Chapter 2587: Determining the Location of the Folded Space

Afterward, Xia Duo attempted to predict the landing point of that Plane Crystal as it entered the Main Plane, and speculated on the form in which it would enter the Main Plane.

But he soon abandoned this speculation; the force exerted on the Plane Crystal within the Main Plane's Plane Barrier is extremely weak, and that region might also possess effects similar to "the ends of the earth," making it difficult to even roughly estimate a general range, let alone calculate the process of the Plane Crystal passing through.

As for the landing point, this is actually the end of the traversal process; it may not necessarily fly all the way to the Main Plane's main body and then enter naturally, but is more likely to suddenly appear in the Main Plane when the proportion of "existence" within the boundary of existence and non-existence reaches a certain level.

In this situation, the landing point is very difficult to judge, and the form is even harder to say; perhaps it will appear suddenly like a traveler, perhaps it will descend from the sky with a fiery tail like a meteorite, or perhaps it will land silently.

However, Xia Duo also made a certain degree of prediction: if the Plane Crystal flies all the way to the end of the Plane Barrier and enters from a position close to the Main Plane's main body, it might appear in the sea west of Kaitemier in the south.

Of course, the "flying" here is not a smooth movement similar to that within a plane, but rather a constant change in the state of space-time within the boundary of existence and non-existence, only the result of the change makes the position of the Plane Crystal constantly approach the Main Plane.

Therefore, one cannot apply conventional flight laws to movement within the boundary of existence and non-existence or even the Ether Interlayer; Flight might still be slightly effective in areas close to the Main Plane's main body, but as the proportion of "non-existence" gradually increases, once it reaches a certain level, Flight will inevitably fail.

For the time being, Xia Duo has not been able to develop a Movement spell suitable for movement in the Ether Interlayer; the movement of a Semi-plane essentially still relies on the Main Plane's massive volume to perform a towing action on the Semi-plane.

It is similar to standing on a boat and dragging a net while fishing; the fish in the net are the individual Semi-planes, and once it is confirmed they are in the net, it is almost impossible for them to contend with the fisherman or the boat.

As for those normal planes, they might be similar to large whales; perhaps they can also be caught with a net, but wanting to drag them back directly like small fish is basically impossible and requires gradual guidance.

If the plane is larger, it might be like netting another fishing boat; both sides have their own power (relatively fixed movement trajectories within a certain space-time range), and with just a small fishing net, it is almost impossible to bring the two together.

Moreover, distance is also a problem; it is almost impossible to have such a long and large fishing net.

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Research on planes is progressing slowly, and research on the Ether Interlayer has only just begun, but Xia Duo firmly believes that these can be overcome bit by bit in the future, provided he has enough time and a stable development environment.

After daydreaming a little about the prospects of Ether voyaging, Xia Duo began to continue his real work, organizing and analyzing the data just collected from the Semi-plane and the Laboratory here on the Main Plane.

This part mainly concerns the space-time changes collected from within the Semi-plane when the two Plane Barriers made contact, specifically focusing on the Main Plane, while the other part, to ensure the previous data was highly relevant to the Main Plane, was collected from the Main Plane Laboratory and focused more on the space-time state of the Semi-plane.

Now the Semi-plane has perished, but the data remains; as long as the Semi-plane's own space-time state and the interference when the two planes made contact are deducted, the space-time state of the contact area between the Main Plane and the Semi-plane (Plane Barrier) under normal circumstances can be derived.

And by comparing this space-time state with what is normally observed from the Main Plane, combined with the more precise positioning provided by the Arctic Magic Trace, there is a high probability of discovering the Plane Barrier corresponding to the Folded Space.

Once the Plane Barrier is discovered, the corresponding Folded Space will naturally be within reach.

This kind of simple data analysis—which is actually more of a comparison—is completely effortless for Xia Duo; if it weren't for wanting to enter that suspected Feres Fortress Folded Space as quickly as possible, he could have completely added this function to the experimental equipment.

Now that the data is obtained, with the assistance of the intellectual brain, the analysis results are derived almost simultaneously with "reading" the data—

The Main Plane space-time state collected from the Experimental Demiplane indeed contains an area that cannot be observed at all from within the Main Plane!

In other words, the Main Plane space corresponding to that part of the Plane Barrier, even if it is not Feres Fortress, must be some ancient Elf Ruins of extraordinary significance!

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Next, the experiment needs to be repeated once to rule out the possibility of data error; after all, with only one experiment, Xia Duo himself is not very reassured, and repeating the experiment can also incidentally verify whether there is a higher probability of directly obtaining a Plane Crystal when the Semi-plane and Main Plane break through the repulsion limit.

The latter certainly cannot be determined by one or two experiments, but two consecutive times can at least indicate something, and Xia Duo will conduct more plane experiments later, at which time he can continue to verify it.

Compared to the Semi-plane itself, Xia Duo actually feels more pained about the experimental equipment left in the Semi-plane that was destroyed along with it; to say nothing else, just one Miniature Mythallar would be enough to keep him busy for a long time.

This is also the main reason why he cannot currently conduct multiple experimental verifications of the Folded Space.

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For the second experiment, the Semi-plane was already prepared, and there were still two spare Miniature Mythallars; actually, one would have been enough, and as for the other equipment, it wouldn't take much time to prepare.

After about a day or so, he arrived at the Semi-plane again; of course, this was another brand-new Semi-plane.

With the experience of the previous experiment, Xia Duo methodically installed the equipment, debugged the equipment, started the equipment, and then personally cast a Spell to constrain the plane.

As the Spell proceeded, almost everything was a reproduction of the last experiment, except for the changes in the Semi-plane itself after being oppressed by the Main Plane; the last experiment started with the disappearance of gravity.

But this time, half of the internal space suddenly collapsed, which made Xia Duo feel a sense of crisis, but he still insisted on putting away the monitoring equipment before returning to the Main Plane.

Obviously, since the internal space had collapsed, the fate of that Semi-plane could not be any better than its predecessor; Xia Duo waited for a while in the Floating City Laboratory and confirmed the outcome of that Semi-plane—

It was not just luck, but an inevitability that doing so might lead to this; that Semi-plane, like its predecessor, perished and left behind a Plane Crystal that could be continuously tracked.

"Simply miraculous!"

If the time and place of the Plane Crystal entering the Main Plane could be determined, couldn't mass production be planned in advance? It's just that the cycle of production through this method might be frighteningly long.

But so what?

This is a Plane Crystal!

Once production begins, it will be endless; this is just like the fruit farmers in Xia Duo's hometown—the fruit trees certainly have no harvest during the growth stage, but as long as they survive that stage, they can be harvested continuously afterward!

And in the process of waiting, one can also keep planting new trees to expand production capacity; once the harvest stage is entered, it is truly endless!