This is a common problem that every city-state will face hundreds of years after the end of the world. The lights representing civilization are extinguished little by little on this land.
The city-states that were once dotted everywhere were submerged in the torrent of time, leaving only cold and lonely ruins.
In this regard, Ge Zhaodu used a certain gloomy tone and expressed helpless emotion about all this: "These city-states reduced to ruins in front of us are the future of Hope City."
"The entire game tone of "Land Abandoned by Gods" is fully reflected in the title of the game. This is a land abandoned by the gods, and the remaining residents have no hope."
Was the "God-Abandoned Land" in "Lord of Mysteries" really abandoned by the gods? It is indeed different from the normal world, but it is not completely abandoned.
According to the personal statement of Amon, the son of the Sun God in the original book, without his permission and support, the Silver City seen by the protagonist would not have been able to last until the age of his appearance.
From this sentence, we may know that the gods have not completely abandoned this land, and may still take action to a certain extent to deal with some high-sequence monsters that are too terrifying and powerful for humans.
So when the time came for the protagonist to arrive, there were still a few cities such as Silver City and Moon City in the entire land abandoned by God. They were barely able to survive until now, lingering in the terrifying and dark eternal night.
But do these two city-states represent the general situation? The answer is no, because they are not ordinary city-states and have conditions that are difficult for other city-states to replicate.
The existence of Moon City is related to the arrangements of the ancient Sun God. They are responsible for guarding the dark sky that separates Europe, Africa and Asia.
As for Silver City, it is even more amazing. What is the trump card of their city-state? It is an extraordinary item transformed from the remains of the giant king and queen among the ancient gods. How many items of this level can there be?
What's even more amazing is their food, a crop that can grow without sunlight. Although it doesn't taste very good, at least it doesn't have to rely on the flesh and blood of monsters like other city-states.
However, this kind of special city-state is only an exception in the apocalypse. Most of the city-states established in the land abandoned by the gods are just a group of ordinary people trying to survive in the apocalypse.
So for this group of people, Amon's rhetoric is meaningless. They are still abandoned and can only despair in the dark doomsday, waiting for their own death to come.
Therefore, when the era came and the protagonist Klein arrived, no matter how the expedition team sent by Silver City continued to explore outwards and tried to find something, they ended up in vain.
On this land shrouded in eternal night, they could not find any other city-states, as if they were the only ones left in the world.
Occasionally, the ruins of other city-states were discovered, with only ruins remaining inside. The expedition team that trudged hard to Silver City silently told the past, and only the sound of the wind blowing through the ruins seemed to be singing for the vanished city-state.
When time enters nine hundred years after the end, with the last union taking place, all city-states other than one's own cease to exist in the familiar land of Hope City.
Now the City of Hope has no friends to contact. It is like the only island in the vast ocean, staring at the endless waves all around in the dark night.
Those familiar city-states from hundreds of years ago have either been destroyed together, gone to further places, or simply destroyed by the tide of monsters.
This discovery made the residents of Hope City anxious and frightened. It didn't feel good to be the only survivor in the apocalypse. How they liked friends who could still communicate with each other.
Even if it requires a lot of human lives as before to travel a long distance to the other party's territory, this is not impossible.
Beside the warm fire in the square, Yang Wenshou, who was so old that he had lost all his teeth, took advantage of the fact that it was still "daytime" to tell the children surrounding him about the beautiful past.
"It is said that at the time of our ancestors hundreds of years ago, you could see another city-state within a day's journey. Yes, it was a city-state that was inhabited just like us."
Residents of this era have little nostalgia for the sun-drenched world. That world is no different from the paradise after death in religion.
The beautiful world for them is an era when human city-states are everywhere in the end, because that is an era that their ancestors experienced personally.
"When I was young, I served as an escort. It took more than a week or two to go to another city-state."
"Wow!" When the children heard this, they couldn't help but look surprised and envious. This old man is the only one in the city-state now, and he had met people from other city-states when he was still alive.
Yang Wenshou smiled softly and pointed to a child next to him. His eyes were obviously abnormal. They were pushed to the bridge of his nose, and the original nose was also covered with cracks.
"Her great-grandmother came from that city-state. Of course, I didn't go on that escort mission because I was just as young as you."
"Anyway, after I joined the escort team, I only carried out a few missions before the escort team was announced to be disbanded, because the last city-state we knew was gone..."
When talking about this, Yang Wenshou's tone was a little low: "My captain at the time...his mother was from this city-state..."
"This city-state can be regarded as his second home. At that time, he finally got here, and when he saw the tower that had lost its lights, he immediately... lost control..."
When Yang Wenshou said this, he couldn't help but narrow his eyes, as if he was immersed in memories, recalling the terrible mission experience that year.
"The whole team fell into chaos all of a sudden. In order to avoid the captain's pursuit, everyone ran away for their lives. In the end, only four people including me came back."
He didn't tell the next story, because the people around him were all young children, and it was not suitable to tell them such a dark and bloody story.
After a few of them brought the news back to the city-state, the entire city-state immediately fell into chaos, and even the leaders were a little panicked.
After all, although I knew this day would come sooner or later, I didn't expect it to come so quickly. I originally thought that at least there would be another wave of Hebang to replenish the population of Hope City.
As a result, there were four or five out-of-control monsters in the city-state that year, causing considerable damage to the entire defense system. Fortunately, we did not encounter a wave of monsters in those days. It can be said that we were relatively lucky.
It’s just that since then, Hope City has been unable to reduce the probability of consanguineous marriage within the city-state through intermarriage with outside city-states as before.
Although the top management of the city-state did not fail to respond and consciously controlled the marriage of close relatives, the population base was such that there was really nothing they could do about it.
Therefore, with the inevitability of incest marriages, both the number of deformed people and the degree of deformity among deformed people in the city-state are increasing little by little.
After sending the children away with a gentle smile, Yang Wenshou's face couldn't help but dim. In this eternal night of despair, how long can the City of Hope hold on?
