Sitting in the driver's seat, the driver yawned as he saw that Shanhai City was almost there.
"We've finally arrived..."
The driver stretched and scratched the hair on his arm. "Hey, Xiao Chen, wake up, we're at..."
Before he could finish speaking, the man suddenly felt something cold pressed against his temple.
Lin Nai appeared in the passenger seat at some point and pressed his head against the wall with his Soul Chaser.
The driver froze for a moment, then slowly turned his head and saw Lin Nai.
Linnai struck him on the neck with the butt of his gun, knocking him unconscious.
......
Soon, Ye Wan'er boarded the bus.
The two changed their clothes and appearances, transforming into the driver and his assistant, Xiao Chen.
The transport vehicle slowly started moving and soon arrived at the city gate of Shanhai City.
"Pass!"
"A soldier said coldly."
Linna took out the pass she had just found on the driver and showed it to the soldier through the window.
After a brief check, the soldier waved his hand, signaling Linna to pass.
Lin Nai drove smoothly into the city, thinking to himself, "This kind of inspection method is really retro..."
Previously, when checking people entering the city, it was simply a matter of scanning their iris and verifying their system ID.
But now...
Lin Nai had assumed that the system would be able to receive the signal after arriving in Shanhai City.
But he found that it wasn't true.
Not only was Linnai's system out of signal, but he had also tried hacking into the personal systems of the soldiers who were checking at the city gate.
But Linnai discovered that all of these people's systems were in a shutdown state!
Even they don't have internet at all!
Linnaeus did not find any modern technological equipment around the entire city gate.
There were no surveillance cameras, no electronic scanners, no card readers, and no facial recognition equipment...
No wonder they still need to use this retro method of using passes for inspection!
Lin Nai thought to herself, "Is this a joke? How can we live without the internet in this day and age?"
Could it be that in cities, all the people live like ancient people without the internet?
At night, I sat in the passenger seat, closing my eyes and meditating to heal my wounds.
The girl was constantly using her magic to heal herself in preparation for the battle that might come next.
Linnaeus drove into the city.
The interior of the city looks much the same as before.
Bustling commercial streets, towering skyscrapers, and crisscrossing overpasses...
People in the city seemed perfectly normal. Commuters hurried to work, checking their time as they rushed to catch the subway; students carried their backpacks to school; and fruit vendors on the roadside blared their wares through loudspeakers...
Lin Nai parked the car outside a food street and looked at the city scene, feeling somewhat dazed.
This place is...so peaceful?
Listening to the peaceful sounds in the city, Lin Nai couldn't help but have a strange feeling.
It's as if nothing ever happened...
The scene outside the city, with its endless purple sand, barren land, and ruins everywhere, was like two completely different worlds compared to the scene inside the city.
The sense of disconnect is just too strong.
Lin Nai frowned, remained silent for a while, and then said, "Wan'er, I shouldn't be dreaming, right?"
Nightfall paused, then asked, "Huh?"
Linna said, "I mean, we fell into an interdimensional rift, there was a monster invasion, Ye City and that vast wasteland outside, the destruction of countless cities... Could it all be a dream?"
And now, have we woken up from the dream? Was everything before just a nightmare?
Nightfall understood what he meant and said, "Yes, we've been through this together. I can vouch for you. You weren't dreaming; it was all real."
“…” Lin Nai let out a heavy sigh.
He had to find out exactly what was going on.
......
Several hours later.
Linnaeus saw that people in the city were starting to rush home.
The vendors on the food street also hurriedly packed up their stalls.
And the sky gradually darkened...
Linna looked up at the sky. The sun above was being slowly covered by a black sphere, as if it were being eclipsed. At this rate, it should be completely covered soon.
He glanced at the time on his wristwatch again.
It seemed that it got dark later inside the city than in the wilderness outside the city.
However, it wasn't much later; at just over four o'clock, the sky was already almost the same as it was at six o'clock.
The hurried people in the city seemed to be afraid of the dark as well, each of them rushing home.
"Hello!"
At that moment, a man dressed in a Night Watch uniform came to Linnaeus's car and knocked on the door.
Lin Nai rolled down the car window, revealing himself to be a forty-year-old man with a thick beard. He smiled and asked, "Is there something you need?"
He noticed that although the man was wearing a Night's Watch uniform, the insignia on his chest was not the Night's Watch insignia, but the same round purple floral insignia that Meng Feifei and his group of soldiers had worn before.
The night watchman said earnestly, "It's getting dark soon, it's not safe to stay outside, please go home immediately."
It's not safe to be out at night...
Lin Nai pondered for a moment. He didn't foolishly ask, "Why is it not safe to be outside at night?" That would be too suspicious.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I just fell asleep."
Lin Nai smiled apologetically: "It was so tiring transporting goods outside that I fell asleep as soon as I parked the truck on the side of the road. Thank you so much for waking me up, brother."
“Oh, you’re welcome,” the night watchman said, glancing at the time on his wristwatch. “Please hurry back; night is about to fall.”
"Okay." Lin Nai smiled again, rolled up the car window, and then started the car with a "rumble".
It seems something always happens in the city at night...
At night, the child sat beside her and asked, "What should we do? We have nowhere to go, and people might become suspicious if we stay outside."
“That’s easy.” Lin Nai shrugged nonchalantly and pointed with her chin to a building not far away: “Look.”
It was a budget hotel.
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