The Endgame Chronicles (by Hugh White) novel Chapter 465

Chapter 465

“Hurry up and keep moving,” Gideon said coldly. “If they get too far ahead, no one’s going to protect you,

His words made everyone’s faces darken. One person took the lead, pretending not to see Penelope, and walked forward. The rest followed, heads lowered, one by one.

Soon, everyone was gone. Only Gideon remained.

Penelope, who was outside the door, saw this and completely lost it. “You animals! Are you really going to leav me here? Don’t go! None of you leave! Get back here!”

At that moment, zombies drawn by the noise came running across the open land, their mouths gaping wide as they charged toward the lone, screaming Penelope.

“Raarh!”

Gideon, his body smeared with blood, was the last to catch up to the group.

When the others saw that there was even more blood on him now, they all fell silent. 1

Stephen walked up beside him. “Aren’t you afraid that once this zombie crisis is over, her dad will come after

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Gideon lifted his head. There was a vicious edge in his eyes that Stephen had never seen before. “Her dad? That piece of trash deserves to die with her!”

Stephen’s brow twitched.

They were all just ordinary people who had never held a knife before.

Ark One housed more than 40 thousand people. Five thousand were the original stationed troops. Ten thousand had been airlifted in by Ark One’s helicopters.

The rest were locals and tourists who had been on the plains.

When the zombie virus first broke out across the plains, it spread slowly. The land was vast and sparsely populated. As long as people scattered and ran, they could avoid the initial outbreaks.

Later, once they discovered the existence of a massive base on the plains, everyone began retreating toward it.

Gideon and Stephen were among the tourists who fled here during that chaos. Before the apocalypse, they were just programmers doing desk jobs, completely ordinary people.

After entering Ark One, management assigned people like them directly to Levels One and Two. They had to do heavy labor and production work

They were the lowest fier inside Ark One They ate the worst food and lived in the worst conditions, but they shouldered 99% of the labor

The pyanod structure of society was Ark One’s reality The lower the level, the higher the status and the more power one held

Anyone above could be exploited and abused freely by those below. Each level’s manager existed solely to suppress and squeeze the prople they felt were under them

If someone resisted, they were simply thrown out of the bunker

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This place wasn’t the continuation of human hope; it was paradise for a select few.

Even someone as powerless as Penelope could trample over all of them without consequence.

Stephen and the others had long been furious with the lower levels of Ark One and its managers.

But they had been enslaved for too long. They didn’t know how to resist, and they didn’t have the strength to try.

They had already accepted their fate.

The killing intent in Gideon’s eyes made Stephen’s heart jolt. Gideon had changed.

Gideon said nothing more. He looked toward Hayley and her group disappearing ahead and quickened his pace.

He followed them closely.

Hayley walked near the center of the group.

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