Before riding the motorcycle back to the courtyard, Ren Zhong had mostly figured out many key points.
He perfectly combined his common sense from Earth with the special circumstances of Source Star.
The metal elements filling the soil and rocks couldn’t influence the Ruined Beasts out of nowhere; there must be some interaction force between them.
Just like humans and the sun, despite the great distance, the sun’s gravitational force still affects humanity.
Even though this force is invisible and intangible, it exists eternally and objectively.
The medium by which the waste mine pit affects the Ruined Beasts should unsurprisingly be the magnetic field.
Even if there are some differences and the speculation is not entirely accurate, Ren Zhong could provisionally equate it to a magnetic field in his mind.
On Earth, there is a vast geomagnetic field.
Besides protecting Earth from high-energy cosmic rays on a spatial level, the geomagnetic field also consistently permeates the billions of years of evolution of Earth’s ecosystem on a temporal level.
The geomagnetic field is ubiquitous, influencing every aspect of biological and modern human life.
For example, migratory birds, pigeons finding their way, and human navigation all rely on it.
Yet under the umbrella of the global geomagnetic field, there are also numerous regional geomagnetic fields.
When an earthquake occurs, the geomagnetic field experiences regional disturbances.
The magnetic field in that region does not detach from Earth’s magnetic field but exhibits distinct differential characteristics.
The most typical example is the weakening of cell phone signals before signal towers fail during an earthquake, and particularly sensitive instruments on rescue helicopters also being significantly affected.
Moreover, in some specific areas, there exist long-term perceptible regional anomalous geomagnetic fields that trigger more thunderstorms and cause lightning to repeatedly strike the same mountain peak.
Alternatively, some reckless and ignorant adventurers might venture deep into the wilderness, only to find that when they reach certain areas, their compasses inexplicably lose effectiveness, leading to disorientation and peril.
Before the intervention of science, humans often attributed these phenomena to the power of ghosts and gods.
But these so-called unsolved mysteries ultimately did not escape the decoding by scientists.
Of course, on Source Star, there will also be planet-level and regional magnetic fields.
However, Ren Zhong was already sure that the physical rules of Source Star differ from those of Earth.
The metal elements on this planet exude a sense of eeriness everywhere.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain the emergence of Ruined Beasts, which are half-mechanical and half-biological life forms, nor how the Crystal Chip grows spontaneously inside the Ruined Beasts.
Ren Zhong made a bold assumption first.
Assume that what stimulates the Ruined Beasts and Crystal Chip is the magnetic field of Source Star and some underlying information flow.
Then, even though the higher-purity ores in Starfire Mine, once one of Source Star’s largest molybdenum-iron mines, have been almost entirely extracted, the abundant remaining ionic and elemental metals are gathered together, forming a special magnetic field within a small area, leading to the uniqueness of the Ruined Beasts in the waste mine pit.
Ren Zhong further speculated.
The surface pit of the waste mine pit is eight kilometers in diameter, with the underground network extending to unknown depths and distances, vast and enormous.
The essence of the Starfire Mine is like piling up a heap of magnetic powder that can be completely understood by splitting the overall magnetic field of the waste mine pit into countless smaller magnetic fields.
If a larger neodymium-iron-boron strong magnet is placed directly under the magnetic powder heap, the original regional magnetic field of the heap will be swallowed by the larger and stronger magnetic field, thereby changing the original stacking shape to an explosive radial form, sprawling out like a sea urchin.
Each spine of the sea urchin represents the magnetic line network formed by the merging of small magnetic fields within this large magnetic field.
The waste mine pit is a pile of magnetic powder, and the planetary magnetic field of Source Star is the large piece of neodymium-iron-boron strong magnet below it.
The two habitats chosen by the Crystalized Pangolin and the Dream Weaving Maze Stink Bug are likely two "magnetic powder particle" nodes within the large magnetic field of the waste mine pit.
Then, the waste mine pit must contain a network of nodes connected like the spines of a sea urchin.
Once the network is unraveled, the mysterious veil of the entire waste mine pit will be torn open, and the general distribution pattern of the Level Four Ruined Beasts will be revealed.
He will be able to transform into a human-shaped radar, predicting the whereabouts of the Level Four Ruined Beasts in advance, thereby avoiding danger through foresight and preparation.
At the very least, he will be able to turn the waste mine pit into half a backyard!
As soon as he straightened out this idea, Ren Zhong immediately made the next action plan.
First, attempt to obtain the detailed exploration map of the Starfire Mine from that year and see the underground mineral distribution clearly.