In the wilderness, four people and a bear were making their way forward.
"Did I hear that right? You said there are still human tribes outside? Places with no oppression and no Aberrants?"
Nia had been chattering nonstop along the way, clearly fascinated by the novel world outside.
As Desire River Company's strongest humanoid combatant, he had lived for over twenty years. In the city, he could be considered a tyrant, yet he had never seen the world beyond it.
When Lu Li said there were dreamlike places that theoretically should not exist, Nia had thought Lu Li was teasing him again. But he also knew that humans like Lu Li and Aizen were clearly different from the people in the city.
Moreover, the method Lu Li had taught him had nothing to do with the city's modern science and technology. It was a cultivation technique like the one written in the scroll he had studied. As long as one had sufficient talent, they could gain extraordinary power without any technology or shady enhancements.
"There aren't many people, but they've retained the humanity people should have. Don't get your hopes up too high, though. They probably won't welcome you."
Lu Li spoke. A towering humanoid beast like Nia, with his constant vulgar language, was bound to frighten people.
Besides, Nia had already betrayed the company. Lu Li felt it would be highly unreliable to send someone as reckless-looking as Nia to Commercial City first. He would probably be dead in Commercial City within two days.
Then they would lose both a guide to the cities and a rare roughneck from this era who possessed powerful extraordinary abilities yet still wanted to be human.
"Nia, you need to rein in all those habits you picked up in the city, or you'll