Chapter 260: The Wasteland Now
The Great Heath of Harlet, the name given to the Ich, had the unique name of Suranseen before the arrival of outsiders.
This is the name of the Seymour people, which means "pool of light".
As for what light there was in a wasteland, the Seymour people's explanation was that they found the belief in light in the holy mountain....... but Rorschach always felt that this name was the result of the Seymour ancestors being blind all the way, and then thunderstorming and blinding on the holy mountain.
"Living in the dark for a long time, I was flashed by a thunderstorm, and I guess I can only see the light. ”
The Great Wasteland is surrounded by mountains, and theoretically there are many entrances and exits, but due to the ubiquitous fog and danger in the hellish place of Ansolen, it is still the three or five old exits that can really be used, among which the largest flow of people is the permanent exit of the West.
The Eternal Hope Fortress, formerly known as the town of Eternal Hope, is located at the western exit of the Great Harait Heath, which now handles more than sixty percent of the entire Heath.
It is Harleyth's oldest exit from the wasteland, the first garrison of the Ash in that period, and today it is a half-military, half-civilian fortified city.
With a resident population of more than 200,000 and a floating population of more than 300,000, the checkpoints protected by high walls are guarded by elite warbands from major churches and businessmen who wander wildly for profit.
Leaving aside the discussion of the strategic role, economic effect, and political status of the Eternal Fortress for the time being, its successive chief executives have all been at the level of vice chairman of the board of directors of New Tonia City, and it can be said that Eternal Hope City and New Tonia City are basically two brands and one team, and the administrative level is still equal, which is very revealing.
Traveling northeast through the Eonwang Fortress and following a network of four railway lines, you can see dozens of post stations and two small military forts (garrisoned by warbands) along the way, and it will take about two days' drive/twenty to thirty days of overland travel to reach Neotonia.
Generally speaking, when a merchant arrives in the new core city of the wasteland, he is ready to return.
More than eighty percent of the traveling merchants will stop here, they unload here, all the clearance is full of specialties (lightning strikes are the most popular), a round trip, can get more than 200% of the profit....... provided they are not the unlucky ones who die on the road, according to statistics, every year thousands of merchants do not reach the agreed destination, and do not even know that they disappeared on the long road.
If we start from Neotonia City and continue eastward, the main railway roads will become loose and scattered, and the network of railways spread out like forks, connecting countless mining areas and mining towns.
It is not only the blood and blood of New Tonia and the Ashites, but also the "internal organs" of this wasteland—extremely fragile but vital to life.
A few of the mostly freight-based rail networks are perpetually overloaded....... and even then, they are nowhere near as profitable as freight in the remote areas, where what is buried beneath the wasteland is more precious than gold.
But these routes that do not make money or even faintly lose money have always been firmly in the hands of the Eagle Crown and the Glorious Scroll, and they are not even willing to give up even a little share....... which is the main route to Corner City, and it is an important lifeline that will be frantically fought for at a loss.
The Eternal Hope Fortress is in the westernmost part of the wasteland, the New Tonia City is in the northeast of the Eternal Hope Fortress, and the Horn City is to the southeast of the New Winteria City, forming an extremely inclined triangle on all sides.
Within the scope of this triangle, more than ninety percent of the population of the Great Wilderness is gathered, which is the life area of this Wilderness.
And in the wasteland, there is another triangle, and even in the eyes of most people, it is much more important than the previous "triangle of life".
The two fulcrums of the triangle are still the New Tonia City and the Corner City, and the third fulcrum is also the place that the Seymour people are most familiar with - the Holy Mountain.
The Holy Mountain, northeast of New Winteria City, and northwest of Horn City, the area under the triangular circle they formed is known as the Golden Triangle....... which is the richest area of the Great Wilderness Plains.
Despite its incredible potential, there are only a few sparse railway routes, and there are no garrisons along the way, so there are high dangers and high rewards, and the wastelanders will not be able to eat this golden triangle until they digest the great triangle of life.
With the extension of the no-man's land, the upper part of the triangle has been swallowed into the no-man's land where the thunderclouds will live forever, and even so, the remaining 5% of the population of the Great Wasteland still stays here.
Hundreds of thousands of people, scattered on the periphery, tens of thousands, wanderers who never stop.
Few people know that the edges of no man's land are actually not fixed, they will fluctuate with the coming and going of the elemental tides and thunder seasons, and the treasure of natural lightning strike stones is often born at the moment when lightning strikes through the precious magic ore.
That kind of semi-finished natural lightning strike stone, if it is not processed in time, there is a high chance that it will lose the lightning element, become defective, and even return to ordinary magic ore.
As a result, there is a living space for these wanderers.
They are like shell pickers chasing waves, taking advantage of the receding season, leading their families to migrate, frantically collecting everything in front of them, and then before the waves rise, they quickly flee....... what will happen to the slow, greedy, and unlucky, needless to say.
And across the territory of these wanderers, normal ordinary people on land will not be able to walk. If it is a route, you can fly from the clouds to this no-man's land, and arrive at a fulcrum behind the Iron Triangle, the northernmost part of the Great Wilderness People's Area - Shengshan Airport.
In five years, the wasteland has changed beyond recognition, but today, the Holy Mountain Airport facing no man's land is the starting point of everything.
Rorschach, who had just come off the air plane, was always lamented by the great changes that had changed here even though he had been frequenting the port area.