‘What is he planning to do?’
His plan had always been to live safely in the bunker for as long as possible. Although the threat of those zombies and monsters seemed to be over, they were now facing an even bigger threat.
These unknown people already knew where he lived, and added with how that traitor Petroski was out there somewhere in the wild, his future in the bunker was pretty much gone. Nothing good would come out if he chose to stay here.
Hence, his decision to leave the bunker was final.
𝓲𝑛𝗻𝗿𝘦𝒶𝐝. ᴄo𝗺
Would it be possible for him to employ these people? Most likely not… Although he had a lot of things they might want in the bunker, these people were more than capable of taking anything they wanted here by force. They could even do it right now if they really wanted.
Not at all. Viktor did not have the slightest amount of trust toward these people.
With a little more than 50 minutes until his stats finally return to normal, Viktor could only resort to one last thing; negotiation.
Not wanting to find out what would happen if he delayed answering the captain’s question, Viktor quickly said, “Captain, as the owner of this bunker, may I please have a private word with you?”
“All right, show the way,” Captain Andrei agreed to his request and called the vice captain’s name. Following the captain’s call, Anton put down his cutlery, chugged the rest of his drink, and stood up.
The captain sat behind the table while Anton stood on the side.
Viktor quickly started the conversation with some lies.
The captain paused for a moment before responding, “Oh, that’s not good. How many supplies do you have left?”
In truth, even though they had used about 80% of the supplies in the last two years, with enough rationing, they should still have enough for at least another year. However, Viktor’s starting sentence allowed him to express his intention as well as lower the other party’s greed for his supplies at the same time.
‘They really are after the supplies here after all.’
With those words, Viktor lower the tension between them by giving what the other party wanted. Even though these supplies were precious, he did not want to die for things that he could not even bring all out.
Hearing this, Viktor was a little relieved. After all, he did the best he could to entertain Anton during the feast.
However, the words that came from Anton’s mouth defied his expectation.
As the vice captain said those words, his eyes were clearly looking down on Viktor.
Viktor quickly looked at the captain hoping he would disagree, but his hope was shattered once again as Andrei nodded his head in agreement with Anton. It seemed that Anton’s position in the team was more important than he thought.
The situation suddenly turned from bad to worse. If he did not say anything, he would, without a doubt, die.
Viktor felt like cursing at the Djinn right now, but having seen talking by himself would not do him any good. He was about to negotiate more with the two when the vice captain suddenly turned toward him.
Seeing the knife’s tip so close to him, Viktor could only think to use the last idea he had in his mind.
“Hahahaha… you dare? Are you courting death? Do you know who this bunker belongs to? The Romanovs… and I am Viktor Romanov!”