After repairing the mechanical ladybug, Jack fetched the medical kit to help Alan deal with his scarred hands.
While applying the medicine, Ethan began to ridicule Alan:
"little hero...When you come to Atlanta and start causing trouble without first asking who is the boss in the city, I really admire you!."
Seeing Alan lowering his head in shame and saying nothing, Jack continued.
"...As I said earlier, I am Jack. I am a scientist, specializing in machinery and genetics. I was doing research under a very large technology consortium. For some reason... I escaped and came to Atlanta... I also met this bastard Ethan, and then I was chased..."
After Jack finished speaking, he sighed, but this aroused Alan's curiosity and asked:
"Why is Ethan hunting you?"
Jack didn't seem to want to say anything, so he just said, "Just a few things." He didn't answer in a perfunctory manner.
Alan understood and stopped asking this question, and then asked another question that was more important at the moment:
"This psycho..what on earth is going on?? How can he act so recklessly... No one can subdue him?"
Jack knew that Alan's "psycho" was referring to Ethan, and the apt description made him smile knowingly.
"Psycho?...I surrender to you.! Yes!...He is crazy .Ethan is a very ambitious person, so ambitious that he must achieve his goals by any means necessary. I heard that...in him He climbed up to the position of captain and secretly killed many other squad captains who were supposed to be promoted. Moreover, in the past two years, he has raised some of his own subordinates and secretly extorted civilians to smuggle drugs to other cities for sale. It is simply lawless. "
Jack continued:
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"As far as I know... Ethan serves as Colonel Hank's right-hand man in the Army. When the zombie apocalypse hit, they fell back to this place. Ethan played a key role in setting up the guard force as the walls went up. Who do you reckon can stand toe-to-toe with him? When you step up to teach his underlings a lesson, how could he allow you to rally a force that could challenge him? Ethan is Lieutenant Colonel Hank's subordinate in the army. When the zombie craze started, they retreated here, and then when the high wall was built, he assisted Hank in setting up guards. Team, who do you think is capable of defeating him? When you stand up to teach his men a lesson, how can he let you start a trend that can fight against him?"
When Alan heard this, he thought something was strange.
"What about the commander? Why did Lieutenant Colonel Hank let his subordinates invade the entire city of Atlanta like this?"
Jack gave the answer that surprised Alan...
"I heard... Lieutenant Colonel Hank was attacked by zombies two years ago... lost a leg, and what's worse, he also lost his wife, which he couldn't let go... and gradually turned into a drunkard and depressed person. It’s a middle-aged man who cares about things in the city... So basically no one can suppress Ethan now”
This made Alan finally figure out why Hannah always had a world-weary face, because she was actually very resentful and uncomfortable all the time... and she could only hide herself...
"...I wonder what this girl is doing now?......"
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Alan sighed and looked towards the city center where Hannah might live...
Just as Alan thought, Hannah returned home at this moment and put away her world-weary face because she had to take care of her own father, Hank.
She picked up the porridge, grabbed the wine bottle that Hank was clinging to, put it down, and fed Hank, who was a little sober, one mouthful at a time. Even if Hank got angry and refused to eat, Hannah would patiently coax him:
" dad, eat it!.."
Unlike in person, she coaxed her father gently, and then coaxed him to sleep, day after day for two years. Even so, she had no complaints.
This is what Hannah cannot tell others and does not want others to know. Her father, Commander Hank, has now become an ordinary old man who cannot take care of himself.
And all this, she could only close the door and bear it silently and alone...
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"I can't just sit here!I can't stay in Atlanta and have to deal with this psycho every day!!"
When he returned to Alan, he really couldn't imagine living a life of being oppressed in the future, so he began to force himself to think of ways.
"what can I do….what can I do…."
Alan walked around uneasily, like an ant on a hot pot. Suddenly, he looked at the apple he took out from nowhere and Jack ate it, then looked at the mechanical ladybug. He had an idea.
"Do you know a lot about mechanics? Can you teach me how to change this little guy to be more powerful!?"
Alan looked at Jack with earnest eyes, which made Jack unable to resist.
"Don't look at me!.. Just treat it as a favor! I can not only make this little guy more powerful, but also stronger! But... don't cause any more trouble, or I will be discovered and taken away by them! Okay?
Now that Jack agreed, Allen looked at Jack with a high head and asked:
"now where do we start?"