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Chapter 178 - 146 The Answer Lies in the Patina Formation!

Chapter 178: Chapter 146 The Answer Lies in the Patina Formation!

April 7th in the afternoon.

Chen Yun stayed at home and didn’t go to Bai Shi to learn about signal modulation and demodulation or baseband signal coding.

Nor did he go to pass the time by playing Go.

Even though he was only three matches away from a winning streak against a Level 9 AI, and countless people were secretly watching his games.

He still chose not to play Go.

After all, he had more important things to do now.

That was the piece of cloth he had just gone out to retrieve.

It was a ten-centimeter square handkerchief.

Its texture was delicate, light, and soft, its color a gentle sky blue, reminiscent of a refreshing swatch beneath a clear sky, unintentionally calming one’s mood.

Chen Yun had originally chosen this blue handkerchief, which was quite sensitive to dogs, to be the toy that silly dog Bai Jin chased and gnawed on.

Usually, Chen Yun would use telekinesis, a feature of his spiritual power, to make the blue handkerchief fly around and tease the silly dog Bai Jin.

But now,

This handkerchief was completely different.

After establishing super-visual range position perception,

It had a very strong presence in Chen Yun’s spiritual perception, shining as brightly as the Sun.

Most importantly,

The intangible connection that had formed between Chen Yun and the handkerchief, namely that mysterious, super-visual range link, garnered Chen Yun’s utmost attention.

He was very curious about the duration and the maximum distance of this connection.

Chen Yun was equally curious about whether this connection would disappear or be affected if the handkerchief itself were damaged.

If he could understand the principles and mechanisms behind this connection, Chen Yun also wanted to know if it was possible to maintain multiple connections simultaneously.

If there were multiple connections, what would it feel like as they interplayed in his mind?

In short,

Chen Yun was very curious about many things.

Before experimenting with and resolving these curiosities one by one, Chen Yun needed to solve one problem first: how exactly was this super-visual range position perception connection formed?

This concerned the possibility of mass production and the development of subsequent experiments.

He closed his eyes.

Chen Yun carefully considered what was so special about this handkerchief.

It didn’t seem to be anything special in terms of origin.

It was just a dog toy given to him by the owner of a pet store at the Flower Bird Market.

In terms of material, it was just an ordinary cotton handkerchief, the most common type.

Its attributes were softness, skin-friendliness, good moisture absorption and breathability, and it was unlikely to cause allergies.

After pondering for a long time, looking at silly dog Bai Jin panting beside him, Chen Yun suddenly realized what made this handkerchief special.

If there was anything special about it, it had to be its daily airborne experience!

Chen Yun often used telekinesis to make it fly around, teasing the dopey Bai Jin.

"So..." he mused,

"Could it be due to being ’patinated’?"

Chen Yun narrowed his eyes, harboring such a suspicion in his mind.

In collectibles, particularly concerning handheld items, carved nuts, jade, and similar activities, "patination" refers to a change on the surface of an object due to long-term handling, contact with skin, and friction; the "patina" refers to a smooth, oily, semi-transparent layer of oxidation or coating that forms on the surface after an item has been regularly handled over time.

This handkerchief, because of its daily envelopment by spiritual power, was likely influenced over time and developed a patina.

Thus, it underwent some indescribable changes!

The more he thought about it, the more Chen Yun felt this speculation could be plausible.

Although there was no way to verify this immediately, no way to produce another object that had been similarly patinated to provide proof,

Chen Yun knew in his heart that this was likely the reason.

Moreover, most importantly, the super-visual range connection between him and the handkerchief was gradually weakening, although not significantly; he could indeed faintly sense it.

When he tried to swing his spiritual power around it for a while, he clearly felt the super-visual range perception connection strengthen and clarify.

Spiritual power played a major role in this!

Thus, it was almost certain!

The handkerchief had been affected due to the excess and frequent exposure to spiritual power, establishing a super-visual range connection with Chen Yun.

As he thought, a light flashed in Chen Yun’s eyes.

Understanding the mechanism meant it was quite possible for him to mass-produce it.

This super-visual range perception connection was very useful, not only to ensure some things wouldn’t get lost, but also, if he gave an object with such a connection to someone else, wouldn’t that mean he effectively had real-time tracking on them?

At that moment, many ideas flashed through Chen Yun’s mind.

However, before applying these in practice, Chen Yun still had some things to do.

Understanding the principle and being able to ensure more experimental samples would naturally lead to a series of experiments, which Chen Yun found reassuring.

Thinking it over,

Chen Yun decided to first perform a deformation destruction test.

The duration of the connection could only be determined by the fact that it weakened over time and was not permanent, but exactly how long it could last and whether spiritual power’s involvement had the potential to refresh it still needed more experimental samples to yield results.

As for the maximum distance of the connection, they needed to continuously send a sample as far away as possible and perceive whether the connection would break or weaken in the process; that was not an experiment he could conduct at the moment.

The same applied to the maximum number of connections that could be sustained; for the time being, there was no way to produce additional samples for experimentation, nor did he know how long it would take to create an object that had been patinated by spiritual power.

So, in summary.

The experiment that could be carried out immediately was the destructive type. Chen Yun tried causing different degrees of deformation to the object to see if it would affect the fixed super visual-range position perception connection on top of it.

