Zhang Qiang's decision made everyone shut up. Herschel thought about the meaning of it, while Jim, Sarah, the Dixon brothers and Maya nodded in agreement.

"That's settled. The next question is... who will be the envoy to negotiate with Woodbury."

Zhang Qiang moved the topic to the next stage.

Everyone looked at each other, and old man Herschel quickly stood up again, straightened his back and said:

"I……"

"Sit down, old man!"

Maggie stretched out her hands and pushed Herschel back into his seat. She would never allow her father to take any risks.

"I'll go. I'm sure I can convince them."

Rick, who had been eavesdropping, stood up and said he needed an opportunity to perform well and get promoted so that he could provide a better life for his pregnant Lori and his son Carl.

Zhang Qiang looked at Rick. To be honest, he was quite worried about Rick. What if the inertia of the world's plot was triggered, and Rick angered the Governor and was killed by the Governor?

Lori will definitely make a big fuss. Zhang Qiang doesn't have many tricks up his sleeve when it comes to this pregnant woman. He is a man with a bottom line.

Rick and the Governor have always been at odds in the show, and their ideas are always opposite.

To be honest, Zhang Qiang feels that he is quite similar to the Governor, but he is now learning to be Negan.

Negan's warlord system is the fastest way to develop in the apocalypse.

"How are you going to convince him?"

Zhang Qiang stared at Rick and asked.

Rick noticed that everyone was staring at him. He didn't feel nervous and said confidently:

"I will tell them that their people were all wiped out because they took the initiative to attack us. We don't want to escalate the situation to a situation where both sides will fight to the death.

In addition, I will tell them about the power of the school and use force to force them to negotiate.”

"good…"

Zhang Qiang's eyes gradually turned admiring as he looked at Rick. He liked what Rick did, but he was afraid that the Governor would not be able to accept it.

The governor is a complete psychopath who only wants to eliminate all factors that are unfavorable to him.

Even though the school was a behemoth compared to Woodbury, Zhang Qiang believed that the governor would only try to use various means to undermine the school's power, rather than consider surrendering and being annexed and handing his life over to others.

"I will call 141 back to assist you immediately. In addition, Moore and Daryl will lead soldiers and armed team members to help you."

Zhang Qiang still chooses to support Rick. He will let the soldiers bring the best weapons to control the situation.

"But you have to be prepared. You can't guarantee what the other side will do."

Zhang Qiang came to Rick, and this was the first time he cared about Rick's safety.

"I know the risks, Zhang, but if something unexpected happens..."

"I'll take good care of Carl and Lori."

Sean interrupted at the wrong time.

Rick suddenly turned around, walked up to Sean and punched him hard.

boom! !

"Fake!!!"

Sean covered his nose in pain. He felt that his nose was broken...

Rick put his arm around Sean's shoulders affectionately, knowing that Sean would not fight back in this situation.

"Sean, I've been wanting to do this for a long time. You won't be mad, right?"

Rick said smiling beside Sean.

"Ahem... Anzhu, take Sean to the infirmary."

Zhang Qiang coughed awkwardly. Sean must still have some feelings for Lori, or for the baby in Lori's belly...

After sending Sean away who was covering his face, Zhang Qiang whispered a few more words to Rick and quickly ended the meeting.

Everything was planned, 141 would arrive at the school late at night, and tomorrow at noon, Rick and the soldiers would go to Woodbury to ask for peace talks.

After leaving the meeting room, Rick did not return to his apartment. Instead, he went to the rooftop of the teaching building to get some fresh air. He closed his eyes, frowned, and looked up at the night sky to relieve the stress in his heart.

Zhang Qiang finally leaned close to whisper in his ear and mentioned Penny. Who is Penny?

squeak…

The iron door of the rooftop was pushed open. Rick looked back and saw two figures appear in the dark corridor.

One of them lit a lighter, and the fire illuminated the Dixon brothers, holding cigars in their mouths, walking towards Rick.

Maul and Daryl walked over to Rick and leaned against the low wall at the edge of the rooftop, exhaling thick smoke.

