The Walking Dead: Rebuild

Chapter 187 Pirates
Kennedy playground.

Michonne put down the communicator in her hand, looked up at the slightly gloomy sky, turned to Jesus who was looking at her and said:

"Retreat temporarily and leave a reconnaissance team responsible for investigating the intelligence here."

"His Excellency the President told me that soon we will send an army of 2000 people into the radiation zone and build a strong fortress."

"The clearance of the radiation area has officially begun."

"In the future, this will become the front line of war."

"There can be no peace between the living and the dead. The war between our Human League and the Corpse Whisperer Empire is about to begin."

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Federal Camp, New York State.

After a long journey of more than ten days, the People's Alliance army led by Rick, Sean and others finally arrived at the federal territory.

As the host, Pamela, the female governor of the Federation, warmly entertained them, held a banquet for them, and took them to visit many federal shops and facilities.

After all, the People's Federation soldiers are here to help them deal with sea predators. Before the task is completed, they can leave at any time and leave, and they must be taken care of.

As representatives of the People's Federation, Rick and Sean also behaved very politely. This time, they came with Colonel Glenn from the military department.

After ten years of training, this young Korean man has grown from a pizza delivery boy to a qualified military commander.

For many years in the past, he had been stationed at a military fortress in Tennessee, defending the headquarters of the People's League against enemies from the west. Now times have changed, and Glenn has married and had children, started a family of his own, and has become a qualified father.

For Rick and Sean, Glenn is actually their benefactor. If Glenn hadn't ignored the danger and went to the quarry camp to invite Sean and Lori to join the People's League, he indirectly helped them. , maybe by this time, the two of them have already become the dead souls in the doomsday.

After a banquet, the three of them declined the luxurious residence provided by the Federation and returned to the camp where the People's Alliance troops were stationed.

After eating and drinking, the three of them came to a private tent to discuss their own ideas.

Sean lay on a soft leather sofa, took out a cigar from his pocket, took a pleasant puff, and said with some gloating:
"Rick, Glenn, did you see it too?"

"Haha, those so-called elites at the banquet, those lawyers, politicians, rich people, and factory owners."

"Seeing their fat heads and big ears, and their mouths full of oil, do you know what I thought of?"

Rick did not answer immediately, but glared at Sean and said:
"Sean, we are here this time as guests to help the master fight."

"No matter what they are like, we should not denigrate them."

Already aware of Rick's upright character, Sean blew out a smoke ring, turned to look at Glenn, and said:
"Hey, Glenn, you've seen the scenes along the way, right?"

"The residents here live like slaves. The elderly and children are all hungry, emaciated, and listless. But the so-called high-class citizens, everyone wears gorgeous clothes, enjoys exquisite food, and admires it proudly. to the suffering of the poor.”

"I saw hatred and anger in the eyes of those civilians."

"This place is like a powder keg. All it takes is a spark, and their so-called high-class citizens and low-class citizens will start fighting and beat the shit out of them."

"We should be grateful that we live in the People's Federation. Otherwise, we might have starved to death long ago just because of our status as county police and delivery workers."

Glenn, who had grown a short beard, nodded worriedly. After so many years, his character is still very kind and he cares very much about the lives of the survivors at the bottom.

"Hey, yes, I originally thought that the federal organization with a population of nearly 3 people would be a powerful gathering place for survivors to unite and help each other."

"Unexpectedly, what is implemented here is actually a hierarchical classification system that should have been eliminated long ago."

"They divided all citizens into two classes. Based on their past occupation and status, they arbitrarily divided people into high-class citizens and low-class citizens."

"Could it be that those so-called rich men and politicians, these gentlemen who don't do anything, are more valuable than a strong labor force in this apocalypse?"

Sean was speechless when he heard this, but suddenly he laughed happily and said:
"Hey, actually this is not bad. Maybe it won't be long before this so-called federation will riot due to internal conflicts, and then freeze and collapse."

"At that time, our Awami League organization will be able to get tens of thousands of free laborers for free."

