Tang Li's space was now filled with all sorts of supplies.
Water, food, and daily necessities of all kinds were not only enough for Tang Li alone, but if the space didn't shrink, they could supply the entire human race, regardless of age or gender.
Weapons and medicine, while not as comprehensive in variety as daily necessities, were sufficient for Tang Li at the moment.
Additionally, there were various survival tools, as well as tools for warmth and cold protection, and for cooling and heat dissipation, all to help Tang Li survive in the apocalypse.
Energy reserves, whether diesel, gasoline, coal, natural gas, or generators and various batteries, were more than enough for Tang Li's personal use.
In recent days, she had also collected a lot of industrial raw materials, experimental equipment, and chemical reagents.
Especially the experimental equipment and chemical reagents, which were directly moved from the laboratories of A City University, were very complete in their variety, and Zhuo Ya had helped Tang Li collect them all.
It could be said that Tang Li had collected at least one of everything she could gather and store in her space, regardless of whether she would use it or not.
There were also many plant seeds that Tang Li could collect, but her space could not store them.
This was because the space could not store living things.
This was also why Tang Li had to slaughter the pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, and geese before putting them into her space previously.
As for the disguises and makeup put into the space these days, they didn't take up any room at all.
There were also some useless items in the space.
This included Tang Li's excrement and daily waste from these days, the sweat that had mistakenly entered the space earlier, and impurities that had been brought into the space along with other items.
These things had accumulated over time and were quite numerous, occupying a significant portion of the space.
Tang Li still kept them at the very edge of the space, with a lot of empty space separating them from the other useful supplies.
Yes, there was still a lot of empty space in the space.
Even though Tang Li had stored more water when the water supply was restored, collected more ice blocks when the extreme cold season arrived, and had also heated a lot of hot water on the carbon heater to put into the space,
the space was still not filled.
Tang Li could not think of anything else to store in the space, so she could only leave it empty for now and let the space expand slowly.
These empty spaces were actually equivalent to supplies.
If, in the future, Tang Li needed to replicate a certain type of supply in large quantities, causing the space to shrink, then these empty spaces would be equivalent to those replicated supplies.
This led to the first question Tang Li explored today – to what extent of material replication would cause the space to shrink?
Tang Li's understanding of the space was based on her previous life.
However, in her previous life, after she activated the space, she did not have a safe place to conduct such experiments.
Now that she was free, Tang Li decided to conduct such an experiment.
She chose gold bars, rice, and coal as control subjects for her experiment.
She discovered that when these items began to replicate, the rate at which the space expanded started to slow down, and by the 10th copy, the space stopped expanding.
From the 31st copy onwards, the space began to shrink!
And the further it went, the faster the space shrank!
If the speed of space shrinkage for the 31st copy was 1, and for the 32nd copy was 2, then the speed of space shrinkage for the 33rd copy would be 4, the 34th would be 8, and then 16, 32, 64... and so on.
At the same time, Tang Li also discovered that what affected the expansion or shrinkage of the space was only the number of replication times, and had nothing to do with the quantity, quality of the replicated materials, or the energy contained within the materials themselves.
In other words, even if Tang Li replicated all the materials in the entire space 30 times, the space would not shrink, but if Tang Li replicated a single grain of rice 31 times, the space would begin to shrink.
Furthermore, Tang Li discovered that if she had already replicated a grain of rice in the space 31 times, and then replicated other items 31 times, the space would not shrink again.
This means that if Tang Li replicated a type of material 31 times in a short period, and then replicated other items, as long as it did not exceed 31 times, the space would not shrink further.
Afterward, Tang Li conducted multiple control experiments and found that although the quantity, quality, and energy of the replicated materials did not affect the expansion or shrinkage of the space, they did affect the time it took for the space to stop expanding and recover.
During this period, Tang Li conducted several control experiments, which will not be detailed here.
Since the space was directly connected to Tang Li's consciousness, Tang Li could clearly perceive the size of the space, as well as the speed of its expansion and shrinkage.
When all the replicated items were put back into the space, Tang Li felt that the size of the space had returned to normal, and had even expanded slightly more than before the experiment.
"Hmm? It expanded a bit?"
And it expanded more than it would have at its normal rate.
"Could shrinking the space actually speed up its expansion?"
Suddenly, Tang Li noticed that something seemed to be missing from the space...