In a building located in the southern half of Haicheng's ruins, over a thousand human survivors were living.
The building itself had once been a massive supermarket called Joy City. It still contained all sorts of leftover tools, and even canned food from centuries ago. Some of it somehow wouldn't kill you if you ate it, making the place a rather decent shelter.
Even more encouragingly, there were several bookstores here. To human survivors in the darkness, the books held extraordinary significance, whether as fuel or sacred vessels for preserving knowledge.
However, for the human survivors of this dark world, no matter how tempting the surviving buildings aboveground were or how many urgently needed supplies they contained, these were not places they dared to enter.
Those terrifying evil ghosts prowled everywhere, and giant structures in urban ruins were practically their favorite haunts.
Countless human survivors who had secretly slipped out of their hiding places to search for supplies had been ruthlessly hunted down by those evil ghosts, ultimately becoming part of them.
But now, this building had become the safest place in all of Haicheng's ruins, the territory of the Lin Clan, which had once held out in the library.
The Lin Clan, which had originally numbered only a few dozen people, had now gained the allegiance of dozens of other clans and become a massive tribal organization with over a thousand survivors.
There was only one reason this had happened: Grass, the Lin Clan's new clan leader, had obtained a legendary Demon-Slaying Staff capable of resisting the attacks of evil ghosts!
This was a weapon capable of directly killing evil ghosts. These survivors, who had lived their entire lives in the Dark Apocalypse, had never even heard of such a powerful weapon.
The mysterious person who had left behind