Doomsday America.

About six minutes later.

Gavin looked at the radio that had been completely disconnected with a wry smile, and said helplessly to the men beside him.

"Guys, honestly, I think I've been enthusiastic enough, but even so, they still won't give us their address..." Gavin chuckled and rubbed his brow.

This damned apocalypse has truly placed the remaining survivors and their camps into a new dark forest of laws. Compared to the zombies, which so far have only mutated on a small scale and haven't shown much danger.

Other survivor camps that have already formed stable groups and have their own survival experience are more afraid of being coveted by other camps! This includes Wesker, who just contacted Gavin.

Gavin promised them nearly twenty tons of supplies—twenty tons of various grains, oils, flour, canned goods, and bottled water! And what happened?

Even though Gavin repeatedly assured that he would only send two or three small teams to contact Wesker's home base at most,

But Wesker stubbornly clung to their address, refusing to reveal any location information to Gavin under any circumstances.

Regarding the news about Johnny and Anglu, Wesker generously stated that he was simply returning a favor to Gavin.

After all, in the early days of the apocalypse, Gavin's radio station delivered countless pieces of zombie intelligence and coping strategies to countless survivors who were lost and confused. The Homeland had also benefited from that intelligence, so their feedback to Gavin was equally free. In short, the communication between the Alliance and the Homeland lasted only ten minutes before it completely ended.

And Gavin.

He sat in front of the radio, looking amused, and rubbed his brows in boredom.

What methods can be used to enable the current alliance to more effectively explore and discover the locations of other camps?

Even if we don't annex them, but simply do some business with them, it can still help humanity rebuild its social system in the apocalypse! Although such a social system may bring trouble, once this inter-state communication system is established, humanity's exchange of information about zombies can quickly summarize and open up several safe routes that can cross the continents!

If you want to get rich, build roads first.

Once more secure routes are established, Gavin is confident that he can lead the Alliance to connect several large camps of at least eight thousand people through supply lines, take a dominant position in these camps, and gradually spread his influence among them.

And ultimately expand the alliance to the point where it can support a primary industrial system!

He was really in a hurry, because time was of the essence!

As the zombie fungus persisted, especially after the rainy season, its scale proliferated dramatically across Texas. This significantly accelerated the fungus's corrosive effect on buildings in surrounding towns and cities!

Only seven or eight months have passed since the apocalypse, and countless buildings have already deteriorated to the point where corrosion lines would appear after at least five years of neglect. Even a large portion of the highways has been eroded by fungi, resulting in small areas of damage and cracks!

It is conceivable that, perhaps in three years, or at most five years, human civilization will be completely wiped out!

First, buildings cracked and collapsed, then metal materials rusted rapidly, and then public transportation collapsed quickly.

By then, if the alliance cannot rebuild and maintain its most basic industrial system, the last vestiges of civilization will not be so easily caught! The Dark Forest Theory…

Damn it, even though it's the end of the world, humans should be helping each other.

But the closer it gets to the end of the world, the harder it is for people to unite.

After all, everyone knows that once the rules completely collapse, those who were once bound by the rules will soon become the ones most likely to ignore and break the rules, and thus indulge their desires! Just as Gavin was thinking about this.

Susan glanced at Gavin, who was deep in thought, and asked in a low voice.

"Boss, are you worried about whether or not we should tell Leona about that?"

After saying that, Susan cautiously looked at Gavin.

Gavin turned his head and looked into Susan's eyes as he spoke.

"What do you think? Should we tell Leona?"

"Of course not, boss!"

In response to Gavin's question, Susan immediately gave her answer.

Clearly, she had this idea in mind for a long time, and she was just showing Gavin her thoughts.

She shook her head and spoke rapidly.

"Boss, the leader of the family-finding team, Leona, always needs the exact location of her husband and son, not the ambiguous messages sent from the homeland!" "After all, while we know where Johnny and Anglu have been, we even know they've had new women."

"But Johnny and his son eventually left their home, didn't they?"

