Chapter 234: Much darker
Military base in Texas.
At this moment, a C5 plane was landing once again at this base to continue loading the resources to the Washington base and from there they will be removed to the base that Rick had taken.
The survivors that have been arriving at this base can be counted in the hundreds, since Airon's team arrived at this location they have been broadcasting radio announcements about how safe the base was and where they could all come to seek asylum.
Although it could be very dangerous if just one thing out of many went wrong, they all took the risk due to the fact that they would not be in this place for long.
When Airon's convoy stopped at the entrance to the military base, after a brief inspection, the soldiers guarding the entrance gave a military salute and opened the gates.
This base was very large, there were numerous planes as well as helicopters and something impressive that the people of Airon never expected to find, fighter jets.
The location was good, but Airon had no plans to separate such a large force from their domain in Atlanta, so he decided to leave an outpost for the time being at this location to continue taking in survivors.
"Take that man with the others, we need to prepare to get everything they know out of them at any cost, otherwise we won't be able to find out where the hell Teddy's cult is hiding."
Airon began to order after getting out of the armored vehicle, he looked at some approaching soldiers and said, "Take these survivors to be assessed, then put them in isolation with the others. The wounded we take to recovery, there is one subject that requires special attention as what he knows is very important."
"Yes, sir!"
"What will happen to us?"
Airon looked at Lee's group and said nothing, he looked at the soldiers and signaled for them to leave this place as soon as possible. After they all departed, Daniel who was next to him said, "If that cult of lunatics wants to destroy the world and has in their possession the weapon to do so, we have to act as soon as possible."
I understood what Daniel meant, to tell the truth Airon was just waiting for the moment to eliminate that group of mentally ill people, but he needed to act carefully and know everything exactly in order not to make mistakes.
"You finally made it to this shitty place..."
When Airon heard those hoarse words, he turned and saw Daryl who was looking at him, but a shadow soon came to his head with speed. After Daryl punched Airon, he said, "Now we're even, don't ever separate from the group like that again."
"I missed you too Daryl, I didn't think things would turn out this way and I apologize for that." Airon said as he lifted his face and looked at Daryl.
"Tens of thousands of people depend on your leadership, if you take chances like that you will one day end up dead." Daryl looked at Arion angrily after saying that.
"I'm not justifying my actions, but thanks to that I've discovered something really disturbing that would kill us all anyway if we don't stop it." Airon handed the letter to Daryl and walked to the interrogation room, "Apparently a group wants to destroy everything we've rebuilt with nuclear weapons..."
"Are you kidding? That's the result of a bad movie..." Daryl focused on the letter and read it silently as he followed Airon.
"No, I'm not kidding dude, I don't know how the hell they found a submarine if they were all at sea..."
...
In a special room for interrogation, Daniel looked silently at the two people seated and then next to Airon, they waited in silence. On the other side, there was Shane, Sam and Daryl waiting for all of this to begin to see what the cult they served really was.
"Ehhhh!"
"Hummm!"
One of the men had already woken up, roaring and trying to scream after waking up, but he didn't see anyone due to being blindfolded.
Airon looked at this man and then lifted a bucket of cold water and threw it over the body of the one who was still sleeping like this was a freaking hotel.
"Argh!!!"
"We have to keep them as alive as possible until they decide to tell us where the cult is, of course it won't be necessary to cut his legs off if they tell us first."
Hearing someone speak in front of him, the heart of the skinny man and the one who had recently been captured palpitated violently, trying to scream, since he couldn't speak.
"Calm down, I'm not starting yet."
Seeing that the other party was so nervous, Airon got up from a chair, went straight to the table where there was water, approached the man closely and said, "What's your name?"
"You... You fucking son of a bitch, who the hell are you really, where are we?"
But the man didn't answer Airon's question, and after his emotions calmed down, he began to gently threaten him.
"No, no, no..."
Seeing that the other party was not cooperating, Airon didn't care. Even cowardly people would properly resist before receiving a real threat. This was not unusual, not really for Daniel either.
Signaling, Airon didn't say much, but Daniel soon pulled out a knife, approached the first man and stabbed the right leg hard.
