The motel where Lee and Kenny were staying was not far away, and it took less than 5 minutes to drive to their destination.

Before getting out of the car, Leon also learned the little girl's name from Lee's mouth, Claymanting.

Hearing this name, he suddenly felt a little familiar, thought about it for dozens of seconds, and looked at the middle-aged black man named Li, and the little mixed-race girl with wheat-colored skin.

The content of the game version of "The Walking Dead" suddenly came to his mind, but this game, he didn't play it, just watched the game anchor explain the plot again, and the content was almost forgotten, only remembering that the heroine was a little girl named Claymanting, and the black man of the male protagonist was very good to this girl, and the relationship between the two was like that of father and daughter, dependent on each other, very touching.

However, now that they met him here, the fate of this group has also been changed.

There were five people in the motel, old and young, and they all panicked when they saw such a large group of people coming around, all dressed as heavily armed soldiers.

Fortunately, the survivors such as Kenny and Lee quickly got out of the car and explained to each other so that there was no bloody accident.

Upon entering the motel, Leon found that the environment was quite dilapidated, and there were still some zombies moving around the buildings, and they built a wooden fence out of various scraps, blocking most of the gaps, leaving only an iron gate for cars to enter.

Seeing that the survivors here were talking and doing things lightly, and did not dare to make too much noise, Leon instructed Daryl to clean up the zombies in the vicinity, so as not to attract these garbage and disturb his conversation when chatting later.

This move won the favor of everyone in the motel, and in the face of this tall and handsome handsome man with a good temperament, as well as the two beautiful women who followed him, everyone gradually let down their guard.

After introducing himself, Leon learns the identities and names of these people, the young white girl with the pistol is a journalist named Carly, and Kenny is a former fisherman, his wife is a veterinarian named Katja, and their children, the little boy named Duck, who is about 8 years old.

Among the five people in the motel, there is a father and daughter, the old man is named Larry, who used to be a navy, his daughter is named Lily, who is a serving U.S. Air Force pilot, and a thin male high school student named Ben, these three and the previous Kenny's family, Lee and Claymanting, female reporters and other eight people, all fled from the Atlanta area.

The remaining young white couple, husband Anya and wife Mattala, who once ran a bakery in Roberta, fled to Fort Benning, and then there was a civil strife in Fort Benning, and they took advantage of the chaos to escape, and they have been staying in Troy since then, struggling to survive, and are quite familiar with the local situation.

At this time, it was already noon, in order to gain the favor and trust of these people, Leon invited them to have lunch together, compared with the ordinary survivors who have been quite short of resources, Leon and the others' lunch is very rich and delicious.

Not only are there all kinds of canned meat, delicious bread and wine, and even a lot of fresh vegetables and fruits, these things are simply delicious for ordinary survivors who have been running for life and death and have been starving for a long time.

During the meal, Leon found that Kevila seemed to be very interested in little Claymanting, and while giving her all kinds of delicacies, he was chatting with the little girl, and he even saw that the two women, one big and one young, were chatting and chatting, and they actually showed a long-lost smile, which made him very curious.

After a full meal, everyone fell into a state of contentment and happiness, and Leon did not delay, and began to ask Anya and his wife about the real situation of the refugees in Troy.

After a detailed investigation, Leon found that the situation here was also very different from the refugee camp he imagined.

There were indeed quite a few survivors in Troy and the surrounding area, and these refugees seemed to have begun to distrust each other after the civil strife at the Fort Benning military base, and instead of organizing into a cohesive group, they fought separately and dispersed, forming many small groups, large hundreds, small two or three people, all surviving in this area where superiors were relatively scarce.

After more than half a year of friction, these large and small groups not only did not agree with the outside world, but even had contradictions, disputes and even fought each other on various resource issues.

However, the Trojan Mutual Aid Society, which was the largest of these refugees, occupied a village outside the small town of Troy, which was originally a farming village that sold all kinds of food and vegetables, and not only stored a considerable amount of various staple foods, but also provided vegetables and eggs for a long time, and even fresh pork and beef.

It has become the most influential organization in the region.

Not only did the Trojan Mutual Aid Society have plenty of food, a large number of people, and a lot of guns and ammunition, but they were good people, and in order to help other survivors, they would take in orphans who had lost their parents, and organized a long-standing market outside the village, allowing survivors living nearby to exchange their collected supplies or labor for food.

