As for the smuggling mentioned by Ye Erlan, Xia Duo was not sure if it existed. There was some reason to check the dangerous goods that might be contained in the void warehouse. It would be too much to completely record the type, quantity and other detailed information of the items that the user accessed.
Even Xia Duo himself doesn't think this is a good idea, let alone in the current era, as long as there is a little bit of news, the reputation of the Void Warehouse may be immediately damaged beyond repair.
This is also the external commitment of all chambers of commerce operating void warehouses at this stage. Regardless of whether they actually do it or not, each of them claims that they will not check the items stored by users.
In Xia Duo's view, checking and recording detailed records of user access is not a necessary condition for operating a void warehouse. This is completely an infringement of user privacy. He is not running those unscrupulous apps in his hometown. He still wants to save face.
For him, safety inspections are already the limit of what he thinks an operator can do, and anything more is beyond the operator's scope of authority.
Therefore, unless he happened to catch the smuggling situation, it would be difficult for him to pinpoint the smuggling situation. The reason why he came back to check immediately was not because of the smuggling mentioned by Ye Erlan, but because of the last time.
It was also because of the smuggling by the Illuminati that he came up with the idea of checking the Void Warehouse, and he found the excited state magic weapon.
Last time, the Illuminati did use his void warehouse to smuggle, and he also smuggled it himself. He put pressure on Elan by smuggling food to Elan, and then the two parties came up with a plan to cooperate and develop together.
And he was able to discover the smuggling of the Illuminati that time because his "broiler" Person personally participated in the smuggling process and acted as his informant, so he knew about it.
But this time, Person was involved in an attack, so Chateau knew the real murderer of the attack and some of the details. As for the smuggling, he didn't know.
Maybe the Illuminati arranged for someone else to do it.
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In addition, Shado did not explain what kind of smuggling was the smuggling situation that Yeerlan asked Iolum to remind him. He felt that Yeerlan most likely only noticed a slight abnormality and there was no conclusive evidence.
Maybe they didn't even know what was being smuggled. Maybe they just discovered that the resistance organization in Elam was a little more active, so they thought it was smuggling based on their usual judgment.
But in fact--
Xia Duo felt that maybe this was a precursor to the Illuminati's actions, attacking the magic weapon factory to cover up a certain key action. However, the plan unexpectedly went wrong. The impact of the attack was too huge, and Ye Erlan was highly sensitive.
So I became aware of some actions of the Illuminati outside of attacking the magic weapon factory.
Thinking of this, Xia Duo felt that it was necessary to communicate with Yeerlan and other countries. It would be best to fully exchange their new discoveries about the Illuminati.
Otherwise, it is really possible for the Illuminati to use the information bias of all parties to steal chickens successfully!
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Returning to the Tower of Time, Shado reorganized his thoughts and finally decided not to contact Oripus. He was originally planning to ask the other party to help investigate the current situation of the Chamber of Commerce that operates the Void Warehouse in the North!
Now he feels that this move is too big and will make the Illuminati aware of the anomaly. The Tower of Time actually contains the market research report that Oripus did.
It's just that the focus of those reports is not on the warehouse conditions of the Void Warehouse Chamber of Commerce, but more on business data such as revenue and users.
After all, the purpose of the investigation was not to track down the Illuminati, but to give him a more comprehensive understanding of the void warehouse market.
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If we investigate now, the purpose is too obvious, and it will be easy for the Illuminati to notice the anomaly.
However, Xia Duo recalled the report at that time and did mention that the warehouses of those chambers of commerce were basically regular space warehouses and there were few stasis space warehouses.
On the one hand, this is because the construction and maintenance costs of stagnant space warehouses are high, and the demand is relatively low. There is a high probability that operating this warehouse will make ends meet, unless there are other businesses to fill this part of the hole.
Another is that the number of users of fresh products that need to be preserved in stasis space in the elven world is also quite limited, and more of them are concentrated among the upper elves, and those elves will not choose the chamber of commerce at will.
Therefore, chambers of commerce with stasis space warehouses are generally large chambers of commerce, or simply chambers of commerce directly controlled by the upper elves.
It was indeed mentioned in Oripus's market research report that there are as many as 25 chambers of commerce in the North with void warehouse business. These are empty warehouses that are open to the outside world, and self-built and self-used ones are not included.
But among all these chambers of commerce, there are only six or seven that provide stasis space warehouse services. On average, there is only one such chamber of commerce in an elf country.
Since this kind of chamber of commerce involves the supply of ingredients to the upper elf, it cannot actually be controlled by a single family, but is jointly controlled or supervised by multiple families.
From this point of view, the Void Warehouse of the Tower of Time is indeed quite special. Perhaps it is for this reason that the Illuminati chose to store the two excited state instruments in the Void Warehouse of the Tower of Time.
But does this mean that the Illuminati will consider those void warehouses that are controlled by multiple parties and closely supervised? This makes their actions more secretive and harder to trace!
Therefore, Sha Duo is even more unwilling to cut off the two lines he currently controls - Person, the excited state magic weapon in the Void Warehouse.
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There is no high technical threshold for building a void warehouse, but the biggest difficulty is probably how to obtain a demi-plane.
Although Shado can now mass-produce demi-planes, before he achieves mass production, he has to ask Iolum for a demi-plane for research, and Iolum's inventory is not available.
not much.
The main reason is that there are very few natural demiplanes discovered, and artificial ones are extremely troublesome to create. These two points have led to the fact that even in Netheril, which is a leader in the field of planes, demiplanes are extremely rare.
But rarity is also relative. For the upper elf, wanting a demiplane is nothing more than a matter of how much price you are willing to pay. As long as you want it with all your heart, you can definitely get it.
In other words, there is no insurmountable threshold for the Illuminati to obtain a demiplane, and a certain Illuminati member may even have several natural demiplanes passed down from his ancestors.
Regardless of whether it is natural or not, demiplanes can be used to create void warehouses. There are only some differences in user experience, but the functions themselves are the same.
"It's difficult, it's difficult, it's difficult!"
However, Xia Duo is not too pessimistic. If the possibility of temptation and fishing by the Illuminati is ruled out, judging from the fact that they are still using the Void Warehouse of the Tower of Time, they probably do not have their own Void Warehouse.
But there is no problem in heading towards the stasis space warehouse or the demiplane direction for investigation.
Currently, the void warehouse on the main plane cannot be investigated for the time being, so Xia Duo thought that maybe he could start from the demiplane outside the main plane. There is a plane barrier, and there is no need to worry too much about the prophecy spells of the Illuminati.