Chapter 188 Death and Rebirth
Chapter 188 Death and Rebirth
Gran Town, the former center of the Destiny Fortress.
Today, all facilities in Gran Town have been restored and the town's population has reached a staggering 2,000 people, almost the same as before the disaster.
The day after the new law was enacted, a group of residents in the town formed a group and left Gran Town on their own. They were determined to open up new land.
The Tianming Army sent a lot of guns and ammunition for this purpose, including MG338 machine guns, rifles, submachine guns, submachine guns, and launchers.
It is inevitable that people will leave Gran Town. Not everyone can live in a duplex and have their own garden.
Some people at the bottom of society were living in hardship before the disaster. Now that the zombie flu has swept the world and a large amount of resources have been abandoned, these ambitious people have pulled together people they are familiar with to explore the outside world.
With the Tianmang Army to back up these people, most of them chose the areas in Zuozhou that had not yet been taken back by the Tianmang Army. Only a very small number of people chose to go to other states to make up for some regrets.
Today was the day that Maggie took the initiative to step down, but she did not attend the resignation ceremony, nor did she attend the farewell ceremony for the pioneers. She left everything to Lily.
Maggie, who had not lost Glenn, could not lead a place wholeheartedly even if she had the potential to be a strong woman. She wanted to live a sweet life with Glenn.
Where did Maggie go?
Now the resignation ceremony has turned into an inauguration ceremony, and the new mayor Lily doesn't know either.
After the ceremony, Lily rode her bike to the house where Herschel lived.
On the road, Rick, with a gloomy face, was patrolling on a bike, and with him was Sean, the shooting range manager, who was wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt.
After the center of the Destiny Base was moved to Atlanta, Sean, the school's shooting range executive, quietly became a local facilities manager.
Sean had no complaints about this. His ambitions were never big. The key to the conflict with Rick in the original series was not the position of the team leader, but that he believed Rick could not survive with Lori and Carl.
Something unexpected happened to Rick's family during this month.
After Lori gave birth to Judith, a super flu outbreak happened, and antibiotics could not save Lori's frail body.
After the disaster, the difficulty for pregnant women to give birth smoothly has increased by more than one level, and there is no telling how many more types of viruses there are in this world.
Lori died, but she didn't die in much pain. Rick and Carl, Sean, and Judith were with her on her last journey.
"Rick, you should cheer up. Carl and Judith still need you."
Sean and Rick rode bicycles side by side. Rick's expression was gloomy and his eyes were dazed. He was still immersed in grief.
The summer sun made the two sweat. Rick suddenly came to his senses and said to Sean with dead eyes:
"I leave Judith to you. You will also be her father from now on."
Sean shuddered with fear. He and Rick hadn't talked about this sensitive topic for a long time.
Sean stopped pedaling and the bike slowed down a lot, and Rick's figure immediately distanced himself from him.
"Fake!"
Sean didn't know why he swore.
He gritted his teeth and pedaled faster, catching up with Rick in one breath, then grabbed Rick's bike and forced him to stop.
"What do you mean Rick?! What do you want to do?! Didn't we stop talking about this a long time ago!?"
Sean was a little angry. He was also upset about Lori's death. Now Rick was being mean to him? !
"Sean, I want to leave."
Rick looked at Sean calmly. He had no intention of arguing with Sean, he just couldn't get used to the days without Lori.
Gran Town had become a place he wanted to escape from.
"Leave?! Where the hell do you want to go?! Where are you taking Judith and Carl? Or do you want to stop caring about them!?"
Sean had no idea what Rick was trying to do.
"Under the new law, people will own the land they have colonised and have the right to govern themselves."
"The zombies will be eliminated sooner or later, and civilization will return. I'm going to go out there and fight, and leave some assets for Carl."
Rick squinted at the scorching sun in the sky, but the strong sunlight made it impossible for him to open his eyes.
"Carl and Judith are in your hands. In a sense, you are also their father."
Rick looked at Sean frankly. He had long accepted everything in the past. Now that Lori had passed away, the invisible gap between him and Sean had completely disappeared.
"..."
Rick's words left Sean silent. Sean was actually a little happy, but he was too embarrassed to show it.
"Why don't we go together? We can form a team and open up a large piece of land together, build a farm, and let Carl and Judith ride horses everywhere."
Sean suddenly had a wild idea. He had been living alone, and it would be nice to start a family with Rick in the future. Of course, he was not gay.
"Sean..."
Rick's eyes became moist.
"Rick."
Sean and Rick, who were riding their bicycles, got closer and closer. In broad daylight, two grown men actually hugged each other on the street.
At this time, the Crawford community in Savannah.
Maggie and Glenn were sitting dejectedly in the house where Alan lived.
Alan left a note for her family members. She knew that the Green family would definitely send someone to persuade her. She didn't want to waste time, so she wrote down everything she wanted to say on the paper.
"Dear sister, Maggie. I think you must have found this note. Give up trying to convince me, you know what I'm really like.
The new law is very important to me. It is the only way for me to gain the approval of the principal. He always said that he would train us to be qualified fighters, but when it came to the critical moment, he still treated us like children.
(The middle line is smudged)
I will go to Washington, and if everything goes well, I will plant the red flag of the Destiny Camp in the White House. This is a great achievement. I can guess the purpose of the principal's enactment of the bill..."
Maggie covered her forehead with her hands. She and Glenn sat on the sofa. Glenn could only stroke her back to comfort her.
"Don't worry, Alan is the most outstanding young man, even better than us. At worst... we can go find her together."
Glenn looked at Maggie tenderly. Glenn now had a beard and exuded a mature and reliable temperament.
"What did you say?" Maggie was stunned for a moment and looked up.
"Uh…should we go find Alan?"
Gran swallowed, a little unsure of what Maggie meant.
"Then do it!"
Maggie sat up from the sofa, her beautiful face full of determination. Her leadership module was always there.
"Do you want to tell Dad?"
"What? I'm married to you now. He's in the care of Beth. I'll let Beth know."
Maggie felt no sense of crisis about going to Washington. She and Glenn were both battle-hardened warriors who had received special training.
This trip is just to make up for the honeymoon period we missed when we got married.
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