Unlike the situation in Guixu City, which had already been recaptured by the mine base and was now being cleared and rebuilt, while the typhoon was also being used to launch a counterattack against the demon Legion gathering around it, everything heading in a good direction, outside Guixu City, in the places still shrouded by that Warp Chaos energy—the "red fog"—evil continued unabated, just as it had in Guixu City when it had suffered disaster and nearly fallen completely.
Northwest of Guixu City, about three or four hundred kilometers from the northwestern front where the base was now engaged in a bloody battle with the Warp Daemons, there was a city called "Tianshu."
It had once been a major city second only to Guixu City. Though its population wasn't in the hundreds of millions, its proximity to Guixu City and its position at a land transportation hub had given it a population of nearly seventy or eighty million. It could be called a supercity of the interstellar age.
But!
Now, beneath the hazy red fog that seemed like something from hell, the miserable scene inside Tianshu was enough to make anyone's heart tremble.
That was right!
Just like Guixu City back then, this city, once filled with countless signs of prosperity and bustle, had now been reduced to a wasteland of decay, rot, and silence.
It was like a vast city of the apocalypse. The life and vitality it once held, the crowds that had thronged its streets, now existed only in the gaps between collapsed buildings and broken walls—or in underground hideouts, where people clung to life alongside the rats, fattened on their fill and red-eyed.
Here, the red fog, the demons' roars, the shadow of death, and the ruined homes filled every inch of the city with an