Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse-Chapter 726 - 470: End This Winter As Soon As Possible! (5,800-Word - !)

Area 1 incidents?

Xu Xin was slightly taken aback.

"What happened?" he asked somewhat confused.

"Xu Xin, do you remember the events in Area 187 before the onset of winter?" Ji Chaoyang didn’t answer directly but instead asked him.

The events in Area 187?

What happened back then?

Ah...!

He raised his eyebrows slightly and blurted out, "The population mysteriously decreased, but the treehouses weren’t dug out?"

"That’s right." Ji Chaoyang’s voice appeared somewhat heavy at this moment. "This kind of event also occurred in Area 1."

This kind of event also occurred in Area 1?

"...How do you know? Where did you get the information?" Xu Xin asked somewhat confusedly, "From the world channel, it seems nothing has happened in the outer areas in the past few days other than the snow getting thicker, right? If it’s just the population decrease in Area 1..."

That doesn’t seem like something to pay attention to.

After all, the current situation in Area 1 is basically the same as in our Area 188. Winter is effectively over, and the positions of the strong are exposed due to the Transmission Array.

In this case, it’s not that big of a problem if some survivors want to follow the strong, chopping down their treehouses to migrate, is it?

Of course, if Area 1 is indeed without issues, Xu Xin wouldn’t believe it. After all, for Shi Wanyun, a lone wolf in Area 1, to lower her guard and spam the world trading platform, something unknown must definitely be happening over there.

"If it’s just a decrease in Area 1 population, it might be them voluntarily relocating, is that what you mean?" Ji Chaoyang guessed Xu Xin’s thoughts and said.

"...Indeed."

"Things are not that simple. Before we ventured into the underground world, I had instructed a few people on my side to closely monitor the world channel at all times. When I returned, they told me about various events, and from their fragmented recounts, I deduced some things."

He began to explain his findings.

Yesterday, shortly after the two Teleportation Arrays in Area 1 were linked, Area 1 saw a very obvious reduction in personnel.

Out of over two thousand people, nearly two hundred disappeared within a few hours.

However, this incident didn’t attract much worldwide attention.

Because they all had a misunderstanding due to the precedent of Area 188, they automatically assumed that the reduction in Area 1 was because large numbers of survivors were chopping down treehouses to follow Area 1’s elites.

Even Area 1’s strong individuals believed this.

Because they had been saying for a long time that they welcomed anyone, whether from their area or others, to follow them.

By then, more than ten areas had already unlocked the Teleportation Array, with purple-black beams reaching the sky, and similar occurrences had appeared in these and neighboring regions.

Therefore, this event didn’t catch much attention at the time, and Area 1’s elites even increased their promotional efforts, stating that anyone who came would receive very favorable treatment.

The treatment they offered certainly couldn’t compare to the explorers’, but since the explorers were too far from other regions, distant water cannot quench proximate thirst, many who could no longer bear surviving alone naturally chose Area 1 based on proximity.

Of course, due to the lack of many blue-level axes, Area 1 naturally couldn’t acquire the cores of these people’s treehouses. Nevertheless, they provided some resources, more or less.

But what happened next was a bit strange.

"As of now, less than ten people have arrived around those two Teleportation Arrays in Area 1, and these people have mostly been active on the world channel. They originally had treehouses located relatively close to the Teleportation Arrays, with the farthest one being no more than fifty kilometers away."

"...Are the others really dead?" Xu Xin asked.

"Based on the information I have, that seems to be the case," Ji Chaoyang said in a low voice. "Right now, this time point is more than 24 hours after a large number of survivors from Area 1 disappeared!"

Xu Xin pondered for a moment and then spoke, "...So, even if these individuals were initially alive, chopping down their treehouses to follow the strong, now, they are past the time limit?"

After the 24-hour limit, they would "forever leave this beautiful world."

So, no matter what the situation is, these individuals indeed seem thoroughly done for.

"Exactly," Ji Chaoyang said. "I further received information that the connected areas like Area 2 also faced significant reductions. At the time, Area 2’s people thought they may have been those moving to Area 1, but now, it’s also..."

Xu Xin frowned slightly.

"Could it be that they encountered some sort of situation along the way?" he speculated, "Like... the situation we encountered back then? Those furry humanoids, those marauders seemed to want to teleport the survivors to another place."

The scene of being surrounded by wolves is still vividly remembered to this day.

They were controlled by the furry humanoids, forcing the survivors into an encirclement, and beneath the encirclement was an inexplicable Transmission Array.

During that situation, if it were just ordinary survivors, it would have been near impossible to escape.

Had Xu Xin not noticed the anomaly then, probably not many would have made it out on their side either.