Bali DDay + 78Antiga City, Troop Headquarters
Starting from 7 o"clock in the morning, thousands of people gathered in this place. All of them were fighters from elite troops and also the fighters who had entered the first division of Star army. There are more than 70,000 people in total.
This place was full of uniformed troops, an overwhelming sight. All of the troops here were combatants who had been trained for years or those who had pa.s.sed initial training, advance training and also had successfully pa.s.sed the field test
Somewhere among this crowd.
"Leader Cynthia!!"
Cynthia as the unit division head of the platoon 077 of battalion 8 currently was being in this part of the group. Actually, she was one of the platoons who had just graduated a day before and moved from 2nd division to 1st division . After completing training for 30 days and finished patrolling for a week, 077 finally managed to enter the Division 1. A total of 36 people from platoon 077 received a new badge for the uniform they had just received yesterday.
"If only that Octo"s unit and others could be here..."
"What about Lieutenant Chris? have you heard any updates about him?"
"Lieutenant Chris is getting better, but he can"t do any activities for a week ahead yet"
"Then who would lead the pack?"
"So you don"t know, do you?"
One of the people they knew came towards to this 36 people. This fellow soldier who they had known was now had an extra badge on his arm. A yellow vertical line.
"Greetings to Lieutenant Dylan"
Dylan was 18 years old. But all of these platoon colleagues believe on Dylan"s leaders.h.i.+p skills. This humble man with a little nervous approached his platoon colleague. Cynthia realized this action.
"Please, Lieutenant Dylan, hold your head up, our lives are in your hand now"
Cynthia was very comfortable with Dylan now, and she was now easy to pull his leg.
Teeeeetttttt !!!!
Finally, the sound of the siren was sounded. All of the troops got themselves set to line and gathered on the field. Soon, a group of people came in line, went forward to the stage and took a look of the troops lines. Dylan managed to recognize the Peac.o.c.k, a group he had met at the hospital yesterday. And the one who were standing at the center was Alex, the top leader of this army.
"Salute to the supreme leader"
"Salute!"
Alex and his fellow colleagues next to him, the war consultant he had chosen: Sandi, Farell, Donny, and Dario, come along together to pay respect to the 70,000 troops before them.
Alex himself did not fit into this formality, in contrast to the men standing next to him, he had never been in the military. But Alex"s experience in fighting the warriors for war is not inferior to them. Alex is also very important in military command so things like salute are needed.
Alex watched over the troops. Everyone who was standing in the field had already experienced in fighting against zombies and mutated animals. They were 16 - 50 years old of age. From students to teachers who teach. All of them were people who had decided to come forward to fight on the battlefield to face the End-times. Seventy thousand was huge number. But remembering back in his past life, this quant.i.ty was still not enough. Alex thought about how many of them could still survive until next year ... or the next following years ... All these troops need to be ready immediately
Alex moved one step forward ...
"Star soldiers!"
"It was beyond our expectation that almost three months had pa.s.sed since the Doomsday epidemic hit the world. We"ve all lost many things ... our homes ... our families ... our friends ... our future ..., ... and now after these 3 past months we finally succeeded in creating a new home for us ... new friends .. New family, and new future ... pay attention to our partners on either side ... these are our new family ... "
Eighty percent of those who were standing here are right now were not fighters ... Many of them force themselves to come to the battlefield. At the first time they arrived in this city, they were full of sadness and despair. Without we realize it, after 3 months and seeing the progress of the development of this headquarters, they began to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Alex continued his words ...
"As for that ... Let"s hand in hand fight for our future together, I ask all of you to save our home from threats ... Now it"s the time !! Let"s put an end to all the zombies from all over this island together "
"Are you ready?!!!"
"YES SIR!!"
They did not expect the short words from Alex would easily arouse their spirits. Its a call to arm for eradicates all of zombies from Bali island.. They had been waiting for this moment for weeks ... Finally the liberation of this island from the threat of zombies would begin. Eventually the results of their training would be tested.
Alex had to go to Australia soon. Before he left, he wanted to rea.s.sure that the Bali island was free from threats. Alex had already negotiated with Farell and the others regarding to the preparation of the zombie riddance mission. Alex"s priority was to ensure this mission could succeed with minimal causality. For this reason, Alex asked his military consultant to start preparing the 70,000 troops lining before him.
This fight would be different from the one back in Semarang. It is estimated that there were about 3 million zombies in the city center of the Bali island spread from Denpasar to Kuta. Around 4 times more zombies than those in Semarang. It"s also the third month since doomsday started, Alex was surely this time there would be more red zombies running wild in the city, and who knows how many stage 3 zombies they would confront later on .
