Clearly the most prominent entrance and exit beneath the Zodiacal, why was such an important place undefended, and why weren't even the hatch doors closed?
Unprepared, it was practically as if they were saying "please come in."
Pushing open the partially unsealed bulkhead door, Fomalhaut poked her head out to look around.
"There's no one in the corridor either. This SpiCa really has her back wide open. Were they drawn away by the sabotage team that landed earlier?"
No...
"Everyone be careful, it might be a trap."
I didn't believe for a second that SpiCa would have such an oversight. That person might be caught off guard by unexpected actions, but expected defenses would be airtight, so I couldn't help but suspect there was something fishy about the current situation...
No, without a doubt, this was a honey trap!
Sun Ji merely said, "Keep moving forward. Our goal remains unchanged. Even if it's a trap, we just need to dismantle it. Hesitating won't make the situation any better."
Was she really going to be this reckless?
"Let's hope so."
There was residual heat in the pipes, though it wasn't hot around Fomalhaut, who acted like a mobile air conditioner. The crisscrossing underground passageways formed a labyrinth, but as long as I referred to the map Aldebaran had prepared in advance, I should still be able to grasp our current—
"Huh?"
Before us was a dead end.
"This isn't the time for a 'huh'?! Is your navigation even reliable!"
The Radish Witch stepped forward and slapped my shoulder.
"No, the terrain has changed."
I had followed the map the entire way; there was no reason I should have taken a wrong turn.
Fomalhaut stated, "How could a passageway like this be temporarily reconstructed? The map Aldebaran gave you was scanned data