Sun Hang said, "A tribute. That's what this is—a tribute."
"Yamaguchi Masayuki died of illness from overwork in the second month after the old district of Baikal City was completed. To commemorate his contributions, the refugees made an exception and buried him in Heroes of the Fatherland Cemetery on the outskirts of Baikal City," Zhong Ling said.
"How many years has he been dead?" Sun Hang asked.
"Based on when the old district of Baikal City was completed, at least seventy or eighty years," Yan Yu'an replied.
Seventy or eighty years... Sun Hang could not help sinking into thought.
If Baikal's Remains truly was an underground city built as a "tribute" to the fortress city in Hakone back then, then it was entirely possible that the designer who had died seventy or eighty years ago had not died completely. Perhaps he had become a spiritual anomaly, something like a "vengeful spirit."
Even if he had not become an anomaly himself, his obsession had most likely attached itself to certain anomalies... Those anomalies, serving as vessels, had not been completely destroyed by the Death Aurora. Instead, they had been released by this opportunity, then combined with the resentment of those Siberian Federation veterans to create a "monster version" of a fortress city—Baikal's Remains?
Thinking about it that way, everything seemed to make sense...
And if that was the case, then Yamaguchi Masayuki's obsession probably accounted for a considerable portion of Baikal's Remains' "self-awareness."
"Should I smash it?" Wang Xiyi crouched on the ground and gestured at the surface beneath her feet with her fist. "When we flipped over just now, I caught a glimpse of how thick this block was. Conservatively speaking, a dozen or so punches should be enough to break open a passage to the surface."
"Not yet. Since