mtl008 Chapter 156 New Era 6
Chapter 156 New Era 6
Times are different now. Zhang Qiang in Savannah cannot communicate with the school remotely, and he is not yet aware that Kate is commanding the Destiny Army to attack Sinoa.
However, Zhang Qiang had already delegated power to Kate for this planned war, and she was fully responsible for it.
City of Savannah.
Snowflakes floated in the sky at night, and the zombies wandering the streets were gradually covered with snowflakes and ice crystals. Their body temperature was extremely low and was usually only affected by the environment.
Zhang Qiang drove an empty tanker truck carrying Clementine and Carl back to the Crawford community.
(Crawford is the name of the community. It will no longer be called the campus, but Crawford Community.)
"Sasha, have you arrived?" Zhang Qiang asked Sasha while holding the walkie-talkie.
Zhang Qiang was not as sensitive to road routes as these professional combat soldiers. He asked Carl to hold the map while he himself was groping his way back to the community.
"Yes, Commander, we have evacuated safely. Do you have any instructions?" Sasha's voice sounded on the intercom.
"No, I'll be back soon."
Zhang Qiang disconnected.
Because of the sea of zombies, it was difficult for Zhang Qiang and Sasha and the others to meet up on the same road. This was also a common phenomenon after a disaster, as people would always get separated due to the threat of zombies.
"Sir, do you have anything to eat? We haven't eaten for a few days."
Carl, sitting in the passenger seat, looked a little tired. His face showed high cheekbones and his skin looked a little dark yellow.
If he hadn't eaten for a few days, he and Clementine wouldn't have been surrounded by several zombies at the airport today. Under normal circumstances, as long as Carl wanted to run, the slow-moving zombies would not be able to surround him.
Zhang Qiang pulled out a handful of protein energy bars from the pocket of his full body armor and threw them directly at Carl and Clementine.
"Eat, and recover quickly so that you can join my forces and find a job." Zhang Qiang said.
Zhang Qiang didn't bring any water with him, so Carl could only chew the protein energy bar dry and swallow it with very little saliva.
"Sir, are you a soldier? The government's army?" Carl asked vaguely while chewing his food.
Zhang Qiang shook his head and began to formally introduce himself to Karl:
"I am the supreme commander of the Destiny Survivors' United Front. You can call me Principal Zhang."
"My Destiny Army is composed of the most elite soldiers, responsible for protecting the safety of the workers under our control, including targeting the survivors from the outside world with ill intentions. Currently, our military and civilians together have more than a thousand people."
"White boy, what did you do before the disaster?"
Carl looked at Zhang Qiang with even more respect. He didn't expect that the man in front of him had so many subordinates. This meant he was at least a colonel-level officer in the army before the disaster.
"Sir, I'm a patrolman." Carl said truthfully.
Zhang Qiang nodded calmly. Currently, all functions of the panel were shut down and the deployed soldiers could not be refreshed for a year. People like Carl who had some basic skills could become qualified soldiers with a little training from the legends.
"Clementine, have you seen Lee?"
Zhang Qiang suddenly asked Xiao Ke.
Clementine's eyes widened, and she suddenly looked down in panic and said, "No. No, wait. Isn't Lee with you?"
"He left school to find you. Damn, I don't know if he is still alive now." Zhang Qiang said with emotion.
In any case, Li was definitely a real man since he was able to give up the superior living conditions in the school and go to the outside world where zombies were everywhere to look for a little girl who was not related to him by blood.
"plum......"
Clementine lowered her head, and soon the sound of sobbing was heard in the cab.
"do not Cry."
Zhang Qiang looked at Clementine speechlessly, with no intention of comforting her, but just these simple words made Clementine immediately cover her mouth and try to stop crying.
Clementine sat on Carl's knees, with a slight whimpering sound coming from her covered mouth. It seemed that she was scared to death by Zhang Qiang.
'Is this considered stopping a baby from crying at night? Am I that scary?'
Zhang Qiang simply ignored Clementine and continued to drive the tanker truck seriously.
In the night, the high beams of the tanker truck illuminated the road ahead. Snowflakes were flying between the two lamp posts. There was a blurry figure walking not far away, causing the tanker truck to shake after driving for a while.
