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Chapter 320 Scientific Metaphysics: The Complete Experimental Record of the Dongxia Nest

The nest of "Silver Abyss" was officially completed in the valley of Ziyun Nature Reserve, marking the first substantial step forward in the construction of Dongxia's psionic system.

A truly landmark development!
Based on data and information collected from the Starry World, Dongxia replicated the "Silver Abyss" of the Xiyue Federation almost exactly.

After passing through the lush forest, traversing long passages, and overcoming layers of guards, the moment you enter the gate of the "Silver Abyss" lair, a breathtaking view unfolds before you.

The outer perimeter of this nest is a spacious and empty underground hall, large enough to accommodate several large passenger planes. The patterns of the energy-gathering array are clearly visible around the thick reinforced concrete support pillars.

A deep blue spiritual energy emanated from the spirit crystal in the magic array's input slot, flowing slowly along the magical materials to create an efficient spiritual energy delivery system.

The outer edge of the nest is covered with gray wave-absorbing and confining materials. These materials not only absorb sound waves and energy vibrations, but more importantly, they block the high concentration of psionic energy inside, preventing it from leaking out and being wasted.

The psionic energy leaked into the air, like spilling the venom of a Madagascar viper into the tranquil sea...

The staff quarters in the main hall were on the second floor, with the forest overhead after the rain and the roar of the creatures' nests below. In the center of the hall, the seventh-tier aberration, the nest's sole ruler, paced back and forth listlessly.

Its slightly bloated, metallic-sheen body swayed in the nest, the core of the "Silver Abyss" relic hanging on the incompletely metamorphosed tail of the aberrant creature, swaying back and forth with the movement of its body, emitting a soft, multicolored halo.

As the master of the nest, the aberration instinctively obeyed Chen Mo's orders and cooperated with Deputy Brigade Commander Xiao Bai's command, fulfilling the biological nest's primary function—creating nest guards.

In the initial stage, the "Silver Abyss" nest first had to face continuous and comprehensive testing from the Dongxia technical department.

The test is divided into three phases.

The first phase of testing had a clear objective: to verify the accuracy of the data provided by the Starry Continent and to reproduce the characteristics of "Silver Manifestation".

The first step in the test was to lay out the silver.

Because the required silver "manifestation carrier" is not very heavy, Dongxia adopted the simplest method of rapid drone deployment. With the press of a button, the first batch of about sixty drones participating in the test entered the site and placed different test objects at even intervals in the designated position in the central hall of the nest.

The test items were divided into three types: square silver ingots, strip silver wires, and sheet silver foils. Each product was set with five weights, and each weight level was further divided into four different shapes.

After the test object was placed, the drone quickly retreated.

Then comes the moment when the aberration manifests.

Within its concave head, the vortex-like rotation speed suddenly accelerated. Under the monitoring of the instrument, it emitted a long tone that lasted for six seconds, starting with infrasound, rapidly gliding through the frequency range of sound waves that the human ear could hear, and finally transitioning into the ultrasonic stage.

To the observation team, it was just a strange, short, and abrupt pitch change, but the various audio detection devices clearly recorded the entire frequency range of the voiceprint.

They even tried to catalyze the sound using only this sound characteristic without using the aberration variant, but of course, they got nowhere!
The aberrant sound waves contained intense psionic energy, spreading out like ripples on water and enveloping the testing area in the hive hall.

A miracle, or rather, magic, just happened.

The silver metal objects in the field seemed to turn into heated wax figures, and began to wriggle rapidly. In just a few seconds, they softened, stretched, and pulled out the framework of each structure.

Professor Qin Zhenhua, who was in charge of the testing, stared intently at the camera, repeatedly exclaiming, "What an amazing law!"

"Silver is not difficult to deform due to its texture, but to complete such a precise deformation at such a fast speed is simply miraculous in terms of the application of mechanics!"

"I feel as if I've glimpsed a new temple of physics!"

A leader from the administrative department couldn't help but speak up: "Alright, Professor Qin, let's stop talking about physics here!"

"What are you talking about? Psychic energy is also a type of physical energy. You can't talk about metaphysics without considering science!"

"We respect metaphysics. As long as the phenomena are observable, repeatable, verifiable, and the laws can be summarized, then it is science!"

While they were arguing, the changes in the room did not stop. As the silver frame took shape, the psionic pressure in the entire hall began to drop sharply. Psionic energy was drawn into the guarding frame at a speed of more than a level 5 gale, from the ethereal to the tangible, and the frame was filled.

The first to be sculpted was a humanoid construct about half a person's height, with a well-proportioned body and sharp silver blades extending from its arms—the Silver Walker.

The moment this creature was born, a beam of red light shining from the front of the hall caught its attention.

The Silver Walker strode forward.

The on-site testing team's monitoring group loudly announced: "The second batch of guardians has been manifested! The energy fluctuations are stable, consistent with the characteristics of a second-tier, first-stage physical attack construct!"

