DAYLIGHT

Chapter 07

L e a n d e r

The moment the sun was up, everyone was also up and doing what they should do. I went with Tilden after saying that he would visit the zombies that he and Gareth captured yesterday if they were still okay.

I walked after Tilden in the backyard of the dormitory and saw a covered box as tall as my height. Tilden knocked on the cover thrice and the quiet box went noisy, deep growls and groans were heard from inside and hands were trying to push the cover of the cage.

"Guess they're still alive." Tilden said and glanced at me and I frowned.

" Have you been to abroad? " He suddenly asked and I wasn't expecting that question.

" No. " I answered. "Never been anywhere. "

Of course, I didn't know if I had been outside the country or not. I don't even know my name but I was still glad that I knew my mother's face. Thinking about those dreams, it seemed like she was suffering and I was her only relief.

"Oh. That's too bad. I was glad I'd seen and been to great places before the zombies ruined the world."

"Good for you." I said and glanced at the covered cage.

"Isn't this dangerous?"

" We kept warning them not to get near the backyard, no need to worry, they knew that this thing is here. They even protested about this but they couldn't do anything about it. Anyway, this will be transported back to the headquarters via helicopter the day after tomorrow, and then we'll leave this place too. "

They said that the military headquarters was turned into a nationwide refuge area. Our destination will be there... and then what will happen next?

Judging from what happened at the previous zones, they would burn all the heavily infected areas and maybe restart all over again.

"They haven't developed an anti-virus yet?" I asked.

"Right now, we don't have communication from the base, all communications were cut off since all satellites malfunctioned just yesterday. They asked us to give them more samples of those zombies maybe for anti-virus research."

I only nodded and walked out of the backyard back to the dorm cafeteria for breakfast.

Breakfast was fried rice mixed with square chopped hams and a bland mushroom soup. Lake was one of the food servers that morning and he smiled when he saw me and even added a few chunks of ham to my fried rice then he winked at me.

I smiled after thanking him and shook my head in amusement.

Tilden, Gareth, and I were sitting at the same table while Marie and Chan were still lining up not to mention that they were at the end of the long line, so we ate first.

"Have you gone abroad, Leander?" Gareth suddenly asked when scooping his soup.

It made me wonder why they were suddenly asking about me going abroad.

"No." I answered and chewed on the rice. It was bland too but edible enough.

"Oh, I just thought that you looked like someone Tilden liked be—oww! Ow!" Gareth suddenly howled in pain in the middle of his sentence making me look at him.

Tilden was pinching Gareth on his arm and even though Gareth was buff, I could see Tilden's veins on his hand popping out as he pinched Gareth. Must have hurt.

"I'm sorry. Ahh! Fvck." Gareth sighed in relief when Tilden finally let go.

"Eat your breakfast and do your drill after." Tilden said and Gareth obeyed.

" Tilden liked what? " I asked, curious while eyeing Tilden.

Gareth motioned his fingers a zipping move on his mouth saying that his lips were zipped about that matter.

I frowned and shook my head at the two children in front of me then I remembered about that commotion during dawn.

I was about to ask Tilden what it was about when a plastic bowl was dropped on the floor making a loud sound inside the bustling cafeteria. It sounded like it was thrown.

"What kind of food is this!?" Someone exclaimed and some men stood up in alert, dragging their chairs making a screeching sound and I hated that sound.

"After we hand all our supplies to you, you serve us this crap!?"

" We are trying to budget the food we have so we could last as long as we can. " I heard Lake said.

" Bullshit! Those foods were ours. We risked our lives to get those foods. How could you just leech on our supplies!? "

" Sir, we are all risking our lives here—"

"How are you risking your lives when you all only live your lives here waiting for food to come to you—"

Lake smacked the counter creating a loud sound that echoed around the cafeteria and the people inside were starting to argue with the man.

"You shouldn't have come here!"

"Fvck off!"

Lake swallowed his anger and gave the man a new plate of food.

"Sir, just take the food and eat it quietly if you want to stay here." Lake calmly said.

The man gritted his teeth and angrily snatched the plate from Lake and walked away.

"They haven't been here for a day and are already causing trouble. Look at his company, one look at their faces and I could tell that they are spoiled as fvck. Wondered how they survived outside. " Garrett said.

I guessed that those people were the cause of the commotion that dawn.

"They wanted to go with us to the barracks and came with supplies this morning." Tilden said.

I only nodded. I don’t care about those people. Looking at their expensive long-sleeved shirts and crisp pants, I bet those clothes were only picked from abandoned signature boutiques and made them look like some expensive people. Those things were of no value with the situation the world was facing.

They only looked like fools dressed like that.

I silently ate my food while they were talking about going out to gather supplies while they still have a day before we will depart that zone when I suddenly felt a warm hand on his thigh.

It was Tilden grinning.

"Do you want to go and gather supplies with us?"

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