After a while, Zhang Qiang finally returned to Crawford.
The Crawford community had been transformed by its previous occupiers, leaving only one road for entry and exit from the east, west, south and north. The other roads were either blocked by abandoned vehicles or by piles of charred corpses several meters high.
At the entrance of the old campus, Zhang Qiang stretched lazily in the night, waiting for Sasha to bring people to open the door.
Soon, the rusty door was opened, and Sasha appeared with a smile on his face, accompanied by several armed soldiers.
"I thought you'd be glad to see him."
Sasha waved his hand to ask the soldiers to move aside. A dark figure appeared behind the soldiers and almost forced Zhang Qiang to empty the magazine of his pistol.
"Lee! I missed you so much!"
In comparison, Clementine's reaction was extremely normal. The little girl threw herself directly into the dark man's arms.
"Clementine!!"
Li, whose face could not be seen clearly in the darkness, squatted down in shock and picked up Xiao Ke.
"Haha, yeah, yeah, it's good to be reunited."
Zhang Qiang, who had already pulled out half of the pistol, put the holster back on with a wry smile under everyone's puzzled gazes.
After hugging Clementine, Li walked up to Zhang Qiang and shook hands with him. Although Zhang Qiang did not support him in looking for Xiao Ke at the beginning, Xiao Ke was now brought back by Zhang Qiang.
"Thank you, Zhang." Li smiled with a gentle look in his eyes.
Zhang Qiang shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly and said, "It's their destiny. I just happened to meet them."
Carl was chuckling on the side. During the time he and Clementine were together, Clementine would often tell him about Lee. Carl also admired this old black man very much.
"Zhang, I plan to stay here, will you reject me?"
Li's face was full of pleading, and Clementine beside him also opened her watery eyes wide and looked at Zhang Qiang eagerly.
"Stay, I just need someone to do the work."
Zhang Qiang smiled strangely and played a joke on Li.
"Shit, you racist."
Li also laughed out loud.
Later, Li told Zhang Qiang about Vernon and a group of old, weak and disabled people. He was not sure whether Zhang Qiang would take these poor people in. But Li also knew very well that Zhang Qiang would not take the initiative to hurt these non-hostile people.
Zhang Qiang thought about it calmly. What he needed now were laborers and technical personnel. If a group of old, weak, sick and disabled people came and became parasites, he would lose money.
"Let them come, but you have to explain to them clearly that they must work for the Destiny Front. I will send people to assign jobs based on their occupations before the disaster. They must accept this."
Zhang Qiang told Li seriously that he didn't want outsiders to cause trouble, and if such a situation really happened, he would not be stingy with a single bullet.
Li was frightened by Zhang Qiang's words. He tried to look Zhang Qiang in the eyes when speaking, but was so overwhelmed by Zhang Qiang's powerful aura that he dared not look up.
Zhang Qiang had killed countless zombies in the outside world. He was a man who had truly walked out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. Li found himself becoming more and more afraid of Zhang Qiang.
"I will tell them. There shouldn't be any problem. As long as they don't have to do hard labor, they can still take on some jobs given their physical condition," said Li.
"So what's wrong with them?"
Zhang Qiang raised his eyebrows and asked.
"Cancer, diabetes, heart disease...the medicines they need are no longer available on the street..."
Li lowered his head in frustration and said that he really hoped that this group of people could survive. After all, it was these patients who took him in when he was in the most difficult times.
"Oh, I have asked people to collect all the medicines and supplies in the surrounding area. If they can accept my conditions, they can choose any medicine they want.
If that doesn't work, I can also provide you with some medicines."
Zhang Qiang doesn't care about some prescription drugs at all. These drugs have a very small scope of application and are rarely used by people.
"Thank you again, Zhang."
Li wanted to rush up and give Zhang Qiang a hug.
"Okay, okay, I'm going to go back and rest. I have things to do tomorrow. I'm so damn unlucky today..."
Zhang Qiang left the school gate cursing and walked towards his small detached house.
Sasha followed Zhang Qiang away. As a personal bodyguard, he would probably have to work later.