When the time comes eleven hundred years after the end, the situation in Hope City is already quite critical. Compared with the past, it can be said to be a candle in the wind.
With the demise of all city-states except its own, Hope City had to start intermarriage within the city. However, the number and degree of deformed people increased dramatically in the past two hundred years.
The birth mortality rate of deformed people is quite high, so the city-state population begins to decline, and the force value also drops due to the instability of deformed people.
By this time, there are no so-called normal people in Hope City, only deformed people. The difference is only in the degree of deformity.
What followed was desolation and decay. The wilderness that was once opened up as a city is now in ruins again, with moss covering the ruins.
The surviving humans kept retreating, and at this time they had retreated to the last tower. It could be said that they had reached the point of no retreat, because the tower was the last refuge of humanity.
The management of the tower in the glorious era finally worked at this time, relying on the tower's protection to allow the survivors to continue to survive.
It is really just hanging on, and even the city wall at the foot of Tower Mountain is no longer a place that humans can control. Monsters born from the darkness often appear there.
Nowadays, the survivors in Hope City can only huddle in the last tower, constantly telling the residents about the glory of their ancestors in the flickering candlelight.
Once upon a time, it was not only the city wall at the foot of the mountain, but also the mountains and plains you looked across were all the land developed by the City of Hope, where our ancestors lived.
However, now they even climb up the tower and look out, which is a big thing that they only do once a year. Firstly, it shows that they attach great importance to this behavior, and secondly, it is a very dangerous thing.
Because things are different now. In the past, there were human towns everywhere at the foot of the mountain, so looking through the tower, nothing big happened.
However, the foot of the mountain is completely different now. They are all ruins shrouded in darkness. If you look down through the tower, it is easy to attract the prying eyes of some monsters.
Almost every time you climb the tower and look out, a monster will attack the city, but Hope City still insists on doing this, at least once a year.
Because people cannot live meaninglessly, looking at the ruins of Hope City around them through the tower, proving the greatness of the ancestors and the glorious career they pioneered, is an important act to unite the people of Hope City to survive.
However, even so, it only lasted for another hundred years. The bell announcing the destruction of Hope City finally rang in 1204.
The cause of the matter was a monster attack on the city. Needless to say how long ago, even when the city was first built, the monster wave that could easily be dealt with destroyed the current City of Hope.
The reason is precisely the worries that normal people had about deformed people. Their mental status was too unstable and they could easily lose control after being exposed to the extraordinary.
In the past, when city-states were dominated by normal people, this was actually a problem that could be ignored for the time being and just marginalized them.
But now even the leaders of the city-state are all deformed people, so the deformed people have to be exposed to the extraordinary, but as long as they are exposed, there will be a day when they lose control.
This day finally arrived in 1204, when a deformed man overused his extraordinary power in a fierce battle and eventually lost control.
His loss of control triggered a chain reaction, directly destroying the already precarious battle situation. For a time, both inside and outside the tower were involved in conflicts, which was exactly the same as the destruction of the first Freak City-state back then.
As darkness invaded the tower, more monsters soon appeared from every corner of the tower. The tower had changed from a human home to a monster's lair.
Seeing that the situation was getting out of hand, Hope City could only decisively cut off the strong men's arms, give up continuing to struggle in the extremely dangerous tower, and immediately retreat with the people they could find.
So the game went back from the city-state stage in the third stage to the wandering stage in the first stage, with another group of people wandering in the dark.
Although everything seems to have gone back to more than a thousand years ago, as if it was just a reincarnation and nothing has changed.
But both Ge Zhaodu and the audience knew that everything had become too much, there was no sun in the sky, and there were no villages around where supplies could be obtained.
Due to the chaotic and urgent situation at the time, only a pitiful number of more than a hundred people remained in Hope City after finally breaking through the monster encirclement and escaping from the fallen Hope City.
It was unclear where the remaining people had gone, but under such circumstances, even if they did not die in the city, if they did not join the main force, the end would probably not be optimistic.
The leader leading the team at this time was also a deformed person, but his deformity was just missing ears and misaligned eyes. Compared with the current situation in the city-state, the degree of deformity was very mild.
He took out the map with his hand that lacked fingers. The greasy texture made people wonder what the map was made of.
"We have to go to the ruins of the Lion City State in the north, which is near the Gezhao City State. We just went there a few years ago. We observed the situation quite well. We first built a simple defensive fortress there to survive."
In the game "Forsaken Land", you can load the previous game save in the starting options. This Gezhao city-state is obviously the masterpiece of this save.
This means that even if the player opens a new world line, the city-states he played before will appear in this world line and can even interact with the player's city-state.
But after all, humans were replaced by AI for operation, so when Ge Zhaodu played by himself, the city-state existed for 668 years, but in the world line of Hope City, it only existed for 610 years before being destroyed.
After hearing that he was going to the Lion City, the leader's confidant blinked his eight eyes and asked in a tone full of uncertainty: "But there are less than a hundred of us left, even if we settle down..."
He was interrupted before he finished speaking, and the leader said in a resounding voice: "As long as we survive, we will definitely have hope and be able to build a new city of hope like our ancestors."
So the team set off, passing through the abandoned ruins of Hope City, embarking on the vast and endless wilderness, and finally arrived at their destination.
But in the process, the fleeing team also paid a heavy price. After the ruins of the Lion City Tower were cleared and reinforced, there were only more than thirty people left in the entire team.
No matter what, they finally had a home again, but unfortunately this time it was not like a thousand years ago. They failed to get hope, and the leader's encouragement was just a beautiful lie.
After all, more than thirty people cannot survive in this kind of world. What's worse is that unlike in the past, it is impossible to find other humans.
So after more than ten years of bleak business, finally one day in 1261 after the end, New Hope City, located in the ruins of the Lion City Tower, was also captured by a wave of monsters.
If the residents in the tower wanted to escape, they could still escape a few people, but they no longer had the fighting spirit to live, and they did not have the courage to face this doomsday with just a few people.
So in this battle that declared the complete destruction of Hope City, they set the tower on fire and were buried in the blazing fire together with the monsters.
