Chapter 2719: The Power of Thought

Seeing this scene, Xia Duo felt immense joy in his heart; wasn't this the abnormal change in the Jade Tablet's temperature he had been wanting to see!

Looking at the other instruments, at the very moment the temperature changed abnormally, the Jade Tablet's weight and Magic Aura also showed a slight fluctuation, though it was unclear what connection these parameter changes actually had.

Therefore, although Xia Duo was happy in his heart, he couldn't help but mutter to himself; just by rubbing it a few times, the weight of the Jade Tablet changed—this was too fake.

Retracing his memory, he confirmed that the weight had not shown such a situation at the time, which showed that this should be a new abnormal change.

As for the Magic Aura, this belonged to extraordinary Perception in a state of concentration; even though Xia Duo could now see the Magic Net directly without being in a state of concentration, the Magic Aura was actually a macroscopic reaction produced by an object passing through the microscopic Magic Net Strings, manifesting as an aura.

To observe the aura without being in a state of concentration, unless the aura was strong enough to exceed the Magic Web Background Fluctuation, it would be impossible for a Spellcaster to perceive it with their own Perception alone.

Humans all have limits, but machines can easily surpass these limits; this is the necessity of Detection Instruments. Besides having a larger range and higher precision than the Spellcaster themselves, another important reason is temperature.

For a human Spellcaster, if you let them work for several hours continuously, their concentration will likely be insufficient, but as long as a machine isn't broken, it can be used indefinitely, and under normal circumstances, it is far more enduring than a human.

The change in the Jade Tablet's aura was something Xia Duo had not anticipated beforehand, but such a change was not abrupt; with so many attributes, even the weight had changed, which indicated that the Jade Tablet itself had undergone a change.

In that situation, it was only logical that the aura reaction produced by the Magic Net Strings passing through the Jade Tablet would change.

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After some screening, Xia Duo tried to simulate that kind of consciousness, and the result was unexpectedly successful, but the reason for the success was actually quite complex: that part of the consciousness information taken out separately could not constitute consciousness.

First, it was the information in the Subconscious related to body control, which Xia Duo could basically determine was related to the Jade Tablet's change, so he could design a complex set of experiments to verify it.

The Conscious Mind is easy to distinguish, but the Subconscious retains almost everything; the most significant point is that all activities of the body have the Subconscious participating in them, from as large as a breath or a startle, to as small as a movement of a limb.

With these two conclusions, what Xia Duo did next was to further narrow the scope to find the root of the thought that could cause the Jade Tablet to change!

Including everything except the rubbing technique, such as Xia Duo's sitting posture and thoughts at the time!

Xia Duo could very easily simulate the thoughts of a certain moment in the past, but wanting to find a specific type of thought among them was an incomparably vast project.

The first point: there was a high probability that it was his thoughts at the time that caused the Jade Tablet's change, and not some other reason.

It was no different from looking for a needle in a haystack; one could even say this was fishing for a "needle to calm the sea" capable of changing the Jade Tablet's state from the vast and ethereal ocean of consciousness!

He even didn't rub the Jade Tablet at all, but just held it casually in his hand, and the Jade Tablet's parameters still showed abnormal changes.

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If other factors were not considered, he might only be able to exhaustively verify all the information in the ocean of consciousness at that moment bit by bit.

Or rather, that part of the information could not support his complete Personality; if the concept of "I" did not even exist, how could one talk about simulation?

He first retraced his memory, then screened the information in the Subconscious at that moment related to Order Force, not even letting go of information that served merely as a premise or background for thinking about Order Force.

Then, what exactly were these so-called "other conditions"?

However, when he was not in contact with the Jade Tablet, even if he completely restored his thoughts from when he was in the Study, the Jade Tablet's parameters did not show any abnormal changes.

It was impossible to tell anything just by analyzing the numerical values, so next he prepared to try controlling variables to find the real reason affecting these parameters.

Next, Xia Duo conducted two more reproduction experiments, and the Jade Tablet's related parameters showed abnormal changes again, but the values of the three abnormal changes were not exactly the same.

The first point: the Jade Tablet could only be affected by him and produce changes if it was in contact with him;

Thought is a very general concept; specifically, it should be the sum of his Subconscious and Conscious Mind thought activities at that very moment.

One can imagine the amount of information involved, in addition to the pure conscious thinking that maintains his Personality, involving sensory information collection, analysis, and processing of multi-modal fusion, and even various concepts born on this basis.

Of course, with the experiment having reached this stage, the answer to what caused the Jade Tablet's change was already obvious; if one did not pursue extreme rigor, one could directly use consciousness changes related to Order Force to conduct verification.

Xia Duo did not need a very strict proof process at present; he just wanted to know whether the Jade Tablet's change had anything to do with Order Force, and how it produced an impact.

Xia Duo was a man of action and very quickly conducted a verification experiment; the result was as expected, and the Jade Tablet's parameters indeed showed abnormal changes!

And from the two experiments where the rubbing technique remained unchanged but other conditions changed and the Jade Tablet's parameters did not change, one could further determine that the so-called "other conditions" were the real reason for the change in the Jade Tablet's parameters!

It was also simple to verify this point: just restore the thoughts at the time while keeping everything else different; if the Jade Tablet's parameters still showed abnormal changes, then it proved that the thought was the "culprit"!

From this, Xia Duo could almost draw a conclusion—

Afterwards, combined with the previous judgment on the difference between the Main Plane and the Projection Plane, he could fully make the hypothesis that the Jade Tablet's change was related to the reality of the Main Plane, and use this to involve experiments for verification.

By this time, Xia Duo actually had a few guesses in his heart, but he hadn't truly confirmed them; combined with the previous experiments, he prepared to first exclude the hand movements during the reproduction process, which were the details of rubbing the Jade Tablet, such as frequency, force, etc.

After several experiments, the Jade Tablet's related parameters still showed changes, and in these few times, for the sake of contrast, Xia Duo even deliberately made the rubbing technique of one of them the same as the first experiment.

But it was very obvious that the sitting posture, direction, and even environmental elements were not the environment; perhaps only the thoughts at the time were the sole reason!

But in reality, he certainly wouldn't do that; after all, Xia Duo is a human, not a machine, and even for a machine, there is more than just this one exhaustive algorithm!

Then the fact was very clear: from the experiments where other conditions remained unchanged and only the rubbing technique changed, one could deduce that the rubbing technique was not the key to the change in the Jade Tablet's parameters.

Thus, the subsequent experiments became much simpler.

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