"Perhaps." Sun Hang crossed his legs like Wang Xiyi and placed his left foot directly on the coffee table. "But what does that have to do with anything?"
"Then you shouldn't go! You can refuse this mission!" Wang Xiyi said. "This has already gone beyond the scope of an Anomaly Hunter's duties! If it were merely a fallen zone near Xiazhou, we might still be able to take the risk and enter it, but Egypt is just too far away. Do you know how many regions we'd have to cross to get there from here?"
"Just six time zones. Only a quarter of the Earth."
"Only?" Wang Xiyi immediately crushed the beer can into a lump of scrap metal. "Forget whether Egypt even has something capable of completing the Mainframe. How exactly are you planning to cross a quarter of the Earth? It's not like you've never been to a fallen zone. You know the details of that experience better than I do... and that was still within the former Xiazhou Federation's borders. A hundred years ago, it wouldn't even have counted as leaving the country... There are countless dangerous places like that on the way to Egypt... Are you really confident you can get there?"
"When did I say I was going by land?"
"If you intend to travel by sea, then sorry, but humanity currently can't build a ship capable of making a long voyage through an ocean filled with anomalies."
"Land, sea, air. If land and sea are both impossible, isn't there still one last route?" Sun Hang pointed at the sky through the ceiling.
"...The sky?"
"Higher," Sun Hang prompted. "Beyond the atmosphere."
"A Low Earth Orbit drop?" Wang Xiyi froze. "You... you really are a fucking lunatic."
At ten in the morning, Yang