"Rumble!"
At the outermost edge of the City That Never Sleeps, the towering steel gates of the Truth Company outpost slowly opened, allowing the Giant Rock Transport Vehicle carrying Lin Yu and the others to pass through.
Beyond the gates was a long inspection and quarantine passage, used to verify that the passengers' documents and identities were legitimate and that no undeclared Alchemical Creations were hidden aboard the vehicle.
And beyond this inspection passage...
lay the Great Wilderness, a forbidden place that all residents of the City That Never Sleeps spoke of with fear, as though it could not be touched.
As the vehicle exited, Lin Yu looked once more at the scenery of the Great Wilderness through the observation window.
Although he had seen the Great Wilderness before when he placed Pankto there, the view from the air was still somewhat different from the view from the ground.
Looking at the Great Wilderness from the ground, Lin Yu's first impression was... that it was unimaginably flat and empty.
As far as the eye could see, there was almost no variation in terrain—only grayish-yellow sand stretching endlessly into the distance.
There were no plants, no buildings, no mountains or rivers... In fact, if not for the red metal stakes driven into the ground on both sides of the transport vehicle as markers, Lin Yu would not even have been sure where the boundaries of the road lay.
Only on the distant horizon did there seem to be some kind of "change in terrain."
The Great Wilderness truly lived up to its name... desolate.
Looking out across it, he could barely even see any ruins or relics.
Of course...
Lin Yu had viewed the Great Wilderness from high above and had learned the relevant information from Old Zheng beforehand, so he