When the world lit up again.
"Someone left again," Xiao Qi had just completed a new round of personnel searches and sat dejectedly in the mountain valley, lamenting, "Everyone says no one cares about us anymore, no support, no supplies, as if we don't matter at all."
Since the Parents' Meeting began traveling far, they have been mostly cut off from the outside world.
Tens of thousands roamed the mountains like savages, hair disheveled, barefoot.
Before this, it was hard for them to believe that human soft soles could quickly adapt to the hard mountain roads and become resilient after leaving shoes behind.
But hardship is not frightening; what is most terrifying is the feeling of being abandoned.
The Phoenix City's Air Navy Fleet occasionally comes searching the mountains, increasingly frequently, yet the Qing's Family's air support is nowhere in sight, leaving them to die meaninglessly.
