Chapter 25 Wilderness
The night was deep and the people were still, the moonlight was faint and the stars scarce. The lights in the city began to dim, and the night fell like thick ink over the entire land.
Beyond the city, there was no sign of human life, silent as death, and only a few small animals traversed the vast wilderness and jungles.
This was the Wilderness, a place civilization could not cover, a "blank zone" located between human cities.
Blank it was not because it did not exist, but because it was off-limits, deliberately left unexplored. No one knew how long they could survive after entering the Wilderness because almost no one ever returned alive.