Above Rabbit Town, on the surface of the Crystal Plains.
At the Crystal-Eyed Race's city construction base, a group of Crystal-Eyed people gathered around a bonfire, warming themselves and chatting while sheltering from the rain.
"Every day, tens of thousands of people come out of the 'hole'..."
"Can't you count? What tens of thousands? At least hundreds of thousands."
"With so many people, and from every race too, I'm a little worried the Crystal Plains will get packed to bursting."
"You don't need to worry about that. Didn't Elder Yota say at the mobilization assembly that the area we've explored so far is less than one percent of the Dream Crystal Plain? Besides, there are countless Wonderlands across these Crystal Plains. Silver Coral Island alone has at least a million permanent residents right now. If we find even larger Wonderlands in the future, or if the 'Mushroom' Wonderland can be opened up, we'll have even more space to live in."
"I'm not worried about overcrowding either. What I'm really worried about is the apocalypse."
"Every day, I watch so many people enter the Crystal Plains to pioneer it; seeing migration on such a massive scale gives me a faintly ominous feeling... Perhaps the apocalypse really is coming."
The mood around the bonfire had been fairly relaxed, but the moment someone mentioned "the apocalypse outside," everyone's spirits abruptly plummeted.
They looked at one another, with no one in the mood to chat anymore.
The one who had brought up the "apocalypse" topic noticed that something was wrong with the atmosphere and hurried to salvage it. "Actually, there's no need to worry too much about the apocalypse outside. Personally, I think the environment here is pretty good. Other than the lack of Aggregation Energy, everything's fine..."
The atmosphere had already been rather