In winter in the East Sea, even working at full capacity, they had not built many houses. Suddenly moving six or seven million people there created a huge housing problem.
Zhao Hua and the others knew this as well. They each sighed, then gave Lu Yang a full account of Feng City's situation.
According to Zhao Hua's statistics, Feng City still had a population of 7.3 million. There were practically no elderly people left—fewer than 100,000 remained. They had not been killed by creatures from the other world, but had died from the cold and hunger of two winters.
During the first winter after the otherworldly invasion, Feng City had already run out of food. They relied entirely on cultivators like Pan Yuhang and the army's soldiers to go out and hunt Demonized Creatures, but their abilities were limited, and the prey they brought back could only feed part of the population.
Only after ensuring the fighting strength of the soldiers and cultivators could the remaining food be distributed to ordinary people. Some also had to be reserved for children, leaving many elderly people in a constant state of hunger.
Later, the invasion of all kinds of demonized insects and rats within the city forced people to relocate frequently. Those elderly people could not keep up and many were killed.
The last portion of deaths had been caused by the cold. The destruction wrought by Demonized Creatures had ruptured all kinds of pipelines, making heating extremely difficult. Large numbers of elderly people froze to death. Thus, among Feng City's remaining 7.3 million people, aside from fewer than 100,000 elderly people and 2.2 million children, the remaining five million-plus were all healthy adults between eighteen and forty-five.
Among those five million-plus people, the ratio of men to women was nearly one