90 Happy New Year! (2/2)
The Marshal was about to command one of the colonels in the room to send more men towards Leo but was suddenly cut off by an aged old woman's voice.
”But Your Majesty! I-I-I...I understand” the marshal was about to retort when he suddenly saw the queen glaring daggers at him which made him choked at what he was about to say.
”Send the orders! All men are to stand by and not to engage the hostile!”
”Yes! All units are to stand by and do not engage the hostile target! I repeat! All units are to stand by and do not engage!” the man manning the intercom said through a microphone.
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”Hmmm? That's weird. How come the soldiers suddenly stopped?” Leo questioned himself as he was confused that the soldiers heading towards him that the map indicated stopped and retreated to a corner.
”I see” Leo smiled as he realized something as he gestured towards the three people and said, ”Come on! We're safe for now! Let's immediately head to the quarters where your families are at!”
Leo made the man named Zack lead the way to their quarters as they passed by some soldiers along the way who looked at the four of them full of hostility but in the end they didn't do anything, possibly afraid of disobeying orders.
A few moments later after moving from corridors to rooms to corridors again then finally managed to reach the place where the civilian residents are staying or hiding at.
It was a large room with almost nothing in it except for that there's bunk beds on every part of the room and a door that probably leads to a room where they stocked their foods are, clearly showing that the place that they are at is just a evacuation room.
”Zack!”
”Alice!”
”Alana!”
From there, Leo found out the names of the blonde woman who was about the same age as him was Alana while the older woman was Alice.
When their loved ones among the crowd immediately saw the three scientist, they immediately called out to them full of relief but when they the unknown person with them, they grew wary as they made some distance from while some of them are even eying the soldiers to do something.
The three soldiers around them just gave a stiff smile as even though they wanted to apprehend Leo, they are force to follow orders not to do anything.
”Zack, who is he? Why are you with him? I don't recall someone like him here” a woman clearly Zack's wife asked him in a soft voice why looking at Leo.
”We'll be following him from now on so go pack up our things and kids go help your mom so we can immediately leave this place for a better opportunity and living standards” Zack immediately answered with a smile as he told his wife and his two kids, a girl and boy around eight or nine year olds.
”What? Why!? Aren't we already living a good life here? We even have three meals a day!” Zack's wife raised her voice as she was confused of why they are leaving and to follow a complete stranger towards the outside world full of dangers.
”Listen here honey….” Zack carefully and slowly explained to his wife and the same scene was happening to the other two families.
A minute later, seeing that the three families of the three scientist are still unwilling to leave with him. He immediately stepped out and bellowed.
”Listen here families of Zack, Alice and Alana! If you follow me outside, I'll make sure to keep all of you safe until we reached my camp and upon arriving there, you would be provided three meals a day like here but you guys would need to share a huge house with the rest of the survivors living there and on top of that, you guys will also need to contribute like the rest if you guys want to keep eating there to survive. Now, you guys might think that following me isn't that good with the things I just said but you guys would see the sun and the starry skies everyday, instead of living underground where it feels like a prison with your freedoms clearly limited but unlike here, you can almost do whatever you want at the camp where I come from as long you follow the rules that was implemented!”
”You even has the chance to join the militia and wield your own weapons or firearms! Be properly trained in some basic martial arts and an excursion outside of the camp to increase your battle experience fighting the zombies under the supervision of a group of adept soldiers! By then, you won't be afraid of zombies anymore! You can just smash, slash, smash! Smash! Smash them into smithereens!”
What Leo said was clearly facts, especially the starry skies. He already noticed that the atmosphere of the planet have become cleaner as he can even see numerous stars shining above the skies every night which really confused him of why the world's air is actually getting cleaner instead of becoming more polluted along with the sudden descent of the apocalypse and everytime he asked the system about it, all he got in reply was that his authority is too low and he needs the Stronghold upgraded to Level Six.
The three families was clearly tempted and some of the people not involve with them has the look of wanting to go with him.
”H-how do we know if you're actually telling the truth and not all just lies!” someone bravely stepped forward and yelled.
”Right now, I'm all alone and wreak havoc here by myself! I even beaten the shit out of someone called Alucard and that Prince Ashton by myself and the people here can't do shit about it! And everything I said was the truth and because I am the leader of that camp and what I say goes!” Leo said while saying inside his mind 'Well, sometimes'.
The moment that the rest of people heard Leo telling them he was actually the leader of that camp he mentioned, they shell shocked especially when he said he had beaten the shit out of Prince Alucard and Ashton by himself. While the soldiers are actually feeling angry about it and already on the verge of exploding! Fortunately, this soldiers has immense discipline in them as they just endured it in the end even though they really want to send a rain of bullets towards Leo.
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”Dammit! This arrogant bastard! He clearly came here to poach our people! He even has the nerve to humiliate the two prince's!” the old man marshal clearly wanted to charged out of the room and beat the shit out of Leo. Even Her Majesty, The Queen had a dark look on her face at Leo's comments about the two prince's but in the end didn't say anything and remained silent.
The soldiers and the army commanders in the room swore in their hearts that they would invade this bastard's base and kill him after this humiliating events.