Chapter 1378 - 1376: Exploring the Unknown
"Is it really impossible?" Yang Chen’s heart sank to the bottom.
He had faith in his heart, so when everyone believed Ye Xin was already dead, he persisted and finally found Ye Xin, bringing joy to everyone.
Likewise, he firmly believed that other members of the Dragon Tooth Squad were also lost somewhere in the world, waiting for him to find them.
He believed!
However, various clues indicated that the members of the Dragon Tooth Squad very likely fell into this Blue Cave.
Now the professor gave such a result, causing cracks to appear in Yang Chen’s belief.
Are they really still alive?
He even voiced this doubt himself.
He wasn’t a scientific ignoramus; he was well aware of the immense pressure under thousands of meters of water. Not to mention humans, even bones would be crushed to dust!
Survival in such an environment is simply impossible!
Yet Yang Chen still held on to a glimmer of hope, which is why he brought in the professor to research and even established a special research team.
Though they bore the national banner, no funds were allocated; all expenses were paid by Yang Chen.
Could it be that all of this is a mirage?
Is this fate?
A sense of bleakness rose in Yang Chen’s heart.
These were all good brothers who fought life and death with him!
It wasn’t that he hadn’t buried those who had fought life and death with him before.
But those brothers, he had watched them sacrifice, personally confirming their deaths.
But the members of the Dragon Tooth Squad, he hadn’t seen them.
That’s why he launched such a large-scale search back then, because he wanted to see the living if alive, and the corpse if dead!
Now, not seeing the people nor the bodies, he didn’t believe his brothers were dead!
Even if they were really dead, he still wanted to see their bodies!
Even in this situation, he would never give up!
If it were a fantasy, then let him hold onto that fantasy until the research ends!
As long as he didn’t see their bodies, he would consider his brothers still alive!
Yang Chen looked at the professor and said in a deep voice, "Have you done any experiments? Are you sure the human body can’t survive in the Blue Cave?"
The professor smiled wryly, "This is all common knowledge; there’s no need for experiments..."
Yang Chen snapped his fingers abruptly.
Snap!
A glass bottle behind the professor shattered instantly.
The professor was startled.
"You..." The professor was very surprised because he didn’t see anything in Yang Chen’s hand, so how did the glass bottle break?
Yang Chen extended his hand again, letting the professor see clearly that his hand was empty.
Then he aimed at another glass bottle and snapped his fingers.
Snap!
The glass bottle shattered again!
Breaking things from a distance?
The professor felt his mind was in a whirl.
Yang Chen looked at the professor and said, "Do you think you can break this thing from a distance?"
The professor shook his head in disbelief, "How is that possible?"
Yang Chen smiled slightly, "Now the facts have presented themselves before you, do you still think it’s impossible?"
The professor was momentarily speechless.
"The world isn’t as simple as you think. Even if you are a scientist, you still cannot claim to fully understand the world. Even if you gathered all the scientists in the world, or even brought back those great figures, you still wouldn’t dare say you fully understand the entire world because there are too many unknowns! The more knowledge you have, the more you feel the unknown, right, professor?" Yang Chen said lightly.
The professor swallowed hard and nodded, saying in a deep voice, "Yes! The more knowledge, the more you feel the unknown! There are still so many things in this world we don’t understand!"
Yang Chen said, "So, possible or impossible! You must conduct all experiments! I just want results, the results of your tests, and here, forget your common sense! Unblock your cognitive barriers!"
"Yes!" The professor became serious.
The Blue Cave they were facing challenged their understanding in many ways.
At this moment, he realized that only by setting aside former understanding could they delve deeper into research and exploration.
Just using previous knowledge to look at this Blue Cave, they wouldn’t find anything!
The professor’s eyes brightened, Yang Chen had given him a new direction!
"Boss! I have a request!" the professor said.
"Speak!"
"I hope to allocate top-level exploration equipment! Currently, the instruments we have can only explore up to one thousand meters deep, we can’t reach five thousand meters! But our Flame Country has equipment that can go ten thousand meters deep, I request to use it for complete research!" the professor said.
"Alright! Make an application, and I’ll have someone approve it!" Yang Chen said.
When it comes to researching the Blue Cave, Yang Chen spares no expense, whether it be money, equipment, or favor; whatever can be used, he will use!
"That’s great!" the professor exclaimed excitedly, "With that equipment, we can explore deeper! If this depth exceeds eleven thousand meters, we will break the world record! There are so many unknowns deeper down, I suspect there are entirely new species below!"
Yang Chen nodded slightly; life can emerge in any harsh environment.
Take, for instance, volcano craters, where organisms survive in high temperatures.
At the seabed’s volcano vents, extreme high temperatures still see shrimp life thriving.
In the deepest ocean trenches, there are still living things.
So deep in the Blue Cave, something might indeed survive!
If anything survives, it further means the other Dragon Tooth Squad members have a slim hope!
"Do you need anything else?" Yang Chen proactively asked.
The professor hesitated for a moment, bashfully saying, "Well... although our current equipment is very advanced, there are still some elements we can’t detect. I know there is an advanced piece of equipment at the Flame Country Academy, I wonder if we could..."
"I’ll apply for it when I return! If they don’t have it, I’ll bring you some advanced equipment from abroad!" Yang Chen said.
"That’s good!" The professor breathed a sigh of relief, smiling, "I have a feeling the further down we go, the more elements we’ll find, which will make analysis very complicated. Just analyzing two hundred-meter-deep water already took us a long time, and we are still analyzing three hundred-meter water and five hundred-meter water. If this continues, analyzing the water quality alone will take up too much time."
Yang Chen thought about it but didn’t interrupt, as how the experiment was conducted was the professor’s business; he only wanted results.
"Report anything you need to us directly! We’ll do our best to meet all needs! I’m not interested in anything else; I just want results! All experiment results should be made into documents to report to me; I need to know your progress! Understand?" Yang Chen said in a deep voice.
"Understood!" The professor said earnestly, "Rest assured!"
Since he was always involved in confidential experiments, he had developed the habit of working towards completion once he accepted it!
After saying a few more words, Yang Chen stood up with Meng Po and left the laboratory, heading to the cliff side, looking towards the Blue Cave.
The Blue Cave’s mouth was bottomless, like an abyss that could consume a person’s soul!
But this mouth might have swallowed his brothers!
Yang Chen must find out!