After Zain and the other two had left the room, Ryan had a few words for the squad leaders who were still in the room.
"Look, I know you guys might not like the situation that we are in, but in the coming days, things will only get worse. I imagine what we see at the moment is only the beginning of everything." Ryan sighed, "Which is why I want you guys to bite your tongue and do the best you can to make these guys feel welcome, and I promise you won't regret it later."
However, despite the careful words that Ryan had chosen and because this was coming from Ryan instead of Brandon, Stu, who was the angriest out of the squad, was unable to hold back his tongue.
"You're going to get us all killed!" Stu almost shouted, "First of all, these guys aren't as impressive as you think they are. We tested them before they came up here, and secondly, that damned Kun guy even knows how to use a gun.
"I don't mean I am the only one who should know how to use one, but I am professionally trained. You know what that means, right? He's probably a spy from other groups."
It looked like Stu wanted to say more, but it was at that point that Brandon had stepped in and raised his hand, gesturing for the other to stop.
"I don't doubt that they could be working for someone else, or maybe in the past that they were, but there are two things you need to keep in mind. They saved Dave and his group for whatever reason that be. In this world as well, I feel like there is always a chance to change someone's mind. Besides, if I'm right, you think they're the ones that took out the gang from Chinatown, right?"
The others were taken aback by this comment. They had known the stories of those from Chinatown and the Cobra gang. Although that gang didn't have many guns, their groups had run into them before, and they had certain difficulties when facing the former.
There were even rumours of them keeping their own horde of zombies to use them as bait and attack. In the end, Ryan decided to just mark them as a dangerous group and avoid any confrontation.
"The Cobra gang has been eliminated. Almost all of their members were found dead. So they haven't just simply moved. This information was something that we received just recently and based on Zain's words at the end. It looks like he figured out we were keeping an eye on them." Ryan replied.
Still, Stu and Max couldn't believe that just three people were able to take out an entire gang, not one like the Cobra Gang. Even the accounts that Dave had told them, it seemed unbelievable for just three people to do such a thing, and if the zombie horde didn't come when it had done, they would have certainly been unlucky.
However, Tod, who had fought Zain, felt differently about the whole thing. During his fight with Zain, there was something he noticed in the latter. Even though Tod was more skilful in every way, it felt like no matter what he did in that fight, he would have lost.
He didn't know why but he couldn't shake off this feeling that Zain was extremely dangerous and was not a person he wanted to cross.
Since Brandon had ordered it, the leaders decided not to argue anymore and left the room.
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Seeing the three return from upstairs and join the main hall, Dave and his group had come rushing over, including Pink's parents.
"We didn't get the chance to say it before because we were all in shock, but we just wanted to say thank you, thank you so much for saving us." The people weren't shy in saying their thanks, and as they said it loudly, the others around them wondered what had happened.
Dave and his people had already told some around them, and the news was spreading about the feat these three had in helping and saving their group.
"So, are you staying with us? Did Ryan allow you to stay with us?" Pink's mother asked.
Pulling an awkward face and scratching the back of her head, Pink didn't know what to say. It wasn't that Ryan was letting them stay, they had asked them to stay and were trying to convince them, but it was whether or not they would stay.
"We don't want to disrupt what you have here," Zain replied. "We will be staying here for one night and then making our own moves, however, we would like to keep up relations with your group. You have a good family here, and we have our own family."
Hearing those words, Pink's mother shook her head, and it looked like the three of them went off to allow Pink more time to explain. Zain gave her a final look as if to say whatever you do, don't tell them who we are.
While Zain was talking to Dave and the others, there was another group of people that had approached Kun, and they were the ones that had been in the training hall earlier. They had finished their training and were relaxing for the rest of the day but were still impressed by his skills with the gun.
"I think you did that faster than the instructor. Do you mind showing us how you did that?" One of them asked.
"Yeah, does that mean you're a professional? You should be good at shooting, right? Maybe you can give us a few tips."
Just as all of the people were gathering around Kun, the squad leaders started to walk down the stairs, and Stu could overhear them all, a vein popping out from the side of his head, and his hand hovering over the gun.
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