Wilderness
The speeding off-road vehicle drove into the pitch-black road. The gaunt figure behind the wheel glanced at the lit camp ahead and parked in a broad lot.
The night gradually faded, while intense darkness shrouded the sky, like the final blackness before dawn.
Click—
The door of a tin shack beside the parking lot was pushed open. A simply dressed man in casual clothes stretched, then ambled over and leaned against the car window.
He looked up at the gaunt figure, then at the woman in the passenger seat, who was slowly waking up while clutching a child, and smiled. "Yo, brought your wife along this time?"
"Planning to sell her in the city," the gaunt figure said. He pulled out a pack of cigarettes, handed one to the man, then put one in his own mouth. He lit the man's cigarette before lighting his own. "Fill up the liquid fuel cell for me. I'm leaving right away."
"In that much of a hurry?" The man took a drag, seeming to wake up a little more. He looked at the gaunt figure, then at the woman in the passenger seat. "Don't tell me you've got some super wanted criminal with you?"
"It was an urgent job. Anyway, I didn't see any wanted criminal." The gaunt figure shrugged and shifted aside so the man could get a clearer look at the woman. "If you think you see a super wanted criminal, remember to split the bounty with me."
"If I found one, I'd kill you first thing. Naturally, I'd take it all." The man smiled, cigarette in his mouth, and walked toward a sealed concrete building nearby.
"Where is this?" The woman, who had not dared to speak all this time, raised her head and asked softly.
"A small Wilderness