Wei Kexue jumped down from the snowmobile’s track, and just then, another man who looked around fifty or sixty years old with a rugged face came out from the vehicle. Wei Kexue intended to help him down, but the old man stubbornly waved his hand to indicate him to move aside, then jumped down by himself, almost losing his balance, and hurriedly trudged through the snow towards Lin Xian.
"Captain Lin, it’s really you. When I saw the experimental data submitted by the Postman group mentioning the Infinity, I thought I had read it wrong," Wei Kexue said excitedly as he approached.
Lin Xian stepped forward, embraced him briefly, and said, "I heard there was an incident with your group?"
Upon hearing this, Wei Kexue opened his mouth with a hesitant look, and then hastily explained, "Yes, there was an incident, but I was lucky enough to survive. The Phoenix Society people found me among the dead and now I’ve been incorporated into the scientific research team at the Xilan base."
After saying this, he immediately introduced the old man beside him.
"Let me introduce you; this is Professor Guo Sicheng, the head of the Xilan Joint Research Group. He’s my mentor and now also my supervisor. He is very advanced in researching cold dark basic particles."
"Hello, Guo Sicheng. You are the captain of the Infinity convoy, right? Was that research data provided by you?"
Lin Xian glanced at Wei Kexue, then nodded at Professor Guo, "Yes, it was me."
Upon hearing this, the old man immediately took off his gloves and shook hands with Lin Xian very earnestly.
Lin Xian initially thought the Phoenix Society had come to see him due to superpower-related matters, but unexpectedly, it was a scientific team that first sought him out.
While shaking hands, Lin Xian took a close look and noticed that the old professor’s cold-proof clothing collar was folded inside out at the neckline, and the buttons were fastened incorrectly, as if he was in a hurry to head out.
Guo Sicheng noticed Lin Xian’s gaze, looked down, then awkwardly smiled and said while adjusting his collar, "I left in a bit of haste, no worries, no worries."
At this point, Wei Kexue chimed in excitedly, "As soon as my teacher received your research data, he called all the researchers together for several hours of discussion meetings, seeking approval for some specific experimental equipment and support personnel from higher-ups, all to quickly reproduce the experiment process. However, unfortunately, there was a dispute with the Emperor Group on that side, which is why they came to you urgently without prior notice. We know you just narrowly escaped death, and we apologize for disturbing your rest, hoping for your understanding."
Lin Xian was a bit startled upon hearing this. How did the research on the Dark Mark get entangled with people from the Emperor Plan?
Just as he finished his sentence, a number of individuals who seemed to be laboratory researchers got off several snowmobiles at the same time, most of whom were older. From the few snowmobiles behind, Lin Xian noticed Yu Yuheng from the Emperor Group.
"Captain Lin." Yu Yuheng walked up with a somewhat apologetic smile, saying, "I didn’t have the chance to thank you for the previous assistance, and here I am disturbing you again."
Lin Xian looked at the two teams with some confusion. The Joint Research Group mainly focuses on studying superpowers and the Dark Tide, while the Emperor Group is focused on mecha warfare studies. How come there was a dispute over the research data he provided?
"Professor Guo, Team Leader Yu, what’s going on here?"
"Here’s the situation," Yu Yuheng began to explain, "Xilan’s command center is currently planning the evacuation route for two days later. Although it wasn’t originally planned for our Emperor Group to be in this stationed troop, we feel obliged to update our brother departments on the situation we encountered at the Trakama Ice Valley. We believe this is a highly abnormal Abnormal Body cluster phenomenon. So, we combined the contact data from our No.1 Machine against the S-Class and communicated with the people here in the research team to provide a valid suggestion to the higher-ups in the command department."
"And then..." Yu Yuheng glanced at Professor Guo’s team: "Professor Guo’s team seems to have very unique insights into the behavior patterns of Dark Creatures."
Lin Xian exchanged glances with Chen Sixuan, perplexed as to why the scientific team’s dispute had come to involve him.
"What insights?" Lin Xian asked.
"The Dark Mark!" Not waiting for Lin Xian’s words to finish, Guo Sicheng excitedly stepped forward and said, "Your naming is very accurate. Our global research group in the Phoenix Society has proposed over a dozen different hypotheses on the behavior patterns of Dark Creatures, trying to figure out their occurrence logic, including group hunting effects, Hunter tracking, Spirit Vibration Value attraction, superpower user synchronization, and so on. But up to now, none have been experimentally validated. But you, you, you..."
Professor Guo’s tone was very urgent, looking at Lin Xian: "How did your observational data achieve a 99.9% accuracy in determining Abnormal Body occurrences without integrating Spirit Vibration Value data while using only a single experimental body?"
Lin Xian thought to himself, Director Ding is indeed meticulous...
Professor Guo’s words left Lin Xian momentarily unable to digest them. Wei Kexue quickly added, "Captain Lin, my teacher also previously proposed a ’bonfire’ theory that intriguingly aligns with what you referred to as the Dark Mark. Although lacking effective theoretical backing at the moment, our research group has compared results from investigations of many Survivor Caravans. Many other teams are increasingly inclined towards this theoretical guess. However, we have found no factual basis for the existence of this ’bonfire,’ not even from the behavioral logic standpoint..."