"Besides, hadn't you noticed? Whether it was the Federation's higher-ups or these soldiers, they had actually already tacitly accepted this 'choice'..." Sun Hang continued. "Other than setting up a blockade, they hadn't done anything else either."
"What about Yang Qi?"
Sun Hang fell silent for a moment, then said, "I can't save her."
Time passed second by second. Fewer and fewer people walked around the base, and everyone returned to their assigned posts, quietly waiting for that moment to arrive.
Sun Hang heard it clearly. When the clock ticked from 14:59 to 15:00, the colonel standing beside him swallowed hard.
"Fifteen minutes left." Yang Lian clenched the tablet in her hands, her knuckles turning slightly white.
May 19, 15:14.
The final minute.
No voices could be heard anywhere in the vast air force base. The thumping of their hearts had never sounded so clear.
In the final ten seconds, everyone held their breath.
Five seconds.
Three seconds.
One second.
A gust of cold wind swept past, lifting a scrap of waste paper from the ground. It spun twice in midair before finally landing beneath the steps where Sun Hang had been sitting and eating earlier.
Nothing happened.
"What's going on?" The colonel was the first to break the silence. He turned to Sun Hang and said in a deep voice, "I need an explanation."
At the same time, Sun Hang's phone rang. The caller ID displayed an unfamiliar number.
Sun Hang answered the call, and Ye Xuan's voice came through the receiver. "The anomaly didn't happen. Why?"
"The time wasn't wrong." Sun Hang said to those watching him, "I did see the time displayed on the Financial Center Building: three fifteen in the afternoon, May nineteenth... So the only thing that could have been wrong was the