"I think I know where we are!"
Dawnlight's words immediately made Yu Yuan realize that things might be more complicated than they seemed.
"Where?" Yu Yuan asked calmly.
Dawnlight looked at the footage of the outside again.
"If I'm not mistaken, this should be—the Rational Wilderness."
The Rational Wilderness?
Yu Yuan's heartbeat suddenly quickened.
He was all too familiar with the Rational Wilderness.
It was a transit point between the Civilization Ladder and the New World, as well as the Civilization Ladder's most reliable source of aether.
Here, the overt and covert struggles between the various gold factions had never ceased.
But how had they ended up here?
Yu Yuan soon understood.
Of course.
I should have thought of it sooner.
That mythic-grade biological structure clearly exceeded the Civilization Ladder's limits. What kind of world could contain a structure of that level?
The Rational Wilderness seemed to be the only plausible answer.
Dawnlight looked at Yu Yuan with a serious expression.
"Since this is the Rational Wilderness, there are a few things we absolutely must keep in mind..."
"First, we must never approach the central region of the Rational Wilderness. That's where the entrances and exits to the Civilization Ladder and the New World are, and it's currently the most dangerous place here. As the Civilization Ladder's blockade of the New World breaks down, the spatial passages there have become unstable. Anyone who gets close could be swept into a spatial rift. It's extremely dangerous."
"Also, there are three areas in the Rational Wilderness where aether may appear. Those are also where the fighting between factions is fiercest. Our only objective this time is to find that biological structure. It isn't time for us to get involved in a faction war yet."
"Finally..."
"There's one thing we must be especially