(Continuing from Extra 5)
A massive pit and a mysterious force had suddenly appeared in Chernobyl, so a research institute was secretly established, gathering the world's top scientists to study that mysterious power! When the world's oil suddenly vanished, the research became even more urgent.
At this time, Zhang Hongwen from China and Angus Gale from Russia put forward a relatively reliable hypothesis.
They immediately designed an experiment, using steel cables to lower two white mice in similar condition into pits 500 meters and 1,000 meters deep respectively, then retrieving them an hour later for observation.
After the two white mice were retrieved, people soon discovered that the mouse placed at 1,000 meters had a noticeably increased appetite and was emotionally unstable.
Three days later, the mouse that had been placed at 1,000 meters was already a full size larger than the one from 500 meters, and its temperament had become extremely violent.
A mouse placed at 15,000 meters even turned into a monster shortly after being brought back.
Meanwhile, none of the mice lowered beyond 15,000 meters could be retrieved. For some unknown reason, the steel cables snapped, and the boxes containing the mice disappeared.
By studying the broken cable cross-sections, they found that some seemed to have been severed by high-voltage electricity, some by intense heat, and some had been corroded away.
At this point, everyone roughly understood that the illusory ocean was probably located around 15,000 meters underground.
After repeated experiments from multiple angles, Zhang Hongwen and Angus Gale's hypothesis was proven largely reasonable. The illusory ocean could make living creatures stronger, but modern organisms could no longer withstand such immense power.
Now that they had a hypothesis explaining the illusory ocean, the next question was how to further understand it—or how to use it.
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