Richard continued, "This is similar to a collider. To put it simply, suppose I lacked the ability to split two stones apart with my bare hands to see what was inside them. Then I could take one stone in each hand and smash them violently together. If I kept doing that, eventually one stone would crack, or both would crack at once. Then I would know what was inside."
"Phew..."
After hearing that, Molly let out a breath in her heart... At last, this was something she could understand again.
Glancing at Molly, Richard said seriously, "Forcing Extraordinary Factors to combine and studying the phenomena after their combination has been my main work for the past three years."
"And what were the results?" Molly asked.
"The results... can only be described as more complicated than I imagined," Richard said. "During the initial period, all the Extraordinary Factor combination experiments failed. But I did not give up because of those failures. I continually improved the procedures, increased the experimental energy, and tried different combinations of Extraordinary Factors.
In the end, after several hundred experiments, I forcibly combined several kinds of Extraordinary Factors and produced a phenomenon that defied common sense—rather than bouncing apart as they had in previous experiments, or exploding, the Extraordinary Factors fused together and formed a substance that had never existed before."
"A substance? What... did it look like?"
"It is difficult to describe," Richard said. "First of all, it has no physical form. Its essence is a mass of energy, so it can change shape at will. In addition, it is difficult to observe with the naked eye; special instruments are needed just to determine its location. It also possesses unbelievable penetrating power, able to pass easily through the walls of any container without damaging them in