The blood-red sky illuminated the radiation clouds to the west. From afar, it looked like the entire sky was on fire. There was a stretch of wilderness far below, with no city silhouettes to be seen. Only a few abandoned high-voltage towers stood sloppily on the horizon, as if they were about to fall out of this era.

The scorching wind came rolling in from the distance, ruffling all his black hair. He was standing on the rooftop of a four-story abandoned building, his thick, ...