Luling, located east of the White Sea Basin, is divided by the massive Hengduan Mountain Range into the northern and southern areas of this basin. Beyond Haiqu lies the primeval landscape of the lush Luling forest.
But after the Apocalypse Day, darkness engulfed this forest as if even time had frozen here.
The towering trees, with trunks twisted like giants in their death throes, oozed sticky black resin from their peeled bark, resembling congealed scabs. The endless forest was shrouded in Extreme Night, with all plant life extinguished. Danger and eeriness lurked in every shadow.
Above a decaying canopy of dead wood, there was suddenly a rustling sound, and the air trembled. A bright beam of light accompanied by the mechanical roaring sound swept past the low sky above the forest. It turned out to be three armed transport ships flying in a triangular formation slowly heading east.
