blood plague

Chapter 112 Locke's Worries (Happy Chinese New Year, Happy Year of the Tiger!)

Hearing that Joanna was repeating his own words word by word, Iger stopped crying. He took a deep breath and tried to calm down.

It's so strange, the grievances I suffered in the past were several times worse than now, but now my emotions are out of control.

While sniffing, Iger blamed the "morale" system for losing control of his emotions. He looked at Joanna who was "talking loudly" seriously. Although he knew it was useless, he still felt warm in his heart.This little girl.

As expected, after Joanna put forward the proposal, Father Locke directly rejected it without even discussing it.

Joanna turned her head a little discouraged. She originally wanted to make an apologetic expression towards Iger, but she saw Iger gave her a thumbs up. Looking at his mouth shape, it should be saying "Awesome" ".

Joanna felt happy all of a sudden.

Iger figured it out, he comforted himself and said, it's okay, it didn't work this time, and it will come again.Iger also knows that the change of thinking is a time of hard work.

It is only human nature that people always expect the world to operate in the way they are familiar with.After all, it's not like that.

Having figured it out, Iger devoted himself to being a wooden man in the subsequent meeting.

After more than ten minutes of discussion, the Gospel team decided to include the Love and Family team.

When Father Locke returned to the fourth floor and told the anxiously waiting Nicholas and others about the decision of the gospel team, everyone couldn't help cheering.

At this time, the sky outside the window had begun to turn white, and Father Locke decided that there was no need to delay, and the rescue team should set off immediately.After all, there are still hundreds of kilometers away from Jixi Town, and one minute earlier, one point more safety.

When the three leaders of Nicholas heard this, they were yawning and said that they were not sleepy at all.

Each leader felt that he had the responsibility and obligation to lead the way. After arguing for a while, it was decided that the three of them would go back together.

It has to be said that elected figures have a natural sensitivity to every opportunity to show their faces.

Soon, a convoy consisting of a car, two pickup trucks, and a bus drove slowly out of Jixi Town under the darkness of night.

Two pickup trucks, one of which is the fire support team led by Iger.

In the pickup truck driven by Joanna, Iger, Fran, and Erica were sitting, which can be described as the strongest combination of the Gospel team.

According to Nicholas' report, when they drove over, there were no free infected people on the road, and the road was empty.

Iger guessed that the movement of infected groups, in addition to attacking survivors' strongholds, also has the function of "collecting" free infected people.

Therefore, the fire support team is not only to provide security for the rescue convoy, after reaching the destination, the fire support team will take the initiative to meet the enemy.

On the one hand, it is natural to try to delay the movement of the infected people towards the "Love and Family Team". On the other hand, the sniping against this super large group of infected people will start from now on.

Afterwards, the fire support team will not withdraw with the main force, they have sufficient supplies and ammunition, enough to deal with the infected group for a long time.

On the way, Iger told the three team members about his strategy.According to the experience of eliminating the infected group last time, there is a saying that the thief must be captured first, and the screecher must be eliminated first.

So, the first step in the battle plan is to find the Screamer.

According to Iger's plan, first of all, it is necessary to actively approach the infected group, trigger the screamer's attack command, and the observer at a high place uses a telescope to identify it.

The second step is to use a shotgun for long-distance simultaneous sniping.

The third step is simple, use firearms to shoot and kill the infected people who have lost their organization one by one.

In the Gospel team, the person with the best marksmanship is naturally Iger, followed by Fran and Erica.

Fran may not be as good as Erica if it is a draw and shoot, but in terms of long-range shooting ability, Fran is extremely good.

The firepower of the fire support team is extremely sufficient this time. In addition to their regular guns, they brought three shotguns and several boxes of bullets. They can make full use of the pickup truck to move A, slowly drag the infected group away, and then Annihilate them one by one.

What needs to be guarded against here is the outbreak of the blood plague caused by the screamer's cry. Here Iger is more worried about Fran.

It stands to reason that Iger should not have brought Fran to participate in this field work. After all, Fran's resistance to the blood plague is not very strong. Once the blood plague breaks out, I really don't know what will happen to him.

But the current situation is that Fran has nowhere to go.

Yesterday afternoon, Fran reported that it has now entered winter, and the activities of animals have been greatly reduced. In addition, the hunting team organized by the Gospel team was intensively picking wool in the forest some time ago, and the forest was somewhat bald.

