Chapter 3099: The Experimental Results of Idealism

Therefore, Xia Duo not only needed to lower the power, but also needed to find a way to improve the detection precision, so that he could effectively detect the psionic traces that might exist in the Gateway Magic Tool.

However, with his understanding of psionics still at the level of a layman, he could not think of any good improvement methods for the time being, so he prepared to bring over scrapped Magic Artifact samples to try first; if he succeeded on the first try, there would be no need for a crash improvement.

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With his consciousness returning to the avatar in Evereska, Xia Duo left Yunfeng Manor and went directly to the Alliance Headquarters, personally finding Charles to ask if any new scrapped Gateways had appeared in the various countries.

"No news received yet," Charles replied.

"What about the feedback data from the Special Gateway?" Xia Duo asked again.

Compared with ordinary Gateway Magic Tools, the Special Gateway had its Traffic Statistics Component replaced, allowing it to count the passage of consciousness information at the Meta-thought Level; with the help of those Special Gateways, it was possible to discover whether there was abnormal traffic in the Computing Power Pool Sub-network.

But Charles's answer made Xia Duo feel disappointed again, "The feedback data is completely normal; the dense and subtle consciousness information flow that you mentioned earlier has not appeared."

"Alright, keep paying attention, and notify me as soon as there is news!"

After Xia Duo finished speaking, he let Charles go, then he came to the Gateway Research Group, found an empty Laboratory here, registered to take out several sets of scrapped Gateways from the warehouse, and entered the Laboratory alone, adding a closure reminder.

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Inside the Laboratory, Xia Duo certainly did not intend to repeat the inspection work he had already performed repeatedly here, but instead put these scrapped Gateways into his Personal Space.

Afterward, he settled his avatar, returned his consciousness to his main body, came to the Laboratory in the Tower of Time, and then took out a set of scrapped Gateways from his Personal Space.

Freshly produced scrapped Gateways had not appeared yet, but that did not prevent him from performing a simple initial inspection on these scrapped Gateways that had already "cooled down."

He placed the various components of this set of Gateway Magic Tools in different areas on the laboratory bench, and then, just like the experiment a short while ago, activated the Psionic Detection Crystal Ball.

The next moment, misty pale purple fog once again eerily emerged from the Void, slowly spreading outward with the Detection Crystal Ball as the center.

These pale purple mists first passed through the bracelet-shaped Psionic Artifact used for control, and only then did they pass through the various components of the Gateway Magic Tool one by one.

"Huh?"

Not knowing if it was good luck or bad luck, Xia Duo noticed that the pale purple Mist excited by the Psionic Detection Crystal Ball seemed to have been weakened slightly after passing through the bracelet-shaped Psionic Artifact, and then it actually produced a trace of fluctuation when passing through the Gateway Magic Tool components.

Although it was only a trace and disappeared quickly, for Xia Duo, memory was not an instantaneous thing, but a permanent imprint that could be reviewed repeatedly; by tracing his memory, he confirmed that it was not an illusion.

It seemed that something in the Gateway Magic Tool components really did produce a trace of disturbance to the purple fog excited by the detector.

However, the fog eventually occupied all the space where the various components of the Gateway Magic Tool were located, without a single gap.

The thing Xia Duo worried about happened: the detection power of the Psionic Detector he created with the help of Psionic Idealistic Power was still too high, and the act of detection itself was enough to erase some less obvious psionic traces.

Just now, he had only discovered a clue through keen observation and tracing his memory; if he himself had not realized or observed the anomaly, he might not have gone to trace his memory at all.

Next, Xia Duo performed repeated detections on this same set of Gateway Magic Tools, and the result was as expected: the trace of psionic traces that might have originally existed had already quietly disappeared.

As of now, he could only draw one conclusion, which was that this set of Gateways indeed might have been subjected to an attack involving psionics.

"Then, is this an isolated case? Or is it a very common situation?"

After hesitating for a moment, Xia Duo took out another set of scrapped Gateways, placed them in the exact same position as the previous set, and then activated the Psionic Detection Crystal Ball.

As the pale purple Mist slowly seeped out from the Void, Xia Duo's attention also became exceptionally focused; this time, before the Mist passed through the Gateway Magic Tool, he discovered some anomalies, but it had nothing to do with the Gateway Magic Tool, but rather the Mist itself.

Although up to now, the number of times he had used this Psionic Detection Crystal Ball could be counted on one hand, it seemed that it had just happened to reach a certain threshold, and the Mist excited this time was significantly thinner than the one just now.

Logically speaking, a weaker detection Mist would be more susceptible to external forces and produce disturbances; as a result, when the Mist passed through the Gateway Magic Tool components, it did not produce the slightest anomaly.

Does this mean this set of Gateway Magic Tools has no psionic traces?

Then, was the disturbance of the detection Mist by the previous set of Gateway Magic Tools really a psionic trace? Or was it a disturbance caused by his own excessive concern for this matter?

Thought itself can produce disturbances to psionics; if, when the detection Mist passed through the Gateway components, he carried the preconceived idea that "the Gateway has psionic traces," perhaps it really did make the detection Mist produce a trace of disturbance.

In fact, it was just the result manifesting in the direction Xia Duo hoped for.

And the second detection did not produce a disturbance, which might have just matched Xia Duo's conjecture that the psionic traces were erased by the detection Mist, and then no disturbance really appeared.

Involving such idealistic things as psionics, it seems that the existence of the experimenter themselves might have an impact on the experimental results!

Thinking this way, Xia Duo actually developed the thought that all previous experiments were meaningless; perhaps this was the fundamental reason why Arcane Magic and Psionic Magic were difficult to reconcile.

The results of Arcane Magic do not change according to the experimenter's own thoughts, but only change according to the objective laws of reality, but Psionic Magic is different.

The result can actually change along with the experimenter's own thoughts; what is the meaning of such a result that always conforms to the experimenter's psychological expectations?

Although Xia Duo was not yet completely certain whether the results of the several experiments just now had changed in a way that contradicted the facts because of his thoughts, the fact that his own thoughts could influence psionics was an iron-clad truth.

He simply could not rule out the possibility that the experimental results were influenced by his own thoughts!

This was the most critical point.

For a time, Xia Duo's thoughts were somewhat unsettled; he temporarily sealed the Laboratory and came to the Arcane Garden of the Tower of Time, but even the Positive Energy environment here could not calm his heart.

It was not only because the experiment was not going well, but also because of the future of Arcane Magic and Psionic Magic, and even the essence of the world.

Reaching his level, as long as one still has the drive to progress, one must inevitably ponder the future of Arcane Magic; as long as one does not want to live in a muddle, one must also inevitably ponder the essence of the world.

Yet now, in front of these two questions, they were shrouded by a thick barrier, and the name of that barrier was Psionics!