This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, 11735007, 11890711, 11890710, 12275104, and 12205309), the China Scholarship Council (201906770027), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, as well as by the NSF (PHY-2209183) and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, within the framework of the Beam Energy Scan Theory (BEST) Topical Collaboration. We thank F. Becattini, X. Y. Guo, S. Z. Shi, G. Torrieri, H. Yee, H. C. Ren for useful discussions and communications.