Lord of Arcane

Chapter 3216 New Investigation Direction
As for the smuggling mentioned by Ye Erlan, Xia Duo was not sure whether it existed. There were certain reasons to check for dangerous goods that might be smuggled in the void warehouse. It would be too much to record all the detailed information such as the types and quantities of items that users deposited and accessed.

Even Xia Duo himself did not think this was a good idea, not to mention that in the current era, if the slightest rumor got out, the reputation of the Void Warehouse might immediately be ruined 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 opinion, checking and recording detailed records of user access is not a necessary condition for operating a void warehouse. This is a complete violation of user privacy. He is not dealing with those unscrupulous apps in his hometown. He still has to have some shame.

For him, safety inspection is the limit of what he can do as an operator, and anything more is beyond the scope of the operator's authority.

Therefore, unless he happened to catch someone in the act, it would be difficult for him to identify the smuggling situation. The reason why he came back to check immediately was not because of the smuggling mentioned by Ye Erlan, but because he associated it with the last time.

It was also because of the smuggling of the Illuminati that he came up with the idea of ​​checking the void warehouse, and as a result he discovered the excited state artifact.

And last time, the Illuminati did use his void warehouse for smuggling, and he himself also smuggled, putting pressure on Yeerlan by smuggling grain to Elan, and only then did the two sides come up with a plan for joint development.

The reason why he was able to discover the Illuminati's smuggling that time was because his "chicken" Person was personally involved in the smuggling process and acted as his spy, so he knew about it.

But this time, Person was involved in the attack, so Shado knew the real murderer and some details of the attack, but he didn't know about the smuggling.

Maybe the Illuminati arranged for someone else to do it.

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In addition, Xia Duo did not explain what the smuggling situation that Yeerlan asked Iollem to remind him of was. He felt that Yeerlan was most likely just aware of a slight abnormality but had no conclusive evidence.

They might not even know what was being smuggled. They might have simply discovered that the resistance organizations in Elam had become slightly more active, so they judged it as smuggling based on their usual judgment.

But in fact--

Xia Duo felt that perhaps this was a precursor to the Illuminati's actions, to cover up a key action by attacking the magic weapon factory, but something unexpected happened in the plan. The impact of the attack was too great, and Yeerlan was highly sensitive.

Then they discovered that the Illuminati was taking certain actions other than attacking the magic weapon factory.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo felt that he needed to communicate well with Yeerlan and other countries. It would be best if they could fully exchange their new discoveries about the Illuminati.

Otherwise, it is possible that the Illuminati could take advantage of the information bias of all parties and succeed!
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After returning to the Tower of Time, Shado reorganized his thoughts and finally decided not to contact Orips. He had originally planned to ask the other party to help investigate the current situation of the Chamber of Commerce operating the Void Warehouse in the North!

Now he felt that doing so was too drastic a move and would make the Illuminati notice something unusual. In fact, the market research report made by Orips was stored inside the Tower of Time.

However, 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.

If we investigate now, the purpose will be too obvious and it will be easy for the Illuminati to notice something unusual.

However, when Xia Duo traced back his memory and looked at the report at that time, it did mention the conditions of the warehouses of those chambers of commerce. They were basically conventional space warehouses, and there were few static space warehouses.

This is partly because the construction and maintenance costs of stagnant space warehouses are high, while the demand is relatively low. It is highly likely that operating this business will not make ends meet unless other businesses come in to fill this gap.

Another thing is that the number of people who can benefit from the fresh products that need to be preserved in stasis space in the elf world is quite limited, and they are mostly concentrated in the upper-level elves. Those elves will not choose a chamber of commerce at will.

Therefore, the chambers of commerce that have stasis space warehouses are generally large chambers of commerce, or simply chambers of commerce directly controlled by the upper elves.

However, it was mentioned in Orips' market research report that there are as many as 25 chambers of commerce in the North that have void warehouse businesses. These are void warehouses that are open to the public, and those that are self-built and used 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 elven country.

And because this kind of guild involves the supply of food to the upper elves, it is impossible for it to be controlled by a single family, but rather it is jointly controlled or supervised by multiple families.

From this point of view, the Void Warehouse of the Tower of Time is indeed special. Perhaps it is for this reason that the Illuminati chose to store the two excited state artifacts in the Void Warehouse of the Tower of Time.

But if this is the case, does it also mean that the Illuminati will not consider those Void Warehouses that are controlled and supervised by multiple parties? This makes their actions more secretive and more difficult to track!

Therefore, Xia Duo was even more reluctant to cut off the two lines he currently controlled - Person and the excited state magic weapon in the void warehouse.

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There is no high technical threshold for building a void warehouse. The biggest difficulty is probably how to obtain a half-plane.

Even though Shaduo can now mass-produce demiplanes, before he achieves mass production, if he wants a demiplane for research, he needs to ask Iollum for it, and Iollum does not have much in stock.

The main reason is that there are very few natural demiplanes discovered, and it is particularly troublesome to create artificial ones. These two reasons lead to the fact that even in Netheril, which is in the leading position in the field of planes, demiplanes are extremely rare.

But rarity is relative. For the upper elves, wanting a demiplane is just a matter of how much they are willing to pay. As long as they want it with all their heart, they will definitely be able to get it.

In other words, there is no insurmountable threshold for the Illuminati to obtain a demiplane. It is even possible that a member of the Illuminati has several natural demiplanes passed down from their ancestors.

Regardless of whether it is natural or not, the demiplane can be used to create void warehouses. The only difference is the user experience, but the functions themselves are the same.

“It’s difficult, difficult, difficult!”

However, Xia Duo was not too pessimistic. If we rule out the possibility of the Illuminati testing and fishing, 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 investigating in the direction of the stasis space warehouse or the demiplane.

At present, the void warehouse on the main plane cannot be investigated for the time being, so Xia Duo thought that perhaps he could start from the half-plane outside the main plane. With the plane barrier, he doesn't have to worry too much about the Illuminati's prophecy spell.

But how do we take this first step?