Chapter 737: There is really no room near Anshan

Chapter 737: There is really no room near Anshan

Anshan, the capital of Anyue.

High-rise buildings stand tall and the old city expands.

Even after a hundred years of hard work and development, Anyue built a large number of high-rise buildings, but it still could not accommodate the dense population.

Since the first catastrophe, the population burden of Anshan has become extremely heavy. This time the catastrophe has re-emerged, and the number of people and creatures fleeing is even more terrifying, occupying almost every place within sight.

In addition to the numerous high-rise buildings, many people's homes in the capital were forcibly renovated, connected into large houses and built into residential buildings, in order to accommodate those who came to take refuge.

But this is just a drop in the bucket. More people can only sleep on the ground outside the city, and some even sleep on the ground in Muyuan next door.

Food shortages, daily necessities, water pressure, epidemic prevention issues, conflicts in people's livelihood...many problems have come flooding in. Even though Anyue has abundant reserves and had anticipated them, it was still hit head-on. Fortunately, it can be stabilized for now.

Anshan, Muyuan, Qianzhou, and even the previously destroyed Beiyuan area were all crowded with fleeing lives.

According to vague statistics, the three major areas of Anshan, Muyuan and Qianzhou, which originally had a total permanent population of about 19 million, now have a total population of more than 70 million. This number is still increasing and may reach the limit at any time.

People who lived farther away could hardly escape to Anshan. Even if they were lucky enough to make it there alive, they would find it embarrassing that there was no room for them...

The fields, corners of houses, roadsides, and even the mountains and forests are all filled with people in distress.

However, this population, which almost exploded the three major realms, was only a tiny part of the entire human world.

In order to accommodate the new population, in the previous peaceful period, in addition to building a large number of buildings, Anyue even had plans to open up the Gobi Mountains further west. However, the veins there were crisscrossed and the underground veins were connected to the Anshan boundary. One careless move could lead to a collapse. Due to the shortage of official manpower, the plan was temporarily abandoned.

There was a large area outside Qianzhou where all the people had fled, leaving it empty and dead silent.

The fields are barren with no one to cultivate them; there are disasters on land and water with no one to manage them; it is a desolate and decadent scene, with demons everywhere and no one to suppress them, making it even more dangerous.

On Anyue's side, the large number of refugees mobilized a large amount of labor, but after the chaos, the limited resources transmitted from various places became a limitation on the labor force!

The accumulation of a large number of people has also given rise to countless conflicts and incidents. The evil thoughts in people's hearts do not need to be stimulated, and they will automatically emerge under the disaster.

In order to appease and suppress the unrest in the people's livelihood, Anyue had to send out part of the troops, but the available manpower became even more scarce.

A hundred years is enough time for An Yue to accumulate enormous power.

But a hundred years is the time when two or three generations of people change. Such a long period of peace is enough to make countless people slack off and forget the sufferings of their predecessors.

No matter how much others said, or how detailed it was written in books or papers, he and his parents had never seen it since they were born, so they could not understand An Yue's vigilance at all.

Even though An Yue often warned people, many people still had no idea about the significance of the catastrophe.

Until the catastrophe really came again, people who had never experienced it became panicked 'lambs' again.

Fortunately, An Yue also taught a lot of emergency plans and has been emphasizing the dangers of major disasters for many years. Officials from all over the country have emergency risk avoidance plans.

Otherwise, by the time the people realize the situation and are willing to give up their money and homes and try to escape, most of them will probably die on the way.

The population has greatly expanded, and the most critical issues include housing, daily resource consumption, and the most important problem of plague and disease. However, with the blessing of Anshan and the many practitioners casting spells to maintain the environment, they are not afraid for the time being.

What remains is the food problem.

There were only so many farmlands and factories in the three adjacent areas. The people who were led to flee had experienced a lot of hardships and were panic-stricken. They were lucky enough to barely abide by the rules and not destroy the fertile fields and fruit trees. Very few people took the initiative to respond to the call and reclaim new fields and plant spiritual grains.

Even if Anyue had persisted in storing food for a hundred years and used various spiritual practices to preserve it, it would not be able to withstand the consumption for too long. Now that all the people from the neighboring territories had come here, the huge amount of people had gathered here, the various thoughts were complicated, and a large number of demons and evil creatures had been bred and attracted, putting Anyue under tremendous pressure to defend herself.

The food problem is the most difficult to solve. After all, food is not something you can get just by wanting it. It requires cultivation and maintenance, waiting for the crops to mature, and then collection and processing... With all these problems arising, it becomes extremely difficult for An Yue to collect food from outside. Every time he goes out to collect food, he has to send out a large number of practitioners and troops.

But not every time I can come back completely...

Moreover, spiritual creations, daily supplies... also require raw materials!

Transportation is a big problem, and persisting in collecting resources is also a top priority!

The world is in chaos. An Yue not only has to maintain order under various pressures, but also has to appease the people and officials in some lands, send troops and practitioners to help suppress the unrest, offer high salaries, transport large amounts of food and supplies, and encourage them to take risks to stay in their original lands, continue to mine important resources, cultivate important crops, and maintain An Yue's huge consumption...

In fact, many people are not happy about this. After all, the world is so chaotic nowadays. Who would dare to stay and take the risk of evil spirits and demons causing chaos!

However, many things in this world cannot be done the way you want them to be.

Regardless of whether they are willing or not, out of a sense of justice or out of helplessness, someone has to stand up and choose to stay to maintain the output of those resources.

Otherwise, even if An Yue has spiritual means and a bunch of thermal weapons, what can they do? With the consumption of demons and evil spirits, there is no raw material to make bullets and shells, no food to continue producing, and no cultivation resources needed by practitioners... The population is getting bigger and bigger, and they are just eating up the resources and waiting to die!

After all, who knows how long this catastrophe will last! For long-term defense needs, An Yue must ensure that she has sufficient combat power and resources for safety reasons!

They want to protect people from taking refuge, but they cannot lose the power to resist, especially with such a huge crowd gathering, the demons and evil spirits that are on guard are becoming more and more terrifying...

The people of Anyue understood that if the four words "Anshan Li Yuan" were not still intimidating, if it were not for the threat from Anyue Lingke and the practitioners' strenuous resistance, those demons who coveted the lives of living beings would have rushed over and devoured all the "delicious blood food" they were gathering together.

Faced with external and internal troubles, An Yue is under great pressure but is still able to hold on for now, thanks to the supplies stockpiled over the previous hundred years and the sudden rise of human practitioners.

What worries Emperor Anyue and others the most, apart from Li Yuan and Tian Yao who are constantly on the move and fighting against the most terrifying enemies, are the people of Anshan who are scattered around to protect the lives of various creatures.

For example, Wang Shuo and others, and many creatures in Anshan...

They are alone outside, protecting the innocent lives targeted by demons and evil spirits, and even fighting bloody battles with the enemy for various survival resources...

Being a warrior means risking sacrifice.

If you want to protect, you have to pay a price.

This is Anshan's "promise" to the world, or in other words, it is the promise of Anshan creatures and Anshan practitioners to the mountain god Li Yuan.

They will protect every corner of the world, even if it means sacrificing their lives and fighting to the death.