Chapter 3089: Mutual Induction Traffic Statistics

Inside the Laboratory.

The first thing Xia Duo checked were the core components responsible for consciousness information transmission in each scrapped Gateway Magic Tool; these core components all used Spirit Material, or more accurately—

It was synthetic Spirit Material labeled 208 from Imaska.

Considering that genuine Spirit Material is costly and difficult to obtain, Xia Duo chose Ectoplasm-like Composite Material synthesized through Creation Magic almost without hesitation when producing these Gateway Magic Tools.

This Gateway Magic Tool was designed for Spirit Thought Network security Protection, and the Computing Power Pool is a type of Spirit Thought Network, but considering actual costs, Xia Duo referred more to his expected Computing Power Pool traffic status when designing the Gateway Magic Tool.

Initially, upon hearing about the abnormal wear of the Gateway Magic Tools, he did not immediately suspect any other external factors, but rather worried that it might be a design flaw in the Computing Power Pool, causing abnormal Sub-network traffic, which in turn led to the abnormal wear of the Gateways.

Therefore, he had to check the core transmission components in the Gateway Magic Tools that used Spirit Material first; the state of these core components could intuitively reflect the total amount of consciousness information they transmitted before being scrapped.

Although the Gateway Magic Tool set itself included a Traffic Statistics Component, that only collected data indirectly and did not reach the root cause.

This is like the traffic display on a mobile phone; it might be intuitive, but its reality might be far inferior to the actual wear of an antenna. Of course, this is just an analogy; mobile phone antennas on Earth generally do not have any wear. (Electromagnetic conversion theoretically also causes damage to the antenna itself, but it cannot be ignored as a calculation.)

However, the Ectoplasm-like Material of the Gateway Magic Tool does wear out in a real way, basically violating the rule that the less traffic, the lighter the wear. Before the wear reaches a certain threshold, the information transmission function is completely lost.

Of course, those situations are only known to the people at the Psionic Network Research Center for now; those countries reporting the short service life of the Gateway Magic Tools only know that the Gateways have problems, which could be quality issues or other problems.

After actually seeing Kalishi, Xia Shao was even more certain of this suspicion.

Consciousness information is undetectable when it is subtle to a certain degree, but that information truly exists, which is why such an abnormal phenomenon appeared.

Very quickly, Xia Shao finished checking the first batch of scrapped Gateways taken from the warehouse; the Spirit Material in the core transmission components was all in a damaged state, combined with the fact that their actual service life was far less than expected.

Other Magic Artifacts are in a similar situation; Spirit Quality will deteriorate due to the transmission of consciousness information, and Energy-Conducting Material will also deteriorate due to the circulation of Elemental Energy.

However, it is not that no response plan was given; the Research Center believes that a user in the Sub-network where the Gateway is located might have attacked the Computing Power Pool with subtle and sparse information streams in a short period of time.

And those Special Gateways sent over have not yet transmitted back any abnormal news.

The reason why the Traffic Statistics Component cannot find it is because the statistics component indirectly obtains traffic data through mutual induction; in terms of statistical precision, it is limited by the precision of mutual induction, which is also the limitation of the statistics component itself.

Even now, Xia Shao only has a few guesses and is not sure which aspect caused this phenomenon.

So, has the Computing Power Pool Sub-network really experienced abnormal traffic?

Perhaps a Psionic Mage is involved, attacking the Arcane Mage's concealment through Psionic Energy or Psionic Energy.

Next, he checked other components in the Gateway Magic Tool, which were basically support components, such as those used for encryption or protecting the Gateway Magic Tool itself.

This part of the information recording traffic has actually been transmitted back to the Headquarters through the Computing Power Pool network; a very important reason why the Gateway Magic Tool is said to be abnormally worn is that these records transmitted back are very normal.

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This is obviously not cost-effective; Xia Shao only had people make special-edition Gateways and sent them to those countries that had incidents, but doing so can at most only confirm that the Sub-network does indeed contain subtle and sparse abnormal information.

In short, there is no conclusion to all of this for the time being.

Because they were all real information streams, the core transmission components of the Gateway Magic Tool transmitted them, thus leading to abnormal wear.

It seems that it was just because the Computing Power Pool Sub-network traffic was abnormal, causing the Gateway core transmission components to be impacted, and subsequently scrapped prematurely.

At present, only Arcane String is a material that can ignore Elemental Transmutation reactions and never deteriorate. (Its own properties are not as stable as Mithril.)

That is to say, if someone is really playing tricks, they hit and run, not repeating the crime, and might not even use the Computing Power Pool Accessor once before changing it.

Xia Shao picked up the situation of the Gateways of various countries that Charles had retrieved from the archives immediately after the accident, and found the corresponding time and place according to the Gateway number.

In fact, this part of the investigation did not require Xia Shao to do it personally; as early as the second day after the accident, Charles had already placed the relevant report on Xia Shao's desk.

It matched perfectly with the records transmitted back by other Gateways that were not scrapped prematurely, but it obviously did not match the scrapped Gateways.

This is actually a device connected in parallel with the core transmission component, which also uses Spirit Material, but it does not directly transmit the consciousness information in the Computing Power Pool Sub-network, but records the traffic passing through the core transmission component through mutual induction.

The result was, of course, still no abnormality.

It should have been caused by a large amount of consciousness information impact in a short period of time.

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Later, the scrapped Magic Artifacts from various countries were successively sent back to the Research Center, and the Gateway group also issued a more detailed report, but those reports were superficial and could not draw a normal conclusion.

Next, Xia Shao did not go to the warehouse to get the second batch of scrapped Gateways, but continued to check the batch taken out earlier, checking the Traffic Statistics Component in each set.

As a result, the statistical parameters of all aspects that day were all normal, and even other Gateways at equivalent Nodes to the scrapped Gateways were still in normal operation, yet a few individual ones failed.

This brought great difficulty to the investigation.

Xia Shao checked the Traffic Statistics Components in more than twenty sets of Gateways in a row, but did not find any abnormalities, but that in itself was the biggest abnormality.

And besides the direct cause of subtle and abnormal consciousness information attacks, Xia Shao only thought of it after receiving Kalishi's invitation—

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In other words, the Research Center can only confirm that some Gateway Magic Tools have indeed experienced abnormal conditions, but the root cause cannot be found.

As long as the mutual induction precision of the Traffic Statistics Component is raised to the Meta-thought Level, all traffic can be counted, but the cost is higher than that of the core transmission component.

It is clear that the traffic records transmitted back by the Traffic Statistics Component are all normal, yet some Gateways were scrapped; if this is not considered abnormal, what is?