The angry voice echoed through the vast cavern, sending ripples across even the seawater lapping at the edge of the plaza.
The crew of the Glory, standing on the concrete ground, instinctively stopped in their tracks, unsure what to do.
The atmosphere was somewhat stiff.
Or rather, awkward.
Especially for the "outsiders" from Vault 404. Sesame Paste looked helplessly at Si Si, while Wei Ba, with nowhere to put his hands, had quietly started playing with Rou Rou's chest fur.
Si Si glanced at the vault entrance, met Sesame Paste's questioning gaze, and shook her head.
"There's no terminal."
"Ah..."
A troubled expression appeared on Sesame Paste's face as well.
Still, that was fairly reasonable.
According to Captain Chen, this had originally been the construction entrance for Vault 70. It had only been retained as an emergency entrance after construction was complete. That massive gear door might even have been installed at the very end.
Since it was essentially an escape route, something that would never normally be used and had no need to be opened from outside, it made sense that there was no terminal connected to the vault's security system.
"...It might be better to let them sort this out themselves." Wei Ba, who had braided two little pigtails into Rou Rou's belly fur, quietly interjected.
She was an Agility-type.
The moment she came ashore, she had noticed there was nowhere on that door to enter a password.
"I think so too."
Si Si nodded and looked into the distance, speaking meaningfully. "If vault authority could solve every problem, this problem would never have happened in the first place."
She had once been fortunate enough to come into contact with vault authority, back at Vault 79.
Precisely because of that, unlike most players who had never touched that