{"id":1107,"date":"2026-03-06T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2026-03-01T21:13:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:13:28","slug":"chapter-5-missing040","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/06\/chapter-5-missing040\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 5 Missing040"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/05\/chapter-5-missing039\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page40 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/07\/chapter-5-missing041\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>\u201cThey did,\u201d says CandiCrush, \u201cand then it all disintegrated. Apparently, some senior police officers and some military officers went rogue. They spotted the opportunity to seize more power and to claim bigger salaries. Nobody stopped them, because they had guns!<\/p>\n<p>Lower ranking police officers went on strike, but that got them nowhere. Many of the ordinary rank and file simply jumped ship. When they moved out, it just left a bigger concentration of tedious people and rogues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat about the ordinary people?\u201d asks NutJob.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you had the money, and the willpower, you moved out too. When sea levels rose, Lool was flooding regularly. And large parts of Ev and Manch ended up underwater. If your home had been destroyed you had no choice but to try and build a new home somewhere else. And although you could choose to stay in Worringfolk, the floods were the trigger that encouraged many people to move away completely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd piracy?\u201d asks KristalClear, \u201cwhy do people become pirates?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEasy life! Apparently! The idea of a get rich quick scheme. Some rogue naval officers had commandeered ships and made rash promises to their followers. Once ordinary people had been coerced, they found it impossible to escape the system,\u201d says CandiCrush, \u201cthat\u2019s when the BlackCircle and the other Circles emerged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInland, the militias grew in much the same way,\u201d says BarmyWaffle, \u201cpromising a decent standard of living to their followers. Then they started raiding parts of Wolfland and Meirionydd. And that\u2019s why we maintain a Garrison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut there must still be some ordinary people?\u201d asks NutJob, \u201cpeople who keep the economy going?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are, although they\u2019re basically subsistence farmers. Nowadays the WorSovereign is worthless. If you can grow your own food, or you can farm livestock, even if it\u2019s just a few chickens, then you can survive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t they have manufacturing industries?\u201d<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/05\/chapter-5-missing039\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page40 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/07\/chapter-5-missing041\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page40 \u2013 Next \u201cThey did,\u201d says CandiCrush, \u201cand then it all disintegrated. Apparently, some senior police officers and some military officers went rogue. They spotted the opportunity to seize more power and to claim bigger salaries. Nobody stopped them, because they had guns! Lower ranking police officers went on strike, but that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/06\/chapter-5-missing040\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 5 Missing040&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}