291: Chapter 291: Earth Can Be Hollow, Deciphering Where Atlantis Went

Zheng Ming shook his head with a look of suspicion. "How could that be possible? If the world's militaries really found any evidence, it would have been declassified long ago. Could something like that even be kept hidden?"

At this moment, in the livestream, the viewers also felt their interest piqued.

"There's even evidence, and it's backed by the military?"

"If this is true, then it's not just a guess, is it?"

"Everything the host said before has been verified. I believe him this time!"

"What exactly is the evidence? The suspense is killing me!"

"..."

Xiaoyu's eyes lit up, and she asked with a look of surprise, "Brother, is there really?"

Jiang Zhe thought for a moment and didn't answer immediately. Instead, he asked a question in return, "Xiaoyu, do you remember the hollow earth theory I mentioned before?"

Xiaoyu's beautiful eyes narrowed slightly, as if she remembered something.

The hollow earth theory—seven or eight days ago, her brother had indeed mentioned it once when talking about the Moon being hollow.

At that time, he said that the Earth might not be solid, but instead possessed a massive underground space.

When this theory was mentioned, some viewers in the livestream speculated that the Earth was hollow, and that there might even be another world underground.

She remembered being curious at the time and specifically searching for information online. Currently, mainstream science considers the Earth to be solid, but that is all based on inferences derived from seismic waves and gravity calculations.

Humans have never actually drilled to the center of the Earth to see for themselves.

The former Bear Country once drilled an ultra-deep borehole on the Kola Peninsula. They drilled for over twenty years, reaching a maximum depth of 12,262 meters.

It sounds deep, but for the Earth's radius of 6,371 kilometers, it hasn't even penetrated the skin.

Further down, the temperature and pressure are too high; the drill bit would likely melt.

So, whether the Earth is solid or hollow, in the absence of absolute evidence, no one dares to state categorically that it is one or the other.

"Brother, I remember. I also remember the information I looked up before about the mammoths. Mammoths clearly lived in the Northern Hemisphere, over in the Siberian permafrost. How could they end up in the South Pole, tens of thousands of miles away?"

"Could it be that in the distant past, when the Antarctic was still a grassland, they lived there?"

As for the mammoth issue, many viewers were hearing about it for the first time.

It wasn't until they searched for information online that they learned about this for the first time.

Kyoto, University of History Faculty Housing.

Professor Liu Guangyi nodded. "The issue Xiaoyu mentioned isn't a big problem. Mammoth fossils are mainly distributed in the Northern Hemisphere, especially in the Siberian permafrost, where a large number of well-preserved individuals have been found, some even with undigested food in their stomachs, like buttercups and wild peas—temperate plants."

"What does this show? It only shows that during the era when mammoths lived, Siberia was not permafrost, but temperate grassland."

"They were frozen suddenly, not even having time to digest their last meal."

Qian Mingyi couldn't help but look curious. "Then what does this have to do with the South Pole?"

Professor Liu Guangyi thought for a while and explained, "That's where the problem lies. Later, people also discovered mammoth fossils in the Antarctic. Although not as many as in Siberia, mammoths did indeed exist in the Antarctic."

His gaze fell on the large screen.

"If the Antarctic was once temperate, it would make sense for mammoths to appear there. But the problem is, the Antarctic and Siberia are tens of thousands of miles apart. How did they get across?"

Professor Chen Runzhi responded thoughtfully, "Unless, at that time, the Antarctic and the Northern Hemisphere were connected?"

Professor Liu Guangyi nodded slightly. "Before the breakup of Gondwana, they were indeed connected. But that was hundreds of millions of years ago, while mammoths were creatures from hundreds of thousands of years ago. The timing doesn't quite match up."

The four professors looked at each other, all sensing that something was hidden here.

On the large screen, Jiang Zhe spoke softly:

"Yes, the information you looked up is also correct. The appearance of mammoths in the Antarctic can be explained by climate change; the Antarctic was once temperate, and they lived there."

Then, his tone shifted, and his expression became somewhat mysterious.

"If we use the hollow earth theory to explain it, it actually makes sense too. Beneath the surface of the Earth's land, there might exist countless underground tunnels. The mammoths traveled through an underground entrance, walked all the way to the South Pole, and then it was game over."

Hearing this, Xiaoyu's eyes grew even brighter. This explanation was much cooler than migrating across grasslands!

Jiang Zhe spoke softly, "Alright, back to the main topic: the geographical evidence for Atlantis."

"Xiaoyu, let me ask you a few questions."

Xiaoyu sat up straight.

"If Atlantis had aircraft, what shape would they most likely be?"

"Disc-shaped. After all, the earliest cities of Atlantis, those ancient cities near the Strait of Gibraltar, had a disc-like structure."

"And what about their race?"

"White. The Greeks are white, so the Atlanteans should be white too. Did they go to the South Pole from the sea later?"

"Hmm. One last question. Do UFOs come from the sky, or from...?"