"Rick, you're very brave."

Moore said lazily.

Rick didn't reply after listening to this, but looked at Moore in silence. He had a grudge with Moore, but the two were in the same camp now, with Zhang Qiang at the top, so he thought Moore would not cause trouble for him.

Zhang Qiang is at the top of the school's power system. Rick is very glad to have met Zhang Qiang early on. He is indeed a good man and has never done anything wrong after gaining control of the military power.

"We brothers will assist you. I will snipe from the dark. If there is any danger, you just make a gesture and I will shoot."

Moore gave Rick a wicked smile and raised his middle finger. His bad taste was a spice of life.

Daryl pulled a cigar from his breast pocket, handed it to Rick and said, "Now you are entitled to taste it."

Rick took the cigar and looked at it. He was not interested in tobacco, but this was a good intention from the school's top management. He was well versed in the ways of the world and did not dare to refuse.

Moore handed Rick the lighter, and soon Rick exhaled smoke...

Winter is approaching, and on one night when the temperature drops sharply, Rick feels a heat current running through his body. He is so scared that he almost drops his cigar on the ground.

"What!! Is this super horse grass?!"

Rick held the cigar and looked at it in surprise. After the dizziness of the smoke, his body responded with a sense of comfort he had never experienced before, which made him a little worried.

Moore chuckled, took another puff of his cigar and said nothing.

The cigar Zhang Qiang gave him was not hallucinogenic. He had long discovered that this thing had special effects, which allowed him to remain vigorous after every battle with Professor Maya.

Daryl changed his posture and lay on the edge of the roof. Rick is not a coward. Today Zhang Qiang specifically asked them to give the cigar to Rick, probably because he was preparing to let Rick take the position.

Daryl admires Rick very much, Rick is a good man with a bottom line.

Just like in the original series, Daryl and Rick don't have a very deep bond now, and the two are just in the initial contact and cooperation.

But fate is so magical. Even though Daryl's status is now higher than Rick's and their positions in the team are reversed, they are still slowly becoming friends.

On the rooftop, the three men told some jokes, and Moore looked at Rick with a smile. He felt that Rick was much more pleasing to the eye.

Moore laughed for a while and then fell silent.

He looked down at the building below. There were no street lights on in the dark school.

Moore suddenly remembered that Rick was the father of two children, and this man had a lot of responsibilities...

Moore knew all about Rick and Sean's shit.

Moore couldn't help but admire Rick at this moment. Rick didn't complain hysterically about the injustice of the world, nor did he indulge in disorderly violent desires. He was really a real man.

Maybe if Rick didn't volunteer today, the feud between Moore and Rick would still be a thorn in his heart...

"Holding a grudge? Are you kidding? Mr. Moore is very vindictive!"

...

Nothing happened that night until noon the next day.

Zhang Qiang got up early to exercise. After receiving the news that Task Force 141 had returned, he prepared the negotiation team. Only after Team 141 had made sufficient preparations did the negotiation team officially set out for Woodbury.

The team had a total of ten trucks, all safely loaded with soldiers and armed team members, and an MG338 machine gun mount was welded on the back of each truck.

In addition to Task Force 141, the Dixon brothers, and Rick, a total of fifty armed men set out for Woodbury.

Therefore, the school's security density has been sparsed.

Zhang Qiang thought about it and decided not to prohibit people from going out today for safety reasons. Even the laborers have taken courses on killing zombies, can use guns and knives, and are familiar with post-disaster survival skills.

In this world, the weak do not deserve to survive, and Zhang Qiang does not want to keep the workers as a group of little sheep.

The convoy was driving vigorously on the road, attracting the scattered zombies in the wild, and gradually gathered and followed the direction the convoy left.

An hour later, the convoy was approaching the entrance of Woodbury town.

The Woodbury guards, armed with their weapons, were originally strolling and chatting at their respective posts, when bursts of roaring vehicles were heard from the distance on the road. For a moment, everyone's eyes were looking towards the distance where the road at the entrance of the town stretched out.

