Countless crimson flowers bloomed across the grassland, painting the vast expanse in vivid red, like the mythical "Other Shore." But this "Other Shore" was no Heaven.
The growth of such magical plants required an immense amount of water.
The grassland was withering at a staggering pace, changing appearance day by day.
Massive swathes of the original vegetation were completely drained dry, revealing barren, yellow soil.
The air temperature continued to rise, climbing to 40 degrees Celsius in just a few days, hot enough to feel like a furnace.
This strange mutation made everyone profoundly uneasy.
On the fifteenth day, a colossal mirage suddenly appeared in the sky!
"Look quickly!"
On the boundless desert and the hard alkali crust, the heavens bore no bird, the earth carried no beast, the vast emptiness stretched for miles, desolate and full of scars. A crumbling city wall, reduced to broken fragments of ruins, came into view.
