"Yes, there is no one else in this mall but me, take a seat with confidence." Logan said with a somewhat nervous smile.
They all looked at Airon and he nodded in confirmation, then they all sat down in this room and Logan pulled some bottles of water out of a corner.
"I'm so sorry, resources lately are hard to come by."
"You go to too much trouble."
For safety reasons, no one decided to drink water offered to them by that person. Besides, it would be too unfair to take someone else's stuff. Some took a seat and others decided to stand at the door, while Airon asked in detail about the situation of this person in front of him.
After numerous words of exchange, things at least became clear. Logan was a man who worked on the farm, normally he did not like to visit the city but when the outbreak of the outbreak arose he came to this place to bring his uncle back. This restaurant they are in was opened by his uncle, and here he used to work before the walkers ended up wiping everything out.
In the first few months it was difficult to move around, not only was the traffic heavy but also the soldiers prevented anyone from moving and for those who disobeyed the rules they were shot dead.
"I didn't expect something like this to happen, let alone that the army couldn't do anything. My goodness, after some time the walkers seem to vary in different ways. Some say a gigantic monster is hiding in a church, who is to believe that?"
Logan claimed to have seen other types of undead, some that Airon has a record of and one more that look like something out of a video game. However, as Logan spoke he said some information that might not be correct.
Like any survivor, Airon could tell that Logan was unlucky, but there was more to be found than tragic stories and numerous deaths in this kind of life.
Airon could clearly sense that this guy's thinking was still in the pre-apocalyptic world, and he had nothing clear about the current situation outside.
"So you haven't been out until now? Well, some have come to this place but I never approached them, I heard some words and information that was useful for me to survive."
"You guys have very advanced equipment, I'm sure you are from the army or an extermination organization. I guess your mission is to take Alabama, am I wrong?"
Daryl scoffed a little and inevitably remembered Carlos, that guy and Logan has a very similar aura. "You're not wrong, we will take all of Alabama but before that we need to look at whether it will be easy or hard, what do you plan to do now?"
"Well, I honestly can't be of much help to you. I've managed to survive a lot, I have a small garden and I still have a few bags of rice and flour left which is enough to eat for a few more years."
"Well, I was alone for the last few years so..."
Seeing that he was silent, Airon extended the invitation directly.
"Why don't you follow us for now? Our initial plans are to take Alabama completely, but that will take time and a lot of inspection by my people. Now that the world has changed, my people are the closest thing you'll find to order in these last days."
"Then from now on we are partners. Ah, don't worry, although eliminating walkers is extremely bad, I can cook your food. During all this time I have practiced a lot in the kitchen, eating many times the same thing makes me come up with many new dishes."
"Damn kid, what a shitty life you've been leading since those shitballs came up." Negan said as he stood up from the couch.
"Well..."
Logan's stunned look made everyone in the room smile. Negan is a very random man, everyone had figured that if Merle was in this place the two of them would be very good friends.
But just at that moment, a voice came from the radio: "Zz.... Sir, we have secured doors and the team has begun deep cleaning."
"Zz... Do you need reinforcements?"
"Zz... No sir, this location is suitable for conversion into a temporary base for the advance team. Once the locations we have surveyed are sealed, we can take the surrounding area from this point."
"Zz... Understood, be careful."
Hearing the report on the radio, Daryl left the restaurant followed by T-dog and Glenn. Airon now decided to get back to the important topic, right now Logan's expression was quite strange and then he frowned.
"Don't worry, there are no bad guys on the base, you'll be safe."
"No, no, Airon, I thought you had been joking about belonging to an organization and taking over Alabama. If you really want to take me on, I'd be a fool not to."
In fact, Airon plans to look for some shelters in this place and then take out the walkers from all corners with helicopters. After that he would seal the main entrances to Alabama and after that occupy the central city of this place until they took it completely.
For now they had left Washington, so they needed to quickly expand now that they had completely taken Georgia.
"Then wait for me to get my stuff out."
"Just personal things, this place will soon be taken by my people. Once it is safe you can return to this place."
"Okay, I understand, I'll just take my personal stuff...:
...
The UAB hospital is a natural gathering area, so it might be possible to find survivors there. Hospitals were known to be a major gathering point where the military left most of the police protecting that spot.
As in all major cities, Logan said he had seen how some parts of the city were on fire. But this did not solve any kind of problem, the walkers after all were behaving in a way that could not be understood.
Some time later some walkers came out of this place and decided to go to Atlanta, when Airon heard this he thought that they could be some of the hordes that his people had encountered.
...
Logan was quite excited to see the armored vehicles. He had lived for almost thirty years, and this was the first time he had sat in this vehicle, and he couldn't help but touch it.
"Logan, you've lived in this place and know it better than we do. We'll need you to guide us if you know which way we are."
"Ah, yes, yes, show me the way, let me see, just drive two intersections ahead and then head north."
Being guided, soon the convoy reached the grounds of what could have been a large community. Some signs hung with Firefly patterns, prompting Luke to inform everyone to prepare in case they were to engage in combat.
"Once again I apologize for not telling you some truths, my uncle before he died said he had a friend who set up a safe place with help from the army. After that, I knew nothing more."
The front wall seemed to surround a safe place, but if they looked around everyone discovered that this miro was too small and there were many details that indicated a sinister premonition.
"This is very bad, they have to be mentally prepared."
Logan was surprised when he heard the words, then he understood the meaning of the words and smiled bitterly.
To tell the truth, he had lived through numerous tragedies that made him indifferent and said, "I have to go back to this place and find out if there are people, you guys have to know, right?"
The community had appeared before his eyes. The places around it seemed to have been destroyed and Airon could tell that this shelter had been destroyed a long time ago.
But Logan, who had been looking around, soon spotted something and pointed out, "Look at that..."