Rick was silent for a few seconds and said:

"No matter what, the Federation is now an ally of our People's Federation, and our mission this time is to help them deal with those predators at sea."

"We can send people to collect intelligence within the federation and then hand it over to His Excellency the President."

"As for what will happen in the future, it will be decided by the President."

Glenn also sighed and said sadly:

"Oh, I really hope things here can be resolved peacefully. We humans have already left too much blood."

The next day, the three did not stop too much at the federal camp. Instead, they took a guide assigned to them by the female governor Pamela and returned to the place where the People's Alliance fleet stayed with the soldiers.

According to the existing intelligence, from the mouth of the guide named Ada, Rick and others knew that about every half a month or so, some strongholds along the federal coast would be robbed by those maritime predators.

Ten days have passed since the last time they were robbed by these looters. According to the usual practice, only a few days later, those despicable pirates will act again.

After hearing this, Glenn asked curiously:

"Miss Ada, it's been such a long time, haven't you guys fought against these predators at all?"

"The more detailed information we have about them, the more helpful it will be for our operational strategy."

Ada is an Asian woman in her 30s with a good figure. She was appointed by the female governor Pamela to serve as their guide. Of course, she is not an ordinary female employee.

At least in the eyes of Rick and Sean, they could see that Ada must have had experience in the military, was agile, and had good marksmanship.

Faced with Glenn's question, Ada thought for a while and then said:

"Mr. Glenn, although we have announced to the public, we have not had any direct conflict with this group of predators."

"But really, how could those marauders not fight our residents when they were plundering our strongholds?"

She sighed and continued:
"But considering the pressure of public opinion, we can't tell our people the truth." "But since everyone is an ally, and you are dealing with these despicable predators, we really shouldn't hide it."

Seeing that the lady guide's complexion is not good, Rick thinks that maybe things are not as simple as the Federation said at the beginning.

Sure enough, Ada's next words confirmed Rick's suspicion.

"Mr. Rick, in fact, these pirates did not escape fast enough for our soldiers to pursue them."

"The reason why it is so difficult for us to find them is because every stronghold they plunder almost never leaves alive, and they don't even leave corpses."

"Every time we wait for the news, the place where the crime occurred has long been deserted."

"We only learned the information about these predators from the mouths of a few survivors who were lucky enough to hide."

Rick and others immediately frowned. Seizing supplies and killing people were two different things. Predators who could kill human survivors could no longer be called human beings.

There is no essential difference between them and those mutated monsters that eat humans.

Sean, who was standing aside, also asked:
"Miss Ada, is there any other information you can tell us?"

"You should also know that the more information we know, the better it will be for our battle."

When the female guide heard this, she struggled for a few seconds and finally said:
"I don't know much, but I heard that after some survivors survived, they seemed to go crazy and talked nonsense all day long."

"They're always yelling, bug, bug, it seems like they've seen something terrible."

"Perhaps these pirates have some unknown secrets."

Glenn also saw Ada's dilemma. Maybe the Federation didn't want to hide this matter, but they didn't have enough intelligence to make wrong guidance.

"Thank you, Miss Ada, please help us with all your strength in the future."

"Let's work together to kill these scumbags who should have died long ago."

In the next few days, in order to better take advantage of the sneak attack, Glenrick and others did not announce their arrival with much fanfare.

Instead, they found a hidden port on the seaside, hid the People's Federation fleet inside, and placed many combat engineers operating reconnaissance drones near some federal strongholds along the coast, using these high technologies that are difficult for ordinary people to detect. Device to monitor those strongholds that are easily robbed.

After all, the sea is too vast. With the military power they brought, it would be difficult to find those pirate ships in such a large area.

In this case, it is better to wait and see in these places that are easy to be robbed, and the chance of success may be greater.

And things did go as they expected, perhaps because the persimmon of the Federation was too soft and easy to pinch.

