State of Affairs

While Matt continued to build his base, other powers began to rise in the new world as well. Some of these powers were benevolent while others were not so. North America had seen the greatest change of all. The U.S. had stabilized the situation and was making an effort to slowly decrease the number of infected in their cities. Canada had formed a union with the U.S. bringing the entire north under one power.

Other continental powers were doing the same with their neighboring countries. South American had fallen under the control of Brazil. The situation was stable, but it suffered greatly from the number of mutated animals leaving the majority of the landmass uninhabited. Most of the population stuck to the costal regions to avoid the dense jungles.

Australia had fallen to the indigenous insects that had mutated since the outbreak. The force that was growing the fastest was the ants. Before the last of the people living there were wiped out, they had taken to calling the ants chameleon ants as they changed to their environment and developed different abilities due to that. The center piece to rapidly growing colony was the queen. She had the spark of intelligence and a wide ranging telepathic ability that could reach as far as the furthest ant. It would only be a matter of time before all of Australia would be stripped bare.

In Africa, the situation was similar to Brazil where the population hid near the costal areas due to mutated animals. The difference was that the areas were far apart and most places had devolved into tribal zones. Only the strong survived in these zones and the weak would be bait to capture and kill large animals. The only elderly left were those that had knowledge of weapons, culture, or abilities.

Russia was combating the infected at its borders. Due to the constant cold, most infected would freeze and be easy pickings. The only thing was, the infected were still evolving and had begun to adapt to the cold. This however, had allowed the Russian government to remain in place for the time being.

China had fallen to the infected due to its high population. The infected there were now moving about in search of the remaining survivors or they began to leave the country. The infected here had begun to mutate rapidly due to the lack of food making them faster and more deadly.

Japan had the highest number of survivors currently due to the quick response of the military. The infected here had adapted to the environment and become predators that were seeming dormant at times and would spring to life to take down unsuspecting victims. There were also cases where the buildings became hives or giant infected themselves. Plant life was also a big issue in Japan since it seemed as though it would move back in and take over the cities.

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Back at the base, another day had passed and the majority of the concrete that Matt had wanted dug up was now in a pile to the side. This pile was then deconstructed and used to finish the inner walls that he had been building. His indentured servants were exhausted and had been ordered to get some rest. There were now even fewer buildings in the area as they had been pulled into his space vessel.

"Good work today." Matt said to the rest of his group as they came back from gathering supplies.

"We saw another group of survivors that wanted to join our settlement, but we refused them since you are the one that has the say." Morgan said.

Matt nodded since he figured that this would start happening. His base was already strong since he made all of the walls thick and re-enforced. Now he was planting food to become self sufficient and was planning to acquire live stock as well. His activities had already been noticed by the military and it would only be a matter of time before they started trying to make deals with him.

When the military did contact him, he would hear them out. Taking out new hives would increase his power and put him in a good standing with other groups. This would increase his man power and possibly bring the military under his control. This would be the only way to reach his end goal for the plans that he had for Japan. Once his base became strong enough, he would divide up some trust worthy subordinates and spread them around at new bases that he would build so that he could effectively control all of Japan.

"Lets all get a good rest tonight tonight then we will work on making a way to contact the military tomorrow. Maybe we can bring them under our control sooner rather than later." Matt said.

They all headed to their rooms to rest up and prepare their gear for the days to come. It was about to get very busy at their base.