The road to that Mysterious Forbidden Zone was even farther than Lu Xin had expected.
He carried his favorite coarse-cloth bag on his back. It wasn't very pretty, but it was thick and sturdy enough that even a knife might not cut through it. Inside were food, a gun, bullets, drinking water, medicine, an ability-user restraint device, some money, and even a piece of gold. They were all things he might need, and if necessary, he could even use the bag to hit someone.
The only drawback was that it was a little too heavy. He shifted it from his shoulder to his hand, then passed it from his left hand to his right until both arms were sore.
Yet the path ahead still seemed to have no end.
The weather was somewhat overcast. Although it was still morning, everything looked gray and dim.
When he turned around, he found himself in a desolate place. There seemed to be an abandoned village not far away.
The town was shrouded in thin fog. All kinds of vines and lush trees grew throughout it. It looked as though those extraordinarily vigorous plants had devoured the village, like a green monster crouching on the horizon.
He could be certain that the path beneath his feet led all the way to Happy Town.
There were relatively few weeds on the path, along with some faint tire tracks that were almost impossible to make out.
But whether he looked ahead or behind, he couldn't see a single person.
Strangely, in the desolate wilderness on both sides of the path, it seemed as if countless eyes were secretly watching him.
Yet whenever Lu Xin stopped and looked toward the direction those gazes came from, he could no longer sense them.
"This place is so