In the following half a month, Shen Chao spent most of his time on the Zero space station, during which he confirmed the preparation of the next stage of the plan, counted all kinds of combat materials, and led the team to conduct a preliminary reconnaissance of the target world.

Their reconnaissance was actually very short-lived, just returning to Earth in the Legendary Plane for a day, and laying a network of satellites in Earth orbit on that plane, scanning the entire planet's surface by the way. to collect the required number jù.

As a result, after analyzing the collected numbers, they found that the situation here was similar to their earlier suspicions, and although it seemed desolate, the humans of this plane were still far from extinction.

Based on their satellite scans, VI gave a comprehensive analysis of the tens of thousands of large and small human settlements around the world, based on specific thermal detections.

The largest settlements are home to tens of thousands of people, while the smaller ones are only a few dozen. Many settlements have communication or transportation between them, and it seems that the vast majority of survivors survive in groups.

And these groups, large and small, have developed a more stable pattern of behavior, and according to their scans, the total global population is estimated to be around 6 million.

In contrast, there are not many mutants, hundreds of thousands of gathering points, and the total is expected to be between 15 million and 17 million. Not much more than humans.

It's not surprising that mutants, while faster than normals, can't catch up with most wild animals. So they can't hunt like big cats.

And they also don't have the superior intelligence of humans, so it's impossible for too large a number of mutants to survive. Therefore, in the harsh post-civilization living environment, they are not as adaptable as humans who have formed groups.

At least judging from the number of jù they collected, the human beings in this world still clearly retain a certain amount of basic technological strength, and in some particularly cold areas, there are even pre-crisis governments.

But that's all the good news, the rest is bad news. For example, mutants are very widely distributed on all continents and many islands. It is expected that it will take a very long time to clean up.

Moreover, there are some mutants who live in groups and have obvious evolutionary phenomena. An entire tribe of mutants who use simple tools has appeared.

These mutants have significantly higher intelligence than the vast majority of mutants. There is a primary social structure. It is expected to be slightly more difficult to destroy than normal mutants.

However, they are not a threat worth mentioning, and it will only be a matter of time before Shen Chao and the others build an army armed with mass effect equipment there, and eliminate the mutants across the globe.

Because of this, Shen Chao didn't pay too much attention to these slightly more intelligent mutants. Its main focus is on the local human settlements.

Although it has been two years since the fall of the earth, it is surprising that there are still several national government agencies that have barely survived. The biggest of these is naturally Russia.

As a country with a large permafrost territory. Russia in this plane has a natural resistance to the KV virus, and according to the communications intercepted by their satellite network, there are even relatively complete military and political institutions in this country!

And the broadcast here is also in line with their satellite scans, and there are still more than 1 million people living in the territory of that world's Russia, which is currently the most populous country in that desolate world.

After confirming the above information, Shen Chao went to check the supplies prepared by his agent, who had been secretly stockpiling food in the main plane for the past few months.

After up to 5 months of preparation. His agents have hoarded nearly 500,000 tons of grain. This is equivalent to a year's worth of food for 2 million adults. Able to meet their initial expansion needs after arrival. Subsequent such resources can be obtained through other means.

After confirming this, Shen Chao led the team to spend several days transporting the grain from the numerous grain warehouses to the cargo hold on the space station. After this was done, he checked the recruitment of mercenaries.

As an important part of the program, they have been collecting excellent veterans on the military network and the international mercenary market from a very early stage. Ready to be recruited for the development of Dr. Neville's parent plane.

All of the candidates are veterans who have experienced real battlefields on the main plane, and most of them have participated in various types of shady wars. All of them have participated in at least one military operation outside their home country.

Contrary to what most people think, the world of the main plane is far from being as peaceful as it seems, and the major powers on the international stage often launch some secret military operations overseas. Fight against the forces of other countries and strengthen their own existence.

Many times, these clandestine military organizations operating overseas also encounter and fight an encounter. It has even been regarded as a military training activity by the military leaders of major countries. This is also an open secret in the world's military circles.

