blood plague

Chapter 196
Iger's premonition was correct. The next day, when the patrol team of the internal security team went to patrol the safe zone in the east again, they brought back a diplomatic mission.

There are only 4 people in this diplomatic mission. They have already met Iger yesterday. Apart from the impressive blind John and a bald man, there are also two followers in uniform.

The diplomatic mission was quickly taken to the fourth floor of the Morgan Building, and then Father Locke, Sister Maria, and Andy went upstairs to greet them. Iger sat in the supermarket lounge on the third floor and drank cold water with the field team.

Uh, even a mogul like Iger can't afford to treat guests every day. Drinking some cold water is considered a drink, and it doesn't cost money.

With Andy here, Iger feels that there is no need to worry about the negotiation at all, and Andy is an expert in negotiation.

In the past, Iger also had a kind of self-confidence that his eyes were higher than the top. He felt that in his previous life, he could become a small leader of a conglomerate in his [-]s, and he could already be regarded as a hero among men.

During the long time of getting along, Andy, who was not obvious before, taught Iger a lot of lessons. After all, the boy is still too young.

Of course, Andy didn't regard Iger as his competitor at all. In Andy's view, the two were not on the same track no matter their age or specialties.

Iger and others are sitting here, and their main job is to accompany the other party's two entourages to rest.

Not too many people from my side came, just the four from the first team.

There are two women in the first team, which can reduce the opponent's sense of confrontation, and in case of emergencies, Bill can quickly control the field.

As for Iger, he is here to make soy sauce.

These two people don’t know whether it’s because of nervousness and restraint, or they have formed a habit in normal times. After the two of them randomly found a chair and sat down, they closed their eyes and read something silently. The specific word "Holy Father" appears in what appears to be a prayer.

Well, in fact, Iger is not playing soy sauce here.

Originally, Iger wanted to use his child's disguised appearance to get some words out of the chat with these two people.As a result, everyone sat here without any communication at all.

However, Iger also discovered that the opponent's team should be a religious team.

This is not surprising. In the previous exchanges between Iger and the homeless team, it was found that any team that can establish a long-term camp is either a lord type or a religious type, and the homeless team is mostly family type.

Whether it is a lord-type or a religious-type team, the ability to cohere people is very strong. Although the family team is also very cohesive, the scale will not be too large, and it will be very exclusive.

In Iger's previous philosophy, since the end of the world is coming, people should take the initiative to hug each other to keep warm.There is great strength in numbers, and it is a biological instinct to use the advantage of population size to fight against disasters.

But others do not.

As long as they are not desperate, or would rather be desperate, the homeless people will not join the big team, otherwise the Gospel team would not be of this size.

Iger didn't quite understand this kind of cognition before, but after chatting with Bill and others, he understood.

It’s hard to say which one has the higher bottom-level survival rate of the big team and the survival rate of the vagabonds, but what everyone can confirm is that vagabonds can try their luck a few more times.

No one is stupid, especially when the test of life and death comes.

In this case, fools have already been eliminated naturally, and the survivors, no matter how unbelievable choices they made, must have their own personal reasons.

Survivor teams are actually very complex, far more than the simple classification of settlers and wanderers.

Among the Rangers, there are teams and lone rangers.

Logically speaking, based on Iger's cognition, wandering in the wild is already a very risky thing, and only with the help of reliable teammates can one improve one's chances of survival.

But others do not.

There are many lone rangers in the wild.There are men, women and children, and the common feature is that they are capable and like to be alone.

In fact, if Fran did not join the Gospel team and escaped from the Gospel community by chance, he would 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 still reliable.

In addition, there is a very dangerous kind of people in the wild. This kind of people has various names, and Bill calls them "wild dogs".

Dingoes are the ones who get fired or dumped by their team, and for whatever reason, their chances of being accepted by another team are very low.

The team's tolerance is similar, and someone who can't bear it in this team can't bear it in other teams.

