The silver-white walls of those rooms and corridors were covered in large black stains.
One glance was enough to tell they were splatter marks.
Strangely, though, there were no bodies on the floor.
Neither fresh corpses nor skeletal remains.
There was nothing.
No.
More precisely, there was nothing besides the walls, ceiling, floor, and oxidized bloodstains.
Even the tables, chairs, stools, and beds that should have been in places like these 'rooms' were missing.
Calling them utterly empty would have been no exaggeration.
It all looked extremely eerie.
But Lan Qingyou had seen scenes even eerier than this.
So she was not particularly unnerved.
Yet once Steel Wool flew into an area that looked like the heart of a laboratory...
Lan Qingyou no longer felt that way.
The reason she thought it looked like the heart of a laboratory was that it really did.
At the center of this space, which covered at least eight hundred square meters...
There was a deep pit roughly twenty meters in diameter.
A ghostly blue pillar of light rose from the pit, illuminating the entire space.
It was very strange.
Why would a place with nothing in it have a light like this?
Clearly, nature could not produce such a glow.
Natural phenomena such as auroras or the reflection of magic power did exist.
But they certainly would not appear somewhere so clearly artificial.
That left only one possibility.
This light and this pit were both man-made.
Steel Wool must have been very curious about why something like this was here, too.
So after the view settled on a certain spot, it tilted slightly.
Steel Wool was an Aurora Snowy Owl.
Their neck could turn a full hundred and eighty degrees.
So that 'slight' tilt was actually quite dramatic.
That movement let Lan Qingyou