"What illusion?" The scavenger crouching nearby jumped at Sun Hang's startling reaction.
"That Anomaly is right here, on the second basement level, in the equipment room we just searched," Sun Hang said.
"Huh?" The scavenger immediately stood up and uneasily looked outside the store. "Then... why didn't we see anything just now? Didn't we search the entire equipment room?"
"It only existed for a brief moment... that instant just now..." Sun Hang mused. "Could it be some kind of phenomenon-type Anomaly? We can't rule that out... a signal-blocking field could also be classified as a phenomenon-type Anomaly..."
"No, that's still not right." Sun Hang quickly rejected his own idea. "If it were a phenomenon-type Anomaly, it only appeared for an instant just now, but the signal-blocking field has been there the entire time."
Sun Hang took out his phone. The signal indicator in the upper-right corner still showed zero bars.
But before Sun Hang could think any further, the exact same Anomaly aura appeared again, then vanished once more.
Sun Hang's gaze settled on the television screen.
The next second, he grabbed the remote from the counter beside him and pressed the rewind button.
The footage on the screen began running backward, turning some originally horrifying scenes into something rather absurd—for example, the scene where the mysterious masked man hacked down the protagonist's companion with an axe became him pulling the axe out of the corpse, after which the person who had fallen over dead instantly revived at full health... The murderer had suddenly turned into a reincarnated Hua Tuo, making people want to shout, "Nice one, Doc!"
When the footage rewound to a certain frame, the Anomaly aura appeared again.
Aside from the powerful Anomaly aura underground, a faint trace of Anomaly aura was also coming from inside the