"Then do you think humanity still has a chance to reclaim those lost lands?"
"When I was young... no, rather, every person who entered Tianshu Tower once dreamed of reclaiming the lost lands in their youth," Professor Li said. "But we've grown old. Simply maintaining the status quo has already exhausted all our strength... The closer we get to the truth, the more secrets we glimpse, and the heavier the despair weighing down on us becomes."
Professor Li paused for breath, then continued, "I know that, given my position, I shouldn't be saying such things to you. But I have always believed that true courage is being able to hold on to hope even after glimpsing the truth of despair."
"Professor, you're quite the speaker. It'd be a shame if you never gave speeches," Sun Hang said.
"Hahaha... you caught me." Professor Li suddenly laughed. "I used that exact line when I gave a speech to the students at Chunming University. Those kids in the audience were far more fired up than you are now."
"Students at Chunming University... They probably haven't truly come into contact with anomalies, right?" Sun Hang pursed his lips and asked.
"Never. Put nicely, they are heaven's favored children. Put bluntly, they are flowers in a greenhouse." Professor Li sighed. "There haven't been any traces of anomalies in the Federation's core regions for so long that people are nearly forgetting what kind of world they live in."
"There are plenty of new anomaly-themed movies and animated shows every year, but they're basically all commercial popcorn entertainment," Yang Qi could not help saying. "People living in those safe zones think anomalies are just the monsters they see on screen. They may be destructive, but in the end, they're always defeated by the protagonists."
"But there are