Chương 27: C4 Scavenging
After a few minutes drive, they finally arrived in front of the IKEA. Julienne then shook Nathalia's shoulder for a bit waking her up from her short nap.
"Wake up, sleepy head, we're here."
Nathalia yawned as she looked outside. She saw crashed cars and the large letter "A" right in front of the mall.
"What the hell happened here?" Nathalia asked unconsciously as she looked at the wreckage of cars smashed by the letter "A".
Julienned went to the trunk and took a duffle bag out as she explained to her.
"This is normal. Due to the petrification of humans, there's no one to drive those vehicles and naturally they crashed. There was also a few earthquakes and tremors a few days ago either because of crashing planes or big explosions."
Nathalia then thought of something and paled, "Just this already made so much damage... imagine a nuclear power plant going boom."
As soon as Julienne heard that, she too paled in realization at the very possibility of this happening. But she just awkwardly chuckled and dismissed it.
"That probably won't happen in a year or two... probably. Anyway we're here to look for some loot and nital, we shouldn't be thinking of those things right now."
"Hahaha... You're right. Let's leave this to our future selves."
With that being said, both of them made their way to the entrance of the mall. As the two of them walked near the entrance, they were greeted by a sight of dogs running around inside.
There was husky running around with a branch on its mouth followed by two other huskies as it made it's way out of the mall.
"Why are we here again?"
Nathalia asked as they both made their way to the map of the mall. They need to check where they'll go on the map or else they'd be lost. This place is massive.
"We're here for gadgets, electronics or possibly some equipment we can use for making a lab. A quick overhaul will do. We need to be self sustaining if we want to live long and possibly free your friends and family."
"Reasonable."
"After we find some important stuff here, we'll go look for some guns and possibly find some nital and other chemicals at department stores later. We're here."
Both of them arrived at the home electronics section of the store. Afterwards, the two of them went and piled up the things they needed and such. Air purifier, lightbulbs, toasters, anything they can get their hands to they took.
When the two of them were done, there was now a huge pile of stuff in front of them. Nathalia then told Julienne that she will look for a cart for carrying all these stuff.
"Wait for me here, I'll be back in a bit."
"Oh right, Nat. I think there's a cart on the storage warehouse. Here's a flashlight. Take some boxes for all these stuff too."
Nathalia caught the flashlight Julienne threw and made her way to the storage warehouse.
Soon seconds passed which turned to minutes. Julienne was getting bored just waiting for Nathalia to return from the storage warehouse. It won't be until maybe an hour later before she returns.
In her boredom, Julienne went to the Mobile and Tablet Accessories section of the store.
"A wireless phone charger? I guess I'll take this and some power banks."
Julienne then made her way back to where she was supposed to meet with Nathalia. When she came back, she saw Nathalia gasping for breath with sweat trickling down her face.
"Are some boxes really that heavy for you Nat? I expected more from you."
Julienne jokingly said as she approached her with a smile. But she was then suddenly startled when Nathalia suddenly grabbed her arm.
"Wha—?! What is it, Nat?!"
"Julienne... Fuck! Look at this!"
Nathalia then showed her phone filled with dense texts and spam mails. All of them saying only one thing, "HOW?".
A few minutes earlier, Nathalia arrived just a few minutes after Julienne left. So in her boredom, she went and looked at the internet. There were still some surviving sites online including Facebook making her think of the Lizardmen joke about the certain founder.
She scrolled through her FYP and saw posts of people who are currently petrified. The thought itself is chilling. Then she had a whimsical thought. If everything is gonna be down anyway, she'll post her last post on FB.
With a mischievous grin, she went and took a picture of her and the pile of things behind her.
[ The world fell into ruin and everyone is petrified so the Internet God can only steal nowadays. How the mighty has fallen 😭 ]
(Image of Nathalia)
Nathalia felt a bit smug about herself making her giggle in laughter. Imagine this being the last picture on the internet. She's historical.
But soon she fell silent. Everything and everyone except a few of them were petrified. Including her friends and family. She realized that... humanity's history would have crumbled into dust if they don't survive.
In the midst of her awful realization, the phone in her hand suddenly vibrated. She then absentmindedly looked at it expecting the one to reply be Julienne. But then she saw an unreasonably rude comment on her post.
"How?!"
At first she was about to reply on that rude person, but then she realized it. Who replied on her post?
Soon her phone received a text message with the same question repeating like a broken record. Her messenger, all the posts on her for you page, text messages and spam mails. Everything repeated the same question, "HOW?".
It was at this point that Julienne arrived and she shared her finding to her. This was unbelievable. It meant that the perpetrator of the massive petrification incident that was still here and they somehow has complete control of the internet, like her...
"Who is this guy? Why did he even petrify humanity?"
Both of them had questions unanswered... which will remain unanswered for years after Nathalia's phone suddenly rang.
She answered her phone and put it on speaker. It remained quiet for a second before they heard a countdown, making them pale in fear.
[ "10... 9..." ]
"Turtle position Julienne! And don't fall asleep!"
[ "2... 1... 5 kilometers, 3 seconds." ]
The both of them went silent for a second without anything happening. Nathalia then looked up in wonder.
"Where was the— FUCK!"
Suddenly, a burst of green light was what she saw making her curse as she went back to her turtle pose.
And then... her world plunged back to darkness.
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Hello guys and I am back from the dead :3 Author-kun is now older and older - _-) Anyways, since I found time now I am gonna continue this fanfic of mine. It has been almost a year since I stopped this one. Although this fanfic was called Dr. Stone, it took about 30 chapters before it can really feature Dr. Stone storyline.
I reread what I wrote and also reorganized what I have planned for the story to be back then. Now I can continue writing this book, same as back then 1 chapter per week and if I'm in good condition maybe two chapters.
Today I released two chapters :3
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