Chapter 3030: Excited State Magic Artifact, Suspicions Regarding Renewal Dates

"Xia Duo, come look quickly! I think I've discovered something abnormal!"

Niya's surprised voice made Xia Duo collect his thoughts and interrupted his ongoing inspection process; he hurried to Niya's location, and upon seeing it, he also let out an exclamation:

"There really is one!"

Xia Duo had not disclosed to Niya that the Illuminati might be using their own Void Warehouse to commit crimes; this was currently just a guess, and if the guess were incorrect, there would be no point in saying anything, while if he happened to guess right, revealing it to Niya might instead expose his own existence.

The reason he used this time was a routine inspection; although it was a bit lame, it was not something Niya couldn't accept, as after spending so much time with him, the concept of security checks should not be unfamiliar to her.

At this moment, Xia Duo looked at the Stasis Space Warehouse that Niya was pointing to, and inside it, there was indeed a Magic Artifact clearly in an excited state.

Could this be the component for the Illuminati's Ritual Spell?

Seeing that Xia Duo fell silent after his exclamation, Niya was a bit anxious and hurriedly asked: "What is going on here? Will it have an effect on the Void Warehouse?"

"It's just a Magic Artifact in an excited state; it won't have any effect on the Stasis Space, but it could still potentially cause damage to the conventional space."

"Then should we prohibit this situation?" Niya asked again.

"Not for now. Once the Management Mythallar for the Void Warehouse is completed, we can add a security check process during the storage stage and issue a warning if dangerous goods are discovered. But for now, we didn't say that storing excited-state Magic Artifacts wasn't allowed, so we'll leave it be for the time being. If someone really damages the conventional storage space, just make them pay double in compensation."

Of course, this was only Xia Duo's stated reason; the real reason was that he was not yet sure if this excited-state Magic Artifact was stored by the Illuminati. If he issued a warning rashly, it might alert the enemy.

……

Xia Duo noted down the number of the Stasis Space Warehouse containing the excited-state Magic Artifact and then continued with the rest of the inspection. Since there were not many Stasis Space Warehouses at the moment, this part was checked very quickly.

Apart from that excited-state Magic Artifact, no dangerous goods were found in the other warehouses, not even anything suspected to be dangerous. What was stored most frequently were biological samples, such as certain rare plants, seasonal fruits, and pets waiting to be sold.

Although Elves are skilled in Nature spells, they have not been able to make all fruit trees grow out of season. While using things like the Hengchun Barrier to ensure basic cultivation in artificial environments, there still exist a large number of crops grown in natural environments.

Ordinary Elves eat grain, fruits, and vegetables cultivated in artificial environments, while High Elves might only use those produced in natural environments. So, when the season is missed, how do they eat food that is not in season?

Besides a very small number who can accept out-of-season food cultivated in artificial environments, a large portion is seasonal produce preserved using Stasis Space.

Time is frozen in Stasis Space, which is the most natural and effective way to keep things fresh, but the cost is imaginable; it is likely the highest of any known method.

The extravagance of the Elves is evident.

At first, when Xia Duo learned that Elves were ordering the Stasis Space service of the Void Warehouse, he thought it was used to store some extremely precious treasures; it turned out that what was being stored were things that, in his view, were not worth much.

Actually, thinking about it, if they were truly precious things, how could they be stored in someone else's warehouse!

While the Elf World certainly does not lack cases of using the Void Warehouse as a bank safe, the credit of the Tower of Time in the Elf World has not yet reached that level.

Although Xia Duo has a deep understanding of the Elf World, his knowledge of some business details of the Void Warehouse is still limited; in fact, even true Elves might not know much about it.

Probably only the actual practitioners know!

This is like the logistics industry in Xia Duo's hometown; even though he spent so many years in his hometown, his understanding of logistics mostly came from shopping software, but he might not know how it operates internally.

Here in the Magic world, most of Xia Duo's understanding of the Elf World comes from his experiences as an Elf avatar in the Projection World, but those experiences belong to the past relative to the era of the Main Plane.

As the saying goes, times change and the world changes; those experiences are not enough for Xia Duo to fully translate them into an understanding of the Elf World of the Main Plane.

It is only because he has spent more time in Evereska this year that he has been able to learn more; otherwise, he wouldn't dare claim to have much understanding of the Elf World.

Of course, this is also from Xia Duo's own perspective; if compared to ordinary Elves, even he, who has never lived in the Elf World of the Main Plane, might know a bit more.

Knowing Elves better than Elves do is truly not an empty phrase.

……

The inspection of the conventional space warehouses is more cumbersome than that of the Stasis Space; not only is the number of warehouses greater, but more importantly, the inspection process is not like that of the Stasis Space, as no active detection means can be used.

After all, these are conventional warehouses; any change Xia Duo makes to the inside of the warehouses could be discovered by the warehouse users, and active detection is essentially a type of change.

Similar to on Earth, the essence of detection is emitting particles to strike a target and using the feedback to judge the state of the target.

The Magic world is slightly better; projecting a Perception Field will not directly affect the target, but it will change the state of the Magic Net in the target area. Although extremely minute, it can still be detected.

At least Xia Duo himself could detect it.

If he himself could discover that a warehouse had been tampered with, there is no reason others couldn't, not to mention that Xia Duo is currently treating the warehouse user as the Illuminati, so it is even more impossible to reveal any flaws.

Besides active detection, there is passive monitoring, which is observing passively from outside the warehouse, or detecting the area outside the warehouse; any change inside the warehouse will affect the outside.

But changes in the outside will not affect the inside of the warehouse; this is unidirectional.

Similar to one-way perspective glass.

There were similar considerations when the Void Warehouse was first established; Xia Duo only promised that the warehouse would not have accidents due to its own reasons and only guaranteed the safety of normally stored items, but he never promised not to look at the things inside the warehouse.

Of course, he also didn't mention reserving the right to look; this is a topic both sides try to avoid touching, but in fact, everyone knows that how could the builder of the Void Warehouse not be able to see the things inside the warehouse?

If they couldn't see, then how could they guarantee safety? How could they judge the reason for an accident?

It is also because of this that the Void Warehouse was not favored by Zhenna for promotion in Netheril.

……

Through repeated inspections of the exterior of the warehouse area (which is actually still inside the Semi-plane), Xia Duo finally determined that the only anomaly in the entire Semi-plane was that excited-state Magic Artifact stored in the Stasis Space Warehouse.

There was one other point that could be considered suspicious, which was that there was only that one Magic Artifact in that warehouse, with nothing else; this was very unreasonable.

So, after returning to the Tower of Time, Xia Duo retrieved the Void Warehouse client data previously sent back by Aoruipusi; it was what the clients registered when purchasing Void Warehouse services, and Aoruipusi would send it back periodically.

According to the number of that Stasis Space Warehouse, Xia Duo found the client data corresponding to the warehouse.