[Alibaba thinks for a few moments about how Alexei worded himself, and the slight hesitation, "it's" the place or the infection, it might not nessasairly be lying, but the ambiguity sure as hell doesn't help much.

Either way, the point, Alexei genuinely doesn't seem to know about this specifically ]

Yeah, not exactly keen on dying either, so you had reason to believe someone useful was going to be here, could we either go to them or make them come to us?

[Honestly, it feels like he's got to pull teeth out and playing detective.]