The rest of the group did not rush in immediately, but unconsciously directed their gazes towards Airon and entered after seeing the latter nod.
But Rick did decide not to move, but stood at the door looking into that place with a little hesitation, and Airon walked to his side, looked at him and asked, "What's wrong?"
Rick looked at Airon, but didn't know where to start, but decided to think about it before explaining his thoughts very well:
"My confidence in survivors is very low right now. I've experienced several accidents, which makes it difficult for me to trust strangers. In fact, those people who took you hostage I saw them in a military base a long time ago and because of trust I decided to let them go. Because of that, you were in danger."
In fact, this kind of reaction from Rick is very normal, it has something to do with his personality and the things he has lived through, sometimes it is easy for a person to realize something, but sometimes it is hard to recognize it.
Our police officer Rick Grimes is not an easy person to persuade, so Airon didn't say much, he simply comforted him with a few words and then asked a question.
"Which organization do you think is more likely to continue civilization, a group of 30,000 or one of 100,000 people? What do you think is our likelihood of enduring foreign enemies if we don't open our gates?"
"Naturally, a team of thirty thousand people."
"So which of these two groups do you think is more likely to have internal problems?"
"It's still a team of thirty thousand people."
"You're right, but even if we have internal problems, our enemies are still stronger. That's our current situation. We already have a giant number that keeps increasing day by day and we've never had any problems, but several things happened in these last few days."
Rick was startled when he heard those words, looked at his friend and asked a little puzzled. "Since you know better than I do, why do you take in strangers you don't know, wouldn't this make the base more unstable?"
Seeing Rick's confused look, Airon slowly shook his head, pushed Rick towards the window and then whispered.
"I need to confess something to you on this subject."
"What?"
"Central base, growth base and training base, these are the three bases there are in our organization. Sam has strict control over the training base and all the soldiers that make up our base, Elias on his side is taking full control of the growth base after Shane left that place."
"But even so there are some curious people being killed quietly, carefully and precisely. Greed after all is too great, and envy grows as time goes on. Many are frustrated that one guy comes along and takes over the base."
"You mean...?"
"It's not something we have to worry about, but what you do have to know is that there's a small group of idiots planning something at home base. They probably think they're not fit enough to lead the base. But like the worms they are, I'm going to use them to achieve another purpose."
Rick looked at this friend he knew from the beginning of the end of the world, he was very smart and could save himself from danger at all times, this made almost everyone get used to doing things according to the other party's orders.
However, what happened to Lori just now made the present Rick extremely sensitive and he raised his own doubts even though he would not have originally questioned them.
"I wish you could tell me everything, I don't want to be kept in the dark again."
Airon looked at him silently, finally sighed and whispered something in Rick's ear.
But seeing Rick's eyes gradually widen and an angry look appear on his face, he immediately restrained it, took a few deep breaths and then nodded.
"I told you a while ago that I'd rather leave the base if someone wants to replace me, but that only applies to people close to me."
"We have to eliminate them and erase that stupid idea from their immature minds, don't you think so buddy?"
The two hands shook hands, feeling the strength of the hands, both smiled tacitly.
...
Looking back at Abraham, after rushing into the room, he saw several people lying on the floor at a glance, the lantern light shone on their faces, and they all seemed to be resting, if one of them had not heard the movement, he could not believe that it was several people alive.
"Who are you?"
The man looked cautiously at the few people who rushed into the room, he could not open his eyes under the light of the flashlight and unconsciously covered his eyes with his hands.
Abraham turned off the flashlight and picked up the gun hanging to the side, although he wanted to save someone, he wasn't an idiot, he had to confirm that the other party wasn't a danger before helping.
"Do you have weapons?"
The man suddenly smiled, pulled something from his side and threw it, only to hear a metallic sound and a rusty kitchen knife landed at his feet.
And this crisp sound also woke up the rest of the people lying on the floor. They all sat up abruptly, looked around the room with panicked eyes and saw some strong men with masks covering their faces and weapons standing in the doorway.
One of the men with hair like a chicken coop shouted in despair. "We have given them everything! We have nothing else and all we expect is death at the hands of that monster, what more do they want?"
His angry expression contrasted with the rest of the people who were burying their heads in their knees, but it also made Abraham understand what the other party meant. They must have misunderstood.
"I don't know what you are talking about, but we are here to save lives, my love."
Hearing the word "save lives," the rest of the intimidated people raised their heads.
Suddenly there was a glint in his eyes looking at Abraham's group at the entrance and he asked, "Are you here to save people? Save us?"
The person who spoke before looked suspiciously at the muscular man in front of him, he did not believe the other person's words, but he soon saw the weapons in the hands of these people, which surprised him, and he immediately became cowardly, and quickly recomposed his words.
"I already fainted from hunger a while ago, are you real, are you my hallucination?"
Looking at this guy a little amused, Abraham said loudly, "Come out, we need to see you clearly, don't you think?"
Several people came out of the room cautiously, and only then did everyone in Airon's group see them clearly. To be honest, they couldn't bear to look at them directly, their appearance was too miserable.
A total of six people stood in a line. The six people looked at the group of strangers who suddenly appeared. Although the other party said that they were not bad people according to their words, they did not believe it at all. After all, no one would point a gun at those they wanted to save. What kind of impression do they have of their own people?
Airon stood behind and looked at these people carefully. Although their clothes were already very dirty, he could vaguely see that one of them had the logo of an electric company. He knew that these people might be able to help him restore power to the general base, so he watched silently, waiting for Rick and the others to ask something.
After talking to Airon a moment ago, the knot in Rick's heart was untied and his attitude towards these people was also greatly relieved at this moment. He motioned for everyone to put down their weapons and then began to ask questions.
The stories of various people were quickly explained by them.
It was only then that everyone knew that not all of these six people were staff here, but three of them were from the company, and the one who said at first that they had nothing else to offer was the head chef of this dining hall who introduced himself as Charon.
The rest included a chef and a vegetable cutter, and two Dominican employees named Clancy and Marko.
As for the others, there was someone very special named Luca and friend Peter, who was a worker for this electric company.
Following Charon's narrative, he also recounted the experience of several people.