638: Chapter 637 The Doctor's Deduction Results for China!

Nakamura Inao walked forward along the tunnel, the hard rocky ground beneath his feet.

On the rock walls on both sides, there were very obvious signs of artificial excavation, but those chisel marks were extremely regular.

Every ten meters in the tunnel, a high-power industrial floodlight was embedded in the rock wall, but the dim yellow light was refracted by the dust and water vapor permeating the tunnel, making this passage leading deep underground appear even darker and more cramped.

Oppressive.

This was Nakamura Inao's most intuitive feeling at this moment.

After walking about five hundred meters, the view suddenly opened up before him.

They had arrived at a massive, naturally formed underground karst cave.

The scale of this cave was beyond imagination; the dome was so high that its top could not be seen.

And the central area of the entire cave had been converted into a large-scale comprehensive laboratory.

Various precision instruments, some recognized by Nakamura Inao and others not, were placed casually everywhere, and countless thick cables coiled on the ground like pythons, connecting one piece of high-speed operating equipment after another.

Although the scale here could not compare to the standardized laboratories in the main base above, just by taking a glance, Nakamura Inao could determine that the precision of the equipment here was absolutely superior.

Nakamura Inao's gaze quickly locked onto the very center of the laboratory.

There, a thin, middle-aged white man with messy hair was sitting alone in front of a huge circular workbench.

He was "The Doctor", Arthur Haynes.

The Doctor looked to be about fifty, wearing thick, old-fashioned round-rimmed glasses. His golden-white church uniform was stained with various grease and chemical reagents, worn wrinkled on his body.

The surroundings were piled high with mountains of handwritten calculation drafts, various scattered metal parts, and violently dismantled instruments.

The Doctor was immersed in his own world, his lips constantly moving slightly, as if he were silently talking to himself, or perhaps performing some kind of super-high-speed mental calculation that mortals could not understand.

Nakamura Inao lightened his footsteps and walked over slowly.

"Doctor?"

He called out tentatively.

The figure in front of the workbench did not react at all.

"Doctor?"

Nakamura Inao increased the weight of his tone.

Still no response.

Nakamura Inao shook his head helplessly. He had no choice but to step forward and reach out to gently tap his shoulder.

"Doctor!"

At that very instant, Arthur Haynes suddenly raised his head.

Those gray-blue eyes hidden behind thick lenses were hollow for a moment, as if his soul had just returned from another dimension.

Immediately after, the Doctor's pupils quickly regained focus.

A sharp gleam that made one's heart run cold flashed through the Doctor's eyes.

Nakamura Inao even felt his heart skip a beat from being pierced by that gaze.

The Doctor's first sentence was not a greeting, nor was it a question, but a straightforward statement, a conclusion thrown out directly.

"Bishop, you came just in time."

Nakamura Inao's heart suddenly tightened.

Just in time?

He had come down this time completely on a whim and had not notified him in advance.

The Doctor seemed completely unaware of Nakamura Inao's inner shock and suspicion; he stood up, moved stiffly around the workbench, and walked over to a huge handwritten whiteboard nearby.

That whiteboard was densely packed with complex formulas and deductive logic chains that mortals could not understand at all, with countless arrows and annotations interspersed, appearing intricate and chaotic.

The Doctor pointed to a core node circled in red on the whiteboard and spoke in his unique, emotionless tone:

"Three days ago, the Lord provided me with some intelligence on Huaxia."

"Known Variable One: Top-secret data transmitted back by the Sophon. Observation data on the external armor of that Huaxia aerospace mothership called 'Luan Bird'. Although the Sophon cannot enter the interior, based on its thermal radiation and pressure resistance performance when breaking through the atmosphere, I have established a basic material model..."

"Known Variable Two: The Luan Niao Mothership left Earth orbit and headed to the Asteroid Belt to mine ore. This indicates that Huaxia cannot find materials on Earth to satisfy their next step of plans; they need higher-strength cosmic minerals..."

"Known Variable Three: The 'Kunlun Third-Generation Armor' promotional video recently released publicly by Huaxia officials. In the video, that armor crushes special steel ingots with bare hands and withstands particle cannons..."

"... I took all the above known information as variables and conducted a complete predestined deduction."

The Doctor turned his head.

The lenses reflected the light from the whiteboard, making it impossible to see his eyes.

"The deduction has reached a conclusion."

Nakamura Inao swallowed, a sense of foreboding welling up in his heart.

"What conclusion?"

The Doctor's voice remained flat, but what he said struck Nakamura Inao like a lightning bolt.

"The conclusion is that Huaxia has already mastered basic alloy smelting technology far beyond our cognition. According to my calculations, the material protection level of their active-duty main armor has already reached, no... has even exceeded the category of a Level 1 cosmic civilization."