Wenren Sheng left Slaughter Land with Prophet Crow, then followed Little Illusion to the fun place she had mentioned.
It was a pockmarked stretch of land.
At first glance, it looked as if it had endured heavy artillery bombardment.
A sign bearing a double-headed eagle seemed to have just been propped upright, standing stubbornly against the north wind.
Concrete walls were exposed in some of the craters.
"What place is this?" Wenren Sheng asked.
"I don't understand English. Read it yourself." Little Illusion pointed at the sign.
Wenren Sheng had naturally seen the sign. Translated, it read "Fortress."
It was not a complete place name.
After carefully scanning the area, he formed a guess.
"Quick, come over here. There's something fun here."
As she spoke, Little Illusion skipped toward a huge crater.
Wenren Sheng followed her. When he saw the crater, he frowned.
Inside were dozens of shattered Petri dishes.
There were mangled corpses inside them, an especially horrifying sight.
Of course, it could not frighten him.
Around the remains lay some blue crystals—regular dodecahedrons—scattered around the Petri dishes.
He recognized those crystals.
They were artificial imitations of a Class One Strange Seed.
There was no need to explain the people in the Petri dishes. They were implanted subjects.
"Old Wen, I bet you don't know where the fun is," Little Illusion said smugly as she stood amid a group of mutilated corpses.
What she did not realize was that the scene was deeply unsettling.
"Where?"
"These corpses are still alive."
Little Illusion conjured a wooden stick and poked a corpse on the ground. Then she immediately leaped back and hid behind Wenren Sheng.
Wenren Sheng then watched as the corpses wobbled to their feet.
"Zombies?"
Wenren Sheng could not help shaking his head. The Game Emulator really was old-fashioned,