Because most connections had been severed and each area began to retract into a state of closed management, a new situation gradually emerged outside these strict control zones—wanderers.
They roamed the abandoned lots and empty houses, scavenging forgotten food and supplies, occasionally stumbling upon relief points distributing rations—snagging a meal when they could.
The wanderers outside struggled to survive each day, always accompanied by fear, hunger, and despair.
The government had the intention to deal with these people, but they lacked the resources to manage everything, and because the wanderers constantly moved about or hid in secret gatherings, by the time the chaos between cities began to settle and life started to normalize, some of the wanderers had lost their initial trust in the government, leading to disappointment and then to an uprising of anger.
This accumulated anger inevitably gave rise to a new force.
