Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 665 - 182: Family Quarters
"Hello?" Sun Hang suddenly realized he might have stumbled upon the right question.
Anna remained silent, perhaps because she was wary of the existence of the Three Apes... perhaps the answer to this question had reached a level that would arouse the attention of the Three Apes.
"Anna? Are you asleep?"
Still no response.
"Let's change the topic then. Anna, which do you think is better, Coca-Cola or Pepsi? Do you like sweet red dates dumplings or savory pork and salted egg yolk dumplings? Do you eat tofu pudding sweet or salty?"
Anna's voice never sounded in Sun Hang's headphones, as if she had cut off the communication entirely.
Perhaps... Anna's silence had nothing to do with the Three Apes?
The Three Apes would only react to content that involved "forbidden"; the trivial things Sun Hang just asked wouldn't touch the "forbidden" even remotely!
Could it be that his memory loss was because he argued over the sweetness or saltiness of tofu pudding and got punched unconscious?
Or maybe, the Three Apes are staunch "Coke fans" or "Pepsi fans," and Anna was afraid of answering incorrectly and provoking the wrath of the Three Apes—how ridiculous would that be!
Sun Hang glanced at the wall on the west side of the residential building. The golden sunlight streamed through the gaps between leaves, leaving dappled spots on the wall. Whenever the wind blew, these spots would shift with the sway of the leaves... this realistic light and shadow effect, almost indistinguishable from reality, was still a challenge for even the most advanced graphics cards on the market today... The computational demand was simply too high, unless one had a supercomputer with astonishing computing power; ordinary home computers couldn't achieve this level.
The so-called "ray tracing technology" merely seeks to simulate the effects of lighting in the natural world within the limits of computational power. When the image is enlarged to lifesize, it's apparent there's still a significant discrepancy with the real world.
It's easy to create a chaotic little world, but to make the physical laws in that little world identical to the real world is difficult.
Sun Hang suddenly understood why Anna abruptly went silent.
Chimera 17... seems to have regained lucidity.
The current state—stable, orderly, almost devoid of any chaos or anomalous factors—seems to attest to this point.
Sun Hang looked around, attempting to find a medium akin to a glass curtain wall to facilitate information exchange with Chimera 17—and his attention immediately locked onto an old-fashioned slogan board next to the corridor.
However, he stared at the slogan board for a long time, and the words on it didn't change at all.
"Hello, is anyone there?" Sun Hang asked loudly.
No response.
Only the rustling sound of the wind brushing through the leaves, making a faint noise.
"Can someone tell me where this place is?" Sun Hang asked, almost as if talking to himself, "Could it actually be a city that's already surrendered?"
He recalled the words of the old lady from Maoyun Town... if his "hometown" was indeed in the Surrendered Area, then might it be here?
Sun Hang's nose twitched twice. That faint salty fishy smell carried by the wind felt somewhat familiar to him.
With a sudden throbbing, he dashed into the nearby residential building, quickly racing upstairs along the staircase.
Sun Hang didn't stop at any door; he ran straight to the rooftop in one go and looked into the distance.
Wave after wave crashed against the black rocks on the shore, leaving a large swath of white foam on the surface. A warship quietly anchored on the nearby sea, bearing the old flag of the Xiazhou Federation—the Xiazhou Federation had once modified the flag style after human civilization was reduced to just the lone Xiazhou Federation. Now, with this old flag flying on the warship, it meant that there were other political entities on Earth aside from the Xiazhou Federation at this time.
Suddenly, Sun Hang realized where he was.
Nameless Island... the Nameless Island where the secret laboratory was built!
This answer was unexpected, yet entirely reasonable—he found Anna on Nameless Island, and given the relationship between Anna, himself, and Chimera 17, the appearance of Nameless Island's scenes in this little world made complete sense!
The current neighborhood should have been prepared for the families of those scientists who were conducting research on the island then—as far as the material conditions of that era were concerned, these buildings could absolutely be considered mansions.
But... why would Chimera 17 show him these things?
If she wanted to reveal some truth to him, wouldn't simply throwing him into the research institute be enough?
The rules on Nameless Island were very stringent; those scientists could not take anything related to research out of the institute, nor mention any research-related matters when with their families... It was very difficult to find any valuable information in this old neighborhood—after all, the source of Nameless Island's surrender came from inside the research institute. If there were clues, they shouldn't be here.
Sun Hang looked in other directions—the architectural layout on the island perfectly matched the ruins after Nameless Island's surrender, but what left Sun Hang speechless was that when focusing on those research facilities in the central area, the view became blurred like it was pixelated, producing a tremendously strong sense of unreality.
