I'm the Villainess in the Apocalypse
Chapter 431. Encounter

Chapter 431: 431. Encounter

"That’s the research institute..."

Dylan looked at the research institute in front of him and paused in his speech. Not because he found that the research institute was wrong, but because he saw Derek was outside the research institute, talking with the young man who had only arrived not long ago, Sean.

The current Sean was no longer looking like the proud young master of Mason Family. Right now, Sean’s clothes were dirty and there were a lot of blood from those big mutated animals battles not long ago.

And the way Sean’s gaze changed to form ruthlessness and killing intent, it was terrifying.

Dylan himself knew that it was the gaze one made when they wanted to kill someone or something. Because he had seen that kind of gaze when he was hunting those big mutated animals that dared to make trouble or even when he saw that someone wanted to trouble Anna.

Because of this, he stopped.

Anna didn’t know clearly, but she could sense that Sean’s atmosphere seemed to change so she also stopped. After all, her instinct was warning her not to get close at all.

"I’ll be going now," Sean said and turned around, no longer paying attention to Derek at all.

Derek nodded at Sean and then turned his head to look at Dylan and Anna who were coming closer. There was a trace of surprise and relief in his eyes when he saw the two of them before he nodded with a smile.

"Are you alright?" Dylan asked with a frown.

Between Derek and Sean, he couldn’t say that he was close to them. After all, Dylan didn’t have much relationship with either of the two of them.

But at the very least, he still talked with Derek a few times and this young man also has some relationship with Alicia, who’s his friend. So he was more willing to give more face to Derek.

If there was any conflict, he was also leaning more towards Derek.

Unless it was Derek who was absolutely in the wrong.

"Yes, I’m fine," Derek replied. "He’s only asking about what happened in the research institute before that caused these big mutated animals to turn berserk."

Dylan frowned and nodded.

He looked at the direction where Sean left and guessed that someone from the Mason Family must have passed away. If not because of it, there was no way Sean would show such ruthlessness and killing intent when he was talking about these big mutated animals.

This apocalypse had taken so many humans’ life.

From the disaster of flood at the beginning, then tot the lack of food, the extreme weather, and then the appearance of these big mutated animals.

In just a short period of one year, less than half of the original humans’ number in the entire world was left. In fact, Dylan himself was not entirely sure how many percent of human populations were still left in the world.

These disasters didn’t show any sign of ending either.

And Dylan naturally didn’t’ know when it would possibly end.

Tragedy after tragedy would only continue to happen as more and more people die in this apocalypse.

What could they do?

They could only try their best to survive, trying their best to live day by day in this changed world, unsure about their future.

But no one has truly given up hope yet.

Even if there were these big mutated animals facing them, they still wanted to live and perhaps see a beautiful future ahead.

"What happened?" Anna frowned.

She also guessed that something bad must have happened to Sean. Because even if she hated these big mutated animals, it was not to the point where the hatred was so bone chilling and could be detected by others just from mentioning about this topic.

"I’m not sure." Derek shrugged.

Dylan narrowed his eyes.

He felt that this Derek knew more than what he showed on the surface, but this young man was unwilling to tell them and clearly hid some things.

But he also couldn’t force Derek to tell them anything.

Anna glanced at Derek, not quite believing him, but this was not the most important thing. They still have to go and find Kitty, so they couldn’t stay here for a long time. "How did the research institute deal with this matter? Is it certain that they wouldn’t cause such a thing again?"

She couldn’t possibly ask it so bluntly in public like this.

The fact that the research institute caused this tragedy from the big mutated animals might not be a secret. Previously, many people were supportive to the research institute because they could get the liquid essence from the research institute.

But if they were to know that their tragedy was also caused by the research institute... it was unknown how many people’s heart would be chilled.

A lot of people had died under the attack of these big mutated animals.

They have family members, friends, loved ones, who would be saddened by their passing and death. Even if they knew the risk was big in this era, who would want to think that the next person to fall would be the one close to them?

They couldn’t bear it.

And they might hate the research institute should they know about it.

So, Anna could guess that they would want to hide this matter from the public and didn’t let them know. She herself also wouldn’t be the one to reveal it even if she knew the truth and angry about it.

"I can’t tell you the details..." Derek wanted to say that he was under confidentiality contract but Dylan had raised his hand.

"I don’t want to know the details, just tell us whether you’re sure that this will happen again in the future or not?" Dylan interrupted Dylan and asked, his tone was solemn.

Derek was silent for a moment and could see that Dylan wouldn’t let him go so easily if he didn’t answer this question.

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