"Weren't you curious..." Sun Hang held up the Anomalized soldier's loosened jaw with one hand while gently shaking his skull with the other, as if trying to stir his brains evenly. As he shook it, he said, "Suppose hell or the underworld really existed in this world. Could Baikal's Remains be a passage connecting to those places?"
"Hell?" Ganna clearly could not keep up with Sun Hang's train of thought. "Wh... what do you mean?"
"First, we need to establish something," Sun Hang said. "Did this guy's mother really appear inside Baikal's Remains, or did she only appear in his delusions?"
"It was probably the subject's hallucination?" The psychologist's tone carried a trace of uncertainty. "I just checked the reports from the others who carried out the reconnaissance mission with him. Aside from him, none of them witnessed anything inside Baikal's Remains other than independent Anomalies, let alone a humanoid Anomaly that would have been specifically recorded... The intelligence analysts repeatedly reviewed the footage from their body cameras, but they found nothing unusual."
"What about this guy's body camera? Didn't it capture anything either? Tsk... disgusting." Sun Hang poked the other man's already sunken cheek with a finger. To his surprise, the skin had become incredibly fragile. He had barely applied any force before his finger poked straight through, leaving a round hole in the man's face.
Pus mixed with rotting flesh and blood immediately flowed from the hole.
Sun Hang pulled his finger out with a disgusted expression and wiped it over and over on the shredded strips of the man's training uniform.
"The footage was very 'clean.' It didn't capture any Anomalies other than Baikal's Remains itself," the psychologist replied.
The "recorders" carried by these reconnaissance soldiers were actually military versions of the body cameras issued to every