Wilderness
The speeding off-road vehicle drove into the pitch-black road, and the skinny figure at the wheel glanced at the camp lit up ahead, then parked the off-roader in a wide open parking lot.
Night was gradually receding, a violent darkness shrouded the sky, like the final blackness before Daybreak.
Ka—
The door of a tin shack by the parking lot was pushed open. A simply dressed man in casual clothes stretched lazily, walked over unhurriedly, and leaned against the car window.
He raised his head, glanced at the skinny figure, then at the woman in the passenger seat who was slowly waking up with a child in her arms, and said with a grin, "Yo, brought your wife this time?"
"Planning to haul her into the city and sell her," the skinny figure pulled a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, handed the man one, then clamped one between his own lips, lighting the man's first, then his own. "Fill up my liquid fuel cell. I'm leaving right away."
