When R55 was about to be sent back, he asked me a question as well.
Could we guarantee that no Underground Lizardmen had infiltrated the modern humans of our world?
That question hit just as hard.
Since I could suspect that Lizardmen had infiltrated those twenty thousand people, I likewise could not deny the possibility that Underground Lizardmen had truly infiltrated our world.
And from what the doctor had said, I could seemingly read between the lines: Underground Lizardmen did exist in our world. We simply had no way to identify them through normal means, no way to distinguish the Underground Lizardmen hiding among us.
Thinking even more negatively, if the leaders of every country in our world had all been replaced by Underground Lizardmen, had this world long since slipped from human control? Were we living according to the "human society" designed by those Underground Lizardmen?
Once that hypothesis entered my mind, I could not shake it off.
And the more I thought about it, the more terrifying it became.
If that were really the case, was there any meaning in humanity remaining alive?
Where would those Underground Lizardmen lead humanity? What would the future look like?
I lit a cigarette. Honestly, I had intended to learn about the Lizardmen by talking with R55, but why had I suddenly asked him that question? If I had not thought that way, he would not have thrown that question back at me before leaving.
That question truly unsettled me.
Who could answer it?
The first person I thought of was the doctor.
But that guy never seemed willing to tell the truth. On certain matters, he always acted all mysterious and cryptic. Many times, I felt he was more like a fortune-teller than a scientist. If he had not occasionally shown