Coordinates? Compass?
The thoughts flashed through Xu Ye's mind. Before he could react, lightning flickered around him, and a second later, he was somewhere else.
"Ruins?"
As far as he could see, wilderness and abandoned roads stretched around them. Some signal towers were rusted, others toppled. Animal remains dotted the ground, some so enormous they seemed to have mutated.
"This is the Land of Errors."
He Li strode ahead of Xu Ye on her long legs.
Xu Ye looked up. They were about to enter a ruined town, long since deserted by humans.
The sky was dim, dawn having only just arrived. A streak of golden sunlight pierced the thin clouds in the distance and fell across the long-abandoned town.
Silence surrounded them.
"We're about a thousand kilometers from Night Spirit City. This stopped being human territory a long time ago. Various Great Fiends and Aberrants have carved it up among themselves," He Li explained.
Xu Ye was startled.
He knew how things stood on Planet Earth. Since the Heavenly Dao Distortion a century ago, humanity's living conditions had rapidly deteriorated. Only a small fraction of the continent remained suitable for human life.
Almost no one could venture deep into the remaining regions. No one knew just how dangerous the No-Man's Zone was.
And now he was standing in just such a region.
There was no nuclear radiation in the air, but something still felt off to Xu Ye.
Then he finally realized what it was-the spiritual qi here was distributed extremely unevenly. He could sense it one second, only for it to vanish the next. Or it might be dense a meter ahead, then abruptly thin out after just a few more steps.
"Is this a restricted zone?"
"No, I don't sense any distortion of the Heavenly Dao."
Xu