Gone Without a Trace

When the gale swept through the narrow valley and surged toward the Heavenly Pit like a tidal wave, these spherical jungles suspended in midair swayed in the wind, letting out ghostly wails, wolfish howls, and bursts of sinister laughter like the heads of real demons.

It was hard to imagine an isolated and helpless human town surviving for more than half a century in such a hellish place.

And indeed, Lü Siya and the others had found no trace of a human town.

There were no skyscrapers, transportation arteries, roaring vehicles, or factories.

There were not even any crumbling ruins or broken walls.

Of course, the clouds and mist constantly gathered and dispersed, while the depths of the Heavenly Pit were blanketed in lush vegetation. The investigators could not possibly scan the entire pit with their eyes.

This was merely where the "Piranha" team had left its final coordinates.

It was possible that the bizarre conversation heard over the communications channel had been recorded somewhere else.

Or perhaps the human town lay even deeper within the Heavenly Pit.

If they were merely mapping the terrain and providing bombardment guidance for Train Cannons and Armored Airships, advancing this far might barely have been enough.

But if a human town truly existed in the depths of the Heavenly Pit, twenty-four hours of uninterrupted carpet bombing would undoubtedly blast the town that had struggled on for over half a century, along with every one of its residents, into dust and ashes.

That was a moral burden Dragon City's highest authorities would find difficult to accept.

Besides, the Heavenly Pit covered far too vast an area, and Lü Siya's group had yet to find anything that could be called the "Monster Civilization Ultimate Nest."

Having Train Cannons and Armored Airships conduct saturation bombing across