"Little Underworld?"
Chen Ge watched the taxi until the last glimmer of its taillights vanished into the night.
The outskirts of Xinhai were desolate, with hardly anyone on the roads.
He opened the Comic Album and told all his employees to get ready. Then he set White Cat down.
Naturally cautious, White Cat perked up its ears. Unease filled its Heterochromatic Eyes as it stayed close to Chen Ge, wishing it could crawl right inside his clothes.
"Can you sense danger?"
Chen Ge stroked White Cat's head and took a deep breath. Leaving the main road, he followed a narrow path deeper into the outskirts.
They passed one abandoned building after another. The area grew quieter and quieter. He couldn't hear any insects calling, and he couldn't see a single light.
"Those unfinished buildings are a Residential Area. Why did they stop construction after putting up just the outer shells?" Using Yin Pupil, Chen Ge saw all kinds of writing sprayed in Red Paint across the buildings' exterior walls. It looked like some workers had gone to the top floor of the unfinished buildings to demand their unpaid wages and pressure the developers. Something had happened that very day.
Not far from the unfinished Residential Area stood a sprawling complex of abandoned factories. There was a chemical plant and a pharmaceutical factory, but most of the industrial sites didn't even have names.
The mottled rust on the fences proved that they had been there for a long time without anyone looking after them. All kinds of machinery had become oversized junk that was difficult to dispose of.
The outskirts of Xinhai were much larger than Chen Ge had expected. The driver had stopped at the edge and hadn't gone any farther in.
To avoid getting trapped on the main road,