The Walking Dead: Rebuild

Chapter 116 Occupying Georgia
By the time Lyon came up with a large force to surround them, it was already half an hour later.

Escorted by several elite fighters, Old Professor Jacob and some researchers, wearing fully sealed protective suits, endured the disgusting environment, entered the reactor room of the nuclear power plant, and began to shut down the reactor.

And Leon commanded a crane to hoist the monster that was in suspended animation to stand up. A dozen welders worked together, using thick iron chains and steel cables to tie up the giant monster.

The effect of the super anesthetic was truly astonishing. No matter how hard they tried on the monster, it still showed no sign of waking up.

Leon looked at the giant monster lying on the ground and snoring weakly, thought for a moment, and then said to Moore, who had been staying by his side:
"Moll, take it back to the base first, find a stronger cage, and lock it up. I will also consider whether there is a place where I can use it in the future."

Old Moore chuckled, spat a mouthful of phlegm on the giant monster's head, and said with a smile to Leon:

"Boss, why don't you give this monster that was pulled out of a pile of shit a bath? The smell is terrible enough."

"If we pull him back like this, we will definitely destroy the people in our base."

Leon also thought this was true. This guy smelled like shit. If he wasn't wearing a protective mask, no one would be able to stand the smell. However, he still cautiously said to Moore:
"Rush it with warm water, but be careful not to make too much noise. We can't guarantee whether his state of suspended animation will be interrupted by outside interference."

"Okay, boss, leave it to me. We will find a safe place to lock it up."

As the giant monster was transported away and the nuclear materials and nuclear waste in the nuclear power plant were recovered, another potential safety hazard in Georgia was finally eliminated.

After finishing this job, Leon stayed in the base for another four or five days, when he suddenly received a piece of good news from Colonel William.

After they led their troops to clean up the zombies outside the nuclear power plant, through careful investigation, they found no figure similar to a super mutant monster this time.

However, this nuclear power plant is also different from the other two nuclear power plants. According to the information found by Professor Jacob, this is only a very small nuclear power plant. It was built in a very short time, and the energy generated by the reactor is only a few dozen of the first two nuclear power plants. one part.

Lyon speculated that perhaps it was because of this situation that there were not enough conditions inside the nuclear power plant to give birth to a super mutated monster.

Moreover, according to Colonel William's intelligence, the mutant zombies inside this nuclear power plant facility are extremely ferocious, there are more of them, and their individual strength seems to be stronger.

Judging from the number of corpses they found inside the facility, these mutant zombies also have the habit of killing and devouring each other.

However, although the strength of these mutated zombies is powerful, it does not exceed the upper limit that ordinary armies can deal with.

Therefore, Colonel William applied to continue to station the troops there, and use the mutated zombies inside the facility to train the soldiers' collaborative combat capabilities as well as individual combat capabilities.

After thinking about it for a while, Leon agreed to Colonel William's request and sent his Stinger team there.

Anyway, there are no other combat missions recently. Sending them there will not only allow these special elite warriors to protect the lives of ordinary soldiers, but also practice their experience in dealing with special mutant zombies. It can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

As the nuclear power plant battle came to an end, although tragedies of this kind and that continued to occur around the world, Georgia slowly calmed down.

Time flies by and it’s summer in August.

In the past two months, the umbrella company has developed very steadily.

After clearing the hidden dangers of the three nuclear power plants in Georgia, Lyon did not make any big moves. Instead, he settled down and prepared step by step for the great cleansing movement in the entire state of Georgia.

He divided the fighters in the entire umbrella company into four units of 4 people, and equipped each unit with logistics personnel and communication units, as well as armored units and air units.

According to the locations of human cities and towns on the map, we began to clean up all the large groups of corpses one by one, while collecting the scattered small groups.

With the help of Professor Amlin, they used the large communication equipment harvested from Jackson Airport to establish a barely usable civilian communication network covering [-] kilometers, achieving the goal of decentralizing communication capabilities to every member of the organization. ability.