"I don't think this counts as betrayal. After all, it's the apocalypse, and playing along is all too common. Johnny and his son are men who need things too, aren't they?" "Since they left their home, the women there obviously didn't let them fall into a love trap. So there's no need for us to tell Leanna about this little incident. It would only hurt her and might even demoralize her!"

At this point, Susan winked playfully at Gavin.

Gavin nodded slightly and responded with a smile.

"Let's do as you say, guys. Did you all hear what Susan said?"

"No one is to utter a single word of the news from home tonight."

"If any news gets out, no matter who leaked it, every single one of you here will be locked up for two weeks!" With that, Gavin stood up and strode away from the radio station.

Susan clearly realized that he wanted to win over the family-finding group.

If Leona were to learn of their home's whereabouts, and if she became enraged and unwilling to wait for further news from Johnny and his son, the search party might have to set off prematurely. Gavin, of course, wanted to avoid that possibility.

And so, Gavin pretended nothing had happened and went back to the restaurant to continue eating lunch.

After a satisfying meal, Gavin, as usual, lay down on his large sofa to rest, listening to the footsteps constantly passing by in the hall, occasionally squinting to see those who stopped to greet him. The lunch break passed quickly, and in the afternoon, it was time for the staff to start work again.

Gavin then woke up from the sofa and greeted the departing field agents in groups.

When Jonathan, the captain of the 2nd Squad of the 6th Company, left with his police dog squad, he also said goodbye to Gavin.

Gavin rubbed the dogs' heads, then pinched the necks of the two wolves in the pack, and said to Jonathan with a smile, "Jonathan, if I remember correctly, your team's job today was quite dangerous."

"Richardtown isn't exactly a safe place to roam. We haven't explored that area in ages; we've only ever monitored it from the air." "So, take care, guys. If you need backup, I'm ready to go anytime, okay?"

"No problem, boss!"

Faced with Gavin's instructions, the gaunt Jonathan revealed a cold smile, and casually gave Gavin a wicked thumbs-up, indicating that he was in good shape. Although Jonathan was very capable and had an exceptional skill in training dogs, he was not the company commander.

All six of the alliance's current major cities have been taken over by the initial teams and players with stronger individual abilities.

Edward is undoubtedly the best candidate to lead the first company. In the current alliance, as the former operative leader of SEAL Team Six's B Squad, Edward's personal qualities are second only to Gavin. Apart from Gavin, no one in the camp can match Edward; his overall abilities make him the obvious choice for the first company! Eugene is the best candidate to lead the second company. If this earliest-joining sniper can't become a company commander, the morale of the early regiment will be shattered. Moreover, although Eugene is sometimes unreliable, his slight PTSD means he can be surprisingly reliable during combat missions! He is also the obvious choice for the second company.

As for the Third Company, Martin was the company commander, which made the Third Company's role somewhat different from that of other companies.

Martin's Third Company excels at reconnaissance and tracking, especially in the forest; it's clear that Martin, the old hunter, has instilled his hunting style in his men. The Fourth Company, on the other hand, boasts the most firepower in the Alliance, commanded by Anthony, who joined the camp alongside the armed priest Hogan! As a National Guard gunner before the apocalypse, Anthony has armed his company to the core.

Edward and Eugene's first and second companies are relatively well-rounded, with each squad's configuration approaching that of pre-apocalyptic special forces, and their equipment is also relatively comprehensive, taking into account any special circumstances! The third company is a reconnaissance company.

Anthony's fourth company, led by a gunner, had only forty men, but they were equipped with more than seventy light and heavy machine guns! Not to mention all kinds of heavy weapons such as bombs.

Whether handheld or vehicle-mounted, Anthony has practically turned the quad into a firepower beast!

Their style was to bombard relentlessly. The four squads of their company never operated alone, but instead spent more time training their physical fitness at home and using heavy weapons to guard the area around the manor. The fourth company squad would only join the battle when other companies' squads needed heavy firepower support.

