Chapter 2401: Remote Access, Professor Weiya

Two days later, the School approved Xia Duo's new project application; the Alliance Technical Committee, however, had yet to make a move, though Xia Duo did not take it too much to heart.

Alliance support would certainly be best, but its absence would not actually affect the progress of his current project.

But as the saying goes—"When the time comes, heaven and earth exert their strength together." Less than a week after the School approved Xia Duo's new project application, a notification arrived from the Alliance Technical Committee—

Granting Third-level Support.

This is the third tier of the Alliance's official support for important civilian projects; anything lower would just be verbal encouragement, and Third-level Support involves very few physical goods.

Of course, that is relative to the Alliance. For Xia Duo, this portion of support is already no less than the School's Independent Project Fund, and what he values more are actually the non-material benefits—

Such as remote access permissions to the libraries of major Alliance institutions, application channels for special technologies, and so on.

These cannot be exchanged for money or resources. Library access permissions are easier to handle; as long as one is willing to spend the time to test into every school, or obtain them through cooperation with the school administration, one can generally collect them all.

But the application channels for special technologies only exist within the Technical Committee, or rather, no matter where the channel is obtained, it must ultimately be approved by the Technical Committee.

For example, regarding the latest version of the Mythallar Arcane Component that Xia Duo desperately wants, if it were just a Mythallar Component, he would have an eighty or ninety percent certainty of being able to apply for it.

As for the technical details, the latest version might not be possible, but one that is a few versions behind might be obtainable.

It can be said that gaining the recognition of the Technical Committee is something every researcher in the Red Heart Alliance dreams of; this is not only about honor and prestige, but also carries tangible benefits that a researcher can hardly refuse.

……

Chixin University, Library.

As soon as Xia Duo received the notification from the Technical Committee, he rushed here immediately. Remote access permissions for the library are not available everywhere; they require verification through specific Mythallar Components in specific locations.

Generally speaking, library permissions require verification at the library itself, including at Chixin University. After he graduates, if he wants to view the collection at the Chixin University library, he will only have two choices.

One is to go to the school to view it in person, and the other is to obtain remote access permissions, then find any library within the Alliance to complete identity verification before remote access can be performed.

Of course, this does not mean that major institutions upload their libraries into the Mythallar. The current Mythallar of the Red Heart Alliance can indeed upload information, but the amount that can be stored is extremely limited.

It seems to be a deficiency in the storage medium or storage method, which is actually a problem that greatly troubles Xia Duo, and for the time being, he cannot find a good solution.

However, he at least understands where the problem lies. Currently, the Red Heart Alliance does not seem to have considered this issue; perhaps this is a characteristic of the Magic world, as there are too many spells or media that can store text, sound, and even images.

And these storages are, in reality, preserving text, sound, and even images exactly as they are, which is why there is a civilian saying in the Main Plane that the "Image Retention Technique" cannot be tampered with (though one can use a Projection Spell to create new images).

In Xia Duo's view, this is actually a lack of a unified information encoding method, which makes information storage in the Magic world very diverse, and this has, to a certain extent, dampened the enthusiasm of researchers.

But a problem is a problem after all; without a unified information processing method, various types of information cannot be incorporated into the same system for unified management.

More seriously, this also greatly affects the efficiency of information storage.

Xia Duo speculates that the reason an online library has not appeared might be this, or perhaps the Alliance is worried that an online library would be insecure, but regardless, Xia Duo himself hopes for such a thing.

When he returns to the Main Plane, he will also attempt to establish a more perfect online information database.

As for now, he can only obediently come to the library reading room, verify his identity, and go to other university libraries in the form of a Projection.

The first one he tried was Ailintar University, where Professor Weiya is located. Although this university and Chixin University both belong to the Red Heart Alliance, strictly speaking, one belongs to Yinerfalang and the other to the Chixin Tribe, so there are still some differences.

It is just that the interior of the Red Heart Alliance is gradually moving toward integration; otherwise, it would be impossible for Xia Duo to sit at home and access the library of a university in another country.

Soon, the Projection was created, but it was different from what he had expected. He had originally thought he might create a projection himself to cast over there, but the reality is that the Alliance is more rigorous in this regard than he had imagined.

The Projection is provided by Ailintar University; he only casts his Perception over, and if he wants to search for books, he cannot do it himself but must operate the Projection to achieve it, adding this intermediate layer out of thin air.

If he wanted to do something bad, it would be impossible to achieve. This is somewhat similar to Xia Duo's hometown, where one watches surveillance and directs a waiter on the other side to do things; once a request is unreasonable, the other party simply cannot execute it.

Of course, the Projection provided by Ailintar is not a waiter with independent consciousness; as long as Xia Duo does not perform operations that trigger risk management, Ailintar University might not even know what materials he searched for.

……

Facing an entire library that is almost on par with Chixin University, the first thing Xia Duo looked for were the writings of Professor Weiya. It is not that he does not trust Mentor Tuto, but Mentor Tuto also heard it from a friend.

And Mentor Tuto's friend at Ailintar University does not necessarily know Professor Weiya very well; after being passed on several times, the information might have long since been distorted.

So Xia Duo decided to search for himself, and this search indeed led him to find something different: Professor Weiya's latest work from three years ago—

"Research on the Formation and Evolution Mechanism of Mythallar Nodes in the Ocean of Magic Net Strings"

Whether it is a Modern Mythallar, a Traditional Mythallar, or a Native Mythallar, they all have nodes; the difference is only whether or not there are nodes anchored at the material level.

According to Professor Weiya's research, Mythallar Nodes are not immutable but will undergo some unknown changes as time passes.

This is actually not a very novel question; many researchers in the past, and even ancient Mages, had discovered it long ago, but being able to discover something different regarding the same phenomenon is the embodiment of a researcher's ability.

Undoubtedly, Professor Weiya is not an ordinary researcher. Although he failed to research a perfect formation and evolution mechanism for Mythallar Nodes, he did summarize a portion of the laws based on existing known Mythallars.

It is a pity that Professor Weiya does not seem to have continued his research further.

Xia Duo quickly finished flipping through this book and could not help but sigh. Perhaps Professor Weiya just wanted to use this to inspire other researchers in the Alliance, or perhaps—

This book was published three years ago; perhaps Professor Weiya is still researching this field now!

The formation and evolution mechanism of Mythallar Nodes seems unrelated to the project Xia Duo is currently conducting, but in fact, it is highly relevant. From the shape evolution mechanism of Mythallar Nodes, one might find a universal Mythallar transformation law.

The so-called "universal Mythallar transformation law" is actually transforming a Mythallar without material nodes into one with material nodes, or vice versa.

As long as it involves Mythallar Nodes, basic research like Professor Weiya's on the formation and evolution mechanism of Mythallar Nodes is, of course, very useful.

Even if it is eventually proven useless, it can save Xia Duo a lot of wasted effort, because he also has ideas in this regard and will conduct research in this area; if it is useless, he can think of other methods.