And a total of more than 40 hidden military outposts have been established throughout the state of Georgia, which basically includes the entire state's land under the jurisdiction of the Umbrella Company.

This is a tedious and arduous task. According to the predictions of the think tank, with the current population and combat effectiveness of the Umbrella Company, it will take them at least more than a year to clear out the more than 1000 million zombies in the entire state of Georgia.

If you include the collection of materials and resources from the entire state, this time may be doubled.

However, Lyon does not intend to give up on this task. If he can spend two years and absorb the population and resources of an entire state as a foundation, he should be able to gain a firm foothold in this world.

That afternoon, Professor Malok of Biogenetics brought good news to Lyon.

After more than two months of hard work, the biology guru from the Georgia Institute of Technology has initially tamed the giant monster captured from the Waketon Nuclear Power Plant.

The thin, bespectacled, white professor led Leon into a special building with excitement on his face.

It was a huge cell made of steel plates and concrete, about 20 meters high, and the bottom was more than 30 meters underground. The entire cell was about 50 meters high. The internal space was not large, less than 50 square meters.

An ugly giant monster with a naked upper body and wearing a green linen short skirt at the crotch was sitting at the bottom of the cell, staring blankly at a huge screen suspended in the air, which played children's favorites, cats and Mouse cartoon.

When Leon saw this situation, he frowned, looked at Professor Malok strangely, and asked:

"Professor Mallock, can this thing still understand cartoons?"

Professor Mallock had a smile on his face, pushed up his glasses with some pride, and said to Leon:
"Mr. Custer, this monster actually has his own name. He calls himself Tom."

"According to research and testing by Dr. Melfa and I, as well as information obtained from the Wickton Nuclear Power Plant, this monster's real name is Tom Cruise, and he was once the reactor supervisor at the nuclear power plant."

"He should have been exposed to a large amount of radioactive material after being bitten by a zombie and without any death mutation. He may have even fallen into the cooling pool in the reactor, which led to this unpredictable mutation. .”

Leon's frown deepened. He looked at Professor Malok seriously and asked:

"You said, he calls himself Tom, this monster can still communicate with you?"

Professor Mallock shook his head with regret and said:
"It's a pity, Mr. Custer, that he can't communicate with us verbally."

The middle-aged professor looked at the giant monster with regretful eyes, and then said:

"Most of his brain has been eroded by radiation, which damages his brain function and resists the invasion of all zombie viruses." "Tom's intelligence has dropped to the level of a three-year-old baby, and he is unable to use language and people. To communicate, I just keep repeating my name sometimes."

Then, Professor Marlows said in an excited tone:

"However, precisely because he has not been infected by the zombie virus in his brain, he is not actually very hostile to other living beings and would not think of infecting them or devouring them."

"If he takes the initiative to hurt others, it is probably because he is hungry or feels hostility from others."

Leon looked down at the bottom of the cell. Tom was still watching the cartoon stupidly. He didn't feel pity for this guy, but continued to ask Professor Mallock:

"What you mean is that although this monster is dangerous, it is not necessarily our enemy."

Professor Mallock had a smile on his face.

"Yes, Mr. Custer, although Tom only has an infant-level intelligence, he can still rely on instinct to tell who is the enemy and who is the friend."

Leon heard the meaning of Malok's words, raised his eyebrows, and asked:

"so what?"

"What do you want to express?"

Professor Marlock pushed his glasses again, and said with some confidence in his tone:

"Mr. Custer, although Tom is mutated from humans, we do not necessarily regard him as a human being."

"Based on our long history and experience of taming the beast, as well as current knowledge of psychology and brain science."

"I am [-]% sure that I can use drugs and animal training methods to tame him and make him a weapon in our hands."

Leon nodded lightly. If you can have a humanoid weapon like this monster, it can indeed play a very good role in some situations, especially when dealing with super mutants with different abilities. There is a rough skin. The thick human shield blocks the front, and its effect is not ordinary.

