In the waters thirty to seventy nautical miles north of the Bering Strait, thousands of ships had formed a tight encirclement.
These vessels came from countries all over the world, especially several major powers located relatively nearby.
The significance of the spatial wormhole was simply too great. No country could monopolize such a major discovery, so this operation was still led by the United Nations' five permanent members, with research access to the spatial wormhole opened to several major powers.
The entire sea area had also been given a new name:
Wormhole Waters.
At the very center of Wormhole Waters were hundreds of research vessels, including several deep-sea exploration platforms.
Here, the five great powers still held the lead in exploration. After all, only a handful of countries had mastered technology like deep-sea submersibles.
At this point, smaller countries could only watch helplessly. Even if they had the right to conduct exploration, it was useless.
They didn't have submersibles!
The technological complexity of those things was no less than that of spacecraft.
That was why several major powers dared to open wormhole exploration rights to the entire world.
Even if they gave you the opportunity, you still couldn't do anything with it!
By relying on technological barriers alone, the major powers had essentially monopolized exploration of the spatial wormhole.
Farther out, several drilling platforms had even been temporarily converted into offshore research bases.
Beyond those were media and civilian vessels. Media ships in particular outnumbered the research vessels severalfold. Major media outlets from virtually every country had rushed over, competing to report what was said to be the greatest discovery since the Moon landing.
The discovery of the spatial wormhole had become the top news story of the period. Explosive stories such as the Stone Statue Virus, the Evil Spirit