Chapter 243
Everyone gathered to eat and chat, and Lin Yi learned about the Northern Settlement's current situation from Liu Chuan.
Simply put, no single person held absolute power here. Instead, seven people formed its ruling core, and Elder Zhang, who had brought them here earlier, was one of them.
Moreover, plans for the Northern Settlement had already been put on the agenda before the apocalypse began.
Many people had died in Capital City. Elder Zhang and the others had entered the Northern Settlement under military escort, and more people had subsequently arrived to assist them, gradually bringing the settlement to its present state.
The towering walls surrounding the Northern Settlement, the city within them, and the underground area where they were staying had all been created by an Anomalous Object.
Anomalous Object No. 111: Dream Sandbox.
It allowed its owner to build a city of their own inside a sandbox, and the buildings within that sandbox would manifest in reality.
In other words, they were currently inside a gigantic sandbox.
Construction did not even require any materials. The Anomalous Object's owner only had to imagine it.
And although the Northern Settlement appeared peaceful, it was already plagued by trouble both within and without.
Internally, there were too many people and too few administrators, leaving force as the only means of keeping order. On top of that, Elder Zhang and his colleagues controlled the Awakening Potions and Promotion Potions, so many ordinary people were trying to find ways to become Sequence Transcendents.
The external threat was even more straightforward: Level Five Aberration creatures!
"There are three Level Five Aberration creatures outside the Northern Settlement. They caused quite a panic before. Everyone was afraid this place wouldn't be able to hold out."
Liu Chuan pushed up his glasses and said gravely,