End Times, Surviving with My Beastly Army novel Chapter 357

Chapter 357 Treacherous Faction

Even just sitting there in silence, he made people feel an instinctive dread.

“I know who you are.”

Finished

Martin gave a small nod and kept his eyes on Donald with that same unhurried calm. “It’s late. What brings you here?”

“It’s… well, hear me out.”

The plan steeled his nerves. Donald drew in a breath and pushed forward. “Commander Bax, I’d like to talk about a partnership.”

“A partnership. With me?”

Martin’s brow lifted just slightly, and a flicker of genuine surprise crossed his face. “Let’s hear it.”

He already knew Robin’s plan.

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So Donald showing up now was the last thing he’d expected.

Donald could tell he wasn’t being turned away, and that alone made him more confident. He laid out the same pitch he’d given Jack, word for word.

Martin’s expression grew stranger by the second.

Deep in his eyes, there was bewilderment, and underneath that, something he couldn’t quite wrap his mind around.

Wow.

Does he even know what he’s saying?

Plotting to get rid of Robin and bringing it to Redwood for a partnership was no different from some outsider pulling a mob boss’s own lieutenant aside to scheme about taking the boss out from the shadows.

Hearing that they’d actually entertained this ambition, Martin felt a flicker of irritation, but more than anything, he felt the urge to laugh.

“Commander Bax, we’re genuinely serious about this.”

Maybe because Martin hadn’t responded for so long, Donald’s confidence wavered. He asked with barely- masked unease.

Martin found himself at a genuine loss for words.

His expression was hard to read when he finally spoke. “Mr. Donald, as far as I know, Robin is a member of your base, isn’t she?

“More than that, she saved every single person here yesterday. Without her, all of us might’ve ended up buried in that giant spider nest. And she’s that powerful. Is your base really that wasteful with talent?”

Chapter 357 treacherous Faction

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Donald’s mouth twitched under the weight of Martin’s questions. “Commander Bax, I won’t pretend otherwise. Robin is capable, I’ll give her that. But she flat–out refuses to follow our base’s orders. She’s so confident in her own strength that she doesn’t respect our commander at all. And it doesn’t stop there. She provokes us constantly and poisons the whole atmosphere inside our base.

“It’s only gotten worse lately. Our commander is a patient man, but she’s been using that patience against him. She’s been making moves to push him out, and she gave Rolf two days to think it over before she takes matters into her own hands.

“Commander Bax, with someone that brazen, if we don’t act first, she’s going to come after us.”

Donald laid it on thick, painting Robin as nothing short of a villain beyond all redemption.

And he delivered it with such genuine feeling that, if Martin hadn’t already known Robin and understood what kind of person she was, he might’ve actually believed it.

Martin had been ready to refuse outright, but Robin’s plan surfaced in his mind, and something shifted.

“Tell me then. If this is a partnership, what exactly are you bringing to the table?”

He paused, then added with quiet deliberateness, “Mr. Donald, you should know that if the offer is anything ordinary, Redwood probably doesn’t need it. So if you want to negotiate, you’d better bring something worth our attention.”

Donald bit back a curse. Every last one of them is a seasoned operator.

He composed himself fast. “Of course, Commander Bax. I know that offering supplies to a base of your strength would be an insult. And frankly, everything Tyrant Base has combined probably doesn’t amount to a third of what you already have. So supplies aren’t what we’re offering.”

Martin’s interest sharpened. “Not supplies. Then what?”

Donald smiled with a deliberate air of mystery. “People.

“Commander Bax, skilled fighters are always scarce. Every base knows it. If you partner with Tyrant Base to take Robin out, we’ll make sure some of the people under her come to you. That decision’s ours to

make.”

At that, Martin’s expression finally went cold,

When he’d first heard that Tyrant Base wanted Robin dead, he hadn’t even been particularly angry.

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