Chapter 754: Plane Exploration, Sudden Situation

After leaving the Academic Affairs Office, Xia Duo took the opportunity to check on the status of the communication magic tool production lines in the 021 and 022 Gongzuojian.

He had given orders not long ago that from then on, the communication magic tools should not be pre-packaged, leaving enough core components before pre-packaging for the newly joined Junior Magic Technicians to practice linking the Magic Web.

Coming here this time, the situation left him very satisfied; except for the fact that the semi-finished products among the semi-finished products were quite troublesome to store, everything was proceeding according to his plan.

Returning to the 6th Layer of the Tower of Time, Xia Duo inspected the Horst Research Lab and the Tilake Research Lab in succession, as well as the quasi-Junior Magic Technicians who were learning the 2nd Circle Spell "Simplified Weave Background Communication," and he placed great importance and earnest expectations upon them.

Only after this did he return to his residence to revise and perfect the "Principles" book and wait for the arrival of the appraiser from the Ming Shui Chamber of Commerce.

……

One week (ten days) later, Xia Duo, who was in the Plane Exploration Layer of the Tower of Time attempting to actively search for sub-planes, suddenly received a Sending from Niya, and he dropped his work there quite decisively.

Plane Exploration is not a matter of a single day, nor is it something that a novice like him, who had only studied Plane Scholar courses for a few days, could fully master.

He had tried searching countless times over these past few days, but he discovered that searching for a sub-plane was like buying a lottery ticket on Earth; perhaps metaphysical luck might be more important than any rational calculation.

Compared to the full enthusiasm of a novice, Aiboke, who had long since been deeply discouraged, only kept to a fixed schedule of searching once a day.

If he couldn't find one in one go, he would simply give up.

Xia Duo had already read all the books on Plane Scholars that Niya brought back; in terms of memory alone, he could say he absolutely surpassed Aiboke by quite a bit, and the two had indeed engaged in exchanges.

Their unanimous opinion was—these books were long outdated, or rather, they had their uses, but it was impossible to tell in the short term.

A large number of samples were required to reach statistical significance, but unfortunately, there were only four people in the Tower of Time capable of Plane Exploration; among them, Niya was busy with the coursework assigned by her teacher, and Depake had just advanced, so he couldn't spare any attention here.

Furthermore, relying solely on the Plane Exploration Array for passive searching did not require much energy consumption, but once a Plane Scholar presided over an active search, the energy consumption was visible to the naked eye.

Just in these few days, Xia Duo had already discovered that the Plane Crystal, which served as the core of the Plane Exploration Array, had already shown extremely minute depletion.

This might be related to the high-intensity searching he started with, but it was clear that even without those actions of his, it was unlikely that the Plane Crystal would be eternal.

In other words, once this Plane Crystal was consumed and no substitute could be found, the Plane Exploration Array, which had been running for over a year, would break down again.

In addition, there was an even more serious consequence: the Plane Exploration Array also served as the Guidance Beacon for Saville to return to the Main Plane; if the exploration array broke down, whether it would affect Saville's return was hard to say!

Xia Duo dared not gamble on such a matter; of course, even if he were willing to gamble, Niya certainly would not be.

Therefore, while conducting research on the Plane Domain, one must also take into account the state of the Plane Crystal.

Fortunately, the Plane Crystal was not an ordinary Elemental Gem; it possessed extremely powerful energy, and even though Xia Duo had been using it desperately for the past few days, he had only consumed a very small portion of its energy.

However, from this point of view, Giles Tower definitely possessed many Plane Scholars, and it could be inferred that Giles Tower certainly possessed a relatively stable source of Plane Crystals.

Only those who have personally attempted Plane Exploration know the difficulty of searching for a new plane, even if the technology of the Tower of Time is more advanced than in the past.

But the principles still cannot be bypassed; it is nothing more than capturing the "echoes" of new planes in the Ether Plane or Elemental Plane to determine their relatively accurate locations.

Advanced technology is reflected more in the ability to capture signals and the accumulation of data for signal analysis; as for principles, once they are pointed out, that is all there is to it.

It really is the workload of finding a needle in a vast ocean!

No matter how advanced the technology is, the difficulty will not be reduced by much; this is something Xia Duo can imagine.

Xia Duo believes that the reason Giles Tower has so many planes, and even found planes with different time flows from the Main Plane, is that they rely more on a human-sea strategy.

Of course, it does not necessarily mean there are truly many people, but looking at Giles Tower as a whole, high-frequency searching is something that absolutely cannot be avoided.

……

Upon leaving the Plane Exploration Layer, Xia Duo immediately understood Aiboke's feelings; that sense of loss, unwillingness to fail, as well as the depression and resistance caused by long-term lack of results, were all mixed together, very complex.

In his new Soul State, Xia Duo could see his own various emotions clearly, but—

Compared to Aiboke, the relatively positive emotions in his heart occupied the upper hand, and a will not to admit defeat surged up; he had never given up on anything after only trying for a few days!

Of course, it could not be said that Aiboke had given up; he had simply chosen a more rational time management method.

The reason Xia Duo did not make the same choice as Aiboke was because, compared to Aiboke who was exploring alone, he had the foundation of a whole world to support him.

On Earth, big data and statistical analysis were things even children could talk about casually, let alone someone like him who wrote code and novels!

It was not necessary to copy the cases from Earth entirely, but the ideas within them could be borrowed here to build data models for sub-plane signals, thereby improving search schemes and increasing search efficiency.

He believed that Giles Tower must have also been able to figure out such methods during their long-term practice.

It was just that his behavior of actively using methodology to guide practice would be more efficient, and perhaps he might even be able to achieve a "corner-overtaking" maneuver!

Of course, if there were more people together, that would be even better!

……

Carrying beautiful expectations for the future, Xia Duo arrived at Niya's Study, but to his surprise, the reason Niya sought him out was not because the appraiser from the Ming Shui Chamber of Commerce he had guessed earlier had arrived, nor was it that the fleet from the north had come, but rather—

"Teacher said that Lord Braun has compromised with that person and has now left the territory of that student. Teacher asked me to tell you that it is best not to leave the Tower of Time during this period."

"Weide?!" Xia Duo said that name in surprise.

He had returned from the Rodney Territory over half a month ago, and he had not heard any news about the standoff between Braun and Weide since.

If Niya hadn't suddenly brought it up, he felt he would have almost forgotten about this matter!

Thinking that a hostile Great Arcanist who might have set his sights on him was now free, even though Xia Duo was usually calm, he couldn't help but feel a bit panicked at this moment, and he hurriedly asked Niya:

"What about the Seven Towers? Does the Seven Towers have any movements?"

It was no longer realistic to dwell on the Princess dragging him into an event of this level, and of course, he was in no position to dwell on it; what was more important now was to figure out the purpose of the Seven Towers and how to escape unscathed.