Stronghold In The Apocalypse

Chapter 207: One Month

"Shut up! We're not aliens and we're not here to invade you! What's there to invade anyway!? Your country is already in shambles! Fuck*ng countries doesn't exist anymore! Only survivor camps or bases are the ones standing today!"

Leo stood up and angrily yelled at them, which made them all shut their mouths in fear.

"As I said before, this place is now under my control. You seven will start as Privates just like the others! If you want a higher rank, then contribute and you will be rewarded! Getting an Armor like my men over here wouldn't be an impossibility then!"

Leo's voice boomed throughout the survivor camp, as every ear received his message.

"Are you saying that you're stripping me off my rank?" the old man said with a raised voice towards Leo.

"Yes" Leo looked at him and nonchalantly said.

"You-" the woman who's sitting beside the old man wanted to angrily yell at him but then immediately her mouth as she felt her body shivering in fear from Leo's cold gaze.

"If you're telling the truth then I wouldn't hesitate to join you" the man who can turn into a Lizardman said as he bowed towards Leo.

"Boss!"

"You can't be serious boss!"

"Yeah, we don't even know this guy! W-what if h-he's a pervert!?"

"I'm not a pervert, I have two women better than you waiting for me at home" Leo butted in and said at the black haired woman, who thinks too much of herself.

"It's not that, can't you guys still see it? The old man had already silently agreed to him, and what he said is right, the country is already in shambles. Did you really think that old f*cker would just bow his head down?" the man said as he didn't even bother lowering his voice, that almost everyone could hear what he said.

"No, Father, don't tell you're really planning to yield to this person!?" the young woman beside him said with a raised.

"Yes, and we're soldiers. The country might have already fallen, but we still have our duties to protect the people weaker than us, even if it means bowing my head to avoid bloodshed, then I will do it, and I could finally see hope, with their higher technology and I'm assuming they also have a lot of soldiers more well armed than us. Then I have the feeling that if we join them, then our chances of finding your mother would be higher" the old man didn't bother trying to hide it anymore, he just didn't expect that Walter would actually know what his thinking, as he wanted to talk to Leo privately after this, to get more benefits, but now his plan has been foiled.

"Father..I understand" the young woman said, red eyed as she didn't expect that her father is still thinking about her mother that had been separated from them for a couple of months now during the Chaos.

After another short talk, Leo learned their names, the old colonel is called Danny, and his daughter is called Donna, while the leader of the opposing camp of armed survivors is called Walter, the hotheaded fire user is called Justin, the woman who called Leo a pervert and has a pet mutant dog is called Veron, who Leo thought is a Strength type mutant but actually someone with telekinesis and the dagger wielding man is called Lester while the man who could transform into a huge wolf is called Jan.

With their leaders surrendering, the survivors and also soldiers followed suit, even though some of them are unwilling, they still know that resistance is truly futile in front of absolute power.

[ Mission Complete ]

[ Rewards has been sent ]

Leo heard two ringing bells beside his ear, the moment the seven mutants surrendered, which made him smile.

Leo had already told Rachel about the matters of a new outpost here, So along with her niece, Luna, they draw a simple plan for the new camp and sent it to Leo, for him to implement.

A day, a week and a month passed by.

Leo had already stayed in the Philippines for over a month.

A lot of things happened within those days, Leo had ordered massive clean up on the surrounding rubble, through the use of the existing backhoes and dump trucks, and because of that, the camp had slowly expanded, already occupying almost half of the original land of the former town.

They were also enlightened on how powerful the power behind Leo is, as there were supplies, ranging from food, water, clothing and medicine that were delivered to them twice during the month.

But they didn't know that Leo only made it looked like it was delivered to them using one of his Pelican's stored inside his [Inventory], but he had actually purchased all of those using his coins from the [System], and had the Pelican delivered it to them.

Leo had also re-organized the militia here, as he made sure to mixed the members of the two factions and created four temporary platoons with their members ranging from twenty five to thirty three and were led by five members of the Alpha Team.

And sent them to clean up the north eastern part of Luzon island, the scope of their operation started from Pamplona, to Abulug, then Allacapan, and then the town Buguey until the Town of Santa Ana.

All of them are at the northeastern part of the island.

And because of that, the population also increased, resulting in the expansion of the survivor camp.

Leo and his mother plans to turn this place into a military outpost. He had also turned a plot of land into a training ground and had already started taking in willing survivors to train to become soldiers, where they would form another group of militia after their training.

And because the town is near the sea, the people relied on catching their food here even before Leo took over.

So Leo took advantage of the marine resources of the sea, and sent people fish there using their fishing rods, but he didn't dare to send them into the sea to fish using their boats as he knew how dangerous the sea truly is.

Resulting in a long line of survivors fishing along the beaches of the sea.

This is one of the greatest things happening in this world, that even though that a lot of animals had mutated and resulting for them to become harder to hunt, there are also a lot of animals that are still normal and didn't undergo mutation.

And during those days, the seven mutants were also promoted to Sergeants at the same time, as they made a lot of contributions during the operation of ridding the zombies at the towns within the scope of their operation, which truly satisfied Leo as he could feel that theyare now starting to get used to their new lives.

With matters settled here, Leo then flew back to San Nicolas, leaving Captain Richards in charge of the camp for the time being.

"I wonder if those kids are still alive?" Leo muttered as the [Winter] flew south, heading towards the town where he spotted the kid watching him from the window of a room.