End of the World? I'm the Boss novel Chapter 430

Chapter 430 Negotiation

The people climbing out of the vehicles behind them, though, were

different story entirely.

They looked gaunt and worn to the bone, their faces pallid and hollowed our: Nearly two–thirds of them

were wounded on top of everything else

he had walked away with minor injuries. Others had lost the ability to move under their own power

had to be held up by whoever was closest to them.

ou could tell at a glance when two groups weren’t cut from the same cloth. Langston fell into a long, quiet rudy of them all.

As each person stepped through the scanner, a green light blinked on at the top of the frame. Green meant clear. Green meant safe.

A red light meant infection, and i

It took roughly five minutes

Langston exhaled and let more than welcome her

With that, the doo

Robin climb

The lieute Langsto

The

d with a sharp, piercing alarm

pass through clean.

ss his face. “Since you’ve found your way to our base, you’re

en.”

y inward.

d vehicle and rolled it straight through without a moment’s hesitation.

1. ed. He looked like he had something to say, but one glance from
2. y.

s direct attention. Watching quietly and keeping their observations close to

built from the bones of an old industrial district, and much of the original various states of abandonment. Towering smokestacks clawed at the grey sky. ozen and silent, like relics of a civilization that had forgotten to finish dying.

ong since swallowed the space whole. Rows of makeshift housing and patched- med into every gap between the old structures, and people packed themselves in obin’s armored vehicle barely crawled along the road, inching forward foot by foot.

ed past in every direction. Th ring colossus that had ne

ide led them throu ground.

ers parked

ntly. “W

long stares and craned necks from

nd smokestacks.

thinned into a relatively

short distance away, gave Robin a brief nod,

Our leader would like a word.”

nd the commander didn’t personally receive every new

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Chapter 420–Negotiation

For Robin’s group to get a personal audience the moment they arrived put them in very rare company

indeed

It also said everything about how seriously Langston was taking this.

The man’s eyes swept across the group in a careful, unhurried pass. He was reading them just as much as he was greeting them.

The core of this group clearly came from the two armored vehicles. The people from the ordinary behind them weren’t worth much thought.

But nearly ten people had stepped off those two vehicles, and every single one carried that same unreadable, deep–water quality that made it genuinely difficult to pick out who held the reins.

cars

“You’re kind enough to take us in. It’s only right that the commander wants to meet us,” Robin said, her voice light and even.

She took two calm steps forward. Under the man’s visibly startled gaze, she said simply, “Lead the way”

“You’re…” The man opened his mouth.

Robin turned her head, a ghost of a smile playing at the corner of her lips. “Something wrong?”

“No… nothing at all.”

He swallowed silently and forced his features into calm, though the surprise hadn’t fully settled in his chest.

He’d assumed the person running this group would be a man. That assumption hadn’t even felt worth questioning until this moment.

And yet here she stood, looking far too young for the effortless authority she wore like a second skin. It was genuinely disarming.

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