"The Ever-Hunted Saintess Maria"
One of Siberia's breathtaking sights and, at the same time, one of the Red Star Republic's highly classified archival forbidden areas.
It is said that once a legendary strongman came here with an engineering brigade in search of ore... but in the end, they found only fragments.
Lu Ping'an stretched out his hands, making a camera-clicking gesture.
And between those hands was the still-weeping humanoid figure.
In just over ten minutes, the same scene had occurred three times... each time, her state of death was different, the only commonality being the "cries" and "despair" that seemed to stem from an extraordinary invasion.
In an endeavor to gather more intelligence, Lu Ping'an released batches of dogs equipped with insulation devices, watching as some went mad after screaming in agony.
Others went mad beforehand, trying to rescue the woman pursued by the beast swarm, and then were torn to shreds by the monsters.
