End of the World? I'm the Boss novel Chapter 427

Chapter 427 Their Question

“There’s another, smaller base in the area surrounding Northreach Base, Robin sad, bakes. in just about anyone, and its population runs deep”

Pal’s mind clicked into gear almost immediately. “If I’m remembering right, that base is called Heningford Base. Everyone’s welcome there, and the membership reflects that pretty honestly. It’s a real mixed bag in there.

“But there’s one thing… He scratched the back of his head. “That place has a lot of people, but barely anyone with any real power.”

Robin glanced at him. “Think about it a little harder. Why do you suppose that is?”

“Northreach Base is right next door. Anyone worth their salt would be breaking down Northreach’s door to get in. Someone with actual ability wouldn’t give Heningford a second look.”

He stopped himself mid-sentence, and went very still.

Dylan’s eyes narrowed slowly. “You’re saying…”

Robin nodded. “Heningford Base is a feeder for Northreach. Every promising recruit who walks through Heningford’s gates gets quietly absorbed into Northreach sooner or later. Heningford is the sieve. It filters out the ordinary and funnels talent straight up the pipeline. That’s the real reason they take everyone in without conditions.”

Northreach Base had kept this arrangement buried deep. In her previous life, the connection between the two bases didn’t surface until the eighth year of the apocalypse.

“So that’s how it works…” Pal murmured, almost to himself.

But how does Robin know this?

Pal carried absolute confidence in what he knew. He’d always considered himself the most well-informed person on the team, and that title had never felt threatened before. But Robin’s words had put a crack in that certainty, and he couldn’t quite close it.

Robin saw it written plainly on his face.

She bit back a smile.

Pal would never guess that in her previous life, he was the one who’d exposed the secret in the first place.

But she’d been reborn. So this time, she’d simply gotten there first.

“So our actual destination isn’t Northreach Base,” Robin said. “It’s Heningford Base, right next door.”

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Some people muly drew the shortest straw imaginable, and somehow, the young sentry had down his short enough to end up on watch with this man.

But Northreech Bee run on seniority, and Bill’s ran deep. No matter how much resentment piled up there was nowhere for it to go except somewhere quiet and internal.

Bill fredly fouled himself upright with a low and grating string of complaints.

The quality of recruits this house pulls in just keeps going downhill Jumpy over absolutely nothing every single time”

He munered the whole way over, pressed his eye to the telescope, and went silent.

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