After awakening her X-ray vision, the beautiful CEO couldn't sit still any longer.

Nine o'clock the next morning.

"What is that?"

As soon as Ye Tian and Wang Yuyan entered the laboratory, they saw a fleeting glimmer of dark blue light.

It was as if it were just a fleeting illusion.

As Ye Tian moved toward the control panel, he slightly turned his body and locked his gaze on the transparent cabin out of the corner of his eye.

Beside her, Wang Yuyan tapped her knees almost imperceptibly three times with her fingers.

That was a coded warning of danger within the Wang family.

It was obvious that she had also noticed the anomaly earlier.

"Let's begin."

Just then, the commander entered the laboratory, and his voice forcibly drew their attention back to the laboratory.

On the operating table, Ye Tian had a tool tray in front of him, which contained basic tools such as tweezers, soft brushes, and non-destructive testing probes.

A portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometer connected to a high-resolution screen was pushed closer, while another thermal imager was aimed at the black plate-like object.

Two technicians in white dustproof suits stood on either side of Ye Tian.

Nominally, they were assisting, but in reality, they were more like two human surveillance cameras, their eyes glued to Ye Tian's hands and the data on the instruments most of the time.

Ye Tian put on latex gloves and first picked up a small piece of ordinary reef fragment brought up from the "Submersible" and placed it on the spectrometer's testing platform.

He pretended to scan, muttering to himself, "Let's calibrate the environmental baseline data first."

The commander stood not far away, arms crossed, observing coldly without comment.

After calibration, Ye Tian's gaze finally fell on the mysterious black plate-like object.

It lay quietly on the cushion, about the size of a book, neither gold nor stone, its complex and strange patterns gleaming with a matte dark luster under the shadowless lamp.

He took a deep breath, not for the sake of performance, but because he genuinely needed to calm himself.

He extended his latex-gloved fingers and very slowly and gently brushed them along the edge of the plate-like object.

It has a cool and delicate feel, even more so than the finest black jade, yet it also has a slightly metallic astringency.

The instant their fingertips touched, he quietly activated his X-ray vision and channeled a wisp of spiritual energy into it.

My field of vision changed instantly.

The bright lights in the laboratory seemed to have lost a layer of color, replaced by the underlying color of everything's internal structure, which could only be seen when X-ray vision was activated.

He no longer saw the appearance of an object, but its internal texture.

The black, plate-like object was not solid in his field of vision.

Beneath its surface lies an extremely complex, three-dimensional network structure, resembling a natural crystal lattice, layer upon layer.

These patterns are not merely decorative; they penetrate deep within, forming a network for energy conduction.

At this moment, these originally dark veins now have extremely faint specks of light, flowing intermittently like the occasional twitching of dormant nerve endings.

What shocked him even more was when his gaze passed through the plate and landed on the small container inside the transparent chamber not far away.

Despite the alloy bulkheads and multiple layers of protection, he could still see inside the container.

There was a slowly rotating, pale blue halo, like a liquid nebula.

Its flowing rhythm, along with the flickering of the faint light spots inside the plate in his hand, subtly formed a kind of resonant beat that was extremely difficult to capture!

Energy exchange! It's really happening! These seem to be things from the same sophisticated object.

"Mr. Ye?" The technician on the left couldn't help but remind him when he saw that Ye's finger had been lingering on the plate for too long.

Ye Tian abruptly withdrew his hand and also withdrew his X-ray vision.

"This material is very special. Its molecular structure seems to exhibit highly ordered amorphous characteristics, somewhere between metallic glass and certain biological materials."

I need to consult a more detailed database.

He turned to the spectrometer and began to operate it carefully.

Complex peak curves and element symbols appeared on the screen.

Wang Yuyan also came over at this moment. She stared intently at the texture on the surface of the plate-like object, picked up the portable high-precision spectrometer, and aimed the laser at the intersection of the texture.

"Here," she said calmly, pointing to the screen, "in addition to the usual elements silicon, oxygen, and aluminum, these locations contain unidentifiable elements."

The intensity is very low, but it definitely exists; database comparison failed.

She looked up at the commander, her tone carrying just the right amount of confusion and professional challenge.

"Commander, do you have more specialized material form analysis capabilities?"

This goes beyond the scope of conventional geological materials science.

The commander strolled over, glanced at the unknown peak image on the screen, and frowned almost imperceptibly.

"Continue analyzing other locations." He clearly wasn't planning to offer any unique information.

Wang Yuyan tapped the side of the instrument a few times unnoticed.

She leaned slightly towards Ye Tian, ​​speaking in a voice only the two of them could hear, blending into the background noise of the equipment:

"The signals between the layers of this thing are not continuous, and there may be an intermediate layer that is not a single material."

Ye Tian felt a chill run down his spine, and combined with what he saw through his clairvoyance, he immediately understood her meaning.

This plate-like object is likely not a single piece, but rather a composite of at least two or more layers of materials with different functions. The patterns may be energy channels between the layers!

"What are Mr. Ye's thoughts on this container?"

The commander's voice suddenly broke in.

He had somehow already stood next to the transparent chamber where the small container was located, his gaze shifting from inside the chamber to Ye Tian's face, sharp as an eagle.

