Lunch was very rich.

Roast duck, chicken, steak, all kinds of melons and fruits, red wine and pies.

Obviously, the Herschel family attached great importance to Leon's arrival, and Leon also adhered to his duty as a guest, was very polite, and occasionally made a few jokes that were just right, and the meal could be said to be a pleasure for the guests and hosts.

In the afternoon, Leon and Amy asked to experience horseback riding, and Hershel asked his eldest daughter, Maggie, to teach them how to ride.

From how to sit, how to exert force, how to maintain body balance during exercise, Maggie taught very seriously, she is a more extroverted girl, and occasionally talks about herself and the farm.

After about two hours of riding, it was quite enjoyable, Leon had basically mastered the ropes of horseback riding, and Amy was still just getting started.

He made an excuse and left the two girls to continue their horseback riding, while he found Herschel in the house.

The old man wondered why Leon was looking for him, and Leon said straight to the point:

"Mr. Herschel, I know that your warehouse contains many zombies, and you believe that they are just a kind of patient, not a monster."

"Because it's full of your neighbors, relatives and friends."

"I won't comment on your thoughts for the time being, but I invite you to leave this farm with me and see the outside world."

"Look at what the world really looks like now."

"It won't take long, just an hour or two, and with me, there won't be any danger."

Herschel frowned, looked at Leon with some anger, thinking of the identity of the person in front of him and the power he had, the old man sighed softly and said:

"All right, Mr. Custer, I'll go out with you, but I hope you don't interfere with me and my family's behavior in the future."

Ten minutes later, the two did not alarm the others, and Leon drove his modified jeep with Herschel to a nearby town.

Halfway through, Leon saw a nice target and pulled the car to a halt.

It was a zombie with only half of it left, probably run over by a car, and it didn't know where to go from the abdomen down, rotting skin, dark internal organs, visible to the naked eye, seeing the stopped car, it suddenly had momentum, and with both hands, desperately crawled in the direction of the car.

Leon got out of the car, stepped on the zombie's head, pressed him to the ground, turned to Herschel, who was covered with iron face, and asked:

"These things start to decay on the first day of transformation, and although I don't know why they don't produce maggots, they can still move with such a body."

"Mr. Herschel, you may not know, but I searched the entire Atlanta area for several months, and only found a few hundred survivors, and we humans only survived a few thousand."

"If, in the future, we have developed a virus serum, will these rotting and broken corpses be able to turn back into humans?"

Hershel looked at the half-crawling zombies, all he had seen in the past were almost complete zombies, which gave him a sense of possible healing, coupled with the fantasy of reuniting his loved ones, he had been stubbornly insisting on his opinion.

His daughters and friends have also been living in the illusions he has weaved, and no one wants to puncture them.

But this half of the zombie that could still move gave him a huge shock, making him feel like he wanted to escape.

Leon waited for dozens of seconds, and seeing that the old man still didn't answer, he shrugged his shoulders and stomped on the head of the zombie under his feet.

The two were back on their way, and Herschel suddenly said that he wanted to drink, and Leon was guided to a bar in the town.

Along the way, the two saw more strange-shaped zombies, some with charred skin, some with missing arms and legs, some with several large holes in their chests, and one with only a layer of skin wrapped around the skeleton and could still move, which was simply unscientific, which made Leon very curious.

Entering the bar, Herschel's mood seemed very low, he took a bottle of brandy from the counter and began to drink it to himself, Leon picked a bottle of low-alcohol cider, took a glass, and began to wander around.

By the time he had finished his spin and cleared all danger, the old man had already drunk half a bottle.

Leon stepped forward and patted Herschel on the shoulder, and said, "Drink less, Mr. Herschel, and when you get home, your family will blame me." ”

The old man raised his somewhat cloudy eyes, looked at Leon, and said:

"I came out with you today and saw those crippled monsters."

"I realized that I was a fool at all, Mr. Custer, my wife, stepson, and friend were long dead, and I had been raising a bunch of monsters."

"What hope is there in this world, this town used to have thousands of townspeople, but now there is not a single living person in sight."

"Everything we knew was in vain."

Leon didn't feel anything, and he said to Herschel with a serious expression:

"Whether you feel hope or not, Mr. Herschel, you are the breadwinner of the family, your two daughters depend on you, your friends trust you, and even if there is no hope, you must pretend to be very confident and pass on your faith to them."

"This is a responsibility that you must take on as a father, as a friend."

He patted the old man on the shoulder and continued:

"There is still hope in this world, and our umbrella company is the hope of this world, as long as we are given enough time, we will definitely be able to defeat the virus and liberate all mankind."

"This is my belief and my ideal."

Hershel muttered a few words softly and said:

"You are a noble man, Mr. Custer."

Before dusk, the two drove back to the farm, where Maggie and Amy were riding horses admiring the surrounding scenery, and it was strange to see their father come back drunk.

Leon didn't explain much, but instead sent out an invitation to Maggie's family, inviting them to enjoy the food he brought from the base together in the evening.

He came from the base this time, and also brought a lot of supplies to Glenn's team, and just took this opportunity to hold a small open-air barbecue banquet.

Before the sun went down, Glenn returned to the farm with his team, and after only a few days of coming here, they didn't have much to harvest, mostly some food and medicine, but there were three survivors who passed by who wanted to join the Umbrella Company, and he stayed.

Leon took the time to meet with the three of them, a couple and his neighbor, who seemed to be honest and duty-bound people, and he promised to take the three of them to the base of the umbrella when he left, and invited the three of them to a banquet together, which was appreciated by several people.

Under Amy's arrangement, the dinner was held smoothly, with the supply of good wine and meat, plus all kinds of cooked food and snacks brought from the base, everyone ate very happily.

Leon didn't bother to make any speeches, but quietly watched everyone's reactions under Amy's service.

After the dinner, Glenn came over, and he told Leon a message.

Not far away from a town, he found a camp of about 30 people, but because of insufficient intelligence, he could not judge the character of the other party, so he did not act rashly.