The Request

"What does it mean?"

Jack was bandaging his back after someone helped him stop the bleeding. Now that the adrenaline had subsided, his body screamed in pain. But he was now looking at Emma, waiting for her answer.

"The two big forces of this place are fighting for time..."

Regarding this matter, Jack didn't think of hiding anything. They had successfully escaped the danger of leaving the beaver community. No matter if such things were said now. He slowly raised his hand and said a keyword.

"The real mission I was assigned was to gather information and see if the communities here had a relationship with the CRM or Fireflies. Now we not only know about the connection between these two organizations, but also understand what they are looking for."

"I didn't understand it at first. Although the Fireflies' plan was to confront the CRM to restore the government before the end of the world started, maybe they know the CRM and because of that, the rules imposed by that organization were protested. Many things must have happened for the Fireflies to attack in such an uncontrolled manner."

Jack paused and said, "That old man was from the army, and right now there are two options that can exist in my mind. One, if the Fireflies attack Reginald's shelter in that way, it means he has some connection with the CRM, or on the other hand, he openly showed interest in joining the Fireflies' rival organization."

"These days they have been attacking the beaver community gently, and the main attack was today..."

Upon hearing that Jack had arrived at such a conjecture, everyone's faces were somewhat astonished.

"No one is reliable..."

A man with his children frowned slightly and said, "So they just kill innocents because of their damn goal?"

"That's basically it, killing people and burning crops, their goals or the way to achieve them are not good..."

"So what do we do?"

Regarding Emma's question, Jack also had an approximate answer in his heart and said, "Although I don't know what else we can do in our situation, what we will do is wait..."

"Right now there are two big forces fighting, it would not be convenient to go out until we know that we are all united..."

As he said that, Jack unconsciously touched his chest, wanting to take a sip from his small wine bottle, but found that it was also empty.

Only then did he remember that when he was searched before, someone had taken it from him. He smiled ironically and continued, "Although I don't even know if all of this is worth it, what I can say is that there is a serious problem that our people must solve as soon as possible."

"Moreover, they don't know what kind of big move both sides will make, so this time we have to interfere so that they don't reveal any activity to the CRM... It's true that our organization no longer fears someone like them, but the more we remain silent, the better prepared we will be."

As he spoke, Jack slowly raised his head and looked out the window, listening to the noisy voices outside. He said, "We will be in trouble if they discover us. We barely have any weapons to defend ourselves and most of us are adult men and children who escaped with us..."

Boom, boom, boom!

Just as Jack finished speaking, the roar of projectiles suddenly sounded from outside. The sound wasn't too loud and obviously was far away from them.

At that moment, they realized that the outside had become silent.

Several people got up and went to the window, only to find that all the troops had gone, and the direction was full of smoke and gunfire, it was obvious that both sides had already started fighting.

"Well, we won't be here by nightfall..."

Seeing that no one else was outside, Jack raised his hand to check the time and suggested that they better leave as soon as possible.

"No matter how the surrounding area looks, and we don't care about their affairs at this moment, let's leave this place of good and evil as soon as possible."

"Yes..."

...

"Gentlemen, the captain is in trouble."

"This is the elite team in South Carolina, we're in a confusing situation so we need reinforcements!"

"Zz... Report on that confusing situation!"

"Listen, the captain is injured and so is the second officer, we're not certain but two organizations are facing off. The first community is led by the group that attacked the exploration force some time ago, and the second group is the Fireflies."

A soldier who was waiting for a response said, "We need help to get out of here, we can't retreat anymore..."

But at that moment, the convoy entered a quiet street and before the group realized it, several figures emerged from the darkness and began shooting.

Bang Bang Bang Bang!

Numerous bullets hit the armor of the Humvee in which the group was traveling, in response they also returned fire either through the machine gun on top or through the window shots.

"We're under fire, we need help!"

"The city is in chaos, the walkers will be attracted in thousands and it will be a miracle if we survive."

"Get us out of this damn place, we must approach where the captain is directly!"

A soldier who was at the front shouted, "Laicon, you better keep your eyes open and the necessary ammunition to eliminate dangerous targets!"

"That's a rocket launcher!"

"Be careful!"

Bang Bang Bang!

But before the people on the machine gun could open fire on the target, he pulled the trigger and a few seconds later an explosion was heard in the surroundings.

Boom!

Fortunately, the missile hit on the side of the deflection, shaking it slightly. In response, several smoke grenades were launched to get out of this place as soon as possible.

"Send reinforcements as soon as possible, fast!"

Bang Bang Bang!

...

Central base.

At this moment, there was a meeting to decide what to do with South Carolina.

Meanwhile, Airon, who was also in this place, was watching the images that the drone was providing them with attention.

"We're taking Alabama, we can't divert our force to South Carolina!"

"It's right next door and those are thousands of lives we must consider!"

"Don't talk to me in that tone, you know perfectly well what I'm considering when I say these words!"

The situation is chaotic, Airon watched all this in silence and closed his eyes to think. Regardless of what these people say, he would make the final decision.