“Looking at it like this, it really looks like just any other set of ruins.”

The residents had packed all of their belongings and were looking down toward Heaven Lake Village.

The village was left empty and bare as they had all decided to leave, so it looked no different from an abandoned ruin.

All that was left was a silence that set around the entire lake as if the beautiful Heaven Lake had embraced the ruins back to nature.

“How dead it looks!” a resident murmured.

However, even though they were all leaving their hometown, none of the residents cried. They comforted each other, encouraged each other, and shared the burden through their collective strength.

Although the journey itself may not be long, they still cheered themselves up as they thought about their new destination.

“Let’s all come back here,” a resident vowed.

They weren’t abandoning their hometown by choice, and so they swore to become stronger when they escaped to the outside, all so that they could return back to this place when everything had been stabilized.

Although their decision had been different from those in Beijing, who had formed a Chinese settlement, for better or worse, it was a choice that they had to have made out of their own free will.

"Let’s go, kids and old people. Please mount up first!" shouted Jeong In-Chang.

There were quite a few deer in front of them. They were the same mutated deer they had used to arrive on the mountain at first. Using Ungnyeo’s power, they...