Wild dogs do not have their own standards like Lone Rangers. Their abilities do not allow them to have "luxury" standards. They have given up all their lower limits in order to survive.

The behavior of wild dogs includes but is not limited to theft, robbery, murder without warning, cannibalism, etc.

When talking about this, Bill half-seriously and half-jokingly said to Iger that there are rumors that some wild dogs ate too much carrion from infected people and became inhuman, even infected people Actively attack them.

But this rumor is just a rumor, no one has actually seen it.

"How do you tell which people are lone rangers and which are wild dogs?" Due to too little contact with outsiders, Iger really doesn't understand this aspect.

"You can recognize it at a glance, and you will understand it when you see it." Bill didn't say any more about this matter.

For Iger, who is extremely curious, Bill specifically warned that, generally speaking, women have a "background" value compared to men, so women are rarely expelled from the team.

However, if you encounter female wild dogs, don't let your guard down because they are women.The fact that women can become wild dogs is enough to explain many things.

In the rest area on the third floor, everyone sat together without talking, and the atmosphere was a bit dull.

Iger was sitting there thinking wildly when he suddenly heard footsteps from upstairs. He looked up and saw several people coming down the escalator.

Walking in front was the blind John. He held his head high and walked steadily on the stairs. If it weren't for his sunken eyelids, he would never have thought that he would be blind.

Blind John continued to walk two steps forward after walking the stairs, and then the bald man behind him hurried forward to help him.

With the support of the bald man, the blind John turned to Father Locke and said, "Thank you for your interview, Father Locke. I hope to get good news."

"See you later, St. John." After Father Locke said this, there was no extra greeting. He made a look at Iger, and Iger quickly got up and walked over.

When Iger followed Father Locke up the stairs, Sister Maria took the blind John to the rest area, and then she would accompany the blind John and others to visit and rest in the fortress of Rapid Creek Town.

After Iger followed Father Locke to the chairman's office, Vance and Andy were putting their heads together to study something on the table.

"Iger, go and have a look too." Father Locke said to Iger, "This is a gift from them just now."

After Iger walked over, he saw that Vance and Andy were studying a plastic box like an insulated lunch box, and there were some yellow things in the box.When Iger was about to reach for it, Vance stopped him.

"What's this?" Iger asked.

"Ice." Andy replied.

"What?! Are you sure?!" Iger opened his eyes and looked at the box of stuff when he heard it. Such a box should be enough for dozens of executions.

"That's what they say, but we're not sure yet," Vance said to Iger.

Iger observed it carefully, and he 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 and take a look at this." Iger brought Thomas over and asked him to identify the things on the table.

As soon as Thomas saw the plastic box, his energy improved several times in an instant. He strode to the table and reached out to take it, but with a snap, Iger hit the back of his hand with a horsewhip.

Iger had expected Thomas' reaction a long time ago, and this heavy draw brought him back to his senses.

"I just let you see, not touch." Iger said rudely to Thomas.

Thomas got it.

Thomas lay in front of the table. After staring at the plastic box carefully for a long time, he straightened up and said, "The best way to tell if this thing is genuine is to bake it directly. Just by looking at it, I can only Very similar."

"Okay, you can go." For the tool man, Iger didn't have any extra emotions.

After Thomas walked out of the room, the four people in the chairman's office stood in a circle around the plastic box, and Andy told Iger what happened just now.

Speaking of which, the process is very simple.

After the blind man John came over, he directly asked the bald man to present a meeting gift, which was this box of things that claimed to be about one kilogram.

Iger nodded, his nonsense yesterday worked.

Yesterday, the weapons and ammunition given by the other party were accepted by Iger as compensation, so today, these people had to come up with a heavier gift, which is this box.

"What about their request?" Iger asked.

Father Locke said: "St. John proposed to form a defensive alliance with us to fight against the infected."

"Well, what then?" Iger asked.

"No more." Father Locke replied.

That's it?

Iger reached out and touched his chin, and things really got more and more interesting.

(End of this chapter)