However, after the last disaster, most of the Spirit Energy fields on Rage Owl Star had collapsed. The howling, unconstrained force of Spiritual Energy formed various strange disasters.
Low Energy Storms are the most typical, and they are still whirling around the high tower ruins outside Rubbish Town. The energy collection devices placed there, and the energy compression equipment, ensure a monthly output of energy crystals worth about eighty thousand Tax Currency.
This is hard currency.
And the Aberrant Beasts, which are very common throughout the wastelands and especially numerous in the Green Valley Region, are actually plants that have been influenced and animated by Spiritual Energy.
Ge Wajia utilized these things and, with his technical knowledge and what he called the ‘Grace of the Benevolent Father,’ he disseminated a certain virus capable of controlling these plants into the vast forests of the Green Valley.
But now, Ge Wajia was dead, the Great Demon he summoned had been banished, and the influence of the Chaotic Abyss that eroded reality in the Green Valley Region no longer existed.
This meant that the supernatural virus that had widely spread and infected most of the Aberrant Beasts lost its foundation and vanished.
However, the central nervous systems of those mutated creatures, reformed by the virus, did not recover.
Aberrant Beasts with a missing piece in their central nervous systems all went mad.
They wildly charged out of the woods, attacking all living beings.
Without any rhyme or reason, without any plan.
To tell you the truth, these monsters were not difficult to handle. Although among them there were many special breeds developed over the years by the Nature Salvation Society, with formidable strengths. However, mindless things, no matter how powerful, could still be dealt with.
Not to mention, they were even more mindless than before.
After all, although previously the Aberrant Beasts lacked the ability for independent thought, they still had their controllers.
In the past, almost every large-scale operation of the Aberrant Beasts showed traces of the followers of the Benevolent Father. With the control virus, they could roughly direct the actions of the entire monster group.
It was because of this, they could put out cannon fodder in front, cover the Pus Spewers as they approached to shoot; the bio-artillery bombarded from a distance; the zombie dogs waited for the right moment to launch deadly assaults when the enemy’s formation was in chaos, causing heavy casualties…
However, after the loss of the cultists’ control, these brainless creatures even lacked that bit of the most basic tactical coordination ability.
In front of the army, weren’t they just beasts waiting to be slaughtered?
There was just one problem: their numbers were far too many.
According to Hu Ke’s calculations and estimates, there might be between one hundred fifty million to three hundred million various types of Aberrant Beasts living in the vast jungles of the Green Valley Region.
This was a terrifying number, much greater than the population of the entire planet; it was thirty times the total population of the Green Valley Region.
Even the Nature Salvation Society only had the ability to infect most of the Aberrant Beasts, not to command so many creatures at once.
But now, when these creatures lost control and madly rushed out, the trouble was enormous.
No matter how stupid, the sheer number of 150 million to 300 million made producing enough bullets and shells to eliminate them take who knows how long.
However, thankfully, when these creatures went berserk, they didn’t recognize kin and didn’t just target humans or other lifeforms; they attacked their own kind just as indiscriminately.
It was also because of this, the pressure faced by the Central Group Army in the Green Valley Region was relatively weaker.
Luckily, the Beiqing Valley Region had executed large-scale terraforming works to eradicate the jungle, and the number of Aberrant Beasts there had been reduced.
All the settlements and towns began to tighten their defenses, not venturing out unless necessary. The military then staunchly defended each node, ready to call for fire support when waves of creatures attacked.
The alliance’s air force squadrons were incredibly busy, striking everywhere; even the Blade Tiger in the sky would occasionally help by launching a few surgical strikes to clear large concentrations of enemies…
The unrest in the Green Valley Region lasted for a full three months before it gradually subsided.
After these three months, the settlements reported fewer and fewer sightings of Aberrant Beasts emerging.
Under such circumstances, Gu Hang finally felt assured enough to call back the Central Group Army.
Nevertheless, people still needed to be left behind in the Green Valley Region.
Hu Ke went on a business trip to the Green Valley Region and, protected by the special combat brigade, conducted field investigations in some jungles. He discovered that some Aberrant Beasts still survived.
Although their numbers had greatly decreased, there was a possibility that they could breed again.
However, without the influence of Abyssal power, their breeding speed should not be especially fast. It wouldn’t be easy for them to return to their original population size.
Moreover, the central nervous systems of these Aberrant Beasts were gradually becoming free from the influence of the chaos virus after its disappearance, and they were becoming much calmer.
If things go without accident, they should revert to their traditional patterns from decades ago: breeding normally in the jungles until the population reaches the environment’s carrying capacity, then spilling out and forming waves of Aberrant Beasts; when the numbers drop significantly to a normal level, they would continue to breed in the jungles.
Their breeding and growth rates are related to the seasons and sunlight. This is why the traditional waves of Aberrant Beasts are seasonal.
If it is merely this way, these Aberrant Beasts will no longer pose too great a threat.
After this wave of calamity, there probably aren’t many survivors left in the South Green Valley Region, and those still alive would have fled north; the Beiqing Valley Region now has a population of about eight million, and once the jungles and Aberrant Beasts are cleared out, there would only be issues from the south to deal with.
The former Green Valley Region had almost no industrial production capabilities, relying only on its own armed forces within each manor, so it was normal not to cope; now, with the regular Alliance Army present, the conventional, traditional waves of Aberrant Beasts will be annihilated as soon as they emerge from the jungles. Enjoy exclusive adventures from empire
For this reason, Gu Hang still had to leave a force in the Green Valley Region.
He kept the 15th to 25th divisions, which were established from the Green Valley Region, and formed the Green Valley Garrison Group Army.
All 11 divisions were garrison divisions, cheap but sufficient.
They would be responsible for the long-term defense of the Beiqing Valley Region.
In fact, the best way to deal with the Aberrant Beasts was to penetrate the jungles and eradicate them at the roots.
But that was clearly not likely.
The Green Valley Region was too vast, and with the current total number of troops under Gu Hang’s command not yet exceeding two hundred thousand, it was not feasible to accomplish such a task. Moreover, according to Hu Ke’s assessment, Aberrant Beasts were a manifestation of spiritual energy disasters, and as long as the jungles remained, even if they were all killed, new ones would regenerate.
If the jungles were cleared, then the Aberrant Beasts would indeed no longer regenerate, but the spiritual energy disasters would not subside and would most likely transform into Low Energy Storms.
It would be better to clear the Aberrant Beasts on a regular basis every year.
At least the eliminated Aberrant Beasts could be repurposed, turned into synthetic starch, and the land would become fertile.
If it turned into Low Energy Storms, farming would become impossible.
Gu Hang’s vision for the entire Beiqing Valley Region was to be the ‘Alliance Granary.’
With the Alliance having resolved the annual disaster of the Aberrant Beast waves and unified the whole region, establishing a singular government, agricultural productivity can be optimistically estimated to grow tremendously.
If the entire Beiqing Valley Region was turned into an agricultural zone, with a large number of farms built and some hub-type cities established mainly for transportation, trade, primary processing of agricultural products, and service industries, that would suffice.
Crook Manor was also renamed ‘Beigu City,’ serving as the capital of the Beiqing Valley Province.
Jason Morgan, who played a significant role in the recovery of the Beiqing Valley Region and the quelling of disasters, was transferred out of the Civil Affairs Bureau. He was entrusted with the establishment of the Beiqing Valley Province government and took on the role of the first provincial governor.
His rank also soared directly to C1 level.
Jason Morgan felt that this appointment was within reason, but when it actually happened, it still seemed dreamlike.
“I was just an employee at a small company in Revival City, and in just a few months, I’ve become the head of a province?”
