Jixi Town, conference room and restaurant on the second floor of Morgan Building, original furniture mall.
After breakfast, Father Locke stopped everyone and stayed. When everyone thought it was a breakfast meeting, Father Locke got up and found a coat rack, then took off the wooden cross hanging around his neck.
He hung it on the coat rack, and then placed the coat rack behind him.
Today is Sunday, it's time, Father Locke is going to give everyone a Mass.
No matter what the structure of the gospel team is, in the eyes of everyone except Iger, it is a religious team.
The core of the gospel team is Father Locke.
A priest who has been preaching in the community for 40 years, a priest who can call everyone in the community by name at will, a priest who can help the parishioners keep things that are not convenient to take home.
Locke has unshakable cohesion and authority in the evangelical community.
For the new members, although they have not been in contact with Father Locke for a long time, the priest's cohesion with the church members will not be much weaker, especially in the face of such a disaster that destroys people's cognition, religion is more powerful than any language.
More convincing.
"Everyone stand up." Father Locke said to everyone with a rare dignity.
With a swish sound, all the members of the gospel team stood up neatly.
Father Locke stretched out his right hand and made the sign of the cross on his chest, while chanting loudly: "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."
"Amen." Everyone responded in unison.
"May the love of Heavenly Father, the grace of Christ, and the gift of the Holy Spirit be with you," Father Locke said.
"Also with you." Everyone responded in unison.
"Sit down." Father Locke said to everyone.
After everyone sat down, Father Locke began to preach, which meant telling everyone about the Bible, the stories in the Bible, and the truths contained in it.
Father Locke did not use a Bible when he preached. The entire Bible was already imprinted in his mind, and he could turn to a certain volume or chapter at will.
Today, Father Locke was preaching on the Sermon. He started his sermon: "
Seeking blessings and avoiding disasters is a passionate desire of people. People are born with a desire to pursue everything goes well and be happy forever.
Since this desire is innate, it cannot be impossible to realize; but looking at the world, there is almost nothing that can truly satisfy people.
According to the law given by God to the people, good people will enjoy happiness, but the reality is exactly the opposite: the evil people will prosper, and the righteous will have many disasters..."
This sermon, which is usually very boring for everyone, was actually listened to with great interest and concentration by everyone this time.
The sermon lasted for 30 minutes. At the end, Father Locke read loudly: "The above are the holy teachings of God."
"Thank God." Everyone said in unison while hanging crosses on their chests.
Later, Sister Maria brought two bottles of red wine and a box of biscuits. Father Locke made them into Holy Communion, which was then distributed by Sister Maria.
After the Holy Communion was shared together and the Mass ended, Father Locke took off the wooden cross hanging on the coat rack and put it on himself again.
After the Mass, the resentment that had been prevalent at the breakfast meeting disappeared without a trace. Everyone's mood calmed down, and then they returned to work according to the division of labor into their respective groups.
Each family has its own way of uniting members and rallying people's hearts.
The three-step approach proposed by Iger is his approach.
Father Locke has his own way.
Speaking at the moment, Father Locke's approach is obviously more suitable for local people.
Of course, there are other benefits to being religious.
For example, when he was trapped in the car just now, a devout believer could pray to God to save himself, but Iger could only shout in his heart: "Oh my God! This is a scam!"
Egg, who narrowly escaped death, turned his head and watched the infected group getting further and further away from him, and then he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
That’s how it is when you’re in the field, there may be unexpected surprises and dangers anytime and anywhere.
At this time, Egger forcefully pulled away Phoebe who was stacked on top of him. His right shoulder was hit by something unknown, and the pain made him sweat.
Phoebe, who was originally in a coma, woke up after being fiddled with by Egg. As soon as she woke up, she felt a churn in her stomach. When Phoebe opened her mouth, the breakfast she had just eaten turned into rice pudding.
Confused on Egger.
"I'm sorry, vomit, vomit, vomit." Phoebe apologized and couldn't help but vomit into the car. Now was not a good time to park, so Joanna lowered some windows to let the air flow.
