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Vikram looked towards the Shalini beside him, who was currently clinging to him like a koala.

Shalini was shocked by Vikram’s strength before their loving moment, but now she felt happy knowing that.

"Do you know why I didn’t kill you?" Vikram asked, looking at her.

"No, I don’t know?" Shalini replied.

Vikram nodded hearing that, and said, "I need to develop my influence now, and I will take over all these Savage Wolf Shelter members later."

"Before that, I need someone to help me manage them." He said, looking at her with a serious expression, not even asking for her consent.

Hearing this, Shalini started thinking, apart from the group of Savage Wolf Shelter members frozen in place, there were only high-ranking officials’ bodies lying on the ground, while their souls visited hell.

"Ok, I will take care of them," She didn’t need to think more about this, she herself was an intelligent woman.

She already understood that Vikram meant to hand over Savage Wolf Shelter to her management.

Although she feels a little regret, Vikram was not bringing her to his shelter. She also felt happy that he was making her the leader of this territory.

She also could easily run the shelter, ruling as Boss, while working for him.

And about betraying him, after she was given her first time, this idea never came to her mind.

Just as she was about to give Vikram a reassuring smile, she suddenly felt Vikram put something on her left wrist. It was a silver-gray bracelet.

"It’s good that you agree." Vikram showed a meaningful smile.

And he thought of giving her shock, to control her. Although he has taken her for the first time, knowing the previous works of Shalini he couldn’t believe in her easily.

But as he thought, Shalini would fall to the ground, and started screaming in pain, nothing like that happened.

He quickly asked the system. And the reply he got, nearly shocked him.

[Slave Bracelet will only work, who will resist the command of the user.]

It was a simple answer, but it told many things to him. He couldn’t believe that the same Shalini, who could easily manipulate others, and even put Divya and Anjali’s life in danger, could truly fall in love with him.

Now he started feeling guilty, looking at the Slave Bracelet in her hand.

"What is this?" Shalini asked, looking at him.

Vikram quickly put another bracelet, which was good looking, on her hand, and removed the slave bracelet. His speed was even faster than the Phantom Druid for a second.

"I was trying to gift you a bracelet, but first put the wrong bracelet," He gave her an excuse, but he was so embarrassed saying that.

"Okay, now give me a tour of the Savage Wolf Shelter, and let me admire the full view of one of the three major Shelters."

"Okay," She nodded. With that, she and Vikram were going downstairs for a tour.

But passing by the ordinary members, whether it was an illusion or something else, he always felt a hint of something amiss. It was as if something he had overlooked.

"Except for Shalini, all the high-ranking personnel should have been killed. What exactly did I forget?" He stopped, rubbing his chin.

Finally, his gaze fell on a group of members.

They all lowered their heads, not daring to meet Vikram’s gaze, fearing that this lord would take it out on them if he was displeased.

He was not only using his sight to distinguish faces; the system’s scanning function was also operating at this moment.

After a series of unfamiliar names flashed by, he finally found what he had overlooked.

[Brijbhushan: Strength: 18, Speed: 17, Stamina: 18, Reaction: 18.]

Without hesitation, he rushed into the crowd and grabbed his arm.

"So it’s you, Brother Brijbhushan. Really, look at my memory, I almost forgot about you."

"I remember you once said that when you found me, you would make me die a miserable death."

"Now that we brothers meet, why don’t you even say hello?" Vikram asked with a smile.

"You... I..." Brijbhushan was not even able to say anything because of the fear. From the moment he found out, he was Vikram.

He wanted to escape, but since others were also standing there, he wasn’t able to escape.

After the shock, he seemed to have thought of something and immediately showed Vikram an ugly smile.

He gave an awkward laugh and slowly said, "Haha, Brother Vikram, what I said in the chat back then was just angry talk, and later, didn’t we not bother you?"

"Didn’t bother me?"

He waved to his back, and Shalini understood, immediately stepping forward.

After several inquiries, Brijbhushan’s face became increasingly grim.

This was because everything he and Rahul Soniwal had proposed about how to deal with Vikram had been exposed by this woman.

"No, don’t kill me, Brother Vikram, as long as you don’t kill me, I’ll be your servant."

"Don’t worry, I’m not that cruel and bloodthirsty."

"But that depends on your performance. I remember you often sold cold-weather supplies like cotton clothes and jackets at the trading market, right?"

"Tell me how you got these supplies, and I’ll let you go." With that, Vikram waited quietly for a response.

When he interrogated Shalini earlier, Vikram really didn’t kill her. With this precedent, Brijbhushan almost instantly blurted out the answer.

At this moment, he leaned into Vikram’s ear, "The cold-weather supplies are at..."

"Slap!" A slap rang out.

The palm print did not appear on anyone’s face, but on Brijbhushan’s dishonest hand.

A short knife flew from his right hand; it was clear that he had just tried to ambush Vikram.

As a result, not only did he not succeed, but he also took a solid punch from Vikram when he reacted and tried to run.

For Vikram, he was just a small ant, how could he not understand what he was going to do. But still he became angry, and lost his patience for a slow interrogation. He walked to Brijbhushan, who had been sent flying by his punch.

Without further ado, he summoned his long blade, and with a swift movement, a cleanly severed arm was cut off.

Although other functions of the Survival Platform could not be used by non-owners, checking chat records was possible.

He found his chat records with Rahul Soniwal on it and discovered that there was indeed information about the source of these cold weather supplies.

And Brijbhushan was able to enter this Savage Wolf Shelter and quickly rise to a high position within a short time precisely because he provided this stuff.

He laughed disdainfully, shaking his arm at Brijbhushan on the ground, indicating that he had already obtained the information.

Seeing him cough up blood from anger, Vikram very thoughtfully kicked him in the forehead.

A crisp sound echoed on the second floor; he had not held back at all with that kick.

Everyone present witnessed the scene of Brijbhushan’s skull being brutally kicked in.

Brijbhushan had no time to take any measures and immediately died on the spot.

Red and white matter splattered everywhere, but Vikram showed no reaction, his face calm.

After noting down the coordinates of the resources in the arm, he burned the arm to ashes.

Immediately after, he gestured for Shalini to continue leading the way.

Even Shalini, who had seen her fair share of dead people in her daily life, felt a little chill at the scene just now.

Still, since he was currently his man, she became also a little happy. She led him downstairs.

The structure of their shelter was nothing special.

It was just as previously imagined: several outer cabins connected to each other, surrounding the main house to form a defense.

But when Shalini led him into a small compartment on the first floor of the main house, a hint of solemnity appeared on Vikram’s face.

This compartment looked like a storage room, but in reality, there was a secret door inside.

Pushing open the secret door revealed a stone staircase leading directly underground.

It was dark and damp, with a pungent, decaying smell entering their nostrils.

He cast a questioning look at her.

But before he questioned her, she replied, "This is where the Savage Wolf Shelter holds female slaves."

At this, Vikram only frowned, although he felt pity for them, but he already knew that in the Apocalypse.

Many people have mostly lost their humanity, or he could also say that it was their true colour, but the rule of the earth has stopped it.

And now in the Wasteland, without the rule, it shows their true colour.

If he had seen the scenario before doing with Shalini, he might have killed her immediately, but now he was confused. And now Shalini, also loved him, he couldn’t do anything to her.