Volume 2

70 Empty City

“What should we do now, then? We still have no clue about the situation in Western District.” I turned towards Nie Zun and asked.

Nie Zun was looking ahead, but the expression in his eyes seemed to have drifted even further.

“Does any of you feel like our surroundings have changed?” Nie Zun muttered suddenly.

I looked around but… All around us was still the same boundary forest of Western District. Apart from the battle earlier, there was nothing different about it that I could pinpoint.

Nie Zun exhaled a soft sigh, “Let's carry on forward then.”

His tone seemed to suggest that we had arrived at an unfamiliar place, as opposed to the Western District where we resided in. I complained inwardly. Sigh… The atmosphere had grown so tense, and those two weirdos from before did nothing to help it.

After a little more than an hour, the group of us finally got through the boundary forest.

The thought of Western District being on the other side of those line of trees in front of us left me worrying about the look of fear or contempt I may face in my resident’s...