Walking along the streets of Black Marsh City, Lu Xin could feel that the city had undergone enormous changes overnight.
The crowds that had once been bustling—so lively it had seemed abnormal—had become sparse. A large number of shops and restaurants had closed. The destruction caused by the frenzied crowds lay exposed like wounds across the city, shining beneath the sunlight, with no one cleaning it up.
A faint stench of decay could be smelled in many of the quiet buildings lining both sides of the road.
Lu Xin could guess what it was.
The more than twenty days of insomnia had caused a large number of deaths in Black Marsh City. The bodies were hidden in their respective homes, unknown to anyone. Although the temperature was still low, enough time had passed for them to begin decomposing. Before, the city's ostentatious atmosphere had concealed the smell, making it less obvious. Now that the city had quieted down, it could no longer be hidden.
This made Lu Xin somewhat unaccustomed to things. If this had been Qinggang, the cleanup teams would probably have entered the city long ago.
Yet in Black Marsh City, he still had not seen any sign that cleanup had begun.
That might also have been because large numbers of people in the city had not yet awakened and gone to work.
After such a long period of insomnia, they were now sleeping with a vengeance.
"Why are we going to the Administrative Hall in Satellite City No. 2?"
Lu Xin sat on the puttering three-wheeled vehicle, looking at the scenery on both sides as he asked curiously.
"You don't know?"
Silver Hair said quietly, "Master Qun is discussing important matters with those officials right now. A meeting like this should originally have been held at