Chapter 108: The 105-Degree Qing Quan Zhou

"I want to borrow the book 'Controlling Memory'!" Tom Yoder said to the librarian.

"This book is in the Restricted Section. Do you have a professor's signature?" The librarian treated Yoder very well.

"Yes, I have Professor Slughorn's handwritten signature!" Yoder handed a piece of parchment to the librarian.

The librarian glanced at the parchment, entered the Restricted Section, and a moment later brought out a book and handed it to Yoder.

Yoder took the book, thanked him, found an empty table, opened the book, and began to read; Allen hurriedly leaned in to see the content.

Yoder seemed not to see Allen, showing no reaction to Allen's closeness, and simply read the book with full concentration.

Just as Allen finished reading the first page, his split consciousness suddenly felt a dizzying spin; when it reacted, it had already returned to Allen's body and merged with the main consciousness...

Allen stood up abruptly; this time he truly understood the method Yoder used to show him the memory of researching memory magic! This method was indeed more direct and effective than others.

The next moment, he angrily grabbed a quill and quickly wrote in the diary: "Why stop? I only saw the beginning!"

A sentence slowly appeared on the diary: "Everything requires a price!"

"Didn't you say these memories were unimportant to you?" Allen continued writing.

"These memories are unimportant to me, but they are very important to you, so I want to exchange them for something more important to me!" The diary immediately displayed this sentence.

Allen leaned back against the chair, thought for a moment, and continued writing: "What do you want?"

"For a consciousness isolated from the world for decades, the most important thing is news from the outside; I want to know what happened during the decades I was isolated!" The notebook threw out its own conditions.

Allen instantly breathed a sigh of relief; this condition was not hard to fulfill, and the condition Yoder proposed was very reasonable and logical, which increased Allen's trust in Yoder by several points.

But Allen thought of something else and wrote again: "Just now I heard someone call you Tom Riddle? What is your real name?"

The diary immediately displayed text: "That was a pronunciation issue with that witch; she is of Indian descent..."

Allen tried to recall, but found he could no longer remember the girl's appearance, nor could he remember the girl's accent...

He hesitantly wrote on the diary: "It does seem to have a curry flavor..."

The diary drew a confused expression again; obviously, Yoder couldn't catch Allen's joke.

Then the diary started displaying text again: "I not only have the memory of reading the memory magic spellbook, but also the memory of practicing memory magic."

Hearing this, Allen's eyes went wide; thus, he and Yoder happily reached an agreement: Allen would keep Yoder company and chat to relieve boredom, providing regular updates on outside news, while Yoder would provide the memories he possessed related to memory magic...

The appearance of the diary and the Ancient Runes notebook brought huge changes to Allen's holiday life; since there weren't many customers in the wand shop anyway, Allen dozed off at the counter every day.

In fact, part of Allen's consciousness had already been pulled into the diary at this time.

Allen recently devoted most of his energy to researching memory magic; practicing memory magic made no noise and wouldn't destroy anything, making it quite suitable for him to practice alone in his room at night.

He is currently practicing "pulling," which is extracting his memories from his brain.

The remaining energy was invested in the Ancient Runes notebook; through this notebook, he learned the meanings of many new Ancient Runes.

Therefore, he also began to find the hidden parameters of the spells he had recorded previously, to see if he could analyze them using the newly learned Ancient Runes.

The result was indeed a discovery.

The spell with the hidden parameter discovered this time was Qing Quan Zhou, and the hidden parameter turned out to be temperature, which made Allen somewhat puzzled.

Because temperature is a very common research approach; the spell Qing Quan Zhou has been invented for over a thousand years, and surely wizards must have tried imagining different temperatures for the summoned spring water when casting the spell; theoretically, this hidden parameter should have been discovered long ago, but to this day, "Standard Book of Spells, Grade 1" does not mention it at all, which is very strange.

But when Allen started trying it himself, he understood why.

The effect of Qing Quan Zhou is to summon spring water out of thin air; the temperature of the spring water is constant and has no offensive power.

When Allen tried imagining the summoned spring water having different temperatures while casting the spell, the temperature of the summoned spring water did not change at all...

But Allen believed that since this parameter exists, there must be a corresponding effect.

Because the spells Allen is currently learning have been invented for a long time, some even for over a thousand years; every generation of wizards has succeeded one another in researching and improving these spells, so all easily conceivable hidden parameters must have already been discovered.

So, based on his previous experience analyzing hidden parameters of spells:

Either the parameter is designed to be counter-intuitive, like the "destination" of the Scouring Charm;

Or the parameter is designed to be nonsensical, like the "whether to return" of the Alohomora;

Or the numerical requirement of the parameter's design is particularly strange, like the Lumos requiring the number of cycles to be a power of two and within the range of 64 and 1024;

It is precisely with the guidance of this experience that Allen could endure the patience to constantly conduct experiments.

He tested from -100 degrees to +100 degrees, and the temperature of the spring water produced by the spell still did not change at all.

But he was not discouraged at all; he continued testing upwards, and found that when the temperature parameter value reached 105 degrees, the produced spring water was boiling.

This result did not make Allen stop testing; he continued testing upwards and discovered that only when the value of the temperature parameter was 105 degrees could the temperature of the produced spring water change.

However, this discovery left Allen speechless; even if it could produce 105-degree spring water, what use would it be? Could 105-degree spring water just be pure distilled water?

Although this hidden parameter gave Qing Quan Zhou some offensive capability, this damage was really not enough to look at...

But Allen was not too disappointed, because his expectations for this spell were not high to begin with; the reason he studied it so patiently was just to write another paper on improved spells, receive another reward from the Ministry of Magic for improved spells, and reduce his debt a bit more...

As long as he publishes papers diligently, one day his debt will be paid off...

After the debt is paid off, he can publish similar papers to fleece the Ministry of Magic.

But the Ministry of Magic hasn't given a response to the Lumos paper from last time yet! Allen thought, somewhat distracted.

He felt his discoveries would gradually change the lifestyle of the entire Wizarding World: the improved Lumos could change the lighting and entertainment methods of the Wizarding World.

As for the improved Qing Quan Zhou, it would probably allow wizards to drink more hot water!

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