Chapter 284: A Price For Everything
If you really thought that I was dumb enough to actually grant a wish in front of an entire lineup of desperate humans, then you really didn’t know me as well as you thought you did.
I watched the illusion of the family of five walking away past everyone as those in the line stared at them. More than half of the people around me simply stared at them, a look of fear on their faces as if they were looking at a future version of themselves.
"They were probably duds," whispered the woman behind me. I really wanted to turn around and tell her that we had different ideas of what a ’whisper’ actually was, but she was back to looking at the woman beside her. "I heard that only those who could contribute to the sanctuary would be let inside."
"It’s either that or they were rude to the guard," whispered the other woman back. "I hear that the head guard is here today going through the line; that means we can’t bribe our way in either."
I raised an eyebrow but didn’t join in the conversation. Instead, I took a look around the outside of New Dawn Sanctuary with new eyes. Where we stood was completely empty. There was no place to hide and no way to sneak off without alerting suspicion.
And I suppose that anyone who had made it here wouldn’t all of a sudden run away without some type of guilty conscious. Plus, it would make it really easy for those in the towers to put a bullet in their brain without obstacles in their way.
Since I was about halfway to the gates, it was hard for me to actually see what they looked like, but I could only assume that they were similar to the walls.
The walls were probably over 20 feet tall with a mixture of earth and metal making the structure itself. From there, even I could see the thorns and spikes of the plants growing on the outside. Those things had to be more than a foot long and about the circumference of my fist for me to be able to see them so easily.
Climbing the wall was definitely not an option if you wanted to get inside.