Xiaoyu was stunned for a moment upon hearing this question.

In the livestream, countless people were also somewhat dazed.

The implication of this question was a bit profound.

A scene suddenly flashed through Xiaoyu's mind. It was something her brother had mentioned half a month ago when he was talking about meteorites.

In 2013, in Chelyabinsk, Bear Country, a meteorite about 17 meters in diameter and weighing between 700 to 10,000 tons hurtled toward Earth at a speed of 18 kilometers per second.

According to calculations, if it had struck the ground directly, the energy released would have been equivalent to 30 Hiroshima atomic bombs.

Then, something bizarre happened.

Dashcam and mall surveillance footage showed that just as the meteorite was about to enter the atmosphere, an object coming from behind caught up to it—at an incredibly fast speed, unimaginably fast. That object struck the meteorite directly from behind and pierced through it.

This ultimately caused the meteorite to disintegrate in mid-air, with fragments scattering across a wide area of the Chelyabinsk region.

The largest fragment fell into a frozen lake, leaving behind an 8-meter diameter ice hole.

As for the object that pierced the meteorite, after passing through, it continued forward and then vanished.

In the surveillance footage, the direction its flight path finally pointed to was the ground, rather than continuing to fly into the sky.

At the time, many people speculated it was a military missile, but a missile couldn't possibly be that fast, nor could it catch up to a meteorite from behind.

Some speculated it was an alien spaceship, but if it were an alien spaceship, why didn't it fly away, but instead fell toward the ground?

If it came from outer space, why would it fly toward the ground?

Unless...

It came from the ground in the first place, or from underground.

Xiaoyu's pupils contracted slightly. *Hiss—*

As she spoke, comments in the livestream also erupted frantically.

"Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap!"

"I remember that Chelyabinsk meteorite!"

"It came from behind, pierced the meteorite, and then vanished!"

"If it came from outer space, it should have flown outward!"

"It flew toward the ground, which means it came from the ground?"

"Damn, UFOs are coming out from underground?"

On the large screen, Xiaoyu suddenly sat up straight, her expression somewhat incredulous. "Brother, could it be that UFOs come from underground?"

"And I also noticed a fact: Chelyabinsk had the world's third-largest nuclear leak event, the explosion of a nuclear waste storage tank at the Mayak nuclear fuel reprocessing plant near Kyshtym, Soviet Union, on September 29, 1957."

"When I looked it up last time, I found it was one of the most serious nuclear accidents in human history, ranking third in severity after Chernobyl and Fukushima."

Jiang Zhe was a bit surprised and looked at Xiaoyu with interest.

It seemed Xiaoyu had also discovered something: places with nuclear leaks are often accompanied by... UFOs!

"A bit unexpected. You seem to have discovered another possibility: where there are nuclear leaks, UFOs often appear."

As soon as these words were spoken, the eyes of the viewers, teachers, and experts lit up.

However, he shifted his tone back to the topic. "Xiaoyu, why would UFOs come from underground?"

Xiaoyu said passionately, "If they come from underground, it explains the trajectory of the Chelyabinsk UFO. After it pierced the meteorite, its trajectory was downward, not upward. So it didn't fly into outer space but fell toward the ground. That indicates that before the meteorite appeared, its starting point was actually the ground, or it flew from underground to the surface to carry out a precision strike on a ten-thousand-ton meteorite!"

As she said this, her expression became increasingly excited. "If UFOs were from outer space, when we observe them, they should be flying from the outside in—a slanted angle flying from top to bottom. But in many UFO sightings, they appear and disappear suddenly, with almost no trajectory of entering the atmosphere, as if they were already nearby. I can only think of the ground."

She suddenly took a sharp breath. "Brother, I even think that UFOs might come from under the sea rather than outer space!"

As she finished, countless viewers in the livestream gave her a thumbs up.

"Xiaoyu's reasoning is amazing!"

"So UFOs are piloted by underground people?"

"What about Atlantis then?"

"Atlantis sank, but the people didn't die; they hid in the center of the Earth?"

"Damn, this doesn't seem like a imaginative deduction; it seems like freaking reality!"

"..."

At this moment, in a Huaqing University dormitory, Li Mo immediately took out his laptop to analyze the Chelyabinsk trajectory.

The software prompt read: [After piercing the meteorite, this object tilted downward at a 15° angle. Suspected unknown aircraft or meteorite... Meteorite suspicion excluded; a meteorite cannot be so smooth and intact!]

Looking at the prompt, Li Mo took a sharp breath.

Soon, Xiaoyu's beautiful eyes grew even brighter. She herself was startled by this idea. "Brother, in that case, it really seems possible that the Earth is hollow!"

Jiang Zhe smiled slightly and didn't deny it, his gaze gradually becoming profound. "Before everything is proven, it can be hollow."

"Because if the Earth is hollow, it can explain not only Atlantis, but even Nüwa Mending the Heavens!"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's hearts were suspended in anticipation.