269 The Glaring Truth (1/2)

At first, Paolo Canlas wanted to ask someone to bring Jun over to the town hall for them to talk but considering their power levels, it didn't seem appropriate.

Black Haven solidified their foothold among the people with numerous tricks and benefits. The EXP buffs, the stat buffs, and the items that they sell. There was nothing flawed about how they ran the town except for their cold and uncaring attitude to most things. They mostly interfere when things turn too bad, but if its just quarrels and disputes, they won't care.

That's why, Paolo Canlas met him in person, as a sign of respect and to personally ask the information that he wants.

He was already informed by his subordinates when the group got out of the mall and headed somewhere else. So, they followed them and arrived at the recruitment place and even waited for them to finish.

As Jun walked away with his crowd and were headed to Edward's Fiery Dragon, the two faction leaders met.

”Heya!” Jun casually greeted and raised his hand. ”It's rare to see each other. I guess this is not by chance, right? Is there anything that I could help you with?”

Seeing Jun agreeable, Paolo also didn't make things difficult and also acted like the two of them were best buddies.

”Hahaha, that's quite true. Even though we were able to clear the nearby towns and barangays, there were still sitios and barrios on secluded places. We don't know whether there are people awaiting rescue and we're still doing our best to rescue everyone every day. I'm here to clarify somethings about rumors that I've been hearing for the past few days. Does Antipolo really have the city secured? Is there really a stronghold established at Taytay?”

Jun pondered for a bit. As someone who works for the government, Paolo Canlas would surely be interested in this information. The problem stems from the probable effects of the National Police reestablishing communication with the government. But still, he can't just lie and can't say the whole truth either.

So, he decided to say the truth, the whole truth.

”Yeah. Antipolo was secured but is too crowded with refugees. I think their food is already running out and riot might occur soon if things continued that way. They also made a stronghold at Rotunda Tikling. They're trying to rescue the president for a month now but haven't succeeded. You know how it is in the Capital. It's the most populated place in the whole region. The amount of regular, evolved and mutated carriers must be overflowing.

Jun chuckled softly then shook his head. ”I'll head out first. I still need to search for food sources. We can't all starve, right? The marketplace needs food so people won't riot.”

Although Jun seemed casual, everyone could feel the hatred in his voice.

To those who were informed about the situation, they couldn't help but feel remorse and anger. Jun's mother was forced out of the town just because she and her group had a strange appearance and doesn't want to submit to the military.

Paolo Canlas and his escorts didn't know how to respond. How could they even respond? They didn't even know whether the information they received were truths and their faith on the government kept them from siding with him.

Still, some small seed of doubt was planted on everyone here.

After the small chat. Jun's group was then able to leave without much trouble.

It didn't take long for the Fiery Dragon to arrive at the outskirts of Lakeside Marina. Edward parked the car near the dirt path and the group went straight to the docks to greet Gilbert.

”How's the marina doing? Do you encounter any problems here?” Jun inquired interestedly with the small marina's situation.

This place was his treasure trove. He had the Tree of Life planted at the beach end of the marina. With the marina's people as caretakers, he at least wanted to treat them better. It's a must after everything they have been through.

Their first meeting was kind of not good. Jun was very selfish and hotheaded and Gilbert lied to him about rewards. That ended up creating friction between them. It was when everyone sees the new world as something helpless and terrible.

However, a month has almost passed after that. Jun experienced a lot of things. The killings, loving someone again, trusting people, getting betrayed, and mutually taking advantage of each other. In these few weeks, he was able to experience most of the things that he experienced in his life during his gang times.