Then they arrived in front of a building. The same building where Erik found the humanoid beast that almost killed him, and that later he went to subjugate with Samuel and the others.
This was also the place where he found some disturbing information about the human experiments that were conducted here by the Silver Line Corporation.
Erik hadn't been able to find information about this mysterious organization, or company, or whatever it was.
Whomever they may have been, their existence has been erased from historical records. He didn't know, though, if that was exactly what these guys wanted.
Regardless, whoever they were, it was clear they knew about thaids much more than the average person of their time, and based on the experiments they did, those who resulted in creating that abomination, he suspected their role in the story was more important than it appeared.