Gradually, Felix began thinking that perhaps Jas had truly changed.
Eventually, the two even beca close friends.
Since Kael had been busy helping Martha with various matters, Felix and Jas often went out together on patrols.
However...
Recently, Felix started feeling sothing strange.
It felt as if soone was watching him.
At first, he dismissed it.
But the uneasy feeling kept growing stronger.
One day, Jas approached him quietly.
"Felix... do you feel it too?" he asked.
"Feel what?"
Jas lowered his voice.
"It feels like soone has been watching you."
Felix frowned.
"Now that you ntion it... I’ve noticed sothing like that too."
Jas nodded grimly.
"If I’m right... soone might be planning to attack you."
Felix’s expression turned serious.
"What do you suggest?"
Jas thought for a mont before replying.
"You should avoid crowded areas... and don’t wander around alone."
Felix nodded.
However, after a few more days, the feeling of being watched beca even stronger.
Finally, Jas suggested sothing.
"Why don’t we set a trap?" he said.
Felix looked at him curiously.
"We’ll go sowhere isolated," Jas explained. "You pretend to be alone. If soone really plans to attack you, they’ll take the chance."
He smiled slightly.
"And when they appear... we take them down together."
Felix considered it carefully.
Then he nodded.
"Alright."
While they were preparing for this plan...
Elsewhere, another form of rebellion was quietly beginning to take shape.
It all began with Jenna.
After conducting a deep investigation, Ivy had eventually reached a clear conclusion, there was corruption inside the base.
However, the situation wasn’t as severe as she had initially feared.
It wasn’t the kind of corruption where honest or capable people were completely barred from entering.
Without hesitation, Ivy removed Jenna from the base.
When Jenna learned about it, rage burned fiercely inside her chest. Her fingers trembled as she clenched them into tight fists.
’How dare she...’
For a mont, she even considered marching straight to Ivy and confronting her face to face.
However, the mont she rembered the bet she had made with Ivy earlier, she could only swallow the grievance bitterly.
There was only one small rcy.
Ivy hadn’t been completely heartless.
Instead of banning Jenna from the base entirely, Ivy had simply removed her from office and forced her to go through the normal procedure of renting an apartnt like everyone else.
But that procedure itself was extrely troubleso.
The long lines, the endless paperwork, the inspections...
For soone who had once lived comfortably with privileges, the entire process felt humiliating.
By the ti Jenna finally managed to re-enter the base, the anger inside her chest had already been simring for days.
When people inside the base began noticing her, whispers quickly spread through the crowd.
"Isn’t that... Jenna?"
"The famous superstar?"
One by one, people began approaching her.
Many of them were fans who had admired her long before the apocalypse.
So even asked eagerly, "Miss Jenna, could you perform a singing session for us?"
Jenna’s eyes flashed subtly.
An idea ford inside her mind.
Instead of rejecting them, she smiled warmly.
"Of course," she replied.
Soon, she began gathering all the fans she had inside the base.
Then she made an announcent.
"Each concert will only cost ten crystals."
The price was extrely cheap.
In a world where people were constantly tense, exhausted, and depressed by survival, entertainnt had beco a rare luxury.
Because of the low price, people quickly began attending her concerts.
The atmosphere during the performances was lively.
Music filled the air, temporarily allowing people to forget the harsh reality outside the walls.
anwhile, Jenna quietly began collecting crystals.
At the sa ti...
She was also quietly building sothing else.
An army.
At first, her words were subtle.
During concerts, she casually ntioned how Ivy had removed her from the base.
"I never expected such treatnt," she would sigh softly.
Later, the tone of her speeches gradually changed.
She began throwing small shades at Ivy.
Then she began discussing "injustices."
"So people inside the base have been imprisoned unfairly," she told the crowd one night, her voice filled with sadness. "There are innocent people suffering."
The reason Jenna was doing all of this was simple.
She wanted to create unrest.
She wanted Ivy to realize how much influence Jenna herself possessed.
The mont that thought appeared in her mind, excitent surged through her.
’If enough people stand against Ivy,’ Jenna thought smugly, ’she won’t have a choice but to compromise with .’
Her confidence grew larger every day.
And because of that confidence, Jenna decided to take a far more extre step.
Her first major move...
Was to free the prisoners.
There was another reason behind this decision.
Jenna had recently learned that her boyfriend had been imprisoned.
His cri?
He had attacked soone who tried to approach Jenna aggressively.
From the mont he was imprisoned, Jenna’s resentnt toward the prison system had grown stronger and stronger.
To her, the prison was nothing more than a place that punished people for the smallest mistakes.
So she chose it as her first target.
Surprisingly, the plan worked quite well.
Many of her fans, especially the die-hard ones, worked as guards inside the prison.
With their help, Jenna slowly gained access to deeper areas.
The process required careful planning and patience.
But eventually, they reached the innermost section.
One by one, they began releasing the prisoners they intended to rescue.
However, when Jenna finally tried to free her boyfriend...
Everything went wrong.
A few of the real prison guards noticed the suspicious activity.
"Stop right there!"
Alarms imdiately echoed through the prison corridors.
Chaos erupted.
So criminals were captured again.
So were recaptured imdiately.
But a few prisoners, ones who were not even part of Jenna’s rescue list, managed to escape in the confusion.
Among them was a woman.
Anisa’s mother.
As she ran through the corridors, her voice echoed loudly with hatred.
"I’ll kill Felix!" she scread furiously. "He destroyed my life! He turned everything into hell for !"
Her voice was so loud that several guards heard it clearly.
The alert quickly spread.
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