Chapter 1058: This terminally ill world (3/3)

Chapter 1058: This terminally ill world (3/3)

"Liuxia-chan, it's great that you're okay!"

Fujimaru Rika returned to the submarine, and after seeing Liu Xia who was in good condition, she was so excited that she almost wanted to jump up and hug him.

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

Esdes quickly grabbed her collar, stopped her from approaching, and handed her over to Matthew.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, it's great that you're okay!"

Immediately afterwards, Musashi rushed over, hugged Liu Xia in his arms, and almost burst into tears.

"Chong!"

Esdeath's eyes turned cold, and an ice sword immediately slashed over, and was caught by Musashi alertly.

Under the eyes of the two people, the electric sparks generated by a little fierce collision vaguely appeared in the air.

"...don't fight."

Liu Xia couldn't help but sighed slightly, and it was very rare to experience the feeling of being tired.

Once these two really fight, even he doesn't know how to deal with it. Fortunately, both of them regard each other as opponents, so that the pressure does not spread to Liu Xia, otherwise he may have more headaches.

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

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

"Well, good! Let's start with us!"

Fujimaru Rika glanced at Estes and Musashi who seemed to be about to fight, and nodded hastily.

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

To be honest, Liu Xia has never had such a moment when he thought Fujimaru Rika was particularly cute.

Last night, Fujimaru Rika and his party met a local girl named Gerda when they went out to inquire about information, and at her invitation, they stayed in a village named "The 23rd Settlement".

In that village, they have inquired about many appalling things one after another.

On the Nordic Lost Belt, which stretches for thousands of kilometers, there are no towns, no rail transportation, and only a total of 100 villages.

From the first colony to the 100th colony, it is the name of each of these villages.

A girl named Gerda is a member of this village.

And after walking into these villages, the more sensational experience is just beginning.

The entire village is surprisingly small. Although there are many wide fertile fields planted with crops, the area of ​​the village looks very broad, but 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 about 100 people in the whole village, and there is not a single adult over 25 years old, almost all of them are children and teenagers, and there are no middle-aged and elderly people.

From Gerda's mouth, everyone learned that all 100 settlements in the Nordic Lost Belt, each of which is like this, and each settlement has at most 100 villagers.

In other words, there are only about 10,000 human beings in the whole of Northern Europe.

Moreover, this is not an accident that happened until modern times, but it has been this virtue since 3,000 years ago.

This world of only 10,000 people has been morbidly functioning for three thousand years.

In other words, this is a world where civilization has completely declined since the Age of Gods, has never developed, and has entered the end of the world from the very beginning. In a sense, it is even more terrifying than the Russian Lostbelt.

It can actually be accepted until here. After all, there are countless possibilities in countless worlds, but the most unbearable thing is what happens next.

There are humans in this world, but there are also giants.

Although there is a barrier around the colony, which prevents the giants from entering the village, but this world has a very special rule.

Anyone who grows up to 25 years old and gives birth to a child must leave the village.

In this world where all kinds of giants are domineering in the wilderness, human beings leave the village, which means that they will be trampled by the giants alive. Even if they escape the giants, they will freeze to death in the wild because of the cold air at night.

This sounds very cruel, but it is taken for granted by the residents of this world, and has been followed for three thousand years, and no one has ever objected.

Because this is the rule set by God, and everyone believes in the rule of God.

Such an annual day of leaving the village is also called the day of selection.

"unacceptable!"

The fat director was the first to jump out when he heard the words, and cursed with an ugly expression.

"Is the **** of this world some kind of vicious and vicious evil god? A **** who sets such rules by raising a villager who doesn't even understand the meaning of life as a livestock, let alone face, I'm afraid even the lizi will It's broken!"

Gold would have such a big emotion, which is beyond everyone's expectations. His mentality is not like a magician, let alone a magician who came out of the law and politics department.

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

Lucia shook her head and refuted Gold's argument.

Even after a brief exchange with Skadi, Liu Xia could understand that the goddess was a true **** of love.

"Master Skaha?"

Fujimaru Rika was stunned for a moment.

"Then why did she make this rule?"

Gold suddenly cast a dissatisfied look at Liuxia, and even the vague fear of Liuxia was forgotten for a while.

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

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

"You should have also seen that there is almost nothing on the land of this Lost Belt, there are only mountains, ice and snow, and even those conifers are carved with ice. In other words, the world's resources are probably extremely limited. "

too little.

Food, water sources, ecological chain system... It is even very likely that even the spiritual veins of the Nordic land itself are almost exhausted.

Under such circumstances, how could this world have produced too many people?

I am afraid that 10,000 people is the upper limit of the population of this world.

And the root cause of such a problem is probably the Ragnarok that happened three thousand years ago.

In the battle between Surtur and the gods, because of Surter's unbridled destruction, not only did the gods die and wounded, but even the world itself suffered huge trauma, resulting in a serious shortage of resources.

The extremely lack of resources made Skadi have to make up his mind to maintain the population of the Lostbelt at 10,000. Once this limit is exceeded, I am afraid that even the remaining 10,000 people will not be able to survive.

Hearing Liu Xia's continuous flow of information about the Age of God, telling his speculations, everyone in the submarine fell into silence.

Make no mistake, this is a dying world.