They learned that these people couldn't leave the dungeon before the eviction time. Once the dungeon evicted them, they were all teleported to the surface.
Some had arrived twenty years ago, others ten, five, or even two years earlier.
They found one another along the way. Some had been teleported together, while others encountered each other after arriving on the surface. Eventually, they formed hunting teams to survive, and those small groups gradually grew into the huge settlement they were seeing today.
Adrian and the others were shocked to learn that the surface had been livable for so long without them knowing.
They had always assumed that the people who didn't come out before the dungeon's eviction were dead.
They had never imagined that those people had simply been teleported to the surface years before them.
