There were many other abandoned cities like this scattered across the land in this era.
Out of a certain sense of security, most people, even when they gathered together, preferred to choose villages or camps.
Regardless of whether these towns were truly dangerous, the mere sense of vast, empty space made people uneasy.
Strictly speaking, however, abandoned cities like this were actually safe.
When The Beginning's Crimson Moon first appeared in the sky, countless madmen emerged in this world. The collapse of civilization and the disappearance of order were both connected to these madmen. For a time, they became the most terrifying predators in the world, and the nightmares of those who had lived through that era. Even now, people still deeply feared the wilderness, as well as those pitch-black, abandoned cities.
But by now, the madmen who had once run wild across the land had long since been almost completely wiped out.
The occasional one or two were practically endangered animals.
And as far as Lu Xin knew, the Pollution Sources that appeared because of Mental Mutation would usually emerge in densely populated cities or gathering points. An empty, deserted city like this lacked the basic conditions for such strange phenomena to arise.
Although...
Looking up, Lu Xin saw buildings looming beneath the thin mist, like unknown sentinels. The silent city sat there in silence. Somewhere beyond the reach of his gaze, something unsettling seemed to be hiding, quietly sharpening its claws.
...It really was frightening.
One truck after another drove into the city shrouded in thin mist.
Each truck was roughly ten meters from the next, and when traveling along the main road, they habitually maintained a distance of a hundred meters.
That way, even if they encountered an ambush, they would not all be wiped out