After making a round.
Xie Te noticed more details, such as notepads and pens in the cabinets, and water cups on some of the desks. Naturally, there was no water in them—only a thick layer of grime.
Several sofas sat in the corner of the office area.
There were also a few magazines on the low glass table.
This was a simple reception room, clearly prepared for less important customers.
"Magazines?"
Xie Te picked one up and flipped through it.
The writing seemed to date from the early Nether Era... They had encountered it during training and could recognize some simple words and numbers. But that was all. Reading an article was impossible.
They could not even recognize a complete sentence.
They were illiterate.
Even so, he instinctively put them away.
If...
He could leave this place alive.
Perhaps these magazines could provide the organization with quite a bit of intelligence.
"The place isn't messy."
"It looks like they moved out voluntarily."
Xie Te made a silent guess.
Everything of even slight value inside had been taken away. This was clearly a planned evacuation, not something done in haste.
"Since we came in."
"We haven't seen any corpses or signs of fighting."
"This ruin..."
"Could it be empty?"
This was undoubtedly puzzling. The trash on the stairs showed that quite a few people had definitely lived here. Yet aside from the garbage covering the floor, they had found no human corpses.
"Could it be that there wasn't a disaster?"
"They evacuated voluntarily?"
"But if that's the case, it contradicts the records from later generations."
Xie Te frowned slightly.
This ruin had been an unexpected discovery when Tianyu Ancient Village explored another ruin. In that ruin, there were scattered fragments that appeared to be records written by survivors who had fled