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When Jocelyn Gale left the officer became serious. "Tell me the truth..."
The real truth is impossible to tell so she lied. "Actually, my father mislead my mother to believe that we are safe in the shelter. More or less he was right, but what's the point of safety if we have no food. We got a chance to escape and followed a group of people. One of them had a uniform and was wounded. As they found us slow and him too big of a threat as they feared zombies might smell his blood, they abandoned us. But we are really far away from you and even if we wanted we wouldn't go back. He gave us a map he carried and your number as we told him when our parents are. What we realize was that zombies hate noise. They dislike it so much that they will gather there to destroy the noise. Rain is strangely something they dislike. I don't want to know the reason why. I have full hands with surviving with two five-year-olds. We plan to hide on sunny days and plan to travel on rainy days. I heard there are towns on the north that have the most time of the year rainy days so we will head there. I will try to call you from time to time and report to you. Sir, are there other bases that still accept people? "
He sighed. "I would like to say yes, but some bases had to self-destruct as they had too many zombies. Be careful and call whenever you can."
He couldn't even tell them to come back as this city was not safe at all. Last few years the drought burned half of the surroundings and having rainy days is a wonder.
And looking at both of their parents, they definitely are better in any other base.
"Where are they? " An older man in general's uniform entered the room.
"Sir, she isn't sure as they just headed north." Officer gave the phone to him.
"Hello, this is General Lewis. Can you tell us your position? I can call nearby bases to go and save you." His deep voice made her almost chuckle.
She saw this solemn man on television a few times and wondered a bit how is he here and not in the capital. "Sir, I don't know. We are on some farm at the moment and will stay here to rest only. We are days of walk away from the city. First, we went a bit east, then north, then we had to go a bit back as we saw a large horde and now we are hiding here. Unfortunately, those people took all the food so we will gather the rest of the fruits and vegetables we find and continue going. It's an old house and won't hold them if they come."
He sighed. A small girl with two even smaller kids in mids of the apocalypse.
"When you find a way to call again, let us know." He couldn't send anyone to search for three kids wildly as long he doesn't know their position.
It seems cruel but the world already is like this.
He can't afford to lose his men for a lost cause.
Anna Gale calmly waved her hand and connection was lost as the last seconds of one hour were gone.
"Sigh. Tomorrow we can open three gates. I think that is good enough. I anyway plan to travel to the next city. Let's eat something nice." She had to open a map of two cities to get an approach to her storage area.
*Map of your world is unopened as well. But as your world is much more dangerous, you will have the option to open towns, villages and any settlement you see with the option of escape even if the gate is not open."
She saw both maps opening and both maps had only opened over the places she already knew.
"First let me open the two cities in this world so I can reach storage. I plan to gather more things in cities that have no people." Some towns and cities probably won't be raided for years as they are far away from bases and survival camps.
By then most of the food will be unusable and wasted. She planned to help survivors by trading food with them for things she might need.
Like weapons, medicine, or knowledge...
"Sister, what about storing books?" Alice had a similar idea when she heard her talking. "We need to learn. Even if gate promised us to become stronger, he wants to do so once a year and by then we can learn few things from books."
Anna Gale nodded. These two girls learned reading when they were three. Reading was not a big deal for them.
Anna Gale closed the map with a wave of the hand and glanced at the things they brought. "Let us rearrange things we need. Rest of things we might not be able to use I plan to leave near the base so when they go to gather food, they find enough fresh food."
She was not selfish to believe she can eat it all. And she knew it would be weird if they suddenly appear in the market with all these fruits and vegetables.
Especially as they just came and had neither donkey, mule not carriage to drive it.
Alice was still small and even if she had some basic knowledge of cooking, she was still too small to do bigger things.
So what they did was to put all the vegetables in boxes and leave them in one of the stores near the base.
"Sister, we can keep apples?" Michelle loved apples.
"Yes. Apples can stay long fresh. We just gonna send things that rot fast like cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers and such." She indeed planned to put up solar panels on their house and use the drying machine that her mother had.
But first, she must find a big enough solar panel and the whole equipment with it.
She thought about it and gave up the idea to tell that general about this ability.
There is still time to do so.
Maybe later or when she finds the time appropriate...
It's just started...
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The next morning was rarely sunny.
Since they arrived in this world all they saw was rain and stormy weather.
