Hunter of Mysterious Creature

Chapter 732

Fifty minutes is neither short nor long. Before Sun Hang could ask Yan Yu'an a few questions, the plane began to gradually descend—indicating they had reached the end of their journey.

The plane descended through the clouds, and suddenly, a massive city ruin appeared in their view.

"This is... the Baikal Remains," Yan Yu'an said. "The internal layout of this eerie city changes every day, so we've never been able to draw an accurate map."

"Like a moving maze?" Sun Hang asked.

Yan Yu'an nodded, clearly indicating that she had seen that classic movie.

"So can't we suspend a large number of drones over the Baikal Remains, make a real-time dynamic map from the footage captured by the drones and send it to the soldiers entering the Baikal Remains? This should greatly reduce personnel losses and also allow them to foresee some dangers hidden in blind spots—like that humanoid entity that ambushed you."

However, Yan Yu'an only sighed, saying, "Once the plane flies over the Baikal Remains, you'll understand why that hasn't been done."

It seemed as though to confirm what Yan Yu'an said, the plane did not land directly at the frontline camp but instead flew towards the Baikal Remains, circling over this pitch-black eerie city.

It was then that Sun Hang noticed a problem—when he tried to look closely at some of the city's details below, things in his line of sight became extremely blurry, as if out of focus.

Not only that, when Sun Hang stared at the Baikal Remains for more than five seconds, the images in his vision started to distort, causing the whole world to spin around.

"Oh my... I'm so dizzy!" Wang Xiyi clutched her forehead with one hand and gripped the seat back in front of her tightly with the other, her long dragon tail wrapped around the chair's armrest, "This thing is disgusting..."

"Is it some special mechanism that prevents surveillance?" Sun Hang turned his gaze away, and the abnormality in his vision quickly recovered, though the dizziness from the world spinning still lingered in his mind as if he had just climbed out of a fast-spinning washing machine.

"The sky over the Baikal Remains is covered with an 'invisible membrane' undetectable by any equipment. This 'membrane' has no substance or mass, its sole function interferes with all observation devices, including the human eye," Yan Yu'an explained. "Researchers suspect this 'membrane' has some correlation with the Surrendered Area that cannot be spied on by satellites, but no one has provided conclusive evidence yet."

"And since mimetic monitoring devices can't detect this 'membrane,' we can't determine if it's part of the Baikal Remains or a new 'phenomenal entity'," Yan Yu'an continued.

"What is the height of the 'membrane'?" Sun Hang quickly realized the crux of the problem.

The Surrendered Area can only prevent satellites in low Earth orbit from spying, but if drones or reconnaissance balloons are sent out, it's possible to detect the real situation within the Surrendered Area—assuming it's covered by such an "anti-surveillance membrane," the height of this membrane should be above the stratosphere.

"We've tested many times, and the actual height of the 'membrane' ranges from eighty to one hundred and fifty meters, hence reconnaissance drones can only fly at this height, making them easy to be shot down and their vision severely restricted," Yan Yu'an said.

"Are there any 'buildings' within the Baikal Remains taller than one hundred and fifty meters?" Sun Hang asked again.

The Baikal Remains is a phenomenon entity mimicking Lake Baikal City, although Lake Baikal City is a border city, it hosts more than seventy percent of the Siberian Federation refugees within the entire Federation. In terms of construction, it's definitely ranked among the top thirty of the Federation's many cities, although not towering like the metropolis of Shen City with its skyscrapers or Chunming City with its 'five-layered structure,' there must be two- and three-hundred-meter-high buildings here—Sun Hang had seen the footage of the Death Aurora's arrival, the Siberian TV Tower ignited first and its height was at least five hundred meters, and in its vicinity, there were quite a few buildings reaching half its height.

If the Baikal Remains also 'mimicked' such tall buildings, wouldn't this 'membrane' be 'pierced' like a soap bubble by these structures?

"No." Yan Yu'an shook her head, "The tallest building inside the Baikal Remains doesn't exceed one hundred and fifty meters... I know what you're thinking, but unfortunately, the entire Baikal Remains is covered by the 'membrane'. "

"What about the Siberian TV Tower?" Sun Hang asked, "It's a landmark of Lake Baikal City. Since the phenomenon intends to mimic Lake Baikal City, wouldn't it include such an important landmark?"

"There is..."

"Where is it? Before my vision was impaired, I didn't see a tower towering over the surrounding buildings."

"It's located at the original site of the Siberian TV Tower. However, the phenomenon-mimicked Siberian TV Tower 'grows in reverse'—it's become a deep well, extending over five hundred meters underground," Yan Yu'an said. "The frontline camp has sent sixteen reconnaissance teams to this site, totaling over three hundred personnel... None have returned from the well."