Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 149 The Mystery of Electromagnetic Waves
"The first group's experiment is from here to the main gate, a distance of about 300 meters. The second group will go to the Chang'an City teleportation array, the third group will go to the vicinity of the Taiyin Palace teleportation array, and the fourth group will go to the Longshan Port teleportation array. Then, I will go to the endpoint to record the data. Your task is to be responsible for sending electromagnetic waves and controlling this place so that the connection can be established..."

Tan Xin carefully instructed the two cultivators who had come to operate the device, and then said to Ma Lou, who had temporarily come to help in the laboratory, "You are responsible for contacting me. I will message you privately when I am ready. At that time, you need to time it perfectly so that the two of them can operate the device, and then take screenshots of the image displayed by this 'lightning detector'. The faster the better, and be sure to take as many screenshots as possible! After this experiment is completed, I will treat you to hot pot offline!"

Ma Lou from the lab gave an "OK" sign: "Perfect!"

After explaining the preparations, Tan Xin packed the receiver and another "lightning detector" into her backpack and strode away.

The "lightning detector" was something Ma Lou had never seen before in the laboratory. It had a strong style of spiritual artifacts from the Guixu Realm. The bronze mirror, polished to a mirror shine, was engraved with exquisite spiritual talismans and gilded patterns, making it look more like a work of art than a "tool".

According to Tan Xin's explanation, this "lightning detector" was originally a magical artifact used by cultivators to detect the "power of heavenly lightning" when they piloted flying boats through areas where tribulation clouds gathered at sea. In reality, because the natives of the Guixu Realm could not distinguish between lightning and electromagnetic waves, they mistook the electromagnetic waves received by this magical artifact and converted into images for "lightning".

The two are not equivalent, but in a sense, the magnitude of electromagnetic waves can indeed indirectly prove the "power" of lightning. It is a very practical magical tool. More importantly, it can very intuitively show the image of light spots converted from the amplitude of electromagnetic waves in a bronze mirror. The denser and brighter the light spots, the stronger the electromagnetic waves are, which also means that it is more dangerous. The "pilots" of the Fu Lu Shou Chamber of Commerce's flying boats relied on this to avoid every time there was a calamity cloud zone on the sea.

The pair of lightning detectors in Tan Xin's hands were specially crafted by He Xu Wanning, a renowned master craftsman from the Ten Continents and Three Islands. They were more sensitive in terms of precision, capable of capturing extremely weak electromagnetic waves, and could only receive electromagnetic wave frequencies. This was a concept that Tan Xin had gone to great lengths to explain to He Xu Wanning. Although the other party ultimately understood it as only being able to receive "a certain type of thunderbolt with specific power," and that the actual effect was unstable, in any case, this pair of lightning detectors was an important contributor to the successful conduct of Tan Xin's experiment.

Even more surprisingly, Huxmanin ingeniously changed the color of the light spot image generated by receiving "a specific type of thunderbolt." This means that even if the lightning detector receives other electromagnetic waves due to performance instability, it will display ordinary white light spots because the wave frequency is not the predetermined frequency. Only "a specific type of thunderbolt," that is, electromagnetic waves of a specific frequency emitted by the transmitter, will appear as purple light spots.

It can only be said that the cultivators of the Guixu Realm have simply developed a different "evolutionary path" from the humans on Earth, but that does not mean they are stupid.

Having heard Tan Xin briefly explain the entire experiment beforehand, Ma Lou in the lab had a general understanding of the process and principles. However, she naturally harbored some distrust towards these indigenous things and secretly asked in a private chat, "Is that 'lightning detector' you're using reliable?"

Tan Xin replied, "There's nothing we can do. Our resources are really limited right now. We can only assume its effect until we have conclusive evidence that it will affect the experimental data. Otherwise, we don't know how long this experiment could be delayed!"

Ma Lou from the lab sighed sincerely, "Alas! We still have too few people!"

Tan Xin casually comforted him, "Let's wait a little longer, there will definitely be more and more in the future!"

In no time, Tan Xin had set up the receiver device. She took a deep breath and sent a private message to Ma Lou in the lab: "We can start now!"

"Okay, it's 23 minutes now. We'll launch at exactly 25 minutes!"

"Roger that!"

Those two short minutes felt like an eternity to Tan Xin. She kept checking the system time, and when it reached 24 minutes, she stared intently at the lightning detector's mirror. She could even hear her own heart pounding in her chest and her heavy, labored breathing. Suddenly, in Tan Xin's peripheral vision, the Arabic numerals in her field of vision flickered, and the lightning detector's mirror began to flash purple dots.

She had somewhat forgotten the light spot images from the lab, but whether it was just her imagination or not, she felt that these photoelectric images seemed a bit brighter than the previous ones.

But she didn't have time, nor did she dare to, to confirm the results right now. After communicating with Ma Lou in the lab, Tan Xin hurriedly rushed to the next planned location—next to the teleportation array in Chang'an City.

As more and more new players joined, Chang'an City enacted new laws prohibiting the illegal use of highly destructive spells, including but not limited to lightning spells.

As for the legal use of lightning detectors, aside from applications from research institutes and laboratories, such cases are almost nonexistent. Since these institutes and laboratories are already closed at this time, the interference to the lightning detector is minimal. This is why Tan Xin was in such a hurry to complete the experiment at this time—if it were during the day, the various interferences from neighboring experiments would result in a purple dot pattern with many small white dots, severely impacting the "aesthetics" of the experimental data.

"Ready to begin!"

"Alright! Launch at 40 minutes!"

"Roger that!"

After a brief private chat, there was another extremely long wait of several minutes.

Subsequently, brighter and denser purple spots appeared in the bronze mirror, and even the white spots that are image impurities were almost gone!
This is definitely not an illusion!

Tan Xin's face broke into an exaggerated smile, and tears welled up in her eyes with excitement. She sniffed and moved on to a third location—the Taiyin Palace, dozens of kilometers away.

The Moon Palace is in the sky, about twelve kilometers away from Central Continent University in a straight line, which is a distance that is neither too far nor too near.

The third experimental image was also quickly captured and saved by Tan Xin. The significant increase made her steps lighter as she headed towards the fourth receiving location.

The fourth location was near the Longshan Port teleportation array, several hundred kilometers away from the transmitter. According to the pattern shown in the first three experiments, it should have yielded an image with more and brighter light spots. However, what Tan Xin ultimately saw was a result that was almost indistinguishable from the third group of images!

What on earth is going on?!
(End of this chapter)