What Chu Guang really wanted to know was something else. Had the Enlightenment Society actively interfered or even accelerated that process?2

From his observations, most survivor settlements held a neutral attitude toward shelter residents.0

Ordinary wastelanders neither worshipped nor hated the blue coats. They didn’t care who abandoned whom two centuries ago, or who owed whose ancestors. They barely remembered the Prosperity Era or the Federation Era. They just wanted to live their lives.0

In fact, the people from Xiaoyu’s settlement had pitied him, even shared what little food they had, and taught him which scraps could be traded with merchants.0

Putting aside shelters that had been targeted by marauders, most shelters under normal circumstances simply needed to maintain basic vigilance, limited contact, and above-neutral cooperation with surrounding survivors to eventually develop into something like Camp 101. Truly extreme cases like them were actually quite rare.0

Chu Guang leaned toward believing that the people of the Enlightenment Society...0