A detour

"Zz... We're heading towards your position, is there any news?" Mike asked over the radio, trying to find out the status of the other party. 

After leaving the city of Atlanta, the people close to Airon knew that this was not the end, there were still many things to be resolved. 

"Sir, the captain of the third group has met with us, we now brief you on what we have discovered!" 

Soon after, the voice of Mike's friend Marco came out of the radio. "Mike, I caught up with the information of what is happening, from the words of the soldiers who remained trying to communicate by radio with survivors, only one group responded." 

Upon learning that a group of survivors responded to his call, Mike felt somewhat happy that someone still trusted the people on the outside. "Alright, I'll let the boss know and we'll catch up when we get together." 

"Understood, we'll be expecting you." Marco replied in a serious voice. 

Hearing this, everyone looked towards Mike and the other person next to him, they didn't quite understand what was going on. 

Airon, who was in the driver's seat, had heard the radio report and understood that they were most likely from the nursing home that was in Atlanta. 

"Rick, you'll have to join your family and I'm not going to be able to accompany you, we'll have to go back to the city!" 

"What?" 

"You're planning on going back, have you lost your mind?" 

Rick couldn't believe it, the group they had entered Atlanta for were barely able to escape, but Airon just said he wanted to go back to that place full of walkers. 

Merle also looked at Airon Darcy with slight surprise, wondering what was going through the head of this person he had just met. 

"Here's the thing... When I and my group were broadcasting valuable information over the radio, a refugee answered us and mentioned that a group of refugees was located not far from where we left at this moment. The place is an old people's home. There is still a group of young people and some elderly people surviving in that place so I want to get them out and take them to the CDC." 

As Airon drove all the way back, he explained in detail why he wanted to go back, everyone was silent knowing this, Airon knew what many were thinking. 

Some elderly people can no longer take care of themselves, so they would be of no use to us other than spending resources on a shelter and also wasting manpower on taking care of them, is it all worth it?

When he learned about this group of survivors in the original story, he was pleasantly surprised and respected everyone who stayed to defend that shelter to the end. Now that you have the opportunity to save them, he also considers the trusted people who guard that shelter today as valuable men who could be under their ranks.

"I know what everyone may think. You think all these people in the long run might be a burden, don't you? For those who have lived through this hell during the last few days of this month, you understand how hard it is to survive, right? Your experience is far from enough, and there are many things that may happen in the future so you need a large number of people." 

Airon smiled slightly and pointed out, "I don't want to give up people by causality. The most important thing is the people who take care of those elderly people. They're a good group of people." 

"I can't help but bear to leave these old people behind, they lack food, medicine and supplies, at this rate they will end up worn out. There are many of them, most of them are relatives or friends, people who knew what to do and decided to finally protect that place." 

Airon made a big explanation, and everyone didn't speak after hearing that, but remained deep in their thoughts, without any emotion on their faces. 

"I'm coming with you!" Merle said suddenly. 

Airon turned his head and looked at Merle, feeling a little strange to hear this person speak. After imposing his authority on the rooftop of the building, Merle has been behaving differently and didn't do anything out of the ordinary, but Airon always tried to evaluate him to know what he was thinking. 

Now that he suddenly asked to accompany him, Airon, who was about to ask something, stopped. 

With Merle's personality, it is estimated that he will only say the reason when two people are alone, so there is no need to waste words now. 

Airon looked off in the distance at a large line of military cars waiting for their arrival, about four Humvees with machine guns and more than fifteen soldiers. Most of the CDC security came this time along with Marco. 

"Okay, everyone get ready to get out of the car." 

When everyone heard Airon's words, they loaded their backpacks. At that moment, a truck and several military cars were waiting there. 

"Hey, Morgan, are you comfortable?" Airon got off the truck and greeted Morgan.

And the people he mentioned were marching admiringly those military trucks and machine guns. 　 

"Sir, we're ready to move!" greeted Marco with a serious expression. 

"Good." 

... 

After exchanging greetings, Airon knew that Morgan was already informed about their next plan. 

"So, Morgan, you can head back while we get moving." 

"You want me to come with you?" After Morgan heard Airon's plan, he didn't object to his surprise, and supported him to do so. 

Airon shook his head and said, "You still have a wife and child, so there's no need to take chances. You'd better get back to camp with Glenn and the others first, we'll leave the work to us." 

At that moment, Rick also came over and said with a bit of an apologetic expression, "Sorry, Airon, I need to go to camp first to see Lori and Carl, I really want to go with you, I..." 

"Rick! I understand, you don't need to explain!" 

"I'm sorry, Airon!" 

"No, maybe things will get ugly in Atlanta, I have my team and we can play it safe. Besides, Merle is accompanying me." 

"Thanks for all you do! I mean it!" Rick was grateful for Airon's help. He believed that if it wasn't for Airon, he might have died right now. 

"Alright, let's stop arguing, it's getting late, we have to go fast!" 

After Merle Dixon played with some guns, his whole group started the journey. 

In a Humvee car, Airon was in the back seat and next to him was Merle. 

"Boom, boom!" 

After crashing into two walkers, Airon said, "You can share whatever you want to tell me." 

Merle rubbed his chin with the road, and after hesitating, he spoke slowly. 

"Man, I'm not a good person. In today's world, if I meet a survivor on the road, I may kill him first and then rob him. I have my principles and my own way of knowing people." 

"After spending some time with you, I have a feeling it's a good idea for all of us to follow you. I Can follow you, but if at some point you make me do things I hate, then me and my brother will move away from your group, we can survive just the two of us." 

Merle expressed his thoughts, in this whole new world, he believed that the power in Airon's hands and the way he leads is the right one. 

"You can do whatever you want, just remember one thing. Obey the main rules you will know later and you can do whatever you want, I could use determined people like you." 　

Airon looked at Merle who was beside him, Merle smiled slightly at the answer, looking into Airon's eyes he felt that this man had experienced all kinds of things. 

He remembered the feeling when he went hunting, he had looked at truly terrifying beasts, and Airon's eyes belonged to the most dangerous living being in this world, a human who has lived and done everything. 　　

But this feeling was only fleeting. Looking at Airon again, Merle found that the other party's face was already filled with a normal expression. 

"Relax, I don't like violence and blood, it gives me a weird feeling." Airon said with a fake smile. 

Merle smiled and forced an ugly smile. He felt that Airon at this moment was even more terrifying than before.... 

... 

At a nursing home in Atlanta, Guillermo was treating an elderly man in the lobby of the nursing home. 

He is the leader of this place, making sure nothing happens to these elderly people. 

Felipe was also standing next to him at this time, helping him hold an elderly woman with white hair, who was looking at them with concern. 

This meeting place is a home for the elderly in the early days of the end of the world. After experiencing the turmoil in the early days of the end of the world, all the staff here basically fled. Now only Felipe is left, and Guillermo who was a security guard. 

Then after the end of the world broke out, many children or grandchildren of elders came here and found that after the staff left, many people spontaneously stayed and continued to care for these elders. 

Fortunately, although some elderly people suffer from Alzheimer's disease, most of them are sober-minded. They are just old and want to find a quiet place to spend their old age. 

So they all persisted and saved their anguish until the end. 

At that moment, a teenager who looked very young ran in and whispered a few words to Guillermo. 

"It's true, help is here." 

A smile shone on Guillermo's face, and he followed the young man into the front yard. 

"My name is Airon Darcy, I take care of a shelter at the CDC, I come to take you to a safer place where you will lack for nothing."