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Eight months later, every food resource that could be found on the Transit Hub World had officially run out, and the planet-wide "Unrestricted Wilderness Survival Battle Royale" entered its fiercest stage.
To fight over the tiniest scraps of resources, 1.8 billion aliens began a frenzy of infighting.
They themselves were the best food resource available.
If they did not eat others, they would be the ones eaten.
Of course, those who dared not risk their lives for food scattered into the wilderness across the planet, building reactors and hydroponics farms by hand.
But people with such technical skills were a minority after all. Far more had already started fighting in the settlements.
Slaughter, death, and corpse-eating filled this pitiful planet. The once-developed Transit Hub World had become a living hell.
The First Fleet watched it all from planetary orbit.
They felt no pity whatsoever for the aliens. Loyalty to the Empire and carrying out the Marshal's orders were their lifelong pursuits.
The population on the Transit Hub World's surface slowly dwindled. Xi Yan calculated the rate: it would take at least several years for all the infighting to end. By then, they might even have rebuilt order and regressed into a stable civilization limited to sub-light speed.
This was wrong! How could he let the aliens live comfortably?
Xi Yan therefore activated his backup plan: the newly developed viruses he had requested from the biologists at the Academy of Sciences.
Besides genetic technology, Xi Yan had also ordered his scientists