In the quiet environment of the sealed room, the sudden change in the skeleton initially gave everyone a fright.

Wei Fan reactively picked up his Gatling gun, almost ready to start firing.

Just look, a Quasi-Foundation Establishment cultivator encountering an unexpected situation doesn't use talismans but picks up a gun. If his ancestors knew, they'd be... oh, his ancestors were also gunmen, so it's fine.

In any case, after discovering that the skeleton had only accidentally dropped a piece of its jaw and was not reviving.

Everyone turned their attention back to the ice coffin.

At this moment, the ice coffin was completely exposed after the barrier was lifted, indicating that the ionic beam could reach it, and theoretically, human hands could also touch it.

Lu Chaoyang thought for a while, signaled everyone to retreat to the exit, then took a bottle of men's roll-on from his pocket and threw it at the ice coffin.

"Clink—"

The roll-on traced a beautiful arc in the air, crisply hitting the upper corner of the ice coffin, and then naturally bouncing off due to the reaction force, landing on the ground.

Lu Chaoyang stepped forward, picked up the roll-on again, and carefully inspected it:

"A normal impact dent, with no signs of wear from any other energy. The external protection system of the ice coffin should only be a single barrier layer.

However, for safety's sake, I suggest trying it with a mouse—I've heard that Sheepback City has a mouse infestation recently, so it shouldn't be hard to catch one."

Wei Fan nodded at these words and said to everyone:

"Please wait a moment, I'll be right back."

A few minutes later.

Wei Fan returned to the sealed room with a small white mouse, and lightly tossed it.

The little mouse squeaked and flew through the air, then landed on the ice coffin.

The dizzy mouse took five or six seconds to recover, then quickly scurried to the corner.

Seeing this, Wei Fan casually cast a technique to kill the mouse.

The five physics and chemistry experts exchanged a glance and spontaneously made a move:

They walked straight to the ice coffin.

According to the normal procedure, even after confirming through inanimate and live animal testing that the ice coffin had no abnormalities.

It should be the chemical defense soldiers who go forward first to check, and only after verifying that everything is in order should the experts go forward to observe.

It's not that the equipment of the chemical defense soldiers is better—each expert is equipped with 'Generation 1.5' shields, the strongest individual defense gear currently available, so swapping in chemical defense soldiers doesn't improve personnel safety.

The reason for arranging chemical defense soldiers to check first is very simple:

To use flesh to eliminate the risk of first contact.

After all, these experts are incredibly important:

One is destined to become the youngest academician and perhaps even a Nobel physics laureate barring any surprises, "Mr. Xiao Yang," "Little Einstein" Lu Chaoyang.

Another is the director of the Modu Physics Research Institute, Huaxia's expert in condensed matter physics, and the shortest academician in Huaxia, Zeng Gu Cheng.

There's also Zhang Mu, Nankai's strongest authority in chemistry, the founding father of the domestic chemical industry.

Plus Zhang Yuhang and another unnamed but equally impressive chemistry expert.

They are national treasures, losing just one would be a national tragedy.

Thus, theoretically, they shouldn't be put at risk.

And Zhang Mu and Zeng Gu Cheng understood this point, so they decisively denied Lin Ziming on the ground any chance to react.

Whose life isn't valuable, why should others take the risk for you?

These chemical defense soldiers are only in their twenties, in the prime of their youth; who knows how brilliant their futures might be?

Asking young people to risk their lives is not the way of the rabbits.

Moreover, for pure researchers, how could they let such an opportunity go to someone else?

Thus, these five elders with an average age of 62.2 years (Lu Chaoyang: ?) all sped up their pace to quickly reach the edge of the ice coffin.

The ice coffin is approximately three meters long and about 80 centimeters high, with the girl inside lying on her back in the center, and a protrusion clearly visible directly above the ice coffin that appears to be the coffin lid.

A real coffin board.

After taking a few glances at the ice coffin, Qian Yuhang suddenly pointed in surprise at the person inside:

"Hey, why has this girl's hair changed color?"

Previously noted.

The girl in the ice coffin was about eleven or twelve years old, a bit older than Hua Xiaomo, with delicate features like a little porcelain doll, her chest gently rising and falling, showing clear signs of life.

But at this moment, the extremely surprising thing was:

The girl's hair, which enveloped her entire body like petals, had somehow turned green!

It wasn't the kind of dark green easily mistaken for black in dim conditions, but a very conspicuous bright green.

In this quiet environment, this vivid green strangely left one feeling somewhat eerie.

