As its name suggested, the Mount Furolance Research Institute stood on Mount Furolance-a remote mountain range within the Kingdom of Kront.
According to Miss Annie, biological research institutes in the Kingdom of Kront were generally built in places like this.
An isolated island, a lake, or deep in the mountains-ultimately, the point was to avoid causing some irreversible harm to a city.
Annie knew little about the Mount Furolance Research Institute. All she knew was that it had once been a mine before the Kingdom of Kront converted it into a research institute. As for what they researched here, she wasn't sure. Everyone had their own research assignments to complete, after all, and rarely paid much attention to what other institutes were studying.
Unless it overlapped with their own work.
"It looks like this place really has been abandoned."
Stepping off the airship, Annie looked down at the site a short distance away. There was a mining pit, surrounded by several buildings. These buildings had probably once been used by miners and later renovated. Now, everything had been abandoned, and even the access route had been sealed off. Rubble from collapses on both sides completely blocked the way. Had the Eye of the Sky not been an airship, getting inside would have been extremely difficult.
Weeds ran rampant inside, and broad swaths of ivy covered the dilapidated buildings. Even so, the mine entrance remained tightly sealed, despite the rust coating its doors.
Annie wore clothes that allowed her to move freely and held a gecko-like creature in her hands. It was one of the things she had packed in her suitcase that day. According to Annie, it was a chimera she had created, with a keen sense of smell and touch. If it detected dangerous gas or some threat humans