The report was a special enemy intelligence annex provided by Great Han's Western Common Defense field headquarters after the Kashgar Campaign, one that had never received full recognition from the Imperial Academy of Sciences.
By the time Cornelia reached the end of the report, her brow had furrowed and her hand had settled on her sword.
"Can someone! Tell me! What this is?"
Dalton took the report and carefully checked several sets of data, his expression growing increasingly grim.
"Your Highness, the underground anomaly's movement pattern has ruled out ordinary earthquakes and changes in mineralized structures. Its estimated length exceeds one thousand meters, and its cross section is far larger than any known individual ground-based BETA."
"Over one thousand meters?!"
Cornelia jerked her head up.
"Are you telling me there's a bug bigger than an imperial aerial battleship digging tunnels beneath our feet?!"
"I'm afraid that isn't all."
Dalton brought Great Han's earlier report up on the main screen. A classification stood starkly at the top.
[Mother Ship-Class / Large underground transport individual] [Estimated overall length: approximately 1,800 meters] [Estimated maximum cross section: 170-meter class] [Primary capabilities: high-speed deep tunneling, large-scale underground transport of operational individuals] [Outer shell damage resistance: extremely high] [Intelligence source: Great Han special enemy intelligence comprehensive assessment]
Cornelia stared at the last line and finally remembered that, after the Kashgar Campaign, Lin Cuo had submitted an exasperatingly long BETA threat classification report to various countries.
At the time, the Imperial Academy of Sciences had judged that parts of the report lacked direct evidence. In particular, there were virtually no physical specimens from this world that could prove the existence of the so-called giant underground transport individuals.
What was more, the report had come from Lin Cuo, a sixteen-year-old Regent who could openly admit in