The whole of Louen was like a ghost town; living beings still existed, but it felt dead.
The group traveled through the central avenue of the city and bumped into a few pedestrians who saw them but avoided them like the plague. Lily forcibly stopped a couple of the passersby, who appeared afraid and hostile. They could not talk coherently, so Lily was unable to extract any valuable information from the people. As such, she had no choice but to let them go.
Most of the houses along the streets were inhabited. But irrespective of Calaxus and Hao Ren who went up to knock on the doors, the gloomy and wary people in the houses would invariably refuse to open the door, let alone telling the strangers what had happened here. When Calaxus offered to help them, those people viciously curse and drove him away. A sense of hostility and anger that came out of nowhere shrouded the city.
