Ahead.
A lone factory building stood in stark contrast to the deathly silent structures around it!
The windows of the building were tightly covered with heavy, dark cloths or panels, blocking out almost all light.
But from under the factory's main door and through the cracks of a few windows, an abnormally bright, even dazzling, incandescent light shone out.
Moreover, the ground around the factory was exceptionally clean, with no clutter piled up, as if a buffer zone had been deliberately cleared.
And outside the factory's tightly shut metal doors, two figures stood conspicuously.
They wore dark work clothes, but their posture was anything but relaxed like that of an ordinary night-shift worker.
Both were holding something. In the residual light from a distant streetlamp, the rough, tubular metal outlines were faintly visible.
One of them would occasionally look up, warily scanning the surrounding darkness.
"Stop!"
