Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 597 Sails
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Considering the giant sand worm's powerful ability to "modify" the terrain, Sun Hang ultimately chose to remain where he was—the ghost subway was clearly a rule-based monster, and the best way to make a rule-based monster "operate as usual" was to ensure that all the "conditions" that triggered the corresponding rules remained unchanged.

No one can guarantee that after the giant sand worms have turned this sand dune upside down, Sun Hang's subway card will still be able to summon the ghost train.

Sun Hang waited patiently until 11:23 PM local time, and then swiped his Chunming City subway card on the homemade subway gate once again.

With a slight tremor in the sand dunes, the ghost train emerged from the quicksand and stopped in front of Sun Hang.

“There’s one good thing about rule-based monsters,” Sun Hang said as he stepped into the carriage, as if talking to himself or the mainframe, “They follow the rules and reason. I like monsters like that.”

Just as the carriage door was about to close completely, Sun Hang saw something that looked like a sail emerge from behind a sand dune in the distance.

"Wait! What is that?"

Sun Hang instinctively reached out to pry open the door, but the ghost train's doors had already closed, and the scenery outside the window instantly became blurry.

"You saw that too, right? That thing that looks like a sail!" Sun Hang asked the mainframe for confirmation.

"I've been recording the entire process after you boarded the ghost train. You can replay the recording to review it," the mastermind immediately replied.

Sun Hang directly opened his personal terminal, pulled up the most recent video file, and began playing it back frame by frame.

Because the distance was so great, even though Sun Hang was carrying a camera with extremely high resolution, the object that looked like a sail in the picture was only a dozen pixels in size.

But Sun Hang was certain that it was a sail, not the fin of some strange creature swimming in the desert.

Because at the top of the sail, there was something that looked like a person.

It looks like a sailor from the Age of Exploration observing the sea route from the top of the mast.

“A sailboat sailing on the desert sea… a humanoid creature that looks like a sailor…” Sun Hang muttered, “Could there be survivors in the occupied territories of Egypt? Or… a humanoid monster?”

“If it is a monster, then its ability to conceal its aura is probably extremely terrifying,” the mainframe said. “The sail and the object that looks like a humanoid monster are very close to the trajectory of the Sand Giant Worm. As long as there is even a slight leak of meme aura, it will attract the Sand Giant Worm to hunt it.”

"It's not just approaching... it's right behind that giant sand worm... it's tailing it! They're tracking the giant sand worm!" Sun Hang suddenly realized. "Does the giant sand worm have any nemesis? Or any natural enemies or something?"

The mastermind: "There is no relevant information in the known data."

Sun Hang: "..."

For some reason, this time the ghost train took much longer to travel than it had come. During this time, ghostly figures of passengers would occasionally get up and get off the train in other carriages, and new ghostly figures of passengers would occasionally get on the train. The train did not stop or open when these ghostly figures got on and off.

They slipped out of the closed car doors like ghosts, and then slipped back in through the same closed doors.

The ghost train finally came to a slow stop and opened its doors at 10:17 a.m. local time.

The moment the train door opened, a cacophony of noise rushed in from outside. Sun Hang looked out in surprise and was astonished to find that the platform outside was packed with people.

"Is this...World Trade Center Station?"

World Trade Center Station is arguably one of the busiest subway stations in Chunming City. Located in the city's core business district, its prosperity far surpasses that of Xiaojiazhuang Station.

"A ghost train actually entered a subway station with a large number of people during its operating hours?!"

Sun Hang suddenly realized that the people waiting on the platform seemed to have no idea that he was there—people kept getting on and off the train from other carriages, but no one was coming toward the carriage where Sun Hang was.

Sun Hang looked at the other carriages. The passengers who got off seemed to have appeared out of thin air, and the passengers who got on did not appear in the ghost train carriages.

"How strange." Sun Hang stepped out of the carriage, but when he turned around, he found that the ghost train behind him had turned into a normal subway train, and the carriage was full of passengers.

Watching the subway leave the station, Sun Hang glanced at the numerous missed calls on his phone, which had regained signal, and randomly picked one to call back.

"Sun Hang? You're back? Where are you now?" Old Wang's anxious voice came through the phone as soon as it was answered.

"I'm at the World Trade Center station now..."

Before Sun Hang could finish speaking, Wang Xiyi interrupted him: "Just wait for me there! I'll come pick you up right away!"

“I’m not a child, and I’m not missing any limbs. I can walk by myself… Let’s meet at the Tian Shu Tower.” Sun Hang said helplessly. “Also, Mastermind, immediately summon the experts at the Tian Shu Tower who have knowledge of the Egyptian war zone of the Monster War, the ecological environment of the occupied zone, and the giant sand worms. I brought back some very important information.”

"Understood." The moment the carriage door opened, the mini-brain and the main brain in the Tian Shu Tower reconnected, and all the functions of the main brain were unlocked for Sun Hang again.

(End of this chapter)