Sigma, who had just joined Woodbury a few days ago, picked up the telescope and carefully watched the direction of the sound. Soon, he found a convoy carrying a large number of soldiers in black uniforms, heading towards Woodbury! !

"Fuck! It's someone from Gran Town!!!"

Sigma put down the telescope, and a rare look of tension appeared on his ferocious face. He could not forget the battle between the school and the Whisperers even in his dreams.

The zombies were nothing but food for the armed soldiers. The soldiers he personally fought against easily defeated him.

When Sigmar covered the Green family with the intention of dying, he never dreamed that he could break out of the corpses and survive.

When Sigma returned to Pelican Hill with difficulty and saw the resort razed to the ground, he finally felt the horror of the school.

It was no exaggeration to say that it was razed to the ground. All the buildings in the resort disappeared, and large areas of the surrounding woods were turned to charcoal. Sigma couldn't even find any body fragments of his accomplices.

There are weapons of mass destruction in the Gran Town school. Sigma has revealed this to the Governor. This is also the main reason why the Governor dares not have any intersection with Gran Town.

But now, the army of Gran Town inexplicably appeared before his eyes, and Sigma felt his head buzzing.

Feilong is riding on my face now?

"Fuck? Are they from outside? Regular army?"

A guard raised a sniper rifle with a scope and tried to observe the convoy approaching the town entrance.

Sigma suddenly felt his nerves tense, and blood flashed in the corners of his eyes. The guard who had just raised the sniper rifle had lost half of his hand. A sharp bullet shattered his hand holding the gun!!!

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Enemy attack, enemy attack!!!”

The sniper guard suddenly fell to the ground in pain, covering his bleeding palm and roaring angrily.

All the guards in Woodbury raised their guns at once. Seeing this, Sigma immediately came to his senses and shouted:

"No! Put down your weapons! Lily! Go find the Governor! We can't decide this matter! Tell him that the school army is coming!!!"

The female guard raised her rifle and ignored Sigma. Just as she was about to pull the trigger, she saw a crazy flash of fire on the top of the pickup truck leading the convoy opposite her! !

Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta——!

An MG338 machine gun spit out flames wildly, sweeping the iron wall of Woodbury. The guards standing behind the wall were all frightened and shrank their bodies, not daring to show their heads.

These ordinary people before the disaster had never suffered from direct machine gun fire. This epoch-making firepower after World War I has always been a nightmare for soft targets.

Even in the military training of a certain Eastern power, in order to strengthen the soldiers' fear and resistance to machine gun fire, instructors would let the soldiers hide behind a few meters of earth wall (not even a trench) and be shot by machine guns.

A large number of bullets hit the earthen wall in front of them, and the wall would shake! In addition, the rain of bullets flew over their heads. The instructor also asked the soldiers to stay behind the wall and stand at attention. This training intensity was only for non-special forces!

When the Woodbury guards all lay down to avoid machine gun fire, the bullets from the MG338 only hit the land in front of the town entrance. Countless pieces of gravel splashed on the iron wall, making dense snapping sounds.

Price, who was in charge of commanding the convoy's operations, saw the situation and ordered the convoy to drive close enough. All vehicles dispersed and aimed their machine guns at the narrow entrance of Woodbury.

Four hundred meters away, on a rusty electric tower, Moore served as Soap's observer. Both of them were lying on the narrow electric tower, and Soap was holding an AX-50 sniper rifle.

The studious More is learning from Soap how to perform sniper missions.

At the entrance of Woodbury Town, which was surrounded by the entire convoy, Rick, dressed in a black combat uniform, got out of the car, raised the electric horn, and slowly walked towards the iron wall at the entrance of the town.

“People of Woodbury, please listen carefully, we are from Grand Township and we are here for peace!!

Please don't raise your weapons again! Otherwise we will regard it as an act of starting a war!

Please ask your leader to come out and talk! We believe that both sides can find a balance point for coexistence!"

Rick stood alone outside the wall of Woodbury. Behind him were a group of soldiers holding machine guns, rifles and artillery launchers.

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