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🕑 Added 2025-08-24 06:28:49 +0000 UTCA New Beginning From the End of the World
Chapter 278 – Preparations
A few minutes later, there were six more people in Rick’s team, and the group continued walking toward the next town as they had originally planned.
Eugene walked at the back of the group, and suddenly a sly expression appeared on his face, but it was replaced by his previous seemingly weak look in just an instant.
Elen approached him—whether intentionally or not—and asked curiously: “Do you really know why all the events of the last few days happened?”
“It’s classified.”
“Don’t be like that, there aren’t many people alive, so does it really matter?”
After a long silence, Eugene turned his head to look at the curious girl and raised his voice a little.
“Listen, even if I tell you what to do through a series of well-detailed processes, as long as I die, the solution to this matter will disappear, so it doesn’t matter if I say it now or not.”
Abraham, in front of him, turned his head and said: “And I won’t let any kind of trouble happen to you.”
His complexion changed, and Eugene hesitated for a moment and didn’t continue speaking, but his nervousness grew even worse.
After Abraham finished talking, he walked to the front of the team and planned to continue persuading Rick to go to Washington with him.
The two exchanged sentences related to that subject, and without realizing it they talked for another half hour. This time Abraham finally learned the names of the other members of their group. The guy who seemed to be wearing a modified police uniform was called Rick, and there were two Black men on either side of him, one was Guillermo and the other was Morgan.
And because of the existence of three people who had been rescued by them, he probably already knew that Rick’s group’s character was not bad.
“I know you have your own bases, but there are always some of those people who will be willing to go with us if they hear our story. If you don’t trust us, you can go back and ask if anyone is willing to come with us.”
Rick knew a lot of valuable information about an effective cure against the Wildfire virus and the recently discovered mutated strain. In the end, it doesn’t matter if there really is a cure—what can they do if there are still walkers strong enough to tear our bodies apart?
“No one is willing to go. Our base is definitely stronger than you think…”
“Don’t you want to reverse humanity’s current situation?”
“Heh, believe me, if anyone can change the world’s situation, those people definitely include us.”
Abraham was a little quiet. He really didn’t have any more words to say. He had said everything he could, but the other side simply showed no signs of interest. What else could he do?
However, Rick hadn’t finished speaking and looked at the rough-looking red-haired man.
“If you don’t believe me, I can let you go to our base. If someone is willing to follow you then, it depends on whether you really still think that way.”
“Okay…”
“But I have some questions before that.”
“How many walkers have you killed?”
“Uh…”
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Washington, Alexandria Community.
A group of people with thick gloves on their hands separated the heads of the corpses that belonged to walkers, and after a trip they were unloaded from the truck, and after some skillful operations, a layer of human skin was quickly peeled off in one single piece.
That’s right, this was to make a mask of the walking dead. The Whisperers’ attack skills were impressive, and such a scenario would be incredible to see.
As long as you kill a walker, then remove the skin from its face and dry it in the sun, after some handiwork, no one has to worry about the walkers surrounding a person. At that moment, the walker will consider you one of its own kind and ignore you.
One of the most powerful skills in this state is that people with masks can trigger the so-called “herd effect,” that is, as long as a few people with corpse masks lead the way, the walkers behind them will follow the path that the leader of the group decides, and even if there are other abnormal noises, they will ignore them after a few seconds.
Of course, at that moment, the people in the walker group cannot do certain things abruptly, such as shouting, speaking normally, or coughing—this will only cause them to be instantly drowned by the horde of walkers.
And one step in Jason’s plan was to surround the Saviors’ base camp through the walker horde and take advantage of that moment to rescue whoever they had as prisoners. Jason did not have numerous soldiers and had no intention of asking for reinforcements. There are numerous territories to protect, and he couldn’t just mobilize his military power since at this moment they could be attacked by any kind of organization.
That’s why the current scene appeared in Alexandria’s courtyard. At this moment, there was a disgusting smell of corpses in the community’s yard, which greatly annoyed another wave of survivors who chose not to be warriors. Pete Die even came over to talk about it twice, mainly because the stench of corpses in the yard had affected his normal life, and he hoped they could deal with it somewhere else.
Pete came here bravely, mainly because other residents pressured him too much. This rough man didn’t want to lose the leadership he had fought so hard for, so he had to bite the bullet and find Jason.
After he stated the reason, everyone looked at him like an idiot. Judging by his livid face when he left, the two sides must have parted unhappily.
No one paid attention to this guy—a man who can only vent his anger on his wife, what can he do?
Seeing that the heads of the corpses in the truck had almost disappeared, Jason’s mood stabilized a bit.
Now he could solve the next problem. Jason had originally sent back more than half the soldiers who had come because those same men had participated in the war in Texas, so they had been assigned some other tasks and at this moment were distributed among various bases. Therefore, he didn’t have many soldiers.
At this moment, the Kingdom was considered to have many weapons, but what was lacking was certainly bullet production.
Therefore, most of the previous transactions had been ammunition trades, and the number of firearms was very small.
Now that these two groups had been taken by force by the Saviors, a very strange variation that made Jason feel uneasy, and the weapons and ammunition along with some heavy machine guns were taken by the enemy. Under such circumstances, Jason could not use a normal attack method unless he called the central base, but he knew that if half of the people who follow them now come out alive, they would be so powerful that he could consider finding several leaders.
With those thoughts in mind, he decided to first search for weapons in this place, and the remaining soldiers should maintain Alexandria’s security.
“Looks like an exciting time is coming for the rookies…”
He simply didn’t know how much trouble looking for weapons in this place would bring him, but as long as it was about walkers, everyone in his group could escape without problems.
Taking that into account, he called Glenn, Daryl, and the others, and in no time they departed Alexandria in the modified RV.
When Merle was here, he searched the surroundings with Daryl for a long time, so he was familiar with many nearby places.
On the outskirts of a small town a little farther from Alexandria, there was a smaller military base, which was the destination of this operation.
This time Victor Strand was driving with an excited expression, he was at the front of the battle. From time to time, he looked at that man who had the power to change the world and discovered that Jason had been thinking a lot. He knew that this time they would face a bigger problem than in Texas, so he became serious and focused.
And in fact, Jason was thinking about something. During this time, he discovered that the Kingdom may have been attacked because he had visited Oceanside, and somehow things changed. Even if he left a squad at the Kingdom’s base, it seemed that the Saviors were much more aggressive.
“No matter if things are different, this is my story after all…”
Looking at the landscape outside the car window, Jason realized they were almost at their destination after being dazed for a while. With his spirit rejuvenated, he simply did not give up and looked at the soldiers who came with him, willing to fight in hell itself by his side.
He would definitely protect everyone!
