"Wind City? We've heard of it. It's a good place, supposedly a relatively safe area."
"A year ago, something went wrong in Longxia. Apparently, large numbers of Longxia people migrated through underground tunnels to Wind City."
"But we weren't particularly interested, so we didn't pay much attention."
Morita Tong spoke with some embarrassment.
Wen Xishu was puzzled.
"Hujiang is such a mess... don't you want to escape?"
Morita Tong shook his head.
"Sorry, Xishu, but we don't want to leave. This place holds too many stories, too many people with miserable lives..."
"The powers Xiao Xing and I have were practically born to bring peace here. Even though there are so many suffering people that repeated uses of the Goddess of Suffering and Mercy King's Career Change still can't redeem them all."
"But I can't abandon the people here. If I left... so many of them would lose hope."
Having experienced salvation himself, he felt a particularly strong desire to save others now that he had the power.
Morita Tong hadn't disappointed Wen Xishu. This was a reason Wen Xishu could understand.
"All right. You really are doing something difficult, but right."
Master Lingqing added something then.
"For one thing, we can't abandon the suffering people of Hujiang..."
"For another, we're wary of every 'safe haven.'"
"If an area has no conflict and proclaims itself a safe, civilized place... if its city has no ruined buildings, you should be careful."
"In the apocalypse, a city like that could be even more dangerous than Hujiang."
Wen Xishu understood immediately.
He had experienced it within Pisces's power.
He had seen a city where everything was orderly and everyone led leisurely lives, seemingly untouched by war...
But the truth was that the city had been full of monsters.
Thinking of that, Wen Xishu