In 2187, the rainy season in New Sakura City came more lingeringly than in previous years. The sticky moisture envelops the broken neon light, blurring out ambiguous light spots on the rusted pipes in the abandoned industrial area, like tears that this city can never wipe clean. Feng Dixiu leaned against a load-bearing pillar half a man thick. The low-quality cigarette held between his fingertips burned to the end. It was so hot that his fingertips were numb before he suddenly came to his senses and flicked it into the puddle with rainwater at his feet. There was a soft "Zhi" sound, and the moment the sparks went out, the portable terminal on the wrist suddenly emitted a rapid beep. The light blue holographic screen shook in the rain and fog, and a string of garbled codes jumped out - not the chaos of system errors, but the data fluctuations with some regularity, as if struggling to breathe.
He frowned, raised his hand and pressed the terminal against his temple. The cold metal touch came through the thin skin, instantly suppressing the throbbing pain in his temples. This is his third month as a "Night Watcher". Ever since the earth-shattering core battle in the Fantasy Sakura Realm, the name Feng Dixiu has become taboo in the new Sakura City. According to the official report, he was an accomplice who assisted Lin Xuanche in creating chaos, but at the last moment he "repented for his crime" and sealed the villain; in the mouths of the survivors of the Reverberation Organization, he was a hero who saved tens of millions of consciousnesses; but in the eyes of ordinary people, he was just a ghost living in urban legends - after all, a person who was wanted across the world but could disappear from the surveillance network was mysterious enough in itself.
