ALL NOVEL Chapter 37: Arrival
"Do you know where, quick, take us to that place!" Shane heard Airon's words, and couldn't help but ask the same question again.
Shane's slightly excited tone totally confused Otis, but he still explained to everyone calmly. "The prison west of Georgia is a bit far from here. It'll take about forty minutes to drive just one way. It'll be dark by then considering the time. Why don't we leave early tomorrow morning?"
At this point, Airon looked up at the sky, by the setting sun he knew Otis was right, so he didn't insist now and they all hurried back to the farm.
Come to think of it, right now with the medicine they were not in a good position, so first they had to go back and drop off everything they had collected today.
Morgan turned his head to look at Airon, who was standing next to him with a thoughtful expression. Although the other party seemed to be a good leader, he always felt that she was wary of something and he knew that it made him more and more impatient, so he hoped that after taking over the prison he would get answers.
Feeling Morgan's gaze, Airon turned his head to look at the other party's somewhat intrigued expression, he looked around, and after some hesitation he said, "Lately I feel that it would be better to leave the city, something tells me that the more time passes, the less trustworthy the people outside would become.
Shane listened to these words and nodded, he knew that out there there were many unfortunates wreaking havoc and killing innocent people, so they should not be too trusting and always be alert.
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At noon the next day in the lobby of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
"All right, rookies, we've just taught you everything you can be taught, it's up to you to see how much you can do when you get to that point. All right, grab a weapon and go with Mike, Sam Valdez, he'll assign you to a group to perform together." Merle Dixon finished with the last explanations.
After that, he pointed out that he had nothing more to teach them so now they should continue learning how to fight and now their presence was needed to work as a community guard.
Merle at this moment was half lying on a sofa, his eyes were half closed, he did not know anything else about what was going on after completing his task, now he was just smiling and making people uncomfortable, but everyone present seemed to have gotten used to it, not only did they not feel uncomfortable, but some were even discussing and joking with him.
After understanding the rules that must be followed when joining the S.C.T. community, he along with all the survivors understood how important they were for this place to be sustainable and continue to grow. Half of the guards in this place were military, and those that weren't had learned enough to know how to move, fight and use a weapon.
At first there were some people who complained about the attitude of some of the guards in training. But some people did not say anything after hearing that if they did not choose to accept these methods, they would not be able to stay in this place and it is quite possible that they would not be able to find a safe place outside the community.
Seeing all those people who had finished their survival training, the two brothers were left alone. Daryl took his crossbow and began to clean it as he said, "Is there any news about the people who left to find another place? Staying in this place is becoming a torment."
"At this rate we won't be doing anything else, Does Airon just want us here to teach this bunch of rookies how to survive?"
Merle, who had been lying half lying down without any movement, finally reacted at this point, he just looked at brother Daryl with an amused face and then said relaxedly.
"Relax, my good brother, we won't stay here for long, if I'm right, we'll be out soon, haven't you noticed that all those people seem to love you?"
Merle, paused for a moment and said in an amused voice, "If I'm right, I'm sure the researchers on that damn virus have some clues."
When he finished speaking, he picked up a bottle of alcohol next to him and took a sip. Merle felt that this place would soon not be optimal for survival, now most were cleaning up the city and taking a lot of things that were now not needed.
Daryl didn't say a word when he heard his brother, and continued to clean his crossbow. Seeing that his brother was silent, Merle looked at him and with a smile said, "I heard that Airon almost shot you when you were hunting last time, is that true?"
With a cold expression, Daryl stood up and said loudly, "It was no big deal, I was about to put an arrow in his chest too, do you understand?"
"Hahaha!" Merle didn't speak, just smiled as he looked at his brother.
"Your teasing is extremely obnoxious, you know that?" Daryl looked at his brother not quite understanding his behavior.
"But you're carrying the new crossbow he gave you, now you have hundreds of arrows thanks to Airon, I guess you'll fall in love with him next."
Just as Daryl was about to answer, the radio on the table suddenly rang. "Zz... Can anyone hear me, this is Airon, come in!"
