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The elevator to the bottom of the underground didn't get stuck halfway down as in the movies, nor did its cable snap, plummeting to the bottom. Although Miss Dar complained and screamed continuously, she eventually opened the elevator door, welcoming Malin and his party into her control room.
Mr. Big Toe and Mr. Mison were dumbfounded by the forest of cell storage tanks outside the control room. People of this era call those from before the Great Destruction Era the ancients, but they couldn't truly understand them.
They couldn't grasp what sacrifices the ancients had made to survive, to preserve life, and to maintain civilization.
