Motif · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods
The crawler count
The number on the first safe-room screen: 4,322,395 when Carl first sees it, under a million by the middle of the second floor. He tries not to look at it and always does.
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Progression
178,887 at the top of the floor (ch. 1); 99,754 near its end — under a hundred thousand, nearly half the previous floor's survivors dead (ch. 33); 'We’d fallen under 100,000. This floor had already killed almost half of the survivors of the previous' (ch. 33).