Wu Meng and his group gained their carbon supply from some unknown source, but when they visited the Fire Bamboo Forest and Liang Yuan treated them to a meal, everyone devoured the rice, indicating that the people from the Martial King Pavilion also faced significant challenges in carbon supply.
In such circumstances, no shelter would be willing to increase its population.
As for Tian Wei from the mining district, the reason he still needed to take people forcefully was that he didn't care about the lives of the mine slaves.
As long as his superpower users were well-fed, it didn't matter if the mine slaves died; he could always capture more.
Liang Yuan had no clear idea about the situation in Meihai Garden, but he assumed it wasn't much better than the other two shelters.
In short, Han Xiangman and her group had no place to go.
Han Xiangman had evidently already inquired about the situation in Yangshan from the mine slaves here and knew her current predicament.