The dark night was filled with clamorous noise.
Following behind the children, Lin An struggled a little as he crawled through the maze-like factory buildings.
Filthy water flowed everywhere. Relying on the faint moonlight, the group passed through one narrow passage after another like rats in a sewer.
The air was filled with cheap perfume and gasoline, with the occasional waft of sour, rancid stench.
The smell was like corpses left to ferment in perfume.
Lin An instinctively looked up.
Faintly, he could make out some firelight.
Gasoline or plastic was burning together, bringing a bit of warmth to the cold depths of night.
Although Lin An always felt that the people warming themselves by those fires might be choked to death.
The columns of black smoke rising from them resembled crematorium chimneys, puffing out ash with little bursts.
Like the market, the area behind these factories had once been the Employee Dormitory, but it had been transformed into something resembling a shantytown. Makeshift sheet-metal rooms and tents clung parasitically between the three buildings.
If a fire broke out anywhere, this place would probably turn into hell in an instant.
But clearly, the people living here no longer cared about that.
"Ah~~ Ahh!!"
"Haahhh!!"
The shrill screams of women mingled with men's heavy panting.
As they went deeper into the area, Lin An frowned slightly. He could almost feel that this place had rotted through, with the sounds of bodies colliding coming from every "room."
All kinds of messy underwear hung carelessly from ropes and poles. In the corridors, he would occasionally see naked women standing outside expressionlessly as they bathed.
"My lord is just ahead."
"Audrey lives in this Employee Dormitory."
His voice carried guilt and unease. Anduin nervously hugged the jar in his arms and indicated that Lin