After running for a few kilometers, Joanna stopped the car. Egger opened the door and helped Phoebe out of the back seat.
As soon as Phoebe's feet touched the ground, she vomited again.
Joanna also got off the car, but her direction was upwind, so there was no smell coming from her.
Iger took off his coat and shook it vigorously. Then he took out a roll of toilet paper from the carriage and wiped the coat carefully.
After a while, Phoebe finally stopped vomiting, and Joanna handed her a bottle of water after clearing the back seat.
"Thank you." Phoebe thanked Joanna.
Phoebe felt that she still looked down upon these two children.
Not to mention Egg, if Joanna hadn't made a decisive decision today, the four of them would have been sent there in vain.
It seems that a tough environment can indeed make people grow faster. Phoebe wonders if she has shrunk in the environment of the Love and Family team for too long.
After the three got off the car, they rested on the side of the road for a long time, and then they remembered that Thomas was in the car.
Egg leaned into the car through the open door and found that Thomas was still unconscious with his eyes rolled back.
Iger quickly reached out and touched his forehead and neck. The temperature of his forehead was normal and the pulse of his neck was steady. Only then did Iger feel relieved. Thomas was in a normal coma.
Due to long-term abuse of drugs, Thomas's physical fitness point was very low, and his total physical energy value was not as high as Egg's. Now affected by the blood epidemic, his physical energy value returned to zero and he passed out directly.
Of the four members, three are in poor condition. Egger is not ready to let Joanna face the infected group alone. It’s time to call it a day and find a place to rest.
Since the infected people were still stuck in the place where they had just come, it was difficult to return the same way, so Joanna drove the car and drove forward along the highway.
There were a lot of farmhouses with barns along the way, but they were all rejected by Iger. He believed that it was best to keep a safe distance of more than 20 kilometers from the infected group, and all locations within this area were not considered.
Now that Iger is so cowardly, he is no longer the stupid and bold person he used to be who dared to sleep all night just by climbing an advertising tower a few kilometers away from the infected group.
Last time when cleaning up the infected group in Jixi Town, Egg's team was very lucky. On the afternoon of the first day, Egg led the team to kill a carbine and killed the Screamer with one 7.62 shot.
Otherwise, maybe the group of infected people would surprise Aige and the others. After they woke up in the villa, they found themselves surrounded by a group of infected people.
The more Egg thinks about it, the more he feels that the Screamer is not only a control tower, but may also function as a signal tower.
For example, the aircraft carrier in the modern navy is not only a combat platform that can take off and land aircraft.
The aircraft carrier has the strongest radar and command system in the entire fleet, and one of its important functions is the central system of the battle formation.
If we follow the analogy of the navy, the Screamer is the aircraft carrier among the infected.
Each Screamer can lead an "infected formation", and each formation can fight independently or form a larger joint formation.
Similarly, Screamers have the ability to detect survivors from a distance. Egger believes that their abilities may not be parallel, but can be superimposed. In other words, the detection ability of 4 Screamers may be the same as that of an ordinary Screamer.
4 times of that.
Of course, this is Egger's estimate, but judging from the results of yesterday's attack on the survivor team, it may have been underestimated.
The houses of those survivors are about one kilometer away from the road in a straight line, and more than 2 kilometers away from the curve, and are shielded by a small forest.
The infected people only walk along the road, so they have stayed there for the past few months, which is actually very safe. Even if a group of infected people passes by, they are safe and undetected.
But this time, they were discovered and immediately destroyed.
Although it is not known how the Screamer discovered this team, Egger believes that the audio and visual methods can be ruled out. Maybe the Screamer has the ability to detect survivors and ignore obstacles.
This analysis and speculation is based on a game "Long 4 Survival" that Iger has played.
In "Long 4 Survival", no matter where the survivors are hiding, the special infected can sense them.
To sum up, Egger quickly came to two conclusions.
First, the survivors' escape plan gradually failed, and they could only rely on fortification of strongholds to survive.
