"Did you discover anything?" Neo asked Kallen. "Or is there anything you want to tell me?"
Kallen checked the signature on the stone tablet again. Yes, Raniedal. There was no mistake.
Then Kallen looked at the sculpture in the middle of the fountain again.
The man was somewhat lean, with clearly defined facial features that gave an impression of solitude and contemplation.
Then Kallen deliberately looked at the sculpture's head. Oh, he wasn't bald.
"Hmm?"
Neo prompted him again with a nasal murmur.
Kallen hesitated. He didn't know what to say. Was he supposed to say, "Captain, everything our squad experienced today was my dog's doing"?
Still, Kallen knew that whatever had triggered this place and everything his squad had experienced today had little to do with the present Kevin.
It was simply a toy his dog had left behind long ago, and now someone had picked it up and started playing with it again.
"I don't know much about him."
"Yes, I believe you," Neo replied. "But there's somewhere you might find interesting. Or rather, somewhere that might be useful to you, if what you told me was true."
"Which thing, Captain?"
"You told me that Raniedal once modified your body."
"So?"
"So there's somewhere I can't enter, but perhaps you can."
"Where?"
"The top floor of the Ancient Castle."
Kallen followed Neo into the Ancient Castle. Rather than using the main entrance, they climbed through a window.
After landing, Kallen discovered that half the room lay in light and half in darkness, as though time had been sliced apart here.
"It was deliberately arranged this way. You should understand these things better than I do," Neo said.
"It's meant to deepen the psychological suggestion. What we encountered outside the Ancient Castle and what's inside should be on completely