"That's true."
After hearing the jeans-clad young man's words, the glasses man nodded.
"I just didn't want to be exploited by them anymore, so I decided to come here and take a chance with Brother Liu!"
At this point,
His expression turned somewhat savage. "Those bastards! They make me hand over half a pound of grain every day... I can barely feed myself as it is."
"If this keeps up, even if they don't kill me, I'll die searching for supplies."
"Exactly."
The jeans-clad young man smiled.
"Although Lian City hasn't completely fallen, it's still leaking from all sides. Everyone who could flee has fled, and those who stayed have to run around searching for supplies every day."
"The Awakened hold themselves above everyone else. They get food without doing a thing."
"Trash like the Black Wind Gang throws their weight around, bullies men and abuses women, and even kills people at the drop of a hat, all because they have Awakened backing them."
"Now they're even forcing ordinary people to search for supplies."
"Where can you still find anything these days? Don't you have to go to dangerous places?"
"People have already died in all of them."
"Even if you're lucky... like you, going three times without anything happening."
"But what about five times? Ten times?"
"They'll keep sending you to haul things indefinitely."
"So,"
"Rather than sit around and wait for death, we might as well take a chance!"
As he spoke, the jeans-clad young man glanced at the balding man and said, "We're good friends, so when Brother Liu said he wanted to find one more person, you were the first one I thought of."
Strictly speaking,
His relationship with the glasses man couldn't really be considered particularly close. They had merely been coworkers in the past.