As mentioned earlier, after that earth-shaking fusion strike, Annie had discovered a furtive figure in the pitch-black basement beneath the ruins of the steel building. And when she shouted at them, they didn't come out—instead, they fled deeper underground, down to the lower levels?
Seeing how strange that was, Annie's curiosity got the better of her. Without a second thought, she grabbed her knife and went after them.
In the end!
After a long chase back and forth, Annie finally found a hidden cave entrance in a space below the fifth basement level. The place had no lights and was pitch-black, full of putrid bones, rats, cockroaches, maggots, and all kinds of other junk. She also found footprints left behind by someone who'd run inside without having time to clean them up.
Naturally, Annie didn't think twice. She barged right in.
And then, of course, the moment she went inside, some unknown weapons attacked her. Fortunately, the weapons seemed rather pathetic; they couldn't even damage the polymer material of her Ghost Suit?
After entering, she immediately got into a fight with the group of people holed up inside.
And the result...
Was, of course, never in doubt!
The all-powerful Commander Annie subdued them with practically no effort. Only after she tossed out an emergency lamp did she discover that the cave was apparently part of the independent drainage system for the steel building above?
And the survivors hiding there—the ones who'd just clashed with her—turned out to be just two police officers from Guixu City, armed with the most basic low-power self-defense weapons, along with a group of people who looked like students?
Then, after they'd more or less figured out what had happened and realized neither side was some ugly, vicious demon, Annie explained the situation. At last, both