Chapter 189: 189
On that span of seven days, we made full use of it to carry on with our various tasks to sustain the upkeep of our compound.
With Rin leading Demi and Bobby, every bit of item we bring back home are properly recorded and has been sent to storage. We have kept the records in a logbook and I eventually asked Kris to make a simple system for Rin with her inputs so the system would be adjusting according to her needs and not the other way around. In doing that, we would have three records in which everything is recorded: the logbooks physically, the system electronically, and my memory since I’ve been always checking the records every time we have our meeting.
The records include our inventory, list of people, medical records, tasks distribution, separate guns and ammo inventory, and etc.
On our situation about food, it is still increasing even from our numbers. The resource outside is still plenty and it helps that we’re one of the few that could go outside safely with the help of our equipment. We’re bringing the 8-wheeler and the Raptor each time and if by some chance we found a treasure trove of resources, we’ll make a call and have the cargo truck come over and doing that would save us a lot of time and gas.
Charlotte and Derek are the ones in charge of the farms and they’re steadily taking care of our animals and plants. We get eggs and milk every day from our farm animals and they made sure that the excess from the harvest are stored properly or preserved in some ways that are available. Also, some eggs are left untouched so on their nests so they would grow to replace the ones we would kill for meat in the future though it is far on the calendar.
We still have plenty of vegetables to go around and there’s a few seedlings that are still growing and seeds that haven’t been planted yet because of the space of the greenhouse. However, we scavenged a flower shop in that week and we got several clay pots, soil, fertilizers, and etc. We made use of some of them to not just plant a few flowers but also some vegetables to be placed on some of the houses of our residents to be also taken care of by them.
The situation about water remained the same. We eventually hauled everything from the place we got the containers before. We first took the plastic containers but now, the glass and the metal containers were also taken. Each tank we took was installed on the appropriate houses and a filter for them was also installed as a layer of protection just in case.
However, since the power went out on the end of the 2nd week, we made a small mission with Oscar’s group and Tatiana’s group towards Wilcon’s Depot. Instead of trying to figure out where the Solar Panels are located, we simply took everything available to us. Not only that we will have some use of the building materials available in the future, we would also avoid the instance of not having something when we needed it. We secured several Solar Panels and we have building materials that could probably allow us to build more projects or several houses with fancy interiors and solid foundations.
We’ve also produced a prototype of our agreement with Ana. It’s about the size of three hard drives on top of one another and it looks inconspicuous since we matched the colors of the enclosure to the colors of the cell tower we would be placing it on. The first one we placed on top of the small cell tower that is on top of the house of the Pineda Residence. It’s still fairly close to where we are but Ana still sent us another batch of the files we would be needing from the City Hall.
The plans for the City Hall is slowly coming along and I’m making a few different scenarios in my head. The place we would enter in, break out, stay put, and etc. We would be using earpieces now to have another hand free just for this mission. I’m studying the terrain from the videos and we started to drive around the roads near it to clear some of the zombies there to thin them out so on the day we actually hit them, there would be fewer surprises.
A few more things happened on the past week but let’s save it for another time.
Day 22
Today was the day we were supposed to hit the City Hall but I moved it to another date. I decided that since we would be making use of a lot of people on that mission, I figured we would need a few exercises or more runs outside where we are all involved so we would be able to know how each group works. I’m already familiar with my group but I only have a small idea on how Oscar’s and Tatiana’s operate on their own runs since we only have a single run together. I want them to be able to obey my chain of command and I want them to follow orders mainly from me even if they’re used to Oscar’s and Tatiana’s commands. After all, I’m running the places and a conflict between orders are detrimental on crucial situations.
I woke up and Kaley’s sleeping face welcomed me. I just stared at her for a moment and then I carefully removed her hands from me as I put on clothes and wore my gear.
I went down and saw Marco, Malong and Zeidrick watching the catwalk while a few are guarding at the platform from my old house.
We greeted each other and what I noticed that they were all looking at the right side of the road.
“What are you guys looking at?” I asked.
“Heh, we’re just watching the trainees running laps around the place. They were woken up early by Oscar and they are at their 16th lap, I think.” Zeidrick said.
“Oh, the old man is still training them at this time eh?” I said.
“Yeah, Chris and the others who were jogging in the morning was also surprised that there are more people co- oh, here there are.” He said as the group started to come into view.
Right off the bat, Alex was at the front, a few inches from her is Marvin, followed by Ashley, Chris and Brian. The five are running at full speed while the others are at a normal pace. I see on the last place is Charlotte normally jogging while Oscar accompanies her.
“First!” Alex shouted.
“F.u.c.k! Second!” Marvin said next.
“Third!” Ashley shouted.
Brian tried to grab Chris’ back but Chris anticipated it and made a simple sidestep. It made Brian miss and Chris reached fourth place while Brian made fifth. The others came one after the other panting heavily.
“Hey kid, you’re early. These guys had basic training before but stopped training their bodies regularly when it hit. I’ll take care of them as usual but I would like you to include some of them in your lessons. They could learn a few things from you.” Oscar said.
“No problem with that but considering that you guys have been outside getting your own food before, you must have dealt with a lot of those things yeah?” I said.
“Yeah, we even encountered those things that run really fast.” Marvin said.
“It’s a huge pain dealing with even the regular ones since we only have melee weapons before but Oscar’s been only letting us use the M1 Garand. Can we have access to a few… modern ones?” Ashley said weakly as Oscar made a faint smile.
“Of course. But who among you guys had actually handled them? Do you know how to maintain them at least? Or just simply shooting them?” I asked.
“Don’t even try to lie guys this kid is psychic. He’ll know.” Oscar added with a serious look.
“As if.” I thought to myself.
I found out that Marvin, Ashley and Carlo can use them and maintain them properly while the rest only knows how to shoot them.
“Okay, I see no problem with that. I’ll lend you guys a few guns since we’ll be clearing a few places outside to see what you guys could do with my group. We went outside before but my group was the one who went inside the place.” I said.
“But what could you do? We just know that you’re good at hand to hand. Can you even shoot well?” Carlo asked.
Their group gave small glances as well while my group had faint smiles.
“Hah! Don’t try to taunt this kid. He could kill you 10 times before you could even draw your gun.” Oscar said while laughing then he threw a coin from his pocket.
“Kid.” he said as I quickly drew my pistol.
*bsshew*
*ting*
“Damn.” Marvin said.
The coin landed on the ground spinning with a hole in its center.
“Show off.” I heard from behind. It was Kaley just having woke up.
The group below are examining the coin thoroughly as they passed it around. I picked the casing on the catwalk and pocketed it.
“Anyway, the plan later is to clear the public market here. In there we could get a lot of food items from the shops and next to it is ‘Milan’ which is a warehouse of sorts where we could find a lot of items as well. This could be a good place to start with before we start on the plan to take care of the horde in the People’s Park. It’s smaller than the park but it’s not open and has many blindspots we need to worry about.” I said.