On the ground.

Upon hearing Academician Pan's words, Lin Ziming raised an eyebrow:

"Array?"

Academician Pan nodded and said:

"That's right, I personally think this possibility is relatively high.

Because the Celestial Palace Space, while not small, isn't overly large either.

The clearly anomalous areas besides the outer walls are just the main hall, array, unknown light source, and entrance.

Considering I'm currently researching teletransportation arrays, I'm sensitive to runes.

Though the mysteries of teleportation aren't fully cracked yet, several runes have been deciphered—one of which we use for classical channels.

I've studied the array in front of the main hall, especially its runes.

Though the majority of the runes are unclear, some resemble those in the teletransportation array.

Odds are those are runes for "information" transmission.

So I personally guess that array is likely where the spiritual energy appears."

Lin Ziming nodded somewhat understandingly, ready to say a few polite words.

However, at this time, Li Bai'an suddenly spoke up.

He suddenly supported himself on the main control panel, leaned forward, eyes fixed on the screen:

"Colonel Lin, Xiaopan, look at the screen, the nitrogen is reacting!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Ziming immediately directed his gaze to the screen.

And then he discovered....

He damn sure couldn't understand anything!

All he could see were a mess of red, white, and green images swirling on the screen, completely clueless as to their purpose.

One second looked like kneading dough, the next, a thick black line suddenly appeared, and with a swoosh, pierced the pink area, followed by more white images drifting about like milk.

Meanwhile, the rough men nearby watched with excitement, flushed faces, mixed with excited murmurs of 'it's coming out.'

Lin Ziming discreetly glanced around and found that apart from himself, only Daoist Huang and Wei Fan appeared just as baffled.

As luck would have it.

As Lin Ziming eyed the other two, they were also looking back at him.

So the next moment, the three of them approached each other with tacit understanding.

Shivering together for warmth.jpg.

And this went on for about three minutes.

Suddenly, there was a low murmur near the console.

Lin Ziming hurriedly approached, finding Academician Pan:

"Academician Pan, are there results yet?"

At this moment, Academician Pan's expression hadn't changed much, calmly nodding:

"That's right, results just came out.

Just now, we detected a large consumption of nitrogen and generation of N13 isotopes.

Additionally, although current technology cannot capture neutrinos, we observed positrons accompanying neutrino generation.

Meaning bremsstrahlung radiation indeed occurs at the Celestial Palace boundary; our speculation was accurately correct large in part.

What's left is observing the energy trajectory to pinpoint the microorganism cluster location."

The moment Academician Pan's words landed.

Zhao Zhiming, operating the equipment, loudly said:

"Elder Li, Academician Pan, the heat has started to dissipate!"

This was mentioned before.

Bremsstrahlung radiation generates substantial heat energy, greater than many common explosive reactions.

Thus, for observers, tracking this heat energy is straightforward.

On the main control computer screen.

A reddish-yellow image emerged, its heat felt even across the screen.

It slid down slowly, like the golden dragon fish 5A cooking oil drip along a glass pane.

15%.....30%....50%...

This image gradually covered most of the screen, finally settling in place.

This process was straightforward, even Lin Ziming, an outsider, could understand:

Energy moved along a trajectory, finally settling in an area.

And this area...

Clearly is where microorganisms are found.

Then he lightly coughed, asking Academician Pan:

"Academician Pan, what area of the Celestial Palace is this?"

Upon hearing this, Academician Pan uncharacteristically paused before saying two words:

"Underground."

Lin Ziming:

"?"

Seeing this, Academician Pan sighed softly:

"You're not mistaken, it's beneath the Celestial Palace's ground.

Colonel Lin. This is just another unexpected discovery from the Celestial Palace.

But honestly, we should have considered this scenario sooner....

Ultimately, we've been too rigid in our thinking."

Finished, Academician Pan frustratingly rubbed his temples, visibly disheartened.

As Academician Pan mentioned.

The area where energy disappeared and settled was clearly below the Celestial Palace.

Though the Celestial Palace is positioned in the sky, it's itself an alternate space.

With structures like the main hall, naturally land exists.

Whether this land is innately part of the space or brought by Old Zhang using methods is unknown for now, but facts show there's extensive earthen land here.

This isn't hard to understand.

Even those heavenly abodes in novels contain land inside; this is a standard environment setting.

And what Academician Pan means by 'should've considered sooner' is simple:

The research team initially deployed sampling equipment by Wei Fan, including devices specifically sampling soil.

So actually.

The land issue wasn't ignored.

Additionally, there's a bit of hindsight analysis:

Microorganisms generating Y particles require high-temperature environments akin to geothermal flame to survive, while the entire space's temperature is dozens of degrees below zero, indicating their most likely spot is underground! (It's surprising no one noticed I hadn't mentioned the ground, such a clear clue was missed, it's quite disappointing, even with thousands of dedicated readers....)

Unfortunately.

The sampled area did not show any signs of cold-adapted microorganisms.

Thus, everyone including Academician Pan unconsciously ignored the ground environment.

Of course.

This ties with the continual new discoveries by the teams.

Since one person's thought capacity is limited.

When their computing power is occupied by potential outer cosmos or higher dimension Celestial Palace boundary explorations, judgments on other environments naturally lessen.

However, this is indeed a mistake worth introspection.

Now, having pinpointed the position of energy disappearance, everything simplifies.

Academician Pan and the team waited a few more minutes.

Soon, the beam instrument alerted—Wang Qiang initially confirmed Y particle existence with this equipment, the technology is currently quite mature.

About a minute later.

Zhao Zhiming reported a result within everyone's expectations:

"Elder Li, Academician Pan, a large amount of Y particles were generated where the energy disappeared.

Meaning, it's confirmed there's a cluster of cold-adapted microorganisms underground!"

Upon hearing this, Academician Pan Jianwei slightly exhaled in relief.

Although initially, the ground's anomalies were overlooked, subsequent remediation was timely.

More crucially, the speculation on the boundary and Y particles was accurate.

However, before he could relax long, in the next moment.

Zhao Zhiming's voice suddenly elevated, even trembling:

"Report, new situation!"

Li Bai'an seeing this, slightly furrowed his brow, asked:

"Xiaozhao, what's happened?"

He understands his assistant well, knowing he's not the type to shout impulsively.

No need for Mount Tai's collapse-like composure, but his mindset is quite strong.

In Li Bai'an's memory, Zhao Zhiming has never been as affected as now.

Near him, Zhao Zhiming swallowed hard:

"Elder Li, the other device in the array detected spiritual energy!"

Upon hearing this, Academician Pan Jianwei's eyes lit up:

"Spiritual energy? Is it from the array?"

Zhao Zhiming shook his head, giving him a bitter smile:

"No, the origin of spiritual energy is unclear, but they...

disappeared into the array!"

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