The South Suburbs Shelter Alliance, which appeared to be a defensive alliance, was far from the monolithic whole one might imagine.
In fact, ever since the alliance was established, there had been various factions of all sizes within it.
Some had banded together based on shared ideals, while others had united according to their geographical regions.
There were also many small groups that, because they were relatively weak, had joined forces in hopes of gaining a voice within the alliance.
Therefore, after the bonds tying together the South Suburbs Alliance collapsed, not every shelter would choose to surrender to Qinggang Shelter like Dilonghua Shelter, Harbor Shelter, and the other five shelters had.
Instead, the voices within the South Suburbs Alliance were now divided into three camps.
The first was naturally the surrender faction. They advocated bowing down and pledging allegiance to Qinggang Shelter. That way, they could receive technical and material assistance during this extremely chaotic period while fundamentally resolving the disorder in the city.
The second was the faction that advocated fighting to the death. Those who supported this view were basically the large shelters ranked near the top in strength among the South Suburbs. To them, the harassment brought by the Wanderer Legion was certainly disgusting, but it had not actually damaged their foundations in the slightest. Since all firearms had now become scrap metal, they naturally had no reason to surrender before Qinggang Shelter truly made a move.
As for the third faction, it was somewhat strange.
Not to mention Hunter Tiger and Aldrich—even Su Mo had never expected it.
There were actually shelters in the South Suburbs that had set their sights on the recently established West Suburbs Alliance.
And there were quite a few of them, accounting for a full twenty percent of the total.