Chapter 44: The sensation
As everyone delved deeper into the prison, many more supplies were gradually discovered, all of which, although very practical, were still useful. For example, someone found a large amount of clothes and bed sheets, pots and pans in the back storeroom. Although these things were of little value in the past, in recent days, any material is important for survival!
Someone also found an important arsenal in the corner of the prison. Most of the weapons in it were well preserved, but the total number of firearms was not much. Fortunately, there was enough ammunition!
As the reports came in one after another, Airon and the others got excited, obviously they were now more motivated when searching.
By now everyone had cleared this area and there were no walkers to be found anywhere. While more than half of the group was clearing the walkers and the most important places, a group of twelve people were standing behind the cafeteria door. Being at the front entrance of the cafeteria at this time, Glenn took the bolt cutter and cut the chain, the chain broke and fell to the ground.
Thanks to Shane's great help, there were already about fifteen people at the cafeteria entrance. Half of the people were holding silenced weapons while Airon and the others had assault rifles in their hands. Truly this group had the chilling appearance of an army.
They were all breathing slowly, dressed in black tactical uniforms, every part of their limbs were protected by equipment, they all had bulletproof vests and were ready to take on anyone in front of them.
The most experienced people were at the front of the group, one on each side, they made contact with sign language and there was a countdown, when the count reached zero they suddenly opened the door and the whole group entered the room while pointing their guns.
The cafeteria was the last place to be cleared inside this area, and to everyone's surprise, there was no walker inside, but a room with a large space.
But this was not the point. There were five people in prison uniforms standing in front of them. They were all standing in front of a glass window, staring at them. Airon's group entering the room was in shock seeing these people!
As soon as Airon and the others looked at each other, they approached one after another. Followed by a dozen people slowly entered the room with their weapons raised and then dispersed in the room, but their weapons were still pointed towards that group of five prisoners.
Airon saw them all step forward. The leader of that group had a gun stuck in his waistband, his long hair was tied in a ponytail and from the look on his face, Airon remembered that this person's name was Thomas.
Behind Thomas was a black-skinned, skinny-looking man named Andrew.
The next three people were Big Tiny, the talkative Axel and the friendly Oscar.
When Airon took a step, he looked at Thomas and Andrew as an intention full of coldness emerged. These two people were definitely not to stay among his people.
At first, Rick did not take care of Andrew due to an oversight, which led to having an enemy hiding in this prison. But that mistake would not be made by Airon. Never make any beginner's mistake.
As soon as he approached, he felt a strong sense of crisis rushing from Airon's heart, and the hairs all over his body stood on end, as if the cloak of death was covering him completely.
But this feeling came and went quickly, and before he could react, this feeling disappeared from his body.
His figure froze slightly, and light beads of cold sweat ran down his forehead, Airon took a deep breath and looked at these prisoners with much more vigilance.
Daryl raised his hand crossbow, walked over and said to Thomas, who had just come out, "Don't go any further! Stay there!"
"Who are they, are they army?" Standing in front of more than a dozen people in black tactical fatigues, Thomas instantly lost the courage to draw his weapon. Although he is a seat, he was not an idiot and Andrew behind him was a cowardly person away from that to ugh exterior expression.
Seeing that the other party had no intention of answering his questions, Thomas simply raised his hands to express his attitude. He could see that the young-looking man in front of him was the leader of the team, so he asked Airon directly again, "Are you here to rescue us? Are you here on behalf of the army?"
"You don't have to ask questions in this situation!" Rick said coolly.
"Hmm, they're prisoners of this place! Why are they locked in the dining hall?" Airon took two steps forward and stopped more than a meter in front of these five people.
Recalling the feeling from a moment ago, he absolutely believed that there must be some strong feelings of murder directed towards his direction when he entered this room.
So he had no intention of answering Thomas' questions, but acted normally according to the interests of his group and the questions arising in their minds.
Thomas rolled his eyes and looked at everyone in the room, and finally focused on Airon. Seeing that no one was speaking, he cautiously replied, "A prison guard locked us in here and gave me a gun. Here!"
After speaking, Thomas drew his gun and waved it in front of Airon to hand it to him. But Airon, while he wouldn't judge sins that have yet to happen, he also wouldn't be so naive as to forgive everyone.
"Crack!"
"Ah! My hand!"
Thomas' hand holding the gun was instantly grabbed by Airon, with a little effort, Thomas' wrist bent and the gun fell to the ground.
Andrew, who was behind Thomas, reacted quickly and raised a baseball bat in his hands, but his body froze as he felt the cold barrel of a rifle on his right side, because someone of these people was already aiming his rifle at his head.
On the other hand, Daryl also rushed forward quickly, aiming the crossbow in his hand at Thomas who wanted to resist!
Just as the others behind Airon, Daryl and Rick reacted, Airon with support had controlled the scene, and the others in the group of prisoners slowly backed away.
At that moment, Airon smiled amicably and looked at Andrew. "I don't want to know who you five are, there should be a log in this place with all your information and the shit you did to be here, so we'll talk about your situation after we get that information, for now you should just wait..."
Looking at Andrew, Airon whispered softly, "I don't need to hear from you anymore, you're already dead..."
Hearing that, the baseball bat in Andrew's hands fell to the ground. Speaking of this, Airon turned his head and said to the people behind him, "Take them to a unit, lock them up separately, only after resolving the situation here will we talk about what will happen to them."
"Yes, sir."
Several team members walked behind the five people, pointed guns at them and took the weapons they were holding out of their hands, then escorted them and walked outside.
Thomas looked bitterly at Airon, he should not have lasted at that moment, if he had controlled this person when he had the chance, he and the others would not have been imprisoned as soon as they left the kitchen, but a part of him knew that if he attacked Airon, he would have become a corpse now.
After the five prisoners were taken away, Airon looked at Shane and said, "There should be a database in this place, we need to look it up and find out why they arrested these five people to see if they are telling the truth or not."
"Why don't we send them out of prison?" Daryl thought it would be a good idea to let these people out to try their luck on their own.
"I think that would be a good idea!" Rick agreed with Daryl's words. He didn't want to accept these five prisoners, but if he had to execute these people, he felt he couldn't do it. And this is because he had not experienced enough.
The team members were also talking about their opinions, but most of them agreed to send some people out of prison.
Airon did not answer everyone's questions right away, but he put forward a hypothesis: "These people are very familiar with the prison, even more familiar than us. If we release them, the other party as revenge could cut the barbed wire in a place that we don't lend attention to. Then they could attract a large number of walkers, what do you think would happen to us then?"
The people around them were silent, none of them were sure if this kind of thing would happen, Airon looked at everyone's expressions and knew what these people were struggling with, he sighed and his tone suddenly became serious and heavy.
"This is the end of the world! If we treat strangers with kindness, all we will receive is a hard blow that will drive us into the ground. The only ones we can trust in our own community - all strangers are enemies until we watch them long enough!"
"I don't want to be careless, you saw how I was almost attacked by the guy with the bat just now, do you think they would have hesitated to kill me if they had the chance?"