This is an ancient town.
——"Uke".
Located in a basin, Uke is surrounded by mountains on all sides.
Branch rivers diverging from the Euphrates and Tigris rivers run through the town and join into a small lake.
Before the outbreak of war, it was also a poverty-stricken town.
The locals, with their sallow complexions, had vacant eyes and indifferent faces.
They were dressed in tattered clothes, lying, sitting or sleeping by the roadside, on rooftops, along the riverbanks.
Even more people hid in the shadows that gave them a sense of security, stealthily sheltering themselves, with wooden, lifeless gazes, scrutinizing everything before them.
In the past,
Bored geographers had debated the cause of Uke Town's basin formation.
Some said that after crustal movements, the ground beneath the entire town subsided, forming the basin;
