The three of them walked deeper along the corridor.
The shattered, mottled walls and floors seemed to move forward alongside them.
The entire TVA appeared to have no intact areas left.
Amid the eerie, deathly silence,
their footsteps followed behind them in a steady rhythm.
Whenever the lights flickered, it was as though three ghosts were tailing them.
An ordinary person would have been frightened stiff in an environment like this.
They might even worry that some indescribable monster would leap out from the next corner and pounce on them.
But Leon and the other two were all bold and highly skilled.
After all, they were simply too powerful.
They turned down the corridor and opened one sealed or damaged office after another.
The offices were filled with countless cubicles.
Some were badly damaged, while others remained as good as new.
What they had in common was that there was no dust on any of the desks.
But that did not mean the TVA had only recently fallen.
The Time Variance Authority existed outside time.
Here, the passage of time did not bring decay, weathering, or any other such problems.
The lack of dust meant nothing.
The entire TVA was enormous.
Yet the three of them quickly searched through it all.
But even after searching every corner,
they found no living people, not even any corpses.
It was as though Silent Hill from a horror story had invaded this place.
And overnight, everyone had vanished without a trace.
Of course, Silent Hill could not possibly have invaded the TVA.
The absence of anyone here could only mean that the person who had seized the TVA had not intended to slaughter anyone.
That counted as good news.
It meant the missing TVA employees
might actually still be alive.
They had merely