Chapter 238: Raining (1/2)

Alex logged back into the game and walked out of the room.

As soon as he was in the hallway, he heard something. It was an ambient sound, like a static of a radio. ”Could it be?” his eyes went wide and he walked out.

Opening the door, the sound got much louder and he could hear each individual sound that collectively made the overall sound. Cold air with drops of water struck his face.

It was raining.

This was the first time he had seen rain in the game.

”Haha, it's actually raining,” he said with a smile. He looked out and saw many disciples in the rain, practically dancing, letting the rain hit their faces.

Alex was quite surprised, but he understood. 'They haven't seen rain in a long time as well, have they?' he thought.

He walked out into the rain and let it fall on him. He could easily create a layer of Qi to block it, but he didn't do so. He walked to the front of the ship and saw that his master was already there.

So were the two elders.

”Ah, you are here disciple Yu. Came to check the rain?” the Second Elder asked.

”I just came out because I thought I had enough rest,” he said as he looked around the deck. The various disciples were all happily walking around in the rain.

Fan Ruogang had Wan Li in her clutches and was walking around the rain with him. Even Zhou Mei was smiling a little after seeing the rain.

He then looked up at the sky and saw the clouds were looming for quite a long distance. There were even some lightning discharges in the rain.

”We… won't get hit by the lightning, right?” he asked.

”Don't worry, the ship has protection. It can divert lightning attacks around us with its barrier, similar to how air is diverted away,” Ma Rong said.

”But the rain still hits us?” he asked.

”That's because we can allow what to enter and whatnot,” Ma Rong said.

”I see,” he said. ”Anyway, this is my first time seeing rain since I joined the sect. I wouldn't have imagined the sect to be in such a place of drought,” he said.

”It's not really in a place of drought. There are springs of water deep underground. It's only that it never rains. Even when the sky gets cloudy, it immediately goes away,” Ma Rong said.

”Huh, Why?” Alex asked.

”No idea. It's never rained in Scarlet City for nearly hundreds of years. Thankfully, the weather doesn't get too hot, or we would be a desert right now,” Ma Rong said.

”Like the forbidden fields?” Alex asked.

”Yeah, like the forbidden fie—,” Ma Rong stopped. She remembered what was happening in the forbidden fields for the last few years. The land was getting deserted.

Alex realized what she was thinking. It was not far off in the future when the scarlet city would become a desert as well. And no one knew the reason why.