Fran originally came back this time to discuss his next work plan, but before the discussion, the new team joined again.

The soles of Fran's feet were sweating at the thought of suddenly being surrounded by 25 unfamiliar faces. When he heard that a fire support team was being formed, he immediately signed up to participate.

Iger and the other three are very familiar friends of Fran, and Fran feels particularly at ease and peaceful when they are with them.

Iger feels the same way, and now he prefers to spend time with field personnel.Only through the running-in of the life-and-death test in the field, will there be stronger trust and trust between people.

In the office on the fourth floor of the Morgan Building, Father Locke sighed sadly as he watched the long queue of convoys leave Rapid Creek Town.

Iger became Father Locke's heart disease.

Yesterday, Iger acted without authorization and forcibly killed Walton Morgan.If this matter can still be explained by "young and ignorant", what Iger said just now can be said to be heartbreaking.

What kind of person is it that can say "break up, reorganize, and review" extremely easily and coherently, Father Locke sighed for a long time.

Iger said to himself that he is a MAX materialist.At that time, Father Locke still found it particularly interesting. He thought it was a big talk made by little Oliver because of his youthful rebellion.

How to put it, puberty, you can play whatever is the most rebellious. Father Locke doesn't care much about this matter. As an elder, he has seen a lot of these wild words.

Now it seems that Iger may not be talking nonsense, he is serious.

Father Locke has experienced the era of crazy thinking during the Vietnam War. He knows that MAXism and the CP Party are not the monsters and ghosts that are now being talked about by public opinion.

However, when Iger recounted these remarks in a calm tone, even Father Locke had difficulty maintaining his inner stability.

After all, Father Locke is also an American. He has lived in an environment of deliberately guided public opinion for decades, and his worldview has become very stable.

At this time, even Father Locke rationally felt that Iger's words seemed reasonable, but it was difficult for him to persuade himself to follow Iger's suggestion from the heart.

It is undeniable to Father Locke that Iger is extremely talented, and Iger has played a pivotal role in the gospel team's progress to where they are today.

Why is it that the successor I am so optimistic about is yet another ideological heresy.Can I still safely hand over the important task of managing the team to him?

Father Locke recalled that when he saw Oliver for the first time, the child had dodge in his eyes and was very careful and vigilant.

Lying is a human's instinctive reaction when facing danger, especially in an unfamiliar environment, lying is the camouflage of human beings.

In order to make Oliver let down his guard, Father Locke kindly stated to him that he was a trustworthy elder. As a result, Oliver was frightened. He not only refused to admit that he had lied, but also fabricated a new one for himself in order to fulfill the lie. identity.

For children's little tricks, Father Locke chose to "believe".

Father Locke couldn't push him anymore, he pushed the child into a hurry, he could do anything.

It is a good practice for adults not to expose things that children try to hide.

This strategy was very successful. Little Iger let go of his guard and quickly integrated into the new family.

Now it seems.

If Iger didn't lie at the time, he was really a soul from another world.

God!

However, Father Locke has no evidence to prove whether Iger's soul is the real Oliver.

Iger told Vance that his brain was damaged by the high fever of the blood plague, a lot of memory was lost, and his cognition was also somewhat confused.

That is to say, even if Iger did not lie, Iger said that he is an outsider, which is very likely to be a misunderstanding caused by hallucinations during high fever.

Truth, not necessarily true words.

Father Locke knew that human cognition is easily affected by various influences, and memories can be induced and distorted out of thin air, not to mention cognition.

After all, as a priest, knowledge in this area is basic common sense.

In the history of religion, many believers claim to have been to heaven and hell.

Those who go to hell and return to the world would rather be branded as "spreading evil" and be burned at the stake than change their words.

Lying does them no good, it brings death instead.

So, these poor people are not lying, they have "really" been to hell.

This is a very typical cognitive distortion, and even death cannot change it.

But what if it's true this time!

Father Locke sighed deeply. Recently, he often felt that his energy was a little bit behind.

Now the boarding and housing conditions of the Gospel team are gradually improving, and have almost returned to the level before the outbreak of the blood plague, but Father Locke's physical decline has not slowed down, and his physical fitness has declined to 5 points.

Not knowing how long he could last, Father Locke was afraid that he would collapse halfway.

It was a dark night outside the window, and a strong and tall old man was reflected in the glass, but his eyes were full of tiredness.

"God bless us."

Father Locke made a sign of the cross devoutly on his chest.

(End of this chapter)