"Eat up all the food we provide, waste not a single bit; live in the house we provide well, don't damage it; and do not go outside, especially not into the forest."
"These are the rules of our Yangshan Town, the three of you."
Mayor Kong resumed his previous kindly demeanor and asked, "There shouldn't be any objections, right?"
"There are!"
Yun You suddenly lifted her head, staring intensely at the old man's eyes, her gaze sharp as a knife from behind the gas mask, startling the old man.
"I can understand the rules about eating and housing, but it's particularly the rule about 'going' that I don't quite understand."
She pointed to the forest shrouded in shadow and silence outside the town and asked hauntingly, "Why can't we leave the town, and even more so the forest?"
"Is there something dangerous there?"
"..."
Silence, as expected.
