"Zz... One minute to descend,
"Zz... The commander has given the green light, stand by."
...
Gale's shelter.
By now, everyone in Gale's shelter was extremely scared. They didn't know what was going on and what they should do next, so they all stood motionless watching a giant helicopter getting closer and closer.
Snow, who was the most scared of all, grabbed a gun and tucked it behind his pants. But deep in his heart he knew that putting up resistance was just looking for an early death, so he didn't suggest doing anything stupid.
As that helicopter approached, the strong wind made everyone close their eyes and for those who could see what was happening in the surroundings, they noticed that an intimidating machine gun was pointed directly at them.
With each passing second, numerous figures in battle suits covering their entire bodies descended one after another. They all seemed to have a purpose so as they approached a survivor they ordered them at gunpoint to gather on their knees in a single line.
"Drop your weapons and kneel, anyone who shows resistance will be killed!"
One of the soldiers soon saw that someone was hiding a pistol, so without hesitation he shot him in the shoulder and warned, "You make one more game like that and you will be killed!"
When Snow saw that soldier shoot one of his subordinates without a second thought, he threw the gun on the ground without thinking. He could get out of this dangerous situation, there were many things that could hypnotize people nowadays and he believed he could have a lot of benefits if he used his cards to his advantage very well.
"Don't move, anyone who tries to make a quick move will be killed."
"Nothing will happen to them that they do as we tell them, we are part of the army so we come to take back this city from the undead."
Gale knelt down beside Logan, looking at those strange looking soldiers and thought that it wasn't so bad their situation. If these were really bad people, they wouldn't have done all this.
So he immediately thought of something of value that was in this place, and when he thought all this happened when Logan came, he turned to the side and asked, "Boy, did that man leave you anything before he left?"
Logan looked at Gale with a confused expression and nodded, "How did you know? That's right, I have a radio."
"Good grief..."
Gale felt his body go limp, how could you not realize other people's true intentions by giving you a radio? It's obvious, those people knew there was a vaccine in this shelter so they became targets after the operation started.
And right after everyone was put under surveillance, two soldiers walked up to the base wall and opened it. As everyone saw the people approaching, they all froze at the sight of a man covered in blood.
In his hands he held a pair of long swords, while his face was full of indifference. And when Logan saw who it was, he couldn't help but shout, "Airon!"
"What's going on?"
When Airon arrived in front of all the subdued survivors, he saw a man bleeding and signaled to one of his group to stop the bleeding.
"Who are these people?"
Seeing that Airon did not respond, Logan asked again a completely different question expecting an answer. After looking around, all the soldiers that had been deployed to this location before the helicopter left inspected every nook and cranny.
"Everything will be fine, just everyone needs to stay calm."
Hearing Airon's words, Snow stepped forward towards the man who appeared to be the leader and said, "Sir, it seems you have a lot more reputation than we all expected. We will cooperate with whatever you tell us, we have no ill intentions."
When Airon saw Snow, he thought it was true what this man said. He was not really an enemy or a bad person, in fact he is not a tyrant who kills and holds these people prisoner.
If there really is an enemy in this place, Airon was sure that he would be one of the ones bringing chaos to this community right now.
"First of all I want to apologize for treating you all so badly..."
Airon looked at all the survivors in this place who had tears in their eyes and said, "My man is Airon, commander and leader of the S.C.T. organization who so far has safe zones. We have taken back all of Georgia and the city of Atlanta, it is not easy but right now we are taking back Birmingham."
"The reason I am here is because of a vaccine, I want to know all about that vaccine and Snow, you and I will have a long talk."
...
The next 48 hours were filled with hard work and arduous cleanup, at Gale's shelter everyone volunteered to help and after a long inspection there were over two thousand people along with those who came in from Atlanta.
The vaccine thing wasn't too surprising, basically Sam had figured out the problem long before Airon questioned Snow. And what had happened was that the brother of the researcher Coin who had the vaccines in his possession did not use them.
Snow describes a story of how he met that boy and they saved his life, but soon discovered he was infected and after a trip together he told them about the vaccine.
Knowing there was no cure to save his life, Coin's brother gave them the vaccines and they were the ones they were able to stay with at Gale's base.
As to whether it was true or not, this was not something that Airon cared about. After all, there were many more things to worry about.
...
"Those people who have the Firefly as their insignia were killed by those infected that Ian Dietrich eliminated!"
"That's a pity, I would have liked to talk to them and know more about their situation..."
On top of a building, Airon watched as machines and trucks hauled away abandoned cars, walker corpses and much more.
"Taking Birmingham was easier than expected, but the problems that came from doing this are more overwhelming."
"Let's get back to base!"
"Okay, boss!"
...
At the sound of the helicopter, Airon and his core group left Birmingham and headed for home base.
Upon landing they all lowered the equipment and brought back some samples and infected corpses back towards the base, this new virus was worrisome. Candance and his entire team should have a lot of work to do before they figure out what kind of anomaly this variant is.
Airon has a lot of things to do, he discovered that after his bases were expanding more and more there were struggles that he should pay special attention to.
But right now he just wants to rest...