As the passenger liner Albatross docked at the pier of Mantou Harbor, the 3,000 survivors who had drifted at sea for more than half a month finally arrived at their new home.
And after welcoming this batch of new immigrants, Mantou Harbor's population officially surpassed 30,000.
This was only the beginning.
For a long time to come, passenger ships departing from the Whirlpool Sea would pass through this strait one after another, bringing survivors from Batoa Province here, or to Coast's End Province northeast of the Baiyue Strait, delivering millions of immigrants.
They were not all merely the old, the weak, women, and children. There were also highly skilled engineers, scientists, and artists among them.
If the New Continent, where Velanders were the dominant population, was their first choice for refuge, then the rising Alliance was their second choice, after the New Continent.
There, they might not enjoy the privileges of a dominant ethnicity, but having endured extreme suffering, they had come to appreciate some of the benefits of equality.
Thus, after the number of people housed in the quarantine zones of Villant Province reached its peak, the old Legion forces and members of the Sticky Community began helping divert the flood of people to other parts of the wasteland.
No matter how many refugees poured into southern Villant Province, even if their numbers doubled again, Triumph City could handle them with ease and could even take the initiative to help Thiel relocate them.
After calculating every possibility, Thiel had clearly overlooked this one, and the flaw caused by his clever little scheme became the beginning of his complete defeat.
He had wanted to use Marshal Julius's funeral and turn Triumph City into a fulcrum to pry the whole world, making every Velander charge forward with him. Yet he had