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The tremors in the ground weren't very noticeable, more like the gentle shaking you felt when a bus slowed to a stop.

Aside from Xu Yun's wheelchair shifting a few centimeters, everyone at the site remained steady and was barely affected.

But a moment later,

Li Jue quickly turned to Gao Yuanming beside the control console.

"Comrade Yuanming, what's the situation? Was the cold test successful?"

Swish—

Lu Guangda, Old Guo, and the others instinctively looked toward Gao Yuanming, their faces full of nervous anticipation.

Test Site No. 1 was located seven or eight meters underground, and had been heavily reinforced during construction. It was difficult to judge the cold test's effectiveness from the tremors on the surface alone.

To be sure,

the force of the tremor suggested the explosion had been fairly powerful, but that only meant the explosives had detonated properly. The cold-test bomb was packed with hundreds of kilograms of CL20. Even if it had been detonated directly, its power couldn't have been insignificant.

The purpose of the cold test was mainly to determine whether the model bomb's structure could transmit the explosive energy as intended.

Here's an example that isn't entirely accurate, but is easy to understand.

The energy from a regular explosion and a cold test might both be 100, but the energy from a regular explosion dispersed in all directions. It might be distributed 56 horizontally and 44 vertically.

An Atomic Bomb, on the other hand, required the energy to be transmitted in a specific way. For example, the distribution might have to be 23.8 horizontally and 76.2 vertically, and so on.

So to determine whether the cold test had succeeded, they needed to collect and analyze more detailed data.

In fact,

before Li Jue had even spoken, Gao Yuanming had already rushed