Chapter 1305: You can always say no.

I could maybe chalk it up to the Mayor's age or just the mountain of things he had to juggle every single day, but this fire just happened yesterday, he wouldn't be able to forget it just like that. Still, it took a few keywords like the copy of the footage and that it'd be no problem for him to actually remember what occurred that night, but he was still more focused on having us dissect his plan of storming the other connecting stations.

And he pointed at the projector screen while holding his marker:

"Fortunately, while the area to clear out is larger, it seemed that it has no flesh walls or those bouncy huge masses running around—or any of those miniature abominations running around."

"Seemed?"

"I mean— We'll never actually know once we're in there, right? We tried to thin down the herd below and never tried to get up—but yeah… despite the noise we made, none of the ones up top tried to get down on our level."