Chapter 190: We Outsiders

"Have we traveled to a quite formidable nation?" Ash plastered himself against the floor-to-ceiling glass, looking down at the City of Eternal Night below. A dim white jade disk hung in the night sky, strongly proving that they had lost their chance to participate in the live-action adventure trial known as the Blood Moon Judgement.

Tall buildings rose high, neon lights hung in the air, and the automated vehicles on the roads—please forgive Ash's limited sci-fi vocabulary—were like a tightly programmed collective, maintaining a consistent distance from one another; their speeds were almost uniform, and whenever a car turned off the main road creating a gap, another would quickly take its place. There were no traffic lights or crosswalks; the automated vehicles seemed to possess superior self-management capabilities.