Considering the Sand-Sinking Giant Worm's formidable ability to "remodel" terrain, Sun Hang ultimately chose to remain where he was and wait—Ghost Subway was clearly a Rule-type Anomaly, and the best way to ensure that a Rule-type Anomaly continued to "operate normally" was to make sure none of the "conditions" that triggered its rules changed.
No one could guarantee that, after the Sand-Sinking Giant Worm had turned these dunes upside down, the subway card in Sun Hang's hand would still be able to summon the Ghost Train.
Sun Hang obediently stayed put until 11:23 p.m. local time, then swiped that Chunming City subway card through his homemade subway gate once again.
As the dunes trembled faintly, the Ghost Train burrowed out of the shifting sands and stopped before Sun Hang.
"One good thing about Rule-type Anomalies," Sun Hang said as he stepped into the carriage, seemingly talking to himself yet also speaking to the Mainframe, "is that they follow the rules and reason things out. That's the kind of Anomaly I like."
But just as the carriage doors were about to close completely, Sun Hang saw something resembling a sail rise from behind a distant dune.
"Wait! What's that?"
Sun Hang instinctively reached for the doors, but the Ghost Train's doors had already shut, and the scenery beyond the windows instantly blurred.
"You saw it too, right? That thing that looked like a sail!" Sun Hang asked the Mainframe for confirmation.
"I recorded the entirety of your time aboard the Ghost Train. You may replay the footage you just captured for review," the Mainframe immediately replied.
Sun Hang directly opened his personal terminal, pulled up the most recent video file, and began replaying it frame by frame.
The distance was simply too great. Even with the ultra-high-resolution camera Sun Hang carried,