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Rumbling thunders echoed across the sky.
Dark clouds loomed overhead, almost reaching the highest watchtower at the top of Xinmeng Town.
The cold wind grew stronger, making the signboards and banners of the shops in the town flap loudly.
Li Chengyi left the Wang Family and walked towards the direction of the town's bookstore.
Along the way, he could see some elderly farmers with thin clothes, spreading out vegetables on the roadside with a piece of tattered cloth, shouting to sell them.
Skinny lads and errand boys, carrying heavy burdens, hurried back and forth with baskets after baskets, supplying goods to the shops everywhere.
The weather turned colder, and there were also children playing a game similar to sandbag tossing in the alleyways.
On the gray and black streets, Li Chengyi could see at a glance that those who were well-built were from wealthy families.
This place, unlike Earth-Moon, had lagged productivity, making the lives of common people even harder.
