"Mm." Sun Hang nodded.
A few strands of liquid tal quivered twice at his fingertips, and the resin wrapped around the dallion was cut into several pieces.
Sun Hang picked up the sowhat dirty-looking dallion, bringing it close to his nose and sniffed it forcefully.
"What does it sll like?" Wang Xiyi asked with a hint of amusent watching Sun Hang's actions.
"A scent of copper rust. This dallion should be made of copper alloy." Sun Hang said.
Just as Sun Hang had said, the silver coating on the surface of the dallion was severely worn away, exposing the golden brass underneath—the early National Hero dals of the Forr Siberian Federation were made of pure silver, but as the war progressed, silver mines particularly in the Ural Mountains fell, making silver extrely scarce as an industrial resource, especially in the electronics and chemical fields. The lack of raw materials rendered the rear factories unable to et the frontline demands despite operating at full capacity.
Consequently, various silver products were collected and sent to slting facilities—although the Federation Governnt wasn't desperate enough to recall the dals of the soldiers, to reduce silver consumption on this front, the materials for the National Hero dals issued during the middle and late periods were generally replaced by relatively less scarce brass, with only a thin silver coating on the surface.
"This thing isn't an anomaly." Sun Hang continued, "I don't sll the scent of an anomaly."
"If you say it isn't, then it probably isn't." Wang Xiyi nodded, "In terms of sensing anomalies, even professional detection instrunts cannot compare to your nose... I'm just curious, since this dallion isn't an anomaly, how has it been preserved?"
When the Death Aurora descended upon Lake Baikal City, the temperature inside the city reached tens of thousands of degrees Celsius at least; even tungsten alloy cores in armor-piercing rounds with lting points over three thousand degrees vaporized instantly, let alone a brass dallion whose lting point is less than a third of that.
Under such circumstances, nothing could possibly remain in Lake Baikal City... yet, this dallion erges from within the anomaly city that rose from the Lake Baikal ruins.
This definitely cannot be explained by coincidence.
Everything in the Baikal Remains seems to be simulated by AI; the entire city is pervaded by an eerie, twisted, alien style, yet this dallion happens to be replicated perfectly one-to-one—or perhaps, it wasn't recreated by anomaly powers but was originally an old relic found in Lake Baikal City?
So when the Death Aurora descended, who protected this dallion?
Sun Hang felt as if sothing flashed through his mind; in that mont of inspiration, he imdiately recalled the battle scene from his mory and "watched" it again.
"I reviewed the playback of the recent battle, and I discovered a very interesting phenonon." Sun Hang said.
"What?"
"Although Mr. Yan killed the most anomaly soldiers, she actually experienced the weakest incoming fire." Sun Hang said, "The one facing the most fire was Mr. Wang, who never engaged, followed by the number one anomaly wreaking havoc on the rooftop."
"Really? I didn't notice..." Mr. Wang was taken aback, "I only felt the bullets hitting the scales, ringing annoyingly."
"I checked the battle records." Yan Yu'an nodded, "Indeed, it is as you said... Additionally, I discovered sothing else."
Sun Hang: "Tell us."
"The main control computer of the powered armor calculated the trajectories of those anomaly soldiers' bullets. Those aid at Zhong Ling were actually targeting the anomaly obstructing her, and in fact, there wasn't a single trajectory aiming directly at Zhong Ling." Yan Yu'an said seriously.
"Looking at it this way, the targeting chanism of these anomaly soldiers is quite clear." Sun Hang said, "Mr. Wang bears the most incoming fire because her Black Dragon is too strong. As for the number one anomaly, no need to say more. It has entirely anomalied; except for a few top-tier infectees, no one's anomaly can compare to it."
"What about you? In terms of strength, shouldn't you be the highest among us? Why don't these anomaly soldiers attack you much?" Wang Xiyi questioned.
"That's because I keep a low profile." Sun Hang said, "When I'm not using my abilities, my expressed strength is barely at the level of a registered Hunter. Any ordinary Hunter at that rank would test stronger than , so naturally, in the eyes of these anomaly soldiers, I'm not a high-priority target."
Yan Yu'an continued: "The reason they don't attack much is because the only thing on with an anomaly is this powered armor?"
"Yes, your 'Willow Leaf Saber' is anomaly gear, but essentially only has a minimal part of anomaly tissue implanted in the artifice, with strength far lower than conventional anomalies and infectees, hence low hostility value... As for Zhong Ling, she is not an infectee, nor does she have any anomaly s on her, so those anomaly soldiers naturally won't attack her."
"So... those anomaly soldiers only attack anomalies and infectees? Then why don't they attack the Baikal Remains?" Wang Xiyi picked up a severely deford steel helt from the ground, weighed it in her hand, then threw it far away.
"Your question is like asking why they don't kill each other... To them, the Baikal Remains is what they are protecting, and we are like anomalies invading the Baikal Remains." Sun Hang shrugged, "Moreover, none of the reconnaissance squads that entered Baikal Remains earlier were ever attacked by these anomaly soldiers, right?"
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