Home!
For some reason, the moment he heard that word, Meng Chao's heart pounded furiously—never had it beaten so fast, not even when facing a vicious Doomsday Beast or the unfathomable Chaos Egg.
Seeing the relieved smiles bloom on the sunlit faces of the wounded around him, Meng Chao seemed infected by their emotions as well, and the corners of his mouth curled upward of their own accord.
He swallowed, forcibly suppressing his excitement as he squeezed up to the viewing porthole, which bulged outward like a goldfish's eye, and looked down at the magnificent land below.
The sky after the torrential rain was a deep blue, without a single wisp of cloud to obstruct his sight.
His field of vision was instantly drowned in a golden sea.
"This is..."
Meng Chao was deeply shaken.
He had never seen such a beautiful city.
In Meng Chao's memories, Dragon City's dominant tone had always been gray, clumsy, crowded, chaotic, and filled with bloodstained ruins.
Reinforced Concrete bunkers and barricades stood everywhere; everywhere echoed the gunfire and roars of humans and monsters fighting to the death; everywhere were thick smoke, raging flames, and even mushroom clouds.
To ward off monsters, Dragon City had rarely possessed skyscrapers that rose straight into the sky, apart from the Superhuman Tower.
The vast majority of its buildings had been constructed in shapes resembling terraced fields and pyramids, narrow at the top and broad at the bottom.
Even if struck by a Doomsday Beast, they would not collapse easily.
By the same reasoning, relatively fragile things like glass curtain walls had been completely out of the question.
Even the windows and entrances were often made extremely small, and within the thickened walls were interlayers and steel plates, ensuring that once combat conditions began, the steel plates could