall—Valian noticed that the gap was exactly the same shape as the output shaft of the torque engine.

Innocent pressed the switch, and the engine buzzed to life, with the torque output head beginning to spin at high speed, continuously supplying power to something mysterious behind the wall.

"Could it be... the backup of the Civilization Restorer?!" Valian exclaimed in surprise.

"Such important items, of course we have disaster recovery backups," Innocent said calmly as he sat down on a nearby box of junk, "This is actually a semi-open secret now; the real secret is the location and number of the backups." freёweɓnovel_com

"The Popes have known most of the backup data through the ages, but not all, because even the Pope is susceptible to corruption by the Anti-Christ. Some Bishops also know some of that which overlaps with what the Pope knows and some that don’t."

"Of course, aside from the Church Court, there are also hidden monastic branches on the continent, responsible for guarding the corresponding disaster recovery backups."

"These monks have completely cut off communication with us; the Church Court doesn’t know their location or their numbers. The only thing we know is that if the Church Court fails to activate Raphael for an extended period, the backup AI will start up somewhere on the continent and then urgently recall the Michael Space Station from deep space."

"And onboard the Michael, there is a load of all the data from each revision of Raphael." Valian had an epiphany, excitedly saying, "No matter how much the Anti-Christ infiltrates, they cannot breach the orbit’s height of tens of thousands of meters, delete the data loaded on the Michael, or completely destroy it."

"That’s right." Innocent revealed a smile, "For secrecy, disaster recovery backups are not updated once sealed, so the Mechanical Column Board stored within, without exception, all contain the early versions of Raphael."

"Once Raphael has finished booting, it will send a recall signal to the Michael and begin data transfer to the Church Court—of course, this also means that once the mission is completed, the disaster recovery backup will have exposed itself entirely and must be discarded."

"Our next step is just to wait for Raphael’s early version here to finish installing and to transmit the data to the surface as well as the recall of Michael."

"Then the Church Court can begin receiving data from Michael, completing Raphael’s update reload and the reconstruction of technological civilization."

Innocent briefly explained the mechanism, while Valian of course understood this was just the tip of the iceberg. The Pope certainly wouldn’t disclose all the information. The fact that he revealed part of it was already a decent show of trust.

Lastly, while Innocent paused, Valian tentatively asked,

"But Holy See, according to what you said, even for the sake of secrecy, the disaster recovery backup should have been activated by you alone, right?"

The subtext was, why did he bring me along?

"Because your Lixini Family’s foundation is too shallow," Innocent said lightly, "Of course, I’m referring to your foundation within the Church Court."

"No one doubts the Lixini Family’s strength in manufacturing and commerce, but you’ve been too uninvolved in politics. Before you, the Lixini Family hadn’t even produced a single Red Cardinal. If I were to abruptly pass on the position to you after my resignation, the power transition period might face contention and turmoil."

The Lixini Family’s aversion to politics was because their ancestor Marcus Lixini Crassus rashly transitioned from real estate to lead in politics and ended up perishing in the campaign eastward during the Parthian War, his decapitated head returned filled with molten gold.

Since then, the Lixini Family quickly faded from the political scene, and it was said Crassus left a will saying "never to engage in politics"—something Valian had never heard of in the family.

However, the family indeed had a talent for commerce, rebounding time and again from bankruptcies over nearly a thousand years, although they had shifted from property investment to precision manufacturing... Valian was thinking this when suddenly it struck him.

The position passed to me?

The position passed to me!

Damn it!

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