In the end, nothing happened to Charon, and because of his offensive comments, he received a new assignment and that was to become a cook who would improve the food according to his resources.
Why not let him cook? Of course, since he is so dissatisfied with the food, he can help the cooks a lot. Can he do any better?
Charon readily accepted this task.
But after the trial period is over, he will have to accept a separate test, which will take a longer trial period than the rest.
After dinner, Peter and the others returned to the house to rest. All newcomers always take a period of time to recover. Although hunger is the only thing to be had in this place, isolation always shuts people down.
But following protocol and more rules, everyone has to regulate their diet, this usually takes a long time for those admitted to the bases to slowly recover. Normally, many of them arrive in bad conditions, something that must be solved.
Airon looked at everyone, face by face looking to visualize everyone who now belonged to the central base. He knew everyone here was the most loyal, but he guessed that wasn't entirely true.
After standing up, Airon left the mess hall.
When he returned to his office, he found Negan waiting for him at the office door, as if he wanted to share something.
"Is something wrong?"
Negan just nodded and then looked around. This action instantly made Airon understand, and he opened the door to signal him to come in and speak.
After closing the door tightly, the two walked to the far corner of the room, their voices kept to a minimum, speaking in a voice that only the other could hear.
"I thought about it for a few days and discussed it with Lucille for a long time. I plan to try being your agent inside the CRM..."
Just by watching Negan's performance, he assumed that the other party was going to mention this matter, but he was surprised when he heard the precise answer, he didn't expect the other party to agree so openly.
Airon closed his eyes, sighed and looked at Negan's face, "You have to know that once you leave, I won't be able to give you any kind of help in a short period of time. It's all up to you. Most importantly, no one can guarantee you when you'll be back and if you'll make it back at all."
The iconic smile appeared on Negan's face and he looked quite relieved.
"I didn't say I would leave now, maybe in two months or three after that, when I am sure that Lucille's condition is almost recovered, according to what the doctors in this place have said, once I join the CRM as you had told me, I will get a good position and then I will manage to come to this place to see my wife.
I was originally hesitant to let Negan go, but now that he has made up his mind first, then what else can he say but to happily accept? In fact, he can only help him make a plan for him to survive and succeed, and the best thing is that they still have a few months to think about it.
"Don't worry, when you come back, I will definitely make Lucille and your child healthy and sound."
The corner of Negan's mouth curved up and he said in a joking tone, "Hehehe, I remember what you told me. If it's not like you were saying, I'll be back here with a big army."
There is both a joke and a warning in this sentence. Negan is a resolute and assertive person. He thinks that going to CRM will be helpful to his status on base in the future. He also wants to experience it for himself. He wants to visualize CRM and see the difference to this link. If Airon's side is not the best, he will always think of something better for the future of his wife and son. After all, everyone wants to find a better living environment, right?
"Birmingham is already ours, we can get at least a hundred thousand corpses and thousands more decaying ones out of that place, the buildings right now as we speak are being cleared. Once we take all the background all the way to the sea, at that point we can open up a city free of walkers."
"When you come back, you'll know never had a chance that the CRM is my enemy. If right now I am sending agents of my organization to the CRM it is because I don't want to destroy them, I don't want to use such devastating power of which I will be branded as a demon."
Airon had nuclear bombs in his possession, just the thought of using that power on his enemies is a terrifying thought. The consequences would be devastating, and if he now wants to take over the whole country without much bloodshed, it is that he wants to expand far more than he had originally imagined.
The two talked for a long time, since they were already planning to get involved with the CRM, they should share some of the known information and add some of their own inferences.
But in the darkness of the night, there was a figure on the far wall of the central area, who was looking into the distance, until the lights of the base went out, that figure was still motionless, after a while he turned around and looked at the person next to him.
"I don't understand why I have to wait until he comes back. To be honest, I don't want to be his enemy..."
The man's voice was low and hesitant, and a husky male voice sounded from the shadow in front of him, "He doesn't deserve all this and you know very well he's a threat. All his captains worked with him to rebuild this huge base, how will we take over if we're not close enough?"
The gruff voiced man didn't hear the answer and continued to encourage.
"Think about it, when we succeed, everything here will be ours. No one from the outside will be able to interfere with what is done in this place, they never really have. They just send in supplies and don't ask questions, don't they?"
"Except for a few dozen people, the rest are just trash. Rick after his wife died was moved away, Shane came back from the outside base we haven't heard from since our rank doesn't allow us to. We can find someone high enough in rank to hold a meeting and take this entire base as their own, many will understand our point."
The deep voice was silent for a moment, and finally, as if in agreement with the other party, said, "All right, we should just wait a while and look for opportunities to act at any time."
"Okay, with your words, I'll be calm."
...
The two figures in the darkness did not continue talking on this subject, when they finished talking one figure got up and walked to the other end of the base wall and implied that he was patrolling.
Neither of them noticed that there was a small black device hidden on top of the containers very close to where they were, and that device had merged with the darkness.
...
Early the next morning.
Airon worked late last night so he was up late this morning. It was already half past eight in the morning when he left the room.
As soon as he stretched at the waist, he saw Carl walking outside with a gun obviously bigger than he could handle.
To say that the best medicine to heal wounds is time, if this phrase applies to children, he is afraid one would have to better add "play," which is the nature of all.
Although Airon knows Carl is not going to play, how many boys are not interested in guns?
Carl came trotting all the way over, not hiding the look of anticipation on his face.
"Airon, I'm going to practice with the guns. Shane promised to train me and all of us in the future."
Looking at little Carl excitedly with a smile on his face, although the boy was very happy, he still gave him a small warning, telling him to pay attention to his body and not to hurt himself, otherwise he would be deprived of his right to practice firearms.
Carl's face was serious and he nodded earnestly.
"I will definitely be careful and practice my skills carefully."
"Very good!"
Calp!
Airon high-fived Carl, which made this boy smile again.
After leaving the hallway he ran into Guillermo, he asked him about the situation and learned that several convoys left to transport all the materials to create electricity of their own in this base, while the rest complied with the regulations and left the base less.
"Most people today went to the outer yard to help dismantle several barns and prepare the construction site. Those guys dream of living in a new house as soon as possible."
"Hahaha."
After the two chatted for a while, Airon went straight to the blacksmith shop at the base.
It is said to be a blacksmith shop, but it is actually a manual workshop. Currently, the power system has not been implemented at the base, and some equipment brought in before cannot be used at all. Now these people are experimenting with new things that will have a new impact in the future. The advantage is that at least they can come to understand something.
As soon as Airon walked through the door, he felt a strong wave of heat coming. There were several busy people in the room, and the person standing in the center pounding a hammer was an old acquaintance.
Airon waited in silence until the other party put down the hammer and then shouted with a smile.
"Jim! Is my order ready?"