A fierce wind whipped up, sweeping coarse sand over their parched faces, seemingly even more dehydrated than before, their cheeks sunken, revealing protruding cheekbones.
Yet their eyes grew ever more determined, harboring a hatred like a wildfire deep within.
For the past seven months, they had distanced themselves from the garbage dump, walking through the desert dragging along the statue and Blue Boy.
Despite the garbage dump's harsh living conditions, many survivors gathered there because there was food to be found.
After the garbage dump was destroyed, they had no choice but to live in the sand dunes, sometimes trekking for dozens of kilometers without seeing anything beyond the sand.
Countless amounts of various highly polluting waste completely destroyed the surrounding ecology, making only the garbage dump itself habitable, which is quite an ironic fact.
And even worse, they had to drag along an incredibly heavy statue.
