Scavengers

The roads in the town were nowhere near as easy to traverse as the three of them had imagined.

Ice spikes were everywhere. Rather than crossing the town, Cheng Shi and the others were climbing over one icy hill after another.

Along the way, they found several scattered traces of scavengers. After capturing and questioning them, they finally gained a preliminary understanding of this town beneath the abyss.

Putting aside how Sandlais had once become a dumping ground for the experimental waste of the Tower of Reason, the current scavenging ecosystem here was just as Han Mo had described. Even if the lucky ones who had newly fallen here survived, they could only live in the outer ring. Only after adapting to the climate and managing to eke out a living through scavenging would they qualify to approach the town center and join the scavenging groups that had operated there for years.

These scavenging groups, each ruling their own territory, were the current "spokespeople" of Sandlais. They banded together on the outskirts of the town center, enjoying the richest resource zones while remaining wary of lone scavengers and unfamiliar faces. They prevented outsiders from rushing into the town center. For this purpose, these groups, which had never gotten along with one another, even worked together along the edge of the town center to pull up a gigantic protective net, safeguarding the town center's... treasure!

That was right. It was a treasure.

According to the scavengers, all of Sandlais's secrets lay in the town center. Yet outside scavengers could not get anywhere near it, so none of them knew what was hidden inside.

The old scavengers claimed publicly that it was fragments of divinity. But if it was only fragments of divinity, it probably would not be worth these people going