"Defense test begins!"

Defense testing measures the construct's defensive capabilities; simply put, it involves hammering it with various weapons.

The firearms tested included automatic rifles, light machine guns, heavy machine guns, sniper rifles, autocannons, offensive grenades, defensive grenades, small and medium caliber artillery shells, contact-activated landmines, flamethrowers, laser emitters, man-portable rocket launchers, and man-portable lightweight anti-enemy missiles...

Etc., etc.

This intensity is comparable to a small-scale local battle.

The cold weapons involved in the test are naturally swords, spears, halberds, axes, hooks, and forks. In actual combat, the main test categories are grouped and tested according to the types of long-range heavy weapons, long-range light weapons, close-range blunt weapons, close-range sharp weapons, special weapons, and psionic weapons.

After the defense test, there is also the attack test.

After eliminating most of the guards, the Dongxia attack team retreated, leaving behind some specially made targets and robots to experience and feel the attack capabilities of these construct nest guards.

With all tests completed in an orderly manner, the testing team finished destroying and recovering all the nest creatures. The inactive constructs left behind a small pile of dark gray powder. What could be retrieved from the center of the powder was a psionic crystal about the size of an adult's thumbnail, pure milky white in color, with a halo of light flowing inside.

The first batch of spirit crystals was quickly transferred to the seventh group for testing and application. Meanwhile, the second round of manifestation experiments began on site.

All the nest creatures, except for the Silver Aberration leader which is the core, will be killed several times each using melee weapons, firearms, and magical weapons. A small number of samples will be kept until the end to test their attack capabilities and combat habits.

Based on the tested nest creatures' attack capabilities, defense levels, energy intensity, and spirit crystal production records, Dongxia immediately compiled the "Atlas of Nest Guardian Parameters and Catalytic Relationships in the Silver Abyss".

The one that worked the hardest was naturally the mutant.

This guy was emitting high-frequency catalytic sound waves, to the point that even the captain of the guard responsible for protecting the nest felt a little sorry for him.

“I was saying… this ‘big baby’ looks pretty tired, should we get it something to nourish it?”

"He's been shouting for so long, his throat must be sore. Should we get him some lozenges?"

"Are you crazy? This guy makes sounds by vibrating the metallic elements inside his body; it's just a form of energy expression and has absolutely nothing to do with his voice!" "Even energy beings need to be mindful of their fatigue levels, right?"

"Alright, alright, stop feeling sorry for yourself. The expert team is much more concerned than you are! This is just a small-scale, single-point limit test. There will be large-scale catalysis later. You'll have your turn to feel sorry for yourself then!"

The "Illustrated Guide" has been basically completed. The second phase of testing focuses on finding the best return on investment.

Does the psionic energy of the starry world follow the law of conservation of energy? Based on the known experimental results of the Dongxia scientific research system, the answer is yes.

In other words, psionic energy is essentially a type of conventional energy. During its use and transformation, it will not increase out of thin air and will inevitably be lost.

In the Starry Continent, because the overall environment is rich in spiritual energy, catalyzing and killing guards is equivalent to collecting and purifying the free spiritual energy in the air into physical spiritual crystals, which is almost a "risk-free business".

However, this condition does not exist on Earth.

Theoretically speaking, even if you invest one standard unit of spirit crystal, considering the losses from catalysis, the dissipation into the air, and the retention of aberrations, the final output will never reach the level of one standard unit of spirit crystal.

However, Dongxia also has a special device called the "Electric Power Amplification Assist Array".

This special magic circle, painstakingly developed by Anthony Herik, a master of the energy school and a fifth-circle scholar of the Magic Academy, combines six basic magic circles with different functions. Through the dual input of psionic and electrical energy, it greatly enhances the application effect of the original spirit crystals.

When the entire composite magic array is in operation, although it cannot convert electrical energy into spiritual energy out of thin air, with the continuous power input from an external power source, the magic array can greatly stabilize and prolong the energy output of the spiritual crystal.

The ability to achieve such a power amplification conversion is already a groundbreaking invention in the field of energy science! It was with this creation that Grand Master Anton became the first foreign academician of Dongxia in the Starry World.

The second phase of testing involves continuously adjusting the basic element of the Guardian Manifestation, Silver, through various methods such as scaling up and down, increasing or decreasing weight, changing shape, and mixing alloys, to test the relationship between psionic energy consumption and actual output under different states through comparative experiments.

For example, if a standard silver ingot weighs 600 grams, then in the experiment, different weights of the manifestation carrier will be evenly distributed in intervals of 50 grams, ranging from 100 grams to 1200 grams.

For example, by changing the shape of the carrier, such as by weaving silver wire into a sphere or folding silver foil multiple times, different control groups can be created to see the final quantity and purity of the spirit crystals produced.

