The Endgame Chronicles (by Hugh White) novel Chapter 417

Chapter 417

Of course, when God closes one door, He always opens a window.

Scott had been frighteningly smart since childhood. He read obsessively, and books forged an even stronger mind within him.

It others refused to treat him like a human being, then he would commit to that reality completely.

Then, the apocalypse arrived.

And suddenly, it was his arena.

After the outbreak, he slaughtered his parents and his grandparents, then recruited the security forces from both families and built the formidable Tomorrow Base.

Scott thrived in the apocalypse. In this world, he killed freely and ruled without restraint.

Beyond that, he had no other desires.

Until Hayley smiled at him like a little sun.

It wasn’t that he disliked women,

He disliked women who were afraid of him. That trembling fear disgusted him. It felt like it exposed his cruelty, darkness, and lack of humanity.

Hayley was the only one who wasn’t afraid of him.

She wasn’t pretending. She genuinely wasn’t scared of him.

Even though Scott knew she was lying, that her praise and encouragement were meant to confuse him, at that moment, he was still struck by her calm smile.

In Hayley’s eyes, he wasn’t a monster.

He was a person.

No matter how vicious he was, she still treated him like a human being.

“I told you I’d protect you,” Scott said slowly, looking at her smiling face.

“You’re such a good guy,” Hayley said, scanning him from head to toe. Her gaze stopped on his blade. “Your knife looks amazing. Way better than mine. Can you give it to me?”

con froze.

said it casually, but to her surprise, a sheathed blade was actually handed to her.

diving it to me?”

*, you can have it.”

her the blade.

is grandfather’s prized possession. Ever since the apocalypse began, this was the blade he had always used.

Tin flattered,” Hayley said, while immediately putting the knife away without hesitation.

Seeing her expression, Scott’s gentle sanile deepened. “If you stay with me, I’ll give you whatever you want “Then I really need to think carefully,” Hayley replied eagerly. She glanced around “Oh, right Where’s Griffin?”

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Scott’s expression shifted. “He doesn’t seem to have kept up.”

“Then I need to go find h

“Captain Reid, calm down. You saw the zombie tide just now. There’s still a lot of danger out there. Wait until morning. I’ll help you look.”

Just then, a scream rang out from the crowd.

“Ah! Nash was bitten!”

“He wasn’t! I scratched him myself!”

A middle-aged man stood protectively in front of a 16-year-old boy.

More and more people gathered around.

Hayley followed Scott into the crowd and immediately recognized the pair.

They were the father and son who had secretly warned her earlier that day.

Gresham Law, the middle-aged man, groveled in front of Sawyer, looking disheveled. “Please don’t lock my son up. He really wasn’t bitten by a zombie!”

“Dad,” his son, Nash Law, called out, tugging at his sleeve. “Dad, stop it. Worst case, we leave. We don’t stay in this trash base!” “Leave?” Sawyer’s arrogant voice rang out. “Tomorrow Base doesn’t allow deserters. Once you join us, you stay until death.”

“Who do you think you are?” Nash stepped forward, shielding Gresham. “We’ve fought and bled for you, too. Why do you get to decide our lives?”

“Because this is the apocalypse!” Sawyer drew his blade. “You’re alive today because Tomorrow Base allowed it. Anyone who betrays us dies!”

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