The sun was shining brightly.
Although there was no sun in the sky.
The breeze was gentle.
Although heaven knew where these winds had come from, or whether they carried bone ash.
But it didn't matter.
If it was comfortable, that was all that counted.
Jiang Qiao sauntered toward the dock, step by step, and arrived at the "Caomiao Village Shipping Company." The wooden sign outside listed several rules:
Fighting was forbidden aboard the ship. Violators would be sunk in the lake.
Robbing other people was illegal. Violators would be sunk in the lake.
All actions had to follow orders. Anyone who disobeyed orders or disrupted order would be sunk in the lake.
4. No...
Sunk in the lake?
There weren't actually many rules, only a dozen or so in total.
But what stood out was this.
Every single one ended with the words "sunk in the lake," seemingly describing the punishment for violators.
Simple and brutal.
But...
Jiang Qiao glanced at the shimmering surface of Mirror Lake.
"What's wrong with this lake? Everyone here is an Awakened. Can they really be sunk?" His gaze swept across the area as he tried to discover what was special about Mirror Lake.
Unfortunately.
Perhaps because they were close to shore, there didn't seem to be anything strange about it.
There were even anglers fishing nearby.
Putting the matter out of his mind.
Jiang Qiao entered the ticket hall, considerately joining the end of the line and waiting for his ticket to be checked.
At that moment.
The hall had three lanes open.
Each lane had a line of fifty or sixty people. There were quite a lot of passengers.
However.
Although the service was for Awakened people.
Aside from not conducting security checks, the ticket gates were no different from those