Lu Xin stood on the street beneath the Crimson Moon, staring at the bizarre scene before him and remaining silent.
He had never seen anything like this, and he could not decide who he should help.
What drew his gaze at that moment was the woman dancing on the village street.
Lu Xin had once followed the Old Director and admired quite a bit of what he called "high art." But back then, neither Lu Xin nor his friends could understand what was so interesting about the Old Director staring at a group of women in white miniskirts dancing on tiptoe.
They had even looked down on the Old Director for it.
But now, as he watched this woman's dance, Lu Xin gradually began to understand something.
This woman's dance seemed to be telling a story.
Through her body, she conveyed a certain message to Lu Xin, who was watching the performance.
She was a girl who, though born into a world after the Cataclysm, still held passion in her heart.
She was obsessed with dancing and hoped that one day she could become a star in High Wall City.
Thus, she set out with a group of performers from a song-and-dance troupe that traveled between the various High Wall Cities. Taking advantage of the current period of stability, they climbed into a caravan and journeyed through one High Wall City after another, welcoming each performance after the next...
Life in the wilderness was inconvenient and exhausting, and the money was poor.
But the group was happy, dreaming that they would become the next generation of superstars and be adored by countless people.
Yet that dream was shattered one night.
A knight order attacked their song-and-dance troupe while they were camped in the wilderness, merely to rob them of