Just as the Celestial Palace exploration was concluding on the home front.

Within the Fire Camp of the Damo Realm.

Lin Li was sitting in the command center's office chair, listening to the relevant report from his other direct disciple, Li Yan.

Li Yan is seventeen years and one hundred forty-four months old this year, and is also single.

However, unlike Wang Qiang, a genius who graduated from the youth class at the University of Science and Technology of China,

Li Yan belongs to the standard hardworking type, not exactly a top student, barely passing the college entrance and graduate exams by the skin of her teeth.

Beneath her glamorous appearance lies countless nights of studying late into the night, resulting in lost hair.

During the time Wang Qiang went to the homeland to provide support.

This short-haired girl became the interim leader of the plant research team, guiding the entire team's research tasks.

At this moment.

She sat upright and sternly, took out a stack of reports from a file bag beside her, and handed it to Lin Li:

"Teacher, the top one is the research report on the footprints in the deep pit at Qian Gu Mountain, and the one below is the test result of the black Spirit Stones found by Colonel Lin and the others."

Lin Li accepted the forms, dipped his index finger in some tea, and rubbed it on the bottom corner of the report.

The report naturally separated into several pages, making it easy to flip through.

Of course, when no one was around, the tea was often replaced by another kind of liquid.

Then Lin Li carefully examined the report.

Before the appearance of the Celestial Palace in the homeland, a reconnaissance team led by squad leader Zhang Yaqing discovered a cave at Qian Gu Mountain.

The cave, highly suspected to have been left by Mo Peidong, contained an altar and a deep pit.

The depth of this deep pit would not be less than a hundred thousand meters, seemingly bottomless.

At the time, Lei Wenjun discovered cliripite, a rock found only on the moon, a giant footprint, and a blue turtle inside.

In addition to that.

Lin Ziming also found a few black Spirit Stones near the altar and was mentally affected to some degree.

In the past ten days or so.

While the home front was breaking through the mysteries of the Celestial Palace, the Fire Camp did not stop its research on Qian Gu Mountain.

The depth of the pit has still not begun to be measured, as assembling and calibrating the necessary equipment isn't something that can be resolved in just a few days.

The camp has focused on a few objects, hoping to gather some information.

Seeing Lin Li flipping through the report, Li Yan took the initiative to speak:

"Teacher, that footprint is a trace left by a bare foot, or what is commonly referred to as barefoot.

According to our tests, the creature that left the footprint is at least five meters four tall and weighs at least eight tons.

And...."

Lin Li gave her a glance:

"And what?"

"And it is very likely a kind of new human rather than another primate species."

Lin Li looked slightly up, fixing his gaze on his disciple, and asked,

"Why do you judge it this way? Doesn't it have seven toes?"

Li Yan organized her thoughts and explained:

"Teacher, when we tested the footprint, we first ruled out the ground condition as an interfering factor, and then, by comparing the series of forces at different parts, we reconstructed the structure of the moving body.

Later, based on the functional relationship between the facial and foot areas, we reconstructed the stature of the creature.....

The image is on the second page; you can take a look."

Upon hearing this, Lin Li quickly turned the report to the next page.

On this page of the report, there was a drawing of a face resembling a human.

It depicted a middle-aged man around thirty years old, with a sallow, lean face, large ears, and slightly protruding teeth.

Then Li Yan continued:

"We sampled a barefoot imprint, without any footwear obstruction, allowing us to clearly collect and analyze the force conditions of each area.

We ultimately determined that this creature has 7 tarsal bones, 5 metatarsal bones, and 14 phalanges, totaling 26 foot bones.

And by using the corresponding ossimilar equation, we reconstructed the creature's body condition, which is almost indistinguishable from the humans of the Damo Realm.

As for the appearance image, it was pretty simple.

We analyzed the imprint of the right foot's navicular bone and found that this suspected new human creature has highly developed teeth.

Additionally, the tuberosity on the medial side of the navicular bone is very prominent, indicating his large front teeth."

The human foot is a very mysterious area.

People often think of foot reflex zones or acupuncture points...uh no, foot reflex theory.

For example, an actor became famous for attacking my kidney reflex zones.

On the streets, you can often see various foot care shops, both individual and chain.

In reality, aside from the reflex zone concept,

The biological sole is also a typical application area for biometric technology.

How mature is this technology nowadays?

Even if you have a unique appearance like Captain Jia, only seen once in several thousand years, as long as we can obtain your bare footprint, technicians can restore your facial features to a degree not less than 87% accuracy without any images.

However, the footprint must be very clear; shoed footprints are much less useful.

For instance, the son of a famous bombing mastermind was exposed due to having his footprint lifted, ultimately leading to his demise.

Currently, barefoot biometric identification is starting to approach sexual traits, hoping to restore some parts that LSP loves.

Of course,

It's used for legitimate purposes.

The image that Li Yan and others restored might not boast an 87% accuracy rate, but it's definitely at least 60% accurate.

Looking at the report in his hand, Lin Li couldn't help but fall into contemplation.

"A different kind of new human similar in body structure to the people of the Damo Realm..."

The restoration of the footprint image completed part of the task, but it brought with it more mysteries.

For instance, what does the internal structure of this suspected new human creature look like?

Don't be fooled by how it seems like an ordinary person magnified several times over.

To support the activity of such a body, the internal organs and skeleton are by no means as simple as size x2x3.

And then....

No matter whether this creature has buck teeth or is bald, how did it appear in the deep pit?

Although Lei Wenjun and his team have yet to reach the bottom of the pit, they can probe several hundred or even a thousand meters down easily with equipment.

Yet throughout the probing, Lei Wenjun's team hasn't found a second footprint.

This is a very strange thing.

It's as if that creature flew up.

But the exploration task requires Lei Wenjun's team, while Li Yan and her team mainly provide scientific support, so Lin Li had to press these doubts deep in his heart and continue to ask:

"Xiaoli, how is the blue turtle?"

Upon hearing this, Li Yan gently shook her head:

"Teacher, we have examined that turtle many times; there are no signs of life inside.

X-rays showed internal organs no different from those of an ordinary dead turtle; in all respects, it seems like a dead thing, but...."

"But what?"

"Xiao Wang invited Teacher Mingmou to make a calculation, and Teacher Mingmou was very certain that the turtle is indeed deceased. But after they left, Xiao Wang started babbling about 'jinxing' and 'it's definitely not dead,' and strongly insisted that we don't dissect the turtle....."

Lin Li:

"...."

He wanted to assert the seriousness of a teacher and say something like nonsense, but recalling Teacher Mingmou's previous achievements, Lin Li found himself inexplicably uncertain.

He then sighed quietly and forcibly changed the subject:

"Let's set this matter aside for now, Xiaoli, let's discuss the situation with the black Spirit Stones."

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