"Ahhhhhh!"
Looking at the dagger stabbing directly into his leg, the man unconsciously turned his head towards the skinny man trembling with fear and closed his eyes, and let out a scream that was even uglier than a squirrel's.
The pain soon came, slowly creeping up his body and soon spreading through all his senses, as he opened his eyes, he saw blurrily how the dagger was stuck in his leg and couldn't help but cry.
Airon looked at the other side with a smile and said, "From now on, I will ask you a question and you will have to answer it, if you say something stupid or lie to me, a new hole will open up in your body, do you understand me?"
Sweat dripped from the corner of the man's forehead, and Airon could see that in those eyes there was more than horror, feeling the threat of death, he nodded immediately knowing that they now understood each other.
"That's the same question, what's your name?"
"Dario... My name is Dario."
"Dario?"
Seeing that this man had entered the state of ultimate terror, Airon continued to ask, "What exactly were they doing in your shelter and why were they torturing all those people?"
"That's because..."
Hearing these two questions, Dario's pupils contracted a little, he stuttered and could not speak properly, his eyes wandered from side to side, obviously hesitating whether to answer this question or not.
Seeing this, Airon knew that it was better to give him strong medicine and feared that it would be impossible to prevent the other party from suffering much more, so he took a hammer and stomped his foot hard.
"Ahhhhhhh!"
How could Dario think that he would not be hurt again, and would be safe by showing his doubts? But he was taken by surprise as he felt the severe pain in his feet, and could not help but howl.
The force used in this move was enormous, and Airon also used some energy. Suddenly, Dario burst into tears of pain and snot, his entire face was reddened and the veins in his neck were swollen. Obviously, it was extremely painful the blow he received.
Hearing the other party's miserable howls, Airon did not tell Daniel to cover this person's mouth, so this man screamed, although the sound was loud, it was not too annoying.
"Don't you dare lie to me, I'm not playing Dario." Airon pointed at the other man and said, "And you, think very well as your damn turn will come!"
"Now, answer my question!"
Slowly recovering from the severe pain, Dario heard Airon's voice again, and looked into the other man's eyes filled with panic and fear, so he told him what he knew in a hurry, fearing that the other party would hit him once. Again, he doesn't want to feel that kind of pain anymore.
"I... Our people are located where you people came from, we served the cult like the others. And what we did, we did it for the cult, we did it to survive." Said Dario with a pained look and muttered, "We are looking for a key, the key to a nuclear submarine, the purpose is to clean everything so that new life can be born, it sounds crazy but we all think of a way out while fulfilling their demands, do you really think we are crazy enough to die in an explosion?"
"How many people are in the cult?" Daniel asked this time.
"About four hundred people, Teddy was in charge of checking and forcing people to join his cult, he had food and protection which is all that matters nowadays."
Hearing this number, Airon frowned slightly and found that the other party's number was much more than he had estimated before.
"Where is the cult located, do they kill the survivors in the vicinity?"
As soon as these words came out of his mouth, Dario was surprised for a moment, then reacted and shouted, "You sons of bitches are from the S.C.T. organization! We don't kill those people in the helicopter."
"You seem to have forgotten what I told you?" Airon raised his eyebrows, stepped on Dario's foot and lightly pressed on the ankle.
The pain stimulated Dario's brain again, and he said almost without thinking, "Ah.... The Doomsday Cult is run by Teddy, it's a group of hostile survivors run long before the Apocalypse as far as I know and was formed for the sole purpose to fulfill the doomsday."
"We found a submarine not far away, on that one it has UGM-133 Trident III class nuclear warheads. Teddy plans for his cult to use the nuclear missiles stored on the USS Pennsylvania to wipe out the rest of humanity on the surface of the Earth and give the human race a fresh start."
Airon closed his eyes when he heard this, his blood ran cold at the thought of the nuclear bombs they planned to fire from this cult that was led by Teddy.
"How many of the keys are you looking for?" Daniel asked in a cold voice.
"Teddy has one key in his possession, we are looking for the other."
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