Chapter 3090: Psionic Experiment

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Inside the Laboratory.

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

Synthetic Ectoplasm material labeled 208 from Imaska.

Considering that genuine Spirit Material is costly and difficult to obtain, Xia Duo had almost unhesitatingly chosen to use Ectoplasm-like Composite Material synthesized via Creation Magic when producing these Gateway Magic Tools.

This Gateway Magic Tool was designed for the security Protection of the Spirit Thought Network, 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 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, now, he had to first check the core transmission components in the Gateway Magic Tools that used Spirit Material; the state of these core components could intuitively reflect the total amount of consciousness information transmitted before they were scrapped.

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

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That was actually a device connected in parallel with the core transmission component, which also used Spirit Material, but it did not directly transmit the consciousness information in the Computing Power Pool Sub-network; instead, it recorded the traffic passing through the core transmission component via mutual induction.

So, did the Computing Power Pool Sub-network really have this kind of traffic?

The reason the Traffic Statistics Component could not detect it was because the statistics component obtained traffic data indirectly through mutual induction; the statistical precision was limited by the precision of the mutual induction, not by the limitations of the statistics component itself.

Very quickly, Xia Duo 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 its actual service life was far less than expected.

As a result, on that day, all statistical parameters in every aspect were completely normal, and even other Gateways at equivalent Nodes to the scrapped Gateways were still in normal operation, yet only individual ones failed.

Perhaps there were Psionic Mages involved, carrying out covert attacks on Arcane Mages through Psionic or Psionic Energy.

The result, of course, was still abnormal.

Even now, Xia Duo only had a few guesses and was not certain which aspect of the problem led to this phenomenon.

Later, the scrapped Magic Artifacts from various countries were successively sent back to the Research Center, and the Gateway team also issued more detailed reports, but those reports were all superficial and could not draw correct conclusions.

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.

Xia Duo picked up the situation reports of the Gateways from various countries that Charles had retrieved from the archives immediately after the accident, and found the corresponding time and location according to the Gateway numbers.

In other words, the Research Center could only confirm that the Gateway Magic Tools had indeed experienced abnormal conditions, but the root cause could not be found.

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

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

This part of the information recording the traffic had actually been transmitted back to the Headquarters via the Computing Power Pool network long ago; a very important reason why the Gateway Magic Tool was considered to have abnormal wear was that the records transmitted back were very normal.

This is like the traffic display on a mobile phone; it might be very intuitive, but its authenticity might be far inferior to the actual wear of the antenna. Of course, this is just an analogy; mobile phone antennas on Earth generally do not have any wear. (Under the theory of electromagnetic conversion, it will not cause damage to the antenna itself, but it can be ignored.)

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

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

Of course, these situations were only known to the people at the Psionic Network Research Center for the time being; those countries that reported the short service life of the Gateway Magic Tools only knew that the Gateways had problems, which could be quality issues or other problems.

In short, there is no conclusion to all of this yet.

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.

It matched perfectly with the records returned by other Gateways that did not scrap prematurely, and obviously did not match the scrapped Gateways.

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

But the Ectoplasm-like material of the Gateway Magic Tool would wear out in reality, basically following the rule that the more traffic, the more severe the wear; when the wear reached a certain threshold, the information transmission function would fail completely.

This was obviously not cost-effective; Xia Duo only had people make special versions of Gateways and sent them to those countries where accidents had occurred, but doing so could at most only confirm that the Sub-network did indeed have subtle and dense abnormal information.

That is to say, if someone was really playing tricks, they would hit and run, not repeating the crime, and might even change the Computing Power Pool Accessor every time.

When consciousness information is subtle to a certain degree, it cannot be counted, but those pieces of information exist in Reality, which is why such an abnormal phenomenon appeared.

However, it was not that no response plan was given; the Research Center believed that it might be that a user in the Sub-network where the Gateway was located used subtle and abnormal information streams to attack the Computing Power Pool in a short period of time.

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

This brought great difficulty to the investigation.

As far as the current situation is concerned, only the Arcane String material can ignore the Elemental Transmutation reaction and never deteriorate. (Its own properties are not as stable as Mithril.)

And those special Gateways sent there have not yet transmitted any abnormal news.

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.

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

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

After actually meeting Kalishi, Xia Duo was even more certain of this suspicion.