Humanoid Excavator

This place was a city. From the wreckage of those toppled, collapsed buildings, one could tell that the city had not been particularly large, but neither had it been small.

There was no road left once they reached this point. Everyone could only pick their way forward through barely passable areas. The fluorite lamps illuminated a portion of the darkness around them, and within that hazy, half-hidden glow, they could make out the towering yet broken outlines of ruined buildings, like monstrous beasts lying in wait within the dark.

There seemed to be other Prospectors wandering through this darkness as well. The green light cast by the fluorite lamps in their hands looked like drifting ghost fires in the distance, inexplicably sending a chill through people's hearts.

Sensing the tension of those around him, Zhang Tie switched his vision between Dark Vision and normal sight. Under normal sight, this ruin was like an ancient tomb of a city, truly exerting immense pressure on people. Yet under Dark Vision, all Zhang Tie saw was a bleak stretch of desolation.

Amid those vast expanses of toppled, broken high-rises, Zhang Tie could sense just how advanced human civilization had been before the Great Cataclysm.

Within Zhang Tie's field of vision, many of the collapsed buildings he saw had once been skyscrapers hundreds of meters tall. Where those buildings had snapped and fallen, Zhang Tie saw exposed steel rebars and huge, twisted steel frameworks. Those rebars and steel structures were like fishbones in a fish's body or the skeletons of monsters, especially terrifying to behold.

At least in the field of architecture, the heights humanity had reached before the Great Cataclysm were beyond anything modern humans could compare to. Zhang Tie compared the cities he had seen with the city before him and discovered