Chapter 39: Ashes After the Catastrophe (Seeking Recommendations, Seeking Collection)
For safety reasons, Chen Xin should have turned on the car lights to illuminate the path ahead, but considering that turning on the lights would also expose his presence, to avoid some unnecessary trouble, Chen Xin decided to drive in the dark without turning on the lights.
Fortunately, although it was very dark, there was still a sliver of twilight, allowing Chen Xin to see the road ahead clearly.
The place where Chen Xin lived was in the suburbs, called urban-rural areas in places like the Imperial Capital and Magic City, but the city where Chen Xin was located was just a small southern town, not as prosperous as the Imperial or Magic Cities. He lived in an area of desolate mountains and barren wilderness, with few human traces, only a few farm households living there, considered a small village.
Chen Xin also moved here from the city for the tranquility, to facilitate his writing.
Even though the place was remote, in recent years, due to the infrastructure boom in the Flame Country, a high-speed rail station was built nearby, and the roads in this area were well maintained. So Chen Xin did not worry about encountering obstacles on the road when driving towards the city.
The road to the city was wide open, not like those scenes in western post-apocalyptic movies with abandoned cars blocking the streets.
In fact, this was how the apocalypse should look because humans had known about the impending meteor impact three months in advance, and the government had evacuated over 80% of the population into shelters. In such circumstances, where would the abandoned cars that block the roads come from?
If there were indeed abandoned cars blocking the way, it could only mean someone had set up a barricade or a road trap.