Hunter of Mysterious Creature

Chapter 689 - 9: Egypt

"Your situation was special that time... To be honest, your encounter broke the record of 'Gemini Balloons' never actively attacking humans," said Candle Dragon.

"If there's a first time, there will be a second... I don't want to be the unlucky guy who breaks the record twice," Sun Hang said with a pout.

Although he suspected that the attack by the Gemini Balloons was most likely secretly instigated by Anna, he couldn't rule out that it was his "special constitution" that caused it.

Those bizarre creatures without self-awareness, when encountering Sun Hang, either avoided him as if he were the plague, or they targeted him madly, desperately trying to kill him... It was clear that these strange beings sensed a great threat from Sun Hang. And when faced with a threat, the instinctive reaction of creatures (or strange beings) is either to flee or to attack.

"What exactly am I?" Sun Hang silently wondered to himself.

Although in the small world of Chimera 17, Sun Hang had roughly guessed his origin, the problem was that his true identity was still a mystery... All the clues ended at the Nameless Island Research Institute.

The origin of the embryo, and how the Three Apes became involved with him... Sun Hang knew nothing about these matters.

He had hoped that the main brain could find some clues, but in fact, all relevant information had long been erased by the Three Apes... As Pei Zongjun said, the archives and data related to the Nameless Island Research Institute they could now access were all replicas "sketched" by Pei Zongjun based on the predictions of Sphinx; the original files had long been lost.

Sun Hang suddenly thought of that videotape from Tianfu City Shopping Mall.

The ability of that strange object was to temporarily erase something from the world... So could there be some connection between it and the Three Apes, or those erased files?

Could the appearance of that videotape in Sun Hang's view be... more than just a coincidence?

Where did the things whose existence was erased go? Since they could return to this world, it indicated they didn't completely disappear, but were "stored" in a place similar to a parallel space or small world... If this place is called a "recycle bin," might the things erased by the Three Apes also be in this "recycle bin"?

"Are you considering the feasibility of a Low Earth Orbit air drop?" Candle Dragon's words suddenly pulled Sun Hang out of his contemplation, "If you really plan to go to Egypt, I can help you contact Mr. Ouyang... There have been a total of four records of dropping Hunters into Surrendered Areas using Low Earth Orbit air drops, and aside from the failed first attempt more than sixty years ago, the subsequent three were all led by Mr. Ouyang, with the success rate currently at one hundred percent."

"I have another question... If Hunters are sent so far away using Low Earth Orbit air drops, how do they come back?" Sun Hang asked.

"The same way," Candle Dragon replied.

"The same way?"

"Hunters undertaking such missions receive systematic training in carrier rocket and aerospace engineering. The transport pod they travel in is reusable and can be adapted to various models of carrier rockets. Not only that, but the pod also carries a sufficient amount of compressed fuel..."

"You mean to say, they build their own rockets and fly back?" Sun Hang said in astonishment, "I hope you're joking."

"I'm not joking. For those three extraterritorial explorations, that's exactly how the Hunters returned," Candle Dragon nodded, "However, this is also related to the chosen landing points beforehand. For example, in one of my own experiences, there was an Old Siberian Federation rocket launch base located two hundred and forty kilometers from where we landed. We found well-preserved carrier rockets there, which we slightly modified to mount the transport pod. As long as we can send the pod to Low Earth Orbit, the rest is left to Mr. Ouyang and his team."

"Do you think Egypt has a rocket launch base?"

"There is. The Siberian Plain once helped build a launch base on the Sinai Peninsula for them, not to mention, there is a 'Space City' in the New Cairo area as well..." Candle Dragon's words suddenly stopped. He suddenly realized... even if Egypt once had a rocket launch base and Space City, they probably no longer existed.

After the Sand Worm turned the Nile River Delta into a sea of sand, it moved eastward and invaded the Sinai Peninsula... As for New Cairo, that speaks for itself.

Even though the actual situation in the Egyptian Surrendered Area cannot be observed now, from the old files left behind, it's clear that post-fall Egypt doesn't have the conditions to launch carrier rockets.

"I need a vehicle, similar to PFDA but not disposable," Sun Hang said, "or rather, a spacecraft capable of exiting the atmosphere and with round-trip capabilities without relying on a carrier rocket. I guess no one would want to have just a one-way ticket in hand."

"Request has been recorded," Sun Hang's Hunter wristband suddenly sounded without warning, "This project's priority has been listed as the highest, currently selecting project team members and starting to allocate all necessary resources for the project. The specific progress will be reported to you in real-time."