Their registration was late, so their evacuation time was naturally late too—not to mention that they'd just gathered quite a bit of wood and stone outside the city.
Their return timings were strictly controlled as well.
Basically, as soon as they arrived at the territory, the resource merchant team would leave, and they could only "reluctantly" head back outside the city to keep selling.
This explanation was actually pretty convincing.
Very soon, the territory residents were quickly organized and began to move, orderly, toward the city gate.
At the city gate.
As night was about to fall, Justin saw quite a few territory residents returning one after another, and felt ever so slightly relieved.
Some return is better than none.
But just as he was about to rejoice, he saw the two Mercenary Teams from Hope Village getting ready to leave.
No—actually, they hadn't left at all, just moved to outside the city.
