章 686: Alexander - Casualty

Artem and the rest never looked so excited when I told them they'd get to see the other three but it seemed that they knew about something I didn't. Any regular person could've missed the facial expression they wore after giving out a jovial expression first but I didn't.

It was a short glum after that initial outburst of happiness and I managed to catch it when they looked down.

"Something wrong?"

Marina answered after taking a sip of coffee, "Alexander. Nikolas gave us news about Alexander… and it's not good."

"What did he say?"

"There's this civilian outpost they discovered further east– Right before the City of… of… Lucena was it?"

"Lucena? That's several hours away from Batangas already. And did you just say civilian outpost?"

"Yes, a civilian one. Vera knows more, you should let her continue."

"Okay, Vera?"