I Hope You Burn
By the end, the applause didn’t stop.
When they called for me to be the base leader, I shook my head and declined. I gave the position to Zoe. I preferred to focus purely on research rather than trying to manage everyone politically.
After the leadership election, my survival plan spread quickly. The once-dead, scorched lands slowly came back to life under the plan’s implementation. Mr. O'Connor, on the other hand, took Janine and Mark away. It wasn’t too long after that I heard Mark died in the heat outside the base. With that, the O’Connor family gradually fell into decline during the apocalypse.