Underground parking lot.
The broken light tubes flickered on and off, brightening and dimming unpredictably.
They illuminated the strange light hidden deep within Fang Cheng's pupils.
Zheng Haokang met his gaze, and suddenly felt somewhat regretful.
Could this powerful, mysterious opponent before me also be one of the monsters?
Fang Cheng narrowed his eyes slightly, then nodded and replied:
"I have indeed seen some very strange people. I don't know whether they belong to the same kind as the monsters you mentioned?"
Hearing this, Zheng Haokang immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
His gaze at Fang Cheng also softened somewhat, as though he had finally found someone to whom he could confide his feelings.
He simply squatted down on the ground, breathing slightly heavily as he calmed himself.
Then he raised his head and looked at Fang Cheng:
"You should have heard of the Western Mountains Explosion Incident, right?"
Hearing Zheng Haokang mention this, Fang Cheng's memory instantly returned to that dawn when he had practiced Pull-Ups in the pouring rain.
"It should have been about half a month ago..."
Without even caring whether Fang Cheng was listening, Zheng Haokang continued:
"At the time, I went to the Western Mountains with some friends to travel and relax. We stayed overnight at Lone Peak Temple. The atmosphere in the mountains was fairly peaceful at first, but in the latter half of the night, we were jolted awake by a deafening boom."
"The entire temple seemed to be shaking, and quite a few roof tiles fell. We thought there had been an earthquake, so we hurried out of the Dormitory with the monks."
"When we looked up at the night sky, we saw flames soaring into the sky. An air wave swept over from the distance, snapping rows of trees and knocking