Communities

In the last few days Airon's group has been scouting around Alexandria. Merle's injury does not affect him to train the recruits, his strong words are good and do not require much effort. 

Airon on his side is calm, according to reports there was nothing out of the ordinary at the bases in Atlanta. There have been no sightings of any special walkers that he had encountered recently, and Candace and her group of researchers were also eager to find out what type of variation he had encountered.

Working in conjunction with the new recruits, Airon was recruiting new survivors who were interrogated in a very different and special way to find out the best they could about their days surviving. 

He didn't have sophisticated equipment, but there were some other special methods to find out what these people were trying so hard to hide. But that did not indicate that they were being watched by Airon's group, all eyes are his eyes in the dark.

After the little special speech he made in Alexandria's group, there were some people who wanted to learn and the numbers they could effect immediately amounted to a hundred. It was not a good number, but that counted for a lot. 

Not long after today's search operation began, Daryl brought good news and it was known that he found traces of human activities, so Airon together with Daryl continued to follow the clues with a special group of people.

"Look, here are more traces!" 

A group of people walked through the forest and came to a place similar to a small town. Airon recognized this place as a school, so the name of this place could basically be said. 

The kingdom! 

Ezekiel's fortress. 

This place is, in fact, the force created by Ezekiel, a simple zookeeper after all this started.

But right now Airon doesn't want to contact the other party, he needs to get to this place another way. As for the two groups of survivors in the garbage dump and near the sea, it is difficult to reach them and the most important thing Airon considers, to recruit them. 

Jandis from the garbage station is a woman inextricably linked to CRM, her impersonal character in the play is actually somewhat pretentious and not to be trusted at all. 

And the current leader of the hotel by the sea is not at all reliable. The setting for this force in the original play is a team composed of some wounded women. Yes, all the members are women. Because all the men among them were exterminated by the Salvation Army. This is an extremely xenophobic organization, and has a strong hostility towards outsiders. The specific reasons cannot be verified, and not that it cares much either. 

It was also because of their extreme arrogance that caused friction between them and the Salvation Army. In the end, all the men were wiped out, and a large number of women who remained were terrified of the Salvation Army and never dared to fight again. 

Airon was not sure of the current status of the Salvation Army at this time, so he has no concrete way of knowing the situation of the community on the sea shores. So now he decided to contact the Kingdom and another community nearby, and then he could get news from the Salvation Army with their status and words. 

Now that the Kingdom has been found, it is not difficult to guess the location of Hilltop, that place was now fixed near where more or less is located, but the leader of Hilltop, Gregory, is a cunning old man, greedy and could become selfish. 

It is very difficult to get good people from some shelters especially, so Airon must know exactly what they need or look for to get hold of the people in these places. 　 

When Airon thought about all this, he looked at the Kingdom grounds and found many open fields, and a group of people were working on it. There is a farm on one side of the open space, and even from his distance he could smell animal feces. 

Looking at the scale of activity, one can say that the number of people in this place is fine, and should not be deferential to the number in Alexandria, but if you compare the two communities the result is clear. 

"This is fertilizer, this place seems to be worked by smart people..." 

Daryl looked at the productive crowd in this place, then remembered the situation in Alexandria so he couldn't help but groan. 

Airon patted Daryl on the shoulder, got up and walked away, there was no need to see more so the rest of the people left this place. On the way back, Airon reminded his people, "We must continue to explore the surroundings, there should be other people nearby." 

Glenn next door said a bit strangely, "This place is very close to Alexandria, why didn't they find it if they have been looking for survivors for a long time? Or did they know but didn't tell us on purpose?" 

Airon knew very well that the two forces had no interaction, but he still said, "The people of Alexandria probably don't know that there are other survivors nearby, otherwise, with Deanna's personality they should have told us." 

A group of heavily armed people walked toward a modified RV and two Humvees with machine guns. After thinking about it, Airon said, "Let's go to that mountain and see what's there. I want to see what's in there, hopefully we might find something." 

"We got it!" 

... 

"No way, there are people in this place too." 

At that moment, the modified RV and two Humvees stopped just far enough from the Hilltop gate to be out of sight. Airon, who was driving, directed the group to a good place to observe what he wanted to check out. 

Looking from the forest, only large walls made of long upright wooden poles can be seen. There are several people patrolling around. Seeing this, Airon's group did not dare to get too close, so they could only secretly watch from a safe distance.

Daryl suddenly heard a sound coming from inside that shelter.

"Something can be heard, but I'm not entirely sure." 

Airon paid no attention to that detail and said, "Anyway, it looks like this place isn't that bad. It's a clean place and seems to be run by good people, they might see us useful in finding suitable materials for Alexandria if we come to an agreement." 

"In such a close place, this is already the third settlement, is this something that Deanna is unaware of as well?" Glenn couldn't help but complain, he now has a deep resentment towards those people in Alexandria, they are not trustworthy at all  

"Relax, this place seems to be run by good people and it doesn't seem like an aggressive bunch. If there are more places, we'll get more manpower that can bring us what we need to improve the Alexandria place."

Daryl looked at Airon strangely, he suddenly felt there was something wrong with this sentence, could it be that Airon wants to enslave people to work in Alexandria? 

Just as the three were about to charge some more, the door to the settlement suddenly opened, and from inside came two men with bows and arrows on horseback. Behind them was a carriage drawn by two horses. In it sat a coachman and large bags, which looked like grain, were piled in the back of the carriage. 

The two guys who looked like guards looked around and saw that there was no danger, so they went down the mountain without much worry. 

By this time, the place where the group of three stayed before was already empty.