Li Tongchen frowned. 'What stone statues? What Arctic?'
He immediately turned on the TV and flipped to a news channel, which was broadcasting a story from the Arctic Region.
The story was about a highly mysterious and severe natural phenomenon in the Arctic Region.
A few days ago, an earthquake had struck the seabed nearly a hundred nautical miles northwest of the Bering Strait. It was a strong one—a magnitude seven—and had even triggered a small tsunami in the Arctic Ocean.
However, since the quake occurred in a remote, uninhabited area with few islands, and deep on the ocean floor, it had drawn very little attention.
But just today, remote sensing satellites from several major powers had suddenly detected an extremely strong thermal—or rather, energetic—reaction in the earthquake zone inside the Arctic Circle.
At first, it was thought to be a hydrothermal flow caused by an undersea volcanic eruption.