Today on the other hand whole surrounding even on the map showed sunny weather and not even one tiny cloud in the sky.
Droplets of water glistened on green leaves and flowers that used seemingly last chance to bloom vigorously and made an enchanting picture.
"Leave doors and windows open so everything gets aired. When I come back I'll wash the whole house as it needs a good wash and we can go and look for nice beds tomorrow." She had no intention of staying on the ground even if she had a mattress now.
But both girls refused. "It's easy to move mattress away and wash the ground. And if we have to leave this house early or later, we better not have many things to move."
Listening to their words Anna Gale knew they were right. "Then maybe finding those beds that are easy to move? The guest beds? No?"
"Rather find hanging beds so we have some air in summer." Alice saw hanging beds and always wanted to try.
"I saw on television that some tribes sleep their whole life in hanging beds and are still healthy. But in winter mattress really makes sense." Michelle added.
Anna Gale gave up her idea about the bed as she came to the same conclusion. The mattress is easier to move and clean and they could go and find other options in other houses or furniture stores.
For now, this was good enough.
At least better than sleeping directly on the ground.
The two girls finally made her give up that idea and sighed in relief. "Everything is still too wet. We will wash upper room and put up the mattress to air a bit so when you come you can help us gather the rose hips."
She actually wanted them to rest, but thinking that she will be back in a few hours, she agreed.
"Fine."
She had no wish to travel for six hours by foot so she planned to travel only as long the gates are open.
"Sister, we can open three gates at the same time. We can clean up a bit here and then go and bring the rest of the bags to repack and see what we need and what we can bring down to tej storage." Alice added
But Anna refused. "No, zombies are strolling now and might arrive near the street as well."
"Gate will warn us on time." Michelle added.
"No. Without me you are not going to the other world as it's too dangerous. Now it's time. Gate, these two can't pass without my permission into the other world." She didn't want the two to get in danger no matter what.
*Your request has been approved.*
The two girls pouted and earned a stern gaze from their sister.
No matter how smart they are, they were after all still just two small girls that didn't realize how dangerous their proposal is.
If they were older she might have accepted it as then they would be able to run faster and close the gate to shelter fast.
But the stairs down were so steep even she almost broke her neck running down.
The two might kill themselves even before the zombies reach them. She definitely won't let them go there.
These two are way too playful, so she rather has them play around in a bit safer environment than in a world of man-eating monsters.
While deep in thought Anna slowly walked towards the gate of the bridge and calmly waited behind a few people heading over it.
No questions were asked.
Just pay and go.
"Five Ceresa." She could hear it even before she arrived and took out her small pouch she made out of an old piece of brown cloth.
She calmly just opened her hand and the guard took it and waved with his hand.
She realized that by now many people arrived behind her and was happy that she came out the gate before they arrived.
A carriage could be heard behind her and she saw a few people sitting in it. With curious eyes, she glanced at the driver and asked. "How much is it to the next city?"
He looked at the thin kid and then at back and sighed. "Sit next to me. Twenty Ceresa."
Anna slowly counted the money and sat next to him while holding her backpack between her legs.
The bridge was surprisingly quite large and made out of huge stone blocks. How they made it was a wonder, but she agreed that people should pay to travel over it.
Just looking at the perfectly cut stones, she knew it probably cost huge amounts of money.
Swing the kid curiously looking at the bridge the driver was a tiny bit amused. "First time over the bridge?"
"Yes." Anna Gale glanced at him and then at the brown mass of water that visibly rose because of recent rains. "Water rose..."
His smile vanished and worry was shown directly on his face. "Yes. If it doesn't rain next few days nothing will happen, but if we get again the rain as last few weeks, we will have a huge problem with floods."
Anna sighed. "Flood will harm people, animals and land. The problem is water after a flood. Will it have time to dry out before spring?"
The few people behind silently glanced at the river and were worried as well.
Flood in modern times gave huge problems to their surroundings and these were ancient times.
There is no helicopter to help you escape, there is no army to come to support you.
The moment flood comes it's literally life or death.
Thinking about the small stream that changes into a raging river in just these couple days, Anna Gale could only sigh.
It seems they really better keep their food in many different spots just in case something bad happens.
They crossed the bridge fast and the travel went on. Suddenly a notification appeared in front of her and stunned her, but she realized that no one else could see it.
This is good as well.
She has really had no wish to see screaming people that are jumping of the carriage...
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