The scene remained silent for a few seconds, then Lu Chaoyang lightly coughed, put on Neoprene composite insulation gloves, and went to the ice coffin to push against it with force.

The coffin lid did not move at all.

Lu Chaoyang frowned and pushed again with force.

The coffin lid remains unmoved.

Next, Lu Jie and Wei Fan tried, and finally Zhang Mu also took a personal shot, but none of them could open the coffin lid.

Of course, here we're talking about human efforts. Techniques like spells or attacks were not used out of safety concerns.

"The temperature of the coffin surface is very low, estimated at minus thirty to forty degrees Celsius. It might be some kind of crystal force or unknown isolating force at work."

After unsuccessful attempts, Lu Chaoyang stroked his chin, thought for a while, and speculated:

"As for the hair color... Could it be a color difference issue caused by the refraction of helium iron microcrystals?

Or perhaps vacuum zero-point energy leads to such phenomena during conduction?

After all, whether it's helium iron or vacuum zero-point energy, neither concept is familiar to us, and our understanding is extremely limited. There might be unknown special properties."

Zhang Mu nodded, suddenly thought of something, and said:

"It's possible,

If it's vacuum zero-point energy, there's no need to explain. But if helium iron microcrystals have the effect of altering color differences...

Could this be a chance to improve certain equipment?"

Lu Chaoyang blinked, imagining a certain green delivery turning into a black fire stick:

"...."

Meanwhile, Zeng Gu Cheng's eyes lit up, as he gently touched the ice coffin, unfazed by the stimulating cold:

"Vacuum... vacuum... that's the legendary negative electron sea..."

Although knowing the 'vacuum' mentioned by Zeng Gu Cheng refers to a physical concept, Zhang Yaqing's expression still became somewhat bizarre:

An elderly man with disheveled hair and beard, his eyes shining, touching a transparent container holding a girl, muttering 'vacuum vacuum'...

This scene was just so damn... something else...

"By the way."

Lu Chaoyang suddenly remembered something, snapped his fingers, and turned to Wei Fan:

"Clan Leader Wei, could you come over and see if your God Mind can penetrate the ice coffin this time?"

Wei Fan nodded, quickly stepped forward, and attempted to use his God Mind on the ice coffin.

After a while, he shook his head and said:

"Professor Lu, it's still not possible."

Upon hearing this, Lu Chaoyang furrowed his brows.

According to his previous judgment, the substance obstructing Wei Fan's God Mind might be the helium iron microcrystals.

Helium iron is a new compound yet to appear locally, but chemistry has a peculiarity: sometimes the structure of non-ionic compounds can be analyzed under unknown states.

Helium iron fits this situation; after all, there is already helium sodium present locally.

Previously, Zhang Mu used the balancing principle to parse its theoretical electron formula, so the cuboid crystal structure is essentially confirmed.

Meanwhile, helium iron easily decomposes into helium dimers under external force, and the intrinsic energy of helium dimers can be calculated.

This microcrystal, due to its structure, theoretically can resist any known single entity attack — not only thermal weapons but also attacks from cultivators in physical states, once reaching a certain scale.

In other words, if adequate synthesis energy and environment could be provided, helium iron microcrystals could entirely serve as the foundation for some extreme defense system.

Of course, this is merely a theoretical prototype.

Because the energy required is immensely large, akin to R19, obliterating a prefecture-level city's annual fiscal income with a single strike.

Nonetheless, regardless, it certainly offers a direction for development.

Under such a premise, if the crystal array can also achieve the effect of isolating spiritual detection...

Then the importance of helium iron microcrystals will instantly rise to an extraordinarily high level.

In gaming terms, it's akin to equipment with maxed-out magic resistance and physical resistance, comparable to spiritual energy to some extent!

However, Lu Chaoyang was somewhat disappointed when this didn't happen:

Helium iron microcrystal clusters can only achieve physical isolation, and the primary barrier against spiritual detection remained the previously identified ice coffin.

Upon confirming the ice coffin could isolate spiritual detection, Zhang Mu asked Lu Jie to bring an instrument to measure the temperature of the ice coffin from multiple angles.

After ten minutes, Lu Jie looked up:

"Teacher, the temperature in all twelve measurement areas is -48.8 degrees. Should we attempt to sample and analyze the composition of the ice coffin?"

Zhang Mu thought for a while, then shook his head:

"No rush on composition analysis, our on-site instrument precision is limited; we can wait until the ice coffin is transported back to the base to proceed."

Then, he paused and said to Zhang Yaqing:

"Company Commander Zhang, report to the ground, prepare to lift the coffin."

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