Daryl stopped dead in his tracks, looked back at Merle, and Merle grabbed the radio off the table and tossed it to his brother.
"Come on bro, don't drop the burden of being the spokesman for my group, you guys can get involved! Hahaha."
Daryl, who caught the radio, scoffed and pressed the answer button.
"Zz... Received! This is Daryl!"
"Zizi... Daryl! Take care of rounding up the Janners and Felipe, I have something important to say."
"Zz... Wait a moment, I'll contact you later."
Lowering the radio, Daryl tossed the radio to Merle, then turned and said, "You can figure it out yourself, I won't be a damn messenger boy for those rookies!"
Merle smiled and walked toward the subway living room where the investigators were.
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Somewhere, two cars were parked on the side of the road, a young Asian man and a stocky black skinned man were standing on the roof of the two cars, surveying the surroundings, while another group of people walked forward.
This group of people were the group of Airon and the others. Otis walked in front of the team with a big belly. The long walk made him sweat profusely and he was out of breath after walking a long distance.
The group walked through the forest for over 20 minutes, when they heard Otis in front say, "Here, it's just ahead, there's actually a path that leads to that prison, a friend of mine was locked up here before so I know the way, but when we got to that junction, two trees fell down and blocked the path, look, we're here."
Some people came out of a forest path, and the originally dense forest suddenly became sparse, only revealing a mountain with a wide view. Everyone looked in the direction of Otis' finger, and a large-scale prison appeared in front of his eyes.
Looking at this familiar prison in front of him, Airon felt a lot of excitement. Too many things happened in this prison in the original plot after Rick took it over, mostly tragedies. Now that he is here, he plans to turn this prison into the base of the S.C.T. community!
"This place is perfect!" Rick said as he looked at the prison, full of joy he couldn't help but admire the place.
Morgan also looked at the prison below and saw the walkers densely clustered at the fence walking unconsciously. He couldn't help but say with some concern, "It looks like this place has completely collapsed! And there are a lot of walkers here."
Shane expressed his concern, looked at Airon and said, "Airon, with all due respect, we don't know if the facilities inside are safe or not, and apparently you must see a lot of walkers everywhere."
"I don't think it's a good idea to move to this place! I still think we can stay at the CDC, the facility seems to be impenetrable, a safe and comfortable place."
"Shane, I know you are thinking about it for the team, but what you need to know is that to be at the CDC you need fuel and the demand is huge. This is still the case even if most of the unused equipment has been cut off. So relocating the refugees is the most important thing right now, we don't have a choice."
Airon knows that Shane, is a very defensive and conservative person, which can be seen in the various choices in the original story, and he is also a person who does not like to take potential risks, he has a reckless and irritable character, which makes him tend to act in an impulsive way.
At this point, Shane still didn't even believe that this prison was a good option, he was about to refute when he heard what Airon was about to say.
"You guys want to know why we have to move from the CDC?"
After pausing, Airon said in a clear voice, "That's because the CDC's fuel cannot run out under any circumstances, once we run out of fuel, all the CDC's equipment will stop working!"
"I also originally wanted that place to be our operations center at first, but I had to consider that factor."
Shane asked, "Even if there's no electricity, it's still a good shelter there!"
Airon shook his head and went on to explain, "Do you know where the CDC is and what it does? The CDC stores most of the most devastating viruses and bacteria that can be found in the world. Once the CDC's power runs out, the mainframe will automatically perform a complete disinfection."
Hearing this, everyone present asked a question almost at the same time!
"What do you mean by complete disinfection?"
"It will explode!"
"Explode?"
"A strong pulse bomb. It contains a two-stage aerosol ignition device, destruction superior to all known devices. The effect is only surpassed by nuclear bombs. The high temperature of 6000 degrees can ignite the air and destroy all dangerous objects in the CDC!"
In the original play, Edwin's explanation was very shocking, and Airon also remembered this terrifying bomb, so I try to explain what I knew.
You mean we've been living on top of a bomb!!!?"