Chapter 1686: To Be Optimized: Retrofitting Complete

In less than ten seconds, the Artifact Spirit, whose intelligence had already completely vanished, provided feedback; this feedback was not any identifiable meaningful information, but merely status information, much like a washing machine stopping its work.

Although such an Artifact Spirit still existed, only the last shred of artificially selected instinct remained.

Xia Duo directly perceived the Artifact Spirit to check the results of the operation from those less than ten seconds; truthfully, he was actually quite expectant.

This time was simply too short; if he were to analyze Niya's latest test papers himself to judge her current mastery of the *Promotion Compendium*, this amount of time would not be enough at all.

In less than ten seconds, what could an Artifact Spirit that was incomplete to the extreme possibly analyze?

The result greatly exceeded Xia Duo's expectations; a decent-looking result had actually appeared!

Xia Duo had only repaired the Artifact Spirit up to the point of finishing the grading of Niya's latest test paper, and after that, he had already completed the analysis of that set of papers.

Comparing the two results, Xia Duo could not help but feel a bit disappointed.

It was fast, certainly, but the analytical results differed significantly, and they differed to such a degree that he could identify where the errors were at a single glance!

"I can only say that this conscious version of the 【Big Data Analysis Chip】 has a lot of room for improvement!"

Xia Duo's commands could change the state of the Artifact Spirit; after grumbling a sentence, he began to review the thought process of this incomplete Artifact Spirit and made judgments by combining it with his own analytical process.

Before long, a smile appeared on Xia Duo's face, "So it turns out that even between different modes of thinking, there exists a very close, almost causal connection."

Come to think of it, consciousness is inherently a whole where various pieces of information are intertwined and closely connected; forcibly stripping away a specific mode of thinking will certainly have defects.

As long as the advantages outweigh the defects, it still has value to be utilized.

Additionally, the 【Big Data Analysis-Mental Model】 itself also has quite a large space for optimization, after all, that part of the specific thinking mode was just something Xia Duo had selected simply and almost randomly.

If one were to carefully select through further, more rigorous experiments, perhaps a more suitable combination could be found.

Furthermore, the Artifact Spirit still needs a certain amount of intelligence, otherwise even the feedback of information would become very troublesome; this also needs to find the best balance between efficiency (intelligence) and speed (non-intelligence) in future experiments.

……

After the experiment ended, Xia Duo did not conduct any new experiments; while the Big Data Analysis Chip certainly had broad prospects, he did not need it in the short term.

He could make Niya's teaching plan whenever he had a spare moment.

What troubled him most now was still the 【Enlightenment Scroll】; seeing that the end of the month was approaching, he had to create a Tower Spirit for the No. 1 Spire before the Midsummer Festival.

If he could not crack the Enlightenment Scroll, he would not feel at ease using it on the Mage Tower; this was not a Communication Magic Tool, and if it went out of control, the harm would be too great.

Moreover, he seemed to have discovered a bug, and he did not know if the Seven Towers had forgotten, but everyone else who purchased an Enlightenment Scroll had to promise not to leak the Enlightenment Technique to the outside, yet he did not!

When Iolum was in the Ether Overlap Region, he had stated clearly that he knew how to create a Tower Spirit, but because of the Seven Towers, he could not tell Xia Duo, though he did hint that Xia Duo could crack the scroll.

Now that he had not made any promises to the Seven Towers, did this mean that once he finished cracking it, he could tell others at will?

Could it be that this quantity of ten was also calculated by the Seven Towers? That they were certain he could not finish cracking it within ten copies?

"I really don't believe it!"

Although Xia Duo truly did not intend to leak the Enlightenment Technique to the outside, the Seven Towers' attitude still made him somewhat unhappy; he had become competitive about it.

He must finish cracking it before the last two scrolls were used up!

……

In the blink of an eye, two days passed.

Xia Duo was still busy in the Laboratory, but he did not easily use the remaining two Enlightenment Scrolls for verification experiments; instead, he tried to recreate the Enlightenment Technique based on his research into the Artifact Spirit during his consciousness experiments.

The process of creating it himself was certainly very difficult, but at least it was a path where he could barely see the dawn.

Such research was never a loss; even if it did not succeed in the end, it could at least provide some directional reference for cracking the scroll.

As long as the direction was precise enough, that so-called encryption could be cracked easily.

This morning, Xia Duo had just finished a consciousness Projection experiment and, before he had time to record the data, he received a Sending from Niya, "Great-grandfather has finished the renovation of the No. 1 Spire. Do you want to come and see?"

"Alright, coming right away."

Although Xia Duo was accustomed to keeping an extra paper version of his experimental records to facilitate future research by others, his memory was the best record book, and it did not matter if he did not record it for a while.

And the research on the Enlightenment Technique focused more on the field of consciousness, so there was not much experimental residue to clean up; after interrupting the communication, Xia Duo immediately left the Tower of Time.

……

Savile Town, the original site of the Tower of Time.

The nearly hundred-meter-tall azure twin towers were quite spectacular even on Earth; seeing the No. 1 and No. 2 Spires again, Xia Duo could not help but feel a bit proud.

This height was not much, though; the Floating City in the Blue Crystal Plane had a diameter of over two kilometers!

The key was that it could be mass-produced!

Although the No. 2 Spire had not been linked to the Magic Net because Xia Duo had been too busy lately, the No. 1 Spire was already displaying a strong Magic Aura no weaker than the vast majority of Mage Towers in Netheril.

Although it was Niya who sent the message, Xia Duo discovered after arriving that Niya did not seem to have arrived yet; there was only Saville on the small open space between the two Mage Towers.

"Niya hasn't arrived yet?" Xia Duo asked.

"She has already arrived; she is inside the Mage Tower!" Saville glanced at the No. 1 Spire behind him and said to Xia Duo, "The renovation process went much smoother than expected; this Mage Tower you designed does have some merits."

"……"

Xia Duo's mind was already attracted by the No. 1 Spire; he could not be bothered to refute what Saville said, just taking it as the final pride and stubbornness of an old man.

"Let's go in."

"Uh—"

Saville had not expected Xia Duo to not respond to his words at all, causing the words of praise he had prepared to be stifled in his throat; finally, he said irritably:

"Come in, the changes inside are too great, and you haven't been here these past few days, I'm afraid you'll get lost!"

After saying this, he waved the Permission Credential in his hand and opened a pitch-black portal on the outer wall of the Mage Tower.

Seeing this portal, Xia Duo could not help but think of the scene when he first entered the Tower of Time; at that time, he never would have imagined that the greatest function of this portal was not passage, but clearing away various threats that entrants might carry.

Such as enemies tailing them, unknown Magic Marks, items, and so on.

It was just that the access control technology of the Tower of Time was relatively old, giving one the feeling of being thrown into a deep-sea washing machine for a wash, which was very uncomfortable.

That he did not vomit at the time was already a sign of decent physical fitness.

Now, although the No. 1 Spire also had similar access control, the experience was much better.

The moment he passed through the pitch-black portal, Xia Duo felt almost nothing as he entered the First Floor Hall inside No. 1 Spire.