V nodded, and the man immediately pushed the wheelchair over with eager attentiveness.
Elliot also took the opportunity to examine information about the Ratway's interior through the Difference Engine.
Although the Stage-Play Difference Engine's characters were all chibi puppets, making their precise appearances and actions difficult to distinguish, the structures of the buildings could be observed clearly.
While controlling Elsa's corpse earlier, he had specifically examined all sorts of details in the sewers.
Somewhat to his surprise, there had been nothing strange about the Imperial Capital's sewers. From the design and layout of the waterways to the drainage inlets and maintenance passages provided, everything looked more like ordinary urban construction.
That made sense. After all, the imperial authorities who built the sewers certainly would not have designed them specifically to shelter Cultists.
But everything changed here in the Ratway.
Elliot had vaguely sensed something when they entered the gate that could be opened by a mechanical mechanism. Now, as they traveled through the Ratway, the strangeness was even more apparent.
Looking at the intricate, labyrinthine scenery on the stage, Elliot could not help drawing in a sharp breath.
The sewers here had an entirely different style. The main passage V occupied was still perfectly normal, with no visible differences.
But in the Stage-Play Difference Engine's scenery, countless tiny passages had appeared within what had originally been simple walls.
It was as though the underground earth, sand, and stone had suddenly become flesh, and the passages were blood vessels.
And within those vessels, "blood" flowed.
With quick eyes and hands, Elliot plucked a puppet from the scenery being assembled.
Much smaller than the other character puppets, it was a black rat puppet.
The tiny passages scattered through the walls outside the main passage would have been rather cramped for a person,