Egger's hunch was correct. The next day, when the patrol team of the internal security team went to patrol the eastern safety zone again, they brought back a diplomatic mission.
There are only four people in this diplomatic corps. They had already met with Iger yesterday. In addition to the impressive blind man John and a bald man, there were also two attendants wearing uniforms.
The diplomatic team was quickly taken to the fourth floor of the Morgan Building, and then Father Locke, Sister Maria and Andy went upstairs to greet them. Egg was sitting in the supermarket lounge on the third floor drinking cold water with the field team.
Well, even a dignitary like Ige can't afford to treat guests every day. Drinking some cold water counts as a drink, and it's free of charge.
With Andy here, Iger felt that there was no need to worry about negotiations. Andy was an expert negotiator.
In the past, Iger also had a kind of pride that was higher than the top. He felt that in his previous life, he could become a small boss of a group company in his thirties, and he was already regarded as a hero among people.
During the long time together, Andy, who had never shown off before, taught Egger a lot of lessons. After all, the boy was still too young.
Of course, Andy didn't regard Egger as his competitor at all. In Andy's view, the two of them were not on the same track regardless of age or expertise.
Egger and others are sitting here, and their main job is to accompany each other's two followers to rest.
Not many people from my side came, just the four people from the first team.
There are two women in the first team, which can reduce the opponent's sense of confrontation. If an emergency occurs, Bill can quickly control the field.
As for Iger, he is here to make soy sauce.
The two people didn't know whether it was because of nervousness and restraint, or they had formed a habit in normal times. After they found a chair and sat down, they closed their eyes and recited something silently. Egger listened for a while with his ears open, and repeated
The specific word "Holy Father" appears, which seems to be a prayer.
Well, in fact, Iger is not here to make soy sauce.
Originally, Iger wanted to use his disguised appearance as a child to come up with some words while chatting with these two people. As a result, everyone sat here and had no communication at all.
However, Iger also discovered that the opponent's team should be a religious team.
This is not surprising. In previous exchanges between Egger and the Rangers team, it was discovered that any team that can establish a long-term camp is either a lord type or a religious type, and most Ranger teams are family type.
Regardless of whether it is a lord-type or a religious-type team, the ability to cohere people is very strong. Although the cohesion of a family team is also very strong, the scale will not be too large and it will be very exclusive.
In Egger's previous philosophy, since the end of the world is coming, people should take the initiative to hug together for warmth. There is strength in numbers, and it is a biological instinct to use the advantage of population size to fight disasters.
But others don't.
As long as they are not desperate, or would rather be desperate, the wanderers would not join a big team, otherwise the gospel team would not be of this size.
Egger didn't quite understand this kind of understanding before, but after chatting with Bill and others, he understood it.
I really can’t say for sure which is higher between the survival rate of a large team at the bottom level and that of a homeless person, but what everyone can confirm is that you can try your luck a few more times when you are homeless.
No one is a fool, especially when the test of life and death comes.
In this case, the fools have long been eliminated by nature, and those who survive, no matter how unbelievable choices they make, must have their own personal reasons.
The survivor team is actually very complex, far more than the simple classification of settlers and wanderers.
Wanderers are divided into teams and lone rangers.
Logically speaking, based on Egger's understanding, wandering in the wilderness is already extremely risky. Only with the help of reliable teammates can you improve your chances of survival.
But others don't.
There are many loners in the wilderness. They are men, women, old and young. Their common characteristics are that they have outstanding abilities and like to be alone.
In fact, if Fran had not joined the gospel team and escaped from the gospel community by luck, he would have gradually become a lone ranger.
Lone Rangers are generally not easy to mess with. They have their own logic and principles. Generally speaking, most Lone Rangers are fairly reliable.
In addition, there is a very dangerous kind of people in the wilderness. These people have various names. Bill calls them "wild dogs".
Wild dogs are the kind of people who are fired or abandoned by the team. No matter what the reason is, their chances of being accepted by other teams are very low.
The tolerance levels of teams are similar. Someone who is intolerable in this team will also be intolerable in other teams.
Wild dogs don't have their own rules like the Lone Ranger. Their abilities don't allow them to have "luxury" rules. They give up all their lower limits in order to survive.
