"Boom-tsk... boom-tsk..."

Inside the RV, Lin Hui sat in the driver's seat, his fingers lightly tapping the steering wheel in time with the music.

Through the huge pane of bulletproof glass, the magnificent city ahead—Fu City, once home to tens of millions—now looked like a dead steel behemoth crouched silently beneath the gray sky.

Ruined skyscrapers pierced the clouds, their outer walls peeled away, exposing rust-stained frameworks of steel rebars.