After crossing the empty street, Angel finally saw another person.
It was a middle-aged man in a uniform apron. He stepped down from a routinely operating mechanical carriage, then took up a broom and began sweeping the street.
He looked like a cleaner.
Angel thought for a moment, then approached him to strike up a conversation, hoping to ask about this Academy City.
But this cleaner, like the guard he had encountered at the city gate earlier, was an extremely pure NPC. He had almost no subjective awareness at all, utterly nothing more than a necessary "worker ant" maintaining the city's operation.
Still, they were not completely silent. Like the NPCs in Holographic Tablet games, they occasionally blurted out a few words—either lamenting the present or reminiscing about the past.
The content was all ordinary, without a single clue hidden within.
In the end, Angel could only abandon the idea of questioning NPCs and silently continue onward according to the waypoint in his field of vision.
Yes, a waypoint.
After accepting the main quest—head to the principal's office—a yellow dot had appeared in his vision. The dot directly marked a set of coordinates, and no matter how Angel moved, those coordinates never changed.
According to the quest information, the yellow dot represented the principal's office.
"There's quest guidance, coordinate displays, and the NPCs are extremely primitive..." Angel muttered under his breath. "This really does resemble a game."
A sandbox game... Could it truly be city management?
Angel shook his head and stopped dwelling on it. Once he reached the principal's office and accepted the second round of the main quest, he should learn what was going on.
Just like the main quest in Modern City: the first round had also been a navigation quest, finding and reaching Prada Media Company.