The air in the Swamp Zone was especially hot and humid. Combined with the sheer size of the area, spending so long in the hot-air balloon was gradually becoming suffocating.
At that moment, according to the rough map, Xu Huo had yet to cover a quarter of the distance to Point A in Gemini City.
Cao Qinglin's poisoning kept flaring up. The Antidote only worked for half an hour, so she had to take another dose every thirty minutes. Between the poison and her internal injuries, with no suitable place to recuperate, her condition was worse than it had been on the train.
Fortunately, after three hours, the hot-air balloon finally cleared the Swamp Zone. With the miasma no longer in their way, the view ahead opened up, revealing an abandoned city not far away.
"We've finally spotted a city. I wonder if anyone's still there," Qiu Ming said.
As they drew closer, they could make out iron fences standing all around the city's perimeter.
The fences, dozens of meters tall, were lined with razor-sharp blades and surrounded by three layers of iron mesh. Many sections were damaged, but there were no bones or anything of the sort in sight. Some animal teeth and claws were still caught in the mesh, left there amid the weathered stains.
"Was this place breached by Aliens?" Cao Qinglin looked down with him. The balloon was now approaching the edge of the city, and from here they could see how dilapidated it was. There was no vegetation around, and the climate was unsuitable for plants to grow. Even the landscaping had withered into rows of dead grass. An occasional gust of wind swept through, and the brittle leaves and twigs crumbled like ancient paper.
The entire city looked gray and dusty. The buildings, the