The Endgame Chronicles (by Hugh White) novel Chapter 248

Chapter 21,8

After Scarlett’s message, Hayley received another one.

“My dear Ms. Reid, you have an incoming call from your devoted Liam. Would you like to answer the call?”

“Yes,”

“Hey, there. I sent out your plan about forming a league and recapturing the cities. Other than Ember Base, no one else responded. Hope Base’s Alex even ran a full model on it and wants me to pass a message to you.”

Hayley gave a lazy little snort. “What nonsense is he selling now?”

“He says with the strength humanity has right now, retaking a city is impossible. In his model, the combat ratio between humans and zombies is one to thirty.

“That means if all the survivors together add up to ten thousand people, they could at best hold off three hundred thousand zombies.

“Aecraton alone had over a million people before the outbreak. That means you’ll need to wipe out at least seven hundred thousand zombies just to reach the point where a full counterattack is even realistic.

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“In the early stage, the difficulty you face would already be more than twice the critical limit in his simulation. And in reality, you’ll never be able to rally all survivors. At best, you might gather a thousand people.

“That makes the difficulty of attacking the city thousands of times higher than the extreme setting in his model.

“He concludes that you have almost no chance of winning. He strongly advises you to stop trying to recapture cities and focus developing production instead.

“If you’re interested, he suggests you join Hope Base. He says the two of you could run things together and focus on tech development.”

Hayley lifted her eyelids slightly, completely unimpressed.

“You never need to pass me anything that loser says again.”

Liam went quiet.

In Hayley’s mind, Alex had always been a loser.

He was smart and good with numbers, but he only chased guaranteed profit. That made his vision painfully showe

His data told him that cities couldn’t be taken, so he just stayed put and built his base. Even when his own model included zombie evolution and future disasters, he still didn’t have the guts to fight.

He would rather curl up inside his base, cut down on population, and turn it into an elite bubble.

In other words, he wanted to be the strongest base and the last one to tall

In his eyes, the real battlefield was never humans versus zombies. It was his base versus every other base

As long as he outlived them and outgrew them, Alex considered it a win

So, no matter how powerful his gifts were or how capable his team seemned, it couldn’t hide the truth that he was just a coward

He was afraid to gamble on anything uncertain. It was pure caution dressed up as wisdom

That was why Hayley had never taken that “brilliant” leader seriously from the start.

If she wanted to move against him, she would. There was no need to be polite

As long as she was stronger than him, he would shrink back on institict and not dare say a word.

Someone like that was not worth listening to.

Besides, Hayley already knew exactly how hard it would be to recapture a city.

Even so, difficulty was not a reason to give up.

When the house falls, everyone inside is crushed.

She stood up and walked to the telescope in her tower, gazing toward the farthest edge of the horizon.

In the distance, she could almost hear the low growls of zombies drifting out of the city like the voices of demons.

She didn’t care about being kind in this life. She lived for battle and fire.

And only now did she truly feel alive.

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