The behaviors of wild dogs include but are not limited to theft, robbery, murder without warning, cannibalism, etc.
When talking about this, Bill said to Iger half seriously and half jokingly, there are rumors that some wild dogs eat too much carrion of infected people and become inhuman and ghosts, and even infected people cannot
Attack them proactively.
But this rumor is just a rumor and no one has actually seen it.
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"How do you tell which people are loners and which ones are wild dogs?" Since he has too little contact with outsiders, Iger really doesn't understand this aspect.
"You can recognize it at a glance. You'll understand it when you see it." Bill didn't say any more about this matter.
For the extremely curious Iger, Bill specifically warned that, generally speaking, women have a "cover-up" value compared to men, so women are rarely expelled from the team.
However, if you encounter a female wild dog, don't be merciful and relax your vigilance just because they are women. The fact that women can become wild dogs is enough to explain a lot of things.
In the rest area on the third floor, everyone sat together without talking, and the atmosphere was a bit dull.
Egger was sitting there thinking wildly when he suddenly heard footsteps coming from upstairs. He looked up and saw several people walking down the escalator.
Walking in front was blind John. He held his head high and walked steadily on the stairs. If it weren't for his sunken eyelids, it would have been impossible to imagine that he would be blind.
After blind John finished walking up the stairs, he continued to take two steps forward, and then the bald man behind him quickly stepped forward to help him.
With the support of the bald man, Blind John turned to Father Locke and said, "Thank you for the interview, Father Locke. I hope to get good news."
"See you soon, St. John." After Father Locke said this, there was no unnecessary greeting. He glanced at Iger, who quickly got up and walked over.
While Egg followed Father Locke upstairs, Sister Maria took Blind John and the two to the rest area. Next, she would accompany Blind John and others to visit and rest in the Rapid Creek Fortress.
After Egger followed Father Locke to the chairman's office, Vance and Andy were putting their heads together to study something on the table.
"Iger, you should go and take a look." Father Locke said to Iger, "This is the gift they just gave me."
After Egger walked over, he saw Vance and Andy studying a plastic box that looked like an insulated lunch box. The box contained some yellow stuff. When Egger was about to reach out to get it, he was stopped by Vance.
"What is this?" Egg asked.
"ice." Andy replied.
"What?! Are you sure?!" Upon hearing this, Iger opened his eyes wide and looked at the box of stuff. Such a box is enough for dozens of executions.
"That's what they said, but we're not sure yet," Vance said to Iger.
Egger observed it carefully and said with doubts: "Shouldn't it be that kind of transparent crystal? This thing looks like a fake medicine."
"So we can't be sure." Andy said to Iger.
After a while, Iger thought of someone.
"Hey Thomas, come here and take a look at this." After Iger brought Thomas over, he asked him to identify the things on the table.
As soon as Thomas saw the plastic box, his energy instantly increased several times. He walked to the table in a sprint, stretched out his hand to take it, but suddenly, Egg whipped the back of his hand with a riding crop.
Egger had already anticipated Thomas's reaction, and this heavy slap brought him back to his senses.
"I just let you see it, I didn't let you touch it." Iger said rudely to Thomas.
Thomas understood.
Thomas was lying in front of the table. He stared at the plastic box seriously for a long time before he straightened up and said, "The best way to identify whether this thing is genuine is to bake it directly. Just by looking at it, I can only
It's very similar."
"Okay, you can go." Egger didn't have any extra emotions towards the tool man.
After Thomas walked out of the door, the four people in the chairman's office stood in a circle around the plastic box, and then Andy told Iger what had just happened.
Speaking of which, the process is very simple.
After Blind John came over, he directly asked the bald man to give him a meeting gift, which was this box of stuff that he claimed weighed about one kilogram.
Ige nodded. His messing around yesterday had worked.
Yesterday, Iger accepted the weapons and ammunition sent by the other party as compensation, so today, these people had to bring out a heavier gift, which was this box of stuff.
"What are their requirements?" Iger asked.
Father Locke said: "St. John proposed to form a defensive alliance with us to jointly defend against the infected."
"Well, what then?" Iger asked.
"No more," Father Locke replied.
That's it?
Egger reached out and touched his chin. Things were really getting more and more interesting.