"..."
The Puppet Maid issued a respectful invitation.
Linsey and Ye Haiya got down from the trailer. The latter felt it was not yet time to tear off all pretenses.
It was then—
She noticed that something about Linsey beside her was slightly unusual.
The Silver Witch turned to look.
Linsey was also getting down from the trailer, but his movements and speed were unusually a beat slower than hers.
Ye Haiya: Linsey, what did you find this time?
Linsey: Uh... it's just that this place looks a little familiar.
In reality, Linsey's eyebrows twitched wildly.
The Puppet Maid had stopped the trailer in a gorge as well.
Before Linsey stood a massive metal archway carved into the cliff face, surrounded by an alloy-reinforced framework. Even the peephole in the gate was made of reinforced metal.
With Linsey's eyesight,
he could make out a faint red light flickering through the cracks in the alloy gate.
If the surroundings were ignored and he had suddenly arrived in a place like this,
Linsey might even have thought he had entered some old-fashioned military installation, such as a wartime fortress from the World War era.
But considering the formidable technology craftsmen used to create things,
it was only natural that such Awakened techniques, once developed, could produce a fortress like this.
What truly concerned Linsey was actually the fortress's location.
Though quite some time had passed,
he still found the nearby cliffs somewhat familiar.
It was as though he had only recently sweated and risked his life here, digging for ore.
"..."
Linsey silently opened his map.
The Game Player's skill automatically brought the surrounding terrain under his scouting.
Though the underground details and main mine shafts had changed considerably, Linsey still recognized the place through several obvious spatial arrangements.
Wasn't this where