Butterfly Effect

Similar situations were not limited to the Frontier Shelter.

At this very moment, throughout the entire Dragon Kingdom, among the forces still resisting Li Chen and the Star-Level Shelter,

any commander with even a little rank, authority, or capability,

after seeing Li Chen's speech and the praise lavished upon the Star-Level Shelter and Li Chen himself by countless survivors around the world,

began voting with their feet and making their own choices.

Surrender was out of the question.

Surrender was impossible in this lifetime.

Wasn't it better to take a huge haul of gold, silver, and treasure and run off to paradise outside to keep enjoying the good life?

Why stay here and suffer with your lousy Star-Level Shelter?

For all they knew, the wealth and resources they had painstakingly plundered would be snatched away by Li Chen and confiscated!

And it was far from just one or two people who thought this way.

In countless shelters, from low-level commanders to High-Level Commanders, anyone still stationed in their shelters

who had been unable to follow the Supreme Commander to the Hua Ju Laboratory Headquarters to "enjoy" Evolution Resources

was now almost certainly considering retreat.

"Go, go, go! Get moving! Quit your fucking dawdling! If we wait any longer, Li Chen will sell you to the Black-Heart Production Line and let you enjoy your blessings!"

"You idiot! What fucking Dragon Bloodline? Do you want to stay and become fuel and dry batteries for the Star-Level Shelter? Follow me to the White-Headed Sam Empire Shelter! That's the real paradise!"

"That idiot Li Chen wants to use this to brainwash and fool people? What a genius! Why doesn't he just claim he's Jesus the savior?!"

"A global community with a shared future for humanity's survivors? Doesn't exist! Someone always has to be worked