The fallen zone, ??? region, "Maoyun Town."
"So, can you take me to see the Town Chief?" Sun Hang asked the two little girls. "I have a few small questions I'd like the Town Chief to answer."
"No." One of the girls shook her head. "The Town Chief isn't in town."
"Then where is the Town Chief?"
"The Town Chief is everywhere." The other girl picked up. "The Town Chief saved this town, but also bestowed a curse upon every person in it. The Town Chief spared everyone from the tragedy of death, but only spared them from death itself."
"What does it mean, only being spared from death?" Sun Hang asked in confusion.
"You will experience everything one must experience before death, but death will never come," the little girl said.
For no reason at all, Sun Hang's teeth began to ache.
He suddenly understood what they meant by "curse."
For example, suppose someone had been hacked to death with a knife. In this town, even if he were chopped into eight pieces, he still would not die—he might pass out from the pain, but when he woke up, his body would still be a pile of mangled flesh.
Pain was only temporary. Once the flesh rotted and the nerves died, the agony severe enough to make someone pass out would gradually fade away...
But what came next would be far more terrifying than pain.
The cursed would watch helplessly as they decayed, watch maggots crawl in and out of their bodies, watch their flesh gradually turn to pus and mix with dirt and excrement... yet they simply would not die...
Perhaps their eyes would lose function even earlier. They would be unable to see, hear, smell, or feel. They would lose everything that made them human, leaving only