Although Ryan took his time to kill the monsters he found along the way and barely reached a jogging speed, in the end, he crossed Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama in just a few days. He even gave Furball plenty of time to eat some monsters, but he progressed quite a bit despite that. Aside from the fact that Furball had grown strong and now he is big enough for Ryan to mount him, there was nothing to celebrate. Wherever he went, Ryan didn't find a single living soul. Destroyed cities, abandoned towns, battlefields where monsters killed each other non-stop… he only found that.
"This is kind of hard to accept, but it looks like humanity has decreased to a few thousand," Ryan muttered. "At least here, in America."
Ryan considered that, but in the end, he wanted to avoid that option, but it looks like he will have to check things on the other continents. If things weren't better there…