Across the African savanna, thousands of conspicuously out-of-place hovercars moved forward slowly. They towed vast numbers of containers behind them, all using advanced levitation technology that allowed them to ignore the uneven terrain of the grasslands.
This convoy was Wakanda's refugees.
Of course, calling them refugees was perhaps not entirely accurate, because no one had ever seen refugees this well-dressed.
Generally speaking, refugees left their homes because of war or natural disasters, with no guarantee they would survive another day. Most were ragged, starving and freezing, with several dying for every mile they traveled.
But these Wakandan refugees, though somewhat dispirited, lacked no supplies whatsoever. Not only that, they possessed an exceptionally abundant stockpile of weapons and ammunition.
Prince T'Challa stayed beside his aged father, the two still immersed in the grief of losing their homeland.
Luo Fei had kept his promise. As far as the Wakandan people were concerned, he had committed no slaughter or persecution. He had merely sealed off the location of the Vibranium mine and begun excavating it. Luo Fei had not even driven the Wakandans away; as long as they did not approach the mine to cause trouble, they were free to do whatever they wished.
Yet the Wakandans had still decided to leave their homeland, to depart from this place of sorrow.
Without the Vibranium mine, Wakanda could no longer maintain its current privileged way of life. At the same time, with the illusionary shield gone, Wakanda's true condition would soon be discovered by the entire world. Then those greedy foreigners would turn this place into a battlefield.
Having already lost the Vibranium mine, the Wakandans had no desire to remain here as targets waiting to die. Thus, a vast migration began.
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