Sanctyr Base would stop at nothing to achieve its goals.
They had no regard for human life whatsoever.
Using such an incentive to tempt people... it was easy to imagine what the starving would do for a handful of grain.
'No wonder,' Stella thought, 'when I arrived in Veridia, I found the people here more volatile than those on the outside, ready to fight at the slightest provocation.'
The people outside, hardened by the apocalypse, had certainly grown more cruel and short-tempered.
But most still retained a sliver of reason. They would weigh the pros and cons before deciding whether to strike. But...
She'd been in Veridia for some time now and had noticed the people here were far more reckless. A fight could break out over a few spoken words.
It was because the leaders of this territory were indirectly encouraging them to kill. How could the survivors here not become violent?
After all, if you killed someone, you could trade their corpse for supplies.
