Chapter 26: The Dusk of a Person’s Life

In the east of South Phoenix, it was already summer. Rainfall increased, and temperatures rose. It was late in the morning and class was over. As Xu Qing walked out of Grandmaster Bai’s tent, he looked up at the deep blue sky, squinted at the sun, and murmured, “It’s the fifth month.” It was hard to believe, but he had been in the scavenger basecamp for two months already. When he thought back to the blood rain and the city ruins, and everything he’d experienced there, it seemed...