"What happened?" When Kurt and the others left the break room, they were startled by the bustling scene outside.
Not counting the six of them, there were roughly sixty or seventy customers and employees stranded in the supermarket. Among them were elderly people, youngsters, women, and children. Excluding those groups, there were still more than twenty adult men, including the three uniformed army officers.
The supermarket manager, Bud, had mobilized quite a few people. The women were sticking duct tape onto the glass, while the men used carts to haul bags of dog food, cat litter, fertilizer, and even flour, stacking these heavy supplies across the front of the supermarket.
After listening to Nick explain what had happened, the optimistic young man smiled. "Then we should help too." With that, he called his girlfriend Jules and Dana over to join him.
"Do you think this will do any good?" Lila leaned close to Nick's ear and asked quietly.
Busy by the windows, Nick swept his gaze over the bewildered elderly people and children, feeling somewhat helpless. "Maybe, if they're willing to follow instructions. But as you know, that doesn't seem very likely."
The human instinct to protect children was written into their genes, and the education he had received throughout his previous life also made it difficult for him to turn a blind eye to the situation before him.
Nick wasn't quite sure how the Movie Ticket defined the word "companion," but surely it wouldn't count everyone here as his companions. Otherwise, the difficulty of this additional mission would be absurdly high.
As long as they didn't actively court death or endanger others, he didn't mind trying to save a few more innocent people, just as he had brought Lila along earlier. But if everyone behaved like the lawyer was