After watching the so-called Cleaner leave, Bai Zhi returned to where the yurt had been.
All ten yurts had been destroyed, but no bodies were found inside. As for the Players who had entered the yurts before them, their whereabouts were unknown.
"You arrived earlier. What dangerous places are there in the Core Zone?"
After a moment of thought, Bai Zhi turned to Chang Xi, who had followed along.
She had entered the Core Area first, so she surely possessed far more intelligence than he did. In such a dangerous region, the importance of intelligence was beyond question.
"That intelligence is meaningless, because those dangerous places move around. Like the Cleaner, they do not remain in one area."
Chang Xi shook her head.
"Furthermore, as time passes and the Core Area continues to collapse, the Anomalies that were originally imprisoned there will successively escape. Under these circumstances, information becomes outdated very quickly."
"Have you encountered any Players from Puzzle Card World? Or any surviving Staff?"
After thinking for a bit, Bai Zhi changed his question.
"No."
After a brief consideration, Chang Xi gave a firm answer.
"To be honest, I suspect that the common people in the Core Area are basically all dead. If most of the Anomalies had not fled from the Core Area into other regions, we would be in the terrible situation of encountering an Anomaly with every step. Common people simply cannot survive in this environment."
"If this is the Core Area, then there must be some kind of central region, right?"
With her arms folded across her chest, Fireworks of Romance wore a solemn expression.
"Shouldn't our goal be to head toward the center? If we can find something related to a map, it will save us a great deal of trouble."
"...Let's gather our