Chapter 474: Missing Residents
The group entered the island's interior, which turned out to be a city. However, the atmosphere here was a bit off. The streets were eerily quiet, and aside from pirates, no one else could be seen.
The houses on the island were quite tidy, and there were plenty of farm fields. But the fields looked like they hadn't been tended in a long time, overgrown with weeds.
Next to the houses were livestock pens, but now they were completely empty, with only traces of slaughtered animals. A cow's skull lay not far from the pen.
"Why is this island full of nothing but pirates? They don't look like farmers at all. Where are all the island's people?"
Anna looked at the surrounding scene and asked a question.
With Anna's intelligence, she had certainly already guessed what happened here. But she deliberately asked anyway, while carefully observing Paqina's reaction.
She was also trying to find a way to help Paqina come to terms with all of this sooner. Loren understood her intention and explained:
"This should have been just an ordinary town. Quite a few ordinary people live in the Endless Ocean.
"The ocean itself is crazy, but the islands are still tolerable. Many people don't even need to believe in any god to survive here.