Chong Ping's single-occupant apartment was right next to the Hero Training Center—he could reach it quickly through the "aerial passage" without even needing to come down to the ground.
After most of the "world space" in the Mirror World had been cleared out, it was made into folded "space buffer zones" to completely isolate it from the Surface World. After all, once the two worlds had merged, most of the original "world boundary" had blurred and vanished, so new ones had to be artificially created.
That was why the Mirror World's population was so highly concentrated. Outside the City That Never Sleeps, there was at least a vast wilderness where a group of carefree Great Wilderness People lived.
However, the buildings inhabited by the Mirror World's population were clearly connected together.
But because of the existence of "space technology," this continuity was not particularly continuous either.
The Mirror World's urban planning divided the entire city into twenty-six connected areas, but there were artificial "space barriers" between them.
They were not as insurmountable as the barriers between worlds, but they still had the effect of invisible walls. At the same time, the "gravity" and "ecology" within each area were relatively independent.
That was why, from a distance, the entire Mirror World looked like a ring.
Most of the areas where the "apprentices" operated were in Area 9. Whether it was the Hero Training Center with the pods leading to the "Simulated World" or the "collective apartment buildings" provided to the apprentices, they were all located in this area.
However...
Lin Yu's destinations—the "Hero Training Center," the "Simulated World database room," and the "Central Research Institute"—were not in Area 9.
Therefore, Lin Yu had to travel across areas to reach these destinations.
But...
Lin Yu's first stop was not directly at any