This was a typical simple apartment building converted during the Monster War.
To cram in as many people as possible, every unit had been divided into tiny compartments, while the walls were exceptionally thick.
Many exterior walls even contained interlayers where steel plates could be lowered at any time to seal off the windows.
This resulted in terrible indoor lighting and ventilation. Rather than residences, they were more like bunkers.
Meng Chao took only a few steps before taking in the entire one-bedroom apartment at a glance.
The room was clean. Other than a camp bed and a folding table that served both as a dining table and work desk, there was almost no extra furniture.
A thick layer of grease had accumulated in the kitchen. It could not have built up without more than a decade of time, yet there were no signs that anyone had cooked there recently.
Only three to five stacks of newspapers piled in the corner, along with the half-finished clippings scattered messily across the table, showed that Tailless Monkey had once lived here.
Meng Chao leafed through the partially cut newspapers on the table.
He found that the latest issue was yesterday's evening paper, which should have been published only yesterday afternoon.
Although Dragon City's information technology was highly advanced,
the Otherworld's Ling Magnetic Interference was severe, and monsters often chewed through electrical cables and network lines.
It was certainly impossible to rely entirely on the internet to transmit information.
During the Monster War, in order to ensure that frontline soldiers and civilians could receive one another's news even when Ling Magnetic Interference was at its strongest and the monster offensive at its most frenzied,
many newspaper offices sprang up throughout Dragon City, printing newspapers, periodicals, and flyers around the clock.
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