Firstly,

Chen Yun balled the handkerchief into a clump.

The result was as expected, with no impact or change whatsoever. The super visual-range position perception connection between himself and the handkerchief remained clear.

Clearly, simple distortion was useless and had no effect on the super visual-range position perception connection.

Thinking,

Chen Yun glanced at the innocent and curious gaze of the silly dog Bai Jin, and with a swift stroke of his sharp nails, decisively split the handkerchief into two equal parts.

He needed neither a ruler nor a knife.

His eyes were the ruler, his nails the knife.

Seeing the toy destroyed into two halves, silly dog Bai Jin instantly widened his eyes in a somewhat pitiful manner, yet he didn’t dare to make a sound.

After such a destructive change occurred, that special quality on the split handkerchief also changed.

Chen Yun could feel that the super visual-range position perception connection in his mind also split into two, and he could simultaneously sense the existence of both pieces of the handkerchief.

This feeling was quite novel and special.

The super visual-range position perception connection now had two channels, each leading to separate targets without interference.

This discovery indeed prematurely and indirectly experimented with a result, which was that multiple super visual-range position perception connections could coexist at once.

However,

The super visual-range position perception connection, which split into two after the cutting, was significantly more blurred and weakened than the previous whole one.

The extent of this weakening was more than just a simple halving.

Thinking,

Chen Yun took one half of the handkerchief and evenly split it into two with his nails once again.

The next moment,

The two quarter-sized pieces of the handkerchief had a super visual-range position perception connection that flickered like a flame about to go out, seemingly extinguishable with just a casual blow.

From being as bright as the Sun when whole to now resembling a small flame that could go out at any moment, it was simply because the total material mass, that is, the weight had become just a quarter of the original.

Yet, the degree of this weakening was much more than fourfold.

Chen Yun understood that this was probably the limit.

However, adhering to a rigorous attitude, Chen Yun picked out one piece from the quarter-sized fragments and, without hesitation, split it again into two.

The next moment,

The two one-eighth-sized handkerchief fragments lost any super visual-range position perception connection.

That faint feeling, as if there were strings linking him and the handkerchief, was severed in this moment.

Only the half-sized and quarter-sized pieces of the handkerchief retained connections of varying strength.

As for the two one-eighth-sized fragments, they became indistinguishable from an ordinary handkerchief.

Obviously,

Ordinary distortion had no impact on the connection brought by super visual-range perception. But the cutting behavior that affects mass carried a significant impact.

When the mass was reduced to a certain extent,

The super visual-range position perception connection would break off, as if it had never existed.

Chen Yun looked at the dismembered handkerchief with a satisfied expression.

Although the silly dog Bai Jin was feeling down because the toy handkerchief was dismembered,

It must be said that whenever such experiments were conducted to study a new ability and conclusions drawn, it always felt exceptionally interesting and satisfying.

Although he didn’t know whether this new characteristic of spiritual power had always been there undiscovered or appeared after the sixth evolution along with the change in spiritual power,

The importance of that matter wasn’t great.

Chen Yun only knew that this sense of achievement and advancement always made him reluctant to stop.

Thinking,

Chen Yun entered the Memory Palace and began planning more experiments for this new ability.

[About the experiment plan for super visual-range position perception]

[1: Regarding the continuity issue of this special super visual-range connection, Chen Yun decided to keep the quarter fragment of the handkerchief as undisturbed as possible and observe when the gradually weakening connection would disappear. After waiting for more experimental samples, use more samples to continue the patina of spiritual power to see if it extends the duration.]

[2: Regarding the maximum distance issue of this special super visual-range connection, he decided to send the half-sized fragment of the handkerchief by mail to observe changes as it moves farther away.]

[3: Allocating half the time of the morning telekinesis experiment to produce a batch of spiritual power patina products and summarizing the required time for an object’s patination process during this, to find out if different objects will have a discrepancy in timing.]

After glancing over the plan to make sure there were no major issues or omissions, Chen Yun stretched and carefully stored away the quarter fragment of the handkerchief that still maintained a connection.

The quarter fragment was kept to observe the duration, while the half-sized fragment would be sent for the maximum distance experiment.

Contemplating, Chen Yun went out directly.

He went to the Cai Niao Station, packaged the half-sized handkerchief nicely, and casually mailed it to his hometown far away in Jiangnan Province.

Starting with a small 1700 kilometer test.

He would be paying attention to the super visual-range position perception in his mind during this journey.

After completing all these tasks, Chen Yun casually took a parcel back home.

Looking at the time, which was just shy of four in the afternoon,

Chen Yun decided to open up the Go Network and settle in for a few games.

With AI strength increasing, after winning three more games against real people today and advancing to the point where he could spar with a Level 9 AI ranging from Professional First Rank to Ninth Rank, Chen Yun felt he could enjoy himself for a bit.

It had taken him two days to reach this point, and he dared not claim to have exhausted the variety of Go, plus there was the Level 10 AI capable of defeating all humankind that he hadn’t tried yet.

Such a challenging form of entertainment was of quite an interest to Chen Yun.

No matter what others thought,

Chen Yun found Go to be truly intriguing.

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