Lin Shigong thought for a moment, then said:
"We probed the original sites of the major Underground Cities. Roughly seventy still have humans alive in them."
"We gathered intelligence on them by having Burrowing Robots approach, lie hidden, and listen in."
"As for living conditions... all I can say is that the people are suffering."
At the beginning of Doomsday, space in the Underground Cities of various countries had been so limited that, for the most part, only the powerful and their families could enter.
As for ordinary people, they could either slave away on construction or wait outside to die.
Those countries were nothing like Great Xia, the infrastructure powerhouse with comprehensive, rapid construction capabilities.
To put it bluntly, some countries had only been able to design and build Underground Cities because Great Xia and a few leading countries had handed them the means to avoid disputes, afraid they might lash out in desperation.
Now, those powerful elites were sealed underground. In some countries, construction of their Underground Cities had only reached a little over thirty percent; they were little more than frameworks.
Under those circumstances, it would have been a miracle if living conditions were good.
Fortunately, they had prepared ample supplies, so things had not deteriorated into the horror of cannibalism. But unable to leave, they still had to scrimp and save.
It had become impossible to prevent some of those at the bottom from living worse than dogs.
Some Underground Cities had even descended into utter depravity, spending every day in a drunken stupor and no longer treating people as human beings.
In short, the fate those powerful elites had met was retribution for all the wrongs they had committed over the years. They deserved to die.
Great Xia's not sending them straight to meet God