Chapter 2303 Billion Years of Time, Livability is Rare
The edge of the plane.
The territorial residents who were still playing here have been informed to return to the territory. At this moment, there are only two people here, Sha Duo and Niya, and the small metal sticks standing on the ground as signs seem to be the same as they were half a month ago.
Variety.
This is indeed the case. The stick itself will not change. What changes is the new distance between the stick and the plane barrier.
It's just that the distance is too short to be discerned by the naked eye. Even through magical measurement, the distance revealed by a single stick is difficult to use as a reference in such small-scale calculations.
That's why multiple identification points were established along the edge of the plane.
"How's it going? What's the distance you measured there?" Sha Duo asked Niya about the results while casting spells.
"It's either zero or a very exaggerated number."
Niya gave two very extreme figures. Xia Duo was stunned for a moment, then reacted and reminded: "Increase the measurement accuracy, and do not touch the plane barrier, which will cause huge deviations in the measurement."
Xia Duo's method is to first use a beam of extremely small amplitude rays to approach the edge of the plane. When it is not broken into pieces, it means that it has reached the plane barrier. Because of the fluctuation, half of it is in the normal space and half of it is in the plane.
within the barrier.
Then measure the shortest distance from the marking stick to the ray, and you can get the distance of plane expansion during this period of time.
However, Niya's method is direct measurement, and the accuracy is limited, which leads to two very extreme results, either zero, or the interference of the plane barrier becomes very huge, which obviously exceeds the visual results.
At Xia Duo's reminder, Niya changed the measurement method, but the wrinkles were still not loosened. It seemed that there were still problems with the results.
"What's wrong? Any questions?"
"No, I have re-measured it as you said, but the result is too inconspicuous!"
"This is the truth!"
Xia Duo glanced at the dozens of small sign sticks on the line from south to north, "If the expansion of the plane can make us obviously different, then after countless years, the main plane will be more than this big. Tell me about your measurement
The results came out.”
"Um."
Niya thought for a while, finally agreed with Xia Duo's statement, and then reported her measurement results, "0.0034, 0.0032, 0.0041, 0.0035..."
According to the weights and measures that Shado unified in the Tower of Time, the units after these numbers are centimeters, which is one hundredth of a meter.
Niya's measurement data are very different from those measured by Xia Duo. They are both in the same order of magnitude, roughly ranging from 0.003 centimeters to 0.005 centimeters. It is difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.
And if this expansion rate is followed, the desolate plains on the edge of this plane alone may take at least hundreds of millions of years, not to mention that this is only a part of the main plane.
In other words, the main plane is most likely an "old" plane that is hundreds of millions to billions of years old. Of course, this time is calculated according to human scales. If it is based on the scale of the plane itself, the current main plane may be in
Maybe even young adults.
Xia Duo consciously agrees with this result.
He has done many plane experiments before, such as elemental infection. If he wants to change the nature of a demiplane, it will take at least hundreds of thousands of years to see the results through elemental infection.
Now that we know that the true existence time of the main plane is measured in at least hundreds of millions of years, this is no exaggeration at all.
The lifespan of just one demiplane can kill countless humans, and it would take hundreds of years to transform it. Starting from a thousand years, it seems that everything is related to the plane, and the time scale will naturally expand countless times.
At this moment, Xia Duo realized more deeply the value of livable planes.
It takes countless years for a plane to grow to a certain size from its birth. During these countless years, countless accidents may cause the plane to fail in its growth or change its original attributes.
And the habitable plane is only relative to the living environment of human beings. In this case, just think about it and you will know how low the probability of the habitable plane appears.
Not to mention that most of the material plane is hidden in the etheric layer, and there is a huge threshold for discovery. You can imagine how much a livable plane is worth!
But even so, Xia Duo is not ready to give up his efforts in this area, but will search more actively. It is precisely because the habitable plane is so rare and precious that the crisis in the main plane seems so terrifying.
Once the place of survival is destroyed, it can be said that it is almost the end of civilization. Even if a few people can escape, it will be difficult to develop civilization again.
Therefore, Xia Duo has only two attitudes toward possible crises in the main plane. One is to actively look for solutions within the plane, which is the most basic. At the same time, he must also actively look for new solutions outside the plane.
Such as other habitable planes, or facilities similar to escape ships (floating cities).
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Returning to the floating city, Shado immediately activated the floating city's jump system to teleport within the plane, and the destination he wanted to teleport to was not Netheril in the north of the Western Continent, but the Antarctic!
We have already seen the East Pole, so we should go and take a look at the other poles, and then set up markers for long-term observation. Only in this way can we better reflect the true situation of the expansion of the plane.
When there is a clear target, the floating city's teleportation efficiency is extremely fast. It reaches the southern sea almost instantly, and based on the detection results, the second teleportation accurately reaches the edge of the Antarctic plane.
Different from the desolate plains of the East Pole, the edge of the Antarctic plane is still the sea, but there is no life in the sea. Countless waves impact on the plane barrier, lose their kinetic energy and then slowly fall.
In this case, it is obviously not feasible to set up a tangible sign in the East Pole like before, but Xia Duo had already made a plan and used a magic mark based on spatial positioning as a sign.
More than a hundred signs were left on the edge of the Antarctic plane.
Then came the West Pole and the North Pole. These two poles were still the same as the Antarctic, a lifeless sea. As usual, Xia Duo left a magic mark to drive the floating city back to the Bactria Territory.
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When the floating city canceled all space transformations and returned to its original azure spherical form, the citizens of Daxia who saw this scene outdoors all raised their hands and cheered.
The sound reached the ears of Xia Duo, who was observing the territory in the study on the top floor of the Tower of Time. He couldn't help but smile knowingly. He had been away for nearly two months and was warmly welcomed by the people in the territory when he came back. To say that he was not at all proud, then
It's also impossible.
However, he only paid attention to the people in the territory who greeted him for a moment. Xia Duo quickly turned his attention to the neatly planned roads in the territory.