The experint was about to begin.
All sections reported the operational status of their equipnt; final adjustnts were made to the experintal paraters. After all preparations had been completed, a comprehensive check was conducted, focusing primarily on the status within the target coverage area of the experint.
The target coverage range was set to over two hundred ters in length and thirty ters in width, with many detection devices located fifty ters away. The most critical experintal area, however, lay within a fifty-ter radius.
So animals were placed within the experint area and were to be monitored by dedicated high-definition caras stationed beyond a lateral distance of fifty ters.
During the final check, the animals were fed a feast, essentially a send-off ritual for them.
The animals joyfully consud their feast, blissfully unaware of the nightmare that was about to arrive.
So staff at the Experint Center felt a twinge of sympathy as they watched the animals on screen, but most people were indifferent.
Zhao Yi felt the sa way.
The law of the jungle is nature’s rule for survival, and this can even be extended to the entire universe. Humanity beca the sovereign of Earth, and naturally, it ca to govern the other animals.
In addition, Zhao Yi had seen and personally conducted far too many experints.
He was also a biodical researcher; dissecting lab mice was not uncommon for him, and he frequently conducted dissections on various live animals. Compared to those experiences, the situation at hand was trivial.
Although the animals would encounter death during the experint, theoretically, the process of dying would be extrely brief—almost instantaneous, which could be considered a form of euthanasia, to so extent.
As the scheduled ti for the experint drew near, the Experint Center beca much quieter. Those not involved in the experint simply sat and watched the imagery on the monitor screens, while Zhao Yi continually communicated with the command staff.
One minute before the experint, Zhao Yi had one last conversation with the command staff, reminding everyone once more of the necessity of a tily evacuation, using a very stern tone, "This is an order!"
"After completing the planned work, evacuate imdiately without any hesitation. Staying even briefly could be lethal."
"This experint is extrely dangerous!"
"Do you understand?"
Having finished, Zhao Yi entrusted the work to the on-site command staff and joined the others in watching the row of monitors that lined the wall.
The countdown began.
Through electronic devices, the voice from the Experint Command Center could be heard. Soon, with the command ’Begin,’ the personnel inside the equipnt activated the devices in a predetermined sequence.
As each person completed their tasks, they imdiately evacuated from the apparatus, with cars already started and waiting outside. They departed the area at the first opportunity.
There would be an interval of about seven minutes between the start of the equipnt and the release of the Z-wave.
This seven-minute duration was for energy accumulation, and the operation of the internal magnetic field maintaining device required so ti as well.
Although the evacuation ti was only around five minutes, it was sufficient for all personnel to move more than a kiloter away from the device.
This distance was relatively safe.
Everyone acted very quickly, and half a minute before the Z-wave release, the last departing car reported that it was a thousand ters from the base and still speeding away.
Finally, the Z-wave was about to be released.
At this mont, the Experint Center was silent, with everyone fixed on the monitors that covered one wall. One screen, in particular, was captivating. A zood-in view showed a goat blissfully munching on grass, seemingly relishing its taste, not bothering to look around as it continued to graze.
Behind the goat, several mice were enclosed in a tal cage.
The mice were completely satiated, with two of them persistently pawing at the cage, hoping for freedom, though their desire didn’t seem very strong.
At that point, none of the animals sensed any danger.
In millions of years of evolutionary history, they had probably never encountered the threat of spatial compression, as nature does not produce such forces.
Then, suddenly, sothing bizarre happened.
The surveillance screen seed like it was playing a fantasy film; the goat grazing on the grass abruptly froze and then rapidly began to shrink. Within the span of a single second, it had reduced in size to just slightly larger than an ordinary mouse.
However, the goat did not die. It was still lively and jumping around, quickly realizing that sothing was wrong. It turned its head to look behind, noticing that the cage seed to have grown larger, though the size of the mice within hadn’t changed. So mice were scurrying out through gaps created by the enlarging cage.
The mice were clearly panicking.
The goat sensed the strangeness but, with its limited intelligence, could not comprehend what was happening and simply resud grazing.
This all transpired within rely ten seconds.
Most of the Experint Center witnessed the scene on the monitors and were imdiately shocked; the shrinking of the goat, mice, and cage seed like sothing out of a movie.
The most bizarre aspect was that the animals did not die.
"They’re not dead!"
"How is this possible?"
"This isn’t a movie, right? Look at the other screens, the birds didn’t die either. It seems they’ve just shrunk and not died."
The uproarious discussion hadn’t even ended when a trendously noisy sound ca from outside.
The noise was like a teeth-grinding sound amplified a hundredfold, making one’s skin crawl. Fortunately, the walls blocked most of the sound, yet many people still covered their ears.
At the sa ti.
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