"What shadow? What are you talking about?" The person on the other end of the line clearly had no idea what Sun Hang meant.
"The giant anomaly in the sky. Its shadow projected onto the ground can produce effects similar to a Spacetime Anomaly, accelerating the flow of time for everything within its range. Based on our judgment, this thing is the culprit behind this entire series of incidents," Sun Hang said.
"But... according to our observations, that sphere in the sky is probably the anomaly's shadow!" Another voice cut in. "This is the Tianfu City Anomaly Research Institute. The moment the anomaly appeared, we mobilized every available piece of equipment to survey it. Aside from being visible under visible-light conditions, the sphere has zero mass and zero energy readings. On the contrary, we detected the memetic frequency of an unknown anomaly directly beneath it."
Sun Hang glanced at Ye Jiu, who was leaning on the Wolf Tooth Mace-Spear and gasping for breath. "Can you use that big move from earlier again? On that thing in the sky?"
"Y-you think I'm some character in a game? Like my ultimate only has a cooldown of a few minutes..." Even Ye Jiu's speech was somewhat disjointed.
"How long do you need to recover?"
"In my current state, I can barely maintain synchronization with the Anomaly Equipment... You can basically consider me to have lost my combat capability," Ye Jiu said quietly. "It'll take at least fifteen minutes to recover my ability to fight... As for an attack on that level, there's no way I can use it a second time today."
"Alright, I understand." Sun Hang switched back to the military communications channel. "Does Longquan Post Base have any available fighter jets right now?"
"Falcon Squad has three Type 20s standing by