"We made it out alive! Wuhu."
The audience that rushed out of the central venue looked around the desolate Imperial City, somewhat bewildered. The cheers from a few girls shattered the surrounding silence as they hugged and cried together in joy, affecting the people around them.
But after a brief moment of joy, people started to look around at each other warily. Their previous experiences had left them with lingering psychological shadows, making them feel as if the person next to them could turn into a terrifying infected at any second.
After learning that all the citizens of Imperial City had evacuated, tens of thousands of people found cars or rode shared bicycles and quickly dispersed.
A young man, seeing the crowd gradually disperse, anxiously tugged on the middle-aged man behind him: "Editor Ding, we should hurry as well."