Gradually, the bazaar became a trading market for refugees from the surrounding areas of Troy, who would trade their collection of various items, a wide variety of strange things, because there was no currency that everyone recognized, and all kinds of bullets, guns, and food became the hard currency here.

After listening to the introduction of Anya and his wife, Leon and the others couldn't help but sigh that humans are really quite adaptable creatures, no matter what kind of environment they are, they can quickly adapt and then find their own way of survival.

Now that he had learned the information he wanted, Leon simply confessed to the ten survivors, told them about the Umbrella Company, and made a recruitment request to these people.

Not surprisingly, everyone was very interested in this recruitment, and it was very rare to find an organization that provided a safe place to live and plenty of food in the end times, and no survivor wanted to miss such an opportunity.

But these people have already been beaten too much in the outside environment, they have all been deceived, hurt and fought with each other, and they can't trust others so easily.

Leon was not reluctant, and after some negotiation, Li took the initiative to stand up and was willing to go to the base of the Umbrella Company with them first, and after confirming the authenticity of the matter, he would come back and join the Umbrella Company with the other survivors.

After all, it was a matter of life, and such a request was not excessive, so Leon agreed, and invited them to live together in the canning factory near Fort Benning for the time being.

No one rejected this suggestion, and it was the dream of all survivors to live in a safer environment.

After a brief tidying up, everyone left the humble motel and went to the canning factory.

At this time, Kenny and the other survivors also saw the huge team of more than 300 people on Lyon's side, as well as the various tanks, armored vehicles, artillery and other powerful equipment they collected from Fort Benning, and they all put aside their doubts and felt excited and relieved that they had found a strong, organization.

It was still the third day, and it was still a week before the iron wolf Frank had agreed, so there was still plenty of time, and Leon and Anya agreed that they would go to the public bazaar of the Trojan Mutual Aid together tomorrow morning.

After arranging the patrol guards, everyone was given a half-day vacation and could rest a little around the area.

Leon returned to his room, only to find that Kevila and little Claymanting were already there, both leaning back on the couch, their eyes moist and shining, apparently having just cried.

Although he was a little curious, he still walked over and grabbed the red-haired girl's shoulder, held her in his arms, reached out and touched little Clementine's head, took out a bag of high-end candy from his pocket, and handed it to the little girl.

Hugging Kevila, taking out a tissue to wipe her tears, Leon kissed her on the forehead, and asked gently:

"Why are you crying, do you think of anything sad?"

The red-haired girl snorted, buried her face in Leon's arms, hugged his waist with both hands, and whispered:

"I think of my parents and brothers, when the disaster happened, I could only lie in the hospital bed, waiting for fate to arrange it, and I couldn't do anything."

"Didn't even meet any of them for the last time."

"They love me so much, they never force me to do anything, they give me all their love, but I have nothing to reciprocate for them."

"Perhaps, they are all dead, and I am the only one left in the whole family, still living alone."

The girl's voice was sad, and tears flowed down the corners of her eyes again.

Leon gently wiped away the tears that flowed from the girl, and the Kevela he had always seen was an elite girl who was full of wildness, free and easy, as if she didn't care about anything.

Unexpectedly, deep in her heart, there has actually been a lot of sadness hidden, just because she has been suppressing her feelings and has not exploded.

Recalling that in the Kingshire Hospital, when I first met Caveira, the red-haired girl was indeed lying on the hospital bed like a corpse, just alive, as if she didn't care about the danger and horror, even in the face of the zombies outside the hospital, there was no fluctuation.

He also thought that it was a girl with extraordinary talent, with courage and strength that ordinary people could not match, but he didn't expect that it was just that after Kevira lost all her family, she was depressed and had no nostalgia.

Later, under the influence of survival instincts, the girl has gradually regained her former demeanor, but for some reason, after meeting Claymanting, her accumulated sadness exploded today.

He took the girl in his arms, put it to her ear and whispered:

"Don't worry, my dear, I will always love you and stay by your side."

Kevira snorted coldly and scolded softly:

"Phew, you're a bastard too, irresponsible scumbag."

The girl cursed bitterly, but her arms around Leon's waist tightened tighter.

(End of chapter)