Chapter 317
Deng Yuqi instructed the squad leaders to continue with the evacuation, but with a change of plan: instead of gathering survivors to escort them to the temporary shelter, they were to settle these people in an abandoned building for now. They would only be brought back to the main shelter once Shen Ge had dealt with the aberrant worm.
Upon receiving Deng Yuqi’s message, Liu Jiayi and her team quickly arrived with the main force to provide support. As for Shen Ge’s proposal, Liu Jiayi didn’t deliberate too long before making her decision.
Not that she trusted this man who had only joined the exploration team a few days ago and already made a name for himself—no, she had long been dissatisfied with the Council.
In truth, whether it was the exploration team or the aberration-hunting team, as resources grew tighter and tighter under the apocalypse, it became increasingly clear that the corrupt Council was nothing but dead weight holding the shelter back.
But replacing the Council was no easy task. After all, decades of “deep-rooted” conditioning had made many people accustomed to obedience. Unless pushed to the brink, it was nearly impossible to expect them to rise up and resist.
The “rebellion” of the New God Cult this time, however, presented a golden opportunity. The timing, the circumstances, and the public sentiment were all aligned—no one was willing to let this chance slip by.
After consulting with the head of the aberration-hunting team, Liu Jiayi had the deputy leaders of both teams take charge separately, splitting up the evacuees from the shelter and keeping them under control. They would wait for Shen Ge to eliminate the aberrant worm, then seize the shelter in one fell swoop and take the Council’s place.
It seemed even the Freak Organization hadn’t anticipated this turn of events. They had arranged for their men to eliminate the “Bishop” and take his place, hoping to remove unstable variables, and then slowly erode the shelter from within through the New God Cult, eventually bringing it under their control.
Even if that plan failed, they had set the aberrant worm as a backup to drain the shelter’s defenses.