The goal was to train the expeditionary forces in adaptability and combat capability under limited resources.
Thus, although this base currently had surplus resources, the surplus was not large.
If Chu Guang remembered correctly, this time, the expeditionary forces had chosen to stockpile resources while rescuing people at the same time.
Without stockpiling resources, subsequent rescue operations could not be carried out at all. It was one thing for lifeless objects to travel between worlds, but for living beings to do so, they had to undergo the energy radiation of the Cosmic Gate for a sufficiently long time beforehand to adapt. Otherwise, they were gambling with their lives—a nine-deaths-and-one-survival kind of gamble.
Under such circumstances, the world was simply too vast. Without establishing enough small bases and subsidiary Cosmic Gates, they could not save many people at all.
The pan-community will's response was indeed slow, but slow did not mean nonexistent.
If everyone were transported to the main base, its exposure would only be a matter of time.
Information-shielding technology was not omnipotent. If there was something invisible and you did not know it existed, naturally it would be difficult to discover. But if you knew it was there, even if you could not see it, there would always be a way to find it.
And if they only stockpiled resources, planning to save people after gathering enough to deal with the Virus Mother first, then during the process of dealing with the Virus Mother, among those survivors without protection, perhaps not even one in a hundred would live.
That was not saving people. That was murder.
If this were merely a game, and the survivors were all NPCs, that would be one thing. But these were living, breathing people.
More importantly, the expeditionary forces were a group of people