Zhe Province, Meteorological Bureau.
Zhang Yiyang, who was tracking the typhoon's movements through live satellite footage, suddenly froze. Then he could not help leaning forward and blinking, as if confirming whether he had seen it wrong.
"What is it?" Mo Haoxuan, who was responsible for monitoring the data beside him, turned and asked.
"Another, slightly smaller typhoon has formed at Dragonfly's center!"
"You're kidding." Mo Haoxuan dismissed it. "How could there be a typhoon inside a typhoon? What is this, Russian nesting dolls? Maybe there's a small gap in the cloud mass near the eye and you misread it."
Zhang Yiyang's face twisted. Ten years of meteorological knowledge told him that a typhoon inside a typhoon was a joke, yet the satellite cloud map before his eyes showed it plainly.
Had the satellite camera malfunctioned?
Or had there been an error in the data transmission? Just as Zhang Yiyang was beginning to doubt himself, another staff member who was contacting a monitoring vessel suddenly said, "No. 528 reports that the winds near Dragonfly's eye have suddenly strengthened, reaching Force 18."
"The wind suddenly strengthened?"
Zhang Yiyang turned back and looked at the small cyclone in the typhoon eye on the monitor before him. The eye itself was over thirty kilometers across, while that little vortex was only about five kilometers in diameter. He instinctively made a report.
"Report! A small cyclone approximately five kilometers in diameter has suddenly formed near the northern edge inside the typhoon eye. Its wind direction matches the typhoon's. It is suspected to be related to the sudden strengthening of the typhoon's winds."
Every staff member, expert, and scholar who received the report froze.
A typhoon inside a typhoon? That did not conform to the laws of meteorological science!
Zhang Yiyang immediately sent the live satellite