Alvitte cast him a doubtful look.
She looked down. On the muddy riverbank, there were only her and Linsey's footprints.
The nearby grass had been soaked by the rain; not even a single active insect could be seen.
"Your hometown... was here?"
Linsey nodded with complete certainty.
"I definitely remembered correctly."
"What we need to verify now is this—based on what you know, what exactly happened to the plain beneath the Forbidden Forest Mountain Range?"
Alvitte moved a little closer to Linsey.
"Linsey, sorry, but I can't give you an accurate answer."
Linsey pressed on.
"Don't you know the Forbidden Forest Mountain Range?"
Alvitte shook her head again.
"I confirmed the information through historical records and map scrolls. After all, the world of the City of Law is enormous, and I haven't personally traveled through all of it. In the current situation, if someone wanted to stockpile food, they might send their subordinates to open up new farmland."
With Alvitte's answer, the information unexpectedly matched up instead.
Because Linsey remembered clearly—or rather, it was something people from his parents' generation often talked about.
Anville Village was a newly opened cultivation area.
There had also been a Master Bai Lin in the village back then, a Life Scholar who was indeed proficient in Plant Cultivation.
If an Awakened's techniques had truly been used to transform this plain,
then whether it was building a survival stronghold or cultivating vast fields of crops, both would have become achievable.
There was still too little information at the moment.
Linsey could only make a tentative assumption for now.
At the same time, Alvitte followed Linsey's speculation and looked around.
"If your memories are correct, Linsey, then an Awakened forcibly altered the surrounding environment and even erased all traces of human activity!"
Linsey casually asked, "Who