The Endgame Chronicles (by Hugh White) novel Chapter 159

Chapter 159

Chapter 159

Hope Base’s convoy was entirely white,

It looked like a fleet from a professional corporate team.

And that wasn’t far from the truth.

As one of the three largest bases, Hope Base had absorbed a huge number of researchers early on. These first

embers all came from a massive monopoly tech research company, Dawn Holdings.

Holdings was a semi-state-owned giant with more than 20 research institutes under its umbrella. Their covered medicine, medical devices, life sciences, and even some military and defense research.

ore the apocalypse, Dawn Holdings was the biggest company in Brookville.

Their headquarters straddled the border of Brookville and Crestford, with a sprawling campus and a fully self- contained ecosystem. Before the zombie outbreak, they employed over 100 thousand people, and the lowest education level was master’s degr

It was truly a gathering plac

When the apocalypse b quality human survi large-scale base.

The company

They had

Of co

dents.

ings survived the initial zombie chaos, riots, and panic. These high- any’s internal resources to clear zombies, rebuild their hub, and form a

ed Hope Base.

vivors.

e with very high standards.

y people. Only the top-tier survivors were accepted.

nordinary people was a waste of resources. In a world of scarce supplies, why let a low- consume the same rations as a high-quality survivor?

red that Hope Base’s reputation in later years was for being extremely disciplined and utterly

eat’.

heir base leader, Alex Kirk.

ranked among the top ten toughest people in the apocalypse. People called him the ‘robot with a

s guy had a saying: everyone’s life has a price.

To him, every person was like an object. Their age, health, abilities, consumption, and productivity could all be used to calculate the wealth value they could generate in a lifetime. That was their price.

In the eyes of this cold, merciless man, anyone whose value fell below his standard was considered useless trash.

These top-tier elites could

benefit, including thi

The white co

steppin

everything precisely with numbers. Every decision was aimed at maximizing

• five vehicles in total, with seven people in white uniforms

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Five men, two women.

Leading them was a young man in his twenties, with the other six trailing closely behind.

“Hope Base is here!”

“I think their leader, Alex, is here, too.”

“That must be Alex!”

The four small-base leaders who had just been hovering around Liam immediately went over again to greet Alex

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