Penglai Underground City's industrial district was located in the north. Around this industrial district, the Undercity had built various supporting facilities.
There were many supporting facilities: hospitals, shopping malls, residential areas, and shops.
The workers employed in the industrial district could obtain whatever services they needed without entering the city proper.
When the Undercity was attacked this time, the city's residents followed the principle of taking shelter at the nearest location. The workers were naturally sheltered in the shelters within the industrial district.
As for the areas surrounding the industrial district, most of those sheltered there were workers or the families of factory management.
Meng Xiaolan was the family member of a worker. Her husband worked at a pharmaceutical factory and basically had to work ten hours every day.
There was often only her and her mother-in-law, whose legs were inconvenient, at home.
Ever since marrying her husband, Meng Xiaolan had devoted herself to caring for her mother-in-law. Even so, her mother-in-law had never treated her kindly.
The reason was simple.
Meng Xiaolan was infertile.
She had gone to the hospital for an examination. Her only option was in vitro fertilization, but that was something a working-class family like theirs could never afford.
Her husband's meager income was only enough to cover the family's daily expenses. Although Meng Xiaolan did some handicrafts at home for extra money, it was nowhere near enough to cover the cost of in vitro fertilization.
Ever since learning that she was unable to have children, her mother-in-law had treated her with contempt. Fortunately, her husband never abandoned her and had clashed with his mother over the matter several times.
But the more her husband defended her, the more her mother-in-law hated her daughter-in-law. This was especially true after the old woman suffered a stroke and