Chapter 2718: New Discovery of the Power of Order

Teleporting directly to the Laboratory, Xia Duo was already impatient to confirm the changes that had emerged on the Jade Tablet. However, no matter how urgent, the debugging phase before the experiment could not be skipped, nor could the confirmation of the experimental state.

These had already become instinctive reactions formed by Xia Duo over a long time. At the same time, he used this bit of preparation time before the experiment to adjust his mood; even if not as calm as still water, he at least had to settle his urgent emotions first.

As the saying goes, "I know you are in a hurry, but don't be in a hurry," that was roughly the case here.

Very quickly, the experimental environment was confirmed—the Laboratory's highest standard Level 3 environment, including temperature, humidity, airflow fluctuations, and even gravity status, were all maintained within the standard specified range.

As for the debugging of the instruments and equipment, although the main direction of this experiment had been determined—to detect the temperature change of the Jade Tablet—temperature might not be the only change in the Jade Tablet.

Perhaps there were other changes that Xia Duo's body could not perceive!

Therefore, he debugged every Detection Instrument in the Laboratory, intending to detect every detail of the Jade Tablet's changes as much as possible later!

Nearly half an hour passed, and all preparations were complete. Xia Duo's emotions had also completely settled down. Although he still held great expectations for the upcoming experiment, he would no longer be shaken by it.

If the experiment went smoothly, that would naturally be good; if it did not, he could continue to look for breakthroughs in other directions. He was now full of confidence in his ability to discern the mysteries of the Jade Tablet.

The Main Plane was so real; one could always find some brand-new angles that one had not thought of before!

Or rather, even if there were no changes, it would just be a chain reaction before the temperature change; if the temperature was normal, other parameters would naturally be considered normal as well.

Checking the feedback from other Detection Instruments, it was the same; apart from a slight change in spatial position, other parameters had hardly changed at all.

There were many twists and turns, but this was not surprising; it was already within expectations, because the frequency, orientation, and even the force with which Xia Shao explored the Jade Tablet in the Study were not fixed, but followed his heart.

He placed a chair identical to the one in the Study next to the detection focus area, then sat down, and with one reach, he touched the Jade Tablet resting within the detection focus area.

Xia Shao let go of the Jade Tablet in his hand, letting it hover in the void, but did not stand up from the chair immediately. If the experiment had been restored to this extent and still did not work, then perhaps even restoring the Study environment might not work either.

Xia Shao sighed, then rose from the chair and looked toward the temperature Detection Instrument with anticipation. The next moment, his eyes revealed surprise, and he took two steps in one, arriving in front of the instrument. The light and shadow displayed a generally smooth temperature change curve.

After the detection began, the temperature of the Jade Tablet dropped slightly, but it soon stabilized, remaining consistent with the ambient temperature, and there were no further changes afterward.

He did not believe that the Study had anything special, at least not special enough to affect an Identity Token from the Eastern World that had been manifested from a Projection Plane!

"Sigh!"

Whether it was conventional parameters like weight and volume, or parameters related to Magic like Element Affinity and aura reaction, there was not the slightest change.

But the period when he first sensed the illusion had been imitated almost perfectly; next, it depended on the Detection Instruments!

Experiments involving the participation of the experimenter are actually the hardest to conduct because it is difficult to control variables, and there are too many subjective factors involved; perhaps a little extra force from the fingers could change the direction of the experiment.

However, in this experiment, Xia Shao did not think the force of the finger rubbing would be that critical, so at the beginning, he did not fully simulate the scene at the time, but rubbed it with two fingers very casually.

If there were other factors, the biggest suspect would be himself.

And such two-finger rubbing lasted for nearly five minutes before stopping, but unfortunately, during this process, although the temperature of the Jade Tablet did indeed rise, the upward trend perfectly matched expectations and no abnormalities appeared.

It could be said that the temperature part was what he was most concerned about.

Next, Xia Shao tried a few more times, but found no abnormalities. On Earth, whether a scientific discovery can be repeated is a key factor in verifying its authenticity!

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At this moment, he had even forgotten that he was in the Laboratory, as if he were still in the Study, facing the scene of the serfs working on the Projection Window, slowly rubbing the Jade Tablet in his hand, lost in thought.

The situation Xia Shao encountered now was that it could not be repeated. If this were on Earth, then the Jade Tablet temperature change abnormality previously sensed by his Subconscious might only be attributed to errors or environmental disturbances—reasons that could be directly excluded.

And that one spot of temperature drop stood out glaringly on the overall upward-trending temperature change curve!

But one twist was absolutely impossible to appear under normal circumstances, because that twist indicated that at that moment, the temperature of the Jade Tablet had actually dropped!

But here, Xia Shao still had a trump card, and that was—perfectly reproducing the scene at the time!

Next, Xia Shao carefully placed the Jade Tablet into the Laboratory's specialized detection focus area, where a fine-tuned Levitation Field was constant, and the Jade Tablet stood in mid-air within it, as if frozen in the void.

However, Xia Shao did not immediately reach out to rub it, but continued to check the feedback from other Detection Instruments. After confirming there were no abnormalities, he walked outside the detection focus area, extended two fingers, pinched the Jade Tablet, and rubbed it repeatedly on its surface.

Then, he carefully traced his state while in the Study at that time; from his body posture and the gesture of holding and playing with the Jade Tablet, to his thoughts at that moment, everything was restored.

This state did not last long; after all, Xia Shao could not reverse time to return to that moment in the past, but was merely imitating the past as much as possible, which could not last.

And he did indeed do so. After the other instruments were started, he would just take a distant look, but for the temperature detection, he was almost inseparable, staring at the instrument's feedback without blinking.

Seeing this, Xia Shao could roughly rule out that the Jade Tablet temperature change he had previously sensed in the Study came from the Jade Tablet itself or the environment.

Reaching this step, perhaps because of the sunk cost, Xia Shao inevitably felt some anxiety about gains and losses, but these slight distracting thoughts could not affect his state.

Everything else was Xia Shao killing two birds with one stone, hoping to discover different changes in the Jade Tablet in other aspects, but in the end, this experiment itself stemmed from the temperature change he had sensed in his Subconscious.

Of course, considering the difficulty of implementation, he prepared to start by restoring the various elements related to himself. If that still did not work, then he would consider restoring the environment in the Study at that time and moving the experimental equipment there for on-site testing.

With the specific heat capacity of the Jade Tablet being constant and the heat generated by finger rubbing being relatively stable, the upward trend of the Jade Tablet's temperature was a perfectly smooth curve, without the slightest twist.

Subsequently, Xia Shao turned on the detection equipment in the Laboratory one by one, letting the Detection Field or detection rays focus on the Jade Tablet, and the most important of these was, of course, temperature detection.

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