— Meanwhile —
At the Emerald River Camp detention tent.
The members of the vanguard expedition team were being held together inside a large detention tent. They received three meals a day and hadn't been subjected to inhumane interrogation or torture, despite the fact that they had fallen into the hands of what appeared to be a backward civilization.
There was one thing they wanted to complain about, though. Every single meal consisted of plain mashed potatoes, as if the people detaining them were trying to make them lose their minds.
"Ugh... plain mashed potatoes again. Please... make it stop..." one of the female researchers complained, sounding as though she wanted to cry but had no tears left.
"Yeah, seriously. Is their agriculture so backward that they can't grow anything besides potatoes?" another researcher chimed in.
