Chapter 361 Where are the people?
The migration of population is certain, and the advantages of [Instant Messenger] are revealed.
Message sharing, fast transmission.
The townspeople of each town were transported to Qim Town in batches.
Qim Town focused on receiving various supplies from the territory of the Church of Knowledge.
Mainly food and daily necessities.
As for the manpower for transporting supplies, it was mainly the believers who died in the battle with monsters.
As the believers gathered their strength to clean up the monsters born in the surrounding wilderness.
The war losses also began to increase significantly.
It doesn’t matter if they die, they can just help escort and transport a few flatbed wagons of supplies.
Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner.
Gathering people together has another significant benefit:
It helps maintain regional stability.
The believers have found a pattern from the changes in stability.
Stability depends on the situation in the civilized gathering area.
If there are different gathering areas scattered around, the power is dispersed, each area has limited manpower, and the defense is sufficient but the offense is insufficient. At most, safety can be guaranteed, and it is impossible to take the initiative to clear the monsters.
It is difficult to quickly increase the stability.
But if everyone is gathered in a city or even a camp.
Concentrated defense can have extra power to take the initiative to attack!
As long as a stable order can be formed in the gathering area, the stability will be quickly improved.
At this point.
The believers of the Church of Knowledge made the same choice as the Church of Light without knowing it.
Concentrate the population.
The difference is that the Church of Light is based on Ceylon City, and the refuge camps built in the city have a higher foundation.
The Church of Knowledge is based on Chim Town and launched an expansion plan!
Moreover, in this rescue of civilians, the Church of Knowledge took the lead!
...
So.
When the Crusaders arrived at Raven Town.
What greeted them was an empty town.
The town was fine.
There were not many signs of damage to the buildings.
There weren't many corpses or blood on the streets.
The number of monsters... was also quite small!
After all, most of the monsters in the town had been killed by the Seekers before.
The ones the Crusaders saw were new monsters that had wandered in by chance after the townspeople left.
"Huh?"
"Where are the people???"
The legion commander was stunned after leading the team around the town.
In a normal scenario, shouldn't people be struggling to survive and on the verge of despair?
When the Glorious God Cult came like a savior, the people were grateful and hugged their thighs with tears streaming down their faces?
Before coming, the legion commander had specially waxed the armor on his legs to prevent it from getting stained with other dirt.
The question is.
Where are the civilians who should have come out to thank them?
When he came, he also arranged for someone to speak.
"Follow the Lord's will! People of the Glory, you are safe! Accept the protection of the church!"
The voice attracted a bunch of monsters to join in the fun, but no one was seen.
Until they found traces of people living together in the manor belonging to Baron Franklin.
The traces were still very obvious.
The extinguished fire.
The leftovers of food, the fragments of cloth that fell.
There were also some excrement that was temporarily buried.
For the first time in history, the legion commander felt a little bit - at a loss!
He had anticipated a better situation, that the townspeople of Raven Town organized self-rescue;
He also anticipated the worst situation, that the townspeople were almost dead and there was no time to rescue them.
The only thing he didn't expect was that the townspeople would disappear!
"Where can they run to? At this time, ordinary people running around in the wilderness is just looking for death?"
After searching the entire Raven Town, nothing was found.
Originally, according to the estimation of the legion commander, they should be able to escort all the surviving civilians in Raven Town back to Ceylon City and take them to the temporary refuge camp.
Now, it's a wasted trip and a wasted effort.
Take out the map from the bag.
"We can't just go back like this, right?"
"It's still early, let's try another place."
The nearest village to Raven Town is a small village with a population of only a few dozen people.
The farmers in the village usually have some food stored and have the habit of digging basements.
If they are left alone, most of them can hide underground to save themselves.
If the farmland is not polluted, they will continue to farm after the monsters are eliminated;
If the farmland is gone, they will go to Ceylon City as refugees.
Originally, such a small village was very low in the rescue priority of the Crusaders.
But now, the original plan to organize the rescue and population migration of Raven Town is no longer needed. With the extra time, the legion commander had to take the Crusaders to the nearest village.
"Lucky for them, the glow protected them today!"
...
It took some time to reach the village.
The same scene was repeated.
"Where are the people?!"
It was empty again!
There were many traces of people living there, but there was no one!
The legion commander felt a little sweaty.
The situation was serious.
The disappearance of the entire population of a small town was a big problem that he needed to report back.
Going to this small village was just a side trip.
Unexpectedly, the people in the small village also disappeared!
The legion commander immediately changed his mind:
"A team of 5 people, ride quickly to other towns for investigation."
"The temporarily recruited professionals, go to the village to check the situation!"
"After the investigation, meet up in Ceylon City!"
"I will lead a team myself, and leave Chim Town to me!"
A series of tasks were assigned.
The members of the Crusaders received their respective orders and scattered.
...
The legion commander took the remaining few men after the division and changed the route again, heading to Chim Town.
Because the goal was to investigate, there were horses as vehicles, and the speed of action was very fast.
It took another half a day.
Under the night of the eternal night, the visibility was not very good.
As the legion commander and his party gradually approached Chim Town.
Before they could see the outer buildings of Chim Town, flatbed carriages appeared one after another in all directions of sight.
The carriages were full of people.
The legion commander rubbed his eyes subconsciously.
"Am I seeing things?"
"Where did these people come from?"
Getting closer.
The people in the car all look like ordinary people.
But along with the caravan, there is a group of professionals!
Whenever a monster in the wilderness tries to attack, the professionals will decisively take action.
Swords, magic, arrows.
Turning the monster into a corpse in seconds.
Then they continue to run non-stop towards the direction of Chim Town.
The legion leader rubbed his eyes again.
The picture in front of him remained unchanged.
He seemed to know where the people who disappeared in Raven Town and nearby villages went!
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