Hunter flew across the Great Plains aboard the Shuttle and soon arrived at another heat signature.
Once again, he jumped down to the surface alone, found a cave, and began making his way deeper.
Near the cave entrance, he also saw a wall of skulls, which the rats used to mark the extent of their artificial atmosphere.
He continued several kilometers deeper and soon reached the Hydrogen Bomb Rats' nest.
Hundreds of thousands of rats lived in a vast hollow within the rock strata.
Some sort of light strips hung overhead, and beneath their illumination, the rats went about all manner of haphazard work and daily activities.
Some were making leather, some were cutting up some kind of earthworm meat, and some were grinding bones. The place looked to be thriving.
After sneaking in, Hunter had intended to find an old rat who taught the young rats, like the one among the nuclear bomb rats, and obtain information from him.
But even after searching a wide area, he found no institution for spreading knowledge like the one among the Atomic Bomb Rats.
Did the Hydrogen Bomb Rats have no one to teach their young? Or did they have a more advanced way of passing on knowledge?
Hunter thought it over and decided to venture deeper into the Hydrogen Bomb Rats' city to look for an institution that spread knowledge.
He moved with great agility, weaving from side to side through the rats' garbage dump of a city.
The rats were focused on their tasks and never noticed Norn walking past them with his cloaking coating activated.
Hunter made his way from the outskirts to the center of the city, where he discovered an enormous structure.
It was a large tent made from marble pillars and rat leather. Inside, several thousand