Ye Tian withdrew his gaze from the spectrometer.

He knew that the other person had likely noticed him staring at the container for a few seconds.

He shook his head: "Commander, the material of this container is even stranger."

Based on my experience, my initial assessment is that its internal structure may have multiple layers of shielding.

Furthermore, it has a strong attenuation effect on most existing scientific research-grade detection rays.

The fact that the X-ray scan image was completely blurry is proof of that.

This is not a known property of any alloy or composite material.

He paused, as if considering his words carefully, and then posed the probing question:

"Trying to deduce how these two items are activated based on just these two items is like the blind men and the elephant."

Commander, you've been monitoring this area for years. Have you recorded any other coordinates showing similar abnormal energy fluctuations besides the area we've discovered?

The air seemed to freeze for a second.

The commander's eyes suddenly became even more unfathomable, filled with vigilance and a hint of coldness as if his core secrets had been touched.

"The question you asked is a top secret of the 'Deep Blue Echo'."

Your authority is limited to analyzing and interpreting the acquired samples.

Don't have unnecessary curiosity.

Mr. Ye, this is just a friendly reminder; asking too many questions won't do you any good.

The warning in his tone was unmistakable.

Ye Tian smiled faintly, nodded, and didn't ask any further questions.

He knew that asking any further questions at this point would not yield any answers.

But the commander's reaction itself confirmed his suspicions.

There are indeed other similar things in this sea area, and they are being closely monitored.

The rest of the time passed at a slow pace.

Under close surveillance, Ye Tian and Wang Yuyan continued to conduct various tedious tests:

Thermal imaging showed that the plate-like object had an abnormally constant temperature, unaffected by the environment; ultrasonic detection was completely absorbed by its internal structure, resulting in garbled feedback signals.

With each method he tried, Ye Tian used his X-ray vision to perceive a sliver of the essence and put forward some speculative conjectures that required further verification, thus slowing down the process.

The commander's patience seemed to be wearing thin, and his expression grew increasingly cold and hard with each blurry scan result and Ye Tian's meticulous delays.

Several hours later.

"Commander, I feel like I'm mentally exhausted. The aftereffects of retrieving items from the underwater ruins haven't completely subsided yet."

I need to rest, otherwise the following analysis might not be able to be completed.

Ye Tian's voice sounded weak.

Wang Yuyan also rubbed her temples at just the right moment, revealing a tired look.

"Me too, testing this stuff is too mentally taxing, my brain just won't work anymore."

The commander stared at Ye Tian for a few seconds, seemingly trying to determine whether he was truly overwhelmed or just playing tricks again.

Finally, he waved goodbye.

"Take them to the rest pods, separated by a partition."

He commanded, his gaze sweeping over the guards, "No one may leave the cabin or contact each other without permission."

"Understood," the guard replied in a deep voice.

Ye Tian and Wang Yuyan were taken away from the laboratory separately.

The corridor was brightly lit but cold, and the air was always filled with the smell of disinfectant.

Ye Tian pretended that his steps were a little unsteady.

But just as he followed the guard through an airtight door into another passage, he seemingly casually raised his hand to wipe his forehead, his fingers brushing across his eyebrows.

The opportunity he'd been waiting for had finally arrived!

In that instant, he activated his X-ray vision again.

This time, his target wasn't any objects, but the internal structure of the research vessel!

The field of vision swiftly penetrated the alloy bulkheads, pipeline layers, and debris in the adjacent compartments...

The scene flashed by in a chaotic manner, mostly dormitories, warehouses, and ordinary laboratories.

He focused his mind and explored the core area below the ship's structure.

Information flooded into view instantly: the bottom equipment compartment, the monitoring center filled with screens.

The communications room, a heavily guarded room filled with numerous metal boxes and neatly arranged firearms, turned out to be an armory!

Then, as his gaze swept over a thicker area with a clearly special shielding layer, he saw a space that was completely different from the other compartments.

The room wasn't large, but it resembled a combination of a top-tier vault and a cutting-edge laboratory.

The surrounding walls were not ordinary alloys, but a special material with a thick texture, which greatly reduced his perspective.

But even in that slightly blurry vision, he could still see the outlines of several items quietly displayed in several independent, fully enclosed, transparent display cases in the center of the room.

A metal sphere that appears to be made up of countless nested gears, its complex structure is dizzying.

A broken column-shaped object, neither metal nor wood, with faint golden veins flowing across its surface.

There was also a dark crystal with a shape completely different from the black plate-like object in his hand, but with a vaguely similar texture, and an irregular polyhedral shape.

Everything he touched exuded the same aura as the small container and plate-like object in his hand.

This discovery was like a cold electric current, instantly making his heart pound!

Just then, the guard stopped in front of a hatch, swiped his card to open it.

"Go inside and rest. If you need anything, press the internal communication button."

The guard's voice abruptly interrupted his spying, and his X-ray vision came to an abrupt halt.

Ye Tian nodded and went into the small but clean single rest pod.

The door slammed shut behind me.

Almost simultaneously, a soft sound of a hatch closing came from next door.

Wang Yuyan was right next door, and Ye Tian breathed a long sigh of relief.