In this chaotic, devastated city, where burning wreckage and scattered corpses lay everywhere, Annie carefully followed the group of furtive soldiers, keeping herself hidden as she slipped through the ruins.
This time, of course, she didn't just walk up and greet them like she had Lieutenant Awen and the others. Instead, she chose to follow and observe them from the shadows.
It was clear that after nearly three months of destruction at the hands of the Warp Daemons, the city had been transformed beyond recognition. Countless skyscrapers had collapsed or leaned at precarious angles, while others had burned down to nothing but blackened steel frames... The once-prosperous streets had long since been reduced to rubble. Wrecked vehicles lay scattered across the ground, mingling with countless rotting corpses to form the grim backdrop of this apocalyptic city.
Yet even in this ravaged landscape, humanity had not been wiped out completely. People still hid beneath the ruins, some barely clinging to life, others stubbornly waiting for a chance to counterattack and fight back.
Before long, the soldiers hurried into an abandoned subway line buried beneath a collapsed building, then blocked the entrance with chunks of rubble.
Annie watched cautiously for a while. Once she was sure the people inside had gone farther in, she used Flash to follow them. Tracking their trail, she soon discovered the entrance to a hidden shelter somewhere in the abandoned, collapsed subway tunnels.
Annie didn't hesitate for long. After concentrating and sensing the area for a moment, she teleported into the shelter in another Flash.
"!!"
!(;o)o
Appearing in an empty corner piled with supplies, she poked her head out and was surprised to find:
This shelter seemed completely different from the black-market shelter she'd visited before.
There were no bustling streets, no holographic sky, and certainly