Something happened in District 1?

Xu Xin was slightly stunned.

"What happened?" he asked with some confusion.

"Xu Xin, do you still remember what happened in District 187 before the cold winter came?" Ji Chaoyang did not answer directly, but asked him back.

What happened in District 187?

What happened then?

ah……!

He raised his eyebrows slightly and blurted out, "The number of people has inexplicably decreased, but the tree house hasn't been dug up?"

"Yes." Ji Chaoyang's voice sounded a little heavy at this time. "This kind of thing also happened in District 1."

Did this happen in District 1 as well?

"...How do you know? Where did you get this information?" Xu Xin asked, somewhat puzzled. "From the world channel, it seems nothing's happened in the outer areas these past few days, aside from the snow piling up thicker and thicker. If it's just the number of people in Area 1 that's decreased..."

That doesn't seem to be anything noteworthy.

After all, the current situation in Area 1 is basically the same as that in Area 188. The cold winter is essentially over, and the locations of the strong men have been exposed because of the teleportation formation.

In this case, it wouldn't be a big problem if some survivors cut down their own tree houses to follow the strong, right?

Of course, Xu Xin would not believe it if someone said that there was no problem in Area 1. After all, for Shi Wanyun, a lone wolf in Area 1, to be so shameless as to directly flood the world trading platform with comments, something must have happened there that they were unaware of.

"If the number of people in District 1 decreases, it may be that they voluntarily defected. Is that what you mean?" Ji Chaoyang guessed Xu Xin's thoughts and said.

"……really."

"Things aren't that simple. Before we headed to the underground world, I had a few people here closely monitor the world channel and tell me everything, big or small, when I returned. Through their fragmented accounts, I've been able to deduce a few things."

He began to explain what he had discovered.

Yesterday, not long after the two teleportation arrays in Area 1 were connected, Area 1 saw a very obvious reduction in personnel.

There were more than 2,000 people in total, and nearly 200 people were killed in just a few hours.

However, this incident did not attract widespread attention worldwide.

Because they all misunderstood the lesson of District 188, they subconsciously believed that the reduction in the number of people in District 1 was because the survivors in District 1 cut down a large number of tree houses and went to seek refuge with the elders of District 1.

Even the strong men in Area 1 think so.

Because they have been saying for a long time that they welcome everyone to join them, whether they are from this district or from other districts.

At that time, more than ten districts had unlocked the teleportation array, with purple-black light pillars reaching the sky. This situation had also occurred in these areas and neighboring areas to varying degrees.

Therefore, not many people paid attention to this matter at the time. Even the strong people in District 1 increased their publicity efforts, saying that anyone who could come would be given very good treatment.

The treatment they offer is naturally not as good as that of explorers, but explorers are too far away from other areas, and distant water cannot quench nearby fire. Many people who can no longer bear to survive alone naturally choose Area 1 based on the principle of proximity.

Of course, since Area 1 didn't have many blue-level axes, they naturally couldn't obtain the treehouse cores of these people. However, they still gave some resources to them.

But what happened next was a little strange.

"So far, less than ten people have gathered around the two teleportation arrays in Area 1. Most of these people have been active on the World Channel. Their original tree houses were also relatively close to the teleportation arrays. The farthest one was only fifty kilometers away."

"...Are the others really dead?" Xu Xin asked.

"From the information I've received, that's indeed the case," Ji Chaoyang said in a low voice. "At this point in time, it's been over 24 hours since the massive disappearance of the survivors in Area 1!"

Xu Xin pondered for a moment and said, "...In other words, even if these people didn't die at the time and cut down their own tree houses to seek refuge with the powerful, then now, the time limit has passed?"

After the 24-hour limit, you will "leave this beautiful world forever."

Therefore, no matter from what perspective, these people are indeed completely finished.

"That's right." Ji Chaoyang said, "I also received news that areas such as District 2, which is connected to District 1, have also suffered a large number of casualties. At that time, the people in District 2 thought that they might be people who defected to District 1, but now, it's also..."

Xu Xin frowned slightly.

"Could it be that we encountered something along the way?" he speculated, "Like... the situation we encountered back then? Those furry monsters, those predators, seemed to want to teleport the survivors to another place."

The scene of being surrounded by wolves is still vivid in my mind.

They were controlled by the furry monsters and forced the survivors into an encirclement, and under the encirclement was a large and somewhat inexplicable teleportation array.

Under the circumstances at that time, it would have been almost impossible for an ordinary survivor to escape.

If Xu Xin hadn't discovered the abnormality at the beginning, I'm afraid not many people would have come to their side.

Most people will be taken away directly!

"Maybe this is part of the reason, so I didn't pay too much attention to it before." Ji Chaoyang said.

"But, I just received news that people in District 1 and its neighboring districts have discovered many dying or withered tree houses. The owners of the tree houses are dead, but the tree houses have not been cut down. Is this similar to what happened in District 187?"

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