While chaos was unfolding across every Shelter City, an aged man with black hair streaked clearly with white stood in a dark room before 13 screens. His back was straight, eyes focused, and brows furrowed.
Twelve of the screens showed the worn faces of elderly men, and the thirteenth was currently playing the massacre scene involving Adyr.
The man standing before the screens, showing absolute respect in his demeanor toward them, was Henry Bates. All twelve screens were displaying video calls with the City Managers of the twelve Shelter Cities.
"Sir, with all due respect, the situation has spiraled out of control," Henry Bates said, bowing his head respectfully.
Since Adyr began mowing down the mutant army, those watching the live broadcast started showing strange symptoms. Reports kept coming in—people fainting suddenly, some collapsing with heart attacks, and even deaths.
And these were not small numbers. Just in Shelter City 9, the death toll had already passed a thousand.
