The cold inside Lin Ke’s chest was total, like river water frozen beneath six feet of black ice.
His physical chest muscle hung numbed in mid-breath out. His pulse flickered at twelve beats per minute. Long, painful intervals of silence followed by a sluggish, leaden thud of the heart against his ribs. His fingertips had already lost all sensation, the fingernails turning a dark, bruised violet. Outer breath flow collapsed to keep his central dantian alive.
Inside the mental sandbox, however, the test model was running at twenty times real-time speed.
The slate-grey void was quiet, but Lin Ke’s mind stood before a stone-built wall.
The write barrier problem.
It was the classic hard choice of distributed process solitude.
If a child thread was strictly read-only (MODE_READ_ONLY) and possessed zero permissions to write into the root mind, how did it return useful combat intelligence?
A worker thread that could only look at the world but never speak to the master was useless. It was a blind eye behind a stone wall. But the moment you opened a pipe to receive its data, you created an attack vector.
