"The base! I think... they’re one of the guys they took to the base because one of them had been snooping around our territory!"
Deep lines appeared between Atlas’s brows as he narrowed his eyes. But the man mistook Atlas’s reaction for doubt.
"I saw them!" the man breathed out, his heart briefly stopping as he realized there was no going back now. "I saw them..."
Yet, Atlas still didn’t answer, causing the man to panic.
"Believe me! I’m telling the truth!" the man exclaimed, clasping Atlas’s feet as he rose to his knees. "That other guy is wearing this white polo and brown shorts! He’s tall and has this pretty face! Then the other guy with him is shorter. I think the short guy is wearing black! He also has slightly curly, wavy hair! And these weird eyeglasses!"
"..." Atlas remained quiet, watching the man try to save himself. Whatever was happening inside must’ve scared the hell out of him, but what could Atlas expect?
Hugo was inside, and that man... rose in the ranks for a reason.
Slowly, Atlas squatted down in front of the guy kneeling before him. As soon as he did, they heard a deafening "bang!" from inside the pub, making the man flinch. But seeing that Atlas didn’t budge, as if he wasn’t worried about Hugo or Mark, the man felt his entire body tremble.
"I’m just new here," the man breathed out, shaking his head. "Please. Even if you kill me, I’m at the lowest of the low in the ranks. All I do is collect money from the shops around here and impose rules—I didn’t do anything to those two."
"You said... they were taken in because one of them has been snooping around your territory?"
"That’s what I heard!"
"You’re wrong," said Atlas. "Your group has been mistaken. Those two might be curious, but they had no idea of what was going on around this island. That, I can assure you."
The man whimpered quietly. "That’s impossible."
"Impossible?"
"I’m sure they’d been followed before they were taken," the man breathed out. "But even if there’s a misunderstanding, if they took them to the base, then..."
When the man trailed off, Atlas unhesitatingly grabbed his collar and asked, "Then, what?"
"Then their life is already in danger," the man said. "No one goes into the base and comes out alive, except for members and a few special cases."
BANG! BANG!
Despite the continuous gunfire inside the pub that didn’t seem to rattle anyone, the man’s words echoed loudly in Atlas’s ears. His breathing stopped for a moment, recalling what the bartender had told them before they left.
"Take us to them," Atlas breathed out, grabbing the man as he stood. "You’ll take us to that base, and if you try anything funny, I can assure you, you’ll be the first person I kill."
The man’s breath hitched, still hearing the round of fire from the pub until it suddenly went quiet.
"Ugh!!" Suddenly, the man heard someone groan. Turning his head to the pub’s entrance, he saw one of his colleagues crawling out of the pub. But, just a second later, something grabbed the one crawling and pulled him back into the pub.
’He didn’t even have a scratch... despite being unarmed,’ was the first thing that crossed the man’s mind as he gulped the tension in his throat. These two brothers were insane! "Ye—yes."
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