Chapter 2613 (^▽^) The Battle-Building Begins
Since the main strategic objective of the Abandoned Mine forward base was to drive out all the Warp Daemons rampaging and slaughtering people throughout Guixu City and across Canopy Star, it was only natural that, over the past few days, the Abandoned Mine base had begun recruiting in earnest among the survivors hiding in the vast abandoned mine and living under the base's protection.
In just a few days, they had successfully recruited five thousand able-bodied men and women from among the ever-growing group of survivors, whose numbers had already exceeded twenty thousand, and organized them into a new recruit regiment.
The reason they could recruit such a high proportion was, of course, that most of the people who had managed to escape the clutches of the demons in Guixu City were young, able-bodied citizens, while most of the elderly, weak, sick, and disabled had already died.
Although that sounded cruel, it was the truth. It was what was happening—and continued to happen—on this planet, and nobody's will could change it!
In fact, in the short span of just over three months, the population of Canopy Star had plummeted from its original thirty billion to perhaps less than a third of that—barely over ten billion. To find out the exact number, Little White's ship or Darius's flagship would have to scan the planet again.
In short!
If they didn't act quickly to drive the Warp Daemons out of the cities and rescue more refugees, then build more armies to completely wipe out the terrifying monsters that had spread across the entire planet, the remaining ten billion or so refugees still clinging to life would inevitably continue to dwindle as time passed!
By the time the planet was back under human control, how many would