Melting City

To the end of the world. .o0o. Through his scope, he could clearly read the words on the billboard, despite its peeling colours and inverted position. ‘Let the Main City’s sunlight wake you every morning’. It was a real estate advertisement. It was anyone’s guess for how long the billboard had remained in this state since Lian Chuan first passed through this place, as if proving its slogan, “Let the Main City’s sunlight wake you up every morning”, to be merely a collapsing dream. The Main City no longer had the space or supplies to accommodate more people. .o0o. Lian Chuan woke up to the unchanging system greeting, commencing yet another mundane day as the most powerful “Hyena” of the Main City’s “cleanup squad”. He was tasked with ridding the Main City, now short of natural resources, of its “redundant” population. However, as the annual “Festival Day” of the Main City approaches, the unvarying life takes a turn. Beneath the city’s unusual projects, are there hidden schemes? What secrets do the wild and unconstrained Travellers hold? Meanwhile, the “Bats” residing on the Black Iron Plains beyond the Main City watch them covetously from the sides like a tiger eyeing its prey…