Chapter 42: Road trip.
[Time until Complete Dimensional Collapse: 13:12:56:54]
Mark wasn’t a stranger to spending days inside so it was only after they left the PK headquarters that it dawned on him they had been underground the entire time.
The autumn sky was a cloudless blue. Seeing it like this, one can hardly believe they were two weeks away from the end of the world.
’Not that the countdown matters that much...’
Mark felt it was pointless. After all, the monsters from the Underworld could cause it to decrease faster by ripping the Dimensional Border, and at the same time, the Peace Keepers would repair it, adding more time to the counter.
That made the whole thing seem like a tug of war that could end at any moment, with the countdown being nothing more than a representation of the time they have if no one were to attempt to speed up or slow down the process.
’Well, this is a little disappointing...’
Despite being a certified war machine, the truck Natalie gave them was a bit too quiet. Mark found the lack of engine sounds a bit underwhelming, even though he concluded that it was made this way to avoid attracting monsters.
After getting used to the vehicle there wasn’t much for him to do. On either side of the road, the entire landscape was nothing but the post-war wasteland with nothing but the red sand dyed with the blood that was spilled during the Great World War.
Nothing to see besides the occasional crater that has yet to be filled even after two decades.
Lara seemed to disagree as she kept looking outside the window this entire time, or so he hoped. Unfortunately, he was well aware of her foul mood and the reason behind it.