Although they had arrived at the checkpoint and lined up, the people from the outer district were still quite fearful of the registration categorization, afraid that they would be classified and turned into fuel to keep the Energy Tower burning.
This rumor seemed to be spreading widely in the outer district, with everyone saying that the Count of the Northern Territory used living souls to sustain the Energy Tower's burn so that the people in the inner district could stay warm.
Now, the 'fuel' in the inner district was running low, so they needed to trick these people from the outer district to enter the city and then turn them into fuel as well.
But life in the outer district was too harsh—no clothes to ward off the cold, no food to satisfy hunger, and not even fuel to keep warm!
They were unable to survive any longer! Who still cared how they died?
