While Fang Zheng and the others watched the excitement from the rear via livestream, Shepard and her team up front had it much less easy. Just like in every space horror game or movie, as Shepard's group ventured deeper into the Space Station, they smoothly failed to encounter even a single ghost.
And just like in every space horror game or movie, as Shepard's group ventured deeper into the Space Station, they more or less figured out what had happened here.
Nothing more than the Space Station digging up some Prothean relic... or at least, something they believed was a Prothean relic. They had happily brought it back and stored it in the Space Station, only for everyone aboard to become mentally unstable a few days later. The records they left behind began spouting nonsense, and then... there was no then.
It was all so clichéd. Fang Zheng remained utterly calm; he could guess seventy or eighty percent of it without even using the Omniscient Angel to investigate.
After gathering this intelligence, Shepard made an incredibly protagonist-like, incredibly stubborn decision.
"We're going to check out the cargo hold where the relic is stored!"
Under Shepard's lead, the group soon arrived at the cargo hold. Before entering, however, Shepard looked back at Fuse Midori and Enju, seeming somewhat hesitant. As the protagonist, she had experienced this sort of thing more times than she could count. Forget Fang Zheng—even Shepard could tell there would definitely be a hard fight ahead.
But the problem was...
"Don't you... need weapons?"
Looking at Enju and Cui, both empty-handed, Shepard hesitated before asking. Normally, she would not have wanted to give weapons to two children. After all, those things could go off accidentally, and if they missed the enemy and hit their own people instead, that