Bai Yu brought Xiate to a gate surrounded by fencing and guarded by soldiers from the Survey Corps. This place should originally have been the Garrison Regiment's responsibility, but under the current exceptional circumstances, the Survey Corps had temporarily taken over.
Bai Yu and Xiate stopped their horses outside the wall. The two Survey Soldiers at the gate saluted as soon as they saw Bai Yu.
Bai Yu nodded back.
"All right, no need to be so formal. Watch our horses for us, please. Thanks."
Almost every Survey Corps soldier knew Bai Yu, aside from a handful of new recruits. Even they had probably heard his name by now, though. The Support Squad received a special introduction during Scouting Formation training.
None of the Survey Soldiers along the way stopped Bai Yu. Everyone who saw him saluted.
A small building stood before them, marking the entrance to the basement. Once the door was opened, they could only make out a dim endpoint far below. It looked to be several dozen meters down.
Chunks of iceburst stone glowed along the walls, lighting up the otherwise dark passage. This basement was very, very deep.
It lay several dozen meters underground and had taken a long time to excavate. They had even borrowed a great deal of manpower, supplies, and equipment from the Garrison Regiment.
As soon as Erwin learned that humans could turn into Titans, he had begun digging this prison specifically to hold humans who possessed Titan powers.
They could not turn into Titans here. Even if they managed it, in a passage only three or four meters wide and high, they would probably end up as a lump of flesh wedged in place.
Bai Yu and Xiate descended for quite some time before reaching the bottom. A straight passage lay