AWB Chapter 1306 Entering the Great Wilderness, the First Destination
Chapter 1306 Entering the Great Wilderness, the First Destination
"Boom!"
At the outermost edge of the City That Never Sleeps, the tall steel gate of the Truth Company outpost slowly opened, allowing the giant rock transport truck carrying Lin Yu and his group to pass.
Behind the gate is a long inspection and isolation passage, which is used to confirm that the documents and identities of the people on the vehicle are legal and that they are not hiding any unreported alchemical creations.
And after this inspection channel...
It is the Great Wilderness, a forbidden place that all residents of the City That Never Sleeps are terrified of and seems untouchable.
The car drove out of the exit, and Lin Yu looked at the scene in the wilderness again through the observation window.
Although I had seen the scene of the Great Wilderness before when I placed Punkto there, the perspective from the air and from the ground was slightly different.
Looking at the wilderness from the ground, Lin Yu felt that it was... flat and spacious beyond imagination.
As far as the eye can see, there are almost no ups and downs, only gray-yellow, endless sand.
There are no plants, no buildings, no mountains or rivers... Even if there were no artificial red metal stakes on both sides of the transport vehicle as road markers, Lin Yu would not be sure where the edge of the road was.
Only on the distant horizon there seemed to be some "topographic changes".
The Great Wilderness is truly... desolate.
Looking around, there are almost no ruins or relics to be seen.
of course……
Lin Yu, who had looked down at the Great Wilderness from a high altitude and learned the information from Lao Zheng in advance, knew that there were actually many areas in the Great Wilderness that were rich in alchemical materials. In addition to the various strongholds established by the City That Never Sleeps and the Great Wilderness tribes' own settlements, the Great Wilderness was not completely empty.
It's just that the overly large spatial scale has diluted those strongholds, and apart from those specific locations, there is really nothing in other parts, so the characteristic of "desolation" has been infinitely magnified.
Anyone who enters the Great Wilderness for the first time will be shocked by this.
Lin Yu is naturally no exception.
“It’s really a shocking sight.”
Lin Yu murmured.
Huo Ming of the Nevernight Sky whispered, "If you stay here for too long, you won't feel shocked anymore. You'll just feel it's barren, boring, and tiresome."
"No one likes the Great Wilderness. Even those born there mostly hate it. If you were born in the City That Never Sleeps, even the lowest-class people from the outer city, after living in the Great Wilderness for a while, you'll feel like you've lived like an aristocrat."
After hearing what Buyetian Huoming said, the other members of the Truth Company in the car did not say anything due to their strong professional qualities, but they obviously resonated with the emotion.
Each of them had been in the wilderness for a long time, and they did not feel any shock when seeing this desolate wilderness again, only numbness and helplessness.
Fu Luo said with a sigh.
"I'm sorry to bother you all, but because of us two, your precious vacation time in the city has ended early."
Dong Ming Shuliu smiled and said, "Not really. Although returning to work early is a bit frustrating, you two are carrying out a confidential project personally selected by the head of the family... If you do a good job, if you work a few days earlier today, you might even be promoted and transferred back to the company headquarters many years earlier in the future!"
Huo Ming of Buyetian also nodded: "Dong Ming is right. This is a great opportunity for us that we must seize..."
"Anyway, start the wide-area scan, Dongming. We need to reach our first destination as quickly as possible."
Although Lin Yu and Fu Luo nominally came to investigate the remains of the "Fear Project", because Yong Lian of Buyetian had collected the relevant information of the Fear Project so neatly, no one knew what the bases of this thing were and where they were.
Therefore, no matter where Huo Ming of Buyetian wants to escort Lin Yu, it basically means that it is wherever Lin Yu points.
And the destination Lin Yu chose...
Naturally, it was the several more likely destinations that he and Fu Luo deduced based on the direction that the Turbine Gang helped the two to smuggle out of the city.
After all... Gao Shan and Fu Luo went to the wasteland from the City That Never Sleeps to complete the [clearance mission].
Combining the previous behavior of collecting and trading old goods, and analyzing the tone of the "clearance task" set in the "Death Game", the conditions for the two people to pass the level are likely to be to collect certain specific materials, or place certain types of items in a specific place or hand them over to specific people.
A simple investigation revealed that the route Fu Luo and Gao Shan chose to sneak out of the city with the Turbine Gang that day was near the D-7 checkpoint in the City That Never Sleeps.
Because there is almost nothing outside the entire wilderness, even though the wilderness is vast, it is not difficult to guess the whereabouts of Fu Luo and Gao Shan.
The nearest possible destinations for leaving the city from there are two highly developed mining areas belonging to the Divine Power Group, a Wanyong Chamber of Commerce stronghold, a Divine Power Group stronghold, two villages and towns of the Great Wilderness people, and an abandoned primary processing plant for alchemical materials.
Among them, the mining area and stronghold of the Shenli Group and the stronghold of the Wanyong Chamber of Commerce are almost adjacent to each other - although the distance between them is still invisible in the vast scale of the Great Wilderness, they are indeed not far apart.
Therefore, their first stop was naturally the hill with a rare undulating terrain that Lin Yu and Fu Luo had chosen, which was close to the center point between the two mining areas.
Although Huo Ming of Buyetian did think about why the old base of the Truth Company project was on the territory of the Divine Power Group, but when he thought about it carefully, it was at least more than ten years ago after all, so it was not impossible that some changes had occurred.
And given my mother's personality, she might have deliberately placed that highly dangerous project base that might produce toxic and harmful emissions on the competitor's territory.
It would be best if it doesn't explode. Even if it does, the losses and adverse effects will cause competitors to suffer and get into trouble. Even if the project fails, there is at least a bottom line.
However... now that he is heading to the territory of the Divine Power Group again, Huo Ming of the Nevernight City has to be cautious.
"Director Arthur, our first destination isn't near the jurisdiction of the Truth Company, so we may need to slow down a bit and negotiate with the Divine Power Group... But even so, we expect to arrive at our destination within three hours."
Buyetian Huo Ming said this, and Lin Yu nodded.
"Three hours...it's already gone much faster than expected."
"After all, the Giant Rock Transporter is our highest-performing transporter... and Vice Minister Dongming is also the best driver among us, the one most familiar with the Great Wilderness."
Dongming Shuliu laughed. "That's why I have to drive from time to time even though I'm the deputy minister... But the minister is right. I know the Great Wilderness very well, at least the areas that have been explored so far."
"The Minister's estimate of three hours is conservative. I'll be irresponsible and say that we'll probably only need two and a half hours—assuming nothing unexpected happens, of course."