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In the end, Rick did not give these soldiers weapons but lent them some machetes, and without waiting for me to warn him about how terrible the red-eyed walkers could be, they entered the bedroom where the characteristic sound of walkers could be heard. Soon, there was a series of sounds of slashing and killing walkers inside the room, and after a while, the sound stopped completely. 

With a creak, the bedroom door where there were previously walker sounds opened again and a group of five people seemed to have a trace of relief on their faces. Looking at Rick and his men, Derek took the initiative to speak. 

"Thanks to the machetes we were able to put our former companions to rest!"

Derek and the others returned the machete, but Rick shook his head and said to these people, "You can have it yourselves, we'll move out of this place once we get all the supplies to you, what's your next plan?" 

Derek smiled when he saw Rick say that, he thought for a moment and said, "Like I said, all of us have family members, and we plan to go to our homes to check on them." 

Nodding, Rick also thought it was the best way for everyone to be okay and for him not to have suspicions about this group of five people.

"Then we won't let them go with nothing, they can take a vehicle and take the machetes, that's better than nothing." 

Rick, as a cop, still sympathized somewhat with these people due to the fact that he too had been in a place far away from his family, and what he wanted to do right after waking up was to go see them. 

After a group finished clearing the base of walkers, you could tell that this place was completely safe and Rick personally escorted Derek's group out the door. 

"I hope you all find your families." 

"Thanks Rick, you're a good man." 

 ... 

Seeing a car leaving the base and all those strange people leaving together, Rick suddenly thought that something was telling him that not everything was normal. But it doesn't matter what he thinks or sees of these people as they always behaved normal from the beginning. From start to finish, and even before they left, they shared where the weapons were located, they also made them a map where all the important things on the base were located.

With a self-deprecating smile, Rick greeted everyone, turned around and walked to the location of the materials warehouse where all the soldiers who had arrived as support were moving the resources to the trucks. 

The people in front of the warehouse door checked it carefully before entering, curiously there were no more red-eyed walkers, for which everyone was really grateful. 

Besides securing the place where the survivors would land that Airon had mentioned, what made everyone happy was the large amount of food reserves here, there was a whole food warehouse area, it covered many hundreds of meters, and the whole inside was full of supplies. 

At this time, there were at least twenty people loading things onto a truck as they celebrated. Everyone was happy, and most had even opened the boxes to look inside. 

All of these were military rations exactly the same as what they had found in the cafeteria. Rick checked it out personally, after looking at the size of the box he estimated that there would be at least thirty bags of military food. 

Looking at the boxes in the warehouse, Rick silently counted them and was instantly stunned by the sheer quantity. He wasn't sure how many supplies there were, but it was no small amount. 

"Military food is the best you can find today, they have an expiration date of many years, so they can be stored for now along with the other military rations." Jim said as he watched the boxes being loaded onto the trucks. 

"You're right, storing the products with the longest expiration dates is the right thing to do in our situation, you have to use up mostly the products that are about to expire." Rick said as he nodded. 

"Thank God you sent us this food!" Murmured a man with a grateful expression. 

Rick, who was standing off to the side, looked at the speaker and asked with interest, "Your name is Eduardo, right?" 

This man named Eduardo was a survivor who had been rescued by Carol when he went out to watch the forest and hopefully hunt some game. 

Rick looked at this tall young man, and asked with some interest, "What did you study before all this happened?"      

A man next to him couldn't help but say, "Sir, this is Eduardo and he occasionally supported my projects in the chemistry department, so his excellent skills after he broke his nose made him our group leader when We went out to contribute something to the base."

Rick looked at the two with a smile and said to the other person, "Maximiliano, right?" 

"Yes, sir!" 

"You are great people, keep working hard, the base will need talented young men in the future." 

After one group was taken care of with the food, another found the weapons cache and reported back to Rick. 

When the door opened, the first thing everyone smelled was the smell of gun oil, and Rick walked in with the others to see what was in this gigantic place. 

The armory is made up of many rooms, and each room is filled with different equipment. After a simple inspection, much of the equipment here had been kept, and the amount there was undeniably gigantic. 

Especially some equipment that cannot be found outside, such as body armor equipment, night vision goggles, gas masks, grenade launchers, among many other things. 

There are also many heavy and light machine guns, rocket launchers, standard rifles, pistols, grenades. He even found a lot of big artillery in the back storage room, including 76mm, 105mm and 155mm, 

Wait, Rick even found a lot of large artillery in the large warehouse in the back, including 75mm, 105mm and 155mm artillery plus self-propelled artillery, although the number is not large, including anti-aircraft gunners which was something that had been wanted for some time. 

It is preliminarily estimated that the weapons here are sufficient to rearm the combat power of a squadron of a thousand without any problem. But what surprised them most is the ammunition stockpile. There is a large amount of ammunition left here, which is enough to compensate for the losses caused by the war against the walkers. 

Soon they found the oil depot in the military camp. There were ten large tankers parked in a large garage next to the oil depot, four of which were empty and the rest fully loaded. There were hh60 and cargo helicopters, armored vehicles and the facility was very good for establishing a strategic forward point. 

"Guillermo should be very happy to hear this..." Rick said with a smile, but then that smile slowly faded. 

Thinking of something, he looked at the happy people around him, hesitated for a moment but did not speak. 

It just so happened that Rick had noticed Daniel was strange and turned his head to look at the people around him. Rick withdrew to his side calmly and signaled Daniel with his eyes to speak to the side. 

The two of them retreated to the outside hallway, and Rick asked a little strangely, What's wrong? "I think your expression isn't right." 

Daniel didn't want to say it at first, but hesitated before speaking. "I'm still thinking about Derek and the others. I mean something wasn't right with those people's explanation." 

Rick frowned, he had wanted to ignore those thoughts but he knew Derek's story was too realistic not to let it go, they had already left the military base anyway. 

Daniel looked at Rick and said with some uncertainty in his tone. "Rick, I heard the story about the people who were trapped in a prison cafeteria, so the story may be somewhat related. 

Daniel mentioned that since those soldiers moved the food into the dorms, how much food did they consume in a year? One day two packs of military food plus water would require at least a large sum of military food, so that group needed to carry a lot of food before the walkers overran the cafeteria. 

"The cafeteria warehouse was empty at the time. Judging by the size of the warehouse, it should have a limited amount of food, how come they lasted a year eating only that without leaving the dormitories because of the walkers in the cafeteria?" 

Rick frowned and thought after hearing Daniel's words. 

"Didn't he say there were more than ten people at first?" 

Daniel shook his head and explained again, "If they had enough time and moved enough food, why did several people die? Looking at this, it's obvious there would be food in the cafeteria storeroom which there isn't." 

"Let's see." The two returned to the dormitory area, rummaged through the boxes to find the boxes on the floor, and the garbage was not enough to survive a year in this place. 

"Even though those people were thin, they weren't malnourished, so when I thought about it they should have at least asked us for food to satisfy their hunger which they didn't." 

After Daniel finished speaking, Rick had a sudden thought that came to him like an explosive idea. They both ran to the door where there were undead, the companions of the group of soldiers, opened the door and with a flashlight saw what was inside.