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Chapter 22: 22. An offer

"Where is the bread?" Anna rubbed her hungry belly and yawned sleepily.

"In your bag." Michelle pointed at her backpack and Anna woke up right away.

"You two didn't eat?" Looking at their lowered heads she tried to control her anger rising up. "I brought the bread for you to eat, not to let it rot. Bring me eggs. Let's fry some eggs and eat with bread."

"Can I have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? " Alice was craving such a thing for days.

"Sure." Even though it was late to eat such a sweet thing, but she didn't want to refuse it.

Anna took out the bread that was still luckily soft and cut big slices on a nearby table. Seeing a bunch of bread crumbs she glanced at the door. "Go bring chicks inside. I'll make a cage for them so they don't run around. And I plan to keep them in the shelter in Mrs. Stevenson's house. We can make them feeder and water and let them run around one room where we put to light. Here we can't leave them if we run around and gather things. Tomorrow we must rush. Your duty will be to transport things from Mrs. Stevenson's house to the new storage we got while I will push things from the store to Mrs. Stevenson's house. We will be together in the mall as zombies are owly scattering and we must hurry. When we clean up the house from Mrs. Stevenson, we will connect the gate to our house and to the mall area.

She already knew they got one room.

Just as they spoke, a new notification appeared.

*As you finished your task so fast, you have been granted storage space and four times opening a day.*

Anna happily clapped her hands. "We can then gather more."

She thought about it and made a choice. "When is the new rule starting?"

*Immediately.*

"Does that means we can open the gate to our storage now?"

*Affirmative.*

"How many gates can we today?" Anna had a hunch and suddenly was right.

*You finished your task so it was reset. You can use all four gates right away. The smallest timeline between is thirty minutes.*

So no more one hour?

She was already full and wide awake. She glanced at the two girls and sighed. "We must be careful. From now on you must listen to me or we all might just die, literally..."

The two girls felt sad for what they have done and nodded. "We promise."

"Open the gate to Mrs. Stevenson's house."

The gate opened up and they entered, completely forgetting the chicks.

"Close the gate home and open the gate to the mall and to our new store."

The mall was still somewhat dusky and it was visible, but the other gate showed only darkness.

Anna went inside and gasped.

This place was humongous.

It was the size of the baseball field and was high.

She calmly put a few lights and flashlights inside to make it brighter and started grabbing bags while pointing at the carts in the rooms that were left.

"You two, push carts inside. I'll clean up the bags in the ground. We will bring in as much we can in this one hour and will go to the mall to grab more things. I think it's time we enter the storage area. "

She glanced at the two big carts and realized it's better to gather things in big boxes. Or better said in boxes she could pick up...

She slowly went to the big gate that had a sign that forbids unrelated people from entering.

She slowly pushed the door open and gulped loudly. "Impossible for us to do this on our own."

Alice rolled her eyes. "Sister, we will just get things that we can carry. And other survivors need food as well. I have no intentions eating canned food all my life."

Anna Gale calmly shook her head.

"Canned food has a long shelf life and we can exchange it later for things we need. Gate, if I ask for the next level of fighter, is it possible?"

*Clarify.*

"If the next level of fighter gives me more strength and wisdom, maybe I can move these things faster into our storage." (She is thinking about the skill that gate gave her... don't misunderstand...)

*....*

This time the gate was silent and didn't answer for a long time while they transported everything and went to the store while the gate disappeared.

Anna Gale didn't wait for an answer and started filling various cans from shelves as she saw that boxes were heavy.

She glance at the two girls and thought about it. "Go pack all kinds of socks you can find. Literally all socks."

The two girls were stunned. Why socks?

But they still left and started just grabbing a whole bunch of socks and throwing them into carts.

Anna on other hand went to pickled food and slowly gathered things first that they liked eating.

But then got stunned as she saw all the pickled meat, pickled fish, sausages in jars... even pickled eggs and bacon.

Looking at a whole row of these things she slowly gathered them and saw her sisters coming back with filled carts with socks.

"Sister, why socks?"

"Now all underwear, one cart male and one cart female. But only panties. We need tradable items. Everyone will rush for food and will forget such items."

Suddenly a screen opened.

*After consideration, I have an offer to give you.*

"An offer is always good." Anna already got excited.

* I can transport everything inside the mall into your storage, but... you won't be able to take any of it until you don't open five more cities.*

Anna rubbed her head as she thought of rotten food and such. "What about this? You transport everything that is not perishable or already rotten and I'll agree to your request. But I want to be able to take rest of things to the Mrs. Stevenson house."

*Request accepted. All items that are not rotten or will rot in nearby future will be transported to the storage and will be locked away.*

Suddenly shelves after shelves started disappearing. Fridges and shelves with fruits, eggs, meat and such were still there.

