Rick, who had gone ahead, opened the room and was petrified by the scene in front of him.
Bones, human bones... The room was full of bones, severed human body parts, hanging from the ceiling by nooses and there were some corpses lying on the floor, but the flesh had been completely stripped from the bones, and the flesh hanging from the ceiling had been cleaned.
Several corpses dressed as civilians could also be seen in the corner of the room, and from his mouth a long trail of blood mashed his entire body forming a dried pool of blood on the floor. These corpses appeared to be relatively new, and most likely they had taken their own lives by biting their tongues and those who did this had no choice but to stab his head.
But this did not stop him from cutting off the meatier parts of these corpses, there was no mercy even for the corpses, this room where originally Rick and the others had thought it was just walkers had left them speechless.
Unexpectedly, they were chatting as if it was nothing next to such a cold and dark scene. It all sent a shiver down their spines, women and men tied to a bed with parts of their bodies cut off, while their mouths were tightly covered so that no noise could make a sound.
The eyes of those corpses on the beds were wide open, their neck purple from strangulation were the most fatal wounds on their body before they died. At this time, some corpses were withered and had obviously experienced a lot of pain.
Skulls, heads and eyes had been pierced by a sharp weapon. Some had even died very recently. Blood was still dripping from one of the beds, forming a thick pool on the floor. The mattress where a woman lay, the smell was unbearable. There were a lot of bones, impossible to know exactly how many people exactly died in this room.
On the other bed in the bedroom, a man was tied up, and Rick could see at a glance that he was killed cleanly with a head wound and there were no other wounds on his body.
"My God!" Daniel's shaky voice sounded behind Rick, and then he vomited directly into the room. It was estimated that Daniel would not be able to eat meat for a long time.
Rick's eyes were full of anger, his body trembling slightly, looking at the bones piled up in the room without showing many expressions as Daniel, was really stupid if he didn't understand what had happened in this room.
Those sons of bitches must die!
Rick left the room without saying a word, but Daniel was quick to stop him.
"What are you planning to do, you're going after them now? Rick, this is no time to get sidetracked into that sort of thing, those bastards have already escaped, we'll only be slowed down if we chase them now!"
Rick shook Daniel's hand angrily and moved his hand to his waist to grab his radio and reported, "Zz.... Mike, answer if you're receiving my voice!"
"Rick, I hear you! How's it going over there?"
"Mike, send some people to find a red van. There are five people in military garb. Listen, if you find them, kill them right away."
After a few seconds, Rick handed the radio to Daniel as he tried to clear his mind. Picking up the radio, Daniel pushed the button and said, "Captain Mike, what happened with those people..."
After explaining what had happened to Mike, Daniel handed the radio back to Rick, and said in a low voice, "It's really not worth looking for them, they will die one way or another."
Mike's voice also came from the intercom at this point.
"Rick, those people have escaped, Tyler will raise a report so that none of those people will be accepted into our base and be careful about running into them, if we see them after this, they will definitely be eliminated."
Rick gradually became calm again, he was a little regretful that he had let them live, so he picked up the radio and said, "Mike, send some more trucks and more people to this place, we ran into walkers runner, we shouldn't call them walkers if you ask me for the option. There's one more thing you should know.... Ten people died, the walkers took us by surprise."
"I'm sorry I heard that, I'll inform people about that..."
"It's okay..."
...
In a short time, Mike sent a full team to the military base with people who were not quite soldiers, many of them escorted Candace and some researchers to see the corpses of these special infected… At that time, even though Airon's corpses and samples had already arrived, these red-eyed walkers were very different.
Many cleaned the room where the cannibals fed for a long time, and in a short time all the corpses were gathered in a specific area to be incinerated.
Rick had made a mistake, from which he had learned something very important and that is that he should not trust people easily.
After talking to the researchers, everyone began to load the materials that had been obtained today, so the depressed state of many people had improved.
Although it was still early, everyone began to make trips to the prison. Seeing boxes of food, weapons and ammunition being loaded onto the truck, Guillermo, who arrived later in the day, couldn't help but grin from ear to ear as he hugged Rick enthusiastically. He couldn't wait to make a list of everything that was being shipped to the base.
The base had been secured and cleared in a matter of hours, so now a whole squad of people would be sent to this location to take care of what would be arriving later from the other military base where Airon was located.
Rick, who was sitting in a Humvee, looked at the scenery on the side of the road, still in silence. This event made him feel deeply many things of which he was not aware. He had been following Airon since he woke up, and he didn't need to think about many of these things.
Who to kill, why do we kill them and what will be the consequences if we don't, are we really bad if we kill? Rick knew that he was now a leader and his decisions were extremely important, so he shouldn't be so careful.
As for the cruelty of the last few days, he had never felt it very deeply until now. From the moment he entered that room, it could be said that the death of his soldiers and the escape of the cannibals had set alarm bells ringing in Rick's head now.
He seemed to understand a little why Airon didn't want him to go out with him, which made him a little excited. Airon is really a strange person, he is young, but he is experienced and his prestige in the base is also extremely high.
Now under Airon's trust he had become a leader and that vision that had been covered by someone else could reach his eyes. Rick, I knew the time had come when I shouldn't be a nice person.
But everyone even awaited his news with anxiety. Thinking about the full weight of his responsibility, Rick clenched his fists and made up his mind to be much more careful.
Suddenly, a house passed before Rick's eyes, he banged on the car door and Jim, who was driving next to him, stopped slowly.
"What's wrong?"
Rick looked off into the distance, pointed to a small road beside him and said, "Looks like I saw something, turn to stalk a look."
Driving down the small road, Rick left only two cars behind. And the others hurried back to the base first.
An armed group watched the house not far from their position, but it was expected that in a little while they would circle the house quietly.
This is a small town, there are not many houses, only a few. Rick looked at the roof of a house not far away, and confirmed that this is the place he had just seen.
"Since we're here, let's take a look."
Daniel and Jim looked at the houses. They had just taken over a military base a moment ago and both thought that things in this place were not very appealing to their eyes.
Rick looked at Jim and said, "What, we don't clean houses like we used to?"
"We don't..."
Just as Daniel was about to order people into the vehicles when suddenly, he heard a cry for help from the second floor of a house.
"We're here! Help us!"
Rick pulled out the machete and ran toward the residential house where the screams were coming from. The people behind him approached with their guns raised.
Rick who just entered the room could clearly hear the roars of the walkers coming from the second floor, as well as the pounding on the door, and the screams of a man and a woman were coming from the room.
"Please save us!"
Rick raised his gun without hesitation and blew a walker's head off.
"Bang! Bang!"
The walkers fell to the floor and rolled down the stairs.
Some people came running through the door behind them, it was Jim and the others, but Rick ignored them and his gun was still pointed at the door to the room on the second floor.
With a creak, the door slowly opened and a light skinned girl with short hair limped out, followed by a short old man with short blond hair.
"Don't shoot us, we're alive!"
"For God's sake, they have guns..."