Chapter 2437: A Day That Would Come Sooner or Later
According to preliminary statistics, roughly one hundred thousand humans had been transported back by Luo Zhen.
That was no small number.
This era was nothing like the future, where a single city could easily have a population of tens of millions. The cities and nations of the Sumerians had all developed from village societies of only a few thousand people. Even Uruk, known as the largest fortified city in the world, had only had around this many citizens at its peak—and might not even have reached that number.
With a full hundred thousand people suddenly moving in, it was hardly surprising that Uruk had become so chaotic.
Especially since no one knew why these people had suddenly appeared in Uruk, where they had come from, what their identities were, or what their current condition was. To deal with them, everyone in Uruk, from the king down to the servants, was probably run off their feet.
On top of that, they had to consider whether any of the hundred thousand were spies from the Three Goddess Alliance, whether they carried magical devices or traps, whether something had gone wrong with Uruk's barrier to allow so many people to be transported in at once, and whether the sudden appearance of so many people meant that magical beasts might be transported in next. To put it bluntly, these hundred thousand people were an extremely hot potato for Uruk.
Yet while they were a hot potato, wasn't this also an opportunity for Uruk?
After all, if all one hundred thousand were useful talents, then Uruk could greatly replenish both its soldiers and its civil officials.
In other words, this was an opportunity to strengthen Uruk's power and allow it to deal with the Three