"I moved in later, too. I heard that one night at the end of last year, there was a major leak at the chemical plant here, and all those people were killed by the toxic gas."

Xia Chujian frowned. "Ah?! Suffocated to death by poison gas?! Where is that chemical plant? Didn't the boss pay for it?"

Seeing her cute appearance, the woman patted her face and said, "What are you dreaming about? Our Guiyuan Planet is a farming planet. Where have you ever heard of a chemical plant on Guiyuan? And a toxic gas leak? These people are blatantly lying in the media, and they only fool us ordinary people and those poor humanoids."

"Isn't it a toxic gas leak from the chemical plant?! Then how did they die?!" Xia Chujian widened his eyes and didn't mind being "taken advantage of" by this woman.

The woman suddenly didn't want to talk anymore. She curled her lips, twisted her bony waist and said, "I'm really bored. I didn't make a penny today, and I even lost a bottle of low-grade nutrient solution! - Go away! Don't interfere with my business!"

Xia Chujian and Quan Yuxun had just pretended to be poor, and now they were too embarrassed to take out money to buy information, so they had to bow to the woman together, then turned around quickly and walked deep into the alley with heavy steps.

The deeper you go into the alley, the fewer people there are. Even thick-skinned humans are not seen in this place.

Occasionally, a rat as big as a dog would whiz by, dragging a cat that had been bitten to death.

Xia Chujian subconsciously raised his gun to shoot.

Quan Yuxun took her hand, glanced at her, and said softly, "Don't be afraid, I'll take you away."

Xia Chujian: “…”

Who is scared?

She just wanted to shoot.

Of course, Quan Yuxun's intention was to stop her from shooting, not because he thought she would be scared.

Xia Chujian didn't agree with Quan Yuxun's way of speaking, but she didn't dare to mock him either.

She didn't insist anymore, and with a sullen face, she let Quan Yuxun pull her sleeve and walked forward step by step.

Xia Chujian looked around and saw that there was no one around. He asked quietly, "Chief Quan..."

"Call me Dad."

"You're taking advantage of me!"

"Call me Dad."

"What's wrong?"

"Don't waste time."

Xia Chujian: "...Dad, do you have to be so cautious? There are no surveillance cameras here."

She lived here until she was six years old and was told from a young age that the crime rate in the South District was high because there was no surveillance and it was a paradise for criminals.

Quan Yuxun said calmly, "Even without surveillance, there are still people like us."

"...You mean, besides us, there are other people coming here?" Xia Chujian immediately collected his thoughts and didn't even glance around.

Quan Yuxun didn't say anything else.

The two of them kept walking with their heads down until they reached the left turn and then they breathed a sigh of relief.

Quan Yuxun said, "Don't pretend to be so poor this time."

Xia Chujian smiled awkwardly.

The alley that turned left was even narrower and cramped. Between the haphazardly built houses, there was only a bluestone road that was only wide enough for two people to walk side by side.

The road was covered with moss and melted snow, making it very slippery.

If Xia Chujian hadn't warned him, Quan Yuxun would have fallen several times.

"What a crappy road!" Quan Yuxun, who was well-mannered, couldn't help but complain at this time.

Xia Chujian felt that this was quite consistent with his character, and agreed aloud, "That's right! Is there really no one here?"

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw an old lady in dark gray clothes walking out of the dark shed with a hunched back.

She was so old that her waist was almost bent at a ninety degree angle.

Her hair was completely white, wrapped in a headscarf full of holes.

His face was wrinkled like a persimmon, and there must be no teeth in his mouth, as his entire mouth was sunken.

She dragged a bamboo chair and staggered to sit down at the door.

Above her head was a tattered neon sign that read "Terminus House Hotel."

The colors of the light board have faded a lot. Under the bleak sunlight, those colorful lights look like a beauty whose beauty has faded, leaving only silent embarrassment and endless regret.

The old lady looked up at them, her toothless mouth opening and closing. "Are you two from out of town?"

Quan Yuxun said hurriedly, "Yes, we came from Luoxu Prefecture to stay with our relatives. My brother lives in Wuyou Lane, 404 District, not far ahead."

The old lady squinted her eyes at them and said, "That place? When did you move here?"

"...I've been here for seven or eight years. He's always asked me to come and live with him, but I didn't come because I thought it was too much trouble. Recently, I couldn't live in Luoxuzhou any longer, so I wanted to come and live with him."

"That's unfortunate. You'd better leave. There are no people or humanoids in that place. There are only some monsters. Once you go there, you can't come back..." The old lady took out a bottle of wine from her dark gray cotton-padded jacket, opened the cork, and drank from it.