Chapter 152: Cooper Family
Dhruv could feel the sadness on the old man’s face, but there was also a hint of relief there. The relief was from the fact that the nukes had reduced the number of monsters very much, which further helped them sustain the wave of monsters.
"So, they chose the lesser evil to save everyone," Dhruv thought.
He couldn’t decide whether the government’s decision was a good thing or not. After all, he wasn’t in their shoes, and he didn’t have the right to decide for them.
Dhruv was about to let the old man continue when he remembered something.
’Wait, doesn’t that mean the one who controls the button would gain immense exp? If not for the fact that after reaching an evolution cap the exp didn’t increase, otherwise that man would have reached Tier 3 in just one go.
’Hehe, sucks for him. But he must have earned a massive amount of coins, right? Dhruv, what are you thinking here? People have died, and you are thinking about coins.’ Dhruv cursed himself for the lack of sympathy and looked at the old man.
Looking at Dhruv’s gaze, the old man understood what he had to do and began the explanation once again.
"Most of the monsters died in those five bombings and the number of monsters left in the city became very few, but it wasn’t completely gone. If not for the fact that there was an eight-hour delay before the next wave, we all would have been dead even after the bombing."
"As the number of monsters began to drop down, the military once again took control of the city. But even the military knew that they wouldn’t be able to save everyone if they left here and So, they decided to move everyone towards the main continent of Ehai, mentioning that the number of Cracks here in this city is very high compared to other places." the old man said.
"So, what had you decided..." Even though Dhruv knew the end result, he asked to know what the old man had initially decided.
"After realizing there were many nuclear shelters on the main island that could shelter us from these monsters we had decided to follow the military.
Although the number of monsters was very small, it wasn’t zero, and we were among the unfortunate who encountered a group of bears while heading toward the seaport with no way to pass the monsters. We even tried to fight the monsters but knew it was in vain and tactically decided to retreat." The old man said.
"...And just like that, we were stuck there with hundreds of thousands of people. It didn’t take long before the second day arrived, and with it came the second wave of monsters.
But this time, the people had somewhat accepted the state they were in and had the motivation to either kill or be killed, so they didn’t fluster and began to attack the monsters as well. We were somewhat able to hold the monsters back too. After all, we were also getting power-ups in the situation..."
After saying this, the old man took a deep sigh before continuing...
"But, you know what, my lord, the most lethal enemy of humankind is humans themselves. After the second day, gangs began to form and started capturing people to use as meat shields during their hunt. The more they hunted, the stronger they became then the more they kidnapped. My son and daughter-in-law became victims of such gangs as well, B-but...but we escaped due to their sacrifice..."
The old man’s voice shuddered as he said the last line. Not wanting to waste time, he took a deep breath and calmed himself down. He looked at Dhruv and continued,
"But our freedom didn’t last long and on the last day, we also became the victim of such a gang. But the good part was that this gang had a different motive and didn’t venture outside to hunt. Instead, they had occupied a station and were hunting there. Due to them being underground, most of the monsters couldn’t locate us, and we were safe."
"I didn’t know what happened afterward until you and your guardians came and saved us..." The old man said as he paused for the final time.
Listening to everything, Dhruv looked at the old man and said, "Thank you, Old man, for sharing all of this with me."
Afterward, Dhruv signaled Azarex to let the old man out of the tent.t.
Azarex did as he was told and let the old man out of the tent. After doing this, he didn’t enter the tent as well and began to move toward the prison to start today’s work.
Inside the tent, Dhruv was processing all the information he had received.
’So, according to the old man, most of the citizens there have already been either transported to the continent of Ehai, or they have been killed by the monsters. The number of cracks on this side is very high... hmmmm!’ Dhruv thought as he began to contemplate what he could do with this knowledge.
’The content of this quest is to destroy the dungeons. Will the government be able to achieve this?’" Before he could think any further, he remembered that there were still some of Alaric’s reports left.
Looking at Alaric, Dhruv signaled him to continue the report.
"Where was I, Uhhh! Yes, after the encounter with the helicopter, there was nothing extraordinary that happened for a few days, but this lasted until the start of the third quest.
As soon as the third quest began, a large number of people started entering the city in hopes of completing the quest. All of them looked like they were from the same organization," Alaric said as he remembered the incident.
"How can you say that all of them looked like they were from the same organization?" Dhruv asked.
"Because almost all of their vehicles had the same emblem," Alaric said with confidence.
’Emblem, so they aren’t a government force and are soldiers of one of the four great families. Is it the Parker family? After all, they are in control of most of the weapons,’ Dhruv thought.
While looking at Alaric, Dhruv took out his notebook from his ring and let Alaric describe the shape of the emblem.
Listing orders, Alaric began to describe the rough description of the emblem in the notebook.
The moment he looked at the rough description of the emblem, Dhruv knew which family emblem it was...
It was the Cooper family emblem.