As for the Fifth Company, its commander is Steve, Gavin's longtime teammate who has been with him since the beginning and is arguably Gavin's most trusted confidant. His company doesn't have a distinct style; it's essentially a recruit company within a field operation. Steve is also learning various military skills, and while he's learning, he's also training the soldiers in his company. Of all the companies, the Fifth Company has the shortest operational distance and the safest operational plan.

They only collected low-priority supplies—those scouted by the elite companies like the First and Second Companies but unable to retrieve—within the safe zones already cleared by the elites. In addition, the Fifth Company was also responsible for regularly clearing zombies from Richard Lake. As the number of personnel deployed increased, the number of zombies in Richard Lake gradually stopped increasing and even showed signs of decreasing. Having discussed the first five companies, the remaining one is naturally the Sixth Company, whose role is purely multifaceted.

The company commander of the Sixth Company was none other than Sean. As a former ace pilot, Sean was certainly qualified to be a company commander.

The Sixth Company he led was less of a complete company and more of a hodgepodge of various professional soldiers!

The Sixth Company also has the largest number of personnel in the alliance, unlike the other five companies which only have forty people!

Although the current Sixth Company still only has four squads, the total number of people has reached almost seventy!

The captain of the 1st Squadron of the 6th Company was Nicholas, a pilot under Sean. The job of the 1st Squadron of the 6th Company was to learn how to fly helicopters and other types of aircraft from Sean, the flight instructor! Therefore, the 1st Squadron of the 6th Company had a normal number of people, only ten.

So which squad has the most members?

Of course it's the 2nd Team of the 6th Company!

The captain of the second squadron of the sixth company was none other than pilot Paul, and his squadron had a total of forty men!

The main task of the second team of the sixth company was to follow Sean and learn how to maintain and repair various types of aircraft!

Therefore, the 2nd Squadron of the 6th Company is an air ground crew team responsible for providing escort for the ever-expanding pilot team of the alliance.

Of course, besides learning aircraft maintenance, they will also learn blacksmithing and machining, as well as piloting. Although they learn a lot and learn slowly, they are all considered pilot reserves. Once the second team is successfully trained, in the future, the Alliance might be able to field a top-notch team that can simply take the entire Alliance away by helicopter, providing the Alliance with an aerial escape route!

Of course, although airplanes and flying are the main focus of the Sixth Company's work, they are not all flying!

Sixth Company, Third Squad, led by Jonathan, is tasked with assisting the Alliance in training more, better, and more professional police dogs, while also serving as a support reconnaissance team. This afternoon's operation will see Jonathan leading his squad as dog support for the Third Company, First Squad's reconnaissance team, alongside Martin and the Third Company, in a 20-person, six-vehicle operation to investigate the most dangerous area near the Alliance: Richard Town.

This is why Gavin gave Jonathan special instructions.

As for the final sixth company, fourth team, that was naturally the fire brigade led by Alto.

On the day the arsonist team burned down the chicken farm, this squad, with its relatively professional skills, handled the situation properly, preventing further damage to the alliance's property. In short, this is the division of responsibilities among the alliance's current six companies.

And Gavin.

Watching Jonathan's departing figure, and observing them leading their police dogs, breaking up the squad and inserting themselves under Martin's command, guiding the dogs into car after car, Gavin frowned. He couldn't help but think that perhaps he should also lead a professional team and operate alongside them.

After all, Richard Town was far too dangerous. Since the Convergence Incident, the Alliance had never approached the area, only conducting general reconnaissance from the air! However, in the end, Gavin did not do that.

After all, the league's structure has become more professional, and Martin and his teammates may not necessarily need him.

Besides, I should have let the guys in the league stand on their own a long time ago!

If you can't help but act as a babysitter for your colleagues, then who gets the training?

Was it him?

Stop joking around. He has his job and responsibilities, and the guys have theirs too.

Therefore, even if he is worried about losses, Gavin must learn to gradually ignore the existence of losses.

He simply stood there, watching his men walk further and further away.

Until it disappears.