Chapter 52: The World
The journey to Vale wasn’t long, as they were both located in the Falcon Sector, and each sector was like a fortified small region. Every sector had quite a number of cities, but the distance between each one of them was quite big.
Vale was only a few hundred kilometres away from Starlink Academy.
The number of Abyssal Creatures inside the sectors was far less than in the outside world, which was also the sole reason sectors were made.
Many people spent their whole lives living in just one sector since travelling between different sectors was very tough. After all, the sectors were cleared occasionally by the Army, but it was different for the outside world.
There were less than a billion people left in the world, so each sector held a very small population compared to their size. This was also the reason they were later made smaller to provide better security.
Even Falcon Sector only housed around 40 million people, out of which men weren’t even a total of 10 million. And the size of this sector could be considered as that of a small country.
The Apocalypse had dealt a huge blow to Earth, crippling humanity very hard.
As Leon raced along the roads, he paid close attention to his surroundings and intentionally drove slower than usual.
He saw vast plains filled with nothing but rotting plants, which were also infected by the Corrupted Miasma. But he also found vegetation that had adapted to the Miasma and begun to spread even faster.
The world always had ways to improve itself.
He also found many abandoned towns and cities overgrown with weeds, vegetation, and many other things inhabiting them now. The settlements had long been either abandoned by humans or their inhabitants slaughtered by the Abyssal Creatures.
And this was actually inside the Sector. Leon didn’t even want to imagine the state of the outside world. People living in safe environments really sometimes forgot how terrible the outside world was.