"Ryuga Jann, I'm so glad you're okay!"
Tachika Fujimaru returned to the submarine. When she saw Ryuga was fine, she was so excited that she almost wanted to hug him.
"How could anything happen to him … Also, stay away from him."
Esders quickly grabbed her collar and stopped her from getting closer. Then he handed her over to Matthew.
"Wuwuwu, Ryuga Jann, I'm so glad you're okay!"
Then, Musashi rushed over and hugged Ryuga in her arms. She almost burst into tears.
"Clang!"
Esders's eyes turned cold. An ice sword came slashing at her, which was caught by Musashi.
When the two of them looked at each other, there were some electric sparks in the air.
"… Don't fight."
Liu Xia couldn't help but sigh slightly. It was very rare for her to experience the feeling of being mentally tired.
If the two of them really fought, even he would not know how to deal with it. Fortunately, the two of them treated each other as opponents and did not let the pressure affect Ryuga. Otherwise, he would have a bigger headache.
"Well, since everyone is here, let's share the information."
Sherlock Holmes interrupted the infighting between the two women and addressed the matter at hand to the party.
"Yes, yes! Then let's start with us! "
Tachika Fujimaru looked at Esders and Musashi who looked like they were about to fight. She quickly nodded.
"Last night, we stayed in a nearby village. From the girls in the village, we managed to get some information about this anomaly zone …"
To be honest, Ryuga had never felt that Tachika Fujimaru was especially cute.
Last night, when Tachika Fujimaru and her group went out to gather information, they met a local girl named Gerda. Under her invitation, they stayed in a village called "23rd settlement".
In that village, one after another, they found out many shocking things.
In the Nordic Anomaly Zone, which stretched for thousands of kilometers, there were no towns or railways. There were only a total of 100 villages.
From the first episode to the 100th episode, these were the names of the villages.
The girl named Gerda was a member of this village.
After entering these villages, an even more sensational experience had just begun.
The entire village was surprisingly small. Although there were many fields with crops, making the area of the village look very wide, after walking around the entire village, one would discover that there were only thirty to forty families in the entire village.
There were only about a hundred people in the entire village, and none of them were adults above the age of 25. Almost all of them were children and teenagers, and there were no middle-aged or elderly people.
From Gerda, they learned that all the 100 settlements in the Nordic Anomaly Zone were the same. Each settlement had at most 100 villagers.
In other words, there were only about 10,000 humans in the whole of Northern Europe.
Moreover, this was not a change that only happened in modern times. It had been like this since 3,000 years ago.
This world with only 10,000 people had been operating in a sick state for 3,000 years.
In other words, this was a civilization that had completely declined since the era of the gods. It had never developed and had reached the end of the world from the very beginning. In a sense, it was even more terrifying than the Russian Anomaly Zone.
Up to this point, it was still acceptable. After all, there were countless worlds and countless possibilities. However, the most unbearable thing was what happened next.
There were humans in this world, but there were also giants.
Although there were enchantments around the settlements, which prevented the giants from entering the villages, there was a very special rule in this world.
Anyone who grew to 25 years old and gave birth to a child would have to leave the village.
In this world where all kinds of giants ran rampant in the wilderness, if a human left the village, it meant that they would be trampled alive by the giants. Even if they managed to escape the giants, they would freeze to death in the wilderness due to the cold air at night.
This sounded very cruel, but it was taken for granted by the residents of this world. It had been obeyed for 3,000 years, and no one had ever raised any objections.
Because this was a rule set by God, and everyone believed in the rule of God.
This annual day of leaving the village was also known as the Day of Selection.
"This is too much!"
The fat director was the first to jump out when he heard this, and his expression was ugly as he cursed loudly.
"Is the God of this world a ferocious and evil God? Raising these villagers who don't even understand the meaning of life as livestock and setting this rule, let alone face, I'm afraid even the insides of the God are rotten! "
It was really out of everyone's expectation that Gold would be so emotional. His mentality was not like that of a magician, let alone a magician who had graduated from the Department of Law and Politics.
"No, according to what I've seen and heard, Skaha Skati is undoubtedly a benevolent God."
Ryuga shook her head and refuted Gold's argument.
Even if she had only communicated with Skati for a short while, Ryuga could understand that the goddess was a genuine God of Love.
"Master Skaha?"
Tachika Fujimaru was stunned.
"Then why did she set this rule?"
Gold immediately cast a dissatisfied look at Ryuga, and even the vague fear of Ryuga was forgotten for a moment.
"... I'm afraid it's because the world doesn't allow it."
Ryuga was silent for a moment and gave her guess.
"You should have seen that there is almost nothing on the land of this anomaly zone. There are only mountains, ice and snow, and even the coniferous trees are carved out of ice. In other words, the resources of this world are extremely limited."
Too little.
Food, water, ecological chain system... Even the spiritual veins of Northern Europe were close to exhaustion.
Under such circumstances, how could this world possibly support too many people?
Perhaps 10,000 people was the upper limit of this world's population.
The root cause of this problem was probably the Twilight of the Gods that happened 3,000 years ago.
During the great battle between Surter and the Gods, not only did Surter's unbridled destruction cause the Gods to be wiped out, but even the world itself was greatly damaged, causing a severe shortage of resources.
The extreme lack of resources forced Skati to make the decision to maintain the population of the anomaly zone at 10,000. Once this limit was exceeded, even the remaining 10,000 people would not be able to survive.
Everyone in the submarine fell silent as they listened to Liu Xia's endless stream of information about Kanzaki and her own speculations.
There was no doubt that this was a world that was beyond cure.
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