The next morning, Mount Lao Safe Zone.
The city walls were crowded with people. Outside the Safe Zone at the mouth of the valley, large numbers of soldiers and Awakeners streamed out and assembled.
Whether inside or outside, hundreds of thousands of Survivors craned their necks curiously, watching the high-level administrators hurriedly forming ranks with puzzled looks.
The morning weather was fairly cool.
Fighting off their drowsiness, many Survivors outside the city crawled out of their tents. Some whispered uneasily among themselves, curiously sizing up everything before them.
"What's going on?"
"Why have all the higher-ups come out!? Didn't someone say there was going to be a 'coup' last night?"
"Who's coming?"
"Is Lord Yuan Feng coming back?"
"Who knows? Wasn't he dead?"
The voices were noisy and chaotic.
The ordinary Survivors, who knew nothing about what was happening, couldn't help glancing around repeatedly, staring at the formation of "honor guards" ahead with puzzled faces.
They didn't know what had happened, much less why all the higher-ups had appeared together.
As people at the very bottom, they had far too few channels for information.
Many of them still hadn't recovered from what had happened yesterday.
A Third Order battle, an unknown powerhouse attacking the Safe Zone, the Commander going missing, and Lin An appearing...
Even now, many people hadn't dared to close their eyes.
They were afraid that the rumors might come true: because Liang Long and Yuan Feng had disappeared, the higher-ups of Mount Lao Safe Zone were preparing for a bloody internal struggle to choose a new administrator.
Alternatively, Dragon Security might send people to take over. Some people, frightened by that possibility, had even spread rumors that Dragon Security was going to purge them, hoping to lead their teams out of the Safe Zone.
The various guesses