Mo and Purah stayed up all night comparing notes and research. Compared to Purah, Mo's notes were not nearly as detailed or expansive, but that was also because he was going based off of his own eye witness reports and whatever he could find in the Hateno library. If he was being honest with himself, he never really found much at the library, but Sophie worked there as the head librarian, so he always found an excuse to keep going back.

"So, if my notes are correct, if you look here," Purah said pointing to the top of the page where a long tower like structure was sketched in, "This part is the same as the one we saw up on the overlook, which means alllllll this here is still underground."

He looked at her with disbelief. "Purah, how on earth are we going to dig all the way down there ourselves?" This structure is massive and all we have is a couple shovels and a pickaxe."

"Never fear good sir!" Purah replied. "You see, we only have to dig down to about here," She said pointing to the base of the top portion of the structure. "The rest is just a textured cylinder. The part we're interested in it the signal relay. If we can activate it, it might trigger other tower relays scattered around Hyrule, assuming there are any left. Once we do that, we can determine whether or not there are anymore towns or villages out there left alive."

"This is incredible" Mo gasped in disbelief. "This could be the start if rebuilding society."

He looked up to see Purah sitting there smugly. "Yeah it is pretty incredible if I do say so myself. Oh my, would you look at that? Sun is starting to come up. You better get home and get a couple hours of shut eye before we set out. You can't dig on zero hours of sleep!" She giggled.

"Wait a second, don't you mean we-" Mo started, but Purah cut him off.

"Any who, away with you now. Hurry hurry!" Purah shooed Mo out of the lab and closed the door. She was right, the sun was just starting to peak over the horizon, illuminating the eastern sea with a plethora of radiant, warm colors. He began his short journey down the hill back home.

After a couple hours of shut eye, Mo awoke to a tapping on his window. He rubbed his eye as he stumbled over to the window to see Purah standing outside. He knew it was time. He quickly fumbled with his boots, and tip toed outside, being careful not to wake her sleeping parents. Not that he could even if he tried, they snored so loud, it would take another Calamity to wake them up.

"Hey sorry I'm a bit later then we agreed on. I figured id let you get a bit more sleep" Purah said as they rode out of town, up towards the overlook.

Mo shrugged in response and yawned. He wasn't really prepared to any digging. As excited as he was, it didn't change the fact his body was still sore from yesterdays construction job. Being a part of the Hyrule Restoration Movement was an honor, but it did take its toll on his body every now and then. When they finally dismounted, Purah handed him a shovel and told him to get to work.

"Aren't you going to help" Mo complained.

"I could, but I'm a lady. Usually a gentleman will do the manual labor, didn't you know?" Purah giggled.

"Whatever" Mo sighed, and began to dig. He was careful not to strike any part of the Sheikah tech as he dug his way down. As he duh, Purah would periodically climb in to brush any debris off the intricate design of the structure. After a couple of hours, Purah finally told Mo to stop. She took a much smaller shovel out of her bag and began to do some detail work, digging her way into the structure. She began to reveal a dome like interior, and after some more shoveling, a small terminal was uncovered in the center.

"Alright that's enough digging, we have what we need. Can you go get my notebooks while I finish cleaning this terminal? I need them to figure out how this works"

Mo complied with her demands. She was always so pushy when she got engrossed by her work, but he learned to just roll with it and keep his complaints to himself. He rummaged through her large bag and pulled out a couple notebooks and brought them back down into the dome. Purah snatched them from his hands and began to flip through the pages. Mo took this opportunity to rest his limbs. He plopped down in the dirt and chugged a few gulps from his water canteen. It took Purah about 15 minutes to finally determine the proper course of action.

"Well, this terminal only seems to be operable with a Sheikah Slate, and I only know of one in existence right now."

"Where is it?" Mo inquired.

Purah ignored his question. "However, the Sheikah slate is only needed to distill date in the form of a geographical map of the region. We don't need one in order to send out a distress signal. Hold this for me please hun?"

Mo took her notebook and she began to fiddle with control panel in the central terminal. Not long after he heard a slight buzzing noise and a soft orange light began to glow from the panel.

"Ha!" Purah laughed snapping her fingers above her head "I know I could do it! I wish Robbie was here to see this."

Purah flicked a lever and Mo heard a small beeping sound, which stopped as quickly as it started.

"What was that?"

"I sent out a distress signal. Any and all operating Sheikah Towers will receive this signal, even if they haven't been activated. If they hear it, its just a flick of a switch to send a signal back to us, and well be able to pinpoint their location." Purah said confidently.

"And if we don't hear anything back?" Mo asked.

"Well, then I guess we have the answer to whether or not anyone else survived."

That answer slightly depressed him, but he always preferred harsh truths then comforting lies. Purah was always good about that, even when they first met, all those years ago. They never talked about that day much, but Mo was always grateful for the comfort she gave him back then.

Hours passed, and they had still not received a return signal. The sun was beginning to set, and Mo was packing their things. They had agreed that if they had not received a signal by sundown, they would return tomorrow and try again. Purah's usual perky demeanor was replaced with a pouty attitude.

"Hey, don't stress it, well get a signal back. We were foolish to think we would have received a reply on this first day." Mo said as he tried his best to comfort his colleague.

'I know, its just we were on a roll I was hoping to keep this streak going." Purah pouted.

"Well, in any case, at least we have something we can tell the town during our next-"

BEEP!

Mo and Purah stopped in their tracks. They slowly looked at each other, then together slowly turned towards the tower.

BEEP!

Purah took off in a sprint back to the tower. Mo began to follow, but Purah stopped him. "No, let me check this. Go to my lab, grab a map of the kingdom, as well as all the paper work we have on these towers that we didn't bring with us today. Also wake up Reede and tell him to call an emergency town meeting. GO!"

Mo took off towards his horse and galloped back to town as fast as his horse would carry him. When he reached town, Sophie caught sight of him and tried to flag him down, but he couldn't stop, he had to follow Purah's orders.

"I'm sorry Sophie I can't talk right now!" He said quickly as he rode past her. The rest of the residents still out and about angrily jumped out of the way as he rode by, complaining how rude that was. He ignored them and went straight up to the lab. When he arrived, he grabbed the giant map Purah always kept hanging on the wall. Then proceeded to clear her desk and shelves of any books, notes, or scraps of paper he could find referencing the Sheikah Towers. Once he had crammed as much as he could into the several bags laying around the room, he took off once more down the hill.

He raced down and proceeded to head right to the mayor's house and banged on the front door. He stood there impatiently as Reede took he sweet time getting up to answer the door.

"Oh, Mo, what a pleasant sur-"

"Sir we need to call an emergency town meeting! Its urgent!" Mo interrupted.

The tired look on Mayor Reedes face turned too one of panic. "Why-"

We finally did it sir! We found proof!"

"Proof of what!?" Reede insisted.

"Sir, there are others out there. We're not alone!"

End of Chapter 2