After listening to Tang Yu's account, the expression on Jiang Ming's face did not fluctuate much.
The battle for survival territory is always accompanied by blood and tears, not to mention that humans are always at a disadvantage. Therefore, even if we only count the Donghuang Federation, the establishment of each new human gathering place represents a cruel battle. Fight.
Unless the human side can occupy an absolute advantage, it is not too surprising to be counterattacked.
The commander of the city guards in Lindu City was an example of failure.
But this is normal. After all, with the strength that Binhai City had, Wang Xiaoyang finally made up his mind to send people to open up a new city when his strength recovered and he had the trump card of Marshado.
This almost led to the failure of the establishment of new urban areas due to accidents, let alone other cities.
Although Lindu City cannot be compared with Binhai City in terms of the dangerous geographical location and the size of the city's population, if you want to open up a new urban area or expand it, you must have at least one or even two sixth-level people. This is only possible if the Evolutionary takes charge.
Unlike the coastal area where Binhai City is located, the location of Lindo City has been developed by humans for decades, so there are few seventh-level or higher-level alien beasts operating nearby, which has led to this area. The overall strength of the alien beasts active in the area is relatively weak. Otherwise, if it were the area near Binhai City, the humans who were driven out of the city would have been hunted down by the alien beasts before they had time to establish settlements.
Take the Senyou wolf pack that Jiang Ming cleaned up before coming to Lindu City. The pack of only eight wolves was actually the largest within a radius of dozens of kilometers. The strongest wolf in it was only a Those who are on the fourth level threshold can't even withstand even half a move of Demonic Coral.
And if it were changed to Binhai City, Jiang Ming alone knew of several forest wolf packs, the largest of which had gathered hundreds of forest wolves, and the wolf king who led this group was even more powerful. It is said that ordinary sixth-level evolvers may not be able to capture the fifth-level alien beast.
This is the gap.
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Tang Yu's story continues: After the commander fought to death the fifth-level alien beasts that led the beast tide, some of the alien beasts in the beast tide ran away directly, and the last remaining part was driven in later. The city guards and hunters jointly killed and took away almost all the trophies.
Including the body of the fifth-level alien beast.
After this battle, a large part of the alien beasts around Lindu City were wiped out, thus giving those who were driven out of the city a chance to survive in the wild.
But because of the psychological shadow left by the beast tide, that group of people no longer dared to gather together to build large gathering points. In the end, after cruel natural selection, it finally became the settlement ecology it has today.
Later, Lin Ducheng's successor as the city guard commander saw that those settlements could survive except during the winter when they had to fight to the death with alien beasts. So starting from him, he began to carry out a large-scale exodus of residents. move.
Of course, the so-called relocation of residents is just a nice way of saying it, but it actually means driving people away.
There is really no other way. Originally, according to the size of Lindu City, the city could only support 70,000 to 80,000 people at most. However, before the first migration of people, the population of the entire city was already close to 150,000. , this city has long been overwhelmed.
Even though Lindu City expanded several times later, it still could not accommodate such a large population.
In this way, a total of about 20,000 to 30,000 people were relocated. At the same time, the ordinary people in the city saw that they were just kidding, so they were forced to rationally stop the crazy fertility behavior, and finally managed to alleviate the population of Lindu City. Contradictions have caused the number of people migrating out of the city to decrease year by year.
Until the past few years, as long as they were not the kind of social losers who could not be saved, very few people had been driven out of the city.
"So the dozen or so settlements outside Lindu City are all leftover from previous history?" Jiang Ming finally concluded, "But that's not right. If that's the case, they shouldn't have only such a small number of people. ?”
Tang Yu said that a normal settlement has at least about a hundred people, and there can be as many as two to three hundred people. But even so, the total number of people in the dozen or so settlements outside is less than 3,000.
You must know that there were so many people driven out of Lindu City back then. Even if half of them died due to various reasons, the other half should have tens of thousands of people after more than ten or twenty years of reproduction, right?
"Because many people did not choose to stay in Lindu City back then." Tang Yu replied honestly, "The tragedy caused by the beast tide is still vivid in our minds, so many people chose to form a team after leaving Lindu City. Heading to other cities, trying to find a way to survive elsewhere.”
"And even among those who stayed, Lindu City has a talent recovery policy to absorb the population."
"Every year, the city provides free awakening ceremonies for people of appropriate age in those settlements. As long as they can awaken their abilities, they can bring their parents back to live in the city."
In this world, the conditions for human beings to awaken their abilities have always been a mystery, which means that the offspring of powerful ability users may not be able to awaken, but maybe two ordinary parents can give birth to a child with outstanding talents. .
For example, Jiang Ming's eldest brother is such an example.
Therefore, it is not surprising that Lindu City would formulate such a system.
As for allowing those who have awakened their abilities to bring their parents back, Jiang Ming thinks that firstly, they may want to use family affection to bind these ability users who have no affection for the city, and secondly, they hope that those parents can give birth to another ability person.
Although the probability is unlikely, but what if.
However, Jiang Ming also thought of the hunting team he saw outside the city at that time. The leader, Jiang Ming, could clearly sense the spiritual energy fluctuations in the other party's body, which meant that the other party should be an awakened person.
From this point of view, not all people will give up the people who have accompanied them for many years for life in the city after awakening their abilities.
"It seems that the spiritual core was sent to the right person." Jiang Ming whispered to himself.
"Well, Mr. Jiang Ming, do you have anything else to ask?" Tang Yu looked at Jiang Ming who was mumbling something and asked cautiously.
"No more." Jiang Ming, who came back to his senses, took out the five federal coins he had prepared and slapped them in front of Tang Yu. "There is one last thing left. I will go to the city with me later to sell elves. place, do me a favor.”