She rushed towards the storage in the back and saw one shelf after the other just disappear.

If she knew this was a possibility...

Authors rambling : ''Sneaky Gate...''


Chapter 23: 24. Their parents...

The gate closed and even Anna Gale shook in fear as she saw their quick run and open jaws filled with sharp teeth.

Zombies were usually slow until they didn't target their pray and then they turn into these things.

"Are zombies evolving?" The teeth were not normal human teeth then row of sharp things looking like saw.

*Some zombies will evolve.*

This information made her shiver. As long zombies were nothing then dead, rotting bodies that will fall apart soon, it was still manageable. They had only to wait that they stop moving and finish them off in few months.

But now that some evolved meant the hard life humans had will become even harder.

"Will humans evolve as well?" Her question was normal as she considered this situation they are in at the moment.

*Humans will not evolve.*

So zombies, the biggest threat to all living force here will evolve and everything else won't?

Great...

"Then survivors in my world won't be able to survive." Yes, she held grudge against own parents that chose to abandon their three daughters, but she still couldn't jump and wish them death.

She was a bit worried about their survival.

*Humans tend to find way of survival in any kind of situation. Not all zombies will evolve and most zombies will fail to do so and die in latest one year.*

The evolved zombies at that time can be fought.

"Can I see the map of my city please?" She never asked about the other map as they were in this world, but now the map of their city appeared and she neared the picture.

The survivors in that base were thousands. The walls of the base were thick walls and in the back was hard mountain stone.

Long line of people stood to take as it seems bowl of soup and when she neared she realized how thin that thing is.

They had problem with supplies.

"Do you think we can help them somehow?" Anna Gale glanced at the people that walked towards one tent and sighed.

Their mother ate some and gave more than half to their father. She was just bony person and Anna was afraid that she might die if she continues this way.

Her father obviously refused to see her situation and grabbed the soup to drinking it.

Some people pointed at him but he just argued back and pushed his wife into the tent without care of how weak she was.

Anna glanced at her two sisters and spoke. "I'm afraid if we show our father our gate ability, we won't be able to survive. Our foolish mother is so crazy about him that she agrees to such a thing."

Just as they spoke she saw people turning head towards the tent and pointing at it.

Suddenly their mother was literally kicked out and rolled few times in ground.

Few drops of blood trickled down her lips as she fell and fainted.

Two soldiers rushed there and pointed guns at him. Their father acted always strong and ruffian like, but was actually afraid of people that are stronger than him.

He shook his head and pretended that he wanted to help her up but soldiers were not stupid and made him go back into the tent while calling emergency.

Their mother was taken away and they left.

Just as everyone was gone their father came out of the tent and suddenly one of those women that came to the shelter came to him and hugged him.

With a large smile he patted her back and just went back inside the tent.

Anna Gale moved picture away from the disgusting man and saw open-field hospital and their thin mother on the bed.

She was now awake and just was numbly lying on military bed. Her eyes had dark shadows and her thin face was devoid of any emotion as she took something out of her pocket.

A picture of them three.

Anna Gale looked at her kissing the picture and sighed. It seems their mother came back to her senses after she went to the shelter.

One of soldiers came to her and she gave the picture to him with a pleading expression and explained something.

The soldier pointed at the walls and patted her hand with a smile.

But as soon he left far enough he sighed as he glanced at the picture of the kids and shook his head. It seems he didn't believe they survived this long.

"Do you want to live in base with mother or here?" Anna Gale didn't feel comfortable leaving these two kids alone at home.

"No. If we go there we will have to live like them. Sister, what about making sure mother knows we survived." Michelle Gale suddenly had an idea.

"We can send her notice that we survived with group of people and they took us with them and run away." Alice glanced at their sister.

Electricity did t work, but la d phones did.

In Mrs Stevenson house was an landline phone. If they could find out the number of this place then they could call.

*Call? You mean communicate with these people using ancient methods?*

Anna Gale was stunned. Well this sentence made sense actually. Old land phones were considered already ancient on time of digital evolution and use.

"Yes. But we don't have ability to do it from here. And we must find their number..." She thought of the phone book in the phone booth and already considered to grab one day after.

*I can call. But you have to pay with time of open gate.*

By now that was the only thing they used toe exchange between the gate and them.

Is gate alien life firm, a deity, a system, who knows what it is.

But whatever it is, it helped them a lot in last few days.

She got stunned by the failing tone echoing in the silence of the room and soon a male voice answered. "Camp McGowan. Officer Tiller on the phone. Who am I speaking to?"

"Hello, I'm Anna Gale and would like to speak to my mother. She is in this camp and I need to speak to her quickly." Anna Gale was astonished about the situation, but more astonished was the soldier on the other side.

A survivor found their number?

How....?


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