Chapter 73: 73
“A few nights before when I used the scope, I did not just look at the window I felt a presence from, I checked all the other windows apart from it and there were no lights on, not even a small lick of fire from a candle. They could be following a sa principle with our protocol on lights but on the other nights I checked, there were still none along with the presence I felt. When we passed by their house, the exhaust fan installed on one of the walls is not working and there were no vehicles parked inside. It could be that soone has broken inside their ho and stayed there or they have left it already but a few stayed behind.” I explained.
“W-what if it’s a g-ghost or sothing?” Olivia asked.
I almost rolled my eyes but I said, “Sorry, but I don’t believe in ghosts. Everything must have a scientific explanation. Even this thing that we are facing right now. If this is a supernatural phenonon which I believe is highly unlikely, we’re all f.u.c.k.i.e.d.” I said.
“What if it’s a special zombie? Like a flying one?” Kaley said.
“Hmm, that is possible but still unlikely. So far, what we’ve seen from the movent of the special ones are still possible with the human body. Growing appendages like wings or the like is impossible because once a person goes into the state of undeath, it would be impossible to ‘create’ sothing from a decomposing body. We need to learn more from this virus to make even a proper assumption. It would be troubling if we ever have flying ones, we might need to build so sort of netting if that ever happens and levitating ones is not even one I think would exist.” I explained.
“How do you know all this?” Johnny said.
“Oh, it’s just a simple conclusion based on my observation. Anyway, I think we really should drop by that house later yeah?” I said.
“Damn kid, we really should be sending you to work with the scientists in Davao, you might be the one to solve this thing.” Oscar said.
I smiled and finished my cup of chocolate-coffee.
“Impossible old man, there are more things that they know that I don’t. I just rember stuff and that’s it.” I said.
“Don’t downplay your head kid, you really could be a scientist or sothing.” he replied.
“Hah! Too late now eh?” I replied while chuckling.
“Well, if it was you Sky, what would you do to fix this thing?” Kaley asked.
“If I have the knowledge and the know-how, with our technology, I could say the way is to not create a simple cure. I think I’ll make sothing like a vaccine of so sort that even if we get bitten, we’d still be fine.” I said.
“Isn’t that a cure then?” Johnny said.
“A simple cure will just remove the virus outright but a vaccine will grant you immunity to it. The virus still exists but it does nothing to us.” I explained.
“What difference does it make?” Johnny asked.
“Hmm, I haven’t shown you the files from our first eting before. The earliest one I found about this thing is from 3 years ago. It didn’t even look like what we have now and that ans that this virus that we have is evolving to a different one eventually. Back to the cure and vaccine talk, if we cure soone from it, what if the person got infected again with a different strand? The vaccine I want to make, if I could, should also evolve with ti with the virus.” I said.
“W-wait, you lost there. I thought we were trying to get rid of this thing, why are we living with it now?” he replied.
“Think about it, in a few years’ ti we won’t know what it’ll be like. Better make sothing that would grow with it to contain it than make a cure over and over for a different type. Oh, it’s almost 7:00 AM, let’s talk about this more later.” I said.
“My head. Oh, my little head.” Russel said.
We loaded up first and we brought the truck outside. It’s the sa group of people and I rode on the back with the others. We first went back to the pharmacy that we opened yesterday to sweep the place with all of the available dicine and other supplies. We brought extra bags for now so we could carry them much easily instead of piling them over each other like last ti.
“Where do we go next?” my uncle said.
“Go to the rcury Drug next, it hasn’t been looted yet. Puregold has it’s gates opened and there must be a few remaining there by now, we’ll just go there next ti and prioritize the ones that are not looted yet.” I said.
“Why didn’t they go to this drugstore though? It has plenty of dicine and has so food inside.” Kaley asks.
“Look at that appliance store near the street. Most of the people prioritized stealing the most valuable TVs and stuff and although so of them did loot food, most people would forget about dicine.” I said.
“Why though?” she said.
“They didn’t think that they would need it until they needed to. We live in a third world country, barely anyone here get their weekly checkups like in the other countries. Well, most of the less fortunate ones. People just go to the doctors if they feel sothing is wrong and so people will be surprised at the price of so of the dicines that they are required to buy. That is because most of the people here would buy OTC drugs first and would wait it out until they feel the dicine that they bought doesn’t work but when they actually go to the doctors, their sickness is a whole lot worse than it could be if they got their checkups regularly. Did you experience your mom curing everything with Vick’s Vaporub?” I said.
“Oh my god!” Kaley exclaid.
The rest of the group began to laugh while Tatiana is confused.
“What’s that? Is that a cure-all of so sort?” she asks.
“No, actually it’s just a nthol ointnt most mothers here regarded as a cure-all even though it’s not. Have a cold? Use Vicks’s. Fever? Use Vicks’s. I wouldn’t be surprised if Vicks’s would be an ingredient that a Filipina scientist would use to cure this thing hahaha!” I explained to her while everybody chuckled.
“Is that so? That’s very amusing.” she said with a smile.
We arrived at the place and we cleared a small area first before I began opening the locks.
Almost imdiately when we raised the roll-up, on the other side of the door is a treasure trove of resources. Everything is still like it was when I entered here before, good thing Lois didn’t blab about the ‘five-box incident’. We headed inside while Tatiana and a few guarded the entrance. and Kaley grabbed pushcarts and we headed over the counters to grab dicinal supplies while Jared and Dong went aisle after aisle for consumables like food and water.
We grabbed antibiotics, painkillers, antiseptics and the like and filled our bags first before the pushcarts. This place is filled and we made three trips for the dical supplies and the food supplies and there is still more left.
“Should we leave a few for other people?” Kaley said.
“Hmm, that is a good idea but we take the most important ones. We leave a few that is easily recognizable by them since they wouldn’t even understand how the ones at the back could be used for.” I said.
“That sounds fine.” she said as he removed a few that are readily recognizable.
We closed the roll-up once again and we made three trips with the truck to clean the place out with the important supplies before leaving a few inside. The food items are what made the trips increase in number. The baskets of biscuits, the cans of food and the gallons of water and different boxes that they are placed in is what made it so much bulkier. Can’t complain though, I think the only ones having a hard ti is Rin, Demi and Bobby who are in charge of organizing the supplies.
Only Rin has the separate list for the guns though, we have three sources of them now that Johnny is here. Tatiana’s case is in my armory now but I found nothing special about it. Before we leave, Johnny asked for a few tools and materials so he could make a hidden safe for the guns that he has brought. I ntioned the gun locker we found under the bed near Andrew’s house and he said he’d make use of it.
As we drove back, I saw the other gated community ‘Woodlands’. It’s a huge place that has a several dozens of big houses that are expensive. I’ve noticed that their huge gate is barricaded with tal sheets though no one is guarding it.
“Is it still standing or are they doing a bad job of guarding the place?” I said to myself.
“How did you guys managed to loot that place?” Russel asked as we reached the house.
“For starters we are well equipped and most civilians can’t clear out that area since it’s in the highway. However, Thelma’s store got looted very early on since there is a lot of supplies there. It’s a matter of ti though before people think of their ways to handle the dead.” I said.
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