Doomsday Revenge: Payback Time (Josie) novel Chapter 569

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Chapter 569.

“Chief Neville,” an assistant said to Nadia Neville.”Another group came to me today. They want to transfer to the Official Base.” Nadia remained expressionless as she nodded.”Let them go.”

The assistant hesitated.”But ma’am, these people… you’re the one who risked everything to rescue them from the outside. We gave them protection. We gave them a stable life. We kept them fed and warm. They know our relationship with the Official Base is strained, yet they choose this moment to abandon us and defect to Malcolm Monroe. Their behavior is… it’s truly disgraceful.”

“To each their own,” Nadia said calmly.”If their hearts aren’t with us, it was only a matter of time before we parted ways. Since they wante leave, let them.”

“However, they aren’t allowed to take anything that belongs to The Peaks Base with them.”

“Parting on good terms is for the best.”

“Ma’am!” the assistant pressed.”Including this latest group, we’ve already lost over a hundred thousand people. The ones who are left are mostly the elderly, the weak, and the sick. As for our combat force, we only have a few tens of thousands of people left. The other bases have poached almost all of our high-rank Supers!”

“They’ve either gone to the Official Base or The Rivers Base.”

“Our is like a cardboard box right now. One poke and it’ll collapse.”

Ma

should…”

ut a bitter laugh.”I know. That’s why I’ve already pledged my loyalty to Josie Quinn.”

people started defecting from The Peaks Base, Nadia had realized the severity of the situation. She had made a decisive move to partnership with Josie.

gh she hadn’t known Josie for long, she felt a strange, instinctive trust in her.

willing to tether the fate of the entire planet to their own shoulders wouldn’t be shortsighted enough to care about Nadia’s paltry

trast, Malcolm Monroe and Felix Fletcher were incredibly shallow. They only cared about immediate power and territory, giving zero ght to the bigger picture.

was exactly as Josie had said.

person’s background often determined the breadth of their vision.

Nadia might be a love-blind person, but she had a high starting point in life. Her father was a businessman and her mother was a professor. She grew up in a harmonious, wealthy home. The perspective such an upbringing provided was far beyond that of an average person. When faced with a crisis of survival, she could snap back to reality and understand the grand strategy.

Felix and Malcolm, however, were like scavengers who had crawled up from the bottom.

They had lived in environments with scarce resources since childhood. Consuming everything around them to strengthen themselves had become an instinctual habit.

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