Taking advantage of when the sun's position was still high up in the sky, Shen Nianzu and Jin Jiuchi drove out of the city with the thin man—limbs bound and mouth sealed with tape, unconscious—in tow.
As the background scene of Sword of Heaven's last moments revealed a desolate wasteland, Shen Nianzu reckoned it couldn't have happened anywhere in the city center where most of the population was. It should have been an undeveloped piece of land, still untouched by human creation and technology.
Alas, going out to search just like this was just like a person groping around blindly in the dark. Not to mention, their time was very limited. A high-level Cycle's scope was as vast as a continent, with only a small fraction of it being developed as the current land territory. Even with a hover car, it was quite an impossible task to pinpoint the location they sought within two or three hours.
