As expected.
By evening, Bruce received word that several other apartment buildings had also rejected the request to temporarily house the people from Lincoln Apartments.
Moreover.
The men patrolling the top floors had noticed that they had increased their defenses.
"It seems we're all thinking the same thing."
"Being contaminated by the supernatural is the same as being contaminated by a plague."
"No."
"The supernatural is even more terrifying than a plague."
"At least with treatment, there's still a chance of recovering from a plague. If you provoke the supernatural, unless an Awakened with enough influence pulls you out, you're definitely going to die."
When it came to outsiders, they were good partners who watched out for one another.
When one side was in trouble, everyone came to its aid.
But that only applied to living, ordinary outsiders. Evil spirits disguised as outsiders were not included.
Bruce believed that
if they dared force their way into another apartment building, what awaited them would definitely not be a warm embrace, but cold bullets.
"Boss."
"The people from Red House want to speak with us."
At that moment.
A burly man walked in and reported to Bruce, "They want to cooperate with us and go to Stream District to look for food. I heard there are people over there who want to trade grain for medicine."
The so-called "Red House" was actually a nearby apartment building with a red-brick exterior.
More than a hundred people lived inside.
Like the people here, they also had more than a dozen gunmen.
It was just that their weapons were much worse.
They mainly had pistols and hunting rifles, with only two assault rifles.
As for Bruce's group, not only did everyone have an assault rifle, they also had large-caliber sniper rifles, machine guns, rocket launchers,