Hunter of Mysterious Creature

Chapter 756 - 45: Veterans' Convalescent Home

"Where is it?"

"If you're asking about the original Lake Baikal City, the Veteran's Convalescence Home is at 195 Victory Avenue, and the National Hero Cemetery is in the eastern suburb of Lake Baikal City. Keep going east along the South Loop Road, and you'll reach it after passing through the hoarfrost forest," Yan Yu'an said. "But here in the Baikal Remains..."

"Is there also a Veteran's Convalescence Home and National Hero Cemetery in the Baikal Remains?" Wang Xiyi couldn't help but interject.

"I'm not sure about the National Hero Cemetery, but there is a Veteran's Convalescence Home... Or rather, an eerie structure mimicking the Home," Yan Yu'an said. "Lake Baikal City inherited the traditions of the Former Siberia Federation, where the social status of retired veterans is very high, and they receive excellent benefits. The Veteran's Convalescence Home built in the city center can be considered one of Lake Baikal City's landmark buildings. Many tourists from outside travel to the square in front of the Home to take photos. Its most iconic structure is the Byzantine-style golden dome of the main building, with a red pentagram at the pinnacle of the dome."

Yan Yu'an continued, "More than one reconnaissance unit has witnessed structures with similar features within the Baikal Remains. There are no other buildings of this style in the original Lake Baikal City, so I'm certain that must be the convalescence home simulated by the Baikal Remains."

"Where did those reconnaissance units see this building?" Wang Xiyi pressed.

"The specific coordinates aren't very useful... because the structures inside the Baikal Remains change randomly every day. Trying to find the convalescence home by following those recorded coordinates is akin to carving a mark on the boat to find the sword."

"No, it does hold meaning." Sun Hang shook his head. "If the Baikal Remains truly emerged due to a strong fixation, then any architectural changes within this eerie city are without pattern, except for the convalescence home... A structure with such strong symbolic significance would only appear where it should."

"I'll immediately check the records of those reconnaissance units' sightings!" Yan Yu'an said.

Thanks to the high computational power of the 'Willow Leaf Saber' main control computer, Yan Yu'an retrieved all the data within less than two seconds, organized it, and shared it with Sun Hang and others' information terminals—gazing at the longitude and latitude values and the data sets containing abundant information, Sun Hang immediately felt a bit overwhelmed.

He could use his ability to turn thoughts into reality to carry out a unified computation on this data. However, among the people he knew, someone else was more suited for this task.

"Mr. Yan, can we still contact the front-line camp now?" Sun Hang asked.

"We can, but we must launch a UAV to set up a signal relay station—the radio signals are hard to penetrate the eerie structures within the Baikal Remains. Only in the unobstructed midair can signals be received," Yan Yu'an hesitated. "But we only have one UAV left. If it's shot down, we'll lose all means to communicate with the rear."

"No problem, just a bit of tweaking is needed, I'm familiar with this task." Sun Hang directed Yan Yu'an to take out the UAV, and then directly "plated" a layer of liquid metal on the surface of the UAV.

"Alright, now even if an anti-materiel sniper rifle fires directly at this thing, it won't be shot down." Sun Hang let go of his hand, and the drone's blades began to turn, slowly rising into the air.

This time, it didn't draw fire from the eerie soldiers anymore.

"Hello… hello… VIP calling the front-line camp, VIP calling the front-line camp." Yan Yu'an spoke into the dedicated communications channel, "This is Yan Yu'an, identification code 1984165, the VIP personally requests to speak directly with the person in charge at the front-line camp."

"This is Ganna, is it Mr. Sun Hang?" A voice mixed with a slight static from the other end of the communications channel came through.

Yan Yu'an nodded toward Sun Hang, indicating for him to take over the communication.

"Yes, it's me," Sun Hang replied.

"It's great to hear you're all okay!" Ganna's tone was somewhat excited. "If you didn't contact us directly soon, we were planning to launch a full-scale attack on the Baikal Remains!"

"What? A full-scale attack?" Sun Hang was baffled. "Are you out of your mind?"

"Not long ago, the Hunter-Fisherman notified us that the little girl beside you... the one with the ability to sense and devour negative emotions, perceived that the entire Baikal Remains was in a state of extreme anger. Therefore, we speculated you might be in danger within the Remains... Currently, over sixty percent of the troops at the front-line camp have already been mobilized. Two reinforced armor battalions and three Hunter units have been sent as vanguard, expected to reach the Baikal Remains in four minutes..."

"Stop, stop!" Sun Hang hurriedly said. "Instruct all assembled troops to disperse on the spot, and for those already en route, have them stay outside the Baikal Remains, especially those three Hunter units. Make sure they do not enter the Remains! Even approaching is off-limits! Understood?"

As Sun Hang spoke, he couldn't help but mutter to himself—if he had known, he should have just brought Xue Yue inside. Leaving her outside had straightaway resulted in a "fire signal" scenario to trouble the generals.

If he had delayed this call any longer, Ganna would probably have led the main forces to attack the Baikal Remains.

"Understood... understood!" Ganna hesitated. "Are you sure that your current situation doesn't require any support? If needed, we can dispatch a sufficiently elite team..."