Tianshu Tower, core area, Conference Room One.
"I think we can set the matter of the sail aside for now. The first thing we need to solve is the Sand-Sinking Giant Worm problem." An old man in a suit, with two medals that only high-ranking military officials could possibly possess pinned to his chest, spoke as his thick, stubby fingers tapped forcefully against the table. "Everyone participating in this operation is infected. Not everyone has concealment abilities like Sun Hang's. What will you do if you attract the Sand-Sinking Giant Worm's hunting packs?"
"General Liao, there has always been a solution to this problem. It's stored in Tianshu Tower's archives, though no one ever imagined those things would be useful again one day." An old man in a grimy white lab coat, his short gray-white hair as messy as a bird's nest, chuckled. "Although we didn't have to deal with this problem back then, the Allied Forces in the Egyptian theater couldn't avoid it... After all, if the hunter units, their elite mobile force, were preemptively hunted down by the Sand-Sinking Giant Worm every time they deployed, Egypt would likely have fallen much sooner."
"Oh? So you're saying they came up with a countermeasure back then?"
"The Nephthys shielding device. It was equipment developed by the Cairo Anomaly Research Institute specifically for the Sand-Sinking Giant Worm's meme. It's only the size of a smartphone, but it can block the Sand-Sinking Giant Worm's perception of Anomaly Memes beyond a five-hundred-meter radius." The old man in the lab coat kept smiling. "And I'm confident I can improve the device, reducing its activation range from five hundred meters to three hundred. That will ensure you can move freely through that sea of sand."
"But if the distance between the Sand-Sinking Giant Worm