Chapter 525: An Enemy
January 30, 2003.
Jinling City.
Tomorrow was New Year's Eve, and the day before, Jinling City was already steeped in a festive holiday atmosphere.
This atmosphere meant…
Every street and alley was utterly empty!
Even in usually crowded places like Xinjiekou in the city center, pedestrians were now a rare sight.
The city center roads, typically congested, were now so clear that drivers could speed freely.
The people who usually kept the city running—those in the service and construction industries, migrant workers, and students from other places—had all departed.
By this time, they had all returned to their hometowns, part of Jinling's annual Spring Festival travel rush.
During the New Year, Jinling City's population would decrease by at least half.
This phenomenon would only intensify twenty years later.
