According to the original plan, this area was meant to house refugees evacuated from other towns in Shu Province. Along the way, Sun Hang and the others could still see many half-built prefab shelters, and the pipelines connected to Tianfu City's heating system had already been laid... But Chimera Seventeen's appearance had forced the Disaster Response Committee to abandon the area and leave it as the final "buffer zone" between Tianfu City and Chimera Seventeen.
"If they filmed a horror movie here, it'd definitely be exciting, right?" Seeing that nobody responded, Miki Fukada added awkwardly.
"There's no need to film one. For ordinary people, the arrival of the Eternal Night is already the most exciting horror movie there is," Sun Hang said.
Wherever there were people, there would never be a shortage of a species known as reckless idiots—during the early days of the Eternal Night, quite a few people not only ignored the Disaster Response Committee's warnings to stay safely at home, but deliberately headed for remote towns and desolate wildernesses with no signs of human life.
Some sought thrills, hoping to film exploration videos and hype them up once the network was restored. Others wanted to profit from the chaos, planning to loot valuables left behind by those who had evacuated in haste. Worse still, some believed they were protagonists blessed by plot armor, convinced that even if they encountered anomalies, they would escape danger and perhaps even gain special abilities...
It wasn't just Tianfu City. Such "reverse travelers" existed throughout Shu Province—those who stepped forward against anomalies and natural disasters deserved admiration, but when normal people saw this kind of reverse traveler, only two words came to mind.
"Fucking idiots."
As the Eternal Night continued, there were fewer and fewer people like this—most of them had gotten