Theus glanced at the White Calamity on the sand table, represented by a large clump of cotton, and raised an eyebrow.
"Looks like it's coming for us?"
Most of the White Calamity across the entire Northern Territory was much farther away. Only along the railway line had it surged forward by a great distance, like a gauze curtain being pulled up.
"Yes. Or rather, not the White Calamity itself—the bones within the fog seem to have fixed their sights on us. They chased our train all the way along the railway, and as you saw in the earlier reports, the fog followed those bones and eventually made its way here."
Theus nodded. After falling silent for a moment, he suddenly said, "I remember Gwen saying she saw a little girl surrounded by the fog?"
"Yes. According to the doctor's diagnosis, she likely suffered a severe shock and began experiencing hallucinations. I don't plan to let her take part in this battle."
"Has her background been investigated?"
"Yes. We previously questioned quite a few people from the Expeditionary Force and gathered a great deal of scattered intelligence. Cross-referencing it has allowed us to roughly piece together her past."
Without a moment's hesitation, Alexei began recounting it. As a key figure in the Resistance Army, every aspect of Gwen's background investigation had been personally reviewed by Alexei, so he could practically recite it from memory.
"She was born in a village on the border between the White Crow Duchy and the Empire. It was close to the frontier, so neither side cared much about it, and the place was extremely chaotic. Her parents disappeared when she was young, then bandits raided the village. She hid alone inside a house, and after the bandits left, she ran out and went to a nearby