Chapter 1058: This Terminally Ill World (3/3)

"Ruka-chan, I'm so glad you're okay!"

Fujimaru Ritsuka returned to the submarine, and after seeing Lucia who was intact, she was so excited that she almost wanted to rush up and hug him.

"How could something happen...Also, stay away from him."

Esdeath grabbed her collar with quick eyes and hands, stopped her from approaching, and then handed her over to Matthew who was beside him.

"Aww, Ruka-chan, I'm so glad you're okay!"

Immediately afterwards, Musashi rushed over and hugged Lucia in his arms, almost bursting into tears.

"Qiang!"

Esdeath's eyes turned cold, and an ice sword was slashed at him, but Musashi caught it alertly.

When the two people looked at each other, some electric sparks caused by the fierce collision vaguely appeared in the air.

"...Don't start a fight."

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Liu Xia couldn't help but sigh slightly, and it was a rare feeling to feel tired.

Once these two people really fight, even he won't know how to deal with it. Fortunately, these two people regard each other as their opponents and do not let the pressure spread to Liu Xia, otherwise he may have more headaches.

"Okay, now that everyone has gathered, let's share the information."

Holmes interrupted the infighting between the two women and brought up business.

"Yeah, okay! Let's start with us!"

Fujimaru Ritsuka glanced at Esdeath and Musashi, who seemed to be about to fight, and nodded hurriedly.

"We settled in a nearby village last night and managed to get some information about this Lost Belt from the girls in the village..."

To be honest, Ruka had never felt that Fujimaru Ritsuka was so cute.

Last night, when Fujimaru Ritsuka and his party went out to gather information, they met a local girl named Gerda, and at her invitation, they stayed in a village called "Cluster 23".

In that village,

They successively discovered many shocking things.

In this Nordic Lostbelt that stretches for thousands of kilometers, there are no towns or rail transit, only a total of 100 villages.

From the 1st settlement to the 100th settlement, these are the names of each of these villages.

A girl named Gerda is a member of this village.

And after entering these villages, the more sensational experiences have just begun.

The entire village is unexpectedly very small. Although there are many wide fertile fields growing crops, the village looks very spacious. However, after walking around the entire village, you will find that there are only thirty or forty households in the entire village. Just people.

There are only nearly a hundred people in the entire village, and none of them are adults over the age of 25. Almost all of them are children and teenagers, and there are no middle-aged or elderly people.

From Gerda's mouth, everyone learned that all the 100 settlements in the Nordic Lostbelt were like this, and each settlement only had a maximum of 100 villagers.

In other words, there are only about 10,000 humans in Northern Europe.

Moreover, this is not a change that has only occurred in modern times, but has been this virtue since 3,000 years ago.

This world with only 10,000 people has been functioning in a morbid manner for three thousand years.

In other words, this is a world where civilization has completely declined since the age of the gods and has never developed. It has come to an end from the beginning. In a sense, it is more terrifying than the Russian Lost Belt.

It's actually still acceptable up to this point. After all, there are countless worlds with countless possibilities, but the most unbearable thing is what happens next.

There are humans in this world, but there are also giant species.

Although the settlement is protected by a barrier that prevents giants from entering the village, this world has a very special rule.

Anyone who reaches the age of 25 and gives birth to a child must leave the village.

In this world where all kinds of giant species run rampant in the wilderness, if humans leave the village, it means they will be crushed alive by the giants. Even if they escape the giants, they will freeze to death in the wild due to the cold night.

Such a thing that sounds very cruel is taken as a matter of course by the residents of this world. They have been observing it for three thousand years, and no one has ever raised any objections.

Because these are the rules set by God, and everyone believes in God’s rule.

This annual day to leave the village is also called the chosen day.

"unacceptable!"

When the fat director heard this, he jumped out first and cursed with an ugly expression.

"Is the god of this world some extremely vicious evil god? The god who raises villagers who don't even understand the meaning of life as domestic animals and sets such rules has lost face, let alone face. It’s broken!”

Gold's emotion was beyond everyone's expectations. His mentality was not like that of a magician, let alone one who came out of the Legal Affairs Department.

"No, from what I've seen and heard, there is no doubt that Scathach Skadi is a benevolent god."

Lucia shook her head and refuted Gold's argument.

Even after just a brief exchange with Skadi, Lucia could understand that the goddess was a genuine God of love.

"Master Scathach?"

Fujimaru Ritsuka was stunned for a moment.

"Then why did she set this rule?"

Gold immediately cast a dissatisfied look at Lucia, forgetting even his vague fear of Lucia for a moment.

"...I'm afraid it's because the world doesn't allow it."

Liu Xia was silent for a while and gave her guessed answer.

"You should have also seen that there is almost nothing on the land in this Lost Belt. There are only mountains, ice and snow, and even the coniferous trees are carved out of ice. In other words, the resources in this world are probably extremely limited. "

Too little.

Food, water sources, ecological chain systems... and possibly even the spiritual veins of the Nordic land itself are close to being exhausted.

Under such an environment, how could the world possibly support too many people?

I'm afraid 10,000 people is the upper limit of population in this world.

The root cause of such problems is probably the Twilight of the Gods that happened three thousand years ago.

In the battle between Surtur and the gods, Surtur's unbridled destruction not only resulted in the death and injury of all the gods, but also caused huge trauma to the world itself, causing a serious shortage of resources.

The extremely insufficient resources forced Skadi to make up his mind to maintain the population of the Lost Belt at 10,000. Once this limit was exceeded, even the remaining 10,000 people might not be able to survive.

After hearing Liu Xia's continuous stream of information about the Gods and his speculations, everyone in the submarine fell into silence.

There is no doubt that this is a very sick world.