Xu Ye saw it too.
The world map showed landmasses completely unlike Earth's. There were four continents in total, and the Eastern Continent, where Xu Ye and the others lived, had the largest land area.
But as his gaze focused on the red areas on the map, even his breath caught.
They were tiny.
Compared to an entire continent, those areas were far too small.
He calculated the scale. Across all of Planet Earth, the land suitable for human habitation amounted to roughly two-thirds of the area of Great Xia in his previous life.
"I'm sorry, but this is already the best-case picture."
Zhao Haili said calmly, "In fact, aside from the territories governed by the Five Great Powers and a few areas of the Wasteland that have relatively little pollution, aberration and pollution occur frequently everywhere else."
"And then there are forbidden zones."
"Aberrants above level three have a high probability of causing Heavenly Dao distortion, which then creates what we call forbidden zones."
"In a forbidden zone, almost all the rules differ from those of our reality. Each forbidden zone also contains all sorts of strange phenomena. The greater the Heavenly Dao distortion, the more its rules diverge from reality, and the more strange phenomena appear."
"They are filled with Aberrants and Great Fiends. You could say humans cannot survive inside them at all."
"The information on large forbidden zones around the world has been updated. There are eighteen in total. The largest has already covered more than half the Western Continent, and it is still expanding. In less than ten years, it will cover the entire Western Continent."
Holding a pointer, Zhao Haili drew a large circle on the map.
"Here... this tiny patch is where nearly three billion of us live."
"Behind us lies the ocean."