However, if you can't completely control him and let this monster go wild inside your own base or within your troops, it will definitely cause serious casualties to you.

He was silent for dozens of seconds, and finally said to Professor Malok:

"Professor Mallock, I can allow you to tame him and give you the corresponding resources, but you must ensure that you have absolute certainty to control him."

Leon stared at Professor Malok's glasses and continued:
"You have studied him for so long, and you should be very aware of the destructive power of this monster. I don't want our people to bear the damage when the time comes."

Professor Maloch's expression also became serious and he said:

"Don't worry, Mr. Custer, since we want to tame him, of course we can install bombs or poison in its vital parts that can kill him at any time."

"Furthermore, I hope you can provide a person who can be trusted to serve as Tom's trainer. We will try our best to assist him to ensure that Tom can be controlled without fail."

Leon glanced at Professor Malok in surprise. Unexpectedly, he had already thought about the insurance for this matter, and even offered to change the trainer.

Although it is impossible to assign such an important position to a researcher, he likes employees who are aware of current affairs.

After returning to the base, he had lunch with Peggy and Amy. The two girls were now almost three months pregnant. Although it was not obvious, the changes in their bodies could be barely seen.

A month ago, the red-haired girl Kevela also came to Fort Benning. Although she was a little concerned about the fact that the two girls were pregnant, the red-haired girl also accepted the fact calmly. .

When Leon was alone with her, the rich girl said without hesitation that her father also had several mistresses and illegitimate children, which was not unusual in the circle of rich men.

And she didn't mean to be jealous of Amy and Paige, and told Leon very clearly that she didn't care about formal weddings, and she didn't plan to have children before she was 30 years old. However, if the relationship between the two When you have a child, you must hand over your child's share of the family property to the child.

This free and easy character made Leon, who was a little guilty, feel dumbfounded.

The two chatted for a long time. According to Kewela's report, with the development in the past few months, the population of the prison stronghold has approached 500 people. It has a combat force of more than [-] people and is basically self-sufficient in food, clothing, housing and transportation. .

Gray and others from Terminus, who had reached a cooperative relationship with Lyon, have also joined the prison stronghold in Kevira.

According to the explanation of the red-haired girl, it turned out that the terminal camp where Gray was located, after being recruited by Leon, gradually gathered a group of survivors, and the number of survivors increased instead of decreasing.

However, two months ago, because their recruitment advertisement was too conspicuous, they were finally attacked by a group of premeditated plunderers. They were a group of very fanatical lunatics who also owned a lot of weapons and equipment, and even used Corpses came to besiege the terminal.

After injuring some members, Gray and others were unable to withstand the siege of corpses and looters, and had to turn to Kevira at the prison stronghold for help.

Then, this group of arrogant predators was eliminated by an aerial force composed of five Black Hawk helicopter gunships led by Kewela.

However, in the end, the loud noise caused by the battle attracted a large number of zombies and completely occupied the entire terminal camp.

After losing the camp and supplies, coupled with the deaths and injuries of their companions, Gray and others finally chose to join the prison stronghold in Kevira.

After listening to Kewela's story, Leon couldn't help but sigh. Such things are both common and extraordinary in the apocalypse. Other small camps do not have the assistance of powerful armed personnel like Kewela. A sneak attack by a force basically results in the group being wiped out.

The red-haired girl stayed at the Fort Benning base for less than a week, kidnapped a group of technical personnel and equipment from Lyon, and left in style.

She seems to be very keen on playing the role of leader of the stronghold. Even if Leon invites her to manage important affairs in the base camp, the red-haired girl does not seem to be very happy.

However, as someone whom Lyon absolutely trusted, she was a good choice to guard the prison stronghold in Tennessee.

After Kewela left, time passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, summer came to autumn, and the planting base in Oak Village finally harvested its first batch of grain.

Although the number is small, it is like a sign of prosperity. Even if human beings lose the property left over from the old era, they can still rely on their own diligence and bravery to continue living.

(End of this chapter)