After breakfast the next day, we had several meetings in a row.
First, the new members were collectively welcomed, and everyone clapped in a ritualistic manner to express their welcome.
Then the board of directors made a resolution on leasing the farm, which was passed smoothly.
After all this was done, Iger submitted an application regarding the expansion of the field team.
Iger first asked Bill and others to briefly introduce themselves to everyone. Unexpectedly, Bill, who seemed to have the toughest style before, actually got scared on this occasion. He was stuck for a long time without farting.
In order to make Bill not too embarrassed, Kate made a start. Her introduction was very simple. She was a girl who was born, grew up, and lived in the New Holy City.
Afterwards, everyone introduced themselves, and at this time the people in the gospel team heard something was going on. These new members were all from the New Holy City.
The New Holy City is very far away from here, and is both familiar and unfamiliar to many people present.
What is familiar is that everyone often sees all kinds of weird news about the New Holy City on TV, and enjoys watching the hosts and guests bickering in news programs, such as competing for "who is the mother's favorite child?"
What's strange is that no one here, except Andy, has actually been to the New Holy City.
Finally, Bill introduced himself and said: "Hello everyone, I am a child of the Evans family in the gospel community. I am the brother of Oliver, oh, Iger. My name is Mullen, but I prefer everyone to call me Bill."
He is actually Iger's brother.
As soon as the members of the gospel team heard the introduction, everyone looked at Bill with approval and expectation. Only the aborigines in the gospel community had expressions of pain on their faces, especially Lily, who had been in front of everyone before.
He yelled at Iger’s brother and family in front of him.
Unexpectedly, Iger's thug brother has now joined the team and has become a partner whom I can't see without looking up.
It's impossible not to be embarrassed, but fortunately, most people don't know about Lily's embarrassment.
After the new members introduced themselves, it was time for Egger's lecture again.
This time, Egger briefly told everyone what happened in the New Holy City.
Although this happened a month ago, it is brand new news to everyone currently.
Although Egger was not a person who experienced it, after questioning Bill and six other people in detail, he combined everyone's descriptions, so his summary was more comprehensive and objective.
The reason was that two months ago, that is, some time after Egg discovered the Heart of the Blood Plague, somewhere in the New Holy City, scavenger teams from the Evans Brotherhood disappeared one after another.
Because it is difficult for infected people to perform complex movements, once everyone has adapted to using the infected people's movement obstacles to escape quickly, the biggest enemies of scavengers in the city are other scavengers.
Generally speaking, scavengers can still maintain a certain degree of restraint among themselves, but there have been continuous disappearances of scavenger groups in a certain area, and the upper echelons of the Evans Brotherhood believe that someone is ambushing them.
Subsequently, the Evans Brotherhood sent a scout team to the area. The scout team carried firearms equipped with low-light night vision goggles and silencers, preparing to launch a fierce counter-ambush for those who ambush their scavengers.
As a result, the scout team also disappeared after entering this area.
The upper echelons of the Evans brothers were furious. Scouts are elite soldiers, and each of them is hard-earned. What's more, the entire equipment of the entire scout team was lost in vain.
The Evans Brotherhood then sent a large number of soldiers to search the area, and what happened next was a bit confusing.
The searching soldiers quickly found the bodies of the missing scout team. Most of the equipment was still there, but only part of the equipment was damaged along with the bodies. Judging from the damage, it seemed that they had been attacked by the infected.
The remaining equipment was successfully recovered, but the higher-ups of the brotherhood expressed disapproval of this result.
Just kidding, the elite scouts were wiped out by the infected. Why not say that the American SEALs were wiped out by the farmers of Ahan?
Well, the SEALs were indeed killed once by farmers, but that's not important.
The important thing is that the upper echelons of the Brotherhood believed that this was caused by several other hostile teams. While they were discussing how to carry out bloody revenge, a scavenger reported that he found an extremely strange thing in a building.
This sarcoma-like thing is very similar to the blood plague heart mentioned in the gospel team's broadcast. At first, everyone did not pay attention to it, but then the scavengers continued to report that the risk of scavenging in various scavenging areas was greatly increased.
Already.
Surviving scavengers reported that during the last few scavenging operations, the infected seemed to know that they were coming and would ambush them in advance in certain places. After they got into the pre-set cages, the infected launched a surprise attack.
For a time, the Evans Brotherhood was in panic, and fewer and fewer scavengers could be sent out every day. As a last resort, the management pardoned a group of coolies in advance, promoted them to civilians, and then incorporated them into the scavenger team.
Next, the manpower losses of the scavenger team continued to increase, and finally it reached a point where the upper echelons of the Evans brothers had to pay attention.
