Borderlands, which is not a specific region, but a general term.

It represents those areas that are not in the territory of the "World Government", have not been fully explored and controlled, and are synonymous with the unknown, mysterious, and dangerous.

The Dawn game's plot timeline spans a wide range of eras.

More than 100 years ago, an apocalyptic war of unprecedented scale swept the world, and because historical data was disconnected, no one knew the cause of that war, not even who the two sides were.

The only thing that posterity knows is that the war destroyed the civilization of mankind and reduced the population to one-fifth of its original size.

Later, the history was divided into the "Old Era" before the war and the "Dawning Era" after the war, when civilization began to be rebuilt.

The time in which Sumo is now is in the 152nd year after the re-establishment of civilization, that is, the 152nd year of the dawn.

In the Dawn Age, the emerging human beings established a "world government" and re-established a splendid civilization, with tall buildings rising from the ground one after another.

But at present, the territorial districts controlled by the world government only account for about 20% of the entire world's area.

The remaining 80% is borderlands.

The Borderlands are not ruled by the authorities of the world's governments, and are inhabited by many independent Cypriot forces, as well as exploration forces sent by various powers.

Humans often don't have a friendly encounter here, because it's not like a city in a world government consular district, where there is no order and no law.

It is not uncommon for an exploration team to find something in the ruins, only to be killed by another exploration team or armed forces outside the Cypriots.

Humans in the Borderlands are terrifying, but they can still talk.

The most terrible thing is to encounter a brutal "fierce beast".

The origin of the beast is no longer known, some say it is natural evolution, some say it is the radiation mutation caused by the discharge of nuclear wastewater, and some say it is some kind of biological genetic engineering from the old era.

All in all, the beast is more ferocious, bloodthirsty, and has an extremely strong hunting instinct than any native beast in nature.

The vast and sparsely populated Borderland can be said to be a paradise for countless fierce beasts.

...

It's late at night, and the night in the Borderlands is nothing like the Windswept Plains.

There are no stars to be seen at night on the windy plain, only light pollution from the lights at the far end of the horizon, and the night sky is forever shrouded in a cloudy light curtain.

And in the terra nullius far away from industry, you can see the starry sky at night, and when you look up, you can see the vast Milky Way.

As she drove Sumo down the crumbling road, she switched her bike to low-noise mode and turned off her lights.

As a "high-level" Crimson Rose blood code carrier, she can control IPS stem cells for directional differentiation, so that a large number of rod cells can be proliferated in the eye, so as to gain night vision, and can see the road clearly without car lights.

Driving in the direction provided by Sumer, the scenery ahead was constantly changing.

The ruins on the outside of Rusty Wind Ridge are littered with traces of mining, apparently from the engineering work carried out by the company.

The further south you go, the fewer traces of mining there are, meaning that few exploration teams dare to venture into such a distant area.

Nobai stayed open all night until the sun rose the next day, and the two entered a ruin of an old-time city.

The city has long lost the bustle and prosperity of the past, a large number of abandoned vehicles crashed together, covered with thick dust, the wheels were stained with rust, and the body of the car was dented and collapsed, like abandoned tombstones.

Collapsed skyscrapers lay across the streets, reinforced concrete exposed, street lamps and shop signs in tatters, corroded by wind and rain.

Occasionally, there is a creaking sound, the sound of broken windows in the wind, as if singing an elegy to the distant and sad history of the old times.

This is the most common thing to see in the Borderlands, the ruins of the old era, the most primitive ruins eroded by time.

From memory, Su Mo quickly recognized the direction, pointed to the bridge in the distance, and said, "Past that bridge, you will see a flat, oval-shaped white building, and park there. ”

Nuo Bai drove across the bridge, and sure enough, he saw the building that Su Mo said.

She stopped the car and took out her phone to type:

[Are you sure it's here?] 】

Sumer: "Yes, that's it. ”

He thought to himself: I have been here for more than a dozen weeks.

Nuobai looked at the featureless building in front of him and felt incredulous.

As a mercenary, she's been tasked with traveling to the Borderlands, and she's familiar with the rules.

Don't think that Borderlands is full of treasures.

On the contrary, 99.99% of the ruins of the old era have no value to explore, they are really just ruins.

If you're lucky, you'll find some unopened glass cans, the kind that have expired for more than a hundred years.

The surface world was destroyed in the Doomsday War a hundred years ago.

Even if something is not destroyed, it cannot withstand the erosion of wind and rain for many years.

Areas of exploration value are often underground, such as biological laboratories, military research bases, and so on.

These areas where there may be "technological relics" are what the exploration team calls "relics".

However, it is not easy to find the ruins, and the entrance alone can stump most exploration teams.

Even if you are lucky, or if you have information at hand and find the entrance to the ruins, it is a question of whether there are technical relics inside, and it is very likely that you will return empty-handed.

Nuobai really couldn't understand why Dr. Chen was able to pinpoint the location of the ruins, and insisted that there were high-end medical drugs such as genetically compiled proteins.

If it's true, wouldn't it be nice to sell the information to your own company and change to a management position?

Thinking of this, she clasped Su Mo's hand with five fingers again.

Su Mo was a little helpless: "It's all here, can I still run?" ”

Nuo Bai thought about it too, and let go of his hand again.

Sumo: "Park in a hidden place and follow me." ”

Nobai hid the car, and the two walked into the flat building.

It looks ordinary from the outside, but inside it is intricately constructed, with obsolete security checkpoints and strict access control gates.

Deep inside, there is a passage to the underground at the end of the corridor.

The two walked into the passageway, and as they continued to advance, the temperature became colder and colder, and the long staircase could see many fractures and collapses, as if they had been stepped on by some creature.

After walking for several minutes, the descending staircase finally disappeared and the road was smooth.

The underground passage is far from the outside world, with no sunlight shining in, and it is very dark, except for the faint light of the emergency access sign on the wall, which also indicates that the basic power is still there.

Suddenly, Nuo Bai grabbed Su Mo.

She took out her phone, turned the screen to the darkest, and typed a line for Su Mo to see:

【There are fierce beasts】

Su Mo listened carefully...

In the darkness, the steady, heavy breath of some creature kept ringing.

Nobai, who has night vision, can clearly see that there is a closed metal isolation door at the end of the aisle ahead, which is covered with scratches.

In front of the door lay a large beast, sleeping, with a humanoid form, but a pair of fleshy wings on its back, two thick and hideous claws, and its nails as sharp as sharp swords, and the scratches on the metal door should have been scratched by it.

This is the "Batwing Demon", a fierce beast that sleeps during the day and hunts at night.

The batwing demon has a thick layer of muscles, the skin is very hard, the flesh wings give it the ability to fly for a short time, it is extremely mobile, and the pair of sharp claws that are enough to tear through the steel plate, the armed team of less than ten people will walk around it when they see it.

At that moment, the Batwing Demon's breathing became rapid.

"Shhhhh Hiss..."

I don't know if it was the sound of the footsteps before the two of them that stimulated its keen hearing, or if it smelled the scent of a human being, its eyelids kept fluttering, and it seemed to be about to wake up.