Doomsday Revenge: Payback Time (Josie) novel Chapter 260

Chapter 260

It wasn’t just the ones charging in, either. Lirio didn’t care if they were breathing or not. It dragged the corpses off the ground and walk them whole, picking the area clean.

Zane looked at Josie. “You’re actually a big softie, aren’t you?

Bullshit, Josie mapped, refusing to admit it.

“You gave them three chances to run,” Zane said. “Their own greed killed them. If you’d brought Lirio out from the want, none of them would’ve made it past the first ten steps.”

After all, Lirio was a Mid–rank Primal.

A mutant plant so powerful it could crush even a High–rank Modern species with ease.

Once prey stepped into its territory, they were dead meat. There was no escape.

But from the very beginning, Josie had only used her weapons and her own superpowers. She’d kept Lirio out of the f second.

Plain and simple: Josie had been giving them a way out.

If they’d just taken the hint and backed off, they’d still be breathing.

But they were just too damn greedy.

Even watching their own people drop like flies wasn’t enough to stop them. Their greed was their death sentence.

Josie’s patience finally hit zero. She was done playing games. No more talking–she let Lirio loose to finish the job, and the plant ate every la

one of them.

Zane watched her closely. Josie acted tough, but he could see right through it. Under that cold, distant shell, she still had a heart.

He liked that about her.

If she were truly heartless, it would be a long, lonely road to the top.

“You can blame yourselves for that,” Josie muttered. Zane had called her out, and she looked a little uneasy. “The way the Blue Owl Squad operates–the whole ‘never leave a man behind‘ thing–it actually got to me.”

“But what’s the point of being soft?” she added, her voice dropping. “Haven City is gone. There isn’t a soul left alive.”

“It’s a dead city. Completely.”

“And this is just the beginning. It’s going to keep happening, over and over.”

“Eventually, only a few major bases will be left in the entire country. Everywhere else? It’ll just be a playground for the Undead and the Mutants.”

“If humanity doesn’t get its act together and start saving itself, we’re finished.”

While they talked, Lirio finished cleaning up the battlefield.

It used its roots to sweep the leftover bones into the crater Zane had blasted with lightning, then shoveled a layer of blood–stained snow over the top to bury the mess.

It topped the whole thing off with a layer of pure white snow.

The place looked spotless. It was like nothing had ever happened.

Once the job was done, Lirio hopped back over to us.

By the time it reached Josie, it had shrunk back down to the size of her palm.

The rest of the team just stared as the plant crawled back up Josie’s braid. It shifted back into a flower, tucked itself into her hair, and went night back to sleep.

If they hadn’t just watched it go on a killing spree, they might’ve actually thought the little thing was cute.

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