Another example is changing the composition. This was the boldest attempt. The project team used different proportions of copper-silver alloys, or silver ingots mixed with other metals such as aluminum, titanium, or even gold, as a medium to try to manifest the Nest Guardian.

The effects of mixing silver with other non-metallic materials, such as high-purity quartz, were observed.

The entire test was long and tedious, lasting a full seven hours. After a short rest, the mutant leader was once again "conscripted" to repeatedly activate the sound waves.

The hall was filled with flashing lights, and various strange and even distorted constructs appeared and were quickly destroyed. Data flowed into the supercomputer like water.

Ultimately, the analysis pointed to two clear conclusions:

The change in form only slightly affects the appearance of the "Silver Abyss" nest guardian produced by the catalyst, and does not affect the output result. The energy level of the spirit crystal obtained in the end is mainly related to the quality of the silver invested.

When mixed with other metals, if the proportion of silver falls below a certain critical value, the success rate of catalysis and the yield will plummet. What is often produced are non-standard, twisted, weak, and deformed monsters, and the production rate of spirit crystals will be abysmal.

Non-metallic materials are completely unaffected by the distorted sound waves.

"The 'Silver Contract' truly lives up to its name!"

"It only recognizes silver, and high-purity silver at that! What a loyal child!"

The final verification process was extremely complex and will not be detailed here. Interestingly, after repeated experiments and comparisons, the standardized template for manifesting nest guardians previously provided by Starry World was proven to be highly similar to the optimal solution for nest creatures to produce crystals in various forms.

"Professor Qin, these are the final comparison results."

The data analyst projected a report onto the main screen: "The parameters provided by Star World and the best results obtained from the final comparative experiment are all within one gram of each other."

“We even have reason to believe that the parameters they provided were the best, but because the information was transmitted without further subdivision of the mass, and instead used a simple mode with whole scales as the input standard, there was a slight deviation.”

"Based on the benchmark given by Fanxing, if the quality deviation exceeds 25%, the yield will drop significantly, and if it exceeds 37%, it is basically equivalent to a replacement failure."

Professor Qin peered at the data table again and again, and finally let out a long, ambiguous sigh.

I don't know if it was out of admiration for the Silver Grand Duke's spirit of exploration back then, or the capriciousness of fate.

After a brief rest for the aberration leader, the third and final phase of testing—the mass production extreme experiment—finally began.

By varying the total number of silver manifestation carriers used each time, their spacing and location, and even by placing multiple layers of shelves in the hall to display several times or even ten times more silver carriers than usual at once, the catalytic limit per unit time of the nest can be determined.

The vast amount of data eventually coalesced into a standard production formula.

"A single input of 100 standard units of spirit crystals as a 'fuse' maintains the psionic energy intensity of the nest and the aberration. Combined with the amplification of the magic array by consuming approximately 7000 kilowatt-hours of mains electricity, and the input of approximately 6 kilograms of standard silver as a medium, the number of spirit crystals that can be stably produced is—125 standard units."

"That is, for a single maximum manifestation, the net gain in spirit crystals is 25 standard units!"

"This manifestation process can be executed once every thirty minutes!"

Before the report was even finished, the expert professor, who was skilled in mental arithmetic, had already obtained the data.

"The maximum frequency of manifestation per day is 48 times. Based on 365 days a year, the theoretical output of spirit crystals can reach 438,000 standard units."

A heated discussion broke out in the room, but it was quickly silenced by a single sentence from Professor Qin Zhenhua.

"That's not how it works. The Silver Aberration Leader needs rest!"

"After eight to ten consecutive catalysis cycles, a rapid decline in nest conversion efficiency can be clearly felt, resulting in increased consumption and reduced output."

"We cannot determine whether this fatigue will harm the Aberration Leader or cause it to become 'emotionally' resistant. For long-term considerations, the command has halted further extreme manifestation tests."

"I think we should be more humane when it comes to such a 'unique' achievement and establish a more reasonable work and rest schedule!"

This made perfect sense. The top leaders of the [Compassionate Voyage] project quickly exchanged opinions and made a decision on the spot, establishing the guiding principle for the future manifestation of the nest: "Scientific planning, orderly production; work-life balance, and sustainable development!"
That's just reality. When your job can be easily replaced, you're just a beast of burden, silently giving your all and being manipulated by others.

When your job is irreplaceable, you become a valuable asset, deserving praise and rewards, and subject to value assessment.

Only when your work, like that of this mutant leader, is unique and irreplaceable in Dongxia, do you finally have the right to be fully respected and become a noble beast of burden!
With this, the acceptance testing of the "Silver Abyss" nest has successfully concluded, and all key data has been collected. Although there may be some small-scale supplementary experiments in the future, they will not hinder the overall strategic deployment.

Then, a war without gunfire immediately broke out within the [Compassionate Voyage] Engineering Department!
Representatives from various departments related to psionic energy engaged in a fierce "battle" for the theoretically hundreds of thousands of standard units of spirit crystals produced annually!
(End of this chapter)