"I didn't say that..." Yang Qi glared at Sun Hang, "During the end of the first large-scale activity period of supernatural creatures, their activity frequency significantly decreased, and those super supernatural creatures strong enough to destroy a city in an instant disappeared completely. It was only then that human civilization got a chance to breathe... During this time, although there were occasional invasions by supernatural creatures, super supernatural creatures like Yi-Seventy-Seven never appeared again... I'm really worried that the incident in Lake Baikal City this time is just the beginning..."

"I think we should be glad," Sun Hang suddenly said.

"Glad... Why?" Yang Lian was taken aback and asked immediately.

"According to the principle that two tigers can't live on the same mountain, since Chunming City has already been shrouded by eternal night, the probability of a super supernatural creature like Yi-Seventy-Seven descending upon Chunming City becomes much smaller... It seems Chunming City is the first unlucky one; in reality, it drew one of the 'bad lots' that is not all that terrible among a bunch of bad lots."

"..." Yang Qi pressed her lips together. She very much wanted to scoff at Sun Hang's twisted logic, but upon thinking it over carefully, what he said seemed to make some sense...

It's a bit like the "crater theory" — on a battlefield filled with fire, the probability of two shells landing in the same place is very low. For this reason, the just-bombed crater becomes a relatively safe hiding spot for a period afterward.

If invading the human civilization's controlled zones requires the supernatural creatures to "divide and conquer," then it is apparent that Shuzhou Territory is "eternally night" responsible for the "main attack." — If they still need to deploy super supernatural creatures later, deploying them in the Shuzhou Region would obviously be a bit of "wasting forces"...

"Damn, I can't believe I think what you're saying makes sense," Yang Lian gritted her teeth and said, "It must be because of my lack of sleep..."

"Your developmental deficiency might also be due to lack of sleep," Sun Hang quipped, "but your sister obviously stays up even more than you do, so why isn't she affected?"

Sun Hang looked at the two sisters, clearly about the same height and build, yet one had D, nearly E, breasts, while the other barely had B-cup...

Could it be a genetic mutation?

"At a time like this, how can you still joke around?" said Yang Lian irritatedly.

"Precisely because it's a time like this, you need such jokes," Sun Hang responded, "Worrying about empty things doesn't help change the current circumstances. Keeping a solemn face and sighing doesn't either... If you really feel tense, I suggest hitting a punching bag in the gym for a while; it might make you feel better."

"I don't have the time for that," Yang Qi said. "But you are right about one thing: overthinking does not help the current situation... According to your statement, Chunming City will be the least likely to be attacked by super supernatural creatures in the forthcoming period... In this light, setting up the Dubhe Tower's comprehensive talent training base here seems..."

"Hitting the bullseye by mistake?" Yang Lian added.

"No, it's not hitting the bullseye by mistake," Yang Qi quickly denied her sister's claim. "Mr. Pei must have predicted the coming of the second large-scale activity period of supernatural creatures... Rather than situating the training base in cities that may suffer from super supernatural creature attacks like Yi-Seventy-Seven, it's better to place it in Shuzhou, which has already been ravaged by eternal night... No wonder Mr. Pei..."

"You're exaggerating a bit," Sun Hang cast her a glance. "Mr. Pei's initial idea was to utilize the environment of eternal night to train excellent frontline talents. If it truly were to avoid super supernatural creature attacks, why wouldn't he just move the entire Dubhe Tower to Chunming City?"

"For whatever reasons, the construction of the comprehensive talent training base must be expedited..." Yang Qi paused for a moment, then muttered in a voice barely audible to Sun Hang, "If Chunming City were attacked by a super supernatural creature..."

"Then we would really become the last hope of human civilization," Sun Hang filled in the words for her, "There's a chance we're holding the script of salvation heroes."

"I hope that day never comes..." Yang Qi murmured.

"Then don't jinx it," Sun Hang glanced at the box lunch that had cooled on the coffee table and pulled out the big drumstick, "Here, eat a drumstick, and after that, continue with your work."

"I've already eaten."

"Eat more, so you'll have energy when staying up late." Sun Hang shoved the drumstick into Yang Qi's mouth without hesitation and then pushed open the office door.

"Where...where are you going?" Yang Qi removed the drumstick from her mouth and asked.

"To the construction site," Sun Hang said without looking back, "Since we've talked to this extent, we must make thorough preparations, right? If we end up as that unfortunate 'last hope,' we can't just lay back and do nothing, can we?"

Truth be told, in Sun Hang's heart, he really wanted to let things go.

But if humanity were to perish altogether, even if he could survive... this world would probably become dreadfully boring, right?

Sun Hang didn't like supernatural creatures, which were either unwilling to communicate or loved playing riddles; in comparison, he still preferred interacting with humans.

Besides, the old man at Dubhe Tower still owed him an unlimited all-you-can-eat buffet... If a super supernatural creature were to destroy Chunming City, wouldn't that be like flipping his dining table?

Can this be tolerated? Hell no.

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South of Lake Baikal City area, Siberian Autonomous Region, forty kilometers away.

A whole row of modular barracks had been set up on the tundra. Countless vehicles and carriers were coming and going within the camp area. The noise of helicopter rotor blades seemed to never stop. One steel structure tower after another was being erected, and massive dish-shaped radar antennas were hoisted into mid-air by drones and then mounted atop the towers by engineers.

Standing atop an observation tower, a fisherman watched the busy soldiers in the barracks and couldn't help but sigh.

He couldn't help but feel some relief, thankful that he usually couldn't save much money...

He originally planned to save enough money to bring his family from the Far East port city to Lake Baikal City... But the events of a dozen hours ago made the fisherman lament... Turns out, spending freely occasionally isn't bad.

Thirty minutes ago, the seventh pollution zone exploration team lost contact with headquarters — the last images sent back by the frontline observation post's drones showed those team members running crazily within the pollution zone, dropping things as they ran... Those things falling appeared to be decayed flesh shedding from their bodies, yet this decayed flesh seemed to transform into a new life form. It writhed on the ground, relentlessly pursuing its 'original owners.'

The fisherman checked the exploration team's roster on his phone and felt no qualms about changing those marked as MIA to KIA... They simply could not possibly come back alive, absolutely impossible.

The maximum time ordinary people could survive in the pollution zone was currently thirty-seven minutes — that guy found himself infected at the thirty-eight-minute mark, his mind became muddled at the forty-two-minute mark, severed communication with headquarters himself at forty-five minutes, and at forty-nine minutes used a weapon he carried to take out the drone that was following him.

As for Hunters... they had already sent a total of six Hunters into the pollution zone — two turned into ghostly cadavers, another two fully transformed into humanoid supernatural creatures, while the last two strangely merged with large pits.

"Exploration team... It's more like a suicide squad," the fisherman muttered, "No, it should be called a death squad."

Headquarters had already decided not to send personnel into the pollution zone for now... But even for drones, it's challenging to reach the core area of the former Lake Baikal City.