He first reassured his late wife's parents that he was safe, then his own parents.
Finally, he called his daughter.
After the beeping white-noise signal.
The call connected.
"Xiao Han, I made you worry."
"I really was worried.
"You told me, Father, that the advancement of science would inevitably be accompanied by sacrifice."
There was a touch more stubbornness in the girl's voice.
"But I also hope you can think a little more about yourself and your family."
She truly had been terrified.
But at a time like this, the ice-cold girl chose not to blame him.
The father and daughter's call was brief.
Elsewhere.
As the crew inspected Shelter Harbor 43, they also found the stairs Su Wen had left behind leading to the central control room.
"Academician Qi, Professor Jiang, I think you need to come take a look at this."
Kevin, who was responsible for maintaining the Globetrotter's power supply lines, reported to them.
After hearing the news.
The two set aside their work organizing materials and went to the central control room.
One side of the central control room was filled with countless complex streams of data, while the other consisted of an enormous observation window made of translucent material.
Hurricane center detected shifting Deviation angle from projected location below 1.2 Response system conducting self-check corrections
Jiang Xiuyuan looked at the dense blackness outside the observation window, where hurricane winds and torrential rain raged together.
Enhanced by the Spiritual Energy Field, white arcs of lightning flashed through the pitch-black clouds like silver snakes, vanishing in an instant before bursting out elsewhere. It was cross-cloud lightning discharge.
The terrifying apocalyptic sight reminded them.
Before nature.
Humanity had to remain in awe.
"The response system?"
Academician Qi's hair was grizzled, but his hands remained steady. He knew that the core of this system was Isaiah Technology's life-preservation module.
He was not rusty with its operation.
Then.
He saw a note that shocked him.
Response System: Preset module for neutralizing Hurricane 'Ewiniar'; currently operating normally
"Xiuyuan, are there any successful cases in human civilization of using scientific methods to eliminate the effects of a super hurricane?"
Jiang Xiuyuan heard his question.
A grave expression appeared on his face as well.
"Nobel Prize-winning chemist Irving Langmuir proposed scattering large quantities of catalysts such as silver iodide into suitable areas of a typhoon using aircraft, redistributing the energy within the typhoon to weaken its wind speeds.
"Later, based on Irving's Wind Energy Reconstruction Theory, the American Air Force and Navy cooperated in 1947 to conduct the first experiment in artificially influencing a hurricane—Project Cirrus.
"But the result was that, due to artificial interference, the hurricane's energy-level eccentric point shifted. The hurricane, which had originally been moving away from the American mainland, made landfall in Georgia and South Carolina, causing an enormous disaster."
Meanwhile.
Because of this new discovery, the reporters traveling with the group were permitted to broadcast this live footage as well.
The news instantly caused an uproar online.
Ewiniar—the first time in human civilization that humanity had directly faced a super hurricane. What would the outcome be?
Lighthouse 43, at the dawn of Daybreak—could it create another miracle?
Scientific analysis: The hurricane's energy equivalent exceeds that of a ten-thousand-ton nuclear bomb?!
Who exactly built the Lighthouse 43 shelter?
We might be about to witness the birth of a miracle.
A miracle? More like a legend!
The more knowledgeable scientific forums were about the subject, the less willing they were to believe it.
Meanwhile, plenty of entertainment sites had already begun hyping it up wildly.
A classic case of popping champagne at halftime.
A tropical hurricane cyclone—a massive storm that can only be considered a hurricane when wind speeds exceed 119 kilometers per hour—was constantly churning and spinning.
The heat it released was equivalent to detonating a ten-megaton nuclear bomb every twenty minutes. That energy far exceeded humanity's annual energy consumption.
It was, in every sense of the word:
A natural disaster.
Sitting before the television.
Su Wen felt a little nervous now as well.
But more than that, he was excited.
Some things might fail, but if no one tried them, the chance of success would forever remain zero.
To confront Ewiniar head-on.
He had considered countless disaster-prevention models, but in the end, this Chief Player—a physicist—chose a method only he could accomplish.
Storm point approaching Hurricane emergency system activated Preset mechanical modules released from hibernation
At this moment.
Su Wen, the host on the live television broadcast, and countless viewers awaiting the result all spoke at once.
"It's here."
In the distance.
The black circulating clouds that stretched from sky to earth took on an eerie sense of distortion beneath the powerful beams from Lighthouse 43.
Like a Dark Sky woven from countless howling vengeful spirits.
As the torrential rain lashed down, silver currents of electricity flashed and intertwined.
Beneath the overwhelming soundtrack of disaster.
Even the clattering of mechanical constructs was drowned out.
Su Wen's final plan had finally reached the moment of confronting reality.
That was right.
When playing Coastal Dismantler, he had chosen the most dangerous approach:
First establish Preset Logic, then use time-limited ability modules in combination for Real-Time Control.
Sometimes.
Even a theoretical scientist had to experience the pressure engineers faced.
Eye of the Hurricane calibration complete Zero-deviation point Mechanical linking process initiated
At the center of the dense black hurricane clouds, a series of enormous mechanical assemblies, each containing rapidly condensing fluid, quickly took shape.
Then.
Mutual detonation logic activated!
BOOM!
A tremendous roar erupted.
This time, vast numbers of mechanical constructs triggered a chain of mutual detonations through simultaneous self-destruction. Not even the hurricane's howling disaster soundtrack could drown them out.
Watching the scene on television.
Su Wen silently recited in his heart:
*"Hurricanes are driven by heat supplied by tropical oceans. The eyewall is the region with the strongest winds and the greatest rainfall, and the center it encloses is the 'eye of the hurricane.'
*"The eye of the hurricane is a core region that maintains dynamic equilibrium. Assuming that equilibrium is broken, the hurricane's movement will enter a collapse state.
"According to theoretical analysis, it may be possible to disrupt a hurricane's circulation field with sufficiently powerful explosions..."
If ten times or a hundred times was not enough.
Then a thousand or ten thousand times.
Self-destruct!
Mutual detonation!
Chain mutual detonation!
As repeated mutual detonations struck the core of the hurricane's circulation, affecting its internal energy-cycle model.
He received a notification consistent with the theoretical model's results:
Super Hurricane 'Ewiniar' energy field has entered fluctuating imbalance
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