"How is it? Have you found any clues?" Shen Jinghua stared at Jiang Ze who was concentrating on fiddling with the instrument and asked impatiently.

Jiang Ze frowned, gently stroking the stone and shaking his head helplessly. "No," he replied, "the density and thickness of this stone are much greater than those of ordinary stones. X-ray imaging has a severe impact on its penetration, and it's impossible to obtain a clear and effective picture of the internal structure."

Hearing Jiang Ze's words, Shen Jinghua touched his chin thoughtfully, and suddenly an idea came to him. He decisively suggested: "In this case, why don't we try cutting from the edge of the stone? Maybe we can make a breakthrough."

Jiang Ze did not take action immediately after hearing this. Instead, he picked up a sharp small cutting knife and carefully scraped it back and forth on the surface of the stone.

As he moved, some fine stone powder fell into the glass dish in his hand.

Afterwards, Jiang Ze quickly walked to the laboratory table, placed the collected powders under a high-power electron microscope, and began to observe them carefully.

Shen Jinghua, who had been standing nearby and closely watching all this, saw this and hurried forward, standing close to Jiang Ze.

After waiting for a long time, when Jiang Ze slowly stood up, Shen Jinghua couldn't suppress his curiosity and asked hurriedly: "How is it? Is there any sign of life?"

Jiang Ze also shook his head in disappointment and replied with a sigh, "No, these powders are no different from ordinary stones."

"How is this possible? This stone was glowing before. It doesn't look like an ordinary stone at all." Shen Jinghua muttered in disbelief.

Jiang Ze's gaze fell on the huge stone again, and he fell into deep thought.

After a moment, as if something suddenly occurred to him, he muttered to himself, "Perhaps... the problem isn't the stone itself glowing, but rather something unknown hidden within it."

Jiang Ze said this and called the technical department to perform laser cutting on this mysterious stone.

The technicians were seen skillfully operating the advanced equipment, starting to cut from a part about five centimeters thick on the edge of the stone.

After each precise cut, they quickly use X-rays to penetrate the freshly cut surface to delve deeper into the stone.

Just like that, one cut after another, when the cutting reached a certain extent, the internal structure of the stone gradually appeared on the screen of the X-ray imaging device.

And deep inside the stone, there is an egg-like structure that is slightly larger than an ostrich egg.

Although it is still unknown what kind of egg this is, a spark of hope has ignited in everyone's heart.

Encouraged by this discovery, the technicians cut the stone more quickly. After a long and tense wait, they finally succeeded in cutting to the location where the egg was.

At this time, a technician stared at the part of the eggshell that had slightly exposed the surface and muttered to himself: "This looks like a fossil..."

Hearing this, Shen Jinghua, who was standing by, shouted without hesitation: "Don't dawdle, quickly cut off the stone covering it and dig it out completely!"

Hearing this, they cut all the stones around the egg again, leaving only a few centimeters of thickness around the egg.

Then, in order to ensure that the egg would not be damaged in any way, they could only carefully pick up small tools and slowly and gently remove the hard stone that tightly wrapped the egg.

Time passed minute by minute, until the mysterious egg hidden under the stone finally revealed its true appearance.

Jiang Ze let out a long sigh, raised his hand to gently wipe away the sweat that kept oozing from his forehead, then stretched out his hands, slowly picked up the egg with great care, walked step by step to the experimental table, and placed it steadily on it.

Shen Jinghua, who was standing by, quickly turned on the X-ray imager, skillfully adjusted the various parameters, then aimed the probe at the egg and began to scan it carefully.

However, as they stared at the instrument screen waiting for the results, they were surprised to find that it was not a dinosaur or bird egg, but a baby's head.

Further down, there was a pair of small arms, slender fingers and human skeleton, but when they continued to look down, they found that there was no skeletal structure of two legs, but instead there was a long tail.

The moment they saw the tail, all the researchers present couldn't help but widen their eyes to the extreme, with expressions of disbelief on their faces.

"This... this is a human body with a snake tail?!" one of the researchers shouted in a trembling voice.

"You're blind! This is obviously a fish tail!" another researcher immediately retorted.

"Fish tail? Fish tail?!!" When someone said it was a fish tail, someone's scream suddenly broke through his throat, and the sound became sharp and piercing.

The originally quiet laboratory suddenly exploded in an uproar, and other staff members came forward to check it out. When everyone saw the pictures displayed on the instrument with their own eyes, they could not suppress their inner surprise and shock, and exclamations filled the entire room.

Even the usually calm and composed Shen Jinghua was so shocked that he couldn't recover for a long time. He stared blankly at the image on the screen, mechanically raised his hand and patted Jiang Ze who was also silent beside him, muttering to himself: "Mermaid... Aren't mermaids a legend?"

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