These pirates from foreign countries never thought that other enemies would come to deal with them. One morning a few days later, a stronghold monitored by a surveillance drone was robbed by a group of pirates.

Looking at the scene on the surveillance screen, Ada frowned and said:

"This is the No. [-] salt field stronghold, one of our federation's strongholds for drying sea salt."

In the picture, a group of bearded, ragged, and filthy looters broke into the vicinity of the stronghold. They were holding various firearms, including pistols, submachine guns, shotguns, and civilian weapons. The single-shot rifle does not look too sophisticated, it can only be said to be at the level of an ordinary predator.

However, there are a lot of these looters. Facing a small stronghold with only three or 40 people, they dispatched close to 100 people, and the combat effectiveness of the residents of the Federation is also very average. Many residents do not even have guns in their hands. The two sides collided. , the disadvantage in victory and defeat was quickly revealed.

The federal residents in the stronghold were suppressed by the looters outside. Although the two sides fought back and forth, the casualties on the looters' side were almost minimal.

If it weren't for a two-meter wall within the stronghold, which largely blocked the raiders' attacks, these federal residents wouldn't have been able to hold on for a few minutes before they would have been defeated by the raiders outside.

However, the situation was urgent now. In order to save the federal residents in the stronghold, everyone no longer had the intention to pay attention to the battle video, and rushed towards the location of the battle as quickly as possible.

Fortunately, the location where the battle took place was not too far away from where their fleet was hiding. In about 10 minutes, the People's Federation's fleet had already approached there.

Through the telescope, they were even able to see the dozen or so dilapidated wooden sailboats that the predators stayed on the coast.

It is a matter of course that it is a wooden sailboat.

You know, in this world now, except for Professor White from the Human League organization who has found the right way to purify fuel and enable modern ships to start, it is basically impossible for other forces to use fuel-powered ships anymore.

After a few more minutes, the predators on the dozen sailboats seemed to have discovered the human fleet that was rushing towards them quickly.

But whether it was due to overestimation or confidence in their own strength, these dozen wooden sailboats actually rushed directly towards the fleet organized by the People's Federation.

Although the People's Federation uses small and medium-sized ships such as cruise ships or fishing boats, which are smaller in size than the wooden sailboats they don't know where to find, the wooden ships actually dare to challenge the modernization of all-metal structures. Ships are simply stupid.

While commanding the fleet to move toward the predator's sailboat, Glenn gave the order to the cruise ship that Rick was on to leave the fleet.

And ordered him to lead several Sting Squad soldiers on the cruise ship to the salt field stronghold where the fighting took place, and try to save the residents there.

After all, now, the residents of the Federation are also their allies. They cannot just focus on fighting and abandon the lives of those residents.

After a few more minutes, the distance between the two sides was close to about 1000 meters.

However, since neither side is a warship operating at sea, there is no long-range torpedo or artillery attack method. Only a few sharpshooters from the People's Federation can use sniper rifles to attack the predators on the opposite side.

But soon, Glenn discovered some strange phenomena. His snipers said that the predators on the opposite side were very strange.

Although the hit rate of the snipers was not high due to the turbulence on the sea, those snipers who hit the enemy clearly saw that the predators who were hit in the chest and abdomen with their sniper rifles were not He didn't die directly like ordinary people.

Even after a bloody hole was opened in their chests by sniper bullets, the predators would still stare at them with ferocious expressions and yell something randomly, as if the wounds on their chests did not affect their lives at all.

This strange phenomenon immediately caught Glenn's attention. His first thought was that the predators on the opposite side were not actually humans, but some kind of mutated monsters, like zombies.

But soon, he vetoed his own idea. After all, the predators on the opposite side came in a sailboat. Could it be that the current monster is smart enough to drive a sailboat?
As the commander of the battle, Glenn immediately suppressed his surprise and continued to command his soldiers with a calm expression, saying:

"Prepare to turn, don't get close to their ship for the time being, and don't have a boarding battle with them."

"We need to take advantage of our weapons and speed to consume their strength."

(End of this chapter)