Zhou Zhao successfully evaded all the Law Enforcers and arrived at Rust Zone L2 before the appointed time.
As soon as he stepped into L2, he felt many wary eyes sizing him up. The residents here were as thin as iron rods, their emaciated skin filthy and matted with dirt, their hair unkempt and brittle. Their gazes were either fixed and piercing or peering from some dark crevice.
People lived in cramped, crowded abandoned buildings, self-built structures haphazardly stacked together, appearing from afar like a haphazardly grown steel forest. The network of pipelines obscured the sky, and they had no steady source of water or food. Like woodpeckers in the ruins, they could only survive by scavenging, and if lucky, they might find something to eat in this forest.
This is the origin of the name 'Woodpecker's House'.