Currently, Aria and Rama along with the four strongest martial arts masters were conducting surveillance in the red zone area. And while waiting for the results, Alex wanted to make sure that the 70,000 troops were on set.
Farell took over the selection of members of this army immediately. All of these 70,000 troops would take part on special preparations for the next 3 days. In the initial training and additional training, they all had received tactics and formation training, but they had never done that in the formations of thousands of fighters.
After that, Alex had agreed to give all of the 70,000 troops this high-level mutation meat store. But the distribution was given based on their performance in the upcoming 3-day preparation. This mutated meat would improve the overall performance of this army.
Cahaya approached Alex along with three other people. Alex recognized these three people ... they were the ones on the list that Alex gave him earlier.
The first person was a skinny, 150cm tall man named Ark. Even though this man"s physical appearance was akin to malnourished man, yet he, guy in 20s of age, was very active. Before the End-time, he was an unsuccessful rapper.
"Yo ... I"m Ark ..."
In Alex"s previous life, this man named Ark was an earth spirit enhancer who had the ability to control and shape the soil ... but it seemed that his ability was not yet visible.
The second one was a quiet woman, in 20s of age, named Dinda. This woman was an Indonesian archery athlete, who won a silver medal in the Olympics. A fire enhancer spirit. She was in the same league with Ark, her fire spirit enhancer skill had still never been seen.
Both of them were part of the Star army. Dinda was one of the Division 1 army. As for Ark, he came along with the migrant from Surabaya. He was pulled out from the Division 2. Both of them had some battle experience already.
The third person Cahaya brought in confused the people around Alex. Even Cahaya looked doubtful, it seemed like he found the wrong person. It"s just that there weren"t many Indonesians with this kind of name. Roufgar, this 30-year-old man was born in France and had a French father. He moved to Indonesia to live with his mother 10 years ago.
The reason why Cahaya felt unsure was because although he had tall and big physique, this always-smile man was very fat. Moreover, Cahaya did not find this man among the Star army. Instead, he was part of the Star headquarters kitchen crew ... He was a chef.
This man named Raufgar in Alex"s previous life was a famous vanguard. But his fame was not heard until a few years after the Doomsday because he always busied himself taking care of the army"s nutriments.
This smiling man looked very nervous .. He did not know why he was called to meet with the higher-ups of this headquarters .. Yet he had prepared himself.
"Greetings to Leader Alex !! ... I prepared this for you … please accept it"
"What is this?"
It"s wrapped in white package and as Alex opened it there were many chocolate biscuits inside ...
"Please taste a bite, Leader ... I made it by myself ..."
"Hmm.. it"s not bad" Alex then gave it to the others ...
Cindy who was standing next to Alex couldn"t help but laugh ...
"Hey !! You are trying to bribe the leader, aren"t you?"
Hearing what she just said, Raufgar was a bundle of nerves, his face immediately lost its color ...
"No! No! I didn"t mean it ... said ... Mama said we should share more often ... Especially because of Leader, me and mama could still be safe inside the Star headquarters ... "
As he was increasingly nervous, Raufgar unboxed another white package unwittingly bag and began to open and eat it for himself ...
"..."
A fat chef and a mama"s boy ... everybody looked at Alex, puzzled ... Alex could only smile ... This man named Raufgar was a plant element spirit enhancer. He just didn"t realize it, but the reason why Raufgar was a great chef was because he could remarkably detect and taste all the herbs and plants.. This ability would be so valuable in the world before the Doomsday, but in warfare this ability only made him always being put in the back line. But Alex noticed Raufgar"s latent abilities that would be useful in his future missions.
With the addition of these three spirit enhancers, Alex then had a special unit of spirit enhancers; Raufgar, Dinda, Ark, Tommy, Daisy, Oscar, Oliver and Theo. Plus Cindy, the one who was not a spirit enhancer, but definitely won"t accept being taken out from the group. Everyone still needed to take part in training. luckily Alex had Aria, Rama and Arief who could lead them. However Aria and Rama were on a reconnaissance mission while Arief was currently helping to sew the armor... Donny and Dario were great trainers, but currently they were busy helping Farell preparing 70,000 troops. Because Alex still had many agendas, Alex had no other option but to trust this small group to be under Theo"s supervision, the person he trusted the most.
Alex continued on the next agenda, but worries arose in his heart ..
"Hopefully they don"t make a mess"