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The Evans Brotherhood has no production capacity, and the entire camp's expenses depend entirely on the various supplies brought back by the scavengers. The number of scavengers continues to decrease, and the scavenging output has dropped again and again, and the entire camp will soon be unable to make ends meet.
So, the nobles of the Evans Brotherhood discussed it and found two ways.
One is to let the scavenger team avoid this strange dead area, but in order to maintain the scavenger output, it is inevitable to conflict with other survivor teams. In short, they have to seize other people's territory.
Second, kill the Blood Plague Heart.
Because of this matter, the nobles quarreled for a long time and could not make up their minds.
To seize other people's territory means war. It is easy to start a war, but it is difficult to end a war.
If you seize someone else's territory, you may not be able to gain a foothold. They can always send people to kill the scavenger teams. They would rather turn this area into a battlefield than give it to you cheaply.
Another suggestion is to kill the Blood Plague Heart.
To be honest, everyone has no idea.
The gospel team mentioned in the broadcast that this thing is a regional command center, so everyone almost understands why the infected people seem to have become smarter. But to launch an attack on such a thing, it is only successful. Once the offensive fails, the consequences will be
inestimable.
After the nobles argued, they simply brought the Four Horsemen in to vote. Bill voted for attacking the Heart of the Blood Plague.
After the majority of the votes supported the Blood Plague Heart, the president finally made up his mind. The Evans Brotherhood devoted almost all its troops to this battle.
The massive crowd of hundreds of people was enough to scare the infected to death just by looking at their momentum.
However, compared to the army, even militias, and even stronger enterprises, the weakest point of gangs is that they are organized and lack discipline.
In real combat, the first thing to pay attention to is the execution of orders and prohibitions.
To be fair, the soldiers of the Evans Brotherhood are still very tenacious in fighting, but in chaos, no matter how tenacious their will is, they cannot achieve the best results.
Only two corners away from the heart of the blood plague, the front line of the Evans Brotherhood was finally defeated. What's more serious is that the road behind was also blocked. More than a hundred people were surrounded and died by the infected.
The fifth floor of the building.
In extreme panic, some people jumped directly from the fifth floor. It turned out that unlike what was shown in the movie, the height of the fifth floor was high enough to kill people. Some smart people held onto sewer pipes and jumped down.
decline.
The ones who are smarter than them are the infected. Countless infected people lurk in the rooms on the ground floor. As soon as those smart people land, the hungry infected people swarm them and eat them clean.
Just when it was about to reach a dead end, the demolition experts in the team used explosives to destroy several walls, buying everyone time.
Immediately afterwards, the backup team, who had regained their composure, used the anchor hook launcher to quickly build several ropes, and the remaining Brotherhood soldiers used belts and hooks to quickly rappel.
As soon as they escaped to another building, their actions seemed to be discovered by the infected immediately. A large group of infected people turned around and surrounded them.
What followed was a desperate run, with all the soldiers fighting and fleeing. Under the siege of the infected, the number of soldiers continued to decrease.
Finally, the surviving soldiers fled to the Evans Brotherhood's base camp, and the infected pursued them all the way.
A few hours later, the camp wall, which was originally made of broken wooden boards, was breached by the infected, and the base camp was declared to have fallen.
In the chaos, Bill led his small team and followed the large army to break out of the siege.
Beyond the heavy siege, there were several layers of siege by the infected. Each time they broke through, there would be fewer breakouts. Finally, Bill led his personal guards to break out of the New Holy City and get rid of the siege of the infected.
Among the thousands of troops in chaos, the reason why Bill was able to lead his team to kill seven in and seven out, and the team was still at full strength, had nothing to do with Bill's bravery.
Bill is one of the four knights. The four knights are the leaders of the knight class. Their status is only below the nobles and they are the commanders of the fighting groups.
Therefore, Bill used his command power to let the cannon fodder protect him with their lives.
In this battle, the Evans Brotherhood was severely defeated, so many people died, and Bill and his personal guard team had nothing to do.
Of course, Bill is not the only one who does this.
The other three Four Knights, as well as the nobles, including his uncle, all escaped in this way.
The Evans Brotherhood collapsed like this, and Bill had no intention of returning to his uncle, let alone seeking refuge with other nobles. He knew the current situation. Those who voted to attack the Heart of the Blood Plague at the beginning would definitely be in trouble afterwards.
He will inevitably be held responsible for this fiasco.
So Bill decided to take a gamble and chose a path that seemed extremely difficult but was actually relatively safer: riding alone for thousands of miles and joining his younger brother.
