For a brief moment, Uijae had come to appreciate the one functional aspect of the Memorial Dungeon. But that thought didn’t last long.

Ham Seok-jeong took the laptop Jeong Bin had compiled notes on and skimmed through the data. Tapping her fingers against the chair’s armrest, she mused,

"From the looks of it, the method of apocalypse in that world and this one seems eerily similar. The whitening phenomenon there is nearly identical to the mutations and the erosion phenomenon we’re seeing in our own Eroded Dungeons. But what bothers me is that our world hasn’t had a Monster Wave. Could the sequence have changed?"

"It’s a possibility we can’t rule out," Jeong Bin replied.

"Pull up data on locations showing early signs of a Wave. Cross-reference with past occurrences as well."

"Understood."

The two continued their discussion with grave expressions.