Go, Come Kill People! A Bonus Chapter for Gold Alliance Leader wise Hai Chen, 49–50
If the losses across the entire Southeast were added up in the end, the final figure would probably be terrifyingly high.
Zhao Shanhe held down the fort at Headquarters, mechanically receiving feedback from the various Guardian Halls—one piece of terrible news after another.
Countless familiar and unfamiliar names were reported as having fallen.
Many others were reported missing.
Everyone knew what it meant when those who had gone out to search and rescue disappeared under circumstances like these and could no longer be found.
Across the Seventeen Continents of the Southeast, news kept arriving from the Guardian Halls in hundreds of small cities. The numbers of the dead and missing continued to climb.
They grew larger and larger.
Zhao Shanhe felt his heart grow colder with every passing moment.
Every piece of news was like a vicious slash across the heart of this Chief Commander!
As of now, the number of civilians rescued and still alive in the Southeast... exceeded thirty million.
But... the number of Guardians lost by the various Guardian Halls and the Southeast Headquarters had already reached nearly ten thousand, according to the current statistics!
And large numbers of civilians were still trapped in the wind and snow.
At the very least, tens of millions more civilians were still waiting for rescue.
They were scattered throughout the vast, snow-covered lands of the Southeast.
The leaders of the Southeast Headquarters had all gathered in the Hall of Heroes.
In silence, they watched those familiar names emerge one after another through the curling incense smoke.
Every person remained silent.
This was a sacrifice no one could avoid choosing, yet everyone had to face.
How could they not rescue the civilians outside? But the little