End Times, Surviving with My Beastly Army novel Chapter 193

Chapter 193 Reaching Redwood Military Base

It was the first time la had visited another base since the apocalypse began.

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She couldn’t help straightening up in her seat, excitement buzzing through her. Their vehicle drew closer. and something caught her eye: Redwood Military Base had actually built a massive wall around its entire perimeter, like something lifted straight out of the medieval ages.

That wasn’t all, either. A chain-link security fence circled the area roughly thirty feet out from the wall, and a row of armed guards stood at the gate with their eyes fixed on everything beyond it

Off to one side of the gate, about a dozen people in tattered clothing stood in a loose, ragged line. They rolled up their sleeves and pant legs one by one, submitting to inspection.

“What are they doing?” Ella asked, her curiosity getting the better of her.

“Outside is the quarantine zone,” Robin said. “Redwood’s a major base. Survivors show up every single day looking for somewhere to land.

“To keep anyone infected with the zombie virus from slipping through, everyone gets screened before they’re let inside. Nobody gets in without clearance.”

Hearing that, Martin’s expression shifted into something unreadable.

Drake, never one to hold his tongue, came right out with it. “Robin, you’ve never been here before, have you? So how do you know all this?”

Ella picked up on it too. “Yeah, Robin, you’ve never even set foot here. How do you know?”

Robin’s expression didn’t shift in the face of their suspicion.

She answered, completely unbothered. “I run our base, don’t I? Isn’t a setup like this pretty obvious?

“Besides, after three years of the pandemic, everyone ends up in quarantine every time they go somewhere new.”

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“Oh. That makes sense,” Ella said, the realization settling over her

Martin looked away.

But Robin knew better. Martin was sharp as a blade, and he definitely still had his doubts. She couldn’t just tell him the truth. Being reborn was just too insane to be believed, no matter how anyone looked at it.

At the sight of their familiar vehicles, the heavy gate slowly swung open. All three cars drove through, one after the other.

Once they were inside, though, their vehicles weren’t allowed to go any further.

Serena spoke up, visibly uneasy. “Commander Neel, for the rest of the way, we’re going to have to ask you to walk with us. Our base has its rules…”

Robin didn’t seem to mind at all.

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Chapter 193 Reaching Redwood Military Base

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She stepped out without complaint. “Of course. When in Rome, right? And keeping things civil is always good for business.”

For some reason, every single time Robin said something like that, a bad feeling settled deep in Serena’s stomach.

Keeping things civil is good for business… but whose business, exactly?

She let out a hollow laugh and said nothing more.

Past the gate, the first thing that greeted them was Redwood Military Base’s Outerville.

Robin’s gaze swept quietly over the surroundings without betraying a thing.

Redwood Military Base looked exactly as she remembered it from her previous life.

The entire layout was roughly circular, divided into three distinct layers: the Outerville on the outermost ring. Central Command in the middle, and the Innerville at the very core.

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The Outerville housed the most ordinary of survivors, people who’d arrived with absolutely nothing to their name. Most of them had no money, no power, and no connections. All they needed was a place to stay so they wouldn’t end up as zombie feed.

Naturally, their living conditions were the worst of anyone inside.

Row after row of blue low-income housing stretched out before them. Every person drifting in and out was dirty, disheveled, and hollow-eyed.

When Robin and the others walked in, those people glanced over with blank, indifferent eyes, then looked away without a second thought.

Just surviving was hard enough for them. They had nothing left to spare for anyone else.

Maybe it was the limited space, but the housing had been packed so tightly together it was nearly suffocating. It reminded her of the cramped tenement alleyways that used to crowd the older parts of the city before the world ended. The passages between each unit were barely wide enough for a single person to squeeze through, and turning around was a struggle, let alone walking side by side.

Somewhere up ahead, the sounds of a violent brawl bled through the air, laced with agonized screaming. Not a single person around them flinched, and every face stayed blank and cold.

Ella pressed close to Robin’s side, her voice dropping to barely above a whisper. “Robin… this place is a complete disaster.”

This wasn’t what she’d imagined at all.

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