Originally, the part of the information about these veterans about their participation in these secret operations should be highly confidential, and no one knows about it except the participants, but who let Shen Chao and them invade the military networks of various countries.

Now, the deployment of the armies of various countries and the personnel information of the network are completely transparent to them. They have long extracted useful parts from the military networks of various countries.

Then, through guò integrated these materials, they selected a group of outstanding soldiers from various countries and nationalities, including China, the United States, Russia, and the Middle East. There are even a handful of them from African countries.

The reason why we chose people from different countries and different backgrounds was not that Shen Chao appreciated the diverse backgrounds of the military, but that the survivors of the plane they wanted to occupy and develop were also composed of many pre-crisis countries and nationalities.

Language, beliefs, habits, etc., still have to find the right officer to integrate smoothly. In previous investigations, they found that there were many survivor gathering places in all major countries.

I am the one who survived the legendary plane, and more than half of the survivors of the human race are from the three countries of China, the United States, and Russia. It is precisely because of this that this recruitment is mainly for the military personnel of these three countries.

The recruitment process was carried out for a long time and was very secretive, and basically their main agent called these veterans one by one through the confidential line provided by the Guò expedition, and talked about the conditions little by little. So it didn't cause much attention from the intelligence services.

Some time ago, more than 100 selected candidates had signed employment contracts with a subsidiary of Star Energy, which indicated that their work destination was a country whose main plane was still at war.

These individuals were hired as security guards to protect the construction sites of several infrastructure projects in that dangerous country.

Thanks to the several regional wars initiated and provoked by the United States in recent years, such a reason for hiring is really flawless, and so many elite veterans have signed contracts with a new security company at the same time without attracting the attention of major intelligence organizations.

After reading everyone's background information, Shen Chao made a phone call to inform his agent to take the mercenaries to the second base as planned. He's going to check out these guys for himself.

After receiving Shen Chao's call, Sun Yang immediately arranged the itinerary of the mercenaries who had signed the contract, and personally informed them that they would soon be on duty.

And each of them was sent a revised meeting schedule. Have them show up at the appointed place at the appointed time to report with their other new "colleagues".

Two days later, mercenaries from different corners of the world appeared at almost the same time at five different airports around the world, passing through various means of transportation, and were gathered by the "leaders" of several airports according to the agreed signal.

After assembling, they were quickly arranged into five special planes to go to their destinations. It is worth noting that despite being in different time zones, these planes took off almost at the same time and had the same destination.

All these mercenaries know is that they are flying to their employers to arrange work. But they didn't know where they were going to fly, and they didn't know what they were going to do for the rest of their lives.

However, many of them knew each other, and some of them were former comrades-in-arms, so they were quickly surprised to find that none of them knew where the flight was going to be.

And they can't know the location of their destination in other ways, because the portholes of the plane they are on are all blocked, so they can't see the situation outside, and the pilots are all cameos by soldiers. Doesn't answer their questions at all.

And shortly after the plane took off, all kinds of GPS and mobile phones they carried themselves failed. No signal is received at all. Naturally, it is not possible to locate these devices.

Many of them had questioned the "vision" during the flight, but had not received an answer from a few of the company executives who were responsible for picking them up.

Because these unlucky guys themselves don't know what is going on and where they are going. Although they are all executives of Star Energy, they really don't know the inside story at all.

Several of the people in charge of the escort had received a direct order from the CEO of the group company to come over to perform this strange pick-up job. They don't care, and they don't dare to care, what this job is about.

Because they have all heard rumors within the group of companies, according to which they have some dangerous secrets that only the president and the board of directors know, and these secrets should never be asked.

There are rumors within the company that the previous major personnel reshuffle of the group company was because some executives knew things that they should not know. As a result, he died in a foreign land. Several of them have not yet tried the idea of the veracity of these rumors.

A few hours later, in the confusion of the mercenaries, their planes successively landed at the airfield of the second base. Their fate will soon be changed forever. (To be continued.) )