Code Zulu Alpha: Nerd in the Apocalypse!

From the short break we got from the dead ceasing to come out of the gymnasium, this Richard fella talked about how this place was found to have various supplies but was still yet to be cleared out completely.

It was for the reason that there were still a lot of places to loot items from but as more and more time passed the same places tended to either get more and more dangerous and have fewer and fewer items to be taken for it to be worth a trip.

"So why take the chance here?"

"Look around, just the instruments inside the gymnasium are worth a lot but there's just pallets and pallets of food and water stored in these places. We haven't even begun clearing the main buildings, who knows what we might get there?"

"With such a small group, I think it's pretty evident—"

"That's why we should strike while the iron's hot, sir! We'll split the difference! W-We just need to—"

I put my hand in front of him as I cut him off, "First off, our reason for going out here is to clear the railway, not this DOH Block. It'd be a good mission with our numbers—add to that the promises of a good score but we only take care of the gymnasium because of Iskoh's request."

"Then…"

"For another time, sure, but not now."

"I… I understand but— W-Wouldn't we be able to find some shit from one of these buildings?!"

"What shit?"

"I-Isn't this the buildings for the Department of Health?! There could be—"

"Highly doubt it, no."

"Huh? Why?!"

"First off, each and every specialist in regards to what's happening— fuck it every doctor or scientist who has a chance of figuring this out is already in Davao City working with the same people prioritized from Japan. And if this place holds real value, it should've been turned into a five-star DDR Camp, not a simple evacuation center.

While it's true we could fine some valuable shit we could use back home, I doubt it'd contain the secrets to unlocking the universe."

"I…" he looked down for a moment before he nodded a few times and turned back to me, "I understand, sir. C-Can we check the vehicle they came in at least? Or have you already?"

"Yeah, pretty vacant aside from the supplies they brought and things they picked up on the way but it's still pretty drivable. You can place their bodies there if you want or some keepsake which I recommend doing. We're burning everything else after and it'd save you a bit of fuel doing that."

"I see… Is there anything else we could help with?"

"You can have your group park over there and help us with moving bodies to one side though you could also hold the other end of that choke point further out and pretty much do the same thing."

In any case, Richard and his group followed the latter suggestion while I led my group inside through several points of entry to this gymnasium.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

The glass windows I mentioned before were at least five feet above what looked like red bricks stacked all around this place's base but a car placement just before it—and after shooting those glass windows off—had made this place with a double door and one single door to the back a place full of openings.

But yeah, this gymnasium was as big as at least two basketball courts side by side and we'd have to be really careful of our footing while at the same time be completely wary of the ceiling.

Because as we had a better view from atop the cars, the inside just looked like the inside of a blender after crushing some beets and it was just a slip-and-slide disaster waiting to happen.

Still, there were still a few clusters of the dead inside not wanting to get out so aside from sniping them from the comfort of the outside, we had one of the firetrucks available to give this place a good hose-down even if it'd be unfair to the other side.

There's no chance in hell I'd risk my group to such stupidity and again, it was just way, way~ easier to smoke them— I mean to Hydro Cannon them out their nest. Furthermore, the water pressure was enough to scrape off the ones hanging from the ceiling, and let's just say we found two more on the missing persons' list except for one.

"Who's the last one, again? Missy?" Tatiana asked.

I nodded, "Yeah. She could still be out there but she could also be in… you know… there."

"That… slop?"

"I don't have better-sounding words to call it…"

So yeah, with the degree of decay on the deadheads we'd face, it was already difficult to have a perfect ID—but to use the same metaphor—this slop that washed up after a serious hose-down of the gymnasium could be from a hundred different people was like the most fucked up version of a beet smoothie.

However, it was like the blender lost power for some reason and they weren't blended all the way through, leaving just chunks and pieces for us to sift through just to find an identifying mark.

But yeah, even the identifying clothes were hard to look through because it became apparent that when they feed, they'd chew through the clothes as well just for a little pulp like those fancy juices sold in stores.

"Hold up— Isn't this the umm… nose ring?" Ibarra said as he picked up a shining object from the slop.

Quinn rolled her eyes as she scoffed, "And what's left of the nose, yeah. What do you—"

I cut in, "Ah, that might be Missy's. Have someone call Richard or anyone who knows Missy from their group over, have them confirm for us."

On that note, their group couldn't have given us the worst person to see what remained of this Missy gal because the dude went ape shit as he tried to pull out a gun on all of us. Read new chapters at empire