With EVA's absolute support, they broke away from the Secret Party's main force, using the snowstorms to evade satellite surveillance and deliberately traveling through regions ravaged by blizzards, like a lone boat venturing into the sea.
When they stopped to rest at night, the trio really did discover an anomaly the Secret Party's main force could not detect. They did not yet know that it was not a Nibelungen belonging to the Apocalypse Faction.
Amid the wind and snow, another team stood only a few dozen meters away from them, indistinct silhouettes visible only through their flickering lights. Anyone with lighting equipment capable of piercing such a thick curtain of snow had come prepared, too. But Caesar and the others had already traveled far from the Secret Party's main force, and according to EVA's intelligence, this place should have been deserted.
Caesar sent out his Kamaitachi, but they encountered an invisible domain and could not approach.
The other party noticed them as well. After a brief standoff, both sides chose to approach each other without prior agreement.
Caesar, Abbas, and Fingel all advanced with guns in hand. Encountering the other party in Siberia's vast snowfields might genuinely provide a breakthrough. This was another reason Caesar had not mentioned for choosing Abbas as a teammate. There were many knots in this web of mysteries, and Abbas was one of them. The clues would be found alongside the mysteries.
At last, as the distance shrank, the wind and snow gradually ceased to obstruct their view, and their eyes met.
Both sides froze at once.
Caesar. There was another Caesar on the other side. Three people stood on this side, and two on the other: "Caesar" and an Asian young man of a similar age. The latter wore a military uniform whose epaulets