"Lots of vagrants were staying here temporarily. Their homes were taken over by Fragmentum monsters."
Seeing March 7th's surprise at the Mechanical Settlement, Seele offered a brief explanation.
"Don't they think it's dangerous to camp right under Svarog's nose?" March 7th asked in confusion.
"No." Seele shook her head. "Svarog might be domineering, but he never attacks humans without reason. For people with nowhere to go, this place is actually safe.
"Heh... if I hadn't moved away early, I might be one of them now."
While they spoke, Dan Heng studied the Mechanical Settlement, while Jiang Yu crouched beside a mound of snow.
Jiang Yu stuck his fingers into the mound. The cold felt real. Then he scooped up a handful of snow and examined it closely. It seemed no different from ordinary frost.
So how exactly did this snow get underground? If the Stellaron's influence had permeated every part of this planet, why wasn't there any in Boulder Town or Rivet Town? Was it because there was more moisture here? But this place was full of robots. Even counting the vagrants, their demand for water was nowhere near that of the towns...
Puzzled by this, Jiang Yu turned to his companions. On further thought, he felt they probably didn't know what caused this phenomenon either.
"In a sense, this counts as an unusual sight. I'll take a picture and send a copy to Uncle Yang and Asta."
He acted on the thought immediately, taking out his phone to snap a photo.
For the Stellar Jade giveaway he had thought up earlier, the system had filtered out the pictures people had snapped carelessly just to claim their rewards quickly, then sent the better-looking photos to Jiang Yu's phone. Jiang Yu had saved those photos and sent them to Asta as