Looking at the mouse in his hand, Richard's eyes flashed, then he shook his head.
No, not dead. The heart is still beating, but the vital signs are very weak. The mouth is wide and the sound is heavy breathing. It looks like... some suffocation
Reaching out and placing the mouse on the ground, Richard stepped aside, picked up a lighted oil lamp in the room, put it into the iron ring, and then took it out again.
Sure enough, the oil lamp had gone out.
This can determine why living things cannot be put into the iron ring, or why living things cannot be put in for a long time, because it is in a vacuum state.
vacuum? No air
Thinking about it this way, it makes sense.
Air has volume.
When you put things in the warehouse, you can fill it up, but you don't feel the influence of the air. This is because the warehouse is not closed. As things are put in, the air will be squeezed to other places and out of the warehouse.
But it is different inside the iron ring. This is an absolutely airtight and absolutely isolated space that cannot be connected to the outside world. The volume occupied by air cannot be ignored. If the space inside the iron ring is not evacuated, it is likely that only a very small amount of things can be put in. If it is put in again, it will be forcibly squeezed out by the air.
Although air can be compressed, anyone who has played with injections on modern earth should understand that the smaller the volume of compressed air, the greater the force of rebound. If you compress the air to half and then forcefully stuff something into it, it is likely to be directly squeezed by the rebound force of the air, which is obviously not worth the gain.
After all, the value of air is almost nothing. If something can be placed, it will naturally not let a ball of air occupy the space, and the iron ring will be evacuated into a vacuum.
In this way, the issue about the placement of living creatures is clarified.
The space props in the current world are not unable to accommodate living objects, but this purpose is abandoned for the sake of maximum utilization. If you have to put in a living creature, you can just let the living creature wear an oxygen bottle. Or, if the space inside is vacated, the warehouse storage function is completely abandoned, and a certain amount of air is filled, a living body can survive for a long time.
In fact, the space inside the Iron Ring is relatively small. If it were larger, like the legendary one, with tens of thousands of cubic meters or cubic kilometers in size, there would not be this problem. In a huge space, air can circulate, allowing storage of both storage and life forms, and even more advanced modifications can be carried out.
For example, find a way to create an energy source, and then move soil, water, air, plants, bacteria and animals into the space to create a biological environment that can circulate normally.
This kind of environment, if made smaller, is an ecological ball. Slightly larger, it is a self-sufficient garden. If it is bigger, it can be made into a village.
Larger, you can create a city, a plain, or even an entire continent. If you continue to expand, you can form a planet, a galaxy, or even a universe.
Richard sometimes wonders, is it possible that the modern earth he once lived in and the current world were created in this way
A world artificially created and existing in a box
This is not an unfounded conjecture. Richard read about a lost space spell of the ancient wizard civilization in "The Chapter of Monroe".
The name of the spell is "Paradise Lost". The caster can use powerful power to cut off a space from the main world and open up a "demi-plane" similar to a small world. In the demiplane, the caster can set up everything as he likes as God. He can modify the terrain, environment, and climate, and place creatures and humans, and ultimately create a portable kingdom.
Due to the different needs of spellcasters, the kingdom behaves in various ways.
Adventurous spellcasters will turn it into a huge war fortress, housing tens or hundreds of thousands of fully armed soldiers, thousands of wizard legions, numerous huge mechanical golems, and tamed demonized giants. beasts, dangerous spell-fighting machines, and more. Once in danger, the caster can instantly release a huge army to help him fight and crush the enemy.
The spell caster who studies it will turn it into a huge academy, where outstanding talents collected from all over the world live and work for him. Spellcasters who like violence will turn it into a bloody purgatory city, where they will build colosseums one after another, and will also hold human hunts from time to time. And the spell caster who likes women simply builds a real "daughter country" in it, allowing beauties of various styles to live in it to satisfy their own selfish needs.
When the practitioner is traveling around the world, he can return to his "Lost Paradise" at any time to rest, enjoy and relax. That is why it is called "Lost Paradise" - in it, fun is lost because every moment is fun. .
This spell once caused the collective madness of ancient wizards. According to the records in "The Chapter of Monroe", there was a time when all the powerful wizards were opening up their own "Paradise Lost", like hamsters spending the winter, in the "Paradise Lost" Everything is stored in it. However, after the great catastrophe, everything ceased to exist, and both the main world and the demiplane in Lost Paradise were destroyed.
When the new wizard civilization developed from the ruins, the inheritance of space spells has been discontinued. So so far, the wizards in the world can no longer create space props, let alone open up a demiplane like Lost Paradise. As time goes by and the space props passed down are damaged, space props have become extremely scarce. Even a space prop that only has a dozen cubic centimeters and can barely accommodate a short staff is extremely rare.
The iron ring in Richard's hand is already of high value.
Richard didn't know who the mysterious wizard was to have such a practical iron ring. But since he got it, he had to find a way to squeeze out all the value.
Taking a deep breath, Richard continued the test.
…
After a long time, Richard completed all the planned tests and had a general understanding of the iron ring in his hand.
Grab a new papyrus scroll, a quill, and a bottle of ink, and get ready to record. Glancing at the broken wooden table on the ground, Richard shrugged, walked to the bed with papyrus and other items, and placed them on the bed board.
On the ground, the mouse, which almost died from suffocation, recovered little by little. He was lying on his back panting with his belly exposed, but then he suddenly turned over and stood up.
Recalling the series of inexplicable tortures he suffered just now, the mouse glanced around and was about to escape.
The next moment, he felt eyes falling on it, and it immediately froze.
Richard looked at the mouse, his eyes flashed, and he murmured: "You know, you are very lucky - you let me get the information I wanted before you died, otherwise you would have suffered a lot."
"Zhizhi..." The mouse shrank his neck and looked at Richard and shouted.
"Let's go." Richard waved, "Don't let me see you again, otherwise I can't guarantee that you will be so lucky next time."
"Squeak..." The mouse quickly burrowed into the hole made on the side of the bed.
"Get out of the door." Richard shouted.
The mouse stopped and looked at Richard. The next moment he ran out of the door and disappeared quickly.
Richard is not surprised by this - there is already a research consensus that mice can hear human speech. Not only mice, but pets such as cats and dogs can actually master hundreds of human words. The so-called animal intelligence is equivalent to that of a four- or five-year-old human child. This is not just a simple talk, but it is true. All manifestations.
Seeing the mouse leave, without the last interruption, Richard picked up a chair from the side, moved it to the wooden bed, and started writing on the papyrus scroll with a quill.