Cannon fodder in the Interstellar

The decision of the base military to disband all the civilian mercenary groups seemed to suggest that Lin Ruihai and Song Changlong expected opposition. They thought that the civilian mercenary groups would likely unite to resist the base military.

However, to their surprise, everything was quiet that night. The next morning, his two sisters handed him a list of members from the ‘Xingtian Combat Team’. After announcing it, the base remained silent.

The ability users who were excluded from the list didn’t make a sound or cause trouble, while those included in the list did not unite to protest. Instead, most of them gathered outside the base military’s training ground early, waiting to be assigned to squads.

“What’s the secret behind this list?” Lin Ruihai asked his two sisters.

“The people excluded from the list are those with ill intentions. Those on the list are people who care about this base and want to ensure its survival, or those who feel that if you have real abilities, they want to follow you,” Lin Kexin said, thinking her brother was a bit naive. With her and her sister around, they could easily weed out anyone with ulterior motives.

Ruo Manni’s deterrent effect played a huge role, causing those people to not dare to cause trouble.

After two days of silence, many of those excluded from the list surrendered. After Lin Kexin gave her approval, Lin Ruihai did not hold grudges and accepted them into the base military. When the ten-day deadline passed, the only group that left the B City base was the second-largest mercenary group, the ‘Wolf Fang Mercenary Group’.

“I never expected that the thirty or so ability users from the ‘Tiger Mercenary Group’ would be willing to follow Big Brother,” Lin Kexin whispered to Ruo Manni.

“Yesterday, I directly pressured them with my aura to make them realize the gap between us. Although their leader isn’t an ordinary person and has ambitions, he knew where to draw the line at a critical moment,” Ruo Manni commented.

In fact, there were some who opposed within the ‘Tiger Mercenary Group’. Although the base didn’t require them to disband their mercenary group, the skilled members had already joined the ‘Xingtian Combat Team’. The remaining ordinary members in the mercenary group had no real use, so whether they disbanded or not seemed meaningless.

“Leader, are you really willing to become someone else’s subordinate?” Zhang Yunxing still didn’t understand how Gao Genrong had made this decision.

Gao Genrong took a deep drag of his cigarette, his expression grim. In fact, making this decision had been difficult for him.

Dai Yanping sighed beside him, saying, “If we don’t join the base’s combat team, we’ll have to leave this base. The outside world is in chaos, and wherever we go, we’ll eventually have to face high-level zombies. At least Lin Ruihai, as base leader, has a training method that can make us stronger. What he wants is for everyone to become stronger and protect this base together. I believe many base leaders don’t have this foresight or ability.”

“Those behind Lin Ruihai will definitely step in if the base faces a crisis. This base is safer than any other,” Gao Genrong said.

Speaking of this, Zhang Yunxing had nothing more to say. That small group of just nine people managed to transport reserves of food from the infamous Death Zone, Pingyang City, back to the base, ensuring that everyone in the base would have enough to eat for at least seven months.

These nine young people also rescued more than 3,000 survivors and safely brought them back to the B City base.

According to the survivors, these nine individuals were not ordinary in terms of their skills. Whether dealing with a horde of zombies or mutated animals, they swiftly wiped them all out. The fastest recorded time was five minutes to kill over 1,000 zombies.

“That kind of special organization is truly extraordinary. Lin Ruihai really got lucky,” Zhang Yunxing said, a bit unwilling to accept.

“But with these people stationed at the B City base, the base is much safer. This benefits us too,” Dai Yanping said seriously. “And their training methods—if it weren’t for this special time, we probably wouldn’t have been able to learn them.”

As for the effectiveness of the training methods provided by the base leader, Dai Yanping was the most qualified to speak on it, and Zhang Yunxing had no words to counter.

The most powerful mercenary group at B City, the ‘Tiger Mercenary Team’, had already agreed to submit and be incorporated into the base, not wanting to stir up any trouble. As long as other mercenary teams didn’t want to leave B City base, they all had no choice but to agree.

Once the ‘Xingtian Combat Team’ began training, the base military started to organize ordinary people, classifying them into three levels based on their physical fitness and training them in different locations.

Outside the B City base, the weather had grown colder. Heavy snow fell relentlessly, and the temperature dropped more each day.

But within the B City base, a unique vitality was emerging. Every day, except for the elderly, the sick, and children, everyone else was active—training, cleaning the accumulated snow around the base in shifts.

The elite team did not participate in the snow clearing; they were also undergoing intense training.

Although they weren’t directly involved in the alien invasion of Earth, they knew they couldn’t stand by and watch.

If those aliens were trying to wipe out Earth’s intelligent species, it meant their actions were illegal and against the rules. So they wouldn’t spare the elite team either.

They still had to live here for another fifty years, and there was no way to immediately return to their world. Therefore, they had no choice but to participate in defending Earth.

Since they weren’t sure about the enemy’s strength, Hebrew Adam had set up effective monitoring across the entire solar system and its outskirts, but the rest was just a waiting game.

During the waiting process, all they could do was focus on strengthening themselves as much as possible.

It was unclear if this was nature’s way of compensating humanity, but after a month of training, the abilities of all those involved had increased dramatically. Lin Ruihai and Song Changlong easily advanced to level 5, and others who had been second-tier ability users had now become third-tier warriors.

Among them, Su Luoxue’s progress was astounding. This girl went from awakening her abilities to becoming a level 4 warrior in just two months.

“Isn’t the data on this girl wrong?” Dean Atchison was extremely surprised.

This girl had the highest training potential in the base. The members of the elite team couldn’t help but lament how this talent had been delayed. People with the same level of training potential and the same age, such as Dean Atchison and Gao Haitao, were already level 7 warriors, while this girl had just started training.

Who would have thought that in just two months, she would reach level 4? At this rate, she would probably be a level 6 warrior in six months, and maybe even catch up to them in a year.

“I actually think that the training here seems to speed up the leveling process,” Gao Haitao, usually a man of few words, unexpectedly spoke up.

“It’s probably the continued effect of the rainwater,” Mina-Olli also speculated.

“It’s a shame the time is too short,” Dean Atchison sighed.

“This isn’t a product of nature; it’s likely the work of those aliens,” Hebrew Adam said. “With the technology of our Gus Empire, it’s not that we couldn’t do it, it’s that we don’t have those energy sources.”

The elite team immediately became excited. Dean Atchison, with his high comprehension, said, “Does this mean that these aliens have access to these energy sources?”

“Most likely, at least they have energy that can rapidly increase human combat power,” Hebrew Adam said, giving his partner a meaningful look.