Gu Zheng was speechless.
The northern part of Fengzhou was indeed in a tragic state.
The first third-rank passageway had appeared there.
The second third-rank passageway was there, too.
In the four prefectures to the north, the previous passageways already totaled seventeen.
Now, with the addition of two second-rank ones, the total was nineteen.
Across four prefectures and twenty-three counties, that meant almost every single county had a passageway.
No wonder Lu Guangbei had said it was impossible to survive in the north, that everyone outside the cities was dead.
With so many passageways, it was already quite an achievement that the north was still holding on.
But they had no choice but to defend it.
If they truly abandoned the north, the Demon Fiends pouring out of the passageways would only grow in number.
Eventually, the Demon Fiend armies they formed would march south, and destroying cities would be a trivial matter for them.
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