Chapter 184
After they passed through the tunnel, the dense fog before them immediately thinned. There still seemed to be plenty of it, but visibility had already increased to a dozen meters or so.
Before they had gone much farther, however, Lin Yi noticed something wrong.
"Something's wrong!"
"Huh? What's wrong?"
Blind Cheng frowned as he asked. He couldn't see what was happening outside, but he trusted Lin Yi's instincts.
Bai Le, meanwhile, stared fixedly at the Person-Name Compass in his hand, nervous and excited.
"There are... too few cars!"
Lin Yi slowly explained, "We've passed plenty of abandoned vehicles along the roadside on the way here. But now? Look outside. There was only one abandoned vehicle in the tunnel, and now that we're almost at the toll station, there isn't a single one!"
Blind Cheng: ???
I'm blind. I can't see a damn thing.
Are you fucking messing with me?
Lin Yi realized his mistake and slowly explained, "Anyway, there aren't many cars outside right now."
"Could someone have driven them away?"
Blind Cheng asked, his face darkening.
"These days, anyone who can stick together will do so. With so many Mist Slaves in the fog, do you think it's safe for everyone to drive their own car?"
Lin Yi continued unhurriedly, "Even if people did drive them away, wouldn't that mean far too many people had fled Cool City?"
"Isn't having more people a good thing?"
As soon as Blind Cheng asked that, he realized the problem.
More people... wasn't a good thing!
In fact, it wasn't good news at all.
The situation in Gansu Province was already clear. In an environment crawling with Tier Three Aberration creatures, having more people could only mean more deaths.
Their destination was Cool City. Either not a single person there had