From noon until dusk, Old Zhang and Luo Xiang, who had been sent out to gather information, returned with several pieces of bad news.
"Because the disaster is about to arrive, tens of thousands of people are gathering here every day, hoping to gain the protection of the Golden Giant Eagle. We came relatively early. In a few more days, the number of people jammed up here will probably increase more than tenfold!"
"Although the screening process for entering the inner territory hasn't been closed, it's practically the same as being closed. At most, only a thousand or so people can be screened and admitted each day. At this rate, it'll take at least a week before it's our turn!"
"I told the guards that we had the correct answers to those questions, but he told me that at least one hundred and fifty thousand of the two hundred thousand people currently jammed here had told him the same thing."
"It's terrifying. I heard that a melee even broke out two days ago, and several hundred people died."
"The land route is currently building Defense Checkpoints to resist the disaster, so we can only get in by water."
"..."
As he listened, the smile on Su Mo's face slowly faded.
Although he had already guessed that something like this might happen before coming here, no one had expected the situation to worsen to this extent. More than two hundred thousand people were jammed in front of the checkpoint and unable to enter the territory, while tens or even hundreds of thousands more were still on their way.
If a beast tide entered through the waterways after the disaster broke out, the consequences would be unimaginable.
"A territory with a population approaching a hundred million can only screen a thousand or