The Walking Dead: Rebuild

Chapter 124 Freemasonry

2011 11 Month 1 Day.

This was originally just a very ordinary day one year after the end, but after the arrangement of the umbrella company, this day has become a special holiday for all Georgia survivors.

News of the Harvest Festival spread far and wide, reaching most of the survivors living in Georgia, and in peacetime the day became known as Thanksgiving.

This may be the first large-scale celebration held by the survivors after the doomsday disaster. In addition to the necessary security forces and patrol forces, during this three-day celebration, every employee of the Umbrella Company can get two days. rest time.

During the festival, in addition to all the drinks and food in the base being provided free of charge, you can also participate in various interesting entertainment competitions sponsored by the official. The prizes include not only contribution points, brand-name cars, high-end luxury goods, various powerful firearms, Lyon He even took out a private helicopter as the first prize of this event.

Moreover, this festival is not limited to those within the Umbrella Company. As long as human survivors and people with good intentions can join the celebration after handing in their weapons and registering.

Who doesn't love free things? Lyon's propaganda brought a large number of foreign survivors. According to statistics from relevant people, at least 5000 survivors participated in this celebration.

On this day, the school also had a three-day holiday. 10-year-old Carl, carrying his sister Judith, who had not yet been weaned, happily accompanied his father Rick to participate in this festival.

Unfortunately, mother Lori is blind and is not safe in such a crowded place. She has to stay at home. Otherwise, Rick and his family can enjoy a rare family joy.

With this in mind, little Carl was brought to the venue of the celebration by his father Rick.

This is the largest park in the base, with a flat terrain, gardens, fountains, and a huge performance stage. After being decorated by professionals, there are balloons, ribbons, and flower baskets. There are laughing people everywhere, the elderly and children are happy. People gathered together, laughing, playing and playing, and from time to time, sweet songs came from nowhere. At a glance, it was full of festive atmosphere.

The moment he entered this place, Carl fell in love with it. He took Rick to walk around and look around. Within a short time, his arms were filled with all kinds of delicious snacks, and he had a delicious piece in his mouth. Chocolate, the smile on his face almost never stops.

At this time, a rough voice came from the side.

"Hey, Captain Rick, you're here too."

Following this shout, a strong black man over two meters tall came over. He was holding a large bucket of popcorn in his hand. There was also a large box of fried chicken on the popcorn. He was holding a bottle of iced Coke in his right hand and smiled. Keju, with a simple and honest face, like a giant chimpanzee.

Rick turned around and saw him, with an affectionate smile on his face, and hugged the strong black man.

"Hey, O'Neal, you're here too."

"Are you starting to eat like crazy so soon?"

O'Neal drank the Coke in his right hand in one gulp, threw the bottle into the trash can aside, walked to Karl, touched his head with a smile, took out the largest piece of his fried chicken and handed it to Karl, and said to Rui Ke laughed and said:

"What two lovely children, you have a happy family, Captain Rick."

"You are a brave man, O'Neal, and you will have a virtuous wife soon."

Karl looked at his father's face and saw that he didn't refuse, so he happily ate the delicious fried chicken.

Later, when he was hanging out with his father, he met some of his father's acquaintances one after another. It was said that they were all his team members, including Abraham, a white man who was as strong as a bear, and a pair of black brothers and sisters who looked very tough. , Telsi and Sasha.

However, the girl named Sasha just said hello to everyone and left the team. She said that the female team members also made an appointment to go to the celebration together.

Several strong men took little Carl and Judith to participate in several game events, including shooting, weightlifting, and games that tested flexibility like parkour. With the strong strength of these strong men around them, they continued to I had a lot of fun on the road and won a bunch of prizes.

We continued playing until lunch, when a strong black man named Telsey suddenly realized something, turned around and asked Rick:
"Where's Sean, why didn't you see him?"

Rick was somewhat emotional when he heard this, with a sincere smile on his face and said:
"Sean went on a date with her girlfriend alone. You should all know that person."

Seeing everyone's interested expressions, Rick did not show off, but also said with a surprised smile:
"It's Ms. Andrea, the leader of the personnel team. I don't know when the two of them became in a relationship."

Although everyone was a little surprised, they were not familiar with Andrea and had only vaguely heard that he was the sister of Miss Amy, the assistant of the big boss Mr. Custer.

Everyone was chatting and hanging out, and everyone was having a great time eating. There was a lot of delicious food today. Many of the foods that used to cost a lot of contribution points were now free.

Karl even heard the uncles and aunties passing by chattering that on the last day of the celebration, the base would even contribute a large amount of wine and food and give it to everyone for free. However, the shelf life of these foods was not long. Not suitable for mass storage.

While wandering around a booth selling small accessories, Carl suddenly ran into his classmates, Sophia and Clementine, arm in arm, choosing various accessories next to the jewelry store.

The two little girls seemed very happy, with innocent and bright smiles on their cute faces.

Teacher Carroll and Teacher Li were standing not far away from the two girls, their attitude was intimate, and they seemed to be chatting about something.

Carl handed the sister on his back to his father, Rick, and was about to go up and say hello to Sophia and Clementine.

Just as he stepped out, he suddenly bumped into a strange survivor. The survivor didn't seem to notice the short kid, lost his balance in an instant, and knocked Carl over.

In a panic, Karl stretched out his hand to grab something. He couldn't help but put his hand into the arms of the survivor in front of him. When he fell to the ground, there was a silver-white metal can in his hand. .

This jar has silver-white metal round heads on both ends, and a transparent glass cylinder is connected in the middle. Through the glass in the middle, you can still see the fluorescent purple solution in the jar.

The funniest thing is that there is a ferocious skull painted in red paint on the transparent glass cylinder, with the English letters of "AZ-018 Poison Gas" written underneath.

Rick and others were about to help Carl up when they suddenly saw the jar. The scene seemed to be quiet for a moment. The strange survivor seemed to get up from the ground without realizing it, and showed a smile to Rick and others. With an ordinary but kind smile, he said:

"This is a prank prop I bought for my son. Today is his birthday. He likes this type of gift best."

After saying that, he wanted to reach out and take back the silver jar in Carl's arms, but as soon as he stretched out his hand, he was blocked by Rick beside Carl.

Just when Rick was about to ask something, he suddenly saw this strange survivor begin to twitch all over and foam at the mouth. Just a few seconds later, he fell to the ground trembling.

Behind him, Carol was holding a large electric shock device back from his neck. Facing Rick's puzzled eyes, Carol stretched out his hand to the survivor lying on the ground. Behind his waist, he actually pulled out a black pistol.

You know, in this Harvest Festival celebration, except for those soldiers who participated in defensive missions and patrol missions, basically everyone is not allowed to carry firearms. This alone is enough to arrest this strange survivor .

When he contacted the silver metal can with the word poison gas printed on it that Carl accidentally took out from his arms, Rick suddenly felt that this matter was not that simple.

However, he was a professional worker with more than 10 years of experience as a county police officer. He guessed that this person might have accomplices, and it was not appropriate to make it public or aggravate the situation, so he said softly to his companions around him:
"Abraham, you disguise this guy as a drunken survivor and take him to the strongholds around us and let Colonel William interrogate him."

"Carol, please take the children to a safe place and don't disturb the people around you for the time being."

After speaking, Rick said to the other remaining people:
"You just spread out, hide in the crowd, and observe carefully to see if there are any accomplices of this guy. Be cautious and don't expose yourself. We can alert the enemy and contact each other via radio."

"I will inform Mr. Custer and Vice Captain Jasmine. I still have to listen to Mr. Custer's arrangements for the specific plan."

A few minutes later, when Leon was preparing a speech for the Harvest Celebration backstage, he suddenly received a radio communication from Rick. After carefully listening to the message from him, his originally smiling face immediately became It became gloomy.

Leon thought about it over and over again, but he never thought that at this time, any other organization with such great energy would secretly set a trap for him and want to deal with the Umbrella Company.

But no matter who the enemy is, thinking about it now is in vain. The most important thing at the moment is how to prevent the poisonous gas from erupting among the survivors and find the poisoners hidden among the masses.

Thinking of this, he turned to Avril who was following him and asked:
"Avril, according to plan, how long until I go on stage to give a speech?"

After hearing this, Avril lowered her head and took out a delicate pocket watch from her suit pocket, checked the time, and said: "Mr. Custer, according to the original plan, you will not be on stage to give a speech for about half an hour."

Leon looked into Avril's eyes and said:
"I have something urgent to do now. Can I postpone my speech on stage for a while, but don't make it too obvious?"

Avril's eyes flashed, she nodded to Leon and said:

"No problem, Mr. Custer, is there anything else I can do to help?"

"No, you just need to handle this matter well."

After walking out of his own lounge, Leon took off his conspicuous high-end suit, found a tall employee in charge of cleaning, changed their clothes, and then quietly rushed to Professor Malok's research as quickly as possible. center.

When he arrived at the lobby of the research center, he saw Colonel William using a vise to pull off the fingernails of a middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man was kidnapped and placed on a wooden seat. His body had many bruises from being beaten, and his mouth was sealed with tape, preventing him from shouting any sound.

At this time, his forehead was covered with cold sweat, blue veins protruded on the exposed muscles on his body, the expression on his face was very distorted, and he was struggling desperately.

Seeing Leon walk into the experiment center, Colonel William greeted him immediately with a serious face, and respectfully saluted him.

Leon waved his hand and asked quickly:
"Colonel, do you have any information?"

William shook his head in shame and said:
"Sorry, General, this guy is a tough guy, a professional spy, and has received special interrogation resistance training. I'm afraid it will be difficult to break his will just by physical pain."

"If you can give me a day or two, I can find a way to get him to talk through other means, but according to Captain Rick's story, it should be too late to do so."

When Leon heard that he was a professional spy, he suddenly felt a toothache. He thought for a while, and suddenly thought of something that often appeared in movies and TV series, and asked:
"Is it okay to use Veritaserum?"

Colonel William hesitated, then shook his head and said:

"It may be effective, but professional spies generally have undergone training against Veritaserum, so they may not get accurate information. Moreover, there seems to be no Veritaserum available in our pharmacy."

Leon's expression froze slightly. Just as he was thinking about how to obtain information from the prisoner, Professor Mallock walked out with a report sheet on his face solemnly.

He saw Leon in the hall, and immediately said loudly:
"Mr. Custer, you must find the spies hidden in the crowd as soon as possible."

"The poison gas they carry is very dangerous, and you will definitely not know what is contained in it."

Leon grabbed Professor Malok's shoulders anxiously and asked:
"It's now time, Professor Mallock, don't be too pretentious. What is in the jar?"

Professor Mallock grinned because of Leon's power, but he still said:
"This jar contains a highly concentrated zombie virus, and it is also a variant that has been mutated by radiation."

"Once this poisonous gas is inhaled, ordinary people will die within 30 minutes and transform into zombies."

"This poison gas spreads very quickly in the air. Judging from the capacity of this poison gas tank, it should be able to infect all humans within 300 meters at once within a dozen seconds after the poison gas tank breaks."

Professor Marlock pushed the glasses on his nose, and said in a serious tone:

"However, this mutated poison gas also has a disadvantage. As long as it is exposed to the air and does not enter the body of living creatures, they will die quickly within a few minutes."

Hearing the power of this poison gas, Leon immediately wanted to punch himself. It was precisely because they held this harvest festival celebration that the population in the base was so dense now.

It is conceivable that once seven or eight poison gas cans erupt in the crowd, then in an instant, there may not be many people left in the organization that he spent nearly a year and a half to build up.

Thinking of this, his eyes turned red as he stared at the spy who had been tortured but kept silent. He wanted to dig out his brain to see what information was inside.

After thinking about it, he asked Professor Malok with a hint of expectation:

"Professor Mallock, I now want to know some information about this man's mind, but he is a professional spy, and ordinary methods are useless to him. I wonder if you can help us."

Hearing the big boss's question, Malok suddenly fell into a dilemma. He held it in for nearly a minute before he said:
"I do have an idea, but there is no guarantee that it will be successful, and once my method is used, the person will become a fool within 10 minutes at most."

He looked at Leon with some confusion, not wanting to be punished by his boss after the failure, but this matter was indeed related to the safety of the entire organization. If he didn't try it once, he might regret it in the future.

"Would you like to give it a try? Mr. Custer."

Leon turned to look at Colonel William and asked:
"Colonel, do you have any other ideas?"

Colonel William shook his head seriously and said:
"Dealing with a professional spy, it is difficult for us to obtain information from him in a short time. If there is enough time, I can have a chance to destroy their will."

Leon took a breath in disappointment, turned to Professor Malloc and asked:
"Professor Mallock, what is your solution?"

Professor Mallock pushed his black eyes again and said:

"I extracted a high-concentration stimulant from the seaweed-like plants you taught me. As long as it is injected, the human brain function will be destroyed, and the human brain will be in a state of numb thinking, and the thinking mode will be very single. .”

"If you combine it with Veritaserum, you will basically be able to answer all questions, and the answer will be the most impressive in my mind."

Leon seemed to understand, but he said with some disappointment:

"We don't have Veritaserum in our pharmacies."

Professor Malok smiled and said:

"That thing is very simple to make. I have a lot of it here. I used it often when I modified it for Tom."

Without further ado, time was pressing. Leon had no time to hesitate and immediately used Professor Malok's method on this middle-aged man.

Fortunately, this method is very effective. After injecting two kinds of drugs, this middle-aged man no longer had the calm and silent temperament he had before, and turned into a character with drool and runny nose, rolling his eyes, as if he was a fool and mentally retarded. .

Leon felt a little uneasy, but he still asked:
"What is your name and what organization do you belong to?"

The middle-aged man's eyes turned white when he heard this, his lips opened and closed a few times, and finally he stammered:

"I don't have a name, my code name is D0732, and I belong to the North American branch of the Freemasonry."

Leon frowned when he heard the code name D0732. Just from the sequence of this code name, he could analyze a lot of information and the power behind it.

As for the name of the Freemasonry, although he has not been at a high enough level to know about this organization in his two lives, this mysterious organization appears very frequently in various film and television works, novels and animations.

No one can accurately tell what this organization is like. I just heard that this organization believes in prophecies, doomsday, and religion, but if you look into it carefully, you can't tell the reason.

But what is certain is that no matter which world, this organization seems to have a very strong power. Some people say that the logo of this organization is printed on the US dollar that is used all over the world.

Leon felt it immediately, and a pressure was on his shoulders.

(End of this chapter)