Sanitation Elite II

What is this...? What happened here?

Ah! Sunshine, you're here...

I'm so confused... When I arrived, these local burdenbeasts just kept wandering about and ignored every instruction...

I don't know if something scared them...

Ugh... Cleaning up the burdenbeasts won't be easy.

I'm so glad to have you around, sunshine.

Meh. It's because the seven bosses are all covered in mud.

Of my entire herd, those seven like being clean. They'll refuse to budge once they get a little dirty.

Once the bosses stop moving, the rest would just wander about... I got no cleaning tools. That's why I had to call the sanitation team.

The bosses gotta maintain their status, so they won't roll in the mud. Maybe you're right, Auntie Yu.

I'm really sorry to trouble you with this. The burdenbeasts even trampled all over the fields... Oh, look! They're even blocking the road!

That means I have to write another situation report. Ugh...

But I don't get this at all. How did they end up all muddy and dirty?

Look at them. Mindlessly running about all day and getting themselves caked in dirt. Just like my grandkid.

The thing is ... I've cleaned this place a couple of times, but never seen such a mess before.

First it was the pantails, and now it's the burdenbeasts... Is something or someone behind this?

Maybe it's the "bane of burdenbeasts" mentioned in the Unsolved Mysteries of Talos-II?

Perhaps those egghead analysts are right. The breaker bandits are up to no good again.

But the ... Tianshi have been talking about the Æther. Did some dangerous cryptid crawl out of the place?

Why, of course. My retirement's just round the corner, so why worry? Our watchguards have it covered.

I can't help but think about things. We did run into strange things twice.

Hmm... This is odd. Where did my work log go?

It's alright. I actually had memorized the sites for the rest of the event before coming here...

If memory serves, they need some clean up near the Xiranite Dam behind the Institute of Materials Science. I'll be waiting there.

Oh? But I remember washing this one. Why...?

Oh. Perhaps it just learned the truth about the mud.

We are not burdenbeasts, after all. We don't know if the burdenbeasts like being covered in mud, or not.

Maybe the mud gives them a feel of nature itself? Then again, how would burdenbeasts prove the existence of "mud"?

Thanks for the work today. Lave this maverick to me. I'll hose it down once it feels like moving.

Phoo. While I wait, I should think about how to write the situation report.