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This is the most critical.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer's face changed several times, about to say something, when Mobius raised his hand to interrupt, "Director Xing of the Yin City Special Affairs Bureau sent me a message that the mystery person moving at the speed of light in the Western Pacific is not affiliated with the Special Affairs Bureau. This matter has nothing to do with them."

The Prime Minister's private secretary instinctively asked, "Then who could it be?"

"Ask yourselves,"

Mobius glanced at them coldly and said, "Have you done anything recently that would make others furious?"

Upon hearing this, the Whitehall elites in the meeting room all looked peculiar.

Well... Too much.

UK has always had a reputation for being unapologetic, and it's safe to say there's no shortage of both old and new enemies spread across the globe.

Mobius's mouth twitched slightly; at this point, he was too lazy to blame this group anymore, and took out his phone, "The Turing Department has provided two times and locations tracing natural disasters.

One is 4.7 hours ago, Western Pacific, latitude 30° north.

The other is 3 minutes later, latitude 51°30′ north, longitude 51.8° east, Akmola State in northern Kazakhstan.

The GOC's Central Asian region head is heading to Akmola State right away. Although it's not of much use."

Akmola State covers an area of 146,000 square kilometers, with a population of around seventy to eighty thousand, relying primarily on agriculture and animal husbandry as its economic pillars, a textbook case of being sparsely populated and vast, the kind of place where you usually watch cows and horses grinning.

"I understand!"

Suddenly, the Cabinet Secretary jumped up from his seat in surprise, exclaiming, "London is located at longitude 0.1°5′‌ east, latitude 51°30′ north. He's planning to utilize the anchoring effect of the killing field entity!"

...Huh?

This statement baffled everyone, prompting the Cabinet Secretary to take a deep breath.

He pushed aside the clutter on the conference table, grabbed an orange from the fruit basket, organized his thoughts, and spoke rapidly,

"This round orange is Earth, the speed of Earth's rotation line varies with latitude, and the line speed at latitude φ is 1670×cosφ kilometers/hour.

So, the line speed of London is 1060 kilometers per hour.

The line speed of Yin City is 1446 kilometers per hour.

GOC tested it a few years ago, whenever players enter or exit the killing field, regardless of how long they stay in the killing field, their position in the real world remains anchored and unchanged, using the rotating Earth as a reference frame.

Otherwise, they'd be flung out at over a thousand kilometers per hour, crashing into buildings and mountains.

However, this anchoring effect diminishes as players move away from Earth."

"You mean..."

The Prime Minister's private secretary also reacted, "That source of the natural disaster actively flew to near-Earth orbit to weaken the killing field's anchoring effect?"

"Exactly,"

The Cabinet Secretary nodded quickly, saying, "Once the Transcendent reaches near-Earth orbit and enters the killing field entity, at this time, the anchoring effect will change from [following Earth's rotation] to [following Earth's revolution].

He flew to near-Earth orbit, entered the killing field, and his coordinates in the real world became locked at 400 kilometers above latitude 51° north, in the void of near-Earth orbit.

And the time difference between northern Kazakhstan's Akmola State and Yin City is exactly..."

"4.7 hours."

Mobius reported the answer, with surprise and admiration flashing in his eyes.

The audacity of the idea, the precision of the calculations, the sophistication of the method.

Using Earth's rotation as a vehicle, near-Earth orbit as a highway, with a single entry and retreat, shrinking over six thousand kilometers in 4.7 hours.

"Wait, is this person a player?"

The Indian Chancellor of the Exchequer belatedly responded, "Which guild is he from? The Wild Laughter Troupe?"

Although the UK is notorious among the major powers, with more army generals than tanks,

the Royal Navy boasts 119 admirals and 260 captains serving 19 surface combat ships. An average of 6 admirals and 13 captains per ship.

But still, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, maintaining the sixth-largest gross domestic product worldwide, possessing strategic nuclear submarines, and guilds like the Bell Tower.

Even those who love antics at the Wild Laughter Troupe wouldn't go so far as to launch terror attacks in the center of London. This is truly a relentless pursuit, chasing to the ends of the earth.

No one could answer the Chancellor of the Exchequer's question, and in the large meeting room, only the ticking of the clock remained.

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London time, 4:38 AM.

1 minute remaining until the arrival of the crimson alert.

Near-Earth orbit, International Space Station, Science multifunctional experiment cabin.

Ivan, affiliated with the Russian Federal Space Agency, stretched in the zero-gravity environment, with bones cracking, he grabbed the handle on the cabin wall and "pulled" himself toward the computer.

The International Space Station is jointly operated by the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada space agencies, already bureaucratic enough, with the GOC added in recent years.

GOC is more overbearing than NASA, arranging tasks for astronauts 24/7.

Conducting scientific experiments, spacewalks, measuring cosmic ray particles using physical detectors.

The only good news is that GOC truly pays and gets the work done.

They've greatly upgraded the space station's outdated facilities, added more components, and expanded habitable space.

Although not as new and livable as the Tiangong Space Station, at least there's no longer frequent cases of excessive air mold or clogged toilets that astronauts must manually clean up...

Have you seen solid-liquid waste floating around in zero gravity.jpg

"Let me see, latitude 51°30′ north, longitude 51.8° east"

Ivan muttered the coordinates given by GOC while typing commands into the space station's computer, rotating